WARNING: Fright Meter=100%!

Chapter 1; Hachishakusama

This is a story about the lady called Hachishakusama or "8 feet tall" in Japanese. She's known as the women who brings death. Ready? Here we go;

My grandparents lived in a small house in Japan. Every summer my parents would take me to visit them. The last time I saw them was when I was 8 years old. I was playing in the backyard while my grandparents talked inside. As I was playing I heard a strange sound. PO PO PO PO. It was hard to figure out where the noise was coming from. As I looked around I saw a hat on the hedge. I thought it was impossible. After all the hedge was at least eight feet tall. The straw hat started to slowly move to a gap in the hedge. I saw a tall slender women peering though the hedge looking straight at me. I ran inside to tell my grandparents what I had seen. They weren't really listening until I mentioned the sound it made. They looked very very worried. My grandpa left the room to talk on the phone. "Don't let him out of your sight!" He told my grandma as he left the room. She wouldn't take her eyes off of me. I couldn't even close the bathroom door. When my grandpa got back there was a women with him. They guided me to my room and the lady put four bowls of salt on all four corners of the room and then handed me a piece of parchment. "What's going on?" I asked. My grandparents hesitated for a minute and then my grandma said " There has been this strange thing abducting children in the area. It is called Hachishakusama. A long time ago monks captured it and locked it in a tower but somehow it escaped. " They locked the windows and gave me strict instructions. "Listen. You have been liked by Hachishakusama. Anyone who sees her is destine to die. So lock the windows and the door and don't let go of this piece of parchment. And most importantly DO NOT and I mean DO NOT leave this room until 7:30 am. That bucket over there will be your toilet. " once they left, I locked the door as told to do so. I heard tapping on the window so I turned up the tv to drown out the noise and eventually I fell asleep. I woke up to the tapping and when I checked the time it was 1:30 am. I then heard my grandpa calling out to me. "You there? You can come out if you would like." A sign of relief rushed through me as I ran to the door. All the bowls of salt had almost completely turned black and same with with the parchment. Something wasn't right. I had this feeling that it wasn't my grandpa. Why would he come and tell me to leave the room when he specifically told me not to? I decided not to open the door. I turned around and went back to sleep. When I woke up it was 7:30 am. All the bowls were filled with black salt. I slowly turned the knob to see my grandparents standing there. We immediately left Japan and I never returned there. My grandpa even strictly put it in his will that I will not visit his funeral. Seven years later I got a call from my grandma. She was diagnosed with cancer and asked me to visit her. "What about Hachishakusama?" I asked. She stopped speaking and everything was quiet for a while. Then I heard that terrifying sound I heard once before;

PO PO PO PO PO

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