Unfortunate Encounters with the Other Side
Kowabana: 'True' Japanese scary stories from around the internet
Tara A. Devlin
4.8 • 614 Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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The bizarre. The unexplainable. That which you should just leave be. If only the people in this week’s stories had taken heed of that warning themselves…
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, I'm your host Tara A. Devlin, and welcome to this week's episode of Kowabana, |
| 0:16.1 | true Japanese scary stories from around the internet. Have you picked up my latest book yet? |
| 0:22.0 | Kijo, Japan's Most Notorious Female Criminals, is now out. |
| 0:26.0 | If you want to hear about some of the horrifying, bizarre, and often confusing crimes |
| 0:30.6 | that some of Japan's most notorious female criminals have committed, do check it out. |
| 0:35.6 | It's available on Amazon right now. |
| 0:39.6 | This week, we're looking at some strange, terrifying, and ultimately unfortunate encounters with the other side. To start, |
| 0:47.1 | a group of friends like visiting ghost spots on their motorbikes and one day stopped |
| 0:51.7 | by a famous tunnel that's said to be haunted. |
| 1:00.4 | They take a few photos and, when they get them developed, discover something horrifying in them. |
| 1:04.2 | But that's not even the scary part of the story. |
| 1:13.6 | Find out why in 1 to the 14th power of 10. Did you know that humans can pass through walls? |
| 1:20.6 | It's about a 1 to the 14th power of 10 possibility. |
| 1:25.6 | Apparently, it's because the particles that make up our cells are |
| 1:29.5 | permeable. I saw something about it while I was watching TV the other day, and it reminded me of |
| 1:35.8 | something that happened about 15 years ago, which made me wonder if that incident had something |
| 1:41.6 | to do with this. So, I decided to ride it all down. |
| 1:47.0 | I wasn't a member of a bike gang, but I did love bikes a lot, and on Saturday nights I loved |
| 1:53.7 | riding around with my friends. |
| 1:56.5 | We also enjoyed visiting ghost spots at the same time. |
| 2:00.6 | One Saturday, I visited a famous tunnel with a few of my friends. |
| 2:04.6 | There was a cherry blossom tree by the entrance that had a sign. |
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