urban legend (translation of recent western term)
(Pseudo) Japanese Strange Tales/Don't Find Me!
This is a story I heard from my grandpa when I went back to my hometown last year. It's not a scary story, and those who like scary stories may be disappointed. Grandpa's hometown is a small village located in Nagano Prefecture, a place with nothing but mountains and fields. In spite of that, that village was very beautiful. I visited my grandfather's hometown every long vacation. On one of those days, Grandpa suddenly spoke at length about my name. "Shizuko. Grandpa said that the name was taken from his cousin, my aunt's name. Grandpa told me that I was just like my aunt Shizuko in the way I moved around. Since the rest of the story is a bit long, I will refer to Aunt Shizuko as Shizuko for short. Unlike the Jing in her name, Grandpa said that Jingzi was a very active child growing up. Catching bugs,
(Pseudo) Japanese Strange Tales - Stone Throwing
(Pseudo) Japanese Weird Tales/Throwing Stones That's a story that happened when I was in my country's middle school. There was an uninhabited house in the neighborhood of T High School, where I studied. Whenever I went to or from school, I would pass by it. The house itself had no special features, it was just like a normal single-family house. It has a fence, a garage, a porch and a small courtyard. The name of the previous owner is unknown because the door plate has been removed. The front door and windows were sealed with "Private Property, No Entry", so it looked like it hadn't been lived in for a long time. The house was regarded as a haunted house by the students of our school, and occasionally we would see students trying their luck in front of the house. Everyone always pretended to run up to the fence and poke their heads in, then bragged about seeing something scary. I never heard my parents say anything about that.
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