What's haunting Japanese schools?
Kowabana: 'True' Japanese scary stories from around the internet
Tara A. Devlin
4.8 • 615 Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2018
⏱️ 28 minutes
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This week's episode is a school hauntings special! Find out about the creepy ghosts, games and places that are terrifying Japanese schoolkids today.
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| 0:00.0 | Can you figure out what's wrong with this story? |
| 0:15.0 | Yesterday, eight of us played hide and seek. |
| 0:19.2 | I was found in only three minutes. |
| 0:22.7 | Three minutes after that, |
| 0:24.6 | another three were found. |
| 0:26.8 | And then the last four were found |
| 0:28.5 | five minutes after that. |
| 0:31.0 | Usually it takes about an hour |
| 0:32.8 | to find everyone. |
| 0:34.7 | How amazingly fast. |
| 0:37.3 | I want to play again tomorrow too so did you figure out what was wrong |
| 0:49.3 | in the first three minutes, I was found. |
| 0:55.8 | Three minutes later, three people were found. |
| 1:00.1 | Five minutes later, four people were found. |
| 1:04.8 | Although only eight people were playing, eight people were found. |
| 1:13.6 | That's one person too many. Hey guys, this is your host Tara A Devlin, and welcome to another episode of Kowabana, true Japanese |
| 1:29.5 | scary stories from around the internet. Volume 2 of the book came out last week. Have you read it yet? |
| 1:36.3 | It's been getting some great reviews, which makes me really happy as a lot of work went into it. |
| 1:41.6 | If you haven't checked it out, head over to koabana.net for more information. |
| 1:47.3 | On this week's episode, we're going to be looking at school hauntings. |
| 1:51.8 | Perhaps more so than Western schools, Japanese schools are a very popular setting for ghost |
| 1:57.6 | stories. |
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