Ep. 30 - Aokigahara Forest in Japan
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind
Diane Student
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2015
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
At the base of Mount Fuji in Japan lies a forest that is 14 square miles in size and is referred to by some as the Sea of Trees. The forest's official name is Aokigahara Forest and is known for being very quiet. Aokigahara is notorious though for its reputation as a place people go to die by their own hand. Most people call this wooded area "The Suicide Forest." There are rumors that demons run the place. And the tales of hauntings are numerous. Diane and Denise share the Japanese culture around suicide and why this place seems to be cursed. Moment in Oddity features sword swallowing and This Day in History deals with the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.
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| 1:07.0 | Hello you spook-tacular people. welcome to this 30th episode of the history |
| 1:16.1 | goes Bump podcast ghost tours for the theater of the mind I am your host Diane and |
| 1:21.2 | this is Denise and today's show we are featuring |
| 1:25.0 | Alkahara forest in Japan so we're going to be traveling over into Asia today |
| 1:31.1 | and when you talk about this forest, one of the things that people need to know about it is that it has a nickname. It's called the suicide forest. |
| 1:40.0 | So one of the things that we're going to discuss in today's show is the topic of suicide and also what it has to do with Japanese culture. |
| 1:49.0 | Now we know there's a lot of people who are depressed out there in the world, a lot of people that sometimes think |
| 1:54.5 | that the answer may be suicide for them. |
| 1:57.8 | We've always looked at suicide as being a permanent answer to a temporary problem. |
| 2:03.0 | And we've watched a lot of high profile people do it. |
| 2:06.0 | Robin Williams, you know, this last year. |
| 2:08.0 | It was very shocking to have that happen. |
| 2:10.0 | And there's just a lot of people, you would never know that they're in that depths of pain and |
| 2:14.9 | sorrow that that seems to be the best answer for them. Right and that's definitely |
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