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

true Japanese scary stories from around the internet.

My latest book, Me Tai Sho, Bizarre Incidence from

Japan's Past, is now out. If hearing about some of the weird, bizarre, strange, and

downright frightening events from the last 100 or so years of Japanese history interests you,

then do head over and check it out right now. We also have a brand new design

up in the Co-Aubana Merchandise Store. You can check that out at coabana.coma.com. We have shirts,

mugs, stickers, masks and much more, so do check it out and help support the show at the same

time. This week, we have a few short stories for you before diving into the penultimate

episode of The Friend in the Tape series. We're almost at the end. But first, let's take a trip

to a rather terrifying hospital ward and the spirits that lurk there. This one's called

Ward Nurse.

I'm a ward nurse, but I don't really have much sense when it comes to the supernatural.

Still, there are some days where I feel like I can see something out the corner of my eye, and some days just feel unbearably frightening for some reason.

At the previous hospital I worked at, there were two rows of rooms in a U-shape, with

a window at the end, and sometimes, while doing my rounds, I would feel a chill

behind me.

If I looked in the reflection of the window, then sometimes I saw something looking back at me.

One day, a patient went home for the night before their official discharge from hospital for some rehabilitation,

but after that they went missing.

The hospital filed a missing person's report and staff helped the family look for them,

so I was assigned to the night shift to cover the lack of staff.

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