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

By Tara A. Devlin

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Each week on “Kowabana: ‘True’ Japanese scary stories from around the internet,” horror author and translator Tara A. Devlin presents a selection of Japanese horror, creepypastas and urban legends translated from the deepest, darkest parts of the web. Creepy ghosts and vengeful onryo, cursed technology and haunted shrines. Discover horror like only Japan knows how to deliver. Brand new and exclusive stories translated each week. Find out more at http://www.kowabana.net/

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Uzu Doll

11.08.2019

Episode Notes Join our Patreon for early access and bonus episodes and help support the show! Join the Discord to chat with other fans and get even more Japanese horror at our YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/kowabanajapan! Japanese dolls are cute, right? ...

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11.08.2019 Uzu Doll Episode Notes Join our Patreon for early access and bonus episodes and help support the show! Join the Discord to chat with other fans and get even more Japanese horror at our YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/kowabanajapan! Japanese dolls are cute, right? ...
10.25.2019 Human Horrors Episode Notes Kazoku out now! Join our Patreon for early access and bonus episodes and help support the show! Get exclusive Japanese horror merchandise and join the Discord! You might be afraid of ghosts. Maybe you’re scared of monsters. But ...
10.11.2019 Mysterious & Otherworldly Experiences Episode Notes Join our Patreon for early access and bonus episodes and help support the show! 31 Days of Kowabana is on right now! Get exclusive Japanese horror merchandise and join the Discord! Sometimes things defy explanation, no matter how ...
09.27.2019 Hitchhike Episode Notes Aokigahara out now! Join our Patreon for early access and bonus episodes and help support the show! Get exclusive Japanese horror merchandise and join the Discord! What could go wrong on a simple hitchhike? Two young men decided ...
09.13.2019 The Evil in Our Safe Spaces Episode Notes Aokigahara now on sale! Join our Patreon for early access and bonus episodes and help support the show! Or join the Discord! Spirits and monsters don’t just lurk in empty, dark spaces. Sometimes they hide in plain sight, ...
08.30.2019 What Lurks in Abandoned Buildings? Episode Notes Kowabana Vol 1 & Vol 5 on sale this week! Join our Patreon for early access and bonus episodes and help support the show! Follow us on the Kowabana YouTube channel for even more exclusive Japanese horror, and ...
08.16.2019 Encounters with the Supernatural Episode Notes Toshiden, Reikan, and Kirei on sale this week! Join our Patreon for early access and bonus episodes! Get even more exclusive horror translations at YouTube, and join the Discord! Sometimes things happen that can’t be explained, and often, ...
08.02.2019 When Yurei Attack: Ghost Stories From Japan Episode Notes Join our Patreon for early access and bonus episodes and help support the show! Get exclusive Japanese horror merchandise and join the Discord! A phone call with a ghastly voice on the other end. A photo that changes ...
07.19.2019 Neighbourhood Hauntings Episode Notes Join our Patreon for early access and bonus episodes and help support the show! Get exclusive Japanese horror merchandise and join the Discord! It’s not just houses that get haunted. Sometimes there can be a strange happening at ...
07.05.2019 Kinkisaki -Pandora- Episode Notes Join our Patreon for early access and bonus episodes and help support the show! Get exclusive Japanese horror merchandise and join the Discord! It’s the 50th episode! This week we have a very special story to celebrate: Kinkisaki ...
06.21.2019 Haunted Places Episode Notes Join our Patreon for early access and bonus episodes and help support the show! Japan is full of haunted places. With these three tales, uncover the terrifying truth behind the paranormal encounters of everyday people simply going about ...
06.07.2019 Supernatural stalkers and soul snatchers Episode Notes Join our Patreon for early access and bonus episodes and help support the show! And you thought your job was bad. At least you’re not being stalked by the supernatural as it attempts to take your life, and ...
05.24.2019 Round Hole in the Basement Episode Notes Join our Patreon for early access and bonus episodes and help support the show! Your friends want to infiltrate a new, if slightly creepy, religious establishment on the edge of town. What could go wrong, right? As it ...
05.17.2019 SPECIAL: Toshiden: Exploring Japanese Urban Legends - Sukima-onna Episode Notes Join our Patreon for early access and bonus episodes and help support the show! Sukima-onna, aka the Gap Woman. Once she infests your house, there's no getting rid of her. She'll watch you from every nook and cranny, ...
05.10.2019 Best of Japanese Horror 2018 (Part 2) Episode Notes Join our Patreon for early access and bonus episodes and help support the show! This week we’re looking at part two of the most read and highly rated Japanese creepypastas from 2018. Interested in what’s scaring Japanese audiences ...
04.26.2019 Best of Japanese Horror 2018 (Part 1) Episode Notes Join our Patreon for early access and bonus episodes and help support the show! This week we’re looking at some of the most read and highly rated Japanese creepypastas from 2018. Interested in what’s scaring Japanese audiences these ...
04.12.2019 Monsters in the shadows Episode Notes Join our Patreon for early access and bonus episodes and help support the show! What monsters lurk in the shadows? What monsters lurk in the light? Discover three tales of mystery that will have you thinking long after ...
03.29.2019 Visitations of the supernatural Episode Notes Join our Patreon for early access and bonus episodes and help support the show! 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 ...
03.15.2019 Mysterious and deadly encounters Episode Notes Join our Patreon for early access and bonus episodes and help support the show! You find a box buried deep in the mountains. Do you take its contents? People warn you not to walk down that street at ...
03.01.2019 A grandparent’s love Episode Notes Join our Patreon for early access and bonus episodes and help support the show! Look after your grandparents and they’ll look after you, even from beyond the grave. Discover four tales of the elderly from Japan looking to ...
02.15.2019 Redemption and revenge from beyond the grave Episode Notes Join our Patreon for early access and bonus episodes and help support the show! Uncover two tales of women looking for redemption and/or revenge from beyond the grave. Will you figure out which it is they're after before ...
02.01.2019 Horrors in the Japanese skies Episode Notes Join our Patreon for early access and bonus episodes and help support the show! Discover four tales of terror that'll make you question whether you really want to get on that flight to Japan or not. Sometimes the ...
01.18.2019 The mysterious and unexplainable horrors of Japan Episode Notes Join our Patreon for early access and bonus episodes and help support the show! Sometimes things occur that are beyond understanding. Discover three tales of terror that defy explanation and make you question the nature of your very ...
01.04.2019 Cursed boxes Episode Notes Join our Patreon for early access and bonus episodes and help support the show! The Kotoribako isn't the only cursed box around. Discover two more boxes haunting the countryside of Japan, and the horror that lurks within them. ...
12.21.2018 'True' ghost stories from real haunted locations Episode Notes Join our Patreon for early access and bonus episodes and help support the show! To celebrate the release of “Reikan: The most haunted locations in Japan,” this week we’re looking at various ghost stories from ‘real’ haunted locations ...
12.07.2018 Well in the Basement Episode Notes Join our Patreon for early access and bonus episodes and help support the show! There have long been rumours of the tunnels underneath Tokyo holding a dark secret. What really lurks in the darkness beneath the largest city ...
11.23.2018 Nightmare on Yume Street: Dreams that kill Episode Notes Join our Patreon for early access and bonus episodes and help support the show! Monkey Dream may have been the first, but it’s not the only dream that can kill you. Discover four tales straight out of Japan ...
11.09.2018 Our entire class fought an evil spirit Episode Notes Fill out the survey for your chance to win some Kowabana ebooks: https://goo.gl/forms/WgULB5GoS07YmAuD2 Join our Patreon for early access and bonus episodes and help support the show! A special double-length episode thanks to our patrons! Find out what ...
10.26.2018 Classic Japanese creepypasta champloo Episode Notes Join our Patreon for early access and bonus episodes and help support the show! Check out A Cure for Chaos: http://geni.us/TaraDevlin! Enjoy a healthy sampling of nine classic Japanese creepypastas from beyond the grave. First put online at ...
10.12.2018 Mysterious and deadly objects Episode Notes Join our Patreon for early access and bonus episodes and help support the show! Cursed video tapes. Cursed boxes. If you can think of it, Japan probably has a cursed version of it. In this week’s episode, find ...
09.28.2018 Origins: the best of early Japanese horror Episode Notes Join our Patreon for early access and bonus episodes and help support the show! Japanese creepypastas started to infect the internet around 2000, and over the next 10 years grew in size and infamy. This week, discover three ...
09.14.2018 Horror Baito: Supernatural on the job Episode Notes Join our Patreon for early access and bonus episodes and help support the show! Ever hated your job? Try working at these places. What if the true horror wasn’t the low pay and poor working conditions but the ...
08.31.2018 Obake Yashiki: Home sweet haunted home Episode Notes Join our Patreon for early access and bonus episodes and help support the show! Japanese houses. So comfortable. So inviting. Yet what creeps across the tatami mats and hides in the deepest nooks and crannies of the closet? ...
08.17.2018 Obon special: horror from the afterlife Episode Notes Join our Patreon for early access and bonus episodes and help support the show! August in Japan marks Obon, the Buddhist festival where the spirits of one's ancestors return home and ghosts return to the living plane. Discover ...
08.03.2018 Oden Special: A hodgepodge of horror Episode Notes Join our Patreon for early access and bonus episodes and help support the show! Like a good old-fashioned meal of oden, this week comes with a wide variety of short horror tales to scratch all those hard to ...
07.20.2018 Haunted Japanese houses of horror Episode Notes Join our Patreon for early access and bonus episodes and help support the show! Japanese horror at its finest. Five tales of things that go bump in the night, the yurei hiding in the nooks and crannies of ...
07.06.2018 Unbelievable and unexplainable sightings Episode Notes Join our Patreon for early access and bonus episodes and help support the show! Cryptids in basements, impossibly tall figures, floating severed heads and other things the eye just can't explain. Six tales of the unbelievable and unexplainable ...
06.22.2018 The truth is out there... experiences in the supernatural Episode Notes Join our Patreon for early access and bonus episodes and help support the show! Things that go bump in the night. Things that make no logical sense. What is real and what isn't? Discover five tales of the ...
06.08.2018 Gakkou Kaidan, ghost stories from Japanese schools Episode Notes Join our Patreon for early access and bonus episodes and help support the show! You think you've got it bad? Try going to these Japanese schools of terror. Five terrifying tales of ghosts, haunted classrooms, things that go ...
06.01.2018 SPECIAL: Toshiden: Exploring Japanese Urban Legends - Kuchisake-onna Episode Notes BONUS EPISODE Listen to the very first episode of Toshiden: Exploring Japanese Urban Legends. Go to Kowabana.net for how you can subscribe to this new podcast! "Am I pretty?" she asks before removing her mask, revealing her mouth ...
05.25.2018 Kankandara: The secret behind what lurks in the forest Episode Notes Japanese horror is full of iconic ghosts and creatures of the night. But have you heard the story of Kankandara? The monster hidden deep in the forest with a curse so terrifying that all who come across her ...
05.11.2018 Noroi, the inescapable Japanese curse Episode Notes Sadako from The Ring. Kayako from Ju-on: The Grudge. Noroi, or curses, are a Japanese horror staple, and once one latches on to you, it's impossible to escape from. Discover five creepy tales of ghosts, grudges and inescapable ...
04.27.2018 Attack of the yurei Episode Notes Yurei. Those misunderstood spirits everyone blames for everything wrong in the world. They just want you to join them... in the afterlife. Five creepy tales of Japanese ghosts and how they haunt the living world. Beware. They could ...
04.14.2018 The legend of the Kotoribako Episode Notes Discover the truth behind of one of the most fearsome urban legends of all: the Kotoribako. What is the truth behind this mysterious box, and why do people keep dying around it? Some curses weren't meant to be ...
03.30.2018 The true terror behind cursed dolls Episode Notes Be careful of mistreating your dolls, they may remember what you did to them. A young woman discovers the terrifying secrets behind the family doll that scared her as a child, and a young man gets more than ...
03.16.2018 A curse upon your family and all within it! Episode Notes A young medium receives a request for help; something supernatural is going on in this man's home, and it's not going away. The truth will shock them both. And there's more than meets the eye with this dark ...
03.02.2018 Life-changing childhood experiences Episode Notes A young boy visits his grandparents' chicken farm for the summer holidays, but why do they check the incubator at midday and midnight every day without fail? Another young man muses on the strange boy he befriended as ...
02.23.2018 Kisaragi Station and other trains of horror Episode Notes A woman gets on the train but it doesn't take its normal route. She ends up in a place called Kisaragi Station, where no-one is around but she can hear drums in the distance. Find out what happens, ...
02.16.2018 The monsters in our villages Episode Notes In this week's episode we're looking at the gods, monsters and yokai that haunt Japanese villages! Find out who Gomiko-san is, the mysterious woman who lurks in the mountains of Hokkaido. Who is Yorikata-sama, the monster slash deity ...
02.09.2018 What's haunting Japanese schools? Episode Notes This week's episode is a school hauntings special! Find out about the creepy ghosts, games and places that are terrifying Japanese schoolkids today. BGM thanks to Myuuji Intro & Outro BGM thanks to Kevin MacLeod Sound effects thanks ...

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