Ghosts

[Mrmatty376]

I find it interesting, but the Okinawans are pretty superstitious. There are old bunkers and caves that they hid in during WWII when the americans came. A lot of them committed suicide, jumping off cliffs, japanese soldiers shooting the people, Japanese soldiers blowing themselves up all before the americans came. The Japanese had told the Okinawans that the americans were evil and were going to rape thier women and children and enslave them so they did this. Anwho, the bunkers and caves are still up and the people don't go near them because they say they are haunted. People go ghost hunting in these caves and bunkers. There is a hotel here (i think it was a hotel) that was being built but construction stopped because the workers said it was haunted. It's now more or less a tourist attraction that teenagers and stuff go to for ghost hunting, but because it's an old construction site, things fall apart and people die. But anywho, it's pretty interesting. It's cool to go look at the caves. They are gated off, but if you look inside you can see shrapnel and grenade pins from when they blew themselves up. Kind of eerie, but the history behind it is interesting. They have a memorial park for all the okinawans who died. They have video footage of people committing suicide and stories about people who hid. One lady was scared because a japanese soldier was going to shoot her and her child if the child couldn't stay quiet when they were hiding so the mother tried quieting her baby by closing its mouth. After a while the lady looked down and saw that she had suffocated her baby. Sad stuff, but I digress.
I like being around superstitious cultures. It's interesting to see how they believe and what they do to protect themselves from "spirits" and "ghosts"