Aokigahara Forest, Japan

H1tmonlii

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aokigahara
http://usagiyjay.wordpress.com/2008/09/19/bosque-de-aokigahara/

Aokigahara is a woodland at the base of Mount Fuji in Japan that makes The Blair Witch Project forest look like Winnie the Pooh's Hundred Acre Wood. It probably has something to do with all the dead bodies scattered around.

What Niagara Falls is to weddings, Aokigahara is to suicide. How many suicides does it takes for a place to get that reputation? A dozen? Fifty?

More than 500 ****ing people have taken their own lives in Aokigahara since the 1950s.

The trend has supposedly started after Seicho Matsumoto published his novel Kuroi Kaiju (Black Sea of Trees) where two of his characters commit suicide there. After that-always eager to prove they are bizarrely susceptible to suggestion-hundreds of Japanese people have hanged themselves among the countless trees of the Aokigahara forest, which is reportedly so thick that even in high noon it's not hard to find places completely surrounded by darkness.

Opinions?

Riamfada

Japanese people are mental. A quick google image search for Aokigahara shows lots of remains of suiciders.


Freaky

bad2dabone

a very scary place i imagine. so much anguish has to leave something behind, theres no way i'ld spend a long time in that forest

bigeasyeah

I feel sorry for all those who killed themselves there.
Also,the place could do with a bit of a clean.

Logan

Creepy place... Shouldn't have click the links above and seen the pics before I went to sleep, lol

Urizen

Wow. Anything reported to be there, like ley lines or whatever? Or Japanese demons, there's loads of them in mythology.

rororoyourboat

Jaysis, that second link is very disturbing! Those poor souls.

Destination Truth did a show there . Its also kept very hush hush by the Japanese government . You have to remember Japan has a very long history with suicide . I wouldnt class it as paranormal but strange none the less.

stormkeeper

Damn, those pics are rather gruesome alright... judging by the decomposition of some of those bodies, they must have been found quite some time after.

hairyfairy00

I read about Aokigahara Forest on Listverse.com a while back, they rate it No.2 in the world for spooky travel destinations. http://listverse.com/2009/09/02/top-10-spooky-travel-destinations/

leddpipe

Old school creepy ****!