CreepCast - The Scariest Japanese Creepy Pastas | CreepCast

Episode Date: March 22, 2026

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Very, very excited. And I know that there's- To Japan today. We are going to Japan. And I know that the- There's some that are on here that I know that are pretty, I would say pretty popular, or at least like some of the more well-known ones.

Like I know the first one we're going to read is Tomino's Hell. I feel like that's like a pretty well-renowned one. I feel like I've seen that one a lot on like the creepy pasta websites and stuff when it's been reoccur. Yeah, so I don't know, which the story of it's so muddled now, I don't know if the legend around the creepypasta is true, but supposedly it's not a creepypast. It's a poem from like the 1910s.

So, and it's just like made its way into creepy pasta culture. But that could also be the creepy pasta just saying that. I don't know. But yeah, there's a bunch of weird Japanese ones that it's interesting because a lot of the more popular American ones are long. kind of goofy about a killer. A lot of the Japanese ones are like, yeah, this is a spirit that kills you. Sucks for you.

Good luck. I really don't know if there's anybody better at, which may be a controversial take. I don't know. I don't know if there's anybody better at like folklore or folk horror urban legends than Japanese storytelling. I always feel like it's always the best. At least it's always my favorite, if I'm being honest. Anytime I read about like a Japanese cryptid.

or like a Japanese story of a town or something. It's like, yeah, well, the devil lives here and it's going to kill everyone you've ever met. Get ready. They don't pull any punches. I love how superstitious the culture is in general. Like, it really adds, like that kind of belief system, I think really translates really well into all of the writing and art that they do. So I'm very excited.

I mean, even this first one here that we're reading called Tomino's Hell, it's literally about a Japanese poem that, like, you are not supposed to read out loud. That's like, and like that within itself, I'm sure, fucked up so many people because they're like, what? You know, like that's very superstitious of like, I'm not going to do that. As with most of these stories, me when I was 12, yes. Yeah. It's like, oh, what?

How fun is that? And I love that. I feel like a lot of these are pretty old too, right? Yeah. A lot of these are, we're doing a big grab back today. I mean, a lot of these, like the read time is very short. But, you know, I think with the kind of obvious. detours we normally take, it'll be fine.

But the, yeah, a lot of these, it's just like that classic old creepy pasta, very short, very punchy format, which I do think lends to these very quick folk tale, urban legend vibes that, that the Japanese stories tend to take. So I'm pretty excited. Yeah, I'm excited as well.

And you, you have some, you know, background with Japanese horror because you murdered, a Japanese woman. That is what I... That is what I see. I see that a lot in comments now.

Right. My church to Japan... Well, you posed a very weird hypothetical to me. That sounded kind of suspicious. After murdering a Japanese woman, have you encountered any spirits? That has yet to happen. When I was in Japan, though,

for people who were a fan of my channel, Papa Mead on YouTube, please check it out. I did... Did you just point yourself? No, no, no, definitely not. but on YouTube, YouTube slash dot com. Probably,

what I did, what did happen, though, is for people that don't know, I did go to Japan, uh, about almost two years ago now. Good Lord.

Time flies the, uh, and when I was there, I had, I would say kind of a ghostly experience. Oh. Yeah. And I,

we were in, we were in Osaka. And we were at this intersection of this, like basically shopping market area outside, you know. And we came across this man. who kind of came up to us with this IKEA bag. I forgot what he said.

What did he say? He said, oh, yeah, that's what he said. He said, I sorry. That's what he said.

He came out to us, big crowded area. We were all just standing in like a circle, just chatting. This man walks up to us and he looks us dead in the eyes. Or he looks at Harry dead in the eyes. He should say. And he says,

I sorry. Like that. And like, as if like, excuse me, you know, in a weird way. And we were like,

oh, no problem. And it was just. very haunting and then he like kind of like barely walked past us. His like sandals scraping on the ground. We kind of looked at each other and we were just like, what the fuck is this? And I'm not even joking, Isaiah. When I tell you that we turned and he was gone.

And it wasn't like a busy like big, big crowd. I mean like gone, gone. Not there anymore. Blown in the way in the wind. I have no idea where the fuck he went. But that was that that really stuck with us. At one time in New York, I saw a Chinese man throw a cigarette at a Seagull and it died. Which one?

So that's kind of like a spirit. The Seagull died? Yeah. Yeah. That must have a powerful flick. Well, no, it just kind of bounced off him and it just kind of fell over. That's why I mean it was kind of spiritual, you know? So is it possible that the Japanese man recognized Harry as Korean and was like,

Oh, I'm sorry for what we did to you. No, no, I don't think so. There's an apology on behalf of the country. Or alternative, he mistook Harry as a Japanese man and possibly thought he was related to him and said he's sorry. Or third option, that was actually Harry's grandfather. And he just doesn't know. As fun as all of these hypotheticals are, I think that you're going to be disappointed to find that. I think it was a man where we were just in his way.

even though it looked like he walked out of his way to be inconvenienced by us and then said, I sorry, we were baffled for maybe a second, maybe two. I'd give it two seconds. And then looking back over it to be completely gone was still, even if it is those things of him coming up, even if it was into these hypotheticals, you said, where did this man go? How could he have moved so fast?

Without us knowing? I don't know. I don't know. You know, if I was somewhere and a group of Americans came up and I was a Japanese man and I was like, oh, excuse me. And they just stared at me dumbfuddled. I'd probably be like, you know what I'm going to do? I'm going to disappear so they think I'm a ghost.

There is a, well, first off, that would not happen in Japan. Every time in Japan, no one really talks to each other. It's not a very social society. If you're going to a business, it's different. Well, possibly. Well, if anything, then that's the case then, too. It'd be weird that they would do that. But I would say that like, uh, it's true.

Also, we, I don't think that we were being disrespectful in any way. And also I think that the only thing that we were looking at that was a bit odd was that he got so close to Harry's face, which is also very odd. Uh, that kind of, I'm telling you, man, he, he, him, Harry knows that guy. Then he's lying to you. And then you should interrogate him about this. If he is, and that is downright cruel because he sold it very well. I mean, it was so. Yeah.

I mean, an inch or two from his face. And then to say, I sorry and then scuttle off. It was, you know, I don't know if it translates well, but I will say it was a very, I mean, it shook us. It shook us. I was shook. That's a pretty, it's a pretty supernatural experience. So you don't have any, like, ghost stories or anything from like the suicide forest, just an old man. No, no, I didn't.

I didn't go to the suicide forest. But I did get a Blu-ray of a movie called. Hold on. Let me grab this here. What's the, what's the Logan Paul? Oh, yeah, I've made a severe and continuous lapse in judgment. It's a Blu-ray called Fuji-Jukai. Pretty sure. That's how you said.

Fujijukai. Is that you're a hentai? No. Typhi that in. Is it going to be a bunch of, like, naked? Fuji underscore. Is it going to look at Nick's office? Fuji underscore jukai.

It is about a girl who tells other girls in our school that she wants to kill herself and these other girls in our school are like, we want to watch. Uh, it's cool. concept. The movie itself is all recorded on an iPhone, I believe. And it's like at the very beginning of the movie, they find the iPhone

in the, at the base of the woods. Suicide force? Yeah, yeah, yeah. A lot of interesting ideas. It's definitely not like a super great movie, but, you know, if you like found footage horror movie, you might dig it. I don't know. I wouldn't, I wouldn't say it's anything spectacular, but

it's a really cool concept. There's a lot of fun things that they just, I don't know, it doesn't make it all the way. But Fuji jukai, I thought it'd be a fun shout out for this episode. So here it is. Very cool. That's a lot better than, you know, that was very respectful and like kind of Japanese culture. It's a lot different than we started this podcast. I was like, hey, we should do the Japanese episode.

And you're like, oh, you mean the anime people? That's what you said. You've got to. You have got to reel in the racism. I haven't said anything. I'm referring to what you said. I don't think I ever said the anime people. That's what you said.

That's what you told me. All right. Well, Tomino's hell, Hanako San, the toilet ghost. There's a lot of, I've noticed it with a lot of Japanese horror storytelling. There's a lot of, they are not, they are not happy with being disturbed in the toilet. That's like a real, it's a real. See, there go. I didn't say anything there.

That was you that made that. The point. I had nothing to do with that. The point you just made, you just said that all their stories are about toilets. I didn't say all of their stories. It said that they, there's a lot of them. That is what you said. All right.

That is what you said. And I had nothing to do with it. I'm defending them. You're the one coming in here with your problem. Like old man bumps in you and says, I'm sorry. And you're like, was that a ghost?

All right. The toilet ghost, an old urban legend about the ghost of a little girl that haunts the toilets of schools. Hashakosama, which is an urban ledge of a tall woman and a hat that brings about generational doom. God damn.

Yeah, we'll get to start with Taminos hell. Thank you so much to all of our patrons and all of our supporters. It really does mean the world. and you can listen to these on Spotify and Apple Podcasts anywhere. You listen to a podcast and we really appreciate your all support. Thanks a bunch. Love you guys.

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I think you're trying to make a case that I, am mentally unfit to continue to host this show. Well, I don't. I would hate to comment on that. I'm not going to comment on that. I bet you would at this time. But there will be a lot of comments made about later. And you're trying to replace me with Nick.

This is all coming. This is all coming back to your collective IP where there's just a bunch of shows and stuff that you and Nick. And Nick's going to come to my house and he's going to dress up as me and he's going to set in my room. He's going to raise your dog. It's just, yeah. He's going to have to marry my wife.

The ultimate goal is to find this Asian man who, this Japanese man who, right, who said, I sorry. He's, he's going to be the new host. He's the new host. He's replacing me. I come home one day. Like, I go out to get milk and I walk in and like the 70 year old Japanese man's wearing my clothes.

I'm like, what? And Kayla's like, who are you? She's like freaking out of me. And she looks at the Japanese man. She's like, Isaiah. stop him. And she says, she says,

Isaiah, he says, Isaiah, were you in a house fire? And you're like, no, no, no, I just wrecked the dirt bike again. That's why these layers of skin

are off my face and hands and arms. All right. Okay. She's like, is that seal? Kiss from a rose? You're like, no, no, no. It's me,

your husband. We were having fun. Okay. We were having fun. All right. Okay. Tomino's hell. To me knows hell.

So real quick, though, this is a, I'm just want to read this a little part. It says, this is us, I'm on David Bowel website, David Bowles.us.

So just saying, this is a thing that he put here. I just wanted to read. Apparently the story of a young boy's damnation for unnamed acts, Domino's Hell was published I discovered in a 1919 collection of poetry by Saijo Yaso. Is that how you say that? I think so. Titled Saken or translated to gold dust.

The poet was a university professor and lived in France for a time studying at this Sorbonne. His work is heavily influenced by French poets, especially symbolists like Arthur Rimbaud. Stephanie Malamah and Paul Valdeblum. With whom he became friends with. Those Saito's later work was ostensibly for children.

It was filled with strange symbols and wordplayed that could be quite unsettling. So just thought that was kind of interesting. So now you're saying, though, from what we were saying earlier, you think that that might not be true or you do think it is? I don't know. I think it might be real. I mean, obviously the way to check it out would be to look up Saken. Gold dust, but I don't know if I want to do that.

I will say David does something kind of interesting here. And the next part, he says, here's my rendering of this dark and disturbing poem with footnotes of important matters. I've not actually read the thing aloud, so I can't speak to whether the curse is real. I'll leave that to your own discretion. Interesting. We'll see if I get cursed.

Yeah, we'll see if I get cursed and we'll see what happens. Yeah, I'm praying for no speaking parts. Yeah. Well, it's a poem. So I think you're good. So I'll also read the foreword on the creepy pasta wiki because in every version that was circulated around online, it had this intro. Tomino's Hell was written by Sejo Yaso for his 27th collection of poems Saken,

or gold dust in English in 1919. There's a Japanese legend surrounding it which states it should only be read with the mind and never out loud. It's uncertain how this rumor started, but it goes on to say that tragic things will happen if you do. The story used to be very popular on 2 Channel. Many users said that nothing happened after reading it and uploaded pictures in video, as proof. There were also posts where the user did not come back to post any results. And then it says if you were to read this out loud, it'd be better to do so in Japanese,

which I'm not going to attempt. You're welcome. An alternative, more accurate translation by David Bowles can be found here, which is the one hunter has pulled up. There's also this image that's always passed around with him of this girl that looks like it's drawn with these very harsh strikes, like these like dark reds and bright whites. and stuff. It looks like a girl without a nose who's been scarred or burned. And at the bottom of the page on the creepypasta wiki, it says the image associated with this story

is a cropped version of a painting by Yuko Tatsushima entitled I Can No Longer Be a Bride. It was supposedly made after the artist became a victim of sexual assault. The title refers to how, according to Japanese tradition, women who are often have ensuing difficulties with marriage and reputation due to the perception of them having lost their innocence. That is depressing. Okay. So with that happy note out of the way, are you ready for me to read the poem that curses me? Yeah, very, very ready. Also, there is a translation at the end that is in the original Japanese that I could attempt to read if you want me to.

You want to sit here and do the whole thing in Japanese afterwards. I could if you want. Hold on. Let me do the let me do it first. Okay, you want to, you want me to read the quote unquote more accurate David Bowles version? Well, in the David Bowles, There is a, okay, yeah, just go ahead. Because when I was a kid, I read like the creepypasta version that's passed around. But maybe I didn't get cursed because that was less accurate. So this is different. So wait, wait, wait, this is different than what you read.

Yeah, well, it's the same poem. It's just the one that circulated around like on creepypasta websites was apparently not as accurate of a translation. I see. Okay. So this is. So this is the real one. So we'll see if I really get cursed this time. Right, right.

Here we go. Elder sister vomits blood, younger sister breathing fire, while sweet little Tumino just spits up the jewels. All alone does Tumino go falling into that hell, a hell of utter darkness, without even flowers. Is Tumino's big sister the one who whips him? The purpose of the scourging hangs dark in his mind, lashing and thrashing him, ah, but never quite shattering. One sure path to Avichy, the eternal hell, into the blackest of hells. Guide him now, I pray, to the golden sheep, to the nightingale. How much did he put in that leather pouch to prepare for his trek to the eternal hell? Bring us coming, to the valley, to the wood, to the spiraling chasms of

the blackest hill, the nightingale in her cage, the sheep aboard the wagon, the tears well up in the eyes of sweet little Tomino. Sing, O Nightingale. In the vast, misty forest, he screams he only misses his little sister. His wailing desperation echoes throughout hell. A fox peony opens its golden petals. Down past the seven mountains and seven rivers of hell, the solitary journey of sweet little Tomino. If in this hell they be found, may they then come to me, please,

those sharp spikes of punishment from Needle Mountain. not just on some empty whim is flesh pierced with blood red pins. They serve as hellish signpost for sweet little Tomino. Wow. Beautiful. It's actually like a very beautiful poem. My God.

It's like a child is, it sounds like he's in like a miserable place where it starts with elder sister, Vomich, younger sister, where he's fire, but he just spits up the drools. Now it's like he dies and falls into hell. So he's going through hell, but there's almost a hopefulness

for it. It's like, you know, he goes through the red civer, the red rivers of hell. And there's like the needles, but there's signpost for him. It's like wishing him well as he walks through the underworld. Yeah. Almost feels like a almost kind of like a Dante's Inferno kind of parallel of Yeah. Well, that connects, you know, that connects to a Buddhist hell, I believe, that is layered. I think it's 10 layers. I'm pretty sure. Also, David had a very interesting footnote thing that I thought was interesting that we should probably go through. His first point here is the term here translated hell is Jigoku, the Buddhist hell complex, the Buddhist hell complex into which very sinful people can be reincarnated. Note also the poem follows a 7775 syllabic pattern evocative of most traditional Japanese verses.

Interesting. Yeah, so I looked it up. Buddhism has eight hot hells and eight cold hells. So when it talks about him walking past the seven mountains, it almost sounds like he's going to the very bottom of hell. It's kind of interesting to at the beginning. We get all those descriptions of Tumino's sisters basically suffering while he is not. It's the second point that he made. The third point is apparently the lashes to me andos receiving on his way to hell are deserved. Although another possible reading of the Japanese might be the purpose of the scourging worries him,

suggesting possibly that he doesn't know why he's being punished. To me, it seems he knows. It's kind of interesting. The translation of him knowing is also just like a person living with that like guilt or sin or something is very pretty fucking horrifying.

I like this part where it says the poem reveals that Tamino is headed to Mujin Jigoku, the Japanese translation of the Sanskrit Avichi. Avichy is the lowest of hells in Buddhism, one who's torment last so long, eons and eons, that soul seemed to be trapped there for eternity. There are five horrible sins you can commit to end up in this place, creating a schism within

the community of Buddhist monks and nuns, shedding the blood of a Buddha, killing an enlightened person, or intentionally murdering one's father or one's mother. Oh, that's cool. So when it's talking about Tumino going down there and the relation to his sisters, perhaps that's implying that's what he did. And that's why he goes all the way to eight. Yeah, the fifth, the fifth, which is, this is all once again in a relation to David Bowles. Yeah.

Or bowl, is it bowls or bows? Bowls, I think. Yeah. One of his fifth points is it strikes me that the sheep and nightingale are symbolic of Tamino's sisters. We see them like dancing around a lot and, you know, singing and, you know, all that stuff. So the seventh post, this is interesting. Another, by seven, we're looking at. points that David has outlined underneath the poem. He says, another possible translation would be

not just on some empty whim will I pierce with blood red pins, the marks upon the body of sweet little Tomino. Either way, the conclusion is chilling. Now, given that the poet has a predilection for symbolist poetry, it's very likely that all this talk of Tomino's descending into hell is mere metatomit. Mettonomy. Yeah, metanomy. I think it's metony. Metonomy. Whatever that word is. and that some other sort of earthly hell of interpersonal relationships is being described. The Japanese Wikipedia article of Sejo suggests that he wrote this poem upon the death of either his sister or father, given the aims of symbolist poetry to avoid to describing things themselves and instead describing their effects. It strikes me that the poem is meant to show Sejo's emotional distress upon someone's death,

comparing his survivor's guilt to a journey into hell. And that would relate back to the point where he's going to the Aisle. layer reserved for those who killed their parents. It feels like perhaps maybe it wasn't theirs, you know, whatever happened in the poet's life. He's attributing to mean of suffering as if he killed his own parent. My God. Look at the comments, Isaiah.

Look at the fourth comment down. I pooped my jammies. Good. God. That's good. That's good. Yeah. Very, very interesting.

You know what? This is going to sound so fucking stupid. please don't hold it against me. This is like what I want two sentence horrors to feel like, two sentence horror stories to feel like, you know what I mean? Which is obviously impossible because there are only two sentences long, but this,

it's so, so short and it's like, it's just so simple of talking about one thing. Yet I feel like it really, you get, you just get so much out of it. It's very, I don't know,

very enlightening. How would you want two sentence horror to feel like that? I guess in the way that, which once again, I know it sounds so fucking stupid. I don't even know why I said it out loud. God, I'm so fucking dumb. But I guess it's just the idea that it's like you, you want the two sentence horrors to just be like, it's something that that's that short and has that much of an impact. But once again, it doesn't make any sense.

I'm a fucking idiot. It's because it's obviously more than two sentences. Never mind. I even said it. Just forget I even said it. I'm a fucking idiot. I think what you mean is like a, shh. You're just like,

Fold in on yourself It's so funny Well, it's because it's such a fucking stupid thing It's the most like I don't know It's just the most like It's just so fucking dumb What a dumb thing to say

It's unbelievable that I have a microphone Fuck my life The I guess it was If I had to justify it all It's probably supposed to be something along the lines of like You know Every two sentence horror

That we or even outside of two sentence horror. I think a lot of things that are this short, it just ends up being like, oh, it's a monster. Oh, this is a, the entire payoff is like, it's a spooky monster versus these things of like something

that's this short yet packs in all of this emotional weight while also giving us like, there's almost no exposition. It's like you're handed everything on this like beautiful platter and you're able to like run with it in all these different directions. I just think is really, really fun.

Also, probably, I mean, so, I don't know, must be so difficult, you know, have something which is just no fat like this is,

it's very admirable. And also, too, it's just a beautiful, beautiful translation too. But, you know, at the same time,

man with, here's my two sentence horror story. Man with podcast opens mouth. That's my fucking two sentence horror. That's a pretty good one. I got it. That's pretty creepy. I looked up Japanese two sentence horror story.

and they're all like, they're all just normal to sit and spores. Of course it is. It might be the dumbest thing I've ever said and I apologize for it. I know that I'm going to get absolutely railed. I heard a woman laughing softly behind me, but when I turned, there was only my reflection smiling back. Man with thought.

The toy fish in the pond stared up at me. The mouth's moving as if chanting. It's just a coy fish. Here's my, here's mine. Hunter had a thought he thought it was good that's my duty no I get what you mean the idea of like having a very short concise thing

uh that means something more than just what the sentences say you're kind you're sweet uh one of the dumbest things that's ever been said on this podcast easily uh should we move on to Hanako san it's time to talk about something scary your health I know I don't go in the doctor as much as I should. If I'm feeling sick, I'll just lie in bed and sleep it away. But that's only because I don't want to

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I'm on a website, by the way, that says Japan makes me scared.com. Yeah. Yeah, that's pretty. This is where Nick goes as soon as he clocks. This is, this is, that's the opposite. Nick would say the Japan makes me happy.com is what would be. He just looks at the page upside down. So I'm reading off of, again, our source here. These are the sources Harry provided to us. So I'm just, I'm just the messenger. Harry said, which you may have got him from the old man in Japan. Who knows? Possibly. It says Hanako San.

is one of the most well-known Japanese urban legends and the name of the girl that appears in the story because she usually inhabits a school toilet she is often called Toray no Hacosan, which means Hanako of the toilet as well. The original story said to be an urban legend called the third Hanako-san that appeared in the 50s, then it spread to children in the rest of Japan and the 80s.

In the 1990s, it came with the occult boom and appeared in pop culture, including films, manga, and anime, making it even more well known. Since then, her popularity has continued to be passed on to future generations. That's all according to this website. Don't know how true that is, but now, would you like to read the story? Yes. One day, A Chan, a primary school girl, attended a school committee and stayed in school

until late afternoon. When she returned to her classroom, the sun had almost set. She was the only one in the classroom. A. Chan wanted to hurry home, but suddenly wanted to go to the toilet. Toilet. Oh, no. That's such a good toilet. Oh, no.

There is a reason why she hesitated to go to the toilet. It was because there was a rumor going around at school that a ghost called Hanako-san with bobbed hair and a red skirt appeared in the toilet. She thought she wouldn't make it until she got home. With no other option, A-Chane decided to go to the toilet. It was the nearest toilet to the classroom, on the third floor. There were three private stalls. A-chan hurriedly entered one of them and breathed a sigh of relief. When she finished her business and washed her hands, she looked in the mirror and felt uncomfortable.

Did someone come in? When she entered the toilet earlier, the doors of all the private stalls should have been open. Now the door of the third toilet at the far end was closed. There was no sign that anyone had entered. Could it B-chan from the next class? She thought about it. B-chan also attended a committee with A-chan. She wanted to make sure, so she knocked on the door.

Knock, knock. A reply came back. Apparently, someone was there. Relieved, A-chan called out to her inside. Ah, B-chan, isn't it? Let's go home together. No reply. Wasn't it B-chan?

Feeling awkward, A-chan put her hand on the outside door to leave the toilet. It won't open. Should open easily by pulling, but the door wouldn't open, even if she pushed or pulled. The sudden change reminded her. of the rumor about Hanako San in the toilet. Don't tell me it's Hanako san in that stall. With a bit of hope like that, she asked fearfully. Is that Hanako san in there?

Then... Don, don, don, don, don, don't, don. The door was banged on from the inside with a tremendous force. A. Chan, terrified and panicking, tried to get out of the toilet while screaming, but the door didn't budge. Please let me out! A.C.m broke down crying in front of the door. Then the banging on the door suddenly stopped, and the door of the private stuff.

stall, which have been locked, opened, and inside a girl with Bob Tair and a red skirt was floating. I love that. Yeah, that seems like a classic, uh, um, like middle school horror story. Like, oh, there's a ghost girl floating in the bathroom. This is literally the, uh, the cartoon I made, which is just like being afraid to take a shit in public is like the most universally, I mean, like, it's every culture. No one wants to take a shit in public. It's like the haunting idea that someone is listening to you do this like thing that you're like fucking embarrassed by.

No one wants to hear your your fucking, you're pooping, your farting sounds or anything like that. This idea of this bathroom etiquette or this like bathroom invasion is a it's it. I love this idea too that it's from this. They said as early as the 50s is when this was written. Yeah. Yeah. Even that's when the legend started to make the rounds. Yeah.

Yeah. I bet you even the fucking Romans that had the aqued ducks were just like, Hold on. Don't come in. That kind of thing. I mean, it's, it's forever. You know, I mean, it's so universal. But no, I mean, that kind of just fun urban legend, though, is really, really fun. There's this great anime I saw at Almo Draft House that it flowed like this.

It wasn't like a toilet spirit, but it's just this idea of like, did you hear that there's a ghost here? And then somebody is like, oh, that sucks. and they immediately go there and are immediately haunted by said ghost. It's like there's really no buildup or payoff. It's just kind of like here I am. Like in this story, it's here I am I'm washing my hands or I'm taking a shit, whatever.

And all of a sudden it's like, oh God, I hope that's not that ghost. Are you that ghost? And it's like, yep. But in this like in this like style or it just works. I don't know.

Like the one that I was referring to, I cannot remember the actual title of the story. But I do know it was a, Akao Umez, I believe is how he pronounced his name. He's like a Japanese horror mangaka, like legend. He's like the guy that Junjito was inspired by. But it's just... I see the guy that did that the classroom one that, you know, talks about all the time.

Yep. Yeah, yeah. The dissolving, the melting classroom or whatever. Yeah. Or I think Ido did that one, or at least he did a rendition of it. The drifting classroom, I think is what he's, is what you're referring to. Oh, oh, yeah. But that's, yeah.

Anyways, those, those, uh, animas or those like kind of like horror, uh, Japanese storytelling. It's just, I, I don't know why there's something really satisfying about just like, I'm going to tell you exactly what's going to happen. Like I like, that's that that's, to be fair, that's true with almost any ghost story. But I just love how to the point it is here. It's just kind of fun. And to just reading. Oh, no, go ahead.

No, go ahead. You're good. Reading down the description at some of the like stories around it. It says that she is, Hanako San is normally associated with the number three. So in most of the story, she'll either be the third stall or it will happen on the third floor or she'll respond to the third knock. I love this. The details like that are fun. This, well, you want, ideal I love is she is the third thing that happens in the bathroom.

You either take a number one, a number two, or she is the number three. She's the number three. That's what the number three is. Yeah. And it has to be, that has to be in reference somehow. I love that. You either taking a piss of shit

or you're getting killed by a ghost. That's the number three. If there was ever a horror movie redition of this, I would hope it would just be called like number three or would just be called three.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It says in most renditions of the story when she replies, she opens a stall door and drags in the person who knocked. It says there's different, depending on who you ask, there's different origins to her story.

One is that she was a girl who was in the bathroom at school. When class started, she did not return. They go to look for her and she was found dead in the toilet. She had been murdered. Another one is that she was a victim of a family suicide. Suicides are recurring topic with a lot of like Japanese stories.

Yeah. Well, depending on what time period is too, it's all reflective of just what's happening in the, in the country. I mean, there's that great. Yeah, cultural.

There's that great Japanese movie called Club, which is about like, which is about like a J-pop song that makes you from that movie was made. in response to the economic crash and people over that kind of economic crash. Do you think that also, because we see a lot of ghosts in bathrooms, in a lot of like just cinema or storytelling in general,

do you think that that is just because of like, in a school setting, especially is, do you think that has anything to do with like bullying? I feel like so much of like old movies and storytelling, you hear so much about people getting like, you know, what's it called?

Yeah, swirley. When he gets swirly, that kind of stuff of people like talking. It's like a private place for kids to talk and like openly bully people without adults being there to supervise or something. I'm wondering if that has anything to do with these kinds of things popping up to. I think potentially it's also because when you're in school, the bathroom is the only place that you're by yourself typically. It's the only form of privacy. It's also the only place you have privacy. Right.

So if anything were to go wrong to you alone, it would have. to be while you're in the bathroom. I also like some of the details with this. When you scroll down, it says if an Akisana appears, there's some, in some stories, there's ways to ward her off. You can show her a test paper with the perfect 100. When asked to play with her, you say no. Say sorry over and over again, or show her milk and yellow food,

which is said to be something she doesn't like. I like little details like that, little things that flesh out the story. Yeah. There's also this fun note that is really weird but cool. It says, strange as it may sound, the belief in a toilet deity was popular in Japan from the Edo period to the early Shoa period. Wow. This deity was called Kawa Yagami, and it was worshipped by offering a red and white female doll and beautiful floral decorations in the toilet. The worship of Kawa Yagami gradually declined after World War II but remained afterwards.

The theory is also supported by several similarities, such as the fact that Hanako Son is dressed in red or white, and her name is Hanako, which consists of two Japanese. Japanese letters meaning flower and child. That's fun. That's pretty cool. The idea that's like an iteration of a God that has no longer been worshipped, the people have forgotten about. So it appears on its own now. That's cool.

I hate to always be this kind of person too, but there's just so many things. It just made me think of all these different kinds. It's just I love the, I guess I love how every, which once again, this is probably true with every culture or whatever, but the way that they pass down the storytelling.

It's just really fun. Like it just even made me think of the, there's this game I have on my PC called World of Horror. It's like a point and click black and white horror game. Very, very good. Very, like, reminisous. People kept calling it. It looked a lot like Junji,

or like Horror Mangaka type style. But I always wanted to get it on my wife, my wife's Switch, which does make me sound like a cuck. But it would be a sweet release to get on that. And her boyfriend really likes it, too. So it'd be nice. But the,

but, but, but, does make me think, uh, I just love that the way that like these things, it's so funny from the Edo, from the Edo period all the way up now, it just still like finds new ways to invent itself. Or it just is like a fun thing that's always passed down and it like always remains relevant. It's just really fun. Yeah. Yeah. I agree. It's fun to how like so much of, and I think part of it is like obviously as Americans, we have like culture and stories taken from Europe and you know, like, uh,

I mean, we're a melting pot. It's just a melting pot of cultures that are, you know. Yeah, yeah. There's so many different stories that have been brought in from different regions of the world. And, like, obviously, there's a lot of Christian influence. There's a lot of stories related to, like, demons and stuff like that. But Japan has existed for so long, like, continuously that their stories, like, build and build off each other and change and adapt. So everything feels so rooted.

I know. I'm always so jealous. Well, if their stories have so much context to it. Yeah. I'm always so jealous of other cultures that have such a long, lineage of history and stuff. It just must be just such a different world. You know what I mean?

It's just fucking, it's insane. It's like, I think that's what makes everything so fantastical. 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 pass down. You know what I mean? Yeah. I think ever really rooted, but, uh, should we know, so,

um, we're good. Yeah, we'll move on to the next one. So it's called Hashakusama. And I look it up and, uh, she's also known as the eight feet tall lady.

And I got to 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 some kind. And it's just like slightly unnatural enough to where it becomes like a creepy urban legend or something like the woman who walks alone or something you know it's it's just like uh and i 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 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 yeah just to you know i think that's pretty fun that is a definitely spooky I'm real fratting right now All right My father's parents' house Was a little less than two hours away by car It was a farming house

But I liked 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

It was just before I started the third grade of high school So, I haven't been there in over 10 years now. It'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 voice. 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. I had also disappeared. Then at some point the po-p-p-po-po-so 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 grandma.

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 this strange sound like,

pooh, bo, pooh, bo, bo, bo. 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. Where did you see her? Where 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'm 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. Then my grandfather said, Grandma, I'm leaving him to you now. I'm going to pick up K-San. 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 Hashakusama. The 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 to not hear there's a monster outside, but you've already been possessed. I know. I would look at it.

I'd be like, word. Hey, roll that back again. What the fuck do you mean? I'm possessed. I do like this idea though. 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. He's possessing. There it is. Also, no shot that that Resident Evil Village or, yeah, Resident Evil Village woman. Oh, Lady Demetresk.

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. 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 Eighth's reveal and then to see like the nine foot tall woman I was like ah Capcom god damn you beautiful animal my boy's been brick these past couple weeks

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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's statues, so she's

unable to leave. When you are possessed by Hushakusama, you were killed within a few days. The last time Hushakusama hurt someone was 15 years ago. It kind of reminds me of a 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 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. Oh man. That act of faith kind of. movie. Love that shit. Yeah. Except to 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 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 Gizo statues was because if Shaku Sama could only leave the village by certain paths. Nobody knows why. And so they enshrined the Gizo statues on those particular paths. They were to prevent or 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 Rukosama trapped here, apparently there was an arrangement with the nearby villages where they got, for example, priority to water rights and such. Shaku Sama 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. deal. Even hearing all that, there was no way it could be real, I thought. Of 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, 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.

There 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 7 a.m. tomorrow.

At 7 a.m. you can come out by yourself. I'll call and let your parents know. Grandfather said with a serious look on his face. I 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. Kaysan 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 Anagiri or snacks my grandmother made for me. so I just got in the futon and lay there, trembling. At some point I fell asleep 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 1 a.m.

At 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 mind that it really was just the wind. Then I heard my grandfather's voice. Hey, 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. What's wrong? You can come out if you want. The 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 talism, I started to pray as hard as I could. But... Please help me.

Then... Poopo, pooh, pooh, pooh, pooh, pooh, pooh, pooh. I heard the voice, and the window started rapping. Dund, da dun da dun da dun. 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. I had 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 screen,

at 7.13 a.m. I'd even noticed, with both the tapping on the glass and the voice it stopped. It seemed I'd either fallen asleep or lost consciousness. A 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 K-salm were standing there looking worried. My grandmother was crying. I'm so glad. I'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 on the garden The van fit nine people Was put in the middle seat Aeson said 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. We 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 mini truck 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. It probably weren't going over 20 kilometers an hour. Before long, Kaysan muttered, This is the hard part. And the men started chanting some sort of Buddhist prayer.

I heard that voice again. I gripped the talisman, Kaysan 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. God, fuck that. Gosh, dude. Imagine that you see the dress and then you start to see a huge chin. Like a giant neck down the top of the window. Yeah, yeah. like above it trying to look. It reminds me

what's that Edo 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 sexy one where like a guy in the fog is like walking the alleyways

to reminds me of that one too by Eto. 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. In a panic, I squeezed my eyes shut and gripped the talisman even tighter.

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, Kaysan said, We got away. We've been around me. me. We've been quiet until that point, we're relieved and said, Thank goodness.

Soon after the van stopped on a wide part of the road and I got into my father's car. As my father and grandfather bowed to the other man, Kaysan came over and said, Show me the talisman. I was still unconsciously gripping it. When I looked at it, it had turned entirely black. Kaysan 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, one of his neighbors, brought my bike back. Apparently my father also knew about Hushak Usama, 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 who Shaku-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, 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. The worst-case scenario, apparently, with 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. Ashok Usama targeted youths yet to come of age, and children often saw her as well. When ewes and children are feeling extremely anxious and they hear the voice of someone from

their family, I think they quickly let their guard down. Ten years passed, and just as I was about to forget those events, something terrible happened. A juzzo statue's keeping Hashokosama. Grandmother 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 has 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. That was awesome. That was by Tara A Devlin,

and she actually has a book called Cowabana true Japanese scary stories from around the internet, Volume 1. Just want to say, we'll link that in the, uh, Yeah. We'll link that in the description as well. I'm picking up mine right now because that was fucking sweet. She has a several it looks like. She has a collection of three.

Very cool. Oh, no. Books one through 10. Oh my gosh. She's got a bunch of these things. Man. Yeah,

we'll link that in 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 pretty good.

This idea of 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 7 a.m. 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 fucking going insane. You step out at 6.58.

Oh, no. 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, Kisaragi Station. Kisaragi Station.

For the description of this one on creepypastawiki, it says, The following is a translated transcript of an actual thread posted on the Japanese message board to Channel in 2004. This is, 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 Hussumi not long into the discussion. And Hussumi indicate post made by the thread creator. the hashtag 2 channel indicates a post made by another 2chaned user. They are not all the same person.

Okay. So when we see the question mark, it's like a comment on 4chan. Yeah. Or not 4chan. Anonymous. Anonymous. Yeah. So anonymous post and then people reply and asking questions.

So do you want, you can be Hussumi, the person talking, and I can be the poster. I'll be a question mark in the Hussain. in the Hsuimi and you'll be two C.H. So for everyone, when I'm voicing, it's not just the same person. It's just all the commenters replying to Hussumi. Yeah. 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 pass. But they're all sleeping. Did you take the express train by mistake? Is 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, so I might bring it up here. Try going to the car on the end to see the conductor, 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. We were blinds or something covering the window.

So couldn't see the conductor or the driver. door of 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? Names of stations you're passing, etc.? We came out of a tunnel, so we're dropping speed slightly. They 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 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. And Hesumi, your train was going for over an hour.

Well, that's really strange. Yeah, I'm not getting into results for Kisaragi Station. I'm looking for a schedule so I can get back, but I can't find one. The train is still stopped, so you'd probably be safest to get back on. Well, it left while I was writing 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, Hussumi became an inhabitant of the two-dimensional world. It 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 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. Am I wrong and assuming it's around Shin Hamamatsu? I'll check Yahoo. I look for a public phone, but there's nothing.

No one else got off. So I'm alone now. It's definitely called Kisaragi. This is good, man. I love this. So I would post you just an abandoned train station or an unman train station. or an unmanned tray 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's station. Yikes. You know shit, dude. Fuck that. So well, bye forever assuming.

Are you a gaming nerd? Because a game comes up if you Google it. Tell us the names of the stations before and after Kisaragi. What do you mean? the 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. There 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 eye mode, 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. Trutha says a joke, if you will, 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. Oh, geez, this sounds bad. I got a call for my father and he had many questions but simply couldn't find my location.

I've been told to call the 1-1-0, which I'm a little opposed to doing. I'll try asking him 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 assault 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 up. You're just going to walk through the darkness of the woods. Absolutely. No, no, no. I'm not going to walk with the tracks or do whatever and like, you know, hope to. I'm just going to wait. Because then also, too, I'm going to like, I'm at a train station. We just got off. Even if it takes while, maybe there's another one. I'll just wait. Get on that one. Yeah. No. Yeah.

There's got to 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 one one zero 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. 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, I think BlackBerrys were around by then. In 2004, really? I think so. Let me see. Yeah, 99 is when BlackBerry's came out. Whoa, that's crazy. And you could like browse the internet with him.

The BlackBerry Smart phone, the 580, the 5810 arrived in 2002. So yeah, like right at the beginning. Whoa. That's crazy. I know that they were pretty early on. I didn't think they showed up to like 0-607. Now, that's when the iPhone drop. Yeah, I guess it is when the first test.

That killed the Blackberry. But you got to realize I was born in 99. So all this is like ancient lord 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? I 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. Because you're in hell, buddy. Yeah, they're gonna brother, they're gonna box you up and send you off. Damn, dude. Holy hell. Dude, you hear beating that bell? This is the

literally beginning of the first Ani-Musha game. Good fucking luck, bud. You are They done piece that man up. He has gone forever. He's going straight to the mansion from the last episode. Get back to the station for now, Hussumi. It's best to return to where you started when you're lost. Here's where...

I love these comments that are hanging 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. Middle of the woods at night. Hey, asshole. At least I'm behind me. kind of stuck on that. 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 tick, tech. Boom. There's something. Call him tick, deck. There's something so menacing about a lot of these Japanese stories, like their folklore where it, 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. Calm down and listen to Big Bro, okay? Check out where the drums coming from. There's... This dude's big dogging him. Calm down and listen to Big Bro, okay?

Check out where the drums coming from. There's bound to be somebody playing it. That's how drums work. Where the hell are you planning to take Hussumi? Why'd you know it was an old man if it just had a single leg? I think Asumi 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. Wait 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 and 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 Sanuki, this sounds still getting closer, so I'm going to have to leave the tunnel.

I'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, Hussumi, don't die on us. Stop, that can't be good. Someone there is late at night? That'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...

kind of business hotel there. Truly, truly, truly thankful to all of you. Assumi, 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. Assume he run. I asked him where it was. And he said it was Hina. Seems extremely unlikely, though. Assumee, get off the train. Excuse me, Hasumi, where's Heena? We've been headed toward the mountains for some time.

It really doesn't strike me as a place where trains would go. 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? Assumi, please call 110. This might be your last chance. My batteries almost run out.

Things are getting strange. So I think I'm going to 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 Afterward Assumi was never heard from again I love that shit dude

That's fun That's really fun I love that shit 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 spirited away Yeah yeah I love this idea

of yeah you get transported into a spirit world unknowingly you're kind of just like wait what the fuck yeah no i uh also i love that ted the caver shit of like hey maybe i'll hear from me again and that's where the post ends that being on a that being on a hate 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 were 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? 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, so you don't even know who the commenters are. Those people could be, that's, I like to think to like when I went to Japan, 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 a car is stationed. That's pretty cool. We're going back to Tara again. Thank God. She's doing another. She's doing a, or it's a story called Kune Kune. Yep. There's another one by her beneath this called the note my brother left behind, which

looks pretty. Anyway, yeah, Kune Kune. Seems like she's put together a bunch of bangers from the looks of it's in for. Yeah. I mean, I legit while we were sitting there, I ordered her. on Amazon. It looks really good.

Look, yeah. Looks sick. All right. Well, are you ready for, wait, hold on. Where was the, where did I read that last one? Where did we read that last story yet? Was that not on creepy pasta wiki? That's creepy pasta.

You're right. I was making sure that wasn't her that recorded it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's a creepy pasta wiki. All right. So another Tara one, Kune Kune. Is that how you'd pronounce that, Kunei? I think so.

I mean, that's what I pictured is. A couple of. dumb genius. Yeah. A southerner and a Midwestern. I also had the dumbest that 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. 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. Thank you. You said far dumber. Wow. Welcome. Oh, 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. It'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. Asked 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. Now, you know, the moment I read that, it's storming right now.

See, I'm telling you. 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? So it's not a human then? I just, even just the thing of swaying to and fro, like almost like a dance or something. It's just, I don't know. Yeah. I also hate that because it's like,

it reminds me, 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. No 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. It 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 surprise in his voice.

He wanted to know what it was, so he returned to the house and came back with a pair of binoculars. He seemed excited. I'm going to take a look at first, so just wait a minute. He said an 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, but 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 to the binoculars? No, 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. Swaying, swaying.

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. A place is small and if you think about your neighbors, they won't wait even a few days before leave him here. The best thing to do is to release him into the rice fields after a few years. My fucking Lord.

Oh my gosh, dude. God damn. All right, granny. Fog 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 wave 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 like 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. Then as we turned the corner and I can no longer see him, broke out into tears once more, not taking my eyes away from the binoculars.

What did you come back, right? I thought. I looked out over the green fields while remembering of 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 one. Just like the thing in the fields. 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.

It's just so fun. Honestly, I think that's a great one to end on. I think that's a, that's a really, really fun one. I really like a lot, again, how a lot of the Japanese legends have so much weight behind them. There's so much you can do with them. And a lot of them are just so brutal. Like the train station to hell or that takes you the afterlife. to me knows hell, of course.

That one's a classic. But then you also have stuff like the one we just read where it's something unspeakable in the fields or kind of the same vibe that the Hashuku Hashakusama does, where it'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, 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. Like the white thing in the field, like the white swaying thing in the field's enough,

but then seeing what it does to the brother and things like that, terrifying. Like, dude, it's like you said earlier, 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 common. I feel like we haven't done that since. Is that kind of how face 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 post, but. I see. Yeah. But we've done some before that are comment sections like that. I always like 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 liked all of them, though. I mean, I really, I don't know if I have a favorite one of all of them. I mean, I think the Hashak Usama, 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 Tara here where it's like generational horror of like a dad at the end of Kune Kune running up and being like, don't fucking look at that while the, grandfather in Hishak Usama, uh, was pretty much like, well, fuck, I guess I got to go kill a demon or got to go, you know, exercise you or something. Well, it's kind of like that thing with, there's so much history behind all the whore. It stands for reason that generations would be affected by, you know? Yeah. No, it's, it just 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 a shot. Akusama 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, which I thought was really just a lot of fun. I don't know. Also, too, just as this themed 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. The 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 what 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. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Well, thank you all so much for listening to Creepcast today. We hope you enjoyed this one. Thank you to all of our audio listeners on Spotify and Apple Podcast.

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We'll see. We'll find out. We'll see if he murders any more women. Time will tell. Bye.