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706: Part 1 — 2011/02/27 04:09:24 This happened back in the Shōwa era, when my aunt was commuting to the hospital to care for her father—my grandfather— who had been hospitalized with cancer. My grandfather’s hospital was an old municipal hospital out in the countryside, quite far from the family home. Most of the patients were elderly people nearing the ...

966: “Doodle” 1/4 — 2010/11/01 15:06:57 This is a story about my older sister. My sister is an incredibly lucky person. Whenever she buys a lottery ticket, she almost always wins something. Unfortunately, it’s never the dream-like jackpots like 300 million yen— usually it’s the 3,000-yen wins. She’s won so many times that she can’t even remember the total. The ...

143: Anonymous (2006/08/03 00:08:14) This isn’t exactly my own experience—it’s something I heard from my mother. Since it happened to a family member, I doubt it’s a lie. Her memories are from long ago, so some parts might be a bit vague, though. When my mom was still a child, she once came home from playing outside and noticed something ...

This is a story about my grandparents’ house—something I’m really not supposed to tell anyone. Everything I’m about to write actually happened, so I hope you’ll read it. It’s a bit long, so please bear with me. This happened last July. My grandfather and grandmother had already passed away in a nursing home, and since no one was looking after ...

∧∧∧ Scary Stories About the Mountains, Part 3 ∧∧∧ 241: Anonymous (2003/08/30 08:44) A repost from the folklore board — a record of Tokyo’s hidden “Mountains of Curse” in the Okutama region. [56] “The Cursed Ridge” — from Hikawa to the Ogōchi Dam, Okutama Town, Tokyo Mitama-no-One (御霊の尾根 – “The Ridge of Spirits”) On the eastern side of Kaizawa, stretching ...

Her Face Had Changed 750: Anonymous Ghost Story Fan (2013/08/13) My girlfriend had gone back to her hometown for about three days after her grandfather passed away. But when she came back and I saw her again— her face had changed. She said the relatives had been fighting viciously over the inheritance, and the stress had been unbelievable. Her expression, ...

538: Anonymous Ghost Story Fan (2004/08/09 10:41 ID:3sn8tZ0H) When I was in sixth grade, I was standing on the platform at T Station on the S Railway Line when a man I didn’t know said to me: “If you wait here just a little longer, you’ll see someone jump in front of the train.” But I was on my way ...

∧∧∧ Scary Stories About Mountains – Part 3 ∧∧∧ 692: Anonymous (2003/11/19 13:18) This happened back when I used to work in the mountains. One day, after finishing my job, I was walking down the work trail when I heard a strange voice from above. It sounded something like “Hoo” or “Whoah”. People sometimes make those kinds of loud, carrying ...

∧∧∧ Stories About Mountains Part 3 ∧∧∧ 649: Anonymous Behind You... (2003/11/18 18:01) This is something that happened to me. I’m a third-year university student now, and this took place not long after I became a sophomore. When I went back to my hometown for the first time in a while and finished catching up with my family, I suddenly ...

383: Anonymous Behind You… (2002/01/01 16:18) I don’t know if it’s the same all over Japan, but the local newspaper I used to subscribe to back when I lived in another town used to list everyone who had died each day. It printed their names, dates and locations of the funerals, and the name of the chief mourner (moshu, usually ...