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.

Have you picked up my latest book yet? Kijor, Japan's

most notorious female criminals, is now out. If you want to hear about some of the horrifying,

bizarre, and often confusing crimes that some of Japan's most notorious female criminals have committed,

do check it out. It's available on Amazon right now.

If you ask people what they're afraid of, many of them will answer with the same thing.

Humans.

Humans are often far more terrifying than the supernatural.

And this week, we're looking at some weird, frightening and often bizarre interactions with our fellow man. No ghosts here.

Just people that might be your neighbors, your friends, your classmates or colleagues.

First up, a young girl moves to a new school and makes friends with a girl who has a similar

family background to her own.

But when she goes over to her house one day, things very quickly get confusing and more than

a little unsettling.

Find out why in Manikin. I have absolutely no sixth sense. Therefore, I've never once seen a ghost, nor have I heard one.

Even so, I once experienced something scary when I was in junior high school, so I'd like to tell

you about it. My father passed away when I was 14, so we moved back to my mother's family

home. My grandfather on my mother's side had passed away long ago, so there was just us

three girls living there, me, my mum, and my grandmother.

I still hadn't recovered from the shock of my father dying,

and I was immediately thrown into a new environment I couldn't get used to.

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