Those who has visited Tokyo must have also visited the
Higashi-Shinjuku Station. Many tourists especially like the Shinjuku
underground street because of lower item prices and that most of the shops
concentrated to a place; which make shopping easier. Where the underground and
the underpass met, some temporary storage safes are setup for tourists to
safekeeping their belongings. The cost per use is not too expensive as it only
costs 100~200 Yen per use until 11pm of that day. Beyond 11pm, all storage
safes will be automatically unlocked for cleaning work.
Many people believe that some of these safe boxes are
haunted by baby spirits because there was a spree of past incidents that dead
abandoned babies found in these safe boxes.
As the story goes, one night when a cleaner was cleaning one
of those safe boxes; he found a stiff and cold dead baby wrapped in a plastic
bag in one of the boxes. After that, more dead babies continued to be found at
nights and at the same time sightings of baby spirits started to be reported.
News of dead babies and ghosts did scare away many of those potential customers
but such news also attracted other types of enthusiasts. Many local paranormal
enthusiasts chosen this place to do their research and many photos were taken. This
place too was also the focus of some TV programs some time ago.
Some passer-by claimed to have heard voices of baby crying
could be heard came out from these safe boxes and they could feel the
surrounding became cold when they tried to approach the source of cries at
night. Yet some people said that they
felt their coats were pulled by invisible forces and when they turned their
back, they could feel a cold breeze and faintly in the air; disembodied
laughing voices of baby giggling could be heard in the air.
My friend, Yuko said that she passed by the place one night
and she could hear the sound of a ball bounced at her back. The sound of the
bouncing ball seemed to have followed her from far to near as she could faintly
deduce as the sound of the ball hitting onto the ground was getting louder by
the bounds. At times Yuko did turn her back but she found nothing behind her
and the stretch of passage behind her was in dead silent; of course no ball was
also seen.
As Yuko came to a junction exiting the station, she felt
something jumped onto her back but again; she found nothing when she used her
left hand to brush her back…
Stranger thing happened when Yuko tried to flag a few taxis
outside of the station. All of the taxies at first approached Yuko slowly at
first but when those taxi drivers saw Yuko, they suddenly stepped onto their
gas paddles and sped off. As it was approaching midnight, Yuko had no choice
but to call her colleague to fetch her. Luckily her friend picked up the phone
and Yuko waited.
Same as with the reactions of those taxi drivers but Yuko’s
friend didn’t speed off. The car stopped after some hesitation and Yuko hopped
into the car. None of them have spoken to each other and Yuko was too tired to
notice anything. The car finally stopped in front of Yuko’s house and Yuko
alighted. Before she wanted to thank her friend, this long silent friend
finally blurred: “I hate to ask this… but who is the baby on your shoulder all
this while?”
Before Yuko could make any sense of what her friend meant,
and before she could bid ‘good night’; the car suddenly sped off.
According to Yuko, she felt immense headache on that night
and she was subsequently bed reddened for a few days. I only got to know her
story when she called me a week later to tell me her story. Of course, her
first question was: Is the baby still on her back?
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