Japanese Woman Posted Real Time Disappearance From Nonexistent Train Station
What was said
"Nobody on this train is awake except me. I don't know how anyone could sleep on a train and they are sleeping really hard. I had to check that they were actually breathing."
In January 2004, a woman calling herself Hasumi documented a train journey on Japan's 2Channel message board that ended at Kisaragi Station, a location that does not exist on any Japanese rail line. She spent four hours posting updates while hundreds tried to help locate her, describing sedated passengers, a one-legged man who vanished, and finally accepting a ride from a stranger before her final post at 3:44 AM. No trace of Hasumi was ever found, though the original thread remains online and the story was adapted into a 2022 horror film.
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- Programme
- The Why Files
- Episode
- Somebody Made Sure You'd Find This
- Clip time
- 5:56
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