Evil Spirit Den
Kowabana: 'True' Japanese scary stories from around the internet
Tara A. Devlin
4.8 • 615 Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2020
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Children are warned not to enter the abandoned shrine grounds, so what do they do? Enter, of course. Yet it’s the start of what will become a decades-long nightmare…
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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, |
| 0:17.1 | true Japanese scary stories from around the internet. In case you didn't hear, my latest book |
| 0:23.0 | Bankai, Baffling Japanese Internet Mysteries, Volume 1, is out on Amazon right now. If you're a |
| 0:29.7 | fan of internet mysteries, then make sure to check it out, because I dove deep and far into my research |
| 0:35.4 | for this one, and there are some truly baffling and |
| 0:38.2 | terrifying tales in there. Read about the young man who received unaddressed letters in his |
| 0:43.5 | mailbox that led to a terrifying tale of stalkers over several days, or the Nichan Money |
| 0:49.6 | Hunt that saw someone hide money in Tokyo with clues to lead smart readers in the right direction, |
| 0:55.9 | a hunt that went in a direction no one saw coming, and is still spoken about to this day. |
| 1:02.7 | You can find these and plenty more mysteries inside Bunkai, baffling Japanese internet mysteries, |
| 1:08.5 | on Amazon right now. |
| 1:11.0 | On this week's episode, we're taking a look at a story that instantly became one of my |
| 1:16.2 | favorites when I read it. This one has all of the things I love. Abandoned shrines, terrifying |
| 1:22.9 | ghosts, the threat of something even more evil lurking behind the scenes, and an epic story full of mysteries and horror. |
| 1:32.8 | I'm not going to say too much more about it because this one is better enjoyed by taking it all in as it happens. |
| 1:39.8 | So, let's get right to it. |
| 1:42.4 | This week's story is called Evil Spirit Den. |
| 1:54.6 | This is a true story that happened to myself, my wife, and my older brother several decades |
| 2:00.6 | ago that involved an entire city. |
| 2:04.0 | A story so terrifying, it dragged us to the upper limits of fear. |
| 2:09.7 | This may get rather long, and I'm not used to typing on here, so please forgive me |
| 2:14.3 | if any parts are difficult to read. |
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