What To Know About The Ishinomaki Ghost Sightings In Unsolved Mysteries
Share
Streaming Supernatural reports began sprouting up after a massive earthquake and tsunami devastated Japan in 2011. Netflix Episode 4 of Unsolved Mysteries Volume 2 explores the massive earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan in 2011. The disaster claimed over 18,000 lives throughout the coastal Tohoku region and the seaside town of Ishinomaki. Afterward, an odd thing happened: residents began reporting frequent ghost sightings in Ishinomaki . Many of these people began sharing their stories with Taio Kaneda, a Buddhist priest featured in Unsolved Mysteries . “Kaneda could sense they had bottled up their pain. So he lent them a sympathetic ear,” journalist Richard Lloyd Parry, who wrote Ghosts of the Tsunami , told NPR. “People’s grief and loss and anguish came out.” Sometimes the ghosts would appear as a shadow on the other side of a window or door. One resident claimed that he saw his mother’s ghost right after the tsunami swept away her house. Another resident, Ami, said that spirits often took over her body, requiring Kaneda to perform exorcisms. But the most common reports came from taxi drivers. Yuka Kudo, a graduate student at Tohoku Gakuin University, traveled to Ishinomaki in 2016 to document the phenomenon. […]