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Kowabana: 'True' Japanese scary stories from around the internet

Noroi, the inescapable Japanese curse

Kowabana: 'True' Japanese scary stories from around the internet

Tara A. Devlin

Drama, Hobbies, Literature, Leisure, Fiction, Arts

4.8615 Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2018

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Episode Notes

Sadako from The Ring. Kayako from Ju-on: The Grudge. Noroi, or curses, are a Japanese horror staple, and once one latches on to you, it's impossible to escape from. Discover five creepy tales of ghosts, grudges and inescapable Japanese curses.

BGM thanks to Myuuji Intro & Outro BGM thanks to Kevin MacLeod Sound effects thanks to Free Sound and freeSFX Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

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When I was in junior high school, there was one girl that was always bullied by the other girls.

0:17.0

She was the type of girl that was always reading books by herself, and because she had long

0:23.1

hair, the other girl started calling her ghost girl.

0:28.1

But in reality, she was really cute.

0:32.7

Her eyes, usually hidden behind her hair, were big and beautiful. She had distinct double eyelids,

0:40.3

and her eyelashes were so long. She was popular amongst all the boys, myself included,

0:47.3

and people often tried to talk to her, but she only ever replied with one or two-word answers.

0:55.0

So that was that.

0:57.9

That's probably why the other girls didn't like her.

1:01.9

Slowly, the bullying began to escalate.

1:06.3

Whenever the boys saw her being bullied, they tried to stop it, but it never stopped the girls from doing it

1:12.8

again. On a side note, whenever you said good morning to her, she would always reply, but

1:21.0

whenever you said goodbye to her, she never said anything. Only once did she ever say goodbye, and that was towards the

1:31.6

girls who had been bullying her. That day, every single one of those girls died. They all met

1:41.1

with an accident on their way home from school. I thought it was just a coincidence, but I was still scared.

1:50.0

If she said goodbye to me, then I'd die too.

1:55.0

I stopped saying goodbye to her after that.

1:58.0

But there were others who still said it to her. I thought they were amazingly brave. But until we graduated, that girl never said goodbye to anyone ever again. to anyone ever again. Hey guys, and welcome to another episode of Kowabana, true Japanese scary stories from around

2:27.7

the internet.

2:29.6

Before we get started today, I'd just like to mention that we now have a discord for the

2:33.4

podcast. You can head over to k we now have a discord for the podcast. You can head

2:35.4

over to coabana.net for the link, but you can come and join us to talk about the show, other

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