Mind-bending Hauntings
Kowabana: 'True' Japanese scary stories from around the internet
Tara A. Devlin
4.8 • 614 Ratings
🗓️ 14 July 2023
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Three terrifying tales of horror from Japan about hauntings that will blow your mind once you realise what’s really going on…
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| 0:00.0 | 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. |
| 0:19.2 | My latest book, Toshidem Theater, Bight Size Japanese Urban Legends Volume 1, is now out. |
| 0:25.1 | If you've ever wanted a collection of short, bite-sized stories you could zip through |
| 0:28.9 | whenever you have a few minutes spare, then this is the book for you. |
| 0:32.4 | Bringing you all sorts of Japanese urban legends you may or may not have heard of before. |
| 0:37.1 | These creepy, odd and bizarre |
| 0:39.0 | little tales will keep you entertained and no doubt thinking about them for quite some time |
| 0:43.5 | to come. Toshiden Theatre is available on Amazon right now, so do check it out and help support |
| 0:48.9 | the show at the same time. This week, we're looking at some mind-bending tales of hauntings that will keep you up at night thinking about them. |
| 0:57.5 | First, we're visiting a lonely little police station that's generally manned by a single police officer at any given time. |
| 1:05.1 | But word has it that this station is haunted. |
| 1:09.3 | What's really going on? |
| 1:11.1 | Find out in... |
| 1:12.7 | Haunted Police Station. |
| 1:22.3 | This story is from when I worked at a police station that was supposedly haunted. |
| 1:34.3 | I think it's the same regardless of industry, but when you start working in a new place and take over for someone, there's like a handover that takes place, right? |
| 1:38.3 | So even though I was still working as a police officer, at this station, things like traffic at different times of day, |
| 1:46.0 | key warning areas, bad neighborhoods, location of equipment in the station, and the convenience |
| 1:52.8 | stores and such where local thugs hung out to do their work, all of this was rather different. |
| 1:59.1 | So anyway, after I took over, I looked around the police station and noticed something |
| 2:04.5 | odd. |
| 2:06.0 | It was something you normally didn't see in a station. |
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