Ghost & Haunting Reports in Aomori Prefecture
2 nightmarks documented
Ghosts & Hauntings
Osorezan — the dread volcano where Japanese souls cross over
Mount Osore, Shimokita Peninsula, Aomori Prefecture
The sulfurous volcanic caldera at the top of Honshū where, tradition holds, souls cross to the next world. Home to Bodai-ji temple and Japan's last blind shamans, the itako.
Ghosts & Hauntings
Mount Hakkōda — the frozen ghosts of the 1902 Imperial Army disaster (Aomori)
Mount Hakkōda, Aomori Prefecture·1902
199 Imperial Japanese Army soldiers died in a 1902 blizzard on Mount Hakkōda, Aomori. Their ghostly column still reportedly marches the Tashiroyachi Marsh at dusk.