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Halloween
Tue, 31 October 2006
Halloween is not really happening here in Tokyo actually but it's halloween. By the way, I don't see pumpkins like those in the photo taken in Boston earlier this month... Pumpkins here are so different.... Anyway, I thought I'd share this story that is almost shared among junior high students. This story is very popular among them. When I was one of them which was many years ago (ugh!), I got to know this, and it was very good. But I realized this had to be shared verbally. The essence of the story cannot be kept as much if I shared it in text. Also, I translated it into English so it's different...but use your imagination to get the story please. Happy Halloween, everybody!
They were a lovely family on the surface: a father, a mother, and their 5-year-old son. However, the man and his wife didn’t get along well. After a sexless 5-year relationship, they hated each other. The man was irritated by everything his wife did. He seriously hated her in every possible way you can imagine. He wanted a divorce, so he asked for it, but she refused. Then he calculated how much life insurance he would get if he killed his wife.
On the fateful day, the man decided to kill his wife while their son was at school. He buried her body in the park. What a relief for him. The next day, the kid kept asking his dad where his mom was. The man realized if he didn’t have the kid, he could be completely free to start a new life. So, he decided to kill his kid, too.
A week later, Dad took his son to the same park at night, when it was deadly silent. The time had come. The father decided to kill his son and bury him next to his mother’s body. The 5-year-old knew something awfully wrong was about to happen to him. He asked, “I know you want to make me go away, but can I ask you something first?” The dad snapped, “What is it?!” The kid stared at his dad and said, “Daddy, why are you carrying mommy on your back all the time?”
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Sick!
Posted by: William at October 31, 2006 04:58 PM
Well okay i need stories more scary on halloween:P im coming after u shigeki!!! TONIGHT!
Posted by: nv at October 31, 2006 06:54 PM
EEEK! What kinda scary assed story is that!
Posted by: Paul at October 31, 2006 07:23 PM
How ghoul. :-)
Happy Halloween!
Posted by: maggie at October 31, 2006 09:04 PM
Hmm..... Happy Halloween!
Posted by: ian at October 31, 2006 11:02 PM
I can see where that could be very scary to a junior high schooler!!
Happy Halloween!!!! :)
Posted by: Hanuman1960 at October 31, 2006 11:05 PM
Yikes!
Posted by: T. Kevin at November 1, 2006 07:08 AM
Now I know where Shutter (horror film from Thailand) got its inspiration for the latter part of the film... That's darn scary!!!
Posted by: Mark at November 1, 2006 08:32 AM
In keeping with your theme, may I share this true story. My friend's co-worker was sharing how she was having Thanksgiving dinner at home with her young daughter and had invited her brother and his wife. While they were eating suddenly both her brother and his wife stopped and she saw their eyes widen and stare behind her moving in unison from one side to the other. So she asked them, "Oh, you saw him?" And they asked if she had a ghost living with them. She confirmed and told them that the house was like some kind of portal. It was an elderly Japanese man that sometimes the daoghter would talk to. Although this story is not spooky, the woman and her daughter moved to another home - across the street. No ghost there. We actually have alot of obake stories here in Hawaii. Really scary!
Lane
Posted by: LaneO at November 1, 2006 08:32 AM
If their 5-year marriage is a totally sexless one, and they still managed to have a child, are you telling me the child is not their real son??
Ah, the plot thickens...
Posted by: Flannery at November 1, 2006 11:57 AM
Flannery--maybe they stopped having sex after she got pregnant with the 5-year-old. It does take about 9 months for the bun to pop out of the oven, ya know? ;-D
Shigeki--I think your real encounters with dead people are scarier! But still a scary story! Thanks for the Hallowe'en chills...
Posted by: GaijinGirl at November 1, 2006 03:25 PM
I don't get it. Why was he carrying her on his back?
Posted by: Cesar at November 2, 2006 01:01 AM
The ghost of the killed wife was clinging to the back of her husband. Yikes!
Posted by: Mark at November 2, 2006 08:23 AM
HA! I'm with Cesar, I didn't get it??
Posted by: steve at November 2, 2006 11:53 AM
Lets try a better ending? what if he takes his son where he barried his wide and there...he oerders his son to start taking off his clothes...the boy get scared and all shaking up! but he does what he was requested to from the higher authority...he starts to undress...his tshirt...his pants..his shoes..but he stays in his socks...he was wearing a jock! the father gets surprised..ow i just remembered the boy is 5 !!! YUK well i prefer the first enfing better now!
nv
Posted by: envy at November 2, 2006 08:33 PM
All, I am sorry if some of you didn't get this. But the mother was a ghost and was on his back all the time without the father noticing her. But the son was able to see her all the time on his back. Get it? It was a freaking scary story among highschool kids. really. :-)
Posted by: Shigeki at November 2, 2006 09:19 PM