As promised in the last time that we will investigate the stories involving the “Sea of Trees” that is Aokigahara. There are many storied being told on the internet, and we brought to you the interesting ones in our first episode of “The Horror of Aokigahara”. Be advised not to read alone!
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Never walk outside the trails
Before we tell you this story, let us give you some background about it. This story was told in two different websites, with some details and the lack thereof in each. But overall, it is the same story, so we combined the interesting bits together, just for you. Without further a due, read on, if you dare!
It was summer of 1995. There were three members of mountain climbing club (all males) of some university who wanted to explore the forest of Aokigahara. They planned to explore outside the normal trails, going through the forest on their own and back in three days.
However, one of them had a trustworthy friend who lived nearby at Lake Kawaguchi-ko, so they talked about their plan to go through the depth of the forest to him.
“If by the fourth day we do not return, tell the police and search for us, will you?” asked the team.
And so, they left heading into the depth of the sea of trees.
Due to not heeding the warning and advices of the locals, or perhaps by going off the trails, they did not return on the fourth day.
So, the other university student did as he was asked, reported it to the police, and soon they organized the search party going through the trees.
On the second day of the search, the search party found one of the three who went missing.
But the “person who was found” was not lying down waiting to be rescued…
He was found naked, hugging the tree; a strange scene with incomprehensible meaning.
As they looked closer, they saw him moving his hip back and forth. They started to get the idea of what he was doing.
Even as they talked to him, he did not notice them, kept on humping the tree; eyes looked so empty and drooled all over from the mouth.
When the search party patted him on the shoulder, he seemed to return to his sense, being able to converse with them once again. According to his tale, he met beautiful lady with long hairs, and had been spending three days with her.
Probably when the search party found him, he was doing something indecent with the said beautiful lady…
Not long after, they found another missing university student. He was found sleeping amid the dried grass.
As they listened, he recounted his meeting his long haired beautiful lady, and said that he had been spending time with her. Perhaps in his case, he was sleeping with her in the blanket when the search party found him?
And the last missing student was found, but not alive. He seemed to have tied the loop from the branch of the big tree and hung himself. No one knew if he met the same beautiful lady or not.
The two surviving students returned to study in the university once again, but according to some source, they seemed to be mentally troubled, repeatedly being admitted to the hospital for many times.
It was said that, after their return from the sea of trees, sometimes they would say…
“Natchan, did you come all the way to visit me?”
…even when there was no one else in the direction they were talking to, as if they were talking to someone that no one else can see.
According to the locals who know well of the sea of trees, there seems to be more of people who went into the woods and came back strange in their heads. Better to stick to the trails, and if you by chance met someone in the wood far outside of the trails, it is better to think that the person you met is a ghost.
From Chokowabanasi Blog (超怖い話) on FC2 site and a personal blog on Tiki.ne.jp
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Afterthought
No one knows if the beautiful lady was a ghost who wants a company, a monster who feast of souls, or a witch seducing people to extend her own lifespan… there have been many legends long the coming of internet. Maybe one of the elderly people being left to die by Ubasute (姥捨て see previous article) was a witch who practice dark magic?
There were reports that some of the bodies found in Aokigahara were deliberately made to look like suicide, but by the time the bodies were found, all the evident were tampered by scavengers or treasure-hunters already. If you are to go there, never go alone, and never, ever, leave the trail. And best come back before it gets dark!
How was the story? It was rather a long one, so we will take a little break before continuing onto the next. But if you have a request for different topic, mystery, or haunted spot you would like us to investigate, feel free to ask!
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