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Kowabana: 'True' Japanese scary stories from around the internet

Cursed video tapes & the horrors they hide!

Kowabana: 'True' Japanese scary stories from around the internet

Tara A. Devlin

Fiction, Leisure, Hobbies, Drama, Literature, Arts

4.8615 Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2018

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Episode Notes

This week's episode is a cursed video tape special! A young man wants to find out what really happens to his body when he undergoes sleep paralysis, so he sets up a camera to film himself. But will he like what he sees the next day? A group of friends go to the woods to film a fake ghost video, but little do they know of the true horror that awaits them. Press play, if you dare.

BGM thanks to Myuuji Intro & Outro BGM thanks to Kevin MacLeod Sound effects thanks to Free Sound and freeSFX Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

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0:00.0

A few days ago, I watched a ghost ward video where you could hear real sounds made by ghosts.

0:18.0

The video itself was very atmospheric, and the sounds were somewhat sad, somewhat angry,

0:26.6

but I never felt like it was strange or scary.

0:31.5

When I returned home that night after watching it, however, the exact same sound I heard in the video rang throughout my house

0:40.3

all night. Day by day, it's been getting louder.

0:46.3

The other day I felt something in the space where the wall meets the roof. Usually I make

0:53.3

everything dark and go to sleep, but there

0:57.3

was this spot on the roof that was even darker than usual. I looked away and then back again,

1:06.2

but it was gone. Instead, I could now feel something directly behind me.

1:13.6

I went to roll over on my back to see what was behind me when my body froze.

1:19.6

It was sleep paralysis.

1:21.6

The presence was right beside me.

1:24.6

I was lying on my back, so I couldn't see it. I could only move my neck,

1:30.3

and my eyes were useless. I was terrified, so I forced them shut. Then, I could hear

1:41.3

something whispering, right next to my ear.

1:45.2

I had no idea what it was saying.

1:48.5

I was so scared.

1:50.4

I just tried going to sleep.

1:52.9

Then, next thing I knew, it was morning.

1:58.3

But the next day, and the day after that, I kept experiencing the same thing.

2:06.3

The voice.

2:08.5

It's getting louder each day.

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