My Japanese and Taiwanese friends call old busybody ladies
as ‘ou-ba-sang’. Not so long ago, employment is a lifetime engagement just like
marriage in Japan. A person’s first job would also be his/her last job
naturally; switching employment was almost never heard of in those days. My
friends did tell me about their experiences with an evil ou-ba-sang spirit
during their stays in a hotel situated at a lake near Mount Fuji. You heard my
words right: not just one friend, but many! I just list down some of the more
exciting ones to share:
A couple stayed in the said hotel for a few nights during
their honeymoon. During their last night, when they were soundly sleeping under
a piece of thick blanket; the wife dreamed of an old lady came to her and
pulled the blanket away and in a half-awaken state, she kept her eyes shut and
continued to sleep. After a while, she shivered due cold and she thought it was
her husband who had pulled the blanket all to himself during slumber. So, the
lady tried to push her husband with her hands but maintained shut eyes. To the
lady’s surprise, all her pushes have failed to reach her husband. It seems that
her husband was not beside her… Reluctantly this lady opened her eyes and only
to find herself sleeping in the hotel corridor outside of her room!
In the morning, a hotel housekeeping lady told the couple
that the wife’s ordeal was caused by the restless spirit of an ou-ba-sang who
worked under the previous hotel owner but committed suicide when the new owner
took over the building and asked the ou-ba-sang to take early retirement. After
all, the ou-ba-sang was already in her 70’s at that time.
A friend arranged a trip for his parents to visit Mount Fuji.
It was a coincident that he booked the said hotel and his parents stayed on the
second floor.
At night, my pal’s mother suddenly heard a voice whispering
beside her ear: “Wake up and follow me…”
In a dreamy state, the mother opened her eyes and saw an
ou-ba-sang standing beside her bed. She recalled later that she couldn’t resist
the ou-ba-sang’s call and as the ou-ba-sang turned her back and walked towards
the corridor while she followed the ou-ba-sang at the back. So, as my pal’s mom
walked, and walked until she felt a sudden pain on her cheeks.
It was due to pains that the mom opened her eyes only to
find her husband standing in front of her continued to slap on her cheeks.
Before she come to her senses; her husband shouted: “Are you trying to jump
down from the balcony?”
Only now the mom opened her eyes, she found herself standing
at the edge of a railing under which was a deep ravine…
My pal said if it was not due to his dad, his mom would have
jumped down from the second floor into the ravine… interestingly speaking, that
was the place where the ou-ba-sang fell to her death many years ago… It seemed
that she wanted someone to accompany her to stay in the hotel for all eternity…
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