True Hauntings of Japanese Ghosts
Kowabana: 'True' Japanese scary stories from around the internet
Tara A. Devlin
4.8 • 615 Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2019
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Japanese ghosts have a habit of picking a target and never letting go. Whether you can exorcise them is often up to the ghost, not the priests of this mortal realm. Discover six tales of those who can’t or refuse to move on…
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| 0:00.0 | This happened when I was just a kid in the fifth grade. |
| 0:15.2 | One day, I think it was during Golden Week, I was playing with my cousin. |
| 0:20.7 | She was just a small first grader at the time. Her parents... I think it was during Golden Week, I was playing with my cousin. |
| 0:20.9 | She was just a small first grader at the time. |
| 0:24.3 | Her parents, so my uncle and aunt, had gone out with my parents somewhere, and the two |
| 0:30.6 | of us were at home alone. |
| 0:33.3 | Once I was done with my homework in my room, I thought I'd go join my cousin in the living |
| 0:38.2 | room to play, so I rushed over. |
| 0:41.4 | Until that point, everything had been normal, but after that was the start of my unbelievably |
| 0:48.0 | strange experience. |
| 0:50.8 | I saw my cousin in the living room and was about to call out to her to play, when suddenly |
| 0:56.3 | I saw something behind her. |
| 0:59.2 | I couldn't see it very clearly, but it was kind of like a 3D shadow, like a black mist |
| 1:07.2 | floating on her back. |
| 1:10.1 | She hadn't noticed it. She was drinking her milk and watching the |
| 1:14.0 | TV. The moment I saw it, I was overcome with this urge to throw up. It was like my insides were |
| 1:22.3 | turning back the other way, and it wasn't like I was sick or anything. It just came back up of its own accord. I rushed to |
| 1:31.7 | the toilet and threw up. When I returned to the living room, the black misty thing on my cousin's back |
| 1:38.6 | was gone. Even now, I still haven't told her about what I saw that time. |
| 1:47.0 | Hey guys, I'm your host Tara A Devlin, and welcome to another episode of Koabana, |
| 1:55.0 | true Japanese scary stories from around the internet. |
| 1:59.0 | To start this week's episode, I'd like to quickly remind |
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