Hey guys, I'm your host, Tara A. Devlin, and welcome to this week's episode of Kowabana, true Japanese scary stories from around the internet.

My latest book, Me Tai Shoe, Bizarre Incidence from Japan's

Past, is now out. If hearing about some of the weird, bizarre, strange and downright frightening

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This week, we're looking at several stories that warn of dangers unseen, at least unseen

to most eyes.

First up, two young friends head to an abandoned shrine and decide to build their own there

out of leftover materials.

They even find a Gizzo statue to place in it, but soon they realized the shrine may not

be as empty as it looks.

Find out why in Let's Build a Shrine.

This happened when I was in the fourth grade, about 15 years ago now.

At the time, I often played with a kid by the name of Yamanaka.

Most kids played video games at the time, but Yamanaka's parents wouldn't let him have

a console, so instead he mostly played outside. As such, he knew all sorts of games.

Like, we would try to hit rocks across a stream with a stick to see if we could get it to

bounce ten times, and stuff like that. We met in the fourth grade when we got assigned to our new

classes, and because I grew up mostly playing

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