Chapter 1: The Legend of Kisaragi Station and Onigashima

The incident took place on January 8, 2004, and began with a conversation on a famous Japanese forum.

A man named Hasumi got on a late-night train home. Because of the time, there were very few people on the train, and there were only two or three passengers in one carriage.

But everything was normal, and the late hour and the sparse number of passengers did not bring any sense of horror to the brightly lit train car.

Renji was also sitting comfortably on the train, playing with his cell phone as usual, until after 11 o’clock, when he realized that something was wrong.

But in the entire empty train car, there were no passengers to talk to, because they were all asleep. So he logged on to a famous Japanese forum with his cell phone.

The conversation went like this.

Hasumi: Maybe it’s just my imagination, but can everyone hear me?

A netizen: Please go ahead.

A normal conversation slowly began to develop, and more and more online users began to join the conversation, eventually causing a “uproar” on the forum, which also contributed to a very scary urban legend in Japan – the Kisaragi Station incident.

What exactly happened at Kisaragi Station? The protagonist of the story, Hasumi, missed his train stop because he was playing with his cell phone. Later, he realized that the train, which normally stopped every 7 or 8 minutes, had not stopped for 20 minutes that night.

The two or three passengers on the train were all sleeping, so he had no choice but to log on to a famous forum and ask for help from netizens.

At first, the netizens didn’t take the incident seriously. Some thought that Hasumi had confused a local train with an express train and suggested that he ask the train driver for help. However, after he did so, he found that the driver’s cabin was blocked by a curtain and that the driver did not give him any response. His feelings began to change from helplessness to unease. At that moment, the train, which had been traveling for a long time, finally seemed to be about to stop after passing through an unfamiliar tunnel.

Hasumi: Now we are stopping at Kisaragi Station. I’ve never heard of this station. Should I get off?

Netizen: Get off and take a look.

Of course, some netizens suggested that he should just ride to the end of the line and not get off, but by then, Hasumi had already gotten off the train and arrived at the famous and long-standing place in Japan, Kisaragi Station.

It was an unmanned station, empty and silent. After leaving the station, the anxious Renji found that it was also an uninhabited area. He had no idea where he was and couldn’t find the location with his mobile phone.

He was already feeling very scared, so he didn’t bother to chat with the forum users, but instead followed the advice of the forum users and began to call his family for help, hoping that they could help him call the police… Unfortunately, the police thought it was just a ridiculous joke and did not accept the incident.

Helpless, Renji returned to the empty station and continued to ask for help from netizens on the forum. At this time, everyone was unable to offer a good solution. It was already 2 a.m. and the originally empty station finally welcomed a stranger. It was an old man with one leg. When he appeared in the distance, the sound of bells and drums could be heard in the distance, which was very similar to the sound of Japanese festivals and Japanese funeral ceremonies.

Lian Zhi Zhaozhi said this situation on the Internet, and the netizens who realized that something was wrong told him not to get close to the one-legged old man, but to run out of the station along the tunnel in the opposite direction.

In desperation, Lian Zhi-zhao did as he was told, and following this method, he really ran out of the station and saw something like a business hotel. Then he met a kind-hearted driver who was willing to take him to a nearby station. The strange incident seemed to be perfectly resolved.

But the story didn’t end there, because the driver took him to an increasingly remote place, and the driver slowly stopped talking.

Hasumi: The battery on my phone is almost dead, and something doesn’t seem right. I’m going to try to escape. The man (the driver) has started muttering something strange. Just in case, this is my final message.

The whole incident ended here, and Renji never appeared on that famous forum again, and his ID was never logged in again.

This is the prototype of the famous Japanese urban legend, Kisaragi Station.

After that, there were a few more things that happened, such as the appearance of a second and third victim, and a suspected account of Hasumi posting a message, but they were all full of sensationalism and were recognized by many netizens.

Except for the initial Hasumi incident, the rest of it seems less credible. This is the view of many Japanese locals.

However, after seeing this incident many years later, I think that the initial Hasumi incident was not true either. I am not a patient person who can scrutinize the details, and I can judge the authenticity of the entire incident based on just one thing: his mobile phone signal. Whether he encountered a parallel universe or the suspected presence of evil spirits later, it would strongly interfere with any signal, and it would be impossible to speak on the forum smoothly from beginning to end. Even if Japan’s mobile phone technology is very advanced compared to the world, let alone the idea of making a phone call.

Therefore, the circle of Japanese spiritualists, also known as the spiritual circle, simply did not pay attention to this incident, and the special police department that had some connection with them also did not take this incident seriously. After all, the disappearance of a person from thin air could be classified as a criminal case.

Because of their relationship, even ordinary police officers did not react at all…

As far as I know, there are some urban legends in Japan, but there are really people with abilities (the Japanese term, which here becomes a cultivator) who intervene because they have detected something unusual and have suppressed it.

The reason why I would pay special attention to such a seemingly absurd event at Kisaragi Station after so many years is because it reveals the true situation of the place from a certain perspective… I don’t know if it’s a coincidence, but even now, I can’t help but feel a bit dazed when I think about it.

Ghost-beating Bay, where there are rivers and streams, many places on the surface of the river and the surface of the river will be given this name.

In reality, places called Gui Da Wan are generally a bend in the terrain, and here it is a place where the water flows back, that is to say, the water here flows in a swirling state, like a circle before continuing to flow… It’s not really magical to say, but the reason why such places are often called Gui Da Wan is because many corpses that have died in the river will gather here due to the special flow of the water. When there are too many of them, strange things will happen. After all, everyone who dies in the river is not necessarily without grievances in their hearts. Over time, such places have been called Guida Bay because of their uniqueness.

Experienced corpse-divers would usually go to places like this to look for bodies after a person had gone missing in the river. Some clever people would use the backwater to transport timber, which would flow downstream from upstream and generally gather in places like this due to the power of the current.

After liberation, the larger the ghost-fighting bay, the more it was transformed into a timber transfer station… It gained a lot of popularity, and many strange legends were added by the workers there. After all, when salvaging timber, it was often accompanied by strange and terrifying floating corpses… Many old workers, in the end, even became accustomed to the sight of floating corpses.

This is the Ghost Bay in the real world, but not the Ghost Bay in the words of the cultivator, because the Ghost Bay in the words of the cultivator is a place where once you enter, there is almost no way to get out, unless by chance… There are many secrets buried in the place called Ghost Bay, and even some distant mysteries.

It is a place that even cultivators fear, and the first time it appeared in the eyes of cultivators and was passed on by cultivators was because of a famous incident.

On that night, in a small village on the banks of the Yellow River… it disappeared! The official explanation was that it was suddenly flooded by a flood.

There are many local legends, such as the walking dragon, offending the river god, and strange fish at the bottom of the river… However, the department and the investigators who went to investigate learned about a mysterious place from a “madman” who had inexplicably escaped from the incident—Guidaowan.

and a story that is so frightening that it makes people sigh with emotion—the legend of Guidaowan.