"Bop bop bop" laughter comes from beyond the fence: how Hachishaku-sama spread

In August 2008, someone posted a long thread on a Japanese anonymous forum about a summer from his youth. It spread widely, and people called her Hachishaku-sama.

The post said that he went back to his grandparents' home in the countryside for summer vacation. That day he sat on the veranda and heard a strange sound from outside the courtyard: “bop, bop, bop,” like a man laughing. The fence was high, but he saw a wide-brimmed straw hat on top of it, slowly moving forward. Under the hat was a woman in a white dress, tall beyond human proportions, about 2.4 meters. Her face was hidden by the brim, only her movements visible, one after another, and that sound came from her.

He was terrified and told his grandfather. As soon as his grandfather heard it, his face changed, saying that those she took a liking to would not live more than a few days. That night he was locked in a room plastered with talismans, the windows nailed shut with boards, salt sprinkled in the four corners. His grandfather warned him: no matter who calls you tonight, do not answer, and do not open the window.

In the middle of the night, someone called his name outside the window, in his grandfather's voice. He almost answered, remembering what was said in the day, and gritted his teeth without making a sound. The voice called over and over, then changed to his father's, then to others'. Just before dawn, the calls finally stopped.

After daybreak, several male relatives from the village surrounded him and escorted him all the way to the car, leaving the village. He never went back. In several circulating versions, the last sentence is almost the same, about that voice: like family, do not answer.

Later someone tried to verify it, saying such stories had long existed in the Japanese countryside with the saying “those taken a liking to cannot respond,” some overlapping with the “yamauba” legends of the mountains. But the name Hachishaku-sama in that post dates to 2008. Who first wrote it, and how much was true, no one can say.

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