[Japanese supernatural legend] Lake Yamanaka is haunted, true or false

Mount Fuji Yamanakako, a tourist attraction next to the famous suicide forest, was a must-see for Japanese tour groups in Hong Kong in the early years. For nearly two decades, a story about a ghost tour guide, Qiu Ju, has been circulating in a hot spring hotel by the lake.

Qiu Ju, the ghost tour guide who spread rumors

It is said that this hot spring hotel has a long history. It was originally a resident hotel for Japanese students or sports clubs, and then it gradually became a special hotel for Chinese, Hong Kong and Taiwan tour groups. About 20 years ago, it was widely rumored that a female tour guide named "Qiu Ju" committed suicide in the hotel and hanged herself to death. After that, her ghost often haunted the area around the hotel. Since Qiu Ju was still a tour guide when she died, whenever a tourist wandered around the hotel late at night, she would show up and ask the tourist if they needed help, and even followed the tourist back to the room, sitting by the bed and crying late at night.

However, this legend is actually very suspicious. First of all, in the past two decades, there has been no such rumor in Japan. Even if you ask the locals, they don't know the relevant story at all. The second is that the name Qiuju is very "Chinese". The Japanese would never use such a name. It may make sense to say that it is a Chinese tour guide, but there have been no relevant news reports over the years. Therefore, it is said that this so-called legend is just a story fabricated by the tour group leaders. Because there are no scenic spots or shopping places near the hotel, the tour group tourists often leave the hotel for night tours without doing anything, causing inconvenience to the tour group leaders, so they "created" this Legend has it that tourists are deterred from going out in the middle of the night.

The real case of the dead body at the bottom of the lake

The real supernatural event of corpse sinking at the bottom of the lake is really related to Lake Yamanaka in Mount Fuji. It was 1984. Six college students traveling from Tokyo to Lake Yamanaka were playing in a boat in the middle of the night. Finally, the boat capsized. One of them was rescued, two died after being rescued, and the other three disappeared. The incident caused a sensation that year, and many people were mobilized to search and rescue. Two days later, the divers found the bodies of the three people in the deepest part of the lake, and the incident gradually came to an end. But since then, Yamanakako has become a place of fierce ghosts in the eyes of the Japanese, because people drown in the lake from time to time, and some people say that they see ghosts appearing by the lake from time to time. The real horror story, though, was revealed more than a decade later.

dead body meditating

More than ten years later, a diver who was in charge of searching for the dead body broke out the horror experience when finding the dead body. It is said that after many searches, the divers found the bodies of the three people at the bottom of the lake far from the accident site. Although it had long been expected that the three of them would die, what was unexpected was that the bodies of the three of them actually sat down at the bottom of the lake, as if they were talking in a "circle around the stove". When two of the divers swam close, the three suddenly opened their eyes and looked at the divers together. One of the divers even vowed that the three at the bottom of the lake showed strange smiles. At that time, the two divers were so frightened that they asked for reinforcements before they dared to salvage the body into the lake. Since then, the sinking of corpses at the bottom of Mount Fuji's Yamanakako Lake has become a widely circulated ghost story in Japan.