Bewildering Curses
Kowabana: 'True' Japanese scary stories from around the internet
Tara A. Devlin
4.8 • 614 Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2023
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Four tales of horrifying curses straight out of Japan that will make you question whether you really should mess with things or just leave them be.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, I'm your host, Tara A. Devlin, and welcome to this week's episode of Kowabana, |
| 0:15.6 | true Japanese scary stories from around the internet. My latest book, Koabana, Volume 12, is now out. Collecting even more of your favorite stories from around the internet. My latest book, Coabana Volume 12, is now out. |
| 0:23.0 | Collecting even more of your favourite stories from the show, you can find creepy ghosts, |
| 0:27.5 | abandoned buildings, haunted shrines, fascinating monsters, and much, much more. |
| 0:32.6 | You can find that on Amazon right now, and help support the show at the same time. |
| 0:37.0 | This week, we're looking at some stories related to curses, |
| 0:40.7 | unfortunate events, and things that really should have been left alone entirely. |
| 0:45.9 | First up, a young boy is forced to visit one of his ill classmates to deliver |
| 0:50.2 | school lunch to him, but it turns out there might be more going on here than meets |
| 0:54.7 | the eye. Is he really sick or... Find out in... Yukio. |
| 1:07.0 | When I was in elementary school, a boy by the name of Yukio, I don't know what kanji |
| 1:15.7 | he used for his name, transferred to our class. |
| 1:19.8 | He was pretty tiny, his features looked half foreign, and he looked rather cowardly as well. |
| 1:27.3 | Yukio didn't have any parents, so he lived with his grandparents. |
| 1:31.7 | Our teacher never mentioned any of this. We heard it from Yukio himself. |
| 1:36.7 | At first, we kind of bullied him. I don't mean like stealing his money or anything like that, |
| 1:43.1 | but more like we'd elbow him |
| 1:45.6 | in the back when he walked by. |
| 1:47.9 | We cut his pencil case with a cutter. |
| 1:50.6 | We'd yell during school assembly that he farded, stuff like that. |
| 1:55.3 | It must have been a pretty tough time for him, but despite how he looked, he was actually |
| 2:00.5 | rather brave. He never cried or |
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