Blood-curdling Oddities
Kowabana: 'True' Japanese scary stories from around the internet
Tara A. Devlin
4.8 • 614 Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2023
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Nine stories that will make you question what is real, what is safe, and whether you really should turn the lights off at night or not…
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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, |
| 0:15.7 | true Japanese scary stories from around the internet. The latest volume of Kowabana, Volume 11, is now out. |
| 0:23.2 | This volume has over 80 different stories of creepy ghosts, abandoned buildings, frightening monsters, |
| 0:29.5 | haunted locales, and much, much more. So do check it out right now. We also have a brand new |
| 0:35.0 | design up in the K Koabana merchandise store. |
| 0:40.5 | You can check that out at koabana.store. |
| 0:46.6 | We have shirts, mugs, stickers, masks and much more, so do check it out and help support the show at the same time. |
| 0:48.2 | This week, we're looking at some terrifying tales that will make you question what is real |
| 0:53.0 | and whether everything is truly |
| 0:54.8 | as it seems. |
| 0:56.4 | First up, a group of friends visit a local haunted tunnel. |
| 1:00.2 | They're intrigued by the fact that nobody seems to know what exact ghost haunts this tunnel. |
| 1:06.1 | But is there a good reason for that? |
| 1:08.5 | Find out why in The Disappearing Person. |
| 1:19.6 | This isn't particularly scary, but I once had a strange or rather inexplicable experience. |
| 1:27.5 | I was driving one night with three of my friends, and we were taking a tour around various |
| 1:32.6 | well-known haunted locations. |
| 1:35.0 | We took my car, and on the way we stopped by a convenience store to buy some drinks and snacks, |
| 1:40.9 | so it was kind of like we were going on a field trip. |
| 1:45.1 | Our destination was an abandoned tunnel that was no longer used after a bypass was built nearby. |
| 1:52.2 | It was a famous local ghost spot that was said to be haunted, but what intrigued me was that, |
| 1:58.3 | depending on who you spoke to, the ghost that haunted that tunnel could |
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