Seal
Kowabana: 'True' Japanese scary stories from around the internet
Tara A. Devlin
4.8 • 614 Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2022
⏱️ 56 minutes
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A young man asks two of his friends to help him out with a strange custom back home. But it’s only the beginning of a terrible sequence of events that will change their lives forever, if they can even make it out of this alive…
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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, |
| 0:16.0 | true Japanese scary stories from around the internet. I know a lot of you have been waiting for it and the latest |
| 0:22.2 | volume of Co-Obana, Volume 10, is now out. If you haven't checked it out yet, do head over to |
| 0:28.2 | Amazon to pick up your copy right now. We've got creepy curses, human horrors, vengeful ghosts and |
| 0:35.1 | much more on display, so don't miss out. |
| 0:38.6 | This week is our 120th episode, and it feels like we just celebrated our 100th episode |
| 0:44.8 | just a few short weeks ago. |
| 0:47.1 | As such, I thought it would be nice to look at another long story this week, and this one |
| 0:51.9 | will certainly get under your skin, so to speak. |
| 0:55.6 | A young man asked two of his friends to help him with a strange custom back in his home |
| 1:00.5 | village. They have to seal a demon. There will be no danger to them, or so they're told, but |
| 1:08.7 | the ritual naturally doesn't go off without a hitch and |
| 1:13.4 | all of their lives are changed forever. Find out why in Seal. When I got back to my apartment, I found a letter waiting for me. |
| 1:32.2 | It was a plain envelope with black letters. |
| 1:35.8 | No doubt about it. |
| 1:37.2 | It was from Yasutoshi. |
| 1:39.2 | This was the 30th letter I'd gotten from him. |
| 1:42.6 | The last one had been quite some time beforehand, so |
| 1:45.7 | I was a little worried, but he seemed to be okay. There was power lying in the letters that |
| 1:51.7 | made up the name and address. I went inside and opened the seal. In complete contrast to the |
| 1:58.7 | letters on the envelope, the letters inside were messy and all |
| 2:02.7 | over the place. I looked up from the letter and tried to remember what happened. |
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