Core Of A S Ranked Haunted Spot

First let me explain why I have gone to such place.

You all know that I have been here quite long, well you can almost guess how old I am, maybe?（What am I even trying to say?）

I mean age does not matter whether or not you visit haunted places, some go to have some chilling experience, have fun sometimes? (Which I do not recommend...) I visit those places not to have fun... I explore and will pray for victims if there were any cases happened historical or not (I will buy flowers and put it at the place if allowed and not bothered at all).

I will not be specific about where this place is since the location is so small and easy to guess. Oh, by the way, it is at Okinawa so you might read about local myths.

So where do I start... Last week I went to Okinawa alone to meet the local Yuta that I mentioned a few stories before hand about the Yuta trying to give a message to my father half the world apart from my long passed away grandmother... I think it was nearly 1 year ago?... Anyone still remember that? No, you don't need to go back to that story, this is a completely different event.

So I met up with the Yuta, I call her Ume-san (I think she is in her 70s but she looks younger than that). She bowed deeply as if she met a very close friend and smiled brightly showing her silver tooth.

"How is your friend? I thought she will be coming along! She is such a nice woman, I wanted to talk to talk to her," Ume-san said in local accented Japanese which was hard for me to understand that I needed her to explain word by word to me. "Ha... Explaining in ordinary Japanese is tiring, you need to come over more and speak more with me." She said jokingly. I was still scratching my head from the local accent... Sounded like a Japanese poetry or a Haiku or... Something too traditional...

Ume brought me to a country-side traditional inn nearby the sea-side. "It's beautiful" I said to Ume-san.

"This inn is the only inn the typhoon never will destroy. It has been here since I was practicing to become a Yuta. I know the owner, but he is gone now..." Ume-san said. I can see loneliness from her eyes as she seeks over the ocean.

"How long ago was it when you practice to become a Yuta?" I asked Ume-san.

"I was 13, the islands were still occupied by the Americans. My teacher needed to sneak in the forbidden forests during night time. She told me that there used to have a shrine, a shine with no priest, but full of gods and holy beings..." she went on and I guess I was too tired to try to understand what she was talking about... I just nodded off the conversation (sorry, didn't meant to be rude).

Ume-san said that she is living nearby so we can meet anytime, this trip was actually arranged by her. My friend Aya told me that she received her letter during March time and replied her that we will be going to visit her this year, unfortunately Aya had to deal with some family problem and so this trip became my lonely trip visiting the Yuta.

Ume-san said that she wanted to bring us to the once holy ground. First Aya mentioned that Ume-san wanted to give the spirits which is protecting us a break time... Like energy charging or something?... Like some people will put power stones in some sort of special salt to regain its power? I still don't know if it was something like that... But please read on.

At the evening Ume-san said that she is taking me to a local steak house... I told her that I am a vegetarian and she said that they don't serve meat (so, it was a vegan steak house? I am still not sure since I see people eating chunks of beef there...hmm...). The waiter there knew that Ume-san does not eat meats too, she ordered steamed vegetables and some fries. "Charge the energy of the earth, eat some potatoes, Native Americans were energetic because they eat lots of potatoes" Ume-san said and poured the plate of fries on my plate.

"Wow, Ume-san that's a lot!" I said.

"It's for your spirits, you ever share any thing with them?" She asked as she ate.

I shook my head and started to eat the fries and the mashed potato on my side, I thought I was nearly becoming a potato myself... (oof...)

That night Ume-san brought me to an area where it was said to be a holy ground... But we needed to go through wild trees, it was damp and very dark... And why during night times?

She said she know the ways better during dark hours than I remember that she said she used to sneak in such places during night time... Oh, that is why.

Ume-san says as we go "so, Ryujin-san, your spirits around you seems to be still very active."

I was following her through the bushes and barely can speak but I said "eish...", which meant yes (mixed in different languages), lol.

Ume-san slides down a slop with mosses and slippery grasses. I followed by hugging the trees and grabbing the plants around.

"Here, you recognize this place?" Ume-san said eagerly and wiped some sweat off her forehead. I did not even know where we are heading and so I did not answer her at all.

"It's the XXXXX the famous haunting spot. We are right inside it where no one knows that it is this spot which is haunted, urban legends says that its outside where the cave is but the cave was just used as an emergency hospital during the war, nothing special." So Ume-san just said that the place where we are is the place well known to be haunted, but I did not sense anything at all. Ume-san sat on a mossy rock in the cross legs position (the meditation posture?) "Ryujin-san, I used to practice on this stone here when I was still a trainee, not to mention could I sense any ghosts. I did not even see any people back on those days." Ume-san told me as if she was inside her own room or something.

I did not know what to say and so I just stood there.

"Ryujin-san! Can you excuse the being behind you?" shouted Ume-san. I was so tired that I just listen to her and thought nothing and moved to the left hand side. Ume-san came near me and patted my right shoulder and said "wrong side... He just went past your shoulder... You should be fine, usually people get possessed that way." Ume-san chanted a prayer and patted my back this time "Done!" She said smiling.

I still do not understand why this silent dark forest is said to be haunted, so I asked "why is this place the most haunted?"

Ume-san smile and sat back on the rock and asked "Do you still not understand?"

Well, indeed, because haunted place are supposed to be full of paranormal activities right? I don't hear voices, I don't see a thing and I don't feel a thing, I thought to myself.

"This is a holy place for gifted people, for us Yuta, it's a place to regain power. For a normal person, it's just another dark forest, but for spirits it is a place to rest" Ume-san said slowly and used simplest word so that I can understand too.

I nodded, Ume-san brought me to a broken tree "this tree was bombed by the Americans but they were not able to win the great spirits here. This place was once considered as a dangerous place by them, well who told them to attack the shrine, what a foolish thing to do, but you see, like this tree here the place never died," she pointed at the new leaves from in-between the broken trunk. It was amazing to know that the bombing did not kill the tree at all and that even today new life is forming.

For a moment I thought I saw a few fireflies fly from the corner of my eyes but the moment I want to focus the see them I lost sight of them.

Ume-san smiled and bowed just like last time when she was talking to the "beings" around me.

I am not sure if this can be considered as an experience but what I want to say here is not every haunted spots are evil and dangerous in spiritual way.