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, Coabana Volume 12, is now out.

Collecting even more of your favorite stories from the show,

you can find creepy ghosts, abandoned buildings, haunted shrines,

fascinating monsters, and much, much more.

You can find that on Amazon right now,

and help support the show at the same time.

This week, we're looking at stories of things that perhaps should have been left untouched

and unknown.

First up, a young woman finds her grandmother's diary after she passes and discovers a shocking

secret.

Was she really who she thought she was all along? Find out in Grandma's Diary.

I was extremely fond of my grandmother's side.

I was extremely fond of my grandmother, and even when I was in junior high, I still went to visit her a lot.

She was my grandmother on my father's side, and he passed away in a tragic accident when I was

just a baby. My grandfather also passed away long, long ago, so my grandmother always doted

on me, and said I was her only remaining blood relative left. My mother and her didn't get

on very well, though, so I always visited her alone. Every Sunday morning, it was our thing to visit

a shrine together. My grandmother was a very religious person, and rain, hail, or shine,

she never missed her trip to the shrine

after my father passed away. I loved going with her because her hand was always so warm as

she held mine. She always put her hands together in prayer, bowed deeply, and stayed there for a long

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