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Kowabana: 'True' Japanese scary stories from around the internet

Visitations of the supernatural

Kowabana: 'True' Japanese scary stories from around the internet

Tara A. Devlin

Fiction, Leisure, Hobbies, Drama, Literature, Arts

4.8615 Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2019

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Think you understand what’s going on in the world around you? These three tales will make you question what is real, what isn’t, and whether you should look over your shoulder to check on that noise or not…

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0:00.0

A family of four stayed in Adyokan on holiday.

0:13.7

Late one night, the mother found her daughter murdered in the toilet.

0:20.0

She was stabbed all over, and her face cut so

0:23.3

badly that no one could tell who she was. Her tongue was also missing from her dead body.

0:31.2

There was a small vent and a tiny window in the room, only 30 centimetres by 10 centimetres, and covered in lattice.

0:41.2

It was too small for a person to enter, and the door was locked.

0:46.3

Who got in, and from where?

0:50.1

The police questioned the couple who owned the Orkan, their son, and the local delinquents,

0:56.4

but the room was locked from the inside, so the case went unsolved.

1:01.7

But then one day, the couple who ran the Yorcan appeared at the police station with their son in tow.

1:09.7

We were unable to speak truthfully the other day because everyone's eyes were on us,

1:15.6

but something terrible has happened, so we'd like to share it with you.

1:20.6

Our son likes to secretly film people, and we've warned him over and over again,

1:26.6

but on the night of the incident,

1:29.4

he was filming the toilet from above the ceiling. While he was filming, the glass of the small

1:35.9

window opened, and a small... No, you should just watch the tape from start to finish.

1:45.9

They asked the sun about the tape, but the fear reignited within him, and he started to act

1:51.3

half crazed.

1:53.6

Wondering what could be on the tape to make the boy act in such a way, the investigators pressed

1:58.5

play. The tape showed a commanding view of the girl while she was urinating.

2:05.4

The girl was squatting over a Japanese-style toilet, and when she stood up, the window opened.

2:12.9

A tiny old woman, only 15 to 20 centimetres high, jumped through, holding a shard of glass.

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