Visitations That Defy Belief
Kowabana: 'True' Japanese scary stories from around the internet
Tara A. Devlin
4.8 • 615 Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2021
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Sometimes your might find your home or workplace visited by something not of this world. Do they mean harm, or perhaps bring good tidings? Only one way to find out…
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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, |
| 0:15.8 | true Japanese scary stories from around the internet. I hope you're all doing well and settling into the New Year well. |
| 0:22.9 | New Year's is one of the most important holidays in the Japanese calendar, and it's a good |
| 0:27.2 | time to kick back, relax, and try to take a break from things. |
| 0:31.6 | As such, I hope this week's episode will allow you to do just that as well. |
| 0:36.2 | This week, we're taking a look at a variety |
| 0:38.5 | of stories that will make you question your beliefs, stories that will make you wonder about |
| 0:43.6 | the possibility of the other side, and if it truly exists, what lurks there? Our first story |
| 0:50.5 | features a technical school teacher who very stubbornly doesn't believe in the |
| 0:55.1 | supernatural, despite his wife's protests. |
| 0:59.1 | Is their new house really haunted? |
| 1:02.1 | Find out in Scientific Soul. This happened when I was attending a technical high school attached to a university. |
| 1:18.0 | There was a teacher there who taught electronic circuits. |
| 1:21.2 | He was a good teacher. |
| 1:22.8 | A little over-enthusiastic, sure, but he was a good guy. We had a kind of love-hate relationship with him. |
| 1:31.7 | I'll call him Mr. I. So Mr. I was about to get married, and so he was selling his house. |
| 1:40.0 | Several of us students helped him with his moving preparations, including myself and a few friends. |
| 1:46.5 | We helped because we knew that he'd treat us to Yakiniku at the end. |
| 1:50.9 | Yet, when we arrived at his new house on the day of the move, everyone was speechless. |
| 1:57.1 | It was an old Japanese-style house, two stories with a small garden, but no matter how you |
| 2:03.9 | looked at it, the place looked haunted. Even if you removed the fact that nobody lived there, |
| 2:11.0 | it still looked haunted. I mean, the windows were covered in charms and everything. |
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