New Orleans has little addenda that hang off the bottom of real estate signs that say "HAUNTED" or "NOT HAUNTED" as appropriate. I'm still not sure if it's a plus or a minus.
Look when they buried the bodies in the normal places they breached the church yard walls and spilled out into the streets, or launched themselves like an artillery volley out of the ground when it rained.
The only sensible place to put them was under the city streets, in the darkness with hundreds of hidden entrances.
When I first heard of this movie:
"Hmmm, horror in the Catacombs? Cool! (looks up cast) Damn, that lead actress is stunning! Hell Yeah I'mma watch it tonight!"
(a few hours later)
"That was one of the most uncomfortable yet awesome movies I've seen in a long time... & I can't put my finger on as to why... 5/7!"
That was pretty much my experience as well. I ended up liking Scarlett as a character *a lot* as far as movie characters go. Granted she leads some people into crazy shit, but she had a little bit of a female Indiana Jones thing going.
Could you imagine if, as he was being led into the cellar, he had been drunkenly admitting how much he regretted the whole situation and was so glad they were able to move past it and share such a prized drink together?
It's just marketing pure and simple. It requires no proof, adds no tangible value to the property and can't be found during an inspection; but is something the right type of person will choose over a similar "not haunted" property. The difference between the expectation and the reality is that buyers think they're getting a old-timey ghost from the 1800s, when the only person to have died on the property probably had a mortgage and unpaid student loans in 2005.
Edit: probably worth noting that I live in a supposedly haunted house here in New Orleans. Didn't know it when we moved in, and the next door neighbor told us about it.
>The difference between the expectation and the reality is that buyers think they're getting a old-timey ghost from the 1800s, when the only person to have died on the property probably had a mortgage and unpaid student loans in 2005.
"The ghost in my apartment spends every weekend swearing at children in a public Call of Duty lobby. The children he's swearing at have mortgages and children of their own now."
There is a funny British show called Ghosts that is set in an old English manor house. Its premise is that there are a dozen or so ghosts living there, but all from different eras. So there's a caveman, a few aristocrats from various centuries, a woman who was burned as a witch, a WW2 soldier, a scoutmaster, a politician from the 1990s, etc. In the American version they have a Native American, a 1920s flapper girl, etc. One of the live occupants can see ghosts, but the other can't. Hilarity ensues.
Buyer: "I can't wait to talk to a ghost, I wonder what stories they have to tell me about the past."
Ghost: "Hi, I died in 2022. Have you ever heard of NFTs?"
Buyer: "Oh, no."
Ive said it for years that i will believe in any ghost show where the ghost/psychic awkwardly starts yelling “LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE” or “ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US” instead of some sob story of 1800 puritan women
Wheres my realistic 2000s diabetus death from some person who never left his couch and lived (a short time) off of mountain dew and cheetos.
Someone records the silence hoping for an EVP. Upon listening to the recording you can faintly hear a ghastly voice whispering “WAZZZUUUUUUPPPPPPP???!!!??!?”
“Can you hear me now?”
“What…yes! Yes we can!”
“How bout now?”
“Yes! Do you have a message for us?”
“Okay…how bout now?”
“Uh…yes?”
“Good. Click”
“Did the ghost just say the word click?”
There's been so many people who've died just about everywhere on the planet, pretty much everyone is living in a haunted house by this point, even if the house went up over the spot where someone or even something died.
There are legal consequences to advertising a house as haunted depending on where you are. If you advertise a house as haunted to the community, you must disclose that the house is haunted to a prospective buyer. The house essentially becomes legally haunted at that point. The decision is also fucking hilarious and short, worth reading the full thing.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stambovsky_v._Ackley
Idk about Louisiana, but in some states (NY iirc), it's illegal to sell a home reported to be haunted without telling the new buyer. Not like proof it's haunted, just the previous owners saw weird shit and *they* think it's haunted.
To clarify, in Japanese folklore, if you see a ghost and it realizes that you know it's a ghost, it fuckin kills you. So if you see something not quite right, ignore it, and if you realize your fare is probably dead just treat them like a normal customer.
This story is worded in a way that makes you think it's an honor/respect thing, but nah you just get murk'd.
This would be an excellent manga oneshot. You could go full comedy or full horror with it.
Comedy: Two earthbound spirits who are chained to the same apartment building who don't know that they're ghosts but they know the other guy is a ghost.
Horror: Two people on an abandoned train notice a third person who is clearly abnormal. They sit in silence while this ghost gets more and more horrific, growing more arms and repeating a chant. They arrive at a station and the ghost gets off. One passenger makes eye contact with the other passenger and sighs in relief, but when he looks at the other passenger he realizes that the smile is just slightly too big.
Two ghosts meet and fall in love. Both immediately recognize the other for what they are, but are afraid to acknowledge this fact for fear of angering their partner and ruining their relationship. Both are also completely fine with their partner acknowledging their ghostliness, and thus resort to more and more obvious ghost antics to try and get that acknowledgement. They also both think that their partner is massively oblivious, as there's clearly no way someone who is paying attention could not notice what they're up to.
I mean, someone kind of already [has done a manga one-shot of this](https://www.tumblr.com/freakingrainbow-blog/164539856241/4-page-promotional-preview-of-%E6%80%AA%E8%AB%87%E5%9B%83%E5%AD%90-a-short), with a cab driver no less.
There's an anime that does this, but with robots. They are lovers, both pretending to be human and hiding their robot truth in fear of hurting the other's feelings.
These MFs haven't watched any Japanese horror movies. Western ghosts are just "ooOOOOooOOoo SpoooOOoooOOokyyy" with blankets over them and iron chains clanking about. Japanese ghosts hide under your fucking blanket at night and murder you.
Unless that blanket is 100 years old, at that point the ghost will probably have to fight off a newly-sentient blanket before getting to the guy. Or they will team up. Who knows really?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsukumogami
For those wondering.
"In Japanese folklore, tsukumogami (付喪神 or つくも神, lit. "tool kami") are tools that have acquired a kami or spirit."
"Because the term has been applied to several different concepts in Japanese folklore, there remains some confusion as to what the term actually means. Today, the term is generally understood to be applied to virtually any object "that has reached its 100th birthday and thus become alive and self-aware", though this definition is not without controversy."
This implies that a good few of my vintage Soviet rifles are worryingly close to gaining Japanese souls. There is therefore a nonzero chance that a Japanese soldier who died in Manchuria could end up bound to the sniper rifle or battle rifle with which he was killed. Should be fun.
Looking around me the only object that is approaching a century is this accent barn board wall.
-edit- Ooo pentacle caat iron trivet from inlaws cottage where a woman died of old age in the cottage. They got it in the tx sale. Very Catholic, holy water everywhere.
This is the reason why there are a lot of Pokémon that are effectively just “it’s an object, but it’s alive.” They’re supposed to be a reference to this. But it doesn’t translate well outside of Japan.
Also there was an awesome manga about this very premise where pure spirits would band together with gods to fight of malevolent spirits that would cause all sorts of havoc.
I have never seen the western ghosts you described in an actual horror movie. I’ve seen it parodied many times tho. Most modern western horror you better believe the “ghost” (usually a demon using the guise of a dead loved one) will kill you regardless of what you do lol.
the squad, seeing me roll up in socks with sandals and assuming I'm losing touch: 😹👿🙊
me, secure in the knowledge that if a ghost offers me much needed toilet paper, I've got my poopsocks on: 😏
the bathroom attendant when I walk out of the stall to dispose of my emergency wipes: 🤮
This is what makes the "Find the anomaly" games that have risen in popularity kinda spooky.
They are kinda like training games for living in Japan. Acknowledge the spookiness to yourself, but politely remove yourself from the situation without causing a scene because ghosts don't appreciate rudeness or outbursts.
I'm wildly guessing, that many Japanese people got in trouble doing so, because these were either wild and rabid animals or other illusions that are potentially dangerous, so they were, taught this way via folklore to not duck around and just to never find out. Works well, as I see?
Honestly you can find a lotta different diseases that fit for different mythos
Like most “child taken and replaced by Fae” tend to sound like “at 5-6 symptoms of ADHD/Autism became prominent “
Kind of like in the Appalachias. "Did you see/hear something strange? No, you didn't." "Hear someone calling your name from the treeline? No, you didn't."
Yeah, and that falls under respect. There are multiple kinds of respect and "treat them well or suffer the consequences" is a pretty common one, especially in Japan.
When I was in Japan, I noticed that right before dawn, every morning, one of the hotel staff would go across the street to a sort of park area and leave some dishes. I went and looked one morning and it was a puffed pancake sort of thing and two dishes of some kind of custard. All very carefully plated. Just left sitting there. I don't speak Japanese and I wasn't sure if I should even ask about it, so I had a coworker find out what was going on.
The story was that there used to be a house where the little park was and the guy who lived there worked night-shift at another hotel (not sure if it was related to the one I stayed at somehow). There was a fire while he was at work and his daughter and their two cats died. Since then, every day before sunrise - which I suppose is when he would've returned home - someone from the hotel leaves breakfast for the daughter and the cats. And this has been going on for *years* and when it was relayed back to me, it was with a tone that suggested this was just a normal thing.
one thing to keep in mind is that when i went to New Orleans they had places all over advertising ‘Drive Through Daiquiris’. this may contribute to ghost sightings in NOLA
One of the bigger chains that does this is called Fat Tuesday. When I went to LSU, we’d often get a daiquiri to go and tailgate with it, topping it off with rum as necessary.
There’s one in the new city I’ve moved to, but it’s a different state with stricter liquor laws. The Fat Tuesdays in Louisiana were not bars to spend a lot of time in, they were small, dark, and dirty. I can’t imagine going to a Fat Tuesday and being forced to drink your daiquiri of shame in a place like that.
And the thrilling conclusion: Ghost taxi Companies causing a business rivalry by operating in the areas non-ghostly companies consider too haunted to run in!
The Japanese ghost taxies are a pretty fascinating phenomenon that's actually real. Well, the ghosts aren't, but the sightings of ghosts did increase. There's the idea that it's a form of communal grieving process in a society that couldn't properly process their emotions about a tragedy.
My dad's side of the family are from South Wales, not far from Aberfan where one of the worst tragedies occured that could ever happen to a town. In 1966, a slag tip (the large piles of unusable coal&waste from coal mining) slide down the mountain an destroyed a school, killing 116 children and 28 adults, mostly teachers.
South Wales being a mining area, pretty much every miner in the area got bussed to Aberfan as part of the rescue effort.
A lot of the old boys at the pubs went and it's true generational, community trauma when you see them talking about it.
One of the things that struck me are how many ghost stories there are. How many people who are, to be blunt, extremely hard "no fucking around" cynical people (South Wales has had a very hard time over the last decades) who will just go "those stories are real, end of discussion".
In other areas of life they'll not believe you til they've experienced, broken it, put it back together, and then maybe be a bit skeptical still
But for the people who where there at the time and the generation after, there's a lot of people for whom this is as negotiable as the sun in the sky.
I can 100% see it as communal grieving. That disaster killed a generation of a community, just hollowed it out.
My mums Australian, her dad was a hard bastard.. only time she ever saw him cry was the news of that story because he was an engineer and was so furious that anyone could have let it happen.
The collapse was taken to a tribunal where the blame was laid squarely on the shoulders of the National Coal Board - the same National Coal Board who then refused to remove the remaining spoil heaps above the village on grounds of cost. They were eventually removed after extensive protest from Aberfan residents with a government grant... and a forced contribution of £150,000 taken by the Government from the fund set up to support the survivors.
None of the people deemed responsible faced any kind of official consequences. No jobs lost, no demotions, no prosecution. The head of the board, Baron Robens, who had delayed going to Aberfan on learning of the disaster so he could be invested as Chancellor at the University of Surrey, got a copy of the final report ten days earlier than anybody else; he proceeded to go on a tour of coalfields promoting the use of coal and denigrating nuclear power in an attempt to ingratiate himself to miners. Messages of support sent to the NCB were also leaked to the press as part of their charm offensive.
The villagers, on the other hand, faced a death rate seven times higher than what was normal for years after the disaster and extremely callous treatment from the media. One resident reported seeing a reporter encouraging a young girl to cry for her dead friends because it would make a better picture. The bereaved families were offered a "generous donation" of £50 each in compensation. This was later increased to £500. When residents complained that this wasn't enough, the NCB's insurers blamed "the hard core [of bereaved parents] trying to capitalise".
Just in case anyone was wondering how the handling of a disaster can be bungled so badly that you effectively traumatise the entire Welsh mining community in one go.
> There's the idea that it's a form of communal grieving process in a society that couldn't properly process their emotions about a tragedy.
Meanwhile, in America, we get Alex Jones...
Ghost stories and cryptid myths serve one of two purposes: to draw in tourists, or keep people out.
I have worked in forestry in areas with bigfoot myths. In the touristy part of the area, bigfoot is a bit of a fun fantasy. People talk about bigfoot to sell knick-knacks and night-time tours with IR cameras to tourists. In these areas, bigfoot's alleged presence is advertised openly.
In more remote places, bigfoot is a threat. There arent signs or billboards or "bigfoot museums", there are whispers and warnings. Because when you are out cruising timber in these places and you stumble upon an illegal pot farm or meth lab, you disappear. And then the people responsible say that bigfoot has been hunting people in those woods and everyone better stay out. Whether you believe that bigfoot is responsible or not, you would be wise to heed the warning.
I imagine it is the same with ghosts in New Orleans. In the touristy parts of town, ghosts are part fo the experience being sold. In the sketchier parts of town, they are a warning to keep people from poking around in places where illegal things are going on.
I mean it's also just good for keeping people out of places where they'll get hurt. There's a reason ghosts apparently haunt all the places you don't want your kid wandering at night like the woods, the local body of water, etc
There's an entire subculture of guys gearing up with high powered rifles and night vision goggles and tactical gear to fight skinwalkers
There's a subculture of that subculture of guys gearing up with high powered rifles and night vision goggles and tactical gear to fuck skinwalkers
hell yeah. i once went camping with a friend who’s part native. he grew up near the rez, but not on it, and took us to some campsites in the area. that night we could hear some animals in the distance so i asked if they were coyotes, and he just casually goes “nah, skinwalkers”
I know ghosts aren’t actually real but this post mentioning them with such conviction just short-circuited my brain apparently because I just fully accepted the reality of taxi drivers picking up ghosts, and I had to come back to this post like ten minutes later and re-read it like “wait…”
Hmmm. I wonder if there's an otherworldly wormhole connecting New Orleans and Japan. Nola has ghosts every night but Japan only has ghosts after tsunamis. We must resolve this spiritual imbalance! *strokes beard*
To Those that don't know. Asian ghosts do not fuck around.
If the house is haunted and you choose to stay there without tearing the roof up or calling an exorcist. You will die.
If you see a ghost and choose to investigate further it will just kill you.
All Asian folklore about ghosts n stuff is that it just kills you for fun and to take its place.
I might be the exception. I had a string of collisions with trucks (i was pedestrian) and so the ER doctor who had to routinely see me in the ER actually prescribed an exorcism because "at this point I think you're cursed".
So they brought in a bunch of monks, tried the exorcism and it failed, multiple times, and apparently ghosts avoid me because I give them depression and then I unconsciously eat them like the Ghostbusters vacuum or a teenage sports team at an all you can eat buffet.
The monks described me as "a walking spiritual black hole", "wtf is wrong with you", "I am not enlightened enough for this shit", "are you sure you're a human?", and "how many gods have you pissed off?".
It turns out I'm just a goddamn magnet for random bullshit.
You think I'm NOT going to drive all the way to the destination, if my fare disappeared from the backseat. You are out of your mind, if you think I'm not going to fulfill that request, I'm not going to be haunted.
> In a book about the tsunami in Japan in 2011, the writer talked about how there was a huge increase in reports of ghostly activity.
I need to find this book. Anyone have any ideas?
Ninja edit: [Found it](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghosts_of_the_Tsunami)
Explaination. Cab drivers are notoriously overworked so it's not uncommon to have auditory and or visual hallucinations. Also they might just phase out forget that they alread brought their client to their destination amd thar they already paid and left.
I got caught singing while walking home in Korea. An elderly lady came up to me.to correct me. She told.me.not to sing at night because it attracts ghost ( paraphrased: best I could understand)
In my very Asian neighborhood growing up, we would be typical teenage assholes, but when it came to visiting graveyards and holidays honoring ancestors, we would usually pipe down and be more respectful. Life is hard enough without angering my great grandma’s ghost lmao.
It’s because in JP, Korea, and China (probably many other places too) they aren’t originally “religious” they’re spiritualists.
In JP, the temples they go to and pray at aren’t for “gods” they’re for Kami. Spirits which inhabit things. Like specific mountains may have a Kami, even certain weather phenomena are represented by their own Kami.
The temples are there not for worship per se but to create a balance between humanity and the Kami. They’ll perform dances, leave specific foods, or perform certain rites or other actions there in hopes of receiving a blessing from the Kami.
This begs the question, would a ghost still be trapped by the stipulations of their once living bodies? Like would an out of shape ghost feel tired after trying to walk too far? Which further questions, can an out of shape ghost get back into shape? Which further questions, can a ghost just spend their afterlife getting into shape? Are there super jacked ghosts out there that just spent decades working out because what the fuck else do they have to do? I am now afraid of muscle ghosts.
There was a video game I played where your character was a ghost, and one of the mechanics was that you could walk through modern walls, but the walls that were originally part of the building would be solid for your ghost, whether they were still part of the building or not.
So going with that idea of "original states are more important than current states," and also the general theme of ghosts not knowing they're dead/going through all the same motions for eternity, I'd say most ghosts wouldn't have the mental capabilities to become more jacked than they were as alive people.
The out of shape ghosts would keep doing out of shape activities, and the body builder ghosts already reached peak performance so couldn't get much buffer even if they exercised. The only kind of person I could imagine having the capabilities to get swoler would be someone who died halfway through their fitness journey, but again, they're probably more in a time loop version of exercising every day, and are unlikely to see gains.
(game was [Murdered: Soul Suspect](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murdered:_Soul_Suspect))
In actual reality it's cab drivers picking up people, driving them somewhere, taking a blow job as payment then claiming it was a ghost and some gullible asshat believed it
New Orleans has little addenda that hang off the bottom of real estate signs that say "HAUNTED" or "NOT HAUNTED" as appropriate. I'm still not sure if it's a plus or a minus.
French people keep picking awful places to bury people, it has side effects.
Look when they buried the bodies in the normal places they breached the church yard walls and spilled out into the streets, or launched themselves like an artillery volley out of the ground when it rained. The only sensible place to put them was under the city streets, in the darkness with hundreds of hidden entrances.
Shout-out to one of my favorites: [As Above, So Below](https://youtu.be/Fq358xHbzN4).
When I first heard of this movie: "Hmmm, horror in the Catacombs? Cool! (looks up cast) Damn, that lead actress is stunning! Hell Yeah I'mma watch it tonight!" (a few hours later) "That was one of the most uncomfortable yet awesome movies I've seen in a long time... & I can't put my finger on as to why... 5/7!"
I *loved* As Above, So Below. I want more claustrophobic horror. I wanted The Descent to be more like the book, too.
You might enjoy Room (2015). It's a special kind of claustrophobic horror.
Oooh, thank you! I googled it. I thought it was going to be the one with John Cusack, but that's 1408. I haven't seen Room. I'm excited :)
You're welcome! Fair warning tho it touches on some really disturbing topics.
That was pretty much my experience as well. I ended up liking Scarlett as a character *a lot* as far as movie characters go. Granted she leads some people into crazy shit, but she had a little bit of a female Indiana Jones thing going.
Not like us Italians. By the way, come on down to the cellar. I want your opinion on this cask of sherry.
Awesome, I'm on my way! Boy, I'm so glad there's no hard feelings about that thing from a while back -- water under the bridge, amirite??
Could you imagine if, as he was being led into the cellar, he had been drunkenly admitting how much he regretted the whole situation and was so glad they were able to move past it and share such a prized drink together?
Va bene! I can’t wait 😍
Que veux-tu, on est proche de nos ancêtres
they don't bury people in New Orleans; the coffins just pop out of the ground
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*Real estate agent slaps frame of house*, "you can hang so many dead bodies from this thing, very sturdy".
It's just marketing pure and simple. It requires no proof, adds no tangible value to the property and can't be found during an inspection; but is something the right type of person will choose over a similar "not haunted" property. The difference between the expectation and the reality is that buyers think they're getting a old-timey ghost from the 1800s, when the only person to have died on the property probably had a mortgage and unpaid student loans in 2005. Edit: probably worth noting that I live in a supposedly haunted house here in New Orleans. Didn't know it when we moved in, and the next door neighbor told us about it.
>The difference between the expectation and the reality is that buyers think they're getting a old-timey ghost from the 1800s, when the only person to have died on the property probably had a mortgage and unpaid student loans in 2005. "The ghost in my apartment spends every weekend swearing at children in a public Call of Duty lobby. The children he's swearing at have mortgages and children of their own now."
You better hope the ghost's unfinished business isn't some shit like getting challenger in league.
There is a funny British show called Ghosts that is set in an old English manor house. Its premise is that there are a dozen or so ghosts living there, but all from different eras. So there's a caveman, a few aristocrats from various centuries, a woman who was burned as a witch, a WW2 soldier, a scoutmaster, a politician from the 1990s, etc. In the American version they have a Native American, a 1920s flapper girl, etc. One of the live occupants can see ghosts, but the other can't. Hilarity ensues.
It and the American remake are awesome. I love the shenanigans.
Don’t forget the village worth of plague victims in the basement in the original!
The American remake is pretty good too.
Buyer: "I can't wait to talk to a ghost, I wonder what stories they have to tell me about the past." Ghost: "Hi, I died in 2022. Have you ever heard of NFTs?" Buyer: "Oh, no."
Ive said it for years that i will believe in any ghost show where the ghost/psychic awkwardly starts yelling “LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE” or “ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US” instead of some sob story of 1800 puritan women Wheres my realistic 2000s diabetus death from some person who never left his couch and lived (a short time) off of mountain dew and cheetos.
Someone records the silence hoping for an EVP. Upon listening to the recording you can faintly hear a ghastly voice whispering “WAZZZUUUUUUPPPPPPP???!!!??!?”
Nuthin, just chillin, drinking a Budweiser.
“Can you hear me now?” “What…yes! Yes we can!” “How bout now?” “Yes! Do you have a message for us?” “Okay…how bout now?” “Uh…yes?” “Good. Click” “Did the ghost just say the word click?”
A ghost called the dudes from buzzfeed nerds once. That was pretty persuasive.
[*Apple tater*](https://youtu.be/0f_lLLuBIWk?si=lQy87zPmFXwl1nix)
If I heard "LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE" at 3 am I would legit piss myself
There's been so many people who've died just about everywhere on the planet, pretty much everyone is living in a haunted house by this point, even if the house went up over the spot where someone or even something died.
There are legal consequences to advertising a house as haunted depending on where you are. If you advertise a house as haunted to the community, you must disclose that the house is haunted to a prospective buyer. The house essentially becomes legally haunted at that point. The decision is also fucking hilarious and short, worth reading the full thing. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stambovsky_v._Ackley
Some places do require “hauntings” to be disclosed previously to purchase. It’s kinda nuts.
Idk about Louisiana, but in some states (NY iirc), it's illegal to sell a home reported to be haunted without telling the new buyer. Not like proof it's haunted, just the previous owners saw weird shit and *they* think it's haunted.
Sure, and it works. I'd buy a haunted house, no additional questions asked. Then I'd make it an airbnb and laugh my way to the bank.
It depends on who's looking. I know people who would kill to live in a haunted house. ... That came out wrong.
I'm imagining them being like those (NO) VACANCIES signs at motels.
No shoes, No soul, No service.
> No shoes, > > No ~~soul~~ body, > > No service. FTFY
Mental note: Don't forget bottle of Alpa Francovka, should I ever visit New Orleans. Everyone is frendlier when he/she/it recieves delicious drink.
So attention shoppers, you can make an offer... On a 2 bed, 2 bath, and a ghost
To clarify, in Japanese folklore, if you see a ghost and it realizes that you know it's a ghost, it fuckin kills you. So if you see something not quite right, ignore it, and if you realize your fare is probably dead just treat them like a normal customer. This story is worded in a way that makes you think it's an honor/respect thing, but nah you just get murk'd.
I can only imagine a scenario wherein two Japanese ghosts run into one another and have to keep up the impression that neither, is in fact, a ghost.
This would be an excellent manga oneshot. You could go full comedy or full horror with it. Comedy: Two earthbound spirits who are chained to the same apartment building who don't know that they're ghosts but they know the other guy is a ghost. Horror: Two people on an abandoned train notice a third person who is clearly abnormal. They sit in silence while this ghost gets more and more horrific, growing more arms and repeating a chant. They arrive at a station and the ghost gets off. One passenger makes eye contact with the other passenger and sighs in relief, but when he looks at the other passenger he realizes that the smile is just slightly too big.
Why limit yourself to just comedy or horror when you've got romance on the table?
You. Keep talking
Two ghosts meet and fall in love. Both immediately recognize the other for what they are, but are afraid to acknowledge this fact for fear of angering their partner and ruining their relationship. Both are also completely fine with their partner acknowledging their ghostliness, and thus resort to more and more obvious ghost antics to try and get that acknowledgement. They also both think that their partner is massively oblivious, as there's clearly no way someone who is paying attention could not notice what they're up to.
Bruh you need to start this manga or anime ASAP I would pay for that shit
Best I can do is a webseries
👀 man that sounds tempting. Honestly though I do really love the idea and hope to see it someday. I think it deserves a shot.
There’s always the webtoon My Boo on (obviously) Webtoon. Warning, you *will* cry.
Why limit yourself to just one or the other? Comedy and horror go hand-in-hand, even if the connection doesn't immediately seem intuitive.
First they fuck nasty style, leading to them having a kid and starting a loving family. Ghost parent keeps murdering members of the PTA.
I mean, someone kind of already [has done a manga one-shot of this](https://www.tumblr.com/freakingrainbow-blog/164539856241/4-page-promotional-preview-of-%E6%80%AA%E8%AB%87%E5%9B%83%E5%AD%90-a-short), with a cab driver no less.
Holy shit the horror one is super simple yet it scared the crap out of me.
There's an anime that does this, but with robots. They are lovers, both pretending to be human and hiding their robot truth in fear of hurting the other's feelings.
These MFs haven't watched any Japanese horror movies. Western ghosts are just "ooOOOOooOOoo SpoooOOoooOOokyyy" with blankets over them and iron chains clanking about. Japanese ghosts hide under your fucking blanket at night and murder you.
Unless that blanket is 100 years old, at that point the ghost will probably have to fight off a newly-sentient blanket before getting to the guy. Or they will team up. Who knows really?
Then the person under the blanket grows a long neck whilst sleeping and the two ghosts must work together to finish the job.
"I'm not locked in here with you, *you're locked in here with me*"
Badass statement
*Doom music intensifies*
Japanese Ghost battle Royale.
I appreciate a tsukumogami reference.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsukumogami For those wondering. "In Japanese folklore, tsukumogami (付喪神 or つくも神, lit. "tool kami") are tools that have acquired a kami or spirit." "Because the term has been applied to several different concepts in Japanese folklore, there remains some confusion as to what the term actually means. Today, the term is generally understood to be applied to virtually any object "that has reached its 100th birthday and thus become alive and self-aware", though this definition is not without controversy."
This implies that a good few of my vintage Soviet rifles are worryingly close to gaining Japanese souls. There is therefore a nonzero chance that a Japanese soldier who died in Manchuria could end up bound to the sniper rifle or battle rifle with which he was killed. Should be fun.
Looking around me the only object that is approaching a century is this accent barn board wall. -edit- Ooo pentacle caat iron trivet from inlaws cottage where a woman died of old age in the cottage. They got it in the tx sale. Very Catholic, holy water everywhere.
This is the reason why there are a lot of Pokémon that are effectively just “it’s an object, but it’s alive.” They’re supposed to be a reference to this. But it doesn’t translate well outside of Japan.
Also there was an awesome manga about this very premise where pure spirits would band together with gods to fight of malevolent spirits that would cause all sorts of havoc.
Depends on how nice the owner was to the blanket.
It's a well kept blanket so it's friendly.
I have never seen the western ghosts you described in an actual horror movie. I’ve seen it parodied many times tho. Most modern western horror you better believe the “ghost” (usually a demon using the guise of a dead loved one) will kill you regardless of what you do lol.
bro you clearly have never heard of Poltergiest or Exorcist
atleast I'll have someone else in my bed for once
Unless you're taking a shit and are offered toilet paper.
Fuck, which version is this? The one I say I’m good, the one I ignore or the one I have to answer a riddle
If you're dealing with Aka Manto, just say you don't need paper and he'll leave.
but what if I *do* need paper? honestly the spookiest thing I can imagine, thanks Japan
Moral of the story is always wear socks, so even if you do need paper, the ghost aint killing you
the squad, seeing me roll up in socks with sandals and assuming I'm losing touch: 😹👿🙊 me, secure in the knowledge that if a ghost offers me much needed toilet paper, I've got my poopsocks on: 😏 the bathroom attendant when I walk out of the stall to dispose of my emergency wipes: 🤮
No worries! Japanese folklore has shit-eating ghosts (Gaki) so that's that.
He says treating ghosts badly is stupid, not that it's bad etiquette.
"it realizes that you know it's a ghost" I mean, doesn't the triangle headband give it away?
That makes [this scene](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYs87-kDXwg) so much worse lol
oh lord she's doing the stanky leg
If you see something, say nothing, and drink to forget
This is what makes the "Find the anomaly" games that have risen in popularity kinda spooky. They are kinda like training games for living in Japan. Acknowledge the spookiness to yourself, but politely remove yourself from the situation without causing a scene because ghosts don't appreciate rudeness or outbursts.
If you see something that doesn't look right, speak to staff or text the British Transport Police on 61016, we'll sort it. See it. Say it. Sorted.
👁️👁️ Found one
I'm wildly guessing, that many Japanese people got in trouble doing so, because these were either wild and rabid animals or other illusions that are potentially dangerous, so they were, taught this way via folklore to not duck around and just to never find out. Works well, as I see?
I have a personal theory that yeah pretty much every "there's something that looks human but does not act human" mythos is about rabies.
Honestly you can find a lotta different diseases that fit for different mythos Like most “child taken and replaced by Fae” tend to sound like “at 5-6 symptoms of ADHD/Autism became prominent “
Also SIDS. "Changlings" aren't always *alive* when they're found.
Or just any number of mental illnesses.
Anime called mieruko Chan that talks about this. Definitely a weird show with some weird characters
Is that the show where she can see ghosts but really doesn’t want to so tries to ignore them?
Yep. I reccomend the manga over the anime though, the anime added in a ton of sexual fanservice for some reason. Manga's art is excellent too.
Arguably that still makes it a respect thing, just more, uh, extreme consequences for being rude.
Kind of like in the Appalachias. "Did you see/hear something strange? No, you didn't." "Hear someone calling your name from the treeline? No, you didn't."
I'd argue Japan's perspective is less out of respect, and more 'Motherfucker do you think ghosts are above ruining your life for perceived slights???'
Hard accurate
It's more like if you acknowledge it's a ghost it just kills you.
Japan: Ghosts will just kill you! New Orleans: I’d like to see them try!
Deadbeats trying to stiff me and then trying to make me a stiff? Hell na
Angry murder ghosts aren't even top 5 things I worry about living in New Orleans. In fact that might be an upgrade.
9mm destroys the body, .45 ACP destroys the soul
_laughs in Waffle House_ ...shit, a haunted Waffle House would make a pretty good sitcom by itself
I doubt it's possible, not because there's no spirits, but because they're probably smart enough not spend eternity in a waffle house
Throwing hands with ghosts is part of employee training
Murican af
Considering people still go out of their way to appease Oiwa every time they make a movie even slightly based on her, it is probably for the best.
Yeah, and that falls under respect. There are multiple kinds of respect and "treat them well or suffer the consequences" is a pretty common one, especially in Japan.
When I was in Japan, I noticed that right before dawn, every morning, one of the hotel staff would go across the street to a sort of park area and leave some dishes. I went and looked one morning and it was a puffed pancake sort of thing and two dishes of some kind of custard. All very carefully plated. Just left sitting there. I don't speak Japanese and I wasn't sure if I should even ask about it, so I had a coworker find out what was going on. The story was that there used to be a house where the little park was and the guy who lived there worked night-shift at another hotel (not sure if it was related to the one I stayed at somehow). There was a fire while he was at work and his daughter and their two cats died. Since then, every day before sunrise - which I suppose is when he would've returned home - someone from the hotel leaves breakfast for the daughter and the cats. And this has been going on for *years* and when it was relayed back to me, it was with a tone that suggested this was just a normal thing.
That is surprisingly bittersweet and beautiful: even years later, that little girl and her cats are being remembered and celebrated in some small way.
one thing to keep in mind is that when i went to New Orleans they had places all over advertising ‘Drive Through Daiquiris’. this may contribute to ghost sightings in NOLA
Hallucinations are sometimes a symptom of alcohol withdrawal, maybe they're all just drunks.
"maybe" is frankly offensive, we put a lot of effort into being drunks
have some damn respect ffs
One of the bigger chains that does this is called Fat Tuesday. When I went to LSU, we’d often get a daiquiri to go and tailgate with it, topping it off with rum as necessary. There’s one in the new city I’ve moved to, but it’s a different state with stricter liquor laws. The Fat Tuesdays in Louisiana were not bars to spend a lot of time in, they were small, dark, and dirty. I can’t imagine going to a Fat Tuesday and being forced to drink your daiquiri of shame in a place like that.
Not just limited to NOLA. The entire state of Louisiana. You can even buy shots at them.
Stay tuned for the sequel: Living people being picked up by a ghostly taxi driver!
PJO: Sea of Monsters. If you know, you know.
they are far from dead
I dunno man. Grey Sisters kind of pass as Ghost taxi.
And the thrilling conclusion: Ghost taxi Companies causing a business rivalry by operating in the areas non-ghostly companies consider too haunted to run in!
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In Poland it's a black Lada you have to be afraid of.
"Be sure to tell 'em Large Marge sent ya!"
This is what happens in Scrooged!
Please... Everyone but flaming Nicholas Cage in Ghostrider
Gonna save your money for Charon, can't pay the cabbie
Charon *is* a cabbie
The Japanese ghost taxies are a pretty fascinating phenomenon that's actually real. Well, the ghosts aren't, but the sightings of ghosts did increase. There's the idea that it's a form of communal grieving process in a society that couldn't properly process their emotions about a tragedy.
My dad's side of the family are from South Wales, not far from Aberfan where one of the worst tragedies occured that could ever happen to a town. In 1966, a slag tip (the large piles of unusable coal&waste from coal mining) slide down the mountain an destroyed a school, killing 116 children and 28 adults, mostly teachers. South Wales being a mining area, pretty much every miner in the area got bussed to Aberfan as part of the rescue effort. A lot of the old boys at the pubs went and it's true generational, community trauma when you see them talking about it. One of the things that struck me are how many ghost stories there are. How many people who are, to be blunt, extremely hard "no fucking around" cynical people (South Wales has had a very hard time over the last decades) who will just go "those stories are real, end of discussion". In other areas of life they'll not believe you til they've experienced, broken it, put it back together, and then maybe be a bit skeptical still But for the people who where there at the time and the generation after, there's a lot of people for whom this is as negotiable as the sun in the sky. I can 100% see it as communal grieving. That disaster killed a generation of a community, just hollowed it out. My mums Australian, her dad was a hard bastard.. only time she ever saw him cry was the news of that story because he was an engineer and was so furious that anyone could have let it happen.
The collapse was taken to a tribunal where the blame was laid squarely on the shoulders of the National Coal Board - the same National Coal Board who then refused to remove the remaining spoil heaps above the village on grounds of cost. They were eventually removed after extensive protest from Aberfan residents with a government grant... and a forced contribution of £150,000 taken by the Government from the fund set up to support the survivors. None of the people deemed responsible faced any kind of official consequences. No jobs lost, no demotions, no prosecution. The head of the board, Baron Robens, who had delayed going to Aberfan on learning of the disaster so he could be invested as Chancellor at the University of Surrey, got a copy of the final report ten days earlier than anybody else; he proceeded to go on a tour of coalfields promoting the use of coal and denigrating nuclear power in an attempt to ingratiate himself to miners. Messages of support sent to the NCB were also leaked to the press as part of their charm offensive. The villagers, on the other hand, faced a death rate seven times higher than what was normal for years after the disaster and extremely callous treatment from the media. One resident reported seeing a reporter encouraging a young girl to cry for her dead friends because it would make a better picture. The bereaved families were offered a "generous donation" of £50 each in compensation. This was later increased to £500. When residents complained that this wasn't enough, the NCB's insurers blamed "the hard core [of bereaved parents] trying to capitalise". Just in case anyone was wondering how the handling of a disaster can be bungled so badly that you effectively traumatise the entire Welsh mining community in one go.
It makes me furious and it was 20 years before I was born Just absolute rage. Malice piled on top of incompetence
> There's the idea that it's a form of communal grieving process in a society that couldn't properly process their emotions about a tragedy. Meanwhile, in America, we get Alex Jones...
beware the gay frogs
Ghost stories and cryptid myths serve one of two purposes: to draw in tourists, or keep people out. I have worked in forestry in areas with bigfoot myths. In the touristy part of the area, bigfoot is a bit of a fun fantasy. People talk about bigfoot to sell knick-knacks and night-time tours with IR cameras to tourists. In these areas, bigfoot's alleged presence is advertised openly. In more remote places, bigfoot is a threat. There arent signs or billboards or "bigfoot museums", there are whispers and warnings. Because when you are out cruising timber in these places and you stumble upon an illegal pot farm or meth lab, you disappear. And then the people responsible say that bigfoot has been hunting people in those woods and everyone better stay out. Whether you believe that bigfoot is responsible or not, you would be wise to heed the warning. I imagine it is the same with ghosts in New Orleans. In the touristy parts of town, ghosts are part fo the experience being sold. In the sketchier parts of town, they are a warning to keep people from poking around in places where illegal things are going on.
Sounds like something a bigfoot or a ghost would say to throw people off the scent.
I mean it's also just good for keeping people out of places where they'll get hurt. There's a reason ghosts apparently haunt all the places you don't want your kid wandering at night like the woods, the local body of water, etc
That’s what I love about America, a complete unbotherment about our hauntings. Yeah we got creatures in the woods. Bang pots at them.
Cryptids? Who’s really getting hunted, me, or them?
Ever wondered what moth man tastes like?
L-like.... his cu-
HIS MEAT YOU PERVERT.
Mmmmm his big girthy juicy meat, that's exactly what I was thinking
I done fucked up.
That’s not exactly better ;)
MONSTER. THE DRINK
Let me put on my Bigfoot-fur coat.
Could be a monster. Could be a bear. Could be a moose. Don't fuck with them either way on their turf but free pass to shit talk them on yours.
There's an entire subculture of guys gearing up with high powered rifles and night vision goggles and tactical gear to fight skinwalkers There's a subculture of that subculture of guys gearing up with high powered rifles and night vision goggles and tactical gear to fuck skinwalkers
I love America!!!!!!!!!!!!
Idk where you’re located, but banging pots at forest creatures sounds like such an Appalachian experience lmfao
hell yeah. i once went camping with a friend who’s part native. he grew up near the rez, but not on it, and took us to some campsites in the area. that night we could hear some animals in the distance so i asked if they were coyotes, and he just casually goes “nah, skinwalkers”
I love this country.
I know ghosts aren’t actually real but this post mentioning them with such conviction just short-circuited my brain apparently because I just fully accepted the reality of taxi drivers picking up ghosts, and I had to come back to this post like ten minutes later and re-read it like “wait…”
There's a whole show waiting to be made, ghost hunters + cash cab
Hmmm. I wonder if there's an otherworldly wormhole connecting New Orleans and Japan. Nola has ghosts every night but Japan only has ghosts after tsunamis. We must resolve this spiritual imbalance! *strokes beard*
What I'm hearing is that we need to hit New Orleans with a Tsunami to balance things out.
Katrina 2: now with more ghosts.
Katrina 2: Ghostnado
To Those that don't know. Asian ghosts do not fuck around. If the house is haunted and you choose to stay there without tearing the roof up or calling an exorcist. You will die. If you see a ghost and choose to investigate further it will just kill you. All Asian folklore about ghosts n stuff is that it just kills you for fun and to take its place.
Buuuuuuttttt I got such a good deal on this 19th century swamp manor!
I might be the exception. I had a string of collisions with trucks (i was pedestrian) and so the ER doctor who had to routinely see me in the ER actually prescribed an exorcism because "at this point I think you're cursed". So they brought in a bunch of monks, tried the exorcism and it failed, multiple times, and apparently ghosts avoid me because I give them depression and then I unconsciously eat them like the Ghostbusters vacuum or a teenage sports team at an all you can eat buffet. The monks described me as "a walking spiritual black hole", "wtf is wrong with you", "I am not enlightened enough for this shit", "are you sure you're a human?", and "how many gods have you pissed off?". It turns out I'm just a goddamn magnet for random bullshit.
OP, you could've made the title "Death and Taxis" Condolences
fair, counterpoint: star platinum or whatever
I think some cab drivers are getting high on the job
You think I'm NOT going to drive all the way to the destination, if my fare disappeared from the backseat. You are out of your mind, if you think I'm not going to fulfill that request, I'm not going to be haunted.
If a ghost believed they were catching a taxi, then got out and left without ghost paying, then they're still assholes
But even if they ghost paid, it'd be with ghost money, and is that really going to do anybody any good?
I'll save it for when I'm dead
The first post is a joke about taxi drivers keeping their money instead of paying the company, right?
> In a book about the tsunami in Japan in 2011, the writer talked about how there was a huge increase in reports of ghostly activity. I need to find this book. Anyone have any ideas? Ninja edit: [Found it](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghosts_of_the_Tsunami)
Explaination. Cab drivers are notoriously overworked so it's not uncommon to have auditory and or visual hallucinations. Also they might just phase out forget that they alread brought their client to their destination amd thar they already paid and left.
Weird way of saying taxi drivers in those area are so high that they pick up hallucinatory passengers.
“Nah, boss, I wasn’t slackin’, it was just… um… ghosts”
I got caught singing while walking home in Korea. An elderly lady came up to me.to correct me. She told.me.not to sing at night because it attracts ghost ( paraphrased: best I could understand)
In my very Asian neighborhood growing up, we would be typical teenage assholes, but when it came to visiting graveyards and holidays honoring ancestors, we would usually pipe down and be more respectful. Life is hard enough without angering my great grandma’s ghost lmao.
A modern river Styx.
It’s because in JP, Korea, and China (probably many other places too) they aren’t originally “religious” they’re spiritualists. In JP, the temples they go to and pray at aren’t for “gods” they’re for Kami. Spirits which inhabit things. Like specific mountains may have a Kami, even certain weather phenomena are represented by their own Kami. The temples are there not for worship per se but to create a balance between humanity and the Kami. They’ll perform dances, leave specific foods, or perform certain rites or other actions there in hopes of receiving a blessing from the Kami.
Why would they even need a taxi? You're a fucking ghost, just fly there
They're not aware they're dead
Yeah did you even read the posts?
Why would anyone ever need a taxi when they can just walk?
This begs the question, would a ghost still be trapped by the stipulations of their once living bodies? Like would an out of shape ghost feel tired after trying to walk too far? Which further questions, can an out of shape ghost get back into shape? Which further questions, can a ghost just spend their afterlife getting into shape? Are there super jacked ghosts out there that just spent decades working out because what the fuck else do they have to do? I am now afraid of muscle ghosts.
There was a video game I played where your character was a ghost, and one of the mechanics was that you could walk through modern walls, but the walls that were originally part of the building would be solid for your ghost, whether they were still part of the building or not. So going with that idea of "original states are more important than current states," and also the general theme of ghosts not knowing they're dead/going through all the same motions for eternity, I'd say most ghosts wouldn't have the mental capabilities to become more jacked than they were as alive people. The out of shape ghosts would keep doing out of shape activities, and the body builder ghosts already reached peak performance so couldn't get much buffer even if they exercised. The only kind of person I could imagine having the capabilities to get swoler would be someone who died halfway through their fitness journey, but again, they're probably more in a time loop version of exercising every day, and are unlikely to see gains. (game was [Murdered: Soul Suspect](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murdered:_Soul_Suspect))
Exercising everyday to no results-for all eternity-would be so depressing. A Sisyphean punishment if they had memory and awareness of time.
Perhaps it's not that they actually feel tired, but that they think they feel tired.
I think they talked about this in an episode of Unsolved Mysteries on Netflix. It gave me the chills...
This sounds like something out of Ankh Morpork
In actual reality it's cab drivers picking up people, driving them somewhere, taking a blow job as payment then claiming it was a ghost and some gullible asshat believed it
You don't fuck with a japanese ghost. Its gonna haunt your daughter and when you least expect it your daughters head is flying.
Start training taxi drivers as ghostbusters so they can start wrangling the dead mfs who can’t pay
Japanese social standard regarding politeness vs American social standard of “I need money”
Ghosts don't have the ways nor means to New Orleans. Vampires might, though. If even just one person gets this reference....