Hey guys, I'm your host Tara A. Devlin, and welcome to this week's episode of

Koobana, true Japanese scary stories from around the internet. The latest volume of

Koabana, volume 11, is now out. This volume

has over 80 different stories of creepy ghosts, abandoned buildings, frightening monsters, haunted

locales, and much, much more, so do check it out right now. We also have a brand new design

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This week, we're looking at stories of strange encounters,

and first up, a young girl unknowingly ends up learning a trick from her

mother on how to deal with seeing the terrifying other side.

How does it work?

Find out in, Who are you? For as long as I've been able to remember, I can see ghosts.

Ghosts are everywhere, and if you don't pay special attention, then it's hard to tell them apart

from regular people.

The only real difference is that they can't interact with their surroundings.

They can't talk, nor can they interfere with anything.

Another way of putting it might be that they're like air in the shape of a person.

And so, even though I can see them, they never affect my life.

When I was in junior high, there was an incident where a student fell from the roof

past the classroom windows and died. I didn't know whether it was true or not, but there

were rumours that their ghost was still hanging around as well. I was used to this kind of stuff

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