Horror Stories

That day, I took my son out for a walk. It was a pleasant, early spring afternoon. My son was smiling happily in his stroller. He was in such a good mood that I thought about walking a little further than usual… That was my first mistake. Pushing the stroller and talking to my son, I felt truly happy. Before I knew it, I had reached a park a bit further away than the one we usually go to. Some…

This is a story from back when my wife used to work as a tour conductor for a travel agency. There's a depopulated village in Tokushima Prefecture called Kiyodaira, and she went there to accompany a company's employee trip. It was a village with almost nothing except nature. Most of the clients were young office ladies, accompanied by only one middle-aged male boss. It was a relaxed three-day, two-night trip—having barbecues by the river and just walking along mountain trails.…

I was very close to my grandmother. Both of my parents worked, and since we lived in the same house, I was spoiled a lot by my grandmother since I was little… And when we were alone, she often told me that I was her favorite grandchild. However, everyone's life has an end, and death will eventually come to someone no matter how precious they are to you. And my grandmother died in the summer of my senior year in…

This happened a few years ago during the summer, when I was working as an office lady and living alone. The 1DK apartment I lived in at the time had a unit bath where the toilet and the bathtub were in the same room. One night, figuring the bathwater was ready, I went to take a bath and opened the bathtub lid. I saw a shadow that looked like a human head. The upper half of the head was floating…