Life-changing childhood experiences
Kowabana: 'True' Japanese scary stories from around the internet
Tara A. Devlin
4.8 • 615 Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2018
⏱️ 32 minutes
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A young boy visits his grandparents' chicken farm for the summer holidays, but why do they check the incubator at midday and midnight every day without fail? Another young man muses on the strange boy he befriended as a child that changed his life.
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| 0:00.0 | This happened quite a while ago when I was in elementary school. |
| 0:15.0 | One day I was waiting in the classroom for recess to finish, when my usually cold homeroom teacher |
| 0:22.5 | came over to me. |
| 0:24.2 | He had a strange expression on his face. |
| 0:28.2 | Now, I want you to listen to me very carefully. |
| 0:32.5 | Your mother fainted at work, so I want you to gather your things and go to the teacher's room. |
| 0:39.7 | Shocked, I grabbed my bag and whatever else I could and went to the teacher's room. |
| 0:45.6 | The principal was there. |
| 0:48.4 | Ah, your father's just gone to the toilet. |
| 0:52.2 | You can go to the hospital together in a moment. |
| 0:56.2 | The principal seemed agitated and kept looking at his watch. |
| 1:02.1 | Um, sir, I had to tell him. |
| 1:08.2 | I don't have a father. |
| 1:12.9 | It was just me and my mother. |
| 1:16.2 | The school went into a panic. |
| 1:19.0 | Even now, we still don't know who that man was. |
| 1:22.6 | Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. |
| 1:35.3 | This is your host Tara A Devlin and welcome to another episode of Koabana, true Japanese scary stories from around the internet. Starting from this month, episodes will be released fortnightly, rather than weekly. |
| 1:50.0 | I'm also hoping to translate more stories exclusively for the podcast, that you won't find |
| 1:55.5 | on the website, so keep an eye out for that. |
| 1:59.0 | Now, on this week's episode, we're going to be looking at a few stories that happened to the authors when they were children. |
| 2:06.6 | The first takes place very close to where I lived in Japan, so this story has a special place in my heart. |
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