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

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 ! Uncover five stories of dangerous encounters with the other side, moments so fleeting, yet so dangerous, that they may threaten to drag you over with them… BGM thanks to Myuuji , Kevin MacLeod and CO.AG . Sound effects thanks to Free Sound a...

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 ! Three tales of ghosts from around Japan that will remind you why it’s dangerous to go out at night, and perhaps why even your own home is never safe… BGM thanks to Myuuji , Kevin MacLeod and CO.AG . Sound effects thanks to Free Sound and fre...

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 ! Two terrifying tales of events long ago that continue to haunt not just the past, but the present as well. Not everything is left buried, hidden to never be seen again… BGM thanks to Myuuji , Kevin MacLeod and CO.AG . Sound effects thanks to...

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 ! Fives tales of the supernatural striking back from the great beyond for revenge. Think you’re safe? You’re never truly as safe as you might think you are… BGM thanks to Myuuji , Kevin MacLeod and CO.AG . Sound effects thanks to Free Sound an...

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 ! Several tales of bizarre and terrifying creatures to thrill and chill you this summer. What’s really lurking out there? Perhaps it’s better not to know… BGM thanks to Myuuji , Kevin MacLeod and CO.AG . Sound effects thanks to Free Sound and...

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 ! An item that can make all your dreams come true. Surely there can’t be any catch to it, right? And maybe those lifeless figures you see out and about aren’t really as lifeless as they seem… BGM thanks to Myuuji , Kevin MacLeod and CO.AG . So...

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 ! Five tales to make you question what really lies out there in wait, and whether curiosity really did kill the cat or not… BGM thanks to Myuuji , Kevin MacLeod and CO.AG . Sound effects thanks to Free Sound and freeSFX . Licensed under Creati...

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 ! This week we’re heading to four more locations you should avoid if you wish to keep your good health. Haunted apartment buildings, cursed manors, terrifying urban legends and more. You don’t wanna stay in these places… BGM thanks to Myuuji ,...

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 ! Three perplexing stories that will leave you grasping for answers. Was it truly the supernatural, or perhaps something more logical and yet far more terrifying? In the end, nobody knows, and that’s what makes them so scary… BGM thanks to Myu...

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 ! Nine strange and terrifying tales of things that just don’t make any sense no matter how you look at them. Not everything out there is as it truly seems… BGM thanks to Myuuji , Kevin MacLeod and CO.AG . Sound effects thanks to Free Sound and...

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 ! Japan is full of old customs and rituals, and if you believe the internet, many of them are unknown to outsiders. For a good reason. This week we look at three customs and rituals that are, quite frankly, a little mystifying… BGM thanks to M...

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 ! The countryside. If the internet is anything to believe, that place is more haunted than the afterlife. Here are a few more locations you should probably stay away from if you want to keep your good health… BGM thanks to Myuuji , Kevin MacLe...

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 ! Do other dimensions exist? And if so, do they occasionally crossover with our own? If these stories are to be believed, then yes, and the ending isn’t always pretty… BGM thanks to Myuuji , Kevin MacLeod and CO.AG . Sound effects thanks to Fr...

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 young man asks two of his friends to help him out with a strange custom back home. But it’s only the beginning of a terrible sequence of events that will change their lives forever, if they can even make it out of this alive… BGM thanks to...

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 ! Villages around Japan hold their own unique festivals and rituals but, if these stories are to be believed, not all of them are good. In fact, some are downright deadly… BGM thanks to Myuuji , Kevin MacLeod and CO.AG . Sound effects thanks t...

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 ! The bizarre. The unexplainable. That which you should just leave be. If only the people in this week’s stories had taken heed of that warning themselves… BGM thanks to Myuuji , Kevin MacLeod and CO.AG . Sound effects thanks to Free Sound and...

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 ! Ask people what they find to be the scariest thing of all, and many will answer the same way: humans. These four tales tell of the strange, terrifying, and sometimes bizarre events that can occur not with the supernatural, but with other peo...

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 ! Japan is covered in mountains, many of them sparsely populated. What really lives out there? And what should you do on the off chance that you happen to run into something otherworldly out there? Can you even do anything at all…? BGM thanks...

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 ! When the other side comes knocking, sometimes it’s best to just ignore it entirely. But what if you can’t ignore it? What if it keeps coming and you don’t even know what it’s after? These three tales will certainly make you think… BGM thanks...

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 ! Encounters with the other side. They don’t always go well, and as we’ll see with these three stories, they can change people’s lives forever. Who knows what’s really out there…? BGM thanks to Myuuji , Kevin MacLeod and CO.AG . Sound effects...

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 ! Japan is the land of 8 million kami, and not all of them are good. People are often warned not to mess around with the sacred, and these three stories show you why. BGM thanks to Myuuji , Kevin MacLeod and CO.AG . Sound effects thanks to Fre...

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 ! Sometimes strange things happen without explanation. No matter how deep you look, it can be difficult to uncover why. And, perhaps, it’s best left that way… BGM thanks to Myuuji , Kevin MacLeod and CO.AG . Sound effects thanks to Free Sound...

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 ! Do you ever truly know what’s lurking in the darkness? Sometimes its best not to know, as these three stories can attest to… BGM thanks to Myuuji , Kevin MacLeod and CO.AG . Sound effects thanks to Free Sound and freeSFX . Licensed under Cre...

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 ! This week we have three tales of terrifying monsters you don’t want to run into at night… or during the day… or ever. Avoid them with your life… if you can. BGM thanks to Myuuji , Kevin MacLeod and CO.AG . Sound effects thanks to Free Sound...

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 ! Ever thought your family was bad? These two tales will make you question those closest to you and whether you ever really truly know what’s going on in the house you live in… BGM thanks to Myuuji , Kevin MacLeod and CO.AG . Sound effects tha...