This is the urban legend in Japan about the being.
Posts of 2ch BBS
These are the posts in The Occult BBS of 2ch (equivalent to /x/).
Po Po Po
My father’s parent house is located about 2 hours from my house by a car.
My grandparents are farmers. I like such a peaceful atmosphere. So I used to go often there alone in school vacation after I got to be able to ride a motorcycle.
When I arrived there, my grandparents said welcome and pleased. However I have not been there for ten years since I was 3rd grade high school. Well… Not I “didn’t”… but I “could not”. I would like to said the reason….
When I was just in spring vacation, I rode there because it was fine weather. It was bite cold yet but on green field it was warm by sun shine. So I was relaxed there for a long time.
Then…
“Po Po…Po Pot Po… Po… Pot…”
I heard strange sound.
It was not mechanical but like human voice. And I could heard it like “Po Po Po” or like “Bo Bo Bo”. Wondering, I found the white hat above the garden fence. It was not on the garden fence.
The hat moved horizontally. When it got to the end of the fence, I found a lady. In other words, the lady was wearing the hat. She was in whitish dress.
However The fence was over 2 meters high. I could see her head above the fence, couldn’t I? How tall she was…
As I was surprised, she moved out of my sight. I could not find the hat either. Also, The sound “Po Po Po” had gone.
At that time, I thought that a tall woman was wearing sole thick shoes or a tall crossdresser was wearing high heeled shoes…etc…
After that, I told my grandparents a little while ago.
Panic
“I found a very big lady! but or maybe a crossdresser…?”
I said but they said only
“Oh…” and “Hmm”…etc.
However I said
“She is taller than the fence of garden. And I heard strange voice like “Po Po Po”.”
Then Their motion stopped. Really No Movement!
After that, suddenly, my grandfather asked
“When?!” “Where?!” “How tall?!”
like angry.
Overwhelmed him, I answered. Then he was silent for a while ,went to the telephone, and called somewhere.
Because the door was closed, I could not heard that conversation. My grandmother looked a little trembling. After finishing call, he went back and said
“You should stay here tonight. No…You must NOT go home today.”
I wondered…
(I did something terribly bad…?)
No. I had no idea. I did not went to see her but she appeared herself.
Then my grandfather said
“Honey, I will ask after. I will go to pick up Ms.K”
and went to somewhere by his truck.
“Hasshaku-sama”
I asked my grandmother terribly. She said with a thin voice,
“You are loved by “Hasshaku-sama”. Grandpa will solve it. Don’t be afraid.”
My grandmother told me about that little by little. According to her…
There is the awkward being called “Hasshaku-sama”.
It has a figure of a tall woman.
As the name, It is about 8 shaku (about 2.5 m) tall.
And it laughs with a voice of a man “Bo Bo Bo Bo” strangely.
It appears as a woman in mourning, an old woman, a middle age woman and so on. How it looks is different from person to person. The common things are it is female, very tall, and has something on it (like a hat) and strange voice.
There is the legend that it came there with a traveler once upon a time but we don’t know whether it is correct or not. It can’t go out of that area because there is sealed by the stone statues called “Jizo”.
The man loved by Hasshaku-sama will die within a few days. The last victim died fifteen years ago.
I heard this later but the roads where Hasshaku-sama can go thorough are limited and “Jizo” were sat on each road. There are 4 “Jizo”, south, north, east, west. Why that town got a cage was they failed the discussion with surrounding villages.
I think they were caught on water right…etc. Because Hasshaku-sama accident happens every few years, they might think that it was not so big loss.
When I heard this, I did not think it was a real thing. It was of course, isnt it?
Operation Besieged
Then My grandfather came back with a old woman. Her name was Ms.K.
“You’ve met with a terrible fate, haven’t you? Now, take this.”
Ms.K gave me an amulet.
She went up to second floor with my grandfather and did something. My grandmother was always together with me even when I went to the restroom. She did not let me close the door of the restroom. At that time, I began to think something terrible might happen.
After a while, I made go up to second floor and into one room. In that room, all the windows were covered with newspaper and the amulets were sat on them. At the four edges of the room, salt like pyramid was sat. And there was a wooden box (it was not a very alter.) On it, there was a wooden Buddha statue. I didn’t know where they brought it, there was a portable potty.
I understood they told me to do on it…
“The day is going down. Okay? You must not get out here until tomorrow morning. Grandma and I do absolutely not call you or talk to you. Well… Until 7 o’clock. Don’t get out until 7 o’clock. At 7 o’clock, get out yourself. I’ll call your family.”
My grandfather said seriously so I could not do nothing except nodding.
“Follow that. And don’t leave your amulet. If something happens, pray in front of the Buddha.”
Ms.K said.
Lure
They said that I could watch TV, so I turned on the TV. However I could not have a break because of absentmindedness. There was some food like rice-balls which my grandmother gave me when I was locked. However I did not like to eat it and was trembling in the bed.
Despite of such a condition, I had fallen asleep. When I woke up, the midnight TV program was broadcast. Looking at my watch, it was 1:00 am. I thought it was creepy time. Then I heard the sound of knocking the window. It seemed not by thrown stones but by hands.
I could not know if it was because of the wind or someone was really knocking but I tried to believe it was because of the wind. To calm down, I drank green tea. However it was really creepy! I increased TV volume and forcibly watched TV.
Then, I heard my grandfather’s voice
“Hey, are you alright? You may not overdo if you are scared.”
Instinctively, I approached to the door but immediately I remembered my grandfather’s order.
I heard the voice again.
“What happened? You may come here.”
It closely resembled the voice of my grandfather however it was not his voice. I did’t know why but I felt so. The moment I felt so, I had goose bumps. Suddenly I looked the salt at the edge of the room, the top of it had become black.
I ran to the Buddhist statue and sat in front of that. I pray with holding the amulet. THEN
“Po Pot Po… Po… Po Po…”
I heard that voice and the sound knocking the window. It was not tall enough to knock the window of second floor. I knew that. However I imagined the scene that it was knocking the window with raising its hands up. It was scared. All what I could do was praying.
Morning
I felt the night very very long but the morning came. On the TV, the morning TV show was broadcast. According the clock which was displayed at the edge of the TV screen, it was 7:13 am. The sound knocking the window had stopped. Apparently I seemed have fallen asleep or have fainted.
The salt got more black. Just in case, I checked my watch and it was almost same as TV. So I opened the door terribly and found my grandmother and Ms.K were waiting me with worried faces.
My grandmother said
“I’m glad…I’m glad…”
and shed tears.
Downstairs, My father was waiting.
Escape Operation
My grandfather looked me from outside and said
“Get in the car in a hurry!”
So I went out to the garden and found the car and some men.
The capacity of the car was 9 person. I made sit down in middle. Ms.K sat in the passenger seat. All people who were in the garden got in the car.
The total is 9 person so I surrounded in every direction.
“You’ve met with a terrible fate, haven’t you? Although it may be interesting, close your eyes and lower your head down. We can’t see it but you can do. Until I say okay, don’t open your eyes.”
The man who sat in the next seat on my right.
The truck which my grandfather drove was the lead, the next was my car, and the last was the car which my father drove. The cars departed. They moved slowly. Maybe the speed was under 20km/h.
Soon, Ms.K said
“This is the climax.”
and began to cast spells.
“Pot Po Po… Po… Pot… Po Po Po…”
AGAIN! The voice!
I held the amulet. I was closing my eyes and lowered my face under. …But…I don’t know why… I opened my eyes slightly.
I saw the whitish dress. It moved with the cars. It followed with its long legs? Its head was out of the sight so I could not see that.
However it tried to look into the window… It was likely to stoop.
I groaned
“Oops!”
“Don’t look!”
the neighbor bellowed.
In a hurry, I closed my eyes and held the amulet strongly.
Knock…Knock…Knock…
I heard the sound of knocking grass.
Surrounding people groaned
“What?”
“Hmm…?”
They couldn’t see it or hear its voice but could hear the sound.
Ms.K’s Casting got stronger.
After a while, when the voice and sound stopped, Ms.K said
“We did well”
Surrounding people also said
“I’m glad. Congratulations!”
The cars stopped the side of the wide road. I was moved to the father’s car. When my grandfather and father said thank you to everyone, Ms.K told me to show the amulet. I was holding that yet. I opened my hand and saw it… It had got black.
Ms.K said
“I think it already alright. In the case of worst, you should bring this for a while.”
She gave me a new amulet.
After that, I went home with my father. My motorcycle was sent by my grandfather. My father also knew about Hasshaku-sama. In his childhood, one of his friend was loved by it and died.
There are some people who loved and left there. The person who sat in the car has distant relations. It was to mislead Hasshaku-sama. We can mislead it by blood.
However it was impossible to gather enough people soon so I must have stayed there all night. Also it was safer in the morning than in the night.
My grandfather or my father decided to become a substitute in the worst case on the road.
I was banned to go there.
After arriving home, I called grandfather and asked
“Did you talk to me last night?”
but he denied.
—-So that was…
I thought so and shuddered with fear.
Hasshaku-sama loves young men before adulthood, especially children. If the young men or children are said that in family voice, they may feel relieved from fear.
Sequel
After ten years from that, when I almost forgot that, the terrible news came.
“”Jizo” which locked Hasshaku-sama was broken by someone. The road which “Jizo” brocked is the road to your house.”
My grandmother said that on the phone.
(My grandfather died two years ago. After becoming stuck, he told my grandmother to prevent me from going to him.)
Now I say to myself it is a superstition but I really worry.
If I hear that voice…
“Po Po Po…”