The Evil in Our Safe Spaces
Kowabana: 'True' Japanese scary stories from around the internet
Tara A. Devlin
4.8 • 615 Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2019
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Spirits and monsters don’t just lurk in empty, dark spaces. Sometimes they hide in plain sight, or sometimes they’re with us all along and we never notice. Perhaps they’re with you right now…
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| 0:00.0 | Can you catch the hidden twist in today's opening story? |
| 0:14.0 | Stay tuned to the end to find out the answer. |
| 0:19.0 | I was talking with my friend, when one of us suggested that we go and take some ghost photos |
| 0:23.6 | because it had been a while. |
| 0:25.6 | There was a house in the mountains nearby where a massacre took place that hadn't been torn down yet, |
| 0:32.6 | so we decided to go during the night. |
| 0:35.6 | From the entrance to the living room, the bathroom to the toilet, the kitchen to the father's study. |
| 0:43.3 | We went upstairs to the children's room, through the veranda to the parents' room, and then back downstairs. |
| 0:51.3 | Then finally, we went out the back, one by one. |
| 0:56.0 | We took photos of absolutely every little thing. |
| 1:00.0 | So then, today, when we looked at the developed photos, we were surprised. |
| 1:07.0 | There was nothing there. |
| 1:10.0 | Of course, you could see both of us perfectly well, but there was nothing ghostly in them. |
| 1:17.8 | That's odd, isn't it? |
| 1:20.5 | You don't think they've passed on already, do you? |
| 1:24.5 | Yeah, they might have. |
| 1:27.2 | So that means we can't take ghost photos there anymore then. |
| 1:31.0 | What a waste of time. |
| 1:33.5 | That's not true. |
| 1:35.1 | I saw another isolated house on the way there. |
| 1:38.2 | Let's go there next. |
| 1:40.3 | Yeah! |
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