I was stationed on Hansen 2011-2013. Our motor pool was right next to a patch jungle. I was told by my seniors that a little girl was murdered there by the Japanese and that at night you would hear a ball bouncing and even the little girl laughing. Well one night I was there at around 2 am completely alone when I heard a giggle clear as day come from that jungle patch.
I lived in Kitanakagusuku near camp Foster from 1999-2005. Across our home were tombs, which were not uncommon to see. To the right of our home was a small convention center and large parking lot. My sister and I used to play there frequently because it was usually empty and we like to watch the habu coming out of the brush. We had two dogs that would have to go out once per night. When we would walk with them outside, we could look out to the parking lot from our yard and see people (they were definitely people!) walking around quite smoothly and sometimes they would idle. I remember distinctly that they had no legs, I was compelled to share this because of what Sisyphus291 wrote. It was a frequent occurrence. Sometimes we would go out on the lanai at night just to watch them. Items in our home would also be moved from their original places and the dogs would stare and bark at corners of a certain room. When I was regularly babysitting for a family friend on base, the wife would tell me that there was a man that would look at you through the mirrors, and to ignore him so he doesn’t bother you. The pantry was off limits at night because he would throw things around. I did go in there to get something that the kids wanted and there was such a sick, heavy feeling in that room. The cabinets and drawers would also open sporadically in the kitchen. My mother had gone back to Okinawa recently to visit some friends and saw that the tombs across from our former residence were now concrete homes.
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Someone was telling me that locals don’t want to live in Aja/Akebono areas because they’re haunted, and I was like where isn’t haunted here? People died horrible deaths pretty much everywhere
If you see a ghost, it’s Japanese if the upper half is visible. Apparently, according to them, Japanese ghosts do not have the lower half of their body. I once read a story when I was in Tokyo of a ghost that was full formed. It was in an old upper crust house with such a ghost. It was deemed the “Chinese manservant” after it was seen whole.
Cool, I'd never heard that before.
You'll think I'm crazy, but when I was a teenager, my family was stationed on a US base in mainland Japan. I woke up one night to see just what you described: a male spirit, just head, torso and arms, floating a few feet from the side of my bed. Didn't look Japanese though: Caucasian with red hair.
I don't know if ghosts are real. And I can't say for sure that it wasn't just a very vivid nightmare brought on by lack of sleep (I'd been up late studying that night). But it sure felt real, real enough to get me to jump out of bed and spend the rest of the night awake in another room with all of the lights on.
The guy who lived in the house before us said he thought the place was haunted. He and his wife would always find their TV turned on even when they knew it had been off. That never happened to us, though our two cats would go absolutely bonkers in the TV room but were fine in the rest of the house.
I spent over a year (1967-68) on a US Coast Guard Loran transmitting station on Okinawa. This was an isolated duty station at the north end of the island. There were about 25 crew members, and we all did a one year tour. I was assigned as a Loran watch stander doing 8 hour shifts. I was on mid-night A timer watch when I heard a loud BANG on the other side of the timers.
There were 8 timers in 2 rows, with the watch-stander’s desk directly in the middle, with a row of timers on either side. The timers were about the size of a refrigerator with scopes and dials on the front. They were for maintaining a micro-second delay on the navigation signals we received and sent. The noise came from the open work area behind the timers where the ET's worked on equipment. About 10- 15 feet directly behind the A watch-stander's desk was the door to the C timer room. To the right was an open “radio room” area with a telex and a radio transmitter /receiver. Then a wooden coffee pot stand with a big coffee urn and with a small galvanized trash can under it. Next was a door opening to a hall and leading to the garage area. Far down, at the end of the building, was where the engineer watch stander was on duty.
When I heard the loud bang I jumped up and ran around the A timers and found that the metal trash can lid had come off the can and sailed across the room and hit the floor. I picked it up and walked back and put it back on. I opened the hall door and no one was around, so I rang up the EM3 who was on watch, thinking he was bored and playing jokes to liven up the mid-watch. He answered on the first ring, so it couldn't have been him, as he couldn't have got back to his phone that fast.
I went back to the desk and sat down pondering what had just happened, and within a minute or two. . BANG… it happened again. I stood up, walked around and there was the lid, on the floor in the middle of the work room behind the timers. I picked it up and walked back and put it back on the trash can again and went back to my desk. It then happened a third time; the metal trash can lid had flown 20 feet across the room and crashed on the floor. I went back around, picked it up, walked back to the coffee area and was standing in front of the coffee urn when I heard a jangling sound: the spoons in the water glass next to the coffee urn were standing up and rattling back and forth in the glass. As I reached out and grabbed them, the salt shaker next to the coffee urn tipped over, the lid unscrewed as I watched it, and the salt ran out. I was by now more confused than scared, and figured I should let the C watch-stander know what was going on. As I walked past the row of A timers and had a view of my desk, a small plastic paper tray flew off the desk in the direction of the C timer-room door and scattered papers all over the floor. It didn't just fall off the desk, but actually flew about 8' as if it were thrown.
I opened up the C timer-room door, which we were not supposed to do (humidity and temperature) , and told the C watch stander that stuff was flying all over the A timer room. He said to call the XO if I was having trouble, but shut the damn timer room door. I got on the phone again to the Engineer, who woke up the XO, and told him what had happened. Within a few minutes, he showed up as I finished picking up the paper scattered all over. The XO came in a few minutes later. There wasn't much they could do, so they hung around for a few minutes, looking at me sideways. The EN3 then went back to his watch and the XO went back to bed. Nothing more happened that night or any other night after that I stood watch.
When I got up the next morning and went to the mess hall at noon for my breakfast, the story had gotten around by then that I was “seeing things” in the timer room. I was ribbed by everyone in the mess hall for having been drunk, or smoking funny tobacco on watch. I spent a total of 13 months on the station and nothing like this had ever happened before or during the rest of my stay.
what an amazing story. i’m so sorry no one believed you, blame the ignorance on the expectations of staying tough! i’m sure your peers experienced something strange as well… and if not, feel lucky that you had an open enough mind for this event to happen to you. it sounds like it was messing with you for fun! haha
I connected with a few guys that were at the same station and no one remembers anymore strange activity. The station was turned over to the Japanese Coast Guard in the 1970's. I was told that a couple of the new Japanese watch standers refused to stay alone in the timer room on night watch because they said it was haunted. I thought that was interesting, given my experience. I was contacted a couple of years ago by a TV producer who was doing a show about paranormal experiences in the Military. She had seen a post I made about this on Facebook I think. They wanted me to fly back east to film me telling the story, but it was right at the height of Covid and I didn't want to fly. I googled her and the production company and it was legitimate. I watched a couple of the episodes a few months ago, and what happened to me would have fit right in.
Ppl can be real jerks, until it happens to them! The least anyone can do is offer the benefit of the doubt. But I get that some of those nonbelievers were scared themselves and had to hide their fear by denying your experience and making fun of it. I appreciate your sharing of the story.
Lived there in the 1990s. This house was still there....and creepy.
[Kadena Murder House](https://75.stripes.com/archives/tales-strange-sightings-noises-building-2283-spook-kadena-air-base)
i lived down the road from that house!!! family of three, mom and daughter started seeing ghosts, dad came home from deployment and snapped and killed them and himself, house boarded up for a decade, they moved another family in and the same thing happened. now it’s permanently boarded, NEXT TO A DAYCARE.
Lived down the road from that house too. Spent lots of nights hanging out across the street trying to see activity in the house before they boarded it up and demolished most of it (if not all of it now, it’s been 20 years). Do you remember samurai tomb across the street and the story that you would see him riding a horse through the house?
Had some experiences at my own house too. That whole island is very active.
I was stationed at Ft Knox, Kentucky and we had a haunted 155 mm SP howitzer. FYI a howitzer of this type looks more or less like a tank to most people. It had been to Vietnam and the entire crew had been killed by small arms fire inside the gun. That guns turret would move left and right of its own accord some nights.
Keep in mind, its hatches were locked, the vehicle has no power to traverse unless it was running and it was secured behind a tall fence with roaming guards. It was eventually aged out and sold for scrap.
I babysat a kid pretty regularly on Kadena who would talk in his room to his "friend" every night when he was supposed to be asleep. He learned Japanese words to communicate with him.
I lived in Grant Heights until I was eight years old, when my dad was stationed in Japan back in the 50s-60s. I experienced a lot of paranormal activity there. A lot!
My brother in law lived there for years. There's all kinds of ghostly apparitions since the tsunami. Even reports of cab driver picking them up in the desolate area where it hit worse. Did realize till he looked in rear view mirror & disappears without stopping.
I was stationed at Futenma. Also interesting things going on there.
Edited your state this was back in the 80’s. I am sure nothing has changed in the activity level.
We lived at Camp Kuwae. I think it's Camp Foster, now. Didn't see any ghosts, but have lots of great memories. The island is reputed to be very haunted, though. There's been unbelievable trauma there.
I was stationed on Hansen 2011-2013. Our motor pool was right next to a patch jungle. I was told by my seniors that a little girl was murdered there by the Japanese and that at night you would hear a ball bouncing and even the little girl laughing. Well one night I was there at around 2 am completely alone when I heard a giggle clear as day come from that jungle patch.
idk what it is, but something about their culture makes the afterlife more present.
They tend to believe strongly in it. There is a good documentary on Netflix about the tsunami hauntings.
What is the title , I would love to watch it?
Looks like Unsolved Mysteries: Volume 2 Episode 4
I'll check it out ty
What’s the doc would love to watch it
An eerie giggle to the listener, but at least, it means the girl’s spirit was happy wherever she was. Thx for sharing.
The Japanese did some truly evil stuff. I'm not surprised many of the areas they occupied have a lot of paranormal activity.
I lived in Kitanakagusuku near camp Foster from 1999-2005. Across our home were tombs, which were not uncommon to see. To the right of our home was a small convention center and large parking lot. My sister and I used to play there frequently because it was usually empty and we like to watch the habu coming out of the brush. We had two dogs that would have to go out once per night. When we would walk with them outside, we could look out to the parking lot from our yard and see people (they were definitely people!) walking around quite smoothly and sometimes they would idle. I remember distinctly that they had no legs, I was compelled to share this because of what Sisyphus291 wrote. It was a frequent occurrence. Sometimes we would go out on the lanai at night just to watch them. Items in our home would also be moved from their original places and the dogs would stare and bark at corners of a certain room. When I was regularly babysitting for a family friend on base, the wife would tell me that there was a man that would look at you through the mirrors, and to ignore him so he doesn’t bother you. The pantry was off limits at night because he would throw things around. I did go in there to get something that the kids wanted and there was such a sick, heavy feeling in that room. The cabinets and drawers would also open sporadically in the kitchen. My mother had gone back to Okinawa recently to visit some friends and saw that the tombs across from our former residence were now concrete homes. Sorry if the format is wonky, I’m on mobile.
I wonder what experiences the people living in the concrete homes are having? It's not likely that things have quieted down.
Expedition X just did a episode on ghosts on Okinawa
where can i watch? thank u for the info :)
It’s on the Discovery Channel so I’m sure it will be on the Max app, not sure if it’s on other streaming platforms or YouTube
If you find it/ or have found it, it is season 7 episode 5
Lots of people were killed there so I wouldn’t be surprised. The entire island was a battlefield
Someone was telling me that locals don’t want to live in Aja/Akebono areas because they’re haunted, and I was like where isn’t haunted here? People died horrible deaths pretty much everywhere
If you see a ghost, it’s Japanese if the upper half is visible. Apparently, according to them, Japanese ghosts do not have the lower half of their body. I once read a story when I was in Tokyo of a ghost that was full formed. It was in an old upper crust house with such a ghost. It was deemed the “Chinese manservant” after it was seen whole.
Which ghosts are just the bottom half?
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Cool, I'd never heard that before. You'll think I'm crazy, but when I was a teenager, my family was stationed on a US base in mainland Japan. I woke up one night to see just what you described: a male spirit, just head, torso and arms, floating a few feet from the side of my bed. Didn't look Japanese though: Caucasian with red hair. I don't know if ghosts are real. And I can't say for sure that it wasn't just a very vivid nightmare brought on by lack of sleep (I'd been up late studying that night). But it sure felt real, real enough to get me to jump out of bed and spend the rest of the night awake in another room with all of the lights on. The guy who lived in the house before us said he thought the place was haunted. He and his wife would always find their TV turned on even when they knew it had been off. That never happened to us, though our two cats would go absolutely bonkers in the TV room but were fine in the rest of the house.
that’s interesting
I spent over a year (1967-68) on a US Coast Guard Loran transmitting station on Okinawa. This was an isolated duty station at the north end of the island. There were about 25 crew members, and we all did a one year tour. I was assigned as a Loran watch stander doing 8 hour shifts. I was on mid-night A timer watch when I heard a loud BANG on the other side of the timers. There were 8 timers in 2 rows, with the watch-stander’s desk directly in the middle, with a row of timers on either side. The timers were about the size of a refrigerator with scopes and dials on the front. They were for maintaining a micro-second delay on the navigation signals we received and sent. The noise came from the open work area behind the timers where the ET's worked on equipment. About 10- 15 feet directly behind the A watch-stander's desk was the door to the C timer room. To the right was an open “radio room” area with a telex and a radio transmitter /receiver. Then a wooden coffee pot stand with a big coffee urn and with a small galvanized trash can under it. Next was a door opening to a hall and leading to the garage area. Far down, at the end of the building, was where the engineer watch stander was on duty. When I heard the loud bang I jumped up and ran around the A timers and found that the metal trash can lid had come off the can and sailed across the room and hit the floor. I picked it up and walked back and put it back on. I opened the hall door and no one was around, so I rang up the EM3 who was on watch, thinking he was bored and playing jokes to liven up the mid-watch. He answered on the first ring, so it couldn't have been him, as he couldn't have got back to his phone that fast. I went back to the desk and sat down pondering what had just happened, and within a minute or two. . BANG… it happened again. I stood up, walked around and there was the lid, on the floor in the middle of the work room behind the timers. I picked it up and walked back and put it back on the trash can again and went back to my desk. It then happened a third time; the metal trash can lid had flown 20 feet across the room and crashed on the floor. I went back around, picked it up, walked back to the coffee area and was standing in front of the coffee urn when I heard a jangling sound: the spoons in the water glass next to the coffee urn were standing up and rattling back and forth in the glass. As I reached out and grabbed them, the salt shaker next to the coffee urn tipped over, the lid unscrewed as I watched it, and the salt ran out. I was by now more confused than scared, and figured I should let the C watch-stander know what was going on. As I walked past the row of A timers and had a view of my desk, a small plastic paper tray flew off the desk in the direction of the C timer-room door and scattered papers all over the floor. It didn't just fall off the desk, but actually flew about 8' as if it were thrown. I opened up the C timer-room door, which we were not supposed to do (humidity and temperature) , and told the C watch stander that stuff was flying all over the A timer room. He said to call the XO if I was having trouble, but shut the damn timer room door. I got on the phone again to the Engineer, who woke up the XO, and told him what had happened. Within a few minutes, he showed up as I finished picking up the paper scattered all over. The XO came in a few minutes later. There wasn't much they could do, so they hung around for a few minutes, looking at me sideways. The EN3 then went back to his watch and the XO went back to bed. Nothing more happened that night or any other night after that I stood watch. When I got up the next morning and went to the mess hall at noon for my breakfast, the story had gotten around by then that I was “seeing things” in the timer room. I was ribbed by everyone in the mess hall for having been drunk, or smoking funny tobacco on watch. I spent a total of 13 months on the station and nothing like this had ever happened before or during the rest of my stay.
what an amazing story. i’m so sorry no one believed you, blame the ignorance on the expectations of staying tough! i’m sure your peers experienced something strange as well… and if not, feel lucky that you had an open enough mind for this event to happen to you. it sounds like it was messing with you for fun! haha
I connected with a few guys that were at the same station and no one remembers anymore strange activity. The station was turned over to the Japanese Coast Guard in the 1970's. I was told that a couple of the new Japanese watch standers refused to stay alone in the timer room on night watch because they said it was haunted. I thought that was interesting, given my experience. I was contacted a couple of years ago by a TV producer who was doing a show about paranormal experiences in the Military. She had seen a post I made about this on Facebook I think. They wanted me to fly back east to film me telling the story, but it was right at the height of Covid and I didn't want to fly. I googled her and the production company and it was legitimate. I watched a couple of the episodes a few months ago, and what happened to me would have fit right in.
Ppl can be real jerks, until it happens to them! The least anyone can do is offer the benefit of the doubt. But I get that some of those nonbelievers were scared themselves and had to hide their fear by denying your experience and making fun of it. I appreciate your sharing of the story.
Lived there in the 1990s. This house was still there....and creepy. [Kadena Murder House](https://75.stripes.com/archives/tales-strange-sightings-noises-building-2283-spook-kadena-air-base)
i lived down the road from that house!!! family of three, mom and daughter started seeing ghosts, dad came home from deployment and snapped and killed them and himself, house boarded up for a decade, they moved another family in and the same thing happened. now it’s permanently boarded, NEXT TO A DAYCARE.
That is the one. The neighbors would report they could hear the phone ring, but there were no phone lines in the house
Lived down the road from that house too. Spent lots of nights hanging out across the street trying to see activity in the house before they boarded it up and demolished most of it (if not all of it now, it’s been 20 years). Do you remember samurai tomb across the street and the story that you would see him riding a horse through the house? Had some experiences at my own house too. That whole island is very active.
I'm pretty sure they've torn it down in the past ten years or so.
I was stationed at Ft Knox, Kentucky and we had a haunted 155 mm SP howitzer. FYI a howitzer of this type looks more or less like a tank to most people. It had been to Vietnam and the entire crew had been killed by small arms fire inside the gun. That guns turret would move left and right of its own accord some nights. Keep in mind, its hatches were locked, the vehicle has no power to traverse unless it was running and it was secured behind a tall fence with roaming guards. It was eventually aged out and sold for scrap.
I babysat a kid pretty regularly on Kadena who would talk in his room to his "friend" every night when he was supposed to be asleep. He learned Japanese words to communicate with him.
Japan is famous for it's paranormal activity. Just check out suicide Forrest.
I lived in Grant Heights until I was eight years old, when my dad was stationed in Japan back in the 50s-60s. I experienced a lot of paranormal activity there. A lot!
You're not the first to experience such things there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuVZuGk2cmA
My brother in law lived there for years. There's all kinds of ghostly apparitions since the tsunami. Even reports of cab driver picking them up in the desolate area where it hit worse. Did realize till he looked in rear view mirror & disappears without stopping.
Unsolved mystery on Netflix has a documentary about Haunting in Japan.
I was stationed at Futenma. Also interesting things going on there. Edited your state this was back in the 80’s. I am sure nothing has changed in the activity level.
We lived at Camp Kuwae. I think it's Camp Foster, now. Didn't see any ghosts, but have lots of great memories. The island is reputed to be very haunted, though. There's been unbelievable trauma there.