Hi guys.. I’m back ^-^ .. I’m gonna introduce you the SUICIDE FOREST or the SEA OF TREES, also known as Aokigahara, that is located at the northwestern flank of Mount Fuji in Japan. You must be asking if why it was called as the suicide forest. Let’s find out ^_^
Before we proceed to the suicide stories and myths of this place, let me explain it’s geography first. The ground of this forest is composed of volcanic rocks. Well of course, there’s Mount Fuji near the area. Because of these volcanic rocks in the forest floor, the ground cannot be easily penetrate with hand tools thus the forest is very dense. That is why, hikers are using plastic tape to mark their paths to prevent from getting lost in the middle of the forest.
There are several tourist attractions as well just like the three larger lava caves near Mount Fuji namely Narusawa Ice Cave, Fugaku Wind Cave, and Lake Sai Bat Cave. The ice cave was being frozen through time.
The reason why this place was called as the suicide forest simply because it became the most popular site for suicide located in Japan. There were 78 bodies found in the forest during 2002 followed by 105 bodies in 2003. In 2010, there were more than 200 attempted suicide in the forest and 54 people really commited suicide, based on police records. In the year 2011, the increasing suicides were most commonly in the form of hanging and drug overuse. These scenarios led the local officials to come up with an idea to not publicized the number of suicides hoping that the suicides will decrease in number. They also place signages in the forest telling us to seek help and stop commiting suicide for suicidal visitors.
According to the myths from the people who attempted suicide in the forest, they’re out of control when they get there. There’s a loud distorted voices that keeps on telling them about ending their lives inside the area. They also believed that the trees in the forest are the one who was pushing them to do the suicidal acts. They also said that before you’ll be consumed by these suicidal thoughts in your mind, you’ll gonna hear a soft singing voice of a child that makes you lose your own sight (not literally blind =_= ) and do the things that you didn’t wanted to. However, in terms of science, these myths are only connected with the suicidal people’s dark emotions that leads them to hallucinate so bad that they ended up killing theirselves. Interesting right? How I wish I can go there right now HAHAHAHAHA ^_^
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