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. Have you picked up the latest volume of Koobana, Volume 10 yet?

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We've got creepy curses, human horrors, vengeful ghosts and much more on display, so don't

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This week, we're heading back into the countryside and a few more locations you'll definitely want

to miss next time you're out and about.

First, a certain village has a rice field that the locals refer to as the snake paddy, and

nobody likes to go near it.

Why?

And what happens when it's finally paved over and a store built on top of it?

Find out in Snake Paddy.

This is something that really happened where I live.

I live in a countryside city.

These days there are less and less rice fields, but there aren't a lot of new houses being

built either.

The population neither increases nor decreases, and although large department stores are being built on the

city outskirts, the small stores around the station are all closing down. The area around my

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