( sorry for this being so short but I didn't have time to write a longer chapter )
With that, he hurried out, got into his truck and drove off.
I turned to my grandmother and cautiously asked, "Who's Hachishakusama?"
"Don't worry," she replied in a shaking voice. "Grandpa will do something. There's no need for you to worry."
As we sat nervously in the kitchen waiting for my grandfather to come back, she explained what was happening. She told me there was a dangerous thing that was haunting the area. They called it "Hachishakusama" because of its height. In Japanese, "Hachishakusama" means "Eight Feet Tall".
It takes on the appearance of an extremely tall woman and it makes a sound like "Po... Po... Po..." in a deep, male voice. It appears slightly diffently, depending on who sees it. Some say it looks like a haggard old woman in a kimono and others say it is a girl in a white funeral shroud. One thing that never changes is its height and the sound it makes.
A long time ago, it was captured by monks and they managed to confine it in a ruined building on the outskirts of the village. They trapped it using 4 small religious statues called "jizos" that they placed at the North, South, East and West of the ruins and it wasn't supposed to be able to move from there. Somehow it managed to escape.
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"Eight feet tall"
HorrorEight Feet Tall is a legend about a tall woman who abducts children. She is 8ft tall, wears a long white dress and makes a sound like "Po... Po... Po... Po... Po..."
