Hey guys, I'm your host, Tara A. Devlin, and welcome to another episode of Kowabana, true Japanese scary stories from around the internet.

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And on this week's show, we're going to be looking at a few stories of the mysterious and unexplainable.

Stories that defy logic.

Our first story takes us back to childhood,

and happy days spent playing on the school grounds without a care in the world.

Except for that haunted forest just over the way, of course. This one's called

In the Bamboo Forest. When I was in elementary school, there was a bamboo forest behind our school.

People said we shouldn't go there because there were suspicious people hiding inside.

I never went myself, but there were quite a few people I knew who did.

There's a homeless guy living in a strange little cabin, they said, or things like,

there's a cabin with a door that doesn't open.

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