Ghost Detector

[Mulboyne]

[kotatsuneko]

hmm, I wonder if such a thing is needed.

Personally, [and seriously], I have come into contact with 3 spirits, all of which were family, whether a "detector" is necessary is very questionable. I would imagine those who have passed away only make themselves seen/felt when they wish to do so.

[Red Floyd]

Though there are theories that certain ghosts are unwilling bound to areas and have no choice but to re-enact their gruesome fates.

[AssKissinger]

The one in my house has been beeping like crazy.

[plaid_knight]

I saw something like that gadget in a movie one time ...

[Mulboyne]

[Greji]

-been beeping like crazy-

AK,
Can you ascertain if that is a beep, beep, or a meep, meep. This is very important because it will determine if your spirit is a road runner or not!

[Charles]

...beeps and flashes red lights in response to unusual magnetic waves...

Hmm.. I missed this when it was first posted, I would have linked to an article I wrote on how to build your own magnetometer.

[oyajikun]

I picked one of these up at Bic Camera over the weekend. 1700 yen well spent it turns out. My wife is scared to shit of it.

[Charles]

I picked one of these up at Bic Camera over the weekend. 1700 yen well spent it turns out. My wife is scared to shit of it.

Extra magnets to hide around the house, not included.

[oyajikun]

Thanks, that a great idea!! I think I'll stop by Daiso on the way home.

[keirnna]

[Taro Toporific]

Scotsman: New Gadget from Japan Hailed as Ghost Detector

NEW & IMPROVED: Ghost detector for your cell phone
Machine translated version of
May 02, 2006. 14:41
Beep, beep...here's the ghost detection keitai strap.
This keitai charm has a ghost detection function. Is it truly useful? We tested it out at a couple of spookly places in Tokyo such as the Yasukuni National (War-criminal) Shrine and the Aoyama Cemetery......more...

[mercury]

places are haunted in Tokyo and Japan:

In Japan, ghosts are called Yurei. They are very similar to western ghosts, and are believed to haunt people and places after their death.

Okiku's Well at Himeji Castle is often said to be haunted by the ghost of Okiku. She is supposed to rise from the well at night and count to nine before shrieking and returning to the well.

Some stories, however, locate the haunted well in the Canadian embassy in Tokyo's garden.

Aokigahara, the forest at the bottom of Mt. Fuji, is a popular location for suicide. This gives rise to a widespread belief that it is haunted.

Iwo Jima is claimed by members of Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force and construction workers who have stayed there to be haunted by ghosts from Battle of Iwo Jima. Glass of sake and water are offered to ghosts.

Tomb of Taira no Masakado, located near Otemachi, Tokyo is allegedly haunted by Masakado himself. According to legend, when it was temporarily removed during 1920s and the temporary Office for Ministry of Finance was constructed over it, it was followed in 1926 by the death of Seiji Hayami, the Minister of Finance as well as ten other government officials.

Also according to the story, when the building was removed and tomb was restored, an attempt by a bulldozer to remove the tomb ended when its driver died as the bulldozer overturned.

refs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_haunted_locations#Japan

Atsugi Naval Air Base - BEQ 985 - The spirit of a young man is often seen wandering from room to room. Believed to be the ghost of a marine that was killed in a car accident in the 1960's.

Hiroshima - It was said that the souls of the nuclear bomb victims at the end of World War 2 haunt the area. voices, pleading for help, crying and screaming can be heard around twilight. It was also said that some of those souls sometimes lurk in the shadows of the living.

Iwakuni - Barracks 1687 Room 301 - A Marine living in that room a few years ago committed suicide. In a drunken rage the Devil Dog broke the mirror in his room and slit his wrists with the broken pieces. From Marines checking in and out of that room since then, late at night if you look at the mirror you can see a Marine staring at you from the mirror.

Kanagawa Prefecture - field hospital - The hospital is an old field hospital located on a military base by the name of Sagami Depot. There have been reports of noises and individuals walking around in the hospital.

The building is seldom used but at night when security checks on it they often find a windows raised or a door that ha been locked previously unlocked. The Military police usually have a new soldier go there to conduct checks his first night on the job. Many have reported hearing some one walking around inside. The Japanese have experienced the same.

Nagasaki - Like Hiroshima, it was also said that the souls of the nuclear bomb victims in Nagasaki at the end of World War 2 haunt the area. voices, pleading for help, crying and screaming can be heard around twilight. It was also said that some of those souls sometimes lurk in the shadows of the living.

Okinawa - Camp Hansen - Gate #3 - Every weekend at night a soldier dressed in WWII gear, with blood all over his fatigues, a cigarette in his hand, and would ask the gate guard the same thing. "Gotta light?" Usually, the MP would light the cigarette for the soldier. As soon as it was lit, the GI would disappear. Update: this gate is closed because of this haunting; they had problems keeping a Japanese Sentry at this gate.

Okinawa - Camp Hansen - Gate #3 (Across the road from) - there was a fierce Samurai battle down that road one time. They said that at night, you can still hear the moans from the wounded Samurai Warriors, as they lay there dieing.

Okinawa - Gate One MCAS Futenma - Apparition of an Okinawa man from the waist up.

Okinawa - Machinato - HQ Spec Troops Barracks - Doors opening, cold spots, manual plumbing working automatically.

Okinawa - Marine Housing - persons living in the area reported a spirit sitting on the end of their bed, or feeling cold spots in certain areas of the house. One person stated seeing a shape of a little man walking through the halls.

Okinawa - The WWII Room - Witnesses have felt things touch them that were cold with no wind in contact.

Okinawa - USAF Storage Area - This whole island is haunted, mainly from WWII. One of the many haunted areas is in the Munitions Storage Area on Kadena AB. Along one of the main roads is a small clearing for people to stop and fish in the lake there or do whatever.

It is reported that some nights when it's foggy, people will be sitting at that clearing (security forces looking for speeders) doing whatever. They will hear noises like feet stomping on the ground. Then they will look out onto the lake and see a whole battalion of Japanese soldiers marching on the water. Then all of the sudden that person is surrounded by all the soldiers. Then they just disappear.

Tokyo - Akasaka - Weekly mansion Akasaka - There have been reports from many people that the weekly mansion building No.1 is haunted. Many have seen visions standing at the end of their beds, white mists coming in through the air vents, the room becoming suddenly very cold there have also been reports of lights going out or coming on by themselves, television and radios turning themselves on and a feeling of someone stroking their heads while they sleep and even being pushed into the bed by some unknown force being forced into a state of being so frozen they cannot move.

One person even reported being dragged from her bed to the other side of the room and then back again, she had scratches on her back the next day!

Tokyo - Outskirts - Outside Tokyo is a haunted mansion that was the basis of the game "Fatal Frame". It is said there are other houses close by linked to the past of the mansion.
People who have gone in there were later found by police with rope marks on their wrists, legs, and neck. There are also vast tunnels under this mansion but it is unknown what they're for. Sometimes during the day you can photograph a small girl in a kimono in one of the windows

Tokyo - Square Building - A bluish male child wandering the halls at night. If he thinks he has been seen he will disappear.

Yokohama - Ikego - The middle gate - A World War 2 concentration camp. Where thousands of Chinese and Korean people were put to work and killed by the Japanese army. It is now a U.S. military housing Base.

There are five incinerators that still stand today. It has three gates that keep it separate from the Japanese community. The Main Gate, The middle Gate and a back gate. At the middle gate, gate guards have experienced hearing voices, footsteps and a feeling of being watched.

Some have reported a World War 2 Japanese soldier in a brown uniform with no legs between the middle gate and back gate.


ref: http://www.theshadowlands.net/places/japan.htm

[amdg]

Dude,
don't you have anything better to do than cut and paste from wikipedia?

[Greji]

Dude,
don't you have anything better to do than cut and paste from wikipedia?

Careful amdg! He might be that ghost that has been hanging around wikipedia and comes after non-believers!

[Captain Japan]

Dude,
don't you have anything better to do than cut and paste from wikipedia?

I agree. Mercury's brand of English should not be shielded behind Wikepedia copy-and-pastes:
[quote]I've been here 15yrs and experienced the treaches of Jpanese cock blockin, lt and rt pussy-wing propaganda tellin the JN females to only give to the jn man,and to the white man for business purposes]

[Taro Toporific]

There seems to be an interesting agenda that almost all those ghost sites are US military bases.

Anyway, there are quite a few tunnels that Japanese feel are haunted. In Tokyo, the most often mentioned is the Roppongi Tunnel that runs under the US helipad. The Meguro tunnel is another favorite. And of course, Aoyama Reien cemetery is considered by pavid Japanese as the most kimoi place in Tokyo.


For those interested in fairy tales of the presophisticated, read the old CrissCross thread: Ghosts in Japan.

[joshuaism]

There seems to be an interesting agenda that almost all those ghost sites are US military bases.

Also you should take note that all those sightings are by people doing security checks or on guard posts. Military police have to be some of the most superstitious people I've ever run across, and I think the long solitary hours on post in the middle of a sleep deprived night while trying to maintain a constant state of vigilance just screws with their minds too much.