It was our last night in a small town called Fuji-Kawaguchiko by the mount Fuji in Japan. We stayed in a large Hotel and had one of those beautiful, traditional rooms with tatami area. The room was huge and we loved having the chance to experience this side of the local culture. Our four day stay in the hotel was pretty much perfect until things started to take a strange turn...
We had packed all our things and were ready to check out the next morning to continue our journey to Kyoto. It was around 22.00 and we were preparing to go to sleep. I walked pass the large hallway we had in our apartment-type room and saw that the light was on in the toilet. Tony was in the living room with me and no one else was in the apartment. Besides, the light in the toilet was automatic, turning on when you enter and turning off shortly after you leave.
Yet the light was on and no one had been in there for a long time.
I went to check what was going on yet couldn't open the Door. It was locked from the inside. I tried a few more times, hoping it was stuck but we had no issues with any of these sliding doors before, everything was in a perfect condition. Still, the door was not opening.
Tony took his swiss army knife and finally managed to open it. The room was empty, the light was on but the little, colorful toilet-seat cover for children had moved. I had paid attention to the seat before because it was super colorful, unlike anything else in the room. The seat was placed against a wall near the sink but as soon as we managed to unlock the door, the seat was facing a different wall. It had moved across the room. I tried to think if maybe the cleaner had moved it during the day but I'm pretty convinced I would have noticed it when we came back from our hike earlier that day. Tony was convinced it was the cleaner who had moved it but I really don't think that was the case. I would have noticed it before.
I then stepped inside to test the door. I tried to slide it quite fast a couple of times to see if it's possible for the lock to magically turn on it's own but it didn't even nudge. I actually had to turn the lock quite hard to be able to lock the door. So I stepped out of the room, closed the door and waited for a minute to see the light turn off, and it did. I checked the rest of the rooms and systematically closed every single sliding door and checked that all the lights were off. Eventually, I turned the air-conditioning to +19, as we always do in hotels.
It felt a bit strange to sleep in that room that night.Tony was trying to be very logical saying that there is an explanation to all these things, which I really didn't buy.
A couple of hours into the night I woke up. It was incredibly hot in the room. After tossing and turning for a while I got up to check the Air Conditioning. It was on +28.
I was annoyed. Whatever was going on in the room was really driving me mad. I was tired and was not going to let any supernatural occurrence mess with my sleep. I turned the air conditioning back to +19 and went back to bed.
About two hours later it was on +28 again.
The morning arrived and no long haired girls had crawled out of the TV. I went to wash my face and as I opened the bathroom door I noticed that the second door, connecting to the private in-room hot spring tub, was wide open. It wasn't open just a little bit but all the way. Wide open. Before going to bed the previous night I made sure that all doors were closed yet in the morning one was open. I checked with Tony, if maybe he went there earlier but he didn't get up all night.
So there we were, in our possibly haunted hotel room in the tiny town of Fuji-Kawaguchiko. I always expected that if I ever experience something supernatural it would, at least, include switching lights and creaking floors. Even though the lights sort-of switched it was still relatively normal, if you consider self-locking and self-sliding doors as well as creepily malfunctioning air conditioning normal in a country where nothing was ever broken. Is it really possible that all these things just suddenly stopped working in one pretty normal hotel room in a 5-star hotel? Especially, like I mentioned few sentences ago, nothing was malfunctioning in Japan during our two week stay. Everything worked no matter where we went. But here, on that one night, in this hotel room, it all just fell apart?
No one crawled out of the TV like in the Japanese horror movie Ringu, but someone did want to make us aware we were definitely not alone in that room.
Tony still hasn't come up with a logical explanation to all of the strange things that happened but he's still claiming there would be an explanation. I will let you know if he comes up with one.
| Mount Fuji |
| Fuji-Kawaguchiko & mt. Fuji |
We had packed all our things and were ready to check out the next morning to continue our journey to Kyoto. It was around 22.00 and we were preparing to go to sleep. I walked pass the large hallway we had in our apartment-type room and saw that the light was on in the toilet. Tony was in the living room with me and no one else was in the apartment. Besides, the light in the toilet was automatic, turning on when you enter and turning off shortly after you leave.
Yet the light was on and no one had been in there for a long time.
I went to check what was going on yet couldn't open the Door. It was locked from the inside. I tried a few more times, hoping it was stuck but we had no issues with any of these sliding doors before, everything was in a perfect condition. Still, the door was not opening.
Tony took his swiss army knife and finally managed to open it. The room was empty, the light was on but the little, colorful toilet-seat cover for children had moved. I had paid attention to the seat before because it was super colorful, unlike anything else in the room. The seat was placed against a wall near the sink but as soon as we managed to unlock the door, the seat was facing a different wall. It had moved across the room. I tried to think if maybe the cleaner had moved it during the day but I'm pretty convinced I would have noticed it when we came back from our hike earlier that day. Tony was convinced it was the cleaner who had moved it but I really don't think that was the case. I would have noticed it before.
| Bedroom |
I then stepped inside to test the door. I tried to slide it quite fast a couple of times to see if it's possible for the lock to magically turn on it's own but it didn't even nudge. I actually had to turn the lock quite hard to be able to lock the door. So I stepped out of the room, closed the door and waited for a minute to see the light turn off, and it did. I checked the rest of the rooms and systematically closed every single sliding door and checked that all the lights were off. Eventually, I turned the air-conditioning to +19, as we always do in hotels.
| Good night, sleep tight! |
A couple of hours into the night I woke up. It was incredibly hot in the room. After tossing and turning for a while I got up to check the Air Conditioning. It was on +28.
I was annoyed. Whatever was going on in the room was really driving me mad. I was tired and was not going to let any supernatural occurrence mess with my sleep. I turned the air conditioning back to +19 and went back to bed.
About two hours later it was on +28 again.
The morning arrived and no long haired girls had crawled out of the TV. I went to wash my face and as I opened the bathroom door I noticed that the second door, connecting to the private in-room hot spring tub, was wide open. It wasn't open just a little bit but all the way. Wide open. Before going to bed the previous night I made sure that all doors were closed yet in the morning one was open. I checked with Tony, if maybe he went there earlier but he didn't get up all night.
So there we were, in our possibly haunted hotel room in the tiny town of Fuji-Kawaguchiko. I always expected that if I ever experience something supernatural it would, at least, include switching lights and creaking floors. Even though the lights sort-of switched it was still relatively normal, if you consider self-locking and self-sliding doors as well as creepily malfunctioning air conditioning normal in a country where nothing was ever broken. Is it really possible that all these things just suddenly stopped working in one pretty normal hotel room in a 5-star hotel? Especially, like I mentioned few sentences ago, nothing was malfunctioning in Japan during our two week stay. Everything worked no matter where we went. But here, on that one night, in this hotel room, it all just fell apart?
| Looking happy, feeling creepy |
| Traditional breakfast |
Tony still hasn't come up with a logical explanation to all of the strange things that happened but he's still claiming there would be an explanation. I will let you know if he comes up with one.
| Fuji-Kawaguchiko |
