Terrifying Spirits You Should Fear
Kowabana: 'True' Japanese scary stories from around the internet
Tara A. Devlin
4.8 • 614 Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2020
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Japan is the land of “eight million kami,” but if these stories are anything to go by, not all of them are good. Beware when interacting with the unknown…
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| 0:00.0 | This happened when I was in junior high. |
| 0:13.5 | Kokudy san, the game you weren't supposed to play, was real popular at the time. |
| 0:19.5 | I had no ability to sense the supernatural, |
| 0:22.4 | so at first I just watched my friends play it. |
| 0:25.5 | But before long, she asked me to play too, and I couldn't refuse. |
| 0:30.0 | So, we often started playing together. |
| 0:33.2 | Whenever I played with her, the coin always moved so smoothly that it shocked me. |
| 0:39.3 | But one day, Kokudi san refused to return. |
| 0:42.3 | It felt like the spirit possessed me, and then lunch ended. |
| 0:47.3 | I forgot all about it and went home. |
| 0:50.3 | That night, I was asleep in bed when I suddenly woke up at exactly 2am. |
| 0:56.9 | I was paralysed. |
| 0:58.6 | It was excruciating, but not even a minute passed before it was gone. |
| 1:05.0 | The next day, everyone was playing Kokudi san again, but I went straight home. |
| 1:10.6 | That night, at exactly 4 a.m., I woke up again. |
| 1:15.1 | I was paralyzed. |
| 1:17.0 | But this time, while I lay there stiff, my body seemed to spin towards the ride on an axis. |
| 1:24.4 | There was a wall to my right, so just a little more, and I'd hit it. |
| 1:29.7 | Then it stopped. |
| 1:31.4 | Just like that. |
| 1:33.3 | On the third night, I again woke up at exactly 4 a.m. |
| 1:38.3 | Again, I was paralysed. |
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