![]() Nearer to him are items more closely related to his demise: empty packets of prescription pills, beer cans, and bottles of liquor. Scattered around are innumerable documents, a briefcase and other remnants of a former life. “Under his bent legs a pair of slacks, a white shirt and a jacket have been spread out as a cushion at his final resting place. His pasty upper torso is shirtless, while his legs are covered only by black long johns-with blue-striped boxers sticking out above the waistband-and a pair of woolly socks. “In a small hollow, just below a tree, and curled up like a baby on a thick bed of dead leaves, lies a man, his thinning gray hair matted across his balding cranium. But as I approach, it becomes apparent it’s more than just clothes I’ve spotted. “The source of that scream remains a mystery as, across a clearing, I see what looks like a pile of clothes. ![]() “Inexplicably, I find myself moving toward the sound, searching for signs of life. The natural reaction would be to run, but the forest floor is a maze of roots and slippery rocks and, truth be told, I am lost in this vast woodland whose name, in part, translates as ‘Sea of Trees.’ “I am walking through Aokigahara Jukai forest, the light rapidly fading on a mid-winter afternoon, when I am stopped dead in my tracks by a blood-curdling scream. In a special for the Japan Times, Rob Gilhooly writes of his shocking experience in the forest: But some would say they haven’t all departed. The forest floor is strewn with mementoes left by mourning friends and relatives where weary souls departed the Earth. Thousands have committed suicide in Aokigahara Forest. Though some appear quite welcoming, many harrowing tales say otherwise. These are some of the most haunted places in the world.
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