Terrifying Mountain Encounters
Kowabana: 'True' Japanese scary stories from around the internet
Tara A. Devlin
4.8 • 614 Ratings
🗓️ 27 August 2021
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Japan is covered in mountains, and in those lurk all sorts of horrors. These three tales will remind you why you always need to be careful out there. You never know if you’re truly alone…
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, I'm your host Tara A Devlin, and welcome to this week's episode of Khoobana, |
| 0:15.6 | true Japanese scary stories from around the internet. Have you picked up Kowabana volume |
| 0:20.6 | 9 yet? It's available now. |
| 0:23.3 | If you're ready for another terrifying round of scares straight out of Japan, head over to |
| 0:27.4 | Amazon and pick up your copy right now. We've got shrines, curses, ghosts, angry ancestors, abandoned |
| 0:33.7 | buildings, terrifying schools and much more, so don't miss out. |
| 0:43.3 | This week, we're looking at some more terrifying tales set in and around Japan's many mountains. |
| 0:44.7 | First up, we have a group of friends who decide to spend the night at a small hut on top |
| 0:49.8 | of a local mountain. |
| 0:51.6 | The general area has various haunted locations, but when they reach the hut, |
| 0:57.2 | the group are unprepared for what actually awaits them. Find out why in |
| 1:02.6 | Mystery of the Mountain Hut. This story takes place on Mount T in Fukuoka Prefecture, which I'm sure locals will immediately |
| 1:19.6 | recognize. |
| 1:20.6 | At the foot of the mountain, you can find S Cemetery, which is one of the most famous ghost spots |
| 1:26.8 | around and all of the local kids |
| 1:28.9 | go there to hang out. |
| 1:30.9 | I've also been there myself, although nothing weird happened while I was there. |
| 1:36.6 | When I was in high school, my group of friends got to talking about camping somewhere really |
| 1:41.1 | nice. |
| 1:42.8 | Why don't we visit the hut at the top of Mount Tea and have a barbecue there? |
| 1:46.9 | Someone suggested. |
| 1:48.8 | This hut was open to anyone for use, but all it had was a small half inside and some chairs |
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