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. Bankai, baffling Japanese internet mysteries, volume 3, is now out.

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so do check it out and help support the show at the same time. This week, we're taking a look

at some ghostly encounters that will never leave their victims feeling the same ever again.

First up, a young man goes missing in Olsucker, and it's not long until both his friends

and the police fear the worst.

But a bizarre phone call puts a strange spin on matters, and it turns out he may still be out

there somewhere, waiting for someone to find him.

What's really going on?

Find out in...at Temma Bridge.

This actually happened to me over 25 years ago. It happened at a particular place over the

spring vacation, between my second

and third years of high school, and this place was Olsaka's financial centre, the area

of Kitahama and Temmabashi. To be a little more precise, the area where the Temma

bridge goes over the Old River, the Doljima River,

Tosahodi River, and Nakonoshima Park.

One day in March, the mother of one of my close friends called me,

"'Saito, Kun, were you with Kenji yesterday?'

"'No, I didn't see him.

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