OTAKUPAPA @wotakupapa

Investigator and researcher of Japanese paranormal, supernatural, urban legends, folklore, UFOs, aliens, monsters, psychics, ghosts, Yokai, Reiki, and Shinto. medium.otakupapa.net Japan Joined March 2022

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19 hours ago

I just published The Mystery of Japan’s Ghost Picture: ‘Hands Reaching Out From the Sea’ medium.otakupapa.net/the-mystery-of…

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4 days ago

On September 9, 1973, a photograph taken in Gunma Prefecture, Japan, shows an oddly shaped creature resembling a praying mantis. Could this be an alien?

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5 days ago

Jinmensou is a kind of Japanese yokai or strange disease. Wounds on a part of the body fester and form a human-like face, which talks and eats. It is said to be cured by feeding it medicine or poison.

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6 days ago

Shingo Village in Aomori Prefecture, Japan, is known for the "Tomb of Christ," and you can see this road sign. According to legend, it was actually Christ's brother who was crucified on Golgotha Hill, and the real Christ secretly escaped to Japan where he died a natural death.

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a week ago

In Japan, some people get lost in otherworldly stations that do not exist in this world. Late at night on January 8, 2004, a Japanese woman got off the train at KISARAGI Station, which is not on the map, and then disappeared.

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a week ago

I just published The Shocking Future of July 2025 as Told by Japanese Children with Pre-birth Memories medium.otakupapa.net/the-shocking-f…

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a week ago

Hanako-san of the Toilet is the ghost of a bobbed-haired girl in a red skirt. The earliest record of Hanako-san was in 1948 in a school gym restroom in Iwate Prefecture, a person entering the third stall from the back heard her calling and saw a white hand coming out of the bowl.

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2 weeks ago

In 1803, Utsurobune drifted to the coast of Japan and was first linked to a UFO by Morihiro Saito in his 1964 book "Science Nonfiction." According to Saito, the UFO is a time machine; the woman is from the future, and the box she holds is a camera to record the past. #UFO

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2 weeks ago

Since 1963, 3,600 wanted posters of "Tsuchinoko," a legendary Japanese creature considered a phantom rarity, have been distributed by the Notarin Club. A bounty of 300,000 yen was offered to anyone who captured it alive and 100,000 yen to anyone who found its carcass.

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2 weeks ago

I just published Cleaning Toilets Make You Rich? The Amazing Legend of Japanese Toilet Cleaning medium.otakupapa.net/cleaning-toile…

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2 weeks ago

The Torii Gate of the Anamori Inari Shrine at Haneda Airport. The U.S. Occupation Forces attempted to demolish this Torii Gate, but the work was halted due to a series of accidents that resulted in the deaths of workers due to hauntings, and the gate was left standing.

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3 weeks ago

"Nitaka Kingyo (Does it look like? Goldfish)" This is an 1863 work of Jinmengyo ("Human Face Fish") by Japanese Edo period ukiyo-e artist Yoshiiku Utagawa. The goldfish's face resembles a famous Kabuki actor of the time, and the pattern on its body is the actor's crest (mon).

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3 weeks ago

In the Nikoro incident of April 6, 1974, Fujiwara encountered an octopus-shaped alien, was sucked into the UFO, and then returned to Earth. This is an illustration of the UFO interior drawn by Fujiwara: a screen on the second floor displays space letters and images.

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3 weeks ago

Kappa, a legendary Japanese animal, is said to have crossed the sea from China and landed in Kyushu in ancient times, spreading and settling throughout Japan. Numerous sightings of Kappa have been reported in Japan, and Kappa shrines and mounds remain throughout Japan.

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3 weeks ago

On April 9, 2008, a human-face fish called "Jinmengyo" was found swimming in a moat in front of the prefectural government office in Taki-machi, Yamaguchi, Japan. The black and yellow pattern resembles a human face with distinct eyes and nose.

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3 weeks ago

I just published Hitsuki Shinji, The Final Revelation of God, Will Save the World medium.otakupapa.net/hitsuki-shinji…

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3 weeks ago

On June 10, 1944, Hitsuki Shinji, the final revelation of God, descended at Ameno-Hitsuku Shrine in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. It was written in code, so a deciphering team of philosophers, linguists, theologians, and other specialists was formed to decipher this "Code of God."

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4 weeks ago

During the Heian period (794-1185) in Japan, Takiyashahime, daughter of Taira no Masakado, a provincial magnate, summoned a giant skull monster through witchcraft and fought a fierce battle with two Onmyoji (Yin-Yang Master), who were ordered by the Imperial Court.

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4 weeks ago

On April 6, 1974, an octopus-shaped alien appeared in Nikoro, Kitami City, Hokkaido, Japan (Nikoro Incident). According to a witness, the alien was 3 feet tall, had yellow or blue suction-like projections all over its brown body, and wore translucent vinyl-like clothing.