Unexplainable, Unfathomable, Unbelievable
Kowabana: 'True' Japanese scary stories from around the internet
Tara A. Devlin
4.8 • 614 Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2020
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Sometimes you encounter something you can’t explain. Sometimes comprehension is beyond one’s grasp. Sometimes, even if you do understand it, it’s still impossible to believe. Dive into six tales that defy belief and defy explanation.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, I'm your host Tara A. Devlin, and welcome to another episode of Kowabana, |
| 0:15.5 | true Japanese scary stories from around the internet. Welcome to April. We're now in the midst of our |
| 0:22.6 | 15 days of Scarepril over on the Koabana Patreon, and just last week, the latest volume of |
| 0:28.9 | Neykan, the most haunted locations in Japan, came out as well. You can find the links to both |
| 0:35.0 | of those on koabana.net, but if you're looking for a little more |
| 0:38.6 | Japanese horror to get you through the day, then look no further. |
| 0:42.7 | We have 15 terrifying creepy pastors related to cherry blossoms taking place on the Patreon, |
| 0:48.8 | and Nekan explores a different haunted ghost spot from each of Japan's 47 prefectures. |
| 0:55.1 | Dig into the history and terrifying tales behind 47 famous, well-known, |
| 1:00.9 | and often dangerous, real locations in Japan. |
| 1:04.6 | Head over to coabana.net for those links or check the episode description. |
| 1:10.0 | On this week's episode, we're looking at several tales of the unexplainable. |
| 1:15.6 | Evil spirits that defy comprehension. |
| 1:19.2 | Objects that, by all rights, shouldn't exist. |
| 1:23.3 | Happenings that bend time and space. |
| 1:26.9 | Nothing makes sense, but you can guarantee that it's terrifying all the same. |
| 1:32.3 | Our first story for this week is about another dreaded cursed box. |
| 1:37.4 | Unlike the Kotori Baco, this one appears to be much, much older, and far more deadly as well. |
| 1:46.0 | This one's called Hellbox. Please allow me to tell you a story my grandfather told me. He works in construction in the Kansai area, and he knows a wealth of associates there. |
| 2:07.0 | Perhaps because he's so sociable, he buys a lot of strange things from people. |
| 2:12.6 | He likes to show off, so he has a Japanese sword, a tiger statue, things like that. |
| 2:20.2 | To speak somewhat ill of him for a moment, he buys a lot of crap. |
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