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The Creepiest Place on Earth - Aokigahara Forest

Aokigahara is a woodland at the base of Mount Fuji in Japan.
It makes "The Blair Witch Project" look like Winnie the Pooh's Hundred Acre Wood.
It probably has something to do wit all the dead bodies scattered around.
What Niagara Fall is to weddings, Aokigahara is to suicide.
How many suicides does it take for a place to get that reputation?!
A dozen? Fifty?
MORE THAT 500 FUCKING PEOPLE HAVE TAKEN THEIR LIVES IN AOKIGAHARA SINCE 1950s.
Beside dead bodies, the area is littered with signs displaying such uplifting messages like
Life is a precious thing! Please reconsider! " or
"Think of your family!"

In the 70s, the problem got national attention and the Japanese government began doing annual sweeps of the forest in search of bodeis.
In 2002, they found 78.
But who knows how many they missed?!
In all likelihood there probably is a hanged person somewhere in Aokigahara on any given day.

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