Security camera shows ‘tsunami victim ghost’ follow man into a cab (video)

Taxi drivers in Japan have been reporting ghost passengers in areas worst hit by the 2011 tsunami.
 
Now it appears one may have been captured on camera after eerie footage emerged of what some suggest is a female ghost following a man into a cab.

In the viral clip, a male passenger is seen walking towards a white cab at a Japanese taxi rank, when a black shape appears to follow him.

Some viewers have suggested it looks like a woman in a black hood.

The mysterious shape seems to glide behind the passenger into the taxi, before the vehicle closes with them both inside.

As the figure gets closer to the open door it appears to form more clearly, as a woman in a long robe and hood.

Taxi Drivers still plagued by "Ghostly" passengers in Japan

A taxi driver in north-east Japan picks up a passenger in an area devastated by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
He starts the meter and asks for the destination, to which the customer gives a strange response.

Either then, or sometime later, the driver turns around to address the man or woman - but the passenger has vanished.

This is because, it is claimed, it was a 'ghost passenger' who was, in fact, killed in the disaster five years ago.

At least seven taxi drivers in Ishinomaki have reported such an experience of a 'phantom fare', according to The Asahi Shimbun newspaper.

The coastal town in Miyagi Prefecture was among the regions most seriously affected by the deadly tsunami, which killed nearly 16,000 people in total.
 Speaking to Yuka Kudo, a student of sociology at Tohoku Gakuin University, one taxi driver told of how he may have seen one of these residents just months after the March 2011 earthquake.

He said he was working in the town when a young woman dressed in a coat climbed into his cab near Ishinomaki Station and told him: “Please go to the Minamihama (district).”

In response, he told her that the area was 'almost empty' and asked her if she was sure she wished to go there.

The woman replied in a trembling voice, "Have I died?".

Man captures 'ghost' of child caught on camera (video)

This is the spooky apparition which looks to be the ghost of a child captured floating on camera.

The eerie figure is caught on film appearing in a man's front room before moving across the shot and back again.

The footage was uploaded to Facebook and has been viewed more than 600,000 times.

But instead of being scared of the 'ghost' the owner of the house was said to be delighted.

Folk legend in Japan states, zashikiwarashi, or child ghost is supposed to bring good luck to all who see it.

They typically take the form of a five or six year old and are said to live in homes to bring families good fortune.

However, they are also said to cause mischief.

Masahiro claims he captured the zashikiwarashi on camera and uploaded the video captioned “Succeeded in recording a zashikiwarashi on video!

"Those of you who see this will be lucky... maybe."

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Mysterious 'Samurai Ghost' Boots Appear in Vacation Photo (video)

This photo of a four-year-old girl on a beach in Zushi, Japan, seems innocent until you look closely behind her legs and back. 

A closer look appears to reveal a mysterious pair of boots and part of a blue shirt peeking out from behind her 

The photo, which was uploaded to Reddit by a friend of the girl's father, is making the rounds on Internet. Many are speculating the photo shows a Samurai ghost because the beach the girl and her dad were on was across a samurai graveyard.

"My daughter thinks the whole thing is just so funny," Martin Springall, who took the photo, told ABC News today. "She thinks it's a ghost, but not a scary ghost -- a nice one." 

 

Springall said the photo was taken on July 6, 2014 during a weekend trip to the beach. He added his family now lives in Toronto, Canada, but had been living in Tokyo at the time. 

"I took a few pictures, and when I was looking through them at night, I noticed what appeared to be a pair of boots behind her in one of the photos," he said. "I took several of her in the same spot, but only one had the boots." 

Springall said he freaked out, and he later showed the photo to his friend Brian Publicover during a camping trip in Japan in August. 

 

Publicover put it up on Reddit's "Ghosts" subreddit, and theories poured in.

"Some thought it could be the ghost of a World War II sailor," Springall said. 

He added the photo is "completely legitimate" and not retouched in any way. 

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Japanese girls collapse at haunted school, vengeful ghost blamed

The Japanese internet is exploding after a succession of high school girls in Fukuoka Prefecture disturbingly collapsed during school hours on Monday. Students who were at the scene took to their Twitter accounts to post updates as the bizarre spectacle unfolded.

While the most likely explanation for the mysterious series of events is that the girls were induced into a state of mass panic after the first girl collapsed, some are attributing it to a vengeful spirit. Feel free to draw your own conclusions from the details, but either way, this is one creepy happening.


Summer is traditionally the season for telling tales of horror and ghost stories in Japan, and it seems like this season is off to a spectacularly eerie start. Around 10am on June 30, a first-year student at Yanagawa High School, a private school in Fukuoka Prefecture, suddenly began screaming in the middle of class and became unable to move her body. Soon after, several of her female classmates began displaying the same strange behavior, and their numbers increased to either 26 or 27 (based on varying reports) as more students from surrounding rooms arrived to see what was happening. The afflicted students, who were all female and ranged from first-years through third-years, were taken home by their guardians. The school eventually shut down completely around 1pm, and remained closed on the following day for authorities to investigate the cause of events.



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