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Ready for a spine-chilling, hair-raising journey into the supernatural world? Picture this: you're alone at night in an abandoned building and something inexplicable happens. Could it be the mischievous antics of an animal or are you in the presence of a ghostly figure? That's a question we're tackling in this extraordinary episode filled with some truly eerie tales.
From American spirits moving objects to full body apparitions in Mexico, and the most terrifying of them all – Japanese ghosts appearing as the dead, this episode is a thrilling ride to haunted locations worldwide. Our discussion doesn't stop there. We also delve into ancient spirits and legends, passed down through generations, and increase our understanding of the frequent paranormal activities reported today. So buckle up, as we prepare for our next audacious journey into the supernatural realm of Helheim. You don't want to miss this!
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Ready for a spine-chilling, hair-raising journey into the supernatural world? Picture this: you're alone at night in an abandoned building and something inexplicable happens. Could it be the mischievous antics of an animal or are you in the presence of a ghostly figure? That's a question we're tackling in this extraordinary episode filled with some truly eerie tales.
From American spirits moving objects to full body apparitions in Mexico, and the most terrifying of them all – Japanese ghosts appearing as the dead, this episode is a thrilling ride to haunted locations worldwide. Our discussion doesn't stop there. We also delve into ancient spirits and legends, passed down through generations, and increase our understanding of the frequent paranormal activities reported today. So buckle up, as we prepare for our next audacious journey into the supernatural realm of Helheim. You don't want to miss this!
The yes, no and that's our welcome back everybody that's.
Speaker 2:
That's this week's intro. Deal with it.
Speaker 1:
I'm sorry, guys, you got to take that one or leave that one.
Speaker 2:
You don't like it? Just fucking fast forward two seconds. Yeah, well, howdy. Yes we're back for another episode of Tales from Helheim. I was waiting for you to do the echo. What do we got this week, my guy?
Speaker 1:
Well, this week, you know being we just had a Halloween and all the other fun stuff happen. We thought.
Speaker 2:
I feel jipped because Halloween was on a Tuesday.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, we still, we still took the kids out. Yeah, I went home. They made out like bandits and then we came back watch the Five Nights at Freddy's movie.
Speaker 2:
Oh, you guys watch that on Halloween. Yeah that's a pretty good movie. I saw it in theaters, I think, the Saturday before that.
Speaker 1:
Oh, nice, nice. Yeah. Yeah it's, it's a good movie. It really makes you think about, you know, the paranormal aspect of things. You talk about the spirit part of it, oh, yeah, always, which takes us into our segue to subway Eat fresh, yes.
Speaker 2:
Wait, no fucking free promos.
Speaker 1:
I got a pace for that Right Subway Eat kind of fresh.
Speaker 2:
I haven't done in many episodes. Sponsor subway.
Speaker 1:
It has been a while, but that brings us into the fun for today, which is Japanese ghosts.
Speaker 2:
I always, whenever we watch like the scary videos, I'm always tired of the same thing as like ranking them from, like the ghost type videos I've seen. Yeah like American ghosts are just like moving stuff, like yeah, I'm like OK, that's, that'd be interesting to see. And then you have the Mexican ghosts where it's just like full body apparitions, yeah, like you never see their face, and I was like far away, like crossing ominously through, and those are scary because you see the full body ghost. Yeah.
Speaker 2:
But I will have to rank that Japanese ghosts are by far the scariest fucking ghost ever because it looks like you're just staring at a straight up dead body. Yeah, because they're, they don't like they're not in a distance or they're not like ominous about it, they're like right, fucking there in your face.
Speaker 1:
They give zero fucks or right fucking behind you, pretty much like the one video is actually watching. Earlier today they did an investigation and dude has a static camera watching where he's at, yeah, and then he goes and he kind of like tilts the camera up, like just looking around behind him and you see from nose to head of hair like eyes with no pupils, just right fucking behind them. So when you look in the static camera, nothing like that?
Speaker 2:
Have you seen the one where the that dude that he he's in an apartment where I guess the guy killed himself or something? This previous tennis, I think? It's like a white dude and he has a camera is like recording with like night vision in his room and he shuts the lights off. But as soon as he shuts the light off you see like a giant outline of a guy and then when the night vision kicks in he's gone and it does like twice.
Speaker 1:
I think I have seen that one.
Speaker 2:
But I think still all time scariest one is the one we watched together when we're at work. It was it was lunchtime and we were watching a video and it's like this dude showing this lady like her new, like little apartment in Japan. Yeah. And they hear banging on the inside of the closet. It's like two, two, two, two was like two, three people there, so they're like what was that? Yeah.
Speaker 2:
And they go and they open the closet and like a blue, whitish hand, like swipes at their leg from the bottom of the closet where there's, like a little cat, like little apartment. Oh, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:
Nobody fits in a little compartment. It's like compressed to the ground and they show like the camera. You don't see anything. And when she gets back up, she stands up and then she like, looks like, tells the camera slightly up and there's like a fucking, a Japanese, like ghost face and an arm like swiping at it. We're like his eyes are like bulging out of his face and he's all blue.
Speaker 1:
It almost looks like a scene from fucking. Uh, what is it? The grudge?
Speaker 2:
or the grudge or the yeah I would call it Juwan in.
Speaker 1:
I'm probably butchering the pronunciation, but that's the Japanese version of it.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, exactly that's exactly what it looked like, but like blue and like whitish face. Yeah. Boo dude, that fucking. That was scary. I remember I was like it was the middle of the day at work. I like that it's going to fuck me up for for later on tonight. Right, I was like damn I got to go home to a fucking empty apartment. I don't want to fucking see this.
Speaker 1:
I don't know why, but they are more terrifying.
Speaker 2:
They are. So yeah, if I had a rank, I would be Japanese ghost, mexican ghost and then like American ghosts.
Speaker 1:
I don't know if it's just a culture thing or what, but yeah they're. They're definitely on the terrifying aspect.
Speaker 2:
Oh yeah. So, coming back from a little sidetrack, what do we have today?
Speaker 1:
So I have a couple of stories and I believe you have one. So I have one. What we can do is all go with the first story. You can read yours and then I'll finish her off.
Speaker 2:
That's what she said oh yeah, yeah, that works man.
Speaker 1:
You can't. That's what she said. I can do whatever I want. You remember who that is.
Speaker 2:
No, but yeah, we have a. Your lovely wife made us a spreadsheet of stories.
Speaker 1:
Yes, yes, this came in really handy.
Speaker 2:
She made a real professional like Manila folders that were sealed. So here's your research. I was like that's fucking awesome.
Speaker 1:
Yeah it's. So let's just say been a fun week with inventory and everything else going on. It's. It's been a packed week, so trying to get in research.
Speaker 2:
And this is probably the first time we've had any like outside research help. It felt weird. Yeah. I was like it's kind of wild because like it's cool to get the stuff, and you're like, but I didn't look this up myself.
Speaker 1:
Well, that's where we're counting on you guys, the listeners, guys Angals, everybody out there with ears that can listen. Yes, let us know what you think of these stories, if they're good, mediocre, bad, amazing, going to the Astounding spectrum maybe.
Speaker 2:
Oh, I was going to say danger zone. Yes, I don't get seen by Kenny Rogers.
Speaker 1:
Right, yeah, he's one you don't want to mess with.
Speaker 2:
All right Well let's hear some of these stories. Am I good?
Speaker 1:
Well, speaking of things you wouldn't want to mess with, this is about a haunted apartment.
Speaker 2:
Oh Christ, I don't know about that.
Speaker 1:
I live in a five story apartment building in downtown Nagoya. It's not a new building, but it's not a dump either. Rent is pretty cheap and it's well maintained, but otherwise unremarkable. I live in an end unit and thought my only neighbor was horrible the first week I lived there. They would bang on the wall constantly. I know I was noisy when I moved in and was putting my furniture together, but come on, I thought they'd chill out after I had my place sorted out, but no such luck. I dealt with it for a month, but then the smell started. The smell started.
Speaker 2:
Ew.
Speaker 1:
Right. It just smelled so wrong in there like old garbage and human waste I caved and called the building management company who said they'd look into it. They called back and told me that apartment had been empty since before I moved in. I told them about seeing the door partially open once or twice, thinking it might be a squatter, so they sent someone out, the staff and a cop knock on the door head in and find absolutely nothing. It was spotless no garbage anywhere, no signs anyone had been living there whatsoever. It didn't smell either. So what was all that? I started talking to the lady who cleans the apartment building and she tells me my apartment was a Gco Bukin. We'll have to look that up and see what that is. I'll do that during your story, unless you want to grab it right now while I finish this one.
Speaker 2:
For the audience. Go ahead and spell that out, for that I might know how to spell it clearly.
Speaker 1:
It is J-I-K-O-B-U-K-K-E-N. Turns out, the tenant before the last one was an old guy who died half in the bedroom closet. He'd fallen and banged on the wall for help, but the old neighbors were on vacation and he'd eventually starve there. All the banging, the smells were coming from my own place the whole time. I still live there because, as I said, it was cheap and so long as I leave the closet door open, I don't have any issues with banging or bad smells.
Speaker 2:
Exactly. That's crazy. So they thought that there's somebody in that fucking apartment, but it was empty.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, and I mean think about it. We saw that one video from Japan where the dude moved into that house and remember he would hear the weird wailing from outside or like in his bathroom and shit.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, so, jiko Bukin, did I say that? Right, jiko Bukin? The quite literal English translation is accident property. So it's just where something in death house pretty much when an incident that is disliked by everybody occurs in the property or around the property. In the past, it's considered Jiko Bukin, so like remember watching the video where that dude went to clean up the apartment. He's like, well, this guy, the last tenant, hung himself and they didn't find his body. That's why, like, the rent is like dirt cheap and he's like recreating the scene. Yeah.
Speaker 2:
That's kind of fucking tough dude. Imagine being like I got a deal in an apartment. Well, I thought that too. I got a deal in an apartment, and then nobody tells you somebody fucking killed themselves there.
Speaker 1:
I mean that happened to my cousin Jesus. He moved in, he moved in and he would have random stuff happen. So it was my oldest cousin and then tattoo artist cousin Shit, and they the tattoo artist cousin was at oldest cousin's house, yeah, and he woke up and he saw a balloon floating in his face. But he was laying on the couch and it was just hovering right there and like it wouldn't move, like it was just steady hovering right in front of his face. So that freaked him out. And then I guess my oldest cousin got scratched in the shower One time he was in the boys room and he had seen red eyes in the closet. Well, it turns out the dude there. I think he like killed his family and then killed himself, some shit like that.
Speaker 2:
What the fuck. Yeah. I always wanted to get like more information on the fucking apartment we lived in over there before you guys moved here. Yeah. We were all fucking roommates, because that one that had some shit going on, because when we left I don't have anything. I didn't see anything similar to that.
Speaker 1:
So we saw the tall man.
Speaker 2:
And then the worst one was I pretty sure I've said on this podcast a couple of times when I had gone up to get like your wife had bought, like this was like melon water from that that little Mexican store.
Speaker 1:
Oh yeah, that's no longer around.
Speaker 2:
RIP. But I went to go grab something like it was like two in the morning, one or two in the morning yeah, I saw somebody hunched over in front of the fridge and I thought it was you just fucking like slow sipping that shit out of the fucking jug and I was like this motherfucker, what's he doing? And then like I started like walking towards like the kitchen because I can see off the island, and then like it stops and Then like it starts like fully standing up and that shit's like over the fridge, like about to touch the fucking roof, jesus. And these were like high ceilings.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, I was like this.
Speaker 2:
I was like fuck this. And I closed the door and I locked it. I was like I'm going back to bed. I'd rather be thirsty than dead. Right there's a some shit in that fucking apartment. It was fucking wild.
Speaker 1:
And it just goes to show you never really know what you're getting into. Anywhere you go Not at all, be it here or Japan, mexico, ireland, germany, france, fucking anywhere the American Samoas yeah, they're too, very possibly I. Can't say for sure, but I'm almost positive.
Speaker 2:
Oh, I'm pretty sure they're. Probably there's got to be something. Oh yeah. All right, so my story is about a stolen phone.
Speaker 1:
Which can be terrifying for many different reasons.
Speaker 2:
Especially if you don't got a passcode on there. Yes, don't go through the photos. Don't go through the photos.
Speaker 1:
You don't want to see that.
Speaker 2:
I want to see that schlong.
Speaker 1:
All right, that's enough of it the schlongest screenshot ever.
Speaker 2:
Jesus, we'll get into that later. No, we won't yes, we will.
Speaker 1:
All right, let's hear about this stolen phone.
Speaker 2:
Speaking of mischievous creatures, just as I was about to record this, a patreon wrote in on discord we lived in Japan named Dan. It reminded me of Namuri Mori's experience, so I asked if I could read it here. Well, this is an outside creepy experience because it parallels what the previous one. I'm including it here. This is what happened to him and his wife very recently. The strangest thing happened to my wife and I just now. Our little hamlet of the uskirts of tomb us, sayama he yoga. I got that so wrong. I apologize everybody.
Speaker 1:
It's, it's fine, we're not.
Speaker 2:
My wife realized she lost her phone, the usual minor panic ensued. We called the restaurant, police station, etc. To no avail. Google find my phone so that it was turned on and we could ring it at the highest volume. Even it's set to the manner mode. However, the phone location could only be at a Ascentate. What Assertained it could only be ascertained to the white area. There was an unknown walking journey of about four minutes, covering 700 meters, leading down an unlit road around the rice fields about an hour before it. Jesus, that sounds fucking terrifying.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, it does. That's not where you want to be.
Speaker 2:
I don't think any phones worth a fucking four minute walk in a desolate fucking rice fuel.
Speaker 1:
No not at all.
Speaker 2:
Fuck that Back to the story. Then the phone's location suddenly updated to an Accuracy of about a hundred meters, so we got the torches out and set off to the area while ringing it. Once we got to the spot, we heard a distant ringing tone coming from the pitch black mountain forest. There are no footpaths leading to that way up the mountain, so we entered about 50 meters and as the ringtone got louder you could see the light coming from the screen and there was Half buried in a small hole. Our working theory is that a monkey picked it up outside our house and ran off with it before ditching it, perhaps after getting spooked by a notification or something. Dan sent a screenshot of the find my phone app and it really is in the middle of nowhere. The photo of the phone at night, half buried under the grass and leaves, with just the screen glowing, is also creepy horror movie fodder. I guess it could be a monkey.
Speaker 1:
But I've never really heard about monkeys stealing shit in Japan. Normally that's like in Philippines and stuff like that.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, but I mean, they're all little mischievous fucks. I yes some, definitely I don't know, because if it's half buried I don't think the monkey would like hop down and bury the phone.
Speaker 1:
I don't know, or maybe Maybe whatever stole it did get spooked by like an incoming call or something.
Speaker 2:
I just wanted to be like one of those fucking 1720s ghosts I like the Victorian ones and they get a hold of the phone. They're like, oh fuck, what is this? He's fucking launch it, right. That was just an excuse for me to bust down my British accent. I've been working on it. What do you think?
Speaker 1:
this terrifying contraption.
Speaker 2:
You know your bear voices.
Speaker 1:
Who learned you had a vocal? Don't you know how to voice? Right, I'm learning. I'm learning shit. This one takes me back to when I worked at that haunted cannery in fucking Oregon, oh Jesus. So this one is about a security guard.
Speaker 2:
It's your fucking biography, though we're doing here. Maybe I knew it.
Speaker 1:
You'll be able to tell in the first paragraph.
Speaker 2:
My beard is luscious. My, yeah, you, son of a bitch. I knew it was you.
Speaker 1:
No, I'd never call out my own beard as much as I want to.
Speaker 1:
I'm a security guard in the Kanagawa area and Part of my job is to patrol abandoned but still owned buildings.
Speaker 1:
Most of the problems with these properties come from unknown issues. Of course, there are sometimes homeless people that we have to remove from the property, and An urban explorers or street artists can also be a problem, but that's why my company used hidden security cameras throughout the bigger properties. In one hotel I was patrolling, we entered and locked the front door behind us as his protocol, but after making our rounds we came back down to find the door wide open and the one padlock sitting on the old reception desk in a spot that had been cleared of dust and debris. We took photos, rechecked the first floor, then locked up and left. When we reviewed the footage in case we needed to contact the police, there was nothing strange in the video. It's like the door was locked and then it wasn't. My co-worker thinks another guard or some kids were messing with us, but I'm not sure. How could someone remove the lock, enter, clear the desk and then leave it there on the counter without showing up on camera at all?
Speaker 2:
muscle Damon.
Speaker 1:
It could be.
Speaker 2:
Damon.
Speaker 1:
I said when I worked at the the cannery, we'd see the lights in the upstairs lunchroom go on and off all the time and off season. It's just the one guard and myself there. And we went up there like we had our little hats that we got. We threw them across the floor to see if it would turn the sensors on. No, us going to walk in to get the hats would. So you had to something, had to physically walk in that room to turn the sensors on.
Speaker 2:
Okay, yeah, that's fucking wild, what the fuck.
Speaker 1:
Yeah that. And hearing my name whispered in my ear that no one knew me by I, was just like, oh nope, I'm fucking out of here.
Speaker 2:
They knew my birthday clown name.
Speaker 1:
Skipsky skipsky the peanut butter juggler. Oh god, and I was. That place was terrifying. I fucking hated it there.
Speaker 2:
That sounds bad.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, I've had. I think that's the only job, besides the one we have now, where I've worked in a hundred location.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, that's the fucking, the one we're at now. Just was it recent, this week. Well, we're doing inventory. Me and daddy fat sacks were counting. Yeah.
Speaker 2:
And we walk in and the lights are still off because it's on a motion sensor. So we walk in. The lights go on, so we walk in and the first little aisle of the lights turn on where we're at. Yeah, and we're counting close to the pallet, and then we like step back towards, like where we came from, and then the rest of the lights, like, turn on, like suddenly, like all of them at the same time. Yeah.
Speaker 2:
So then he's like what the fuck was I like somebody come through, so I walked down the aisles and I'm checking to see if I can see anybody. Yeah, nobody was there.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, that sounds about right.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, we're like let's get the fuck out of here.
Speaker 1:
I mean, like I said, went in one day and heard like hello or something, whispered in my ear yeah, shit. So I know you're looking for. We're definitely going to investigate there again with the new stuff we have to use. I said bring the new guys in Right. Hey, go check those lights first real quick. We'll lock them out there. Let us know what you hear.
Speaker 2:
We're going to strap you guys with go pros.
Speaker 1:
Yes, but that will be coming, so we've just waited for it to cool down here so we're not dying of heat stroke. Oh my God.
Speaker 2:
You remember that one fucking summer we did it. Yes, yes I was bad.
Speaker 1:
I was swaying like a motherfucker, oh yeah. And now and now, we did it at night, yeah.
Speaker 2:
So did it like what? Like midnight yeah.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, it was pretty fucking late. Yeah, it was fucking crazy.
Speaker 2:
I think we have that episode up here too. Go ahead and get that out, guys. But yeah, that was a fucking crazy one too, because we caught stuff on that one and then it was like it's fucking hot, like I got to get out of here, man.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, now it's nice and cool. So we got to see if Mr Fed sex is up for it in the next couple of weeks.
Speaker 2:
Hopefully man.
Speaker 1:
Pretty cool. With it, the way it is, and the activity picking up. Like I said, our associate on the bulk side was telling me how he saw like a blue shirt moving in a place that no one passed through just different shit like that. So it's, it's picking up, oh yeah. It'll definitely be interesting to see.
Speaker 2:
There's something there that's really just fucking pissing it off or like irritating it more than usual.
Speaker 1:
Well, I mean, it could be all the stress and bad vibes going through at the current moment.
Speaker 2:
Oh yeah, they feed on negative activity. You know what that checks out. That's probably what it is. So until that stuff's gone.
Speaker 1:
it's just going to get worse, and I don't see that going away anytime soon.
Speaker 2:
Yeah because it's been fucking like popping up a lot more frequently in front of more people than usual.
Speaker 1:
Oh yeah, that's why I'm I'm greatly excited to go back, especially, like I said, with the spirit talker. Yeah, that'll be interesting to see what happens.
Speaker 2:
That would be pretty cool.
Speaker 1:
Well, that's all I got.
Speaker 2:
That's what we got for this week's episode. Hell yeah, all right, guys. And don't forget, next time we'll see you in Helheim. Bye.