(Translated by Saya)
I was beat after a long day at work.
When I reached my apartment block and tried to get in the elevator, there was already a man inside it.
He stood there with a cap drawn deeply over his forehead as if he were trying to hide his face.
What a creepy guy - I thought. But I could do nothing but give him a brief greeting and get in with him.
He didn't respond to my greeting but just stood there keeping his head bowed.
The man got off the elevator before me, but just as he was getting out his shoulder bumped into me.
I apologised "Oh, sorry," just to be polite, but he ignored me and walked away, still keeping his head bowed.
When I returned to my room, I looked at the part of my body where he had bumped into, and found some blood on my clothes.
"What the hell? Disgusting!" I thought, but didn't think anything more of it.
A few days later, when my room's doorbell rang, I looked through the peephole and saw a police officer standing outside.
"Excuse me, Madam, but a few days ago we had a murder case in this building. Have you seen any supicious looking persons around here?" Asked the police officer.
The question brought to mind the creepy guy in the elevator.
But I was watching an interesting TV drama at the time, and if I told the police officer I saw someone I would probably have to spend a long time being questioned by him, and I was just too lazy for that.
So I answered, "I haven't seen anyone."
The police officer went away without further ado.
Next day, while I was watching TV, news coverage of a murder case appeared on it.
It said the murder took place in this apartment block. And it happened on the very day I saw that guy in the elevator.
"So it did really happen on that day."
The murderer had already been caught.
The news proceeded to show a picture of the murderer.
It was the face of the police officer who visited my room.
Comments
This urban legend acts as a warning to Japanese people who are in general very docile and cooperative with the authority.
ok, now about the story...i'm gonna insert a plot twist of why that culprit got caught. the woman the culprit asked as a police officer was actually a ghost. he noticed once he got back to the lobby to ask who live in the room (so he could kill her later when she comes out), but he got an answer that said the lady in that room had been murdered and the murderer haven't been found so no one live there anymore. afraid of being cursed or haunted by her, he decided to confess his sin. the reason she brushed of the blood as something normal was probably because she had seen that amount of blood before from her own corpse back when she was murdered
Thank you for your interesting theory! ;)