My True Ghost Story – Japan Hotel

This is my second supernatural encounter in a hotel, but this time, the location was in Osaka. Before I go into details, why not check out my post on Chinese superstitions entering hotel room.

This happened in 16 May 2010; my sister-in-law, husband and I went to Japan for a holiday. On this occasion, my sister-in-law stayed in one room by herself, whilst my husband and I were in another room. It was a very compact room, but it had everything we needed. The moment you open the door, there was the landing and a toilet on our left. Then there was a double bed and a small table with books near the window. The room was bright and well decorated. I was very surprised to see a range of holy books displayed on the table. I did not look into the details but I’m pretty sure they were the Shinto holy book and bible.

We were there for a night as we were going to other places after that. After checking in, we were quite tired and decided to meet later in the evening for dinner. So I went for a quick nap, while my husband was laying next to me playing on his PSP.

I didn’t take too long to fall asleep, but it was quite disrupted. I felt like someone was sitting on me and I was not able to move. I then opened my eyes to see two boys and a girl were sitting on me. At that point in time, I didn’t know if I was dreaming or awake. I was sure that my husband did not notice me at all. I was trying to make contact with him but to no avail. I was so scared as they were speaking their own language and laughing at me.

I tried to move, but I couldn’t. After a few minutes or seconds, they appeared next to the table, laughed, and vanished into thin air. It was then that I was able to wake up. At that point, I had no idea if I was dreaming. After I woke up, I hurried my husband to go for dinner and opened the Shinto holy book before going out of the room.

I didn’t have any more strange encounters after that and left the book open even after we checked out the room. It was definitely a scary ‘ghost press bed’ / sleep paralysis experience.

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