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. The latest volume of Kowabana, Volume 11, is now out.

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frightening monsters, haunted locales, and much, much more. So do check it out right now.

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This week, we're looking at some tales not of the supernatural, but rather how terrifying

and frightening real flesh and blood human

beings can be.

First up, a university student on his way home one night happens to spot a woman nailing

a straw doll to a tree.

The woman realizes that she's been seen, and it's just the start of a terrifying journey

that will take several years to end.

Find out why in The Waiting Woman.

This happened when I was a university student.

Things have finally calmed down now, so let

me get it all out. This isn't a story about ghosts or anything like that, but rather how scary

real people can be. During the autumn of my first year at university, I was out drinking

with a friend one day, and I managed to catch the last train home.

My house was about a 15-minute walk from the closest station. I used that road almost every

day and there was a small shrine on the way. A shrine so small and indistinct that only the locals

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