Heart-stopping Confrontations
Kowabana: 'True' Japanese scary stories from around the internet
Tara A. Devlin
4.8 • 614 Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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The people in these six stories are about to have encounters they certainly won’t forget… if they’re able to make it out alive, that is.
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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, |
| 0:15.9 | true Japanese scary stories from around the internet. |
| 0:19.4 | My latest book, Coabana Volume 12, is now out. |
| 0:22.7 | Collecting even more of your favorite stories from the show, you can find creepy ghosts, |
| 0:27.0 | abandoned buildings, haunted shrines, fascinating monsters, and much, much more. You can find that |
| 0:32.7 | on Amazon right now, and help support the show at the same time. This week, we're looking at stories of terrifying encounters that leave those involved |
| 0:41.5 | change forever, and perhaps not for the better. |
| 0:45.8 | First up, a group of friends go to stay in a cottage by the beach, but something they see |
| 0:50.9 | there will seriously make them question their own sanity. |
| 0:54.7 | Find out what in? |
| 0:56.7 | Land on the coast. |
| 1:07.2 | This happened when I was in my final year of high school. |
| 1:12.8 | One of my friends' parents owned a cottage by the sea in Ibaraki Prefecture, so six of us decided to spend some time there |
| 1:17.9 | during the summer. We transferred from the Joban Line to a local line. Then, once we arrived at |
| 1:24.0 | the station, we went to a small supermarket outside and bought about five |
| 1:28.5 | days' worth of food. Then, after a 30-minute taxi ride, we finally arrived at the cottage. |
| 1:35.8 | There wasn't even a single shop in the area at the time. |
| 1:40.1 | The cottage was only about 50 square meters, but we were still excited by the size of it. |
| 1:46.3 | It was well past midday when we finally arrived, but we immediately ran for the beach anyway |
| 1:51.3 | to play. |
| 1:53.1 | On the morning of the second day there, we went straight back to the beach and hung out there |
| 1:57.6 | all day, not going back to the cottage until that evening. |
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