Thirteen Bodies
I heard this scary story from my old P.E teacher at primary school. It happened in a small village in Gifu *1 . Because of its small population, the houses were few and far between. There was at least one hundred metres between each house. A traveller came to this village on one snowy day and went into a seemingly empty house hoping to get some rest there. But he found an old woman inside. The old woman led him to the second floor of the house, but when he got there she had disappeared. There was nothing he could do but go back downstairs. He felt a bit spooked and tried to leave the house when he saw the same old woman standing in the middle of the tatami *2 room with a scythe in her hand. Quickly he ran to the front door to escape but somehow it wouldn't open. While he was busy trying to find another door the old woman came and grabbed him by the arm. Because of the darkness he didn't realize it before, but now they were close, she didn't look like she was a ...