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, Koabana Volume 12, is now out. Collecting

even more of your favorite stories from the show, you can find creepy ghosts, abandoned

buildings, haunted shrines, fascinating monsters, and much, much more. You can find that on Amazon

right now, and help support the show at the same time. This week, we're looking at some stories to remind you of the real horrors lurking out

there.

Not the supernatural kind, but rather the very real kind that only humans can produce.

First up, a young boy ends up in the hospital and there makes friends with another little

girl.

They bond over playing games on his Game Boy, but not all may be as it seems at this hospital.

Find out why in...

RPG.

One of my favourite childhood games was Sagatoo.

I still think of it even now, and it always makes me kind of sad.

Ever since I was born, I had terrible childhood asthma.

I often woke my mother up during the night and asked her to take me to the hospital,

and when I started elementary

school, my condition got even worse. Of course, I was unable to take part in PE class,

and I couldn't even play outside with the other kids either. So, when I was in the fifth grade,

things got so bad that I was going to the hospital every single day, and at one point,

I had to stay there for three whole weeks.

I was in a four-person room, with two of the other patients being an elderly woman and an elderly

...