I've written a ton of scary stories over the years, but almost all of them were either fiction or things I'd heard from someone else. I've never written about something I experienced myself. If you ask whether that means I've never had a terrifying experience of my own, though, that's not quite true…
This happened back when I was still in elementary school. At the time, I lived in a certain prefecture in Shikoku. Near the housing project where I lived, there was a middle-aged guy who was infamous …
This is a story from back when I was an expat working in Thailand. Over ten years ago, I was dispatched from Japan to Bangkok as an expat. At my company, serving as a branch manager in Asia before ret…
This is a true story that happened to me several decades ago. Back then, the company I worked for had a factory nicknamed "The Execution Grounds." "Execution" was code for getting …
I have a brother who is three years younger than me. He was an affectionate kid who stuck to my side constantly when we were little. While I thought he was adorable, I also found him a bit annoying. E…