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

Season 1

Mystifying Mountain Spirits

Episode 116

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Japan is covered in mountains, many of them sparsely populated. 

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Unsettling Human Horrors

Episode 117

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Ask people what they find to be the scariest thing of all, and many will answer the same

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Unfortunate Encounters with the Other Side

Episode 118

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The bizarre. The unexplainable. That which you should just leave be. 

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Terrifying and Dangerous Countryside Rituals

Episode 119

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Villages around Japan hold their own unique festivals and rituals but, if these stories

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Seal

Episode 120

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A young man asks two of his friends to help him out with a strange custom back home. 

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Adventures with Alternate Dimensions

Episode 121

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Do other dimensions exist? And if so, do they occasionally crossover with our own? 

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Countryside Locations to Avoid

Episode 122

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The countryside. 

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Mystifying Customs & Rituals

Episode 123

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Japan is full of old customs and rituals, and if you believe the internet, many of them

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Step into the Strange World

Episode 124

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Nine strange and terrifying tales of things that just don’t make any sense no matter how

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Perplexing Oddities

Episode 125

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Three perplexing stories that will leave you grasping for answers. 

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