人面犬：80年代末日本的高速公路上，有人说被一条脸是中年男人的狗追了

In late 1980s Japan, a story spread like wildfire among middle school students: on the expressways, there was a dog that ran alongside cars, even faster than the cars. If you looked at it, you would discover it had the face of a middle-aged man.

It could also speak. Some said it muttered to the people inside the cars, roughly meaning "don't look at me" or "don't mind me"; others said it complained, "so annoying."

From 1989 to 1990, various magazines and television programs did specials on it. It was said to be the product of medical experiments, or someone who had been reincarnated into the wrong body, and some even claimed it was a person who had been hit and killed by a car. For a while, the question children asked adults was: is the human-faced dog real? Magazines published drawings by "eyewitnesses"—expressions of deep sorrow, somewhat funny.

No one ever took a photo of it, and no one ever actually caught it. What people remembered was that image that was both funny and chilling: a middle-aged man's face attached to a dog's body, running and complaining.

Some researchers say such legends emerged during the bubble economy years, when people were uneasy about scientific experiments, expressways, and strangers, and they projected that unease onto an "animal that shouldn't exist."

Later, it became a kind of "series yokai," appearing in many manga and games. Today, when Japanese people mention it, they mostly laugh; after laughing, they feel that face seems somehow familiar.

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