We all hear about haunted houses, church yards, and various other things, but how often have you heard of an ENTIRE building being haunted???
Now granted, the Japanese look at ancestors and ‘spirits’ a little differently than we do, BUT…
There is an entire housing tower on this particular base that the Japanese categorically refuse to enter at any time, day or night!
They swear it is built on ground where a number of Okinawans were killed in WWII and they supposedly inhabit the building (and dislike the Japanese intensely). Since the Japanese won’t clean it, it can’t be occupied; plus there are supposedly a number of stories surrounding things that occurred in that building, like heating and cooling turning on/off on it’s own, raining in some rooms, lights turning on/off, etc…
The second is a house known as the Samurai house- This is another location where the housing office cannot put any family to live. It appears this house is ‘haunted’ by a band of 13th century Samurai, who have parties on occasion, including horses, sword fights, etc… Apparently the APs have made numerous responses to this house over the years based on calls.
The story (with pictures of the damage) is also told of a group of Airmen who were going to make the house a haunted house for Halloween one year. After decorating the house, they left on a Thursday night, intending to return Saturday night. Friday night the APs were called to a reported “brawl” at the house, only to find it locked, no lights, nothing…
Upon entry, they discovered massive damage to ALL the props, etc. for the haunted house, and the pictures indicated much of the damage was made with long sharp objects based on the cuts and slices… One four inch post was sliced completely through at a 45 deg angle…
In other sightings, going to work yesterday I passed the Marine bicycle race team on the perimeter road. As I passed, I realized ‘something’ didn’t look right… Sure enough, in the middle of the group was a Japanese sitting upright, riding a Schwinn single speed wearing a Steel Pot!
Yesterday afternoon I ran into the Master Gunny at the barracks and asked him about it, turns out the Japanese Officer is the liaison officer for the squadron, and decided he wanted to participate, but didn’t have a bike or bike helmet, so he ‘borrowed’ a maintenance bike and grabbed his pot out of his car! The Master Gunny said he kept up for almost 5 miles, and they slowed down so as not to embarrass him!
In other news- Packout is done, most of the team is gone/going today; and I’m outta here tomorrow! Good timing since there is ANOTHER @#^&* typhoon on the way… sigh…
Sounds like you are escaping at just the right time.
I have not seen anything haunted but that is probably a good thing too.
Glad to see you’re escaping the #$%^&* hole. Are your toes webbed yet?
ADM- I am 🙂 I have and I DO believe…
Crucis- pretty much… 21 days 18 days of rain.
Safe travels! 🙂
Don’t bring back any spirits (except served on the plane).
Nothing like coming home to raise the spirits! (lame I know but I felt the need!) Safe travels!
re: hauntings. We see through a glass, darkly.
i’m with pawpaw on the haunting topic …
travel safe …
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