there's something dangerous abducting
children in this area
hey i'm sapphire wanna hear something
scary
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you've heard of the slender man but have
you heard of a tall slender woman
this next chapter is a japanese urban
legend called
hachi shakusama which means eight feet
tall
my grandparents lived in a small village
in japan
every summer my parents would take me
there on holiday to visit them
the last time i saw them was the summer
when i was eight years old
my grandparents were inside the house
and i was playing by myself outside in
the backyard
i heard a strange sound
i didn't know what it was and it was
hard to figure out where it was coming
from
i was looking around searching for the
source of the noise
when i noticed something on top of the
tall hedges that enclosed the backyard
it was a straw hat it wasn't resting on
the hedge
it was behind it that's where the sound
was coming from
then the hat began to move it stopped at
a small gap in the hedge and i could see
a face peering through
it was a woman but the hedges were high
almost eight feet tall i was surprised
at how tall the woman was
i wondered if she was wearing stilts or
some sort of huge high-heeled shoes
then a split second later she walked off
and the strange noise disappeared with
her
fading into the distance
confused i got up and ran back into the
house my grandparents were in the
kitchen drinking tea
i sat down at the table and told my
grandparents what i had seen
they weren't really paying attention to
me until i mentioned that distinctive
sound
they both froze grandma's eyes grew wide
and she covered her mouth with her hand
grandpa's face became very serious and
he grabbed me by the arm
this is very important he said very
intensely
how tall was she as tall as the garden
hedge
where was she standing when did this
happen what did you do did she see you
i tried to answer all his questions as
best as i could
he rushed out to the hallway and made a
phone call i couldn't hear what he was
saying
but after he hung up he walked out the
door
grandma what's going on
there's something dangerous abducting
children in this area
she said we call it hachi shakusama
it takes on the appearance of an
extremely tall woman and says
in a deep voice a long time ago
it was captured by monks and they
managed to confine it in a ruined
building on the outskirts of the village
they trapped it using four jizo small
religious statues that they placed at
the north
south east and west of the ruins so that
it could not escape
but somehow it did the last time it
appeared was
15 years ago my grandmother said that
anyone who saw it
was destined to die within a few days
it all sounded so crazy i wasn't sure
what to believe
just then my grandpa came back but with
an old woman who called herself
caisson they took me upstairs to my
bedroom and began covering the windows
with newspaper
with ancient runes written all over them
caisson placed small bowls of salt in
all four corners of the room
and a small buddha figure in the center
soon the sun will be setting so listen
carefully
you must stay in this room until 7 30
tomorrow morning
do not open the store for any reason
she placed a bucket in my hands not even
to use the restroom
my grandparents in caisson left the room
and i locked the door after them
i couldn't believe what was happening
was i really going to die in a few days
i turned on the tv to try to take my
mind off everything
and eventually fell asleep i was
awakened around 1am
by a tapping sound on the window
it's probably just a tree or something i
told myself
then came a knock on the door and i
heard my grandpa's voice
are you okay in there if you're scared i
can keep you company
hearing his voice was such a relief that
without thinking i rushed over to the
door
but something didn't feel right i looked
at the bowls of salt in the room
all four of them had turned black
and then i heard the sound again
the tapping on the window continued i
knelt in front of the buddha and began
to pray
i was so terrified and caught up in my
chanting that i didn't
realize the sounds had stopped i checked
my watch
it was 7 30 am carefully i opened the
door
and ran to my grandparents we all got in
a van and headed straight for the
airport
apparently there were others who had
escaped the grasp of hachi sakusama
as long as they never stepped foot in
japan again
so two years ago when my grandpa got
sick he refused to let me visit him
he even left strict instructions in his
will to not let me attend his funeral
i couldn't believe that this creature
prevented me from saying goodbye to him
so when my grandma called a few days ago
to tell me she had been diagnosed with
cancer
i wasn't going to let her stop me from
visiting it's been 10 years grandma
and nothing has happened to me we don't
even know if this thing is real
i'm not gonna let it stop me from seeing
you
if you say so dear i love you grandma
i'll see you soon
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