Exploring the Unknown
Kowabana: 'True' Japanese scary stories from around the internet
Tara A. Devlin
4.8 • 614 Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2023
⏱️ 46 minutes
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What happens when you get too curious and find yourself dealing with the other side? Not everyone is going to come out of these five stories alive…
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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. My latest book, Koobana, Volume 12, is now out. Collecting even more of your favorite stories from around the internet. My latest book, Koobana Volume 12, is now out. Collecting |
| 0:23.0 | even more of your favourite stories from the show, you can find creepy ghosts, abandoned |
| 0:27.3 | buildings, haunted shrines, fascinating monsters, and much, much more. You can find that on Amazon |
| 0:33.1 | right now and help support the show at the same time. This week, the final episode of 2023, we're looking at what happens when you find yourself |
| 0:41.9 | dealing with the unknown, deliberately or otherwise. |
| 0:46.4 | First up, a group of friends enjoy exploring abandoned roads, but this one leads them somewhere |
| 0:52.2 | they might not be able to come back from. Find out why in |
| 0:56.3 | Exploring the abandoned road. This is something I experienced 20 years ago that I still can't believe, so let me write |
| 1:11.7 | it down for you. |
| 1:13.2 | I don't know anyone who knows about supernatural stuff, so I don't know how to explain |
| 1:18.1 | what I'm about to tell you. |
| 1:20.5 | When I was a university student, I spent most of my days lazing and doing nothing. |
| 1:25.9 | I didn't have any dreams or goals. I didn't belong to any |
| 1:29.6 | clubs or circles, and I just spent my time wasting away each day. The only thing I ever |
| 1:36.4 | did was go on drives with K and S, two friends who were bombs like me. But even that got |
| 1:43.5 | boring after a while. So one day, one of |
| 1:47.1 | us, I don't remember who, said that if we were going to go for a drive, then we should go |
| 1:52.8 | check out an abandoned road. By definition, abandoned roads are those no longer in use, or those |
| 2:00.0 | closed to public use, but we only wanted |
| 2:03.3 | to go as far as we could in the car. |
| 2:06.2 | That meant checking out roads that were closed because of nearby construction, not roads |
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