Hey guys, I'm your host Tara A. Devlin, and welcome to another episode of Kowabana,

true Japanese scary stories from around the internet.

Before we get started this week,

I'd like to let you all know about a special we're doing for October.

For the entire month of October, all 31 days,

the Kowabana Patreon will be releasing a story a day on Gakko No Kaidan, or Scary School Stories. Scary school stories are one of my favorite genres, and I often hear from you guys that

you enjoy them a lot as well.

So, to celebrate the spookiest month of the year, you can get 31 bonus Koabana stories for just $1.

You can listen to them as they come out each day

or save them up for the end of the week

and get what amounts to a bonus episode

each and every week for just $1.

This starts October 1st,

so head over to patreon.com slash Tara A. Devlin, if you'd like to help support this podcast, and get a bunch of

stories to spook up your October.

And, don't forget, if you haven't picked up Aoki-Gahada, the truth behind Japan's suicide forest,

you can also find that on Amazon right now.

For this week's episode, we're going to be looking at one of the most popular stories

that was first posted 10 years ago.

This epic tale sees two young men trying to hike across Japan, during the summer holidays

for some fun, but they end up getting dragged into something beyond even what they could

have imagined.

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