GHOST ATLAS LOCATION

Maruoka Castle

Sakai, Fukui, Japan

1-59 Kasumicho, Maruoka, Sakai, Fukui, Japan

Haunting Rating★★★★

THE STORY

Reported Haunting

Legend says the spirit of Oshizu floods the castle moat every April after a promise to make her son a samurai was broken.

According to legend, in 1576 a widow named Oshizu agreed to become a hitobashira, or human pillar sacrifice, on the condition that her son would be made a samurai by the local lord. The lord was later transferred and the promise was not fulfilled. The source states that Oshizu then flooded the castle moat every April.

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