Kisaragi Station and other trains of horror
Kowabana: 'True' Japanese scary stories from around the internet
Tara A. Devlin
4.8 • 615 Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2018
⏱️ 35 minutes
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A woman gets on the train but it doesn't take its normal route. She ends up in a place called Kisaragi Station, where no-one is around but she can hear drums in the distance. Find out what happens, plus other train hauntings that'll send you off the rails.
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| 0:00.0 | Can you spot the mystery behind this story? |
| 0:13.0 | I fell asleep on the train, and when I opened my eyes, I noticed a woman was sleeping with her head on my shoulder. |
| 0:23.3 | She had long black hair, and was rather cute. |
| 0:27.1 | Not creepy black hair like Sadako. It was really pretty. |
| 0:32.1 | To be honest, it wasn't an awful feeling. |
| 0:35.5 | So I sat there like that as the train went on. |
| 0:39.7 | My stop was still away off, so it was fine. |
| 0:44.4 | Two or three stations passed, and just myself and the woman on my shoulder were left in the |
| 0:50.2 | train. |
| 0:52.2 | I wondered which station she was getting off at, and wondered if I should wake her up. |
| 0:58.2 | As I went to move her, I suddenly heard, |
| 1:02.4 | Don't move. It was the woman with her eyes closed, resting her head on my shoulder. |
| 1:11.5 | She went on. |
| 1:13.6 | I just want to stay like this a little longer. |
| 1:19.4 | It was a little strange to hear that from someone I'd just met, |
| 1:24.0 | but I wasn't stupid enough to ask a woman why she'd say such a thing, so I sat there quietly |
| 1:29.9 | and lent her my shoulder. |
| 1:33.1 | However, as we got closer to my station, I began to worry, so I asked her, |
| 1:40.6 | which station are you getting off at? |
| 1:45.1 | The station where I fall off? she asked. |
| 1:49.8 | No, not the station where you fall off. The station where you get off. |
| 1:56.2 | The station I get off at is the station I fall off at. |
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