Friday, November 13, 2020

Haunted Yokosuka --- The woman in the woods

 There is a grove of trees, growing wild, in front of an abandoned public building in downtown Yokosuka City .... The structure has not yet completely deteriorated into one of Japan's (in)famous HAIKYO ( 廃墟 ), but it looks to be on its way to becoming one...  

{ HAIKYO link: https://haikyo.org/en/ }

Here's how it looks from afar:










And getting closer...




   






But there's something off here, something strange .... And that's when a human form can be seen amidst the foliage...



    







Taking a closer look .... It is a woman, facing-away from the street and into the trees .... A statue, white and abandoned, alone...




  







There are Japanese folk beliefs that, over time, spirits ( 幽霊  YUU-REI) can come to inhabit inanimate objects .... So, I suppose a way to find out whether this statue has become haunted would be to go to the see it during the witching hour (midnight~02:00AM) .... get up close .... ask her to turn around .... and see what happens next...     

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