The inaka spectacular & countryside creepies

The inaka spectacular & countryside creepies

Episode Notes

This week's episode focuses on the 'inaka,' the countryside of Japan. A young boy playing in the mountains with his cousins stumbles across a strange abandoned building. What history does it hide? A young man learns the truth about the strange ritual his family carries out whenever someone dies, and a group of friends get more than they bargained for when they stay in an empty house for the holidays. Uncover the terrors that lurk deep in the countryside of Japan!

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Countryside Locations to Avoid

Countryside Locations to Avoid

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 MacLeod and CO.AG. Sound effects thanks to Free Sound and freeSFX. Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License Support Kowabana: 'True' Japanese scary stories from around the internet by contributing to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/kowabana

8 Huhti 202242min

Adventures with Alternate Dimensions

Adventures with Alternate Dimensions

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 Free Sound and freeSFX. Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License Support Kowabana: 'True' Japanese scary stories from around the internet by contributing to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/kowabana

25 Maalis 202245min

Seal

Seal

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 Myuuji, Kevin MacLeod and CO.AG. Sound effects thanks to Free Sound and freeSFX. Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License Support Kowabana: 'True' Japanese scary stories from around the internet by contributing to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/kowabana

11 Maalis 202256min

Terrifying and Dangerous Countryside Rituals

Terrifying and Dangerous Countryside Rituals

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 to Free Sound and freeSFX. Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License Support Kowabana: 'True' Japanese scary stories from around the internet by contributing to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/kowabana

25 Helmi 202247min

Unfortunate Encounters with the Other Side

Unfortunate Encounters with the Other Side

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 freeSFX. Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License Support Kowabana: 'True' Japanese scary stories from around the internet by contributing to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/kowabana

11 Helmi 202250min

Unsettling Human Horrors

Unsettling Human Horrors

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 people… BGM thanks to Myuuji, Kevin MacLeod and CO.AG. Sound effects thanks to Free Sound and freeSFX. Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License Support Kowabana: 'True' Japanese scary stories from around the internet by contributing to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/kowabana

28 Tammi 202244min

Mystifying Mountain Spirits

Mystifying Mountain Spirits

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 to Myuuji, Kevin MacLeod and CO.AG. Sound effects thanks to Free Sound and freeSFX. Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License Support Kowabana: 'True' Japanese scary stories from around the internet by contributing to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/kowabana

14 Tammi 202245min

Ominous Encounters With the Other Side

Ominous Encounters With the Other Side

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 to Myuuji, Kevin MacLeod and CO.AG. Sound effects thanks to Free Sound and freeSFX. Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License Support Kowabana: 'True' Japanese scary stories from around the internet by contributing to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/kowabana

31 Joulu 202146min