Table of contents of Japanese Mysteries

Introduction to the humanoid master...................................... .................................001

The Ningyo Master is an ancient and mysterious Japanese Professional puppeteers use puppets to create bodies and cover the puppets' faces with a layer of skin to make the puppets look like real people. Legend has it that a good doll maker can not only make the most perfect dolls, but also give the dolls a soul...

Chapter 1 Bon Festival......... .................................................017

The 15th day of the seventh lunar month every year is the "Obon Festival", also known as the "Hungry Ghost Festival" and commonly known as the "Ghost Festival". On this day, people, whether rich or poor, prepare food, wine, and paper money to pay homage to the deceased and express their memory for their deceased ancestors. The time to burn paper money is usually in the dead of night. First, sprinkle a few circles with lime in the yard, then burn piles of them, and finally burn a pile outside the circles. During the Obon Festival, hundreds of ghosts walk at night and there are many taboos.

Chapter 2 ITO-YA Soul Resurrection Night...................... .........031

In 1979, the horrifying legend about the "slit girl" swept across Japanese campuses, causing great panic in primary, secondary and primary schools across Japan. Some schools even Had to be forced to suspend classes. The legendary Slit Girl is a woman wearing a big coat, holding big scissors, with long hair and a mask. For many years, people across Japan have claimed to have witnessed the appearance of the slit girl, and for a long time, people talked about it.

Chapter 3 Ghost Ship and Ghost Mirror........................ ........................043

In 1998, Nippon Yusen Co., Ltd. launched a six-star ship that was billed as the world's top luxury cruise ship and invited many celebrities from Japan to try it out.

However, on the third night of the cruise, a famous beautiful cartoonist on the cruise took her own life in an extremely painful and even perverted way. After the incident, according to friends, the cartoonist spent the rest of the time after boarding the cruise looking in the mirror in the cabin except for eating. She also told her friends that someone was calling her name and claimed that she saw many strange things.

Chapter 4 Lantern with Human Head........................................ .............071

The Japanese police receive countless strange calls every year. Witnesses claim to have seen a strange person. A child with a head like a lantern on his body. And where such children appear, terrible deaths often occur. The most bizarre incident was the Nagasaki building collapse. According to survivors, a child with a lantern head was seen running around in the building that night...

Chapter Chapter 5: Cat Transformation........................................ .........097

Cats have been mysterious, lovely, docile, independent, elegant and lazy animals since ancient times.

In Japan, the legend of transformed cats can be found all over Japan. Cat transformation, that is, a monster transformed into a cat. The most famous onmyoji in Japan, Abe Seimei's favorite animal during his lifetime was a black cat. After Abe Seimei's death, he stayed in front of his tomb without sleep for more than a month, until one stormy night, his disciples saw it. Carrying a foot-long bone in its mouth, it disappeared into the rainy night. Since then, many wild cats suddenly appeared in Kobe. It was also from that time on that the legend about "cat transformation" spread from Kobe to the whole of Japan...

Chapter 6 The Smoker...................... .................................................119

There is a hot spring on Mount Rokko in Kobe, Japan, that is not cold all year round. Legend has it that the hot spring here can wash away the filth deep in the soul and receive protection from the gods.

On July 27, 2007, four bathers came together. During the bathing process, the temperature of the hot spring water suddenly rose to a hundred degrees, and the four people were scalded to death in the water. According to eyewitnesses, the entire hot spring was like a pot of stewed meat and paste soup, with countless fragmented human bones scattered at the bottom of the spring. From then on, no one dared to come to this hot spring.

According to the mountain residents here, in the middle of the night, the sound of an old woman crying and howling is often heard near the hot spring...

Chapter 7: Shadows of Ghosts and Animals............. .................................143

< p>Most of the supernatural photos about Japan circulated on the Internet were taken by a photographer with the pseudonym "Usajima Kazushi". Although no one has ever seen his true face, this mystery gives him a high reputation in the supernatural photo industry.

But in 2008, Kazushi Usashima evaporated and disappeared completely.

In the year that Kazushi Usajima disappeared, the most controversial and famous photographer in Japan suddenly launched a series of photo albums in memory of his late beloved wife. The author wrote on the title page: When I pressed the shutter, what was frozen was not the picture, but the soul hidden in the picture, which sealed a love that spanned a thousand years.

The strange thing is that there is never a photo of the woman in this photo album showing her face. Others said they saw the photographer holding a camera in the reflection of a photo with a metal door handle. Next to him stood a two- or three-year-old girl in red.

Chapter 8 Demon Fox Mountain Lama...................................... .............157

In Mount Fuji, the most sacred place in the hearts of Japanese people, the most numerous animal is actually a fox. As a mysterious spiritual beast, the fox appears many times in Japanese legends. A more legendary theory is that Mount Fuji evolved from a giant fox. Seen from a distance, Mount Fuji looks like an inverted fox head.

In 2008, a mountaineering enthusiast once published several photos on the World Travel Photography website. It was said that they were taken from a distance with a mobile phone: on the "Akina Stone" that protrudes halfway up the sword peak of Mount Fuji. , you can vaguely see a tall old woman sitting in the wind, with a fire fox lying beside her, looking into the misty valley...

Chapter 9: Corpse Snail Kappa... ................................................................. .....185

Kappa is a monster that lives at the bottom of the river in Japanese legend. There is a saying that kappa are ferocious and often lurk at the bottom of the lake. When they see lone fishermen, they will drag them into the water, dig out their livers and eat them. Another theory is even more bizarre. It is said that the kappa was originally an ordinary child in the village. After his father cheated on him, his mother discovered it. The father became so angry that he killed his mother and buried her body by the lake. Because the child had not had enough to eat for many years, he went to the lake to dig for snails and ate a snail that had eaten his mother's body. As a result, the child was cursed and turned into a half-human, half- shrimp monster kappa. After he killed his father, he searched for the unfaithful person by the lake, dragged him into the water and killed him.

Chapter 10 Mask Doll...................................... .............199

The Shizuoka Grand Theater, known as one of the "Top Ten Legends of Shizuoka", has a unique The appearance is very similar to the "paper ghost charm" commonly used by Japanese onmyoji. In 2008, a fire suddenly broke out at the Shizuoka Grand Theater at night. After the fire brigade extinguished the fire, they found three male corpses that had been burned beyond recognition in the wreckage on the stage. Two of them were identified by DNA as kabuki actors, while the other corpse was unidentified.

After being rebuilt, the Shizuoka Grand Theater was reopened to the public. However, almost all kabuki actors participating in the performance refused to perform on stage for the second time. The reason is unknown. Later, a kabuki revealed that during the performance, the ghost of a blond boy would always appear in front of him, watching everyone's performance curiously.

Chapter 11 Ghost Curse........................................ .............225

Japan’s population suicide rate has always been the highest among countries. There are many ways to commit suicide, including committing seppuku, touching a switch, drinking poison, lying on a train, and jumping into a river. Among them, the strangest and most difficult to explain is undoubtedly the death caused by high temperature in the bathroom. This method of suicide sounds extremely abnormal, but it is said that those who commit suicide are smiling when they die, as if they are enjoying this state, which is really hard to understand.

However, there is another strange phenomenon. There are many red and swollen marks on the scalded bodies of these suicides, similar to human fingerprints. This is called the "Ghost Blood Curse"!

Chapter 12 Ghost Corpse Night Whispers........................ .............237

In 2006, a newlywed couple changed their decision at short notice and took a sleeper bus to travel to tourist attractions in order to save money. Honeymoon. The bus departed at around six o'clock in the evening. Strangely, after getting on the bus, the couple found that they were the only two people on the bus.

But starting from about eight o'clock, the bus stopped at every intersection. The one or two passengers who got on board said nothing, lay down on the bunks and began to sleep. It wasn't until after midnight that the bus was filled with sleeping passengers.

When the couple woke up, they found themselves lying in a mass grave.

This kind of long-distance horizontal bus has rows of narrow beds inside. When the passengers are sleeping on them, they look like corpses lying in small coffins, while the bus looks like a very small bed. A large walking coffin. At night, when the yang fades and the yin rises, it is the time when all things rest and ghosts roam freely. Why is the bus designed like this?

Chapter 13 Ghost Puppet in a Deserted Village........................ .........255

There is a very strange taboo in Japan: when hiking, if you encounter a place between two mountains No matter how late it gets or how tired you are, you must not spend the night in such a village, otherwise your life will be in danger.

Epilogue........................................ .............................264