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Kowabana: 'True' Japanese scary stories from around the internet

The Haunts in Our Buildings

Kowabana: 'True' Japanese scary stories from around the internet

Tara A. Devlin

Fiction, Leisure, Hobbies, Drama, Literature, Arts

4.8615 Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Step inside the haunted walls of various buildings and uncover what lurks in the walls, the shadows, and even the closets. Are we really as alone as we think?

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0:00.0

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

0:16.2

true Japanese scary stories from around the internet.

0:20.2

Kai Han, Bizarer Crimes That that shook Japan volume 2, is now out.

0:25.3

If you're interested in learning more about some of the most bizarre, strange, and even

0:30.1

terrifying crimes that have taken place in Japan over the last few decades, then make sure

0:35.2

to grab your copy now.

0:37.2

You can find 25 new cases of missing

0:39.9

persons, unsolved mysteries, and truly bizarre crimes that still confuse people today.

0:47.0

That's Kai Han, Bizarer Crimes That Shook Japan Volume 2. Out now.

0:53.1

This week, we're heading indoors for a variety of spooky, haunted,

0:58.1

and abandoned buildings. What will you find in their empty interiors? Are they truly as empty as they

1:05.8

seem? What about those buildings that look perfectly normal and yet are anything but?

1:13.1

First up, a group of boys find an abandoned building after one of them moves to a new area,

1:19.3

but they're not the only ones exploring it.

1:22.5

A mysterious kid on the roof catches their eye, but they struggle to find a way up there.

1:29.2

And perhaps that's for the best.

1:32.2

Find out why in Hanya Mask. When I was in the fifth grade, we moved from the house we'd been renting up until

1:49.0

that point, to our own house.

1:51.9

I didn't have to change schools, but the area we moved to was now the max distance away from

1:57.8

the school in the same district. The area was originally dotted with orchards, but as the number of workers in the area increased,

2:08.0

it started to turn into a commuter town.

2:11.5

As such, it was a chaotic mix of the old and the new, with brand new asphalt and divisions of new houses being

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