5 Scary TRUE Stories from Asia [Japan, South Korea, China]

number one so this story happened to my mum's friend in Korea about ten years ago every time I hear this story I still get chills my mum's friend lived in an apartment complex in Seoul she was a stay-at-home mother with a young daughter and her husband was working during the days one day she was coming home from running errands with her daughter and got onto the elevator in her building when she got inside the elevator she noticed there was a man wearing a cap and a yellow raincoat and he kept his head low so she couldn't really see his face she immediately felt really uneasy and she made her daughter stand by her side the side farthest away from the man what made her feel even more uncomfortable was when she pressed the button for her floor there was no other lit number and on top of that she noticed that he was carrying something wrapped inside newspaper close to his side things started to click in my mum's friend's head and she started to panic and decided to take out her cellphone and pretend she was calling home to her husband who was obviously really not at home but at work she started saying things like oh I'm on the elevator and about to get off can you get the door for me and making it seem like her husband was waiting at home when the elevator did reach her floor she quickly got off and grabbed her daughter and started to walk as fast as she could to her apartment she noticed that the man also got off on her floor and was slowly following her down the hallway when my mum's friend got to heard war she started banging on it really loudly and shouting hey yo boo I'm home please open the door yo boo means husband or dear she was kind of pretending like he was coming to open the door upon seeing this the man in the yellow raincoat started to walk away back towards the elevator when he seemed to be far enough away my mum's friend quickly picked up her daughter and slid open her doors passcode thingy this is usually how people get into their homes in Korea and she started to frantically punch in her key code but the problem was that the buttons would make sounds so that the man knew that no one was going to answer the door for her and he turned around and started to run back towards her my mum's friend at this point was practically screaming and the first thing she did when she opened the door was throw her daughter inside when she got inside herself she saw that the man was practically inches away from the door but she managed to shut it and lock it just before he could wedge his hand or a weapon in through the door afterwards looking through the doors people she saw that the man was walking away back towards the elevator several months pass and my mum's friend was watching the news and there was a coverage on the capture of a serial killer named Yoo Jung Cho who used to kill a lot of prostitutes she told my mum that she could never forget the dread she felt when she saw the all-too-familiar yellow raincoat and the same hat that he was wearing when he was apprehended the person who submitted this story has included a wiki page on You young-cheol in case anyone was curious it also details all of his killings a link to this page can be found in the description below number two this is about something that happened when I was a baby but my mum still counts it as one of the scariest events of her life for a little backstory both of my parents were Marines stationed in Okinawa in the 80s that's where they met married and where I was born once I was born my mum opted for honorable discharge but both my parents stayed in Okinawa with me as dependents at the time there was nothing available in base housing so my parents had a small apartment out of town both of my parents still agree that their time in Japan was the best times of their lives and they had many friends both Marines and Japanese according to them I was a very popular baby with their Japanese friends with my blond hair and blue eyes on to the gist of the story one night when I was about four months old my dad had to go for a training exercise leaving my mom and I home alone for a week or more my mum had no problem with this since they lived in a very safe neighborhood so safe that they had once witnessed-- the four-year-old child walking home from his grandmother's house at 3:00 a.m. and no one even thought anything of it well my dad had been gone for a few days and one night my mum said that a strange noise woke her up she said it wasn't very loud but that her training had kind of programmed her into being a very light sleeper thinking that I had woken up for a night feeding she came into my room when she came to my open door she found a strange Japanese man reaching into my crib trying to pick me up now here's where I think the story takes a slight turn to the comical in retrospect according to my dad the weather in Japan was extremely hot and humid even in the middle of the night so my mum had a habit of sleeping naked to avoid overheating so my mum is standing in her apartment naked watching a strange man trying to pick up her infant in the middle of the night and bless that woman her first reaction was to pick up my dad's aluminium baseball bat and chase the man from the apartment screaming in English and what little Japanese she knew she rechecked all the locks and spent the rest of the night sleeping on the floor next to my crib the next day feeling a little less shaken she told one of her clothes Japanese friends the woman told her that she needed to keep a careful watch over me because blonde babies sell for a lot of money on the Japanese black market after that my mum insisted that my crib be moved back into my parents room and they continued to live in the same apartment without incident until a family emergency forced my mum to come back stateside this story always makes me chuckle a little just imagining my mother stark naked and screaming like a banshee chasing some guy with a bat but it's a little chilling to think what might have happened to me had she not been such a light sleeper number three this is actually my mother's story but I'll be damned if she lets me forget it when I was a teenager my parents were quite wealthy my dad was a salesman for a high-end Chinese tech company and he would regularly take trips overseas there was one time when my mother chose to go with him she had never been to China before and this was an opportunity to get out of Hong Kong and experience the culture of the mainland after a luxurious start to the vacation my parents hopped on a plane and headed to Shenzhen now my mum is a pretty streetwise lady by US standards she's managed to survive some pretty intense living conditions and navigate the ghetto well enough so I think she got incredibly arrogant here at some point when my dad was speaking to his superiors in a meeting she asked if she could head out alone to do some shopping my dad's boss was apprehensive about that and told her if she really wanted to go to take down his number in case anything happened while shopping she was led to a back alley shop that sold a pretty diverse amount of designer knock-offs bootleg DVD boxsets etc I'm a huge TV fan and apparently she thought this would be a great opportunity to pick me up the first five seasons of scrubs on DVD it was nothing crazy there are places like this all over China but apparently she chose the wrong back-alley shop when she was finished making her purchase a legitimate looking cab pulled up and offered her a ride the cab ride was quiet and it didn't take my mum long to realize that something was wrong the man wasn't driving her back to where she came from and I think he expected her not to remember the way back to her hotel there was a second man in the passenger seat with a stern look the men spoke to each other in Chinese and didn't even acknowledge her when she spoke to them they just kept driving it took her less than half a mile before she tried to escape the car but the doors were locked from the inside the men then began yelling at her in Chinese and threatening her they took her purse and removed the money from inside it and began talking amongst themselves with one last resort my mum called my dad's boss who began speaking to them in Chinese via speakerphone the men were spooked almost immediately they stopped the car grabbed my mum and literally throw her out onto the street then they tossed money at her when she got back she learned a few things firstly the money they threw at her was counterfeit they kept her real money secondly the men were part of the Chinese mafia according to my dad's boss people have a tendency to go missing in situations like that all the time particularly tourists he said that had she not made that phone call she would most likely be dead or abducted the fake cab scam was actually quite a common method of these abductions thirdly my dad's boss has some sort of questionable but scary pull among the criminal underground of mainland China or at least he knew how to put the fear of God into them she still has no idea what he said to them on the phone even to this day she gives me a lot of black she says that scrubs boxset nearly cost me my life number four I'm a guy who was on a trip to Tokyo with a couple of friends one night we decided that the request of one friend to check out the Roppongi bar scene as we were walking into the neighborhood some Nigerian guys were hollering at us trying to get us to go into their bar this is a pretty common thing in the more touristy spots of Tokyo but they seemed especially aggressive here I've heard of stories about what they do in their bars they essentially lure you in force you to buy extremely expensive drinks or drugged you and bully you into going to the ATM anyway we told them that we weren't interested then they generally left us alone one guy though who followed us for a while seemed really persistent about us going to his club I said maybe later fully intending just to get him to go away a few hours later we were quite drunk and in a particularly dirty bar called gas panic and I began dancing with a young lady it was all fun until a hand grabbed my arm it was the large Nigerian guy from the street he told me it's time to go to my bar now and started pulling me with an iron grip I looked around and my friends were nowhere in sight he was giving me a pretty sinister look and he was grabbing my arm so hard there was a bruise on it later somehow I managed to pull free but I noticed two other dudes closing in and sort of screening me off from the rest of the dancefloor suddenly the large Japanese bouncer of the club came up to me and pointed at the exit it was at this point when the bouncer was exchanging words in Japanese with the big Nigerian dude that I realized they were in collusion they were going to throw me out of the bar and I would be alone on the street with the three Nigerian dudes so before they were finished talking I quickly bolted out of the front door and down a dark side street made some obscure turns then found a shady place to hide until I could get my friends to meet me I don't know what those guys had planned but at the very least they were going to rob me given the amount of time that the guy kept track of me I imagine it could have been way worse number five this incident happened when I was six or seven years old so I wasn't scared at the time because I didn't really understand what was happening my dad lived in Thailand for about five years with my stepmother and I went to stay with them for a week or two and we decided to stay in a different part of the country that they lived in I don't remember exactly where we were but we were staying in this beach bungalow hotel place in a non tourist area and we were the only three there for a few hours before this incident happened the restaurant was empty the beach bar was empty the place was basically just deserted besides the people who worked there our bungalow or room was about a meter off the ground and was pretty simple a bathroom a double bed and a single there was a pretty decent TV opposite the beds with a lot of space in between also what we didn't know until later is that the lock on our sliding glass door was broken it got dark and we watched some bug documentary and went to sleep about two hours later my dad woke up and told me that he had woken up and saw a man who had come into our room and was just standing in the dark staring at my dad watching him sleep my dad was a pretty calm person and told the man that this wasn't his room and that he needed to leave but he didn't leave so my dad got out of his bed and walked up to the man to kick him out at which point he walked out of the door and my dad woke me up we stood on the balcony and looked down the long narrow path to our bungalow but this man was nowhere to be seen later we figured out that he was probably hiding under our bungalow about half an hour later everybody was asleep but me I was about to drift off when I saw a hand through the glass door and I turned the light on we got up and looked around but once again there was no sign of anyone the same exact thing happened about 15 minutes later we jammed the door shut with something I don't remember what exactly and heard the man fiddling with the lock 10 minutes later we called reception and they checked the whole place out but they couldn't find anything they said to let them know if anything else happened it was probably an hour later when everyone else was asleep at me that I saw the man unjam the door crawl on the floor to our bathroom like some sort of demon creature turn the bathroom light on and then stare at me smiling this woke my parents and we all ran the out of there to reception but once again they couldn't find anyone at all they moved us to a special room above the reception and we left first thing in the morning like I said I was too young to understand what was happening and be scared but looking back on it gives me chills hi guys lazy here I hope you enjoyed this first installment of a new miniseries I'm going to be making horror from around the globe if you didn't enjoy it then let me know by liking sharing and of course subscribing and becoming a member of the lazy Legion and also don't forget to check out the artwork of Anthony Salinas who provided the thumbnail for this video and you can do that by following the links in the description below he's a major talent and is well worth your time checking out follow me on Facebook and Twitter and you'll hear from me again very very soon until then guys stay spooky and remember the best things happen in the dark

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Length: 19min 10sec (1150 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 21 2015