Terrifying gods, scary demons and horrific yokai
Kowabana: 'True' Japanese scary stories from around the internet
Tara A. Devlin
4.8 • 615 Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2017
⏱️ 27 minutes
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This week's episode is a Japanese mythology special! Featuring five scary stories of horror ranging from people's experiences with vengeful gods, nasty demons and both friendly and vindictive yokai, aka Japanese monsters.
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| 0:00.0 | Even since Mummy left my and thrown me in a well at our backyard, I never forgive her and her friends that help her to kill me and throw me in the well. |
| 0:21.6 | After decades, I make a curse that will make everyone's surfer just like I did but worse. |
| 0:28.6 | This curse is in a tape made by me, and whoever watched the tape will be curse and die by me that look like a suicide. This curse also lasts seven days, |
| 0:41.1 | then be curse. Whoever obsessed by my curse, or just plain urban legend, will be kill instant. |
| 0:51.3 | I watch a man who is watching the tape that he found in the VCR player by the previous owner, by a man who watched the tape and cursed and die seven days later, by hanging himself and men start to panic and sweating on his forehead. But then the videotape stop. He also stopped panicked, but still fear for what to come next. |
| 1:19.6 | Yo, yo, yo! |
| 1:23.6 | What's up? |
| 1:26.6 | Howdy. Hey guys. |
| 1:29.3 | Hey guys. |
| 1:31.3 | Hey. |
| 1:33.3 | Hey. |
| 1:34.3 | Hey guys. |
| 1:38.3 | Welcome to another episode of Koabana, where each week we bring you a selection of true Japanese scary stories, urban |
| 1:45.8 | legends and creepypastas from around the internet. Did you enjoy that little snippet of fan |
| 1:51.3 | fiction at the start there? Because it brings me to a very serious question that I would |
| 1:56.4 | like to pose to all our listeners this week. Now think carefully because your answer is very |
| 2:02.3 | important. Sadako versus Kayako. Who would actually win and why? Let me know at |
| 2:13.3 | koabana.net slash podcast and I'll read out some of the best answers next week. |
| 2:20.1 | With that out of the way, let's get to this week's episode. |
| 2:23.6 | This week we're doing a special themed episode set around Japanese mythology. |
| 2:28.2 | Gods, demons and other Japanese monsters all show up to either help or hinder those in their way. |
| 2:36.4 | Our first story is about a young man who gets lost in the woods. |
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