Kowabana: 'True' Japanese scary stories from around the internet
Hosted by Tara A Devlin · Tara A. Devlin
4.9from 3,976 ratings
- 242
- Episodes
- 67
- Transcribed
- 3,976
- Ratings
- Bi-weekly
- Cadence
- 2017
- First episode
- 160M
- YouTube views
About Kowabana: 'True' Japanese scary stories from around the internet
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/
- Publisher
- Tara A. Devlin
- Category
- arts · fiction · leisure
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 24 Nov 2017
- Latest episode
- 16 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
67 of 242 episodes have a transcript.
16 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Unbelievable Small Town Legends
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Vicious Village Tales
18 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Creepy Customs & Bizarre Beliefs
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Unbelievable Small Town Legends
Published 16 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] It was just him. and not a single person in the area was close enough to push him. However, M-Kun wasn't the type of person to lie or try to deceive people like that. I'd never known him to lie before. I never found out what really happened that day, but that hill remained as an eerie memory carved into my mind. M-Kun and I ended up going to different junior high schools, and in time, we kind of drifted apart. The incident at Jushichigazaka Slope was rather shocking at the time, but as I got older, I started to forget about it. Not to mention that I never once even imagined that anything would actually happen to either M-kun or myself once we turned 17. […]
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- 4.8 / 5
- 578 ratings
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- 4.9 / 5
- 3,398 ratings
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- 93
- Engagement
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