The Scariest Japanese Creepy Pastas | CreepCast

41:48You know what I mean? It's just fucking, it's insane. It's like, I think that's what makes everything so fantastical. uh it's just that we we get i feel like we just get the scraps of those kinds of uh bits and cultures of things passed down you know what i mean nothing ever really rooted but uh should we know so we're good yeah we'll move on to the next one so it's called hashaku sama and i look it up and uh she's also known as the eight feet tall lady and i gotta say looking at some of these pictures of her you know she kind of i like this reoccurring thing in japanese storytelling as well or at least japanese horror storytelling where it's like a simple figure and all they do is like walk or they exist in like the like in this in a lot of cases it's like you see them through the fog usually they walk through a park maybe like a road or of some kind and it's just like slightly unnatural enough to where uh it becomes like a creepy urban legend or something like the woman who walks alone or something you know it's just like and I love when people put characters in these scenarios where they emerge from fog or something as if it's like using your own weather or climate against you to kind of like trick your brain to being like fuck did I just see that what did I just see I don't know what I just saw that's really fun see that real quick yeah just to you know I think that's pretty fun definitely spooky I'm real frightened right now all right um my father's parents house was a little less than two hours away by car it was a farming house but i like that sort of thing so when i started high school and got a bike i often went on trips there by myself during the summer and winter holidays both my grandfather and my grandmother happily welcomed me we're so happy that you're here however the last time i went there was just before i started the third grade of high school so i haven't been there in over 10 years now.

43:42It's not that I won't go, but rather I can't go. It was the start of spring vacation and the weather was perfect, so I got on my bike and went to my grandfather's house. It was still a little cold, but the veranda was pleasantly warm, so I relaxed there for a while. Then, I heard this strange sound. It didn't sound like a machine. It sounded like it was coming from a person in addition to that it was kind of like it was both a voiced consonant and half voiced at the same time what was that i wondered and then i saw a hat over the top of the garden hedge there's no reason it would have been put up there then it started to move sideways and once it reached a gap in the hedge i saw a woman ah that woman was wearing the hat she was also wearing a white one-piece dress however the hedge was about two meters high if her head could pop out over the top of that just how tall was she i was shocked but she started moving again and disappeared from view the hat also disappeared then at some point the po-po-po sound also stopped at the time i didn't think much more of it than perhaps an already tall woman wearing some high heeled boots or perhaps a tall man dressed up as a woman in high heels afterwards i was in the living room drinking tea when i told my grandfather and grandmother about what just happened i saw this really big woman i wonder if it was a man cross-dressing i said they just replied oh yeah she was bigger than the hedge she was wearing a hat and was making the strange sound like The moment I said it, the two of them froze Like they stopped moving at the exact same time After that, my grandfather's face contorted And he threw a barrage of angry questions at me When did you see her?

45:36Where did you see her? How much taller than the hedge was she? I answered his barrage of questions And then he suddenly fell silent And went to the phone in the hallway and called somewhere The sliding door was closed So I couldn't hear what he was saying very well My grandmother was visibly shaken Don't fuck me up I finished his phone call. My grandfather said, You'll stay here tonight. No, there's no way we can let you return tonight. Have I perhaps done something awful? I worried, but I couldn't think of anything. It's not like I went to see that woman by myself. She was the one who appeared to me.

46:09Then my grandfather said, Grandma, I'm leaving him to you now. I'm going to pick up K-son. Took off in his truck. Timidly, I asked my grandmother about it, and she said in a trembling voice, It seems you have been possessed by House Haku-sama. Your grandfather's going to do something about it. There's no need to worry. After that, she told me bit by bit until my grandfather returned. Man, to not hear there's a monster outside, but you've already been possessed? My gosh. I would look at her and be like, word? hey grandma roll hey roll that back again what the fuck do you mean i'm possessed i do like this idea that it's like grandma what the frick i do like this idea of like knowing that you see this person people are like oh yeah really how big was she and you think it's all cute until it's just a specific detail and then it's like oh fuck he's possessed oh shit oh he's possessing there it is also no shot that that resident evil village uh or yeah Resident Evil Village woman.

47:13Oh, Lady Dimitrescu. There's no way in hell that was not referenced. You know what I mean? They had to have been referencing this. Oh, I'm sure it came from it. Oh, yeah. I can't tell you, by the way, what it was like being, because I love the Resident Evil games a lot. And then to be like so ready for eight's reveal and then to see like the nine foot tall woman, I was like, ah, Capcom. God damn, dude. You beautiful animal. My boy's been bricked these past couple of weeks. I'll tell you what. I just, you know, I just appreciate the arts. That's all it is. That's all it is. I want to take a moment to thank today's sponsor, Harry's Razors.

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49:34Just like her name suggested, she was about eight feet or shaku tall and had a strange manly laugh that went depending on the person, she might appear as a young woman in a morning dress, an old lady in a formal kimono, or even a middle-aged woman in farm clothes. while her appearance was always different the things she always had in common were her incredible height the fact she always wore something on her head her strange laugh in the past there were rumors of her being a possessed traveler but nobody knew for sure she was sealed in this area now it's a part of o city but in the past it was part of a larger section of x village by jizo statues so she's unable to leave when you are possessed by hushaku sama you were killed within a few days last time hushaku sama hurt someone was 15 years ago it kind of reminds me of um what's that what's that japanese movie about incantation no that's the found footage one what's the one with the dad who's a cop whaling yes the whaling yeah yeah where it's like his his kids possessed and he doesn't know what to do about it so he's going out to try to find help right and a part of the horror of it is like how helpless they are against all of this that's happening yeah i love those kind of movies though man that act of faith kind of movie love that yeah yeah except at the end of that one i mean spoilers but the end of that one's kind of like well you tried yeah but no he broke he broke the rule he didn't he didn't have faith that the woman was telling the truth so he like ruined the he left he ruined the seal and broke it yeah i heard this after the fact but the reason she was sealed in by the jizo statues was because if shakusama could only leave the village by certain paths nobody knows why and so they enshrined the jizo statues on those particular paths they were to prevent her leaving but apparently they were placed in four locations on the boundaries of the east and west and the north and south as to why they would even try to keep ushakosama trapped here apparently there was an arrangement with the nearby villages where they got for example priority to water rights and such shakusama only appeared to bother people once every 10 or so years so the people who lived there in the past found it to be an advantageous deal even nearing all that there was no way it could be real, I thought.

52:08Of course not. Before long, my grandfather returned with an old woman in tow. Well, haven't you gotten yourself into a fine mess? Here, take this. The old lady said and handed me a talisman. Then she went upstairs with my grandfather to do something. My grandmother stayed behind with me. Even when I went to the toilet, she went with me and wouldn't let me close the door the whole way. For the first time since being there, I started to think, maybe this really is dangerous. A short while later, they called me up to the second floor and put me in a room. The windows were entirely covered over with newspaper and talismans, and there were piles of salts in all four corners.

52:51There was a small wooden box, not something you'd really call an altar or anything, and on top of it was a small statue of Buddha. Then, I don't know where they came from, but there were two bedpans prepared as well. I was supposed to go in those? The sun's about to set. Listen, you can't leave this room until tomorrow morning. Neither myself nor your grandmother will call you or try to speak to you, okay? You must under no circumstance leave this room until 7am tomorrow. At 7am you can come out by yourself. I'll call and let your parents know. My grandfather said with a serious look on his face.

53:30I could do nothing but nod silently in agreement. Make sure you do exactly as was just said. Keep your talisman close as well. If anything happens, go and pray before the Buddha, Khe San said. They said it was okay to watch TV, so I turned it on. But even as I watched it, my mind wandered and I couldn't focus. Being locked in the room, I didn't feel like eating the anajiri or snacks my grandmother made for me, so I just got in the futon and lay there, trembling. At some point, I fell asleep. but when I woke up, I don't remember what it was, but some late night TV program was on. When I looked at my watch, it was past 1am.

54:11At this time, I didn't have a cell phone. Oh, what an awful time to wake up, I thought, when I heard something tapping at the window glass. It wasn't like a small rock hitting it. It was more like a finger wrapping across the surface. I couldn't decide whether the wind could make a sound like that or if it really was a person tapping at the window so I tried to believe with all my might that it really was just the wind then I heard my grandfather's voice hey are you okay don't push yourself too hard if you're scared okay without thinking I walked towards the door but then I remembered what my grandfather said to me.

55:00The voice sounded exactly like my grandfather, but it wasn't him. I don't know why, but I just knew. And as I realized that, I got goosebumps. I looked over at the pile of salt in the corner, and the top had turned black. I ran at full speed to the Buddha and sat down in front of it. Grasping the talisman I started to pray as hard as I could.

55:30Then I heard the voice, and the window started rapping. I knew she wasn't that tall, but I couldn't stop picturing her in my mind reaching up from below and tapping on the window. There was nothing I could do but keep praying in front of the Buddha. Night felt unbelievably long, but eventually morning came, and at some point the tv that had left on started playing the morning news the time in the corner of the screams at 7 13 a.m i'd even noticed but both the tapping on the glass and the voice had stopped it seemed i'd either fallen asleep or lost consciousness pile of salt turned even more black just in case i looked at my own watch and it said roughly the same time so i nervously opened the door and my grandmother and kason were standing there looking worried my grandmother was crying I'm so glad.

56:22I'm so glad. When I went downstairs, my father was also there. My grandfather appeared from outside and told me to Hurry up and get in the car. I don't know where it came from, but when I went out into the garden, there was a minivan there. There were also several men standing in the garden. in. The van fit nine people. I was put in the middle seat. A's onset in the passenger seat, and the rest of the men in the garden got in and surrounded me. There were nine of us in total. I was surrounded in all directions. It's terrible, isn't it? You'll probably be curious, but I want you to close your eyes and keep your head down.

57:00We won't be able to see anything, but perhaps you will. Until we say it's okay, you keep your eyes shut. An old man in his 50s sitting to my right said to me. Then my grandfather got into his minitruck to take the lead, followed by the van I was in, and my father followed in his car as we set off. The line of cars drove rather slowly. They probably weren't going over 20 kilometers an hour. Before long, K-San muttered, This is the hard part. And the men started chanting some sort of Buddhist prayer.

57:35I heard that voice again. I gripped the talisman K-son gave me, closed my eyes and put my head down like I was told, but for some reason I opened my eyes just a little and looked outside. I saw a white dress. It was moving alongside the car. She was following with such long strides. Hey, her head was outside the window so I couldn't see it. but she started bobbing her head down like she was trying to see inside the car

58:12imagine that you see the dress and then you start to see a huge chin like a giant like down the top of the window yeah yeah like above it trying to look it reminds me um um what's that ito one the model the supermodel or whatever the really terrifying girl who comes for the pictures and she's like a monster or whatever she has this monstrous proportion there's also a there's also a sexy one where like a guy in the fog is like walking the alleyways to reminds me of that one too but you know oh i don't think i know that one unconsciously i let out a sound. Don't look! The man next to me raised his voice.

58:54In a panic, I squeezed my eyes shut and gripped the talisman even tighter. Kotsu, Kotsu, Kotsu. A tapping sound on the window began. The people in the car around me also gasped in fear. Even though they couldn't see her or hear her voice, they could hear the sound on the window. Kaysan started praying even harder. Finally, when I thought the voice and sounds stopped, Kason said, We got away. They've been around me. We've been quiet until that point where we're relieved and said, Thank goodness. Soon after, the van stopped in a wide part of the road and I got into my father's car. As my father and grandfather bowed to the other men, Kason came over and said, Show me the talisman.

59:36I was still unconsciously gripping it. When I looked at it, it had turned entirely black. Kason said, I think it's all okay now, but just in case, you should keep this for a little while longer. He gave me a new talisman. After that, I returned home with my father. A few days later, my grandfather and one of his neighbors brought my bike back. Apparently, my father also knew about Hushaku-sama, and he told me about one of his childhood friends who was possessed by her and then killed. He even knew of people that had to move away and live in other places because of her. the men who rode in the car were all related to my grandfather in some way which meant they were all very loosely my blood relatives as well of course my grandfather riding in the front and my father riding in the back were connected by blood as well so they were all meant to confuse hushaku sama somewhat from me my father's brothers my uncles were unable to come over in a single night so they gathered whatever blood relatives they could no matter how loosely related we were but Of course, it was still impossible to get so many men together so quickly, and thinking it much safer to leave during the day than at night, I was imprisoned in that room for the night.

1:00:45In a worst case scenario, apparently, both my grandfather and father were prepared to sacrifice themselves for me as we escaped as well. Now, as I explained above, I make sure not to go back there anymore. After I returned home, I spoke to my grandfather on the phone and asked him if he spoke to me on that night, but he said that he didn't so it really was i got chills down my spine thinking about it again ashaku sama targeted youths yet to come of age and children often saw her as well when youths and children are feeling extremely anxious and they hear the voice of someone from their family i think they quickly let their guard down 10 years passed and just as i was about to forget those events, something terrible happened.

1:01:30The Jezo statue's keeping Hoshu Kusama and the village broke. It's the one on the road leading towards your house. Brother Mother told me over the phone. My grandfather died two years earlier, and of course I wasn't able to go to his funeral. Even when my grandfather was no longer able to get out of bed, he said for me not to come. Even now as I'm telling myself that it's just a superstition, I find myself getting more and more worried. when I think about hearing that voice again. What a wonderful story. That is a great little horror story. I love that. That was by... Trying to confuse it as you drive out of the border that it can't pass.

1:02:10That was... That's awesome. That was by Tara A. Devlin, and she actually has a book called Kawabana True Japanese Scary Stories from Around the Internet, Volume 1. Just want to say, we'll link that in the... Yeah. We'll link that in the description as well. I'm picking up mine right now because that was fucking sweet. she has uh several it looks like she has a collection of three very cool oh no what books one through ten oh my gosh she's got she got a bunch of these things man yeah we'll link that description that was cool i enjoyed that i liked that one a lot that was good that was well paced it got me a little bit with it when he's in the room and you hear the tapping and stuff and he was praying that was pretty good this idea of uh a possession story of someone also just being like I always love deception and stuff in these horror stories and the idea of somebody being like you cannot open this door until 7am and then it's like also this idea to this is before I had a smartphone holy fuck what if my watch was off I'd be I would be going insane you step out at 658 oh yeah shit yeah should we move on to the next one yeah we can move on to the next one so the next one is how would you pronounce that Kisaragi yeah kisseragi station kisseragi station for the description of this one on creepypasta wiki it says the following is a translated transcript of an actual thread posted on the japanese message board to channel in 2004 this oh man 2004 this is ancient internet horror the stated topic was post about strange occurrences around you the poster was anonymous at first before using the name husumi not long into the discussion and husumi indicate indicate post made by the thread creator uh the hashtag uh two channel indicates a post made by another two chand user they are not the same they are not all the same person okay so when we see the question mark it's it's like a comment on 4chan yeah right or not 4chan anonymous 2chan anonymous yeah so anonymous post and then people replying, asking questions.

1:04:10So do you want, you can be Hasumi, the person talking, and I can be the poster replies. I'll be question mark in the Hasumi and you'll be 2CH. So for everyone, when I'm voicing, it's not just the same person. It's just all the commenters replying to Hasumi. This may be my imagination. Can I post it anyway? Go ahead. What's going on? I've been riding a certain train for a while, but something seems off. I always take this train to work, but it hasn't stopped them at any station for the past 20 minutes or so It usually takes five minutes seven or eight at worst. Oh And there's five other passengers, but they're all sleeping Did you take the express train by mistake?

1:04:53Is it a high-speed train? Well, it's possible. I may have missed my stop I'll wait a little longer If anything else strange occurs, I might bring it up here. Try going to the car on the end to see the conductor. Maybe Maybe? It'd be really bad if the driver had an epileptic fit or something. You should check on the conductor. Still no sign of stopping, so alright, I'll take a look. There were blinds or something covering the window, so I couldn't see the conductor or the driver. The route is a private railway in Shizuka. Knock on the window? I tried that, but nobody answered. Can you see out the window?

1:05:27Names of stations you're passing, etc.? We came out of a tunnel, so we're dropping speeds slightly. There usually aren't any tunnels, though. It's a train from Shin Hamamatsu. Looks like we're finally stopping at a station. You weren't going to get off there, are you? We're stopped at Kisagari Station. I wonder if I should get off. I've never heard of this place before. Definitely check it out. No, stay on until the last stop. Oh, but it's probably already departing now. When did you get on the train? I've gotten off the train. The station's unmanned. I believe they got off the train at 1140. I'm not finding any information on Kisaragi Station.

1:06:03And, Hasumi, your train was going for over an hour. Well, that's really strange. Yeah, I'm not getting any results for Kisaragi Station. I'm looking for a schedule so I can get back. But I can't find one. The train has still stopped, so it'll probably be safest to get back on. Well, it left while I was riding that. Is there anyone nearby or any buildings? It's cold out, so be careful. I'll look for a taxi from the station. Thank you very much. Sounds good. Take care. Way past the last train at an unmanned station. Really questionable if you'll have any luck finding a taxi there. And so Hasumi became an inhabitant of the two-dimensional world.

1:06:44It doesn't matter what time period of the internet it is, there's going to be someone out there saying you're about to die. There don't seem to be any taxis anywhere. Call 110, which is a Japanese number for police. Call the taxi company. If there's a telephone booth nearby, look up the taxi company in the phone book. Call. I called home and asked to be picked up, but neither of my parents seem to know where Kisaragi Station is. They'll look for it on the map so they can come get me. But I'm getting a little scared now. What about the others? Are you the only one who got off the train? I checked online too, and the name Kisaragi Station isn't coming up.

1:07:19Am I wrong in assuming it's around Shin Hamamatsu? I'll check Yahoo. I looked for a public phone, but there's nothing. and no one else got off. So I'm alone now. It's definitely called Kisaragi. This is good, man. I love this. Someone posted just an abandoned train station or an unmanned train station. It's like the last stop before eternity. Sometimes they have phones outside the station. Looking into it. Apparently it's written with the kanji for devil, but it reads Kisaragi. Devil station. Yikes. You know shit, dude. Dude, fuck that. Sorry, well, bye forever, assuming. Are you a gaming nerd?

1:08:04Because a game comes up if you Google it. Tell us the names of the stations before and after Kisaragi. What do you mean a game? It doesn't say what the next and previous stations are. Walk back along the track. That's an awesome suggestion. Just start walking into the woods. If you start running now, you might catch up to the train.

1:08:25There must be houses around the station, right? Yes, there are. I didn't quite notice since I was panicking. I waited for my parents to call while walking along the track. I tried checking town information on iMode, but it gave me a point error or something. I want to go home. There's really just nothing around here. All I can see are fields and mountains. I think I'll be able to make it back if I go down the track, so I'll keep pushing on. Thank you very much. treat this as a joke if you will but but can i come to you if i can count any more trouble of course just be careful out there sure just make sure you don't run out of battery your phone's your lifeline right now don't get lost and be careful in the tunnel huh you can get a signal out of the middle of nowhere i kind of think you shouldn't stray far from the station all alone on a cold night at a station with no attendance soon the lights could go out and it'll be pitch black It really might be the safest to wait for daybreak at the station though.

1:09:23Oh, geez. This sounds bad. I got a call from my father. He had many questions, but simply couldn't find my location. I've been told to call 1110, which I'm a little opposed to doing. I'll try to ask them to help me now. So Hunter, if you were on a train and the train drops you off somewhere and you're just alone, no one else, not a soul at the station, what would you do? God. Well, I mean, first off, I would never get off. There's no way I would live on the train. I feel like. honestly though realistically if i i would probably just stay at the station at least wait i mean yeah at least wait till morning i mean i would just turn you're gonna you're just gonna walk through the darkness of the woods absolutely no no no i'm not gonna walk on the tracks or do whatever and like you know hope to i'm just gonna wait because then also too i'm gonna like i'm at a train station we just got off even if it takes a while maybe there's another one i'll just wait get on that one yeah i don't know yeah there's gotta be something better yeah i really think you should wait until it gets lighter out before you do anything waiting all alone in the dead of night and in some ominous place yikes going through a tunnel alone in the dead of night and on some ominous train line yikes I called 110 and tried my absolute best to explain the situation but I thought it was all a joke and got angry at me so I got scared and apologized now that would be me that'd be me like I'm sorry actually no I don't need anything it's okay I definitely would just be calling back hey listen this is real so it said this was 2004 but he has a mobile phone yeah it wasn't i think blackberries were around by then in 04 really i think so let me see there's yeah 99 is when blackberries came out whoa that's crazy and you could like browse the internet with them the blackberry smartphone the blackberry smartphone the 580 the 5810 arrived in 2002 so yeah like right at the beginning whoa Oh, that's crazy.

1:11:12I know that they were pretty early on. I didn't think they showed up till like 06, 07. No, that's when the iPhone dropped. Yeah, I guess it is when the first touch screen came out. That killed the BlackBerry. Well, you got to realize I was born in 99, so all this is like ancient lore to me. Right. I do remember being like six or seven and playing on my parents' BlackBerry. So I guess in my mind, the iPhone wasn't out for a long time after that, but it was. Yeah, that's true. Apologize for what? should probably give up for today. Wait for the first train. What's it like around the station? What's there?

1:11:46I hear what sounds like a beating drum mixed with some kind of bell way off in the distance. Honestly, I have no idea what to do at this point. Guess you're in hell, buddy. Yeah, they're gonna, brother, they're gonna box you up and send you off. God damn, dude. Holy hell. Dude, you hear beating that bell? This is the literal beginning of the first Animusha game. Good fucking luck, bud. You are fucked. They done pieced that man up. He is gone forever. He's going straight to the mansion from the last episode. Get back to the station for now, Hasumi. It's best to return to where you started when you're lost.

1:12:26Here's where... I love these comments that are egging it on. Here's where it gets going. Are they having a festival or what? You might think I'm kidding, but I'm too scared to look behind me. I don't want to go back to the station, but I don't dare turn around. Run and don't look back. You can't go back to the station now. Run through the tunnel. I'm sure you'll find you're not far. Someone behind me just yelled, hey, don't walk on the track. That's dangerous. I looked around expecting to see an attendant and saw one legged old man, but he vanished. I think I'm too scared to move. Bro, one legged old man.

1:13:05Middle of the woods at night. Hey asshole. at least I'd be kind of stuck and I'd be like well at least I can beat this old man's ass if he comes near me and fuck you up old man call him tic-tac boom there's some call him tic-tac there's something so menacing about a lot of these Japanese stories like their folklore which like you said someone's standing there but there's such I don't know there's such maliciousness associated with it so often it's like yeah it's just one-legged old man but with the drums and everything It's like that might be the devil, dude. I told you not to look back. Run. Calm down and listen to Big Bro, okay?

1:13:42Check out where the drum's coming from. There's... This dude's big dogging him. Calm down and listen to Big Bro, okay? Check out where the drum's coming from. There's bound to be somebody playing it. That's how drums work. Where the hell are you planning to take Hasumi? Why'd you know it was an old man if it just had a single leg? Uh, I think Hasumi meant an old man who lost one of his legs. Yeah, it wasn't just a leg floating in the distance. Must have been an old man who died and lost a leg after walking along the track. I can't walk or run any further. The drumming sounds like it's getting a little closer.

1:14:15Wait for dawn. It won't be scary in the daylight. I'm glad I stayed on the train. I'm still alive, but I fell and started bleeding. I broke a heel, so I'm sitting still in the ground. I don't want to die now. It should be safe if you leave the tunnel. Once you get out of there, call for help immediately. I called home. Dad's calling the police, but the sound keeps getting closer. I hope to God that's not the sound of the train, but it might be too late. I finally managed to make it to the front of the tunnel. The name says, Miss Inoki. The sound's still getting closer, so I'm going to have to leave the tunnel.

1:14:49I'm safe once I get out of the tunnel. I'll post again. Good luck. This is the end. Forget about trains and stations. Forget about going back. Forget about someone chasing you. The sound you're hearing is just something you imagined. Run out of the tunnel. If you stop, you'll only succumb to something which does not belong in this world. I left the tunnel. There's someone up ahead. It looks like all your advice was right after all. Thank you so much. My face is such a mess from tears. He might just mistake me for a monster. Wait, Hazumi, don't die on us. Stop, that can't be good. Someone there, this late at night?

1:15:28That's suspicious. He seems gentle and was worried for me. He called for a train to take me to the nearest station. Apparently there's some kind of business hotel there. I'm truly, truly thankful to all of you. Asumi, please answer me this one thing. Can you ask that man what that place is? Is he really gentle? He sounds kind of scary from what you said. That guy's no good. Why is he by the track at this hour? He must have been a corpse or something. Asumi, run! I asked him where it was. And he said it was Hina. It seems extremely unlikely though. Hasumi, get off the train. Excuse me, Hasumi, where's Hina?

1:16:10We've been headed toward the mountains for some time. It really doesn't strike me as a place where trains would go. Yet he stopped talking to me entirely. Probably because you're constantly messing with your phone. Hasumi, oh no, oh no. Did you contact your parents after you got out of the tunnel and received aid from this guy? Hasumi, please call 110. zero. This might be your last chance. My battery's almost run out. Things are getting strange, so I think I'm gonna make a run for it. He's been talking to himself about bizarre things for a while now. To prepare for just the right time, I'm going to make this post my last post for now.

1:16:48Afterward, Sumi was never heard from again. I love that shit, dude. That's fun. That's really fun. I love that shit. He like crossed, he got on a train that crossed over to the afterworld and he's just walking through like the final stops it almost feels like an evil version of uh spirited away yeah yeah i love this idea of yeah you get transported into a spirit world on unknowingly you're kind of just like wait what the fuck yeah yeah no i uh also i love that ted the caver shit of like hey maybe you'll hear from me again and that's where the post ends that being on a that being on a random message board rules yep that's just like the whole thing put together and it's old too I wonder back then if people really knew about like not necessarily trolls but I wonder if it's so much more where people are like I believe this like I have no reason to believe that this guy is lying to me like it is now now if anybody says anything online you're just like what the fuck ever dude shut up you know what I mean I'm so I feel like I at least I want to believe at this time that people were just so invested freaking out and that's the funniest thing is too is you don't even know who the commenters are those people could be that's I like to think too like when I went to Japan I mean you know it's i mean you travel everywhere on trains that's just that's what you do there's like no way to get around uh without it so i like to think how many of these people were on trains commenting and being like oh my fucking god you know it's like oh what if i'm yeah because a lot of the best urban legends tie into like real fears or worries people have it's like what if because when you get on a train you're completely at the will of the conductor right yeah what if one day you got onto a train and um you didn't stop what if you went somewhere else how could you get off what would you do yeah yeah uh it looks like it was actually adapted into a little it kind of looks low budget but a horror movie that's fun because it's already stationed that's pretty cool we're going back to tara again thank god uh she's doing this is another she's doing a or it's a story called kune kune yep uh there's another one by her beneath this called uh the note my brother left behind which looks pretty anyway uh yeah kune kune seems like she's put together a bunch of bangers from the looks yeah i mean i i legit while we were sitting there i ordered her book on amazon it looks really good like yeah looks sick all right well are you ready wait hold on where was the where did i read that last one where did we read that last story at was that not on creepypasta wiki that's creepypasta you're right i was making sure that wasn't her that recorded it yeah yeah yeah that's creepypasta wiki all right so another tar one kune kune is that how you'd pronounce that kune i think so i mean that's what i pictured as a couple of dumb genius yeah a southerner and a midwestern i've put the dumbest thing i've ever said in my life uh was said like 30 minutes ago or however long you know it feels like a lifetime ago now it was it was an hour and 10 minutes ago but yeah uh that was not the dumbest thing you've ever said in your life don't worry oh thank you you said far dumber welcome that's kind this happened when i went to visit my grandmother's house as a child we only went to visit my grandmother's house once a year during obon so as soon as we got there i took off at full speed with my older brother to play outside.

1:20:08It's entirely different to the city. The air is so fresh and clean. I took in the refreshing breeze as my brother and I ran around the rice fields. Then, as the sun rose high in the sky and stood right above us, the wind suddenly stopped. Well, that's what I thought, but then a disgustingly warm breeze blew instead. It's already hot at the best of times. Why is it such a warm breeze blowing now? I complained, angry that the cool breeze had been snatched away from me. I noticed my brother was looking in another direction, towards a scarecrow in the distance. What's up with that? I asked him. No, not that.

1:20:46Past that. He replied, strained his eyes even harder to see. I wanted to see as well and looked intently over the rice fields. Then I saw it. What was that? It was far in the distance, so I couldn't tell what it was. it was about the size of a human but it was white and swaying to and fro i don't like that dude no i don't like that and now you know the moment i read that it's storming right now see i'm talking and out my window right here out my window right here to the left where this tree limb is it keeps like bowing in and out and i'd thought of that as soon as i read that it was swaying about the size of it i hate the sentence it was about the size of a human there's so many assumptions they're like why are you calling it it what do you mean about which way is it about why is so it's not a human then like i just even just the thing of swaying to and fro like almost like a dance or something is just i don't know yeah i also hate that because it's like it reminds it makes me think that it's going to take off towards you at any moment you know there was nothing around here but rice fields.

1:21:59No reason for any people to be nearby. For a moment I felt strange, but then I tried to explain it. Isn't that just a new type of scarecrow? It has to be. Until now, scarecrows have never moved, so a farmer or someone must have thought it up. They probably just started moving with that wind just before. My brother's expression said that he agreed with my precise explanation, but in an instant, it disappeared. The wind had stopped, and yet the white thing in the distance was still swaying. Hey, that thing's still moving. What the hell is it? He said, surprised in his voice. He wanted to know what it was, so he returned to the house and came back with a pair of binoculars.

1:22:44He seemed excited. I'm going to take a look at first, so just wait a minute. He said and eagerly peered through the binoculars. Then, suddenly, his face changed. Before my eyes, he started to turn blue and broke out into a cold sweat. Finally, he dropped the binoculars he was holding. Terrified of my brother's transformation, I asked him. What was it? He answered me very slowly. You're better off not knowing. Oh gosh. It wasn't my brother's voice. Just like that, he turned and steadily returned to the house. I went to pick up the binoculars, but look at what turned my brother's face instantly blue.

1:23:32But perhaps because of what he said, I couldn't find the courage to do it. But something was bothering me. From far away, it just looked like something white, swaying strangely. It was a little weird, but other than that, it wasn't especially scary. But my brother. I had to look. I had to see what my brother saw. You're that scary, huh? Well, I'll decide that with my own two eyes. I picked up the fallen binoculars and went to look. My father suddenly came running towards me. Before I could even ask, What's wrong? my father rushed towards me. Don't look at that white thing! Did you see it? Did you look at it through the binoculars?

1:24:16No, not yet! I replied, confused. No, thank God. my father said falling to the ground in relief we went back to the house i had no idea what was going on when we got back everyone was crying is this because of me no not me when i looked closer i could see my brother laughing like a madman he was moving about like that white thing Swain. Swain. Seeing my brother like that, he was scarier than whatever that white thing was. Then, when it was time for us to return home, my grandmother said, It would be better for everyone if you left him here. It'll be easier for him to live here. The place is small, and if you think about your neighbors, they won't wait even a few days before leaving him here.

1:25:08The best thing to do is to release him into the rice fields after a few years. my fucking lord oh my god dude god damn all right granny fuck sakes dude hearing those words i broke out into tears i never see my brother like he was again even if we came back again the following year that wouldn't be my brother why did this happen we were just playing around having fun why i furiously wiped my tears got in the car and we left the house behind as our grandparents waved goodbye just for a moment i thought i saw my brother wave too as we got further away i wanted to see my brother's face one more time so i looked through the binoculars and he was most definitely crying his expression was that of laughter, but it was the first and last time he would smile so sadly again.

1:26:07Then as we turned the corner and I could no longer see him, broke out into tears once more, not taking my eyes away from the binoculars. One day you'll come back, right? I thought. I looked out over the green fields while remembering and missing my brother. Then, while I was thinking about my brother, i looked through the binoculars that was when it happened i saw the thing up close that i knew i should never see and what a great one man man that got me what a great man just like the thing in the field so there's a recurring thing in a lot of these stories about like adults knowing something that the kids exposed to you know i just like never panicking or having to do something to help never fully given the reader the full gist of the story and just kind of coming in on a random moment is just so fun honestly i think that's a great one to end on i think that's a that's a that's a really really fun one i really like uh a lot again how a lot of the japanese legends have so much weight behind them there's so much you could do with them and a lot of them are just so brutal like the train station to hell or that takes you to the afterlife and to me knows hell.

1:27:23Of course, that one's a classic, but then you also have stuff like, um, the one we just read where it's something unspeakable in the fields or the kind of the same vibe that the Hoshiku Hoshaku Sama does. Where's this tall woman. And there's some other popular Japanese legends too. Like there's a slit mouth woman who approaches you and she has a mask on. She says, want to see my smile? And she pulls it down and her face is cut open and she kills you. There's the other one, the Teke Teke, uh, which is the woman who, and if I believe in most regards was run over by a train or someone threw her on the train tracks that she was run over so she's just an upper torso with arms that like chases you down the road at night but she can move really fast there's so many really brutal ones it's interesting how you can take these horror concepts and do so much with them that makes them so much more than just the initial scare or premise uh like the white thing in the field like the white swain thing in the fields enough but then seeing what it does to the brother and things like that terrifying like dude there's it's like you said earlier if there's one group who knows how to keep you up at night it's japanese the uh just so much good shit today beautiful poetry also i will say i am very very curious to keep reading tara's work tara a devlin once again we'll link her uh amazon shop or just some books or whatever in the description uh both stories you read by her were phenomenal I'm just, I mean, also too, I really love just even the screenplay format of the, uh, or not screenplay, but just like, it's nothing but comments.

1:28:52I mean, I feel like we haven't done that since, uh, is that kind of how faced my, my girlfriend messaged me on Facebook? Is that kind of the similar of like the comment section or not really? I can't remember. I think that one was just longer posts, but I see. Yeah. Uh, we've done some before that are common sections like that. Yeah. I always liked that back and forth. It's really, really fun. And I think that the once again just these things of it's just a fun way of doing like we're not seeing the horror we're kind of like experiencing it with the commenters i think that's a lot of fun i i liked all of them though i mean i really i i don't know if i have a favorite one of all of them i mean i think the uh hashaku sama i really like that one i think of like just the tall woman just the bobbing of the head i think the setup is good i like the kind of like ritualistic also two different stories from um tara here where it's like a generational horror of like a dad at the end of uh kune kune running up and being like don't fucking look at that while the grandfather yeah in uh hishaku sama uh was pretty much like well fuck i guess i gotta go kill a demon i gotta go deep you know exercise you or something well it's kind of like that thing with uh there's so much history behind all the horror it stands to reason that generations would be affected by it you know yeah no it's it also seems like things that are just like undeniable or like they're not they're totally um you have no control over it is one but then also it's like things that don't just affect every generation like that's one thing i really liked with ashaku sama is it's a spirit that does possess people but you're just hoping it's like a cancer or something you're just praying to god that it's like does not affect you you know uh which i thought was really just a lot of fun i I don't know.

1:30:35Also, too, just as this theme grab bag was just really fucking fun. I feel like we need to do more themed grab bags. Yeah, well, normally we try to put something to them. But yeah, you're right. Japanese ones have been pretty cool. I guess just even culturally. I think maybe just the cultural grab bag, like maybe next time we can do something just from, you know, I mean, stories that are fixated in other people's culture that are all specifically the same versus just like, you know, subject matter like, you know, oh, they're all ghost stories or something. I think that doing more cultural grab bags would be a lot of fun.

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