Name: 2ちゃんねるの怖い日本の都市伝説5選｜日本に伝わる真偽の噂の民話 (5 Terrifying Japanese Urban Legends from 2CHAN | Allegedly TRUE Folklore Stories from Japan)
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Japan may be known as the Land of the Rising Sun, but it still has its fair share of horror hiding in the shadows

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In this video, we'll be exploring some of the most unsettling urban legends and ghost stories that get shared around after sundown

Several of these entries are first or second hand accounts, while others are overviews of folkloric creatures and rituals

They were all found on the Japanese website 2chan and were translated into English by my fellow youtube Phantasmal Wretched

If there are other Japanese legends you'd like me to cover or even legends from a different country

This is an allegedly true story that happened to my friend in Japan

He told me this story a long time ago, and the exact location escapes my mind,

but he relayed this story to me with so much conviction that I can't help but believe he was telling me the truth

What I do know is this incident definitely resulted in two deaths, and he himself had to be questioned by police over and over

It all happened when my friend and six of his co-workers at his part-time job were driving in the Chugoku region,

the westernmost region of Japan's main island, Honshu

They were driving out to see a suspension bridge

The seven of them were split up into two cars

My friend was the driver of the second car and had four passengers with him in

In the first car, which was driving ahead of them, were the manager and a couple

Although they set off in the morning, due to the many stops they had to make along the way,

the sun was already setting by the time they made it to the bridge

The suspension bridge ran across a very deep valley in the middle of a mountain

As they approached it the sky began to drizzle and fog began swirling around them

There was an open space just in front of the bridge

they would have just parked their cars there and crossed the bridge by foot then they would have come back

The other side of the bridge was a dead end and the structure had simply been left there for sightseeing purposes

The moment the first car reached the open space, however, it came to an abrupt stop

Seeing this my friend hit the brakes and the second car came to a screeching halt about ten meters behind the first

"What are they doing?" my friend asked his co-workers in the second car

They had no clue as to why the manager had stopped...

For some time those in the second car just sat there looking on

A few minutes passed, and the first car made no attempt to move, so my friend reached for his door handle

He was going to hop out and see what was going on

Right at the same time, the couple who were in the back seat of the first car suddenly jumped out in unison

Something wasn't right about their expressions

Alarmed, my friend too got out of his car and tried to walk over to them and ask what had happened...

and in a flash they climbed over the guardrail at the edge of the open space and threw themselves over the other side

The four of them in the second car were completely astounded

They all rushed to the guardrail and looked down into the valley below

but because of all the fog they couldn't see anything at the bottom

None of them could believe what had just happened and they all stood there in a daze

Soon they remembered that the manager was still in the car and they rushed to check on him

The manager was still sat in the driver's seat, his hands grasping the steering wheel so tightly that his knuckles were white

Under his breath he kept muttering the same phrase over and over...

He wouldn't respond to them. There was nothing else they could do but call the police

The authorities soon arrived on the scene and the delirious manager was taken away in an ambulance

As you can imagine the couple who jumped over the side of the mountain were later found dead at the bottom

the rest of the group had to endure a seemingly endless interrogation by the police

In the end, with no evidence of foul play and nothing to go on,

the police concluded that the pair had simply decided to end their lives together

My friend later paid a visit to the manager at the hospital. Fortunately he seemed to be back to normal

He asked him what happened that day at the suspension bridge. Why did he stop the car so suddenly?

The manager told him that as they drew near the bridge a girl dressed in an old fashioned kimono

appeared out of the fog in front of their vehicle...

The startled manager immediately hit the brakes

the girl wore her hair short and was dressed like somebody from a historical drama, or maybe even someone from the meiji period

Of course this creeped him out and he wondered if maybe she needed help

but before he could react he noticed that his car was now surrounded

by a whole group of children, all dressed in a similar fashion to the girl...

Being a superstitious man, the manager sensed that he was in danger and quickly began chanting a mantra

According to him the children who surrounded the car all joined their hands together and started singing

At the same time the manager heard the children's voices in his head saying

The manager gripped the steering wheel and began chanting "mustn't go!"

Next thing he knew the couple in the back seat behind him flew out of the car joined their hands with the children and

together they all started running towards the guardrails

"Of course the police didn't believe my story," the manager told my friend

"Well, I'm not even sure I believe it myself."

"You don't have to believe my managers experience," my friend told me

"That was indeed how that couple died, and I for one do believe him."

An interesting thing to point out is about the song 'Kagome' that the children were allegedly singing

Kagome is a children's game in which a group of children hold hands and walk in a circle around another child in the center

While doing so they chant the Kagome song

When the song stops the child in the middle tries to name the person standing directly behind them

the song itself has been a subject of much interest due to its mysterious lyrics and ominous tune

and several disturbing theories exist about it

One theory states that in olden times it wasn't uncommon for poor families to sell their children in order to survive

According to the theory they would use the Kagome game as a type of ritual to decide which child should be sold

At the end when the players finished singing the line 'who stands behind you now'

whichever child stood behind the person at the center would be the one to go

Since this was considered the will of the gods nobody could dispute the decision

I'm not sure how well-known this one is but it's one that's always tickled my fancy

The bath game, sometimes known as daruma-san, is a game that dates back a long way

The game itself carries with it huge risk, but also the potential for huge reward

According to legend, by conducting a simple ritual you can summon an entity known as daruma-san who will play a game of cat-and-mouse with you

The reward for winning is that you'll be blessed with amazing fortune

This one's not for the light hearted amongst you though

as a lot of bad things can happen to you if you decide to play the game

To play, you'll need a bathroom with a bathtub

Only one person can play this game at a time, but don't worry... You won't really be playing alone

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