Seaside Terrors
Kowabana: 'True' Japanese scary stories from around the internet
Tara A. Devlin
4.8 • 615 Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Nine terrifying tales of the sea and what lurks in its deep, dark depths. But also a reminder that what lurks out there doesn’t necessarily always stay out there. Nowhere is safe…
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| 0:00.0 | I was enjoying scuba diving with a few friends in the southern seas. |
| 0:15.0 | The weather was great and the water's calm, making it the perfect day to dive. |
| 0:20.0 | I visited a particular diving spot with one of |
| 0:23.0 | those friends. We went further and further down, and then as we got close to the bottom, |
| 0:29.0 | we noticed something odd. Something wasn't right. Looking closer, the bottom of the ocean floor |
| 0:36.6 | appeared to be covered in human bodies, |
| 0:39.4 | like they were growing out of it. |
| 0:41.8 | I looked at my friend, and he was frozen in shock. |
| 0:45.7 | And all of the faces looking back at us from the ocean floor, |
| 0:50.2 | they were all beautiful women. |
| 0:52.9 | We stared at them for a moment, unsure of what to do, and then before I knew it, my friend |
| 0:58.9 | tapped me on the shoulder and pointed somewhere nearby. |
| 1:02.7 | I turned to look, and there was an old man in the water, no diving gear, who appeared to |
| 1:08.7 | be harvesting the women with a sickle. One of the women, who was |
| 1:13.5 | expressionless up until that point, suddenly twisted her face into an expression of great pain. |
| 1:20.0 | We could almost hear her screams through the water. But then, as the sickle cut through her feet, |
| 1:27.2 | blood went everywhere and obscured her face. |
| 1:30.7 | Then the old man slowly approached us. |
| 1:34.5 | Finally, when he was right next to us, he smiled as we floated frozen in the water, and he raised his sickle. |
| 1:43.1 | It was almost like he was asking, |
| 1:45.7 | Do you want to try it too? |
| 1:48.6 | Next thing we knew, my friend and I were both lying in beds in a hospital. |
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