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Devil's Sea

added28 August 2026

A stretch of the Pacific south of Japan known as the "Dragon's Triangle", a Pacific counterpart to the Bermuda one. Its reputation came from fishing vessels lost in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

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Hashima Island

A tiny island off Nagasaki, packed with concrete apartment blocks for coal miners and abandoned in 1974 when the mine closed. Its silhouette earned it the nickname Gunkanjima — "Battleship Island".

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Kuchisake-onna, the slit-mouthed woman

A woman in a surgical mask stops a passer-by and asks: am I beautiful? Say yes and she takes the mask off, revealing a mouth slit to the ears, and asks again. The legend erupted in the spring of 1979 in Gifu Prefecture and crossed the whole of Japan within months: schools sent children home in groups, police stepped up patrols, newspapers reported the panic. The roots are older, going back to the Edo period, but the 1979 version was the country's first case of an urban legend requiring a police response.

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Aokigahara Forest

A dense forest at the foot of Mount Fuji in Japan, known in folklore as a home to yūrei — the spirits of the dead. Its heavy silence and tree roots gripping hardened lava give it a singular atmosphere.

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