Kowabana: 'True' Japanese scary stories from around the internet
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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/
Episodes
- Ghastly Gruesome Ghosts
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- Horrifying Encounters That Can’t Be Explained
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- Bewildering & Bizarre Experiences
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- Bizarre & Ghastly Ghosts
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- Spine-tingling Accounts of the Sea
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- Deadly Spiritual Encounters
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- Spectral Frights and Bites
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- Maddening Mountain Frights
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- Hair-raising School Adventures
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- Best of 2025
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- Deadly Dreadful Dolls
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- Devilish Dreams
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- Encounters of the Twisted
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- Spooky Spectral Terrors
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- Human Horrors for Halloween
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- 2ch Classics Revisited
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- Tales of Cursed Buildings
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- Behind the Bizarre
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- Bewildering Countryside Encounters
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- Spooky Spectres
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- Seaside Terrors
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- Hair-raising Mountain Tales
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- Tales from Okinawa
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- Lesser-Known Favourites Compilation
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- Destination: Another World
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- Tales from Hokkaido
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- Bizarre Objects That Fight Back
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- Adventures with Grandpa Kiichi
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- Chilling Yurei Encounters
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- Soncho
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- Scary School Stories
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- Tales from Kanto
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- A Crescendo of Curses
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- Tales from Chubu
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- The Haunts in Our Buildings
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- Tales from Kyushu
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- Warnings from the Inaka
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- Tales from Shikoku
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- More Terrifying Than Ghosts…
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- Tales from Kansai
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- The Bewildering Mysteries of Shrines
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- The Cruel Fate of Curses
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- Tales from Tohoku
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- A Dance With Dolls
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- Tales from Chugoku
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- Mountain Madness
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- Beware the Haunted Residences
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- Terrors of the Deep
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- Creepy & Crafty Creatures
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- A Trip To Isekai
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