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. The latest volume of Coabana, Volume 11, is now out.

This volume has over 80 different stories of creepy ghosts, abandoned buildings, frightening

monsters, haunted locales, and much, much more, so do check it out right now.

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You can check that out at koabana.store. 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're looking at a few

stories of the weird, strange, and downright creepy to

see the year out.

First, a young boy seems to fall ill every single year on his birthday, but this particular

year, well, it seems something unimaginable has come for him.

Will he make it out of this one intact?

Find out in

Woman with the pale face.

I grew up in a small rural village on the coast of the Setto inland sea in Shikoku.

This all took place on my sixth birthday. It happened

a long time ago, and the line between my childhood memories and reality is a little blurred,

but I'll do my best to write it down as factually as possible. I'd never once had a good

birthday experience, and for my sixth birthday, I broke out in a fever

of over 40 degrees. My family decided there was no way it could be a regular cold, so they

took me to the hospital. I tended to have my birthday parties on weekends or days off school,

but on the actual day of my birthday, it was like this every single

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