不思議好き怖い話好きさん集まれ!!

So, something just happened and I wanted to share it with you guys… I stopped by the supermarket on my way home from work. There's a photo booth next to the vending machines there. When I arrived at the store, someone was inside the photo booth. I couldn't see their face because the curtain was closed, but they were wearing black leather shoes and black pants, so I assumed it was an adult male. I went on my way and did my shopping… and came out about ten minutes later. I was thirsty, so I bought a drink from the vending machine. (It's cheaper in the store, but I was drawn to the vending machine exclusive item…) When I went to the vending machine, the same person was inside. I wondered if it had really taken that long? While drinking my juice, I kept glancing over. After a few minutes, I still couldn't hear any machine sounds, and they weren't coming out at all. Getting worried, I peeked inside, and there was no one there. When I was buying from the vending machine, I could see their feet. I was drinking with my back to the vending machine. If they came out, I would see them. Where did the person I saw go…?

People are scary. This is about a friend I wrote about here before. We hit it off and talked a lot in college. After reuniting at a class reunion, we started talking on the phone. However, we never actually met. Because my friend is a man... Since we're both adults, we didn't want to be misunderstood. Even though I didn't contact him outside of phone calls, I enjoyed the horror tapes my friend sent once a month. But one day, along with the horror stories, the tape also contained recordings about a woman he met on a trip with a junior, that she was divorced, a new mom, had a son, and that he wanted to be the boy's father figure. I was surprised. Later, I received an email saying he wanted to meet and discuss something. Thinking he had someone he liked, I felt relieved and agreed to meet at Denny's. When I arrived that day, besides my friend, there was a man in a suit, a young boy, and my friend. What's going on? I was surprised, and we were led to a table in the back. The man in the suit seemed to be a regional leader of a certain religious group. My friend and the boy were also there to recruit us. To put it simply, the woman my friend met was apparently a member of this religious group. ↓

An Experience at Work I work in an administrative position. I'll omit the details, but our office closes in the evening and we set our phones to an answering machine. Basically, after the office is closed, we don't attend to visitors. However, there are times when we have urgent visitors, and in those cases, they knock on the office door and call out. This experience happened one day when I was working overtime. Several other staff members and my supervisor were also working late, and we were quietly doing our jobs in the silent office. Suddenly, there was a "knock knock" on the office door. Usually, if it's a visitor, they'll say "Excuse me" or something after knocking, but I heard nothing. As everyone in the office exchanged glances and tilted their heads, I, being closest to the door, went to open it. When I opened the door and looked down the hallway, there was no one there. I had definitely heard a knock. "There's no one here," I muttered, and everyone in the office stirred. Everyone had definitely heard the knock, but there was no one in the hallway. "For the past few days, this phenomenon of hearing knocking sounds when no one is there has been happening," a colleague working overtime with me told me. Who on earth was knocking? It's an experience that still puzzles me today.

At my current workplace, people pass by the window right next to the office door and the window in the back room on the west side. Sometimes it's in the afternoon, sometimes in the evening, but a black shadow passes by, so I check if it's a visitor, but of course, there's no one there (￣▽￣;) I always wonder what they're trying to do, wandering around like that (^o^;)

The heat has subsided a bit, so I was organizing old photos... Huh? Could this be...? An orb??? (Is it my eyes playing tricks?) (*ﾉд｀*) ...There are three, no, one inside the dragon's mouth too... They weren't called orbs back then, so I didn't pay much attention... (^o^;) Come to think of it, my friend who's sensitive to spirits was with me... In photos taken at the same spot, countless small orbs were captured in the corners of buildings and around the trees as well ﾟ　ﾟ ( Д 　) This is the only time I've managed to capture a strange photo so far. (´Д｀)

Thinking about trees reminded me of something. My mother heard this story from someone from the countryside. Apparently, when my mother worked at a factory, there were many people from rural areas working there at the time, and she heard various stories from them. One person said that their house was located deep in the mountains, surrounded by many trees, and at night, the trees would talk so loudly that they couldn't sleep. They also mentioned, 'People from the city would probably be too scared to sleep.' Trees are living beings, so it's natural they might 'talk' or make sounds. It's not that strange.

The trees look like they're surrounding me, so it's a little scary and I'm not good with it.

My sister, who has strong spiritual senses, was driving our HiAce with my brother, mother, and me inside. It must have been past midnight, around 1:30 AM. Not long after passing a certain place where a family murder once occurred and turning left at a T-junction (turning right leads to a dead end), my sister exclaimed, "Whoa... did you see that just now...?" My brother in the passenger seat asked, "Huh? Wasn't it a boy?" I was confused, "...?" My sister confirmed, "Yeah, yeah..." My brother said, "No way..." My sister added, "I got chills for the first time in a while." I asked, "Huh? What are you talking about?" My brother explained, "Just before we turned at the T-junction, a little boy came running out from that place alone and headed towards the utility pole on the right corner..." My sister said, "Yeah, but when we turned left, he was gone." I was surprised, "Huh? Really!" My mother then said, "If it was a small boy, I think I saw something too." I exclaimed, "Huh? Mom, you saw him too!?" I was in the back seat, and since I'm the only one with poor eyesight, I couldn't see him... Yet it was pitch black, and my mother, who was also in the back seat, said she saw him... Why did everyone else see him? My sister said she saw him when the headlights illuminated the dark road. She immediately looked to the right when turning at the T-junction, but there was nowhere for him to hide... Besides, it's not the kind of hour for a small child to be out alone, and the fact that he came out from the property of the vacant house where the family murder happened was particularly unsettling... But the boy was just a toddler at the time of the incident, so it must have been my imagination!

This is a story my brother experienced when he was in elementary school. It happened in the school library. When my brother, who was an elementary school student, was in the library with his friends, he suddenly looked out into the hallway and said he saw something with just legs slowly walking by. The direction the legs were heading was a dead end with nothing but bookshelves. If only my brother had seen it, it would have been dismissed as a hallucination, but it wasn't just him; his friends saw it too. As a side note, I also attended the same elementary school, but I'm about 10 years younger than my brother, so by the time I went to elementary school, he had already graduated. It's not scary now, but it was back then. The library at our elementary school was a bit unusual. It was divided into the First Library, where popular entertainment books for everyone were gathered, and the Second Library, which was for studying and only accessible to upperclassmen. For some reason, there were also bookshelves in the hallway. The ones in the hallway of the First Library were for the classics section, like 'The Pillow Book'. So, the 'thing' crossed the hallway of the First Library and disappeared around the classics section. I love classics and was a regular at that section. I'm glad I couldn't see anything.

The story about my friend's acquaintance from last time? This is a story from a different tape than the previous one. My friend titled it: "The Curse of the Black Cat 🐈⬛". "It's about a story involving a work colleague. While the colleague was walking with his girlfriend to their first shrine visit of the year, a black cat crossed their path. They continued walking, and another black cat crossed their path. ...Just before reaching the shrine for the New Year's visit, yet another black cat appeared. Despite feeling uneasy, he proceeded with his girlfriend. After pushing through the crowd and entering the shrine for prayers, they left. However, afterwards, he kept catching glimpses of strange things. His girlfriend, noticing his odd behavior, asked what was wrong. When he explained, she said: 'Hey, did you properly pass through the torii gate on your way back? If you don't pass through the torii, strange things tend to follow you.' Apparently, the colleague rushed back and passed through the gate. Then, on their way back, another black cat appeared... It was reportedly parked in front of someone's house. A Yamato Transport delivery truck 🚚 was there too." After listening to the tape, I sent an email: "What's the curse about the black cat? It doesn't seem related, does it?" "Don't tell me, the colleague named it that and told the story..." It was a story that wouldn't let go.