(Translated by Saya)
This question was posted at a Japanese question-and-answer website.
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【What should I do?】
Question: What should I do?
Questioner:
Date: 20th September 2008
Hi. This is my first time posting. I want your opinions.
Last year we bought an old house and after we bought the house we got some trees in the garden uprooted and found an old well there, but the estate agent never told us that there was such a well.
I found it creepy and paid a gardener to cover it over with earth but do you think I can ask the estate agent to pay for the cost?
And also ever since I got the well buried so many bad things have been happening to us, my husband got sick and got fired from his job, I had a miscarriage, and now the whole house is engulfed in gloom.
My mother-in-law kept blaming me saying, 'it's all because you buried the well,' which annoyed me so much that I battered her to death, uncovered the well, and buried her body inside, but she still walks around inside the house and throughout the night she sits by my bed cursing me
until the morning, so I can not get any sleep at all.
It's not just the old bitch, but the whole neighbourhood keeps complaining to me through radio waves.
They keep complaining from TV too so I can't watch TV.
It's actually all my husband's fault, he's the one who bought the house with the weird well in the first place, the other day I strangled him while he slept and buried him in the well the same way as the old bitch, but, he keeps walking around inside the house, and at night he curses me with the old bitch, what can I do to make the bitch and my husband go away?
Right now, as I'm typing in this question, they are right here beside me and watching me, and I'm so fed up with it all.
What should I do? Please someone tell me. Please.
Comments
Perhaps her covering the well has something to do with her insanity, or maybe she's been insane all along.
I suppose this calls for a psychoanalytical interpretation. I read somewhere that a well stands for the subconscious memories all people possess, and new traumatic experiences are "thrown" into the well and they pile up, poisoning the water and the mind. As our personality is more or less dependent upon our memories, this story could probably well be symbolic of an unsound mind, especially as she had filled the well with earth and corpses.
its like she doesnt feel guilty at all after all she did =__=
i think bury yourself into the same well is the best answer *lol
I wonder what part of this story is really true and what part is the product of her delusion.
Are there really ghosts haunting her? Or is it all happening only in her head?
Zanyuki, your psychoanalytic interepretation is interesting, dear. Thank you for that!
Btw I wonder why those kind of people always talk about radio waves? And what did they talk about before the discovery of radio waves? I get curious.
@Time: yeah that's the scary part, that she doesn't feel any remorse at all!
I wonder if she became mad after the discovery of the well, or was she already mad before it? Or is the well simply a symbol of her sick mind, like Zanyuki says?
@Anon: Hello dear! What a nice person. There are loads of people in our world who are nice yet prefer to remain anonymous, aren't there? Don't be afraid! Be the light of the world! You are the precious salt, to whom the kingdom of heaven belongs! lol
Ah, the sites I go to? I tell you what, you can google the word "怖い話" and you'll find lots of scary story sites. Good luck with your study of Japanese! I mean I've been using Japanese for all my life but still haven't gotten the hang of it.
@Razz: oh! have a mercy on the poor woman! lol
@Tia: a sensible advice from a sensible girl! Thank you dear, as always, for leaving a comment. :D
You're very much welcome! I will try to find the source of that, as I'm sure I read about it somewhere...
As for the radio waves - beats me. Supposedly, up to the time of the early 20th century, people believed that light (and in limited cases sound) traveled through an invisible medium called the "aether". Of course, this was already disproven, and it's probably not what you're looking for, but it's sort of in the neighborhood. That, or I missed your point completely! :)
@Zanyuki: yes please, let me know if you find the sourse, it is interesting.
"Aether"? No, it's cool.lol Your mind is full of interesting titbits! :)
This one was quite creepy. I think the house and well made the women change somehow... she became insane after moving there. Perhaps she was posessed by a ghost from the house or well?
Either way I pity her as she seems very unwell - oops terrible pun!
I'm trying to finish up Sword Art Online too. XD
Uh... first, miss, you should see a doctor. And don't put HIM in the well too!
As eerie as it is, it's also a bit funny. The narrator doesn't find it at all scary that she is apparently being haunted by her mother-in-law and husband. She seems to find it more annoying than anything else. XD