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.

So if you don't follow me anywhere or aren't a member of the Discord, then you may not

know that pretty much all of this year so far I've been suffering from an infected tooth.

After countless dentist visits and attempts to fix it, we've sadly reached the worst conclusion

and last week I had to have it

pulled. As I'm recording this, I still have stitches and a decent amount of swelling in my mouth,

and I'm doing my best to recover as quickly as possible. But right now I'm sadly not in any

shape to record for more than a few minutes at best.

As such, rather than entirely skipping this week's episode, I thought I'd do a compilation

of some of my favourite lesser-known stories from over the years.

If you'd like to keep up to date with how I'm doing, or just news in general, feel free to join

the Koabana Discord or follow me on social media. You can find links to everything over

on koabana.net. But in the meantime, I hope you enjoy our first specially curated episode,

so let's get right into it. This first story is called Shinojara.

It comes with a few simple instructions at the beginning,

so try them out for yourself while listening, and then settle in.

This one is a terrifyingly bumpy ride.

Find out why in Shinojara.

Warning. Read this story at your own risk. If something happens to you after reading this story, I take no responsibility whatsoever.

I'll warn you one more time. You read this at your own risk.

Before reading this story, I'd appreciate it if you could take the following steps first.

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