If my dead body is found stuffed in a toilet, let it be known that I am not a scat fetishit and I was simply targeted for my rebellious anti-corruption punk rock song.
Is that really a real case? Sounds at least completely bloated. They got the wallet with his cards. How in the world is it possible to think that it's not his wallet?
@@herrschmidt5477 I've heard it before many times, but not so much lately. I wonder if maybe it wasn't bags he was holding that she was after. It wouldn't be easily identifiable, and it seems minute enough that it could get lost in translation
I wouldn't want any compensation if I was the family in this case. I'd track down everybody responsible for his death and incinerate their homes as they are asleep inside.
The funniest thing about Jeff the Killer, in my opinion, is that the search for the image source is a way more interesting story than the actual creepy pasta.
@@Massck yeah there are a few gems but you have to shift through a lot of American authors over describing guns or dipshit kids writing 'smart' characters etc etc. But some are great.
I do wonder if the "uncanny" images of the thief were intentionally exaggerated, in the same way that missing person posters often push any notable details to an extreme. If the thief had wide features, then the forensic artists might make them look even wider. The end result looks unnatural, but it sticks in people's minds. Also, much respect for Juzo Itami. I doubt he thought he was untouchable. Rather, anything done to him in retaliation would only validate his cause all the more. He got the last laugh.
Juzo Itami's suicide note contains some very sentimental words about his wife. Itami was known for being hard-headed and cynical, and people who knew him say he never would've written about his wife that way in a suicide note. They think he was told what to write by the Yakuza who killed him.
Imagine the cringe he went through while being forced to write those sentimental last words. I would have rolled my eyes and said just shoot me already.
That second case is so upsetting!! If those cops were smart, they would have just looked at the name on the credit cards/ID! And the fact that they didn’t report his innocence for 7 years is infuriating! Such a tragic death!😢
That's the first thing I thought of. He just came from a bank machine to withdraw money he must have had a card in his name or even an ID in his wallet.
Crazy right? It's the complete opposite of what actually happened... everyone was focused on apprehending the old man and forgot about the woman and let her get away.
Yup. Worst case, the woman was only guilty of trying to rob him. But the cops restrained an elderly man, pinned him down with their knees (aren't there enough examples of cops killing people this way?), and refused to get medical assistance despite him throwing up and passing out. They are guilty of murdering him. Far worse crime than the woman.
The Nayoyuki Case is pretty disturbing, I feel like he was the victim there, and to be labeled a peeping Tom on his close friend after his death just put a nail in the coffin so to speak, it’s so messed up, especially because no one really knows what happened
That's terrible, and I can see that actually happened. People's cruelty and malice is limitless. Perhaps they just threatening him and force to climb there, perhaps they just wanted to scare and humiliate him, maybe destroy his reputation and life, but in result they just kill him in one of the most miserable way possible
I think that Nayoyuki was either dead or unconscious and was put in the septic tank while totally limp. Its not uncommon for people to dispose of bodies in septic tanks to mask the smell. I also think if someone was conscious after they got trapped there they’d have wounds on their hands or body from trying to claw their way out. I guess there’s also a part of me that just wants to hope he wasn’t aware of what was happening when he died, because that’s just such an awful way to go.
@@HeyLeFay the problem is how would they have been able to get 2 people in there & get out, sure they couldve been smaller, but i still find it kinda hard to believe they put him in there, only option is they forced him to get in or he went in on his own
The second story is so upsetting. All those involved in the killing of that old man and defense of the thief should have been treated as the killers they are. Zero justice. Horrible.
If I was the man's family member, justice would still come, in the form of a gallon of gasoline and a lit match right to the doorways of the homes of the two rookie officers as they sleep one night. One second, they are in dreamland, the next, they are roasting at 3000 degrees Fahrenheit. There is no such thing as "no justice". You have to seek it out and take it yourself.
@@nunceccemortiferiscultu7826 Exactly. Revenge is justice for the seeker of the vengeance, and if I was the victim's loved one, that would be all I cared about. Nothing more, nothing less.
The first one freaks me out. I used to have nightmares about getting stuck in tubes after climbing into playstructures and not being able to get out, even though something like that never happened to me. The case isn't the same but it's similar enough to scare me.
There is an old Looney Tunes cartoon with a dog that finds himself crawling down a pipe that gets narrower and narrower, only to find a lit stick of dynamite at the end (placed there by Bugs Bunny, I do believe). Horrifying.
Japan is known to be one of the cleanest and most crime free country in the world. But I've always noticed how when crime do happens, it's always a crime that is incredibly disgusting, inhumane and blatantly Evil.
Japans crime rate is so low since most crimes go without being investigated, such as sexual abuse, or even when charged they have a 99% conviction rate. Even if you are innocent, you will probably be arrested for a couple of months
Most petty crimes aren't recorded especially sexual assault, stalking & sometimes even r*pe. I went to college in Kyoto & half of my female friends in our dorm were stalked by either the same man or multiple & no one did anything until one of my friends shoved her highheel into the man's eye. She was charged for assault...
It took me wayyyy too long to realize that the knife sponsorship was a sponsorship and not the start of a true crime case. I thought we were just getting excessive detail on the murder weapon because maybe it'd be important to this non existent case 😂
Actually, if you tell Aka Manto "No paper, no paper at all." he apparently walks away, leaving you with...well, no paper, but without killing you, so good enough in my book.
Also, most Japanese toilets have a bidet & some have dryers, so no sweat. 🤷🏻♀️ After visiting Japan I installed auto bidets on all of my toilets. I was so impressed & felt like a cavewoman when I got home to my normal toilets. 😂
@@jimmybean420 Actually, Kuchisake Onna (who has a glasgow smile) will kill you or carve a smile into your face but if you tell her you have appointments or show her an engagement ring on your finger, she excuses herself and walks away. Teke Teke on the other hand...run. That thing does not care for begging, nor for clever tricks. It just straight up kills you.
@@darklord884 the version of kuchisake onna i always heard was that she'll ask you "am i pretty?" and if you say no she'll kill you for insulting her, but if you say yes she'll say "then i'll make you pretty too!" and slit your face like hers, but if you say something like "you look just ok i guess" or "you could use some pomade" she'll leave you alone a lot of japanese urban legends are based on being forced to make a binary choice, so the answer i always to pick neither option and do your own thing. maybe because japanese people are naturally really polite and alway feel like they have to take something when they're offered
I like how a lot of these urban legends are basically instant death. Legend goes you encounter a demon or whatever that asks you to pick one of two choices but you always die a violent grizzly death regardless of what you do and the only way out is to be prepared or just run away. The spooky toilet ghost with the red and blue paper for example. It’s a lose lose scenario, you either get your spine removed or have to run away without wiping. Who comes up with this shit?
I take it you've heard of the "nutty putty" pot holing guy? I could be stood in the open countryside & still fell claustrophobic thinking about that one.
@@shaghayegh186 read it... ew. Hmmm the more I think about the way Naoyuki was found... it really feels more like he was BURIED, then anything else... but... how?
As someone who has had to deal with Japanese policemen first hand, I can most definitely say that generally speaking they don't do too much to help. (Especially when it comes to sexual assult)
@@miguelzurita3216 Sanctimonious grandstanding. The west went the opposite direction and now people are finally realizing just how much women lie about these things.
In regards to case #2: most stills that are released when trying to identify someone will be uncanny valley universally. this is because they play up the most noticeable features of the suspect both to drive interest in how horrific the photos tend to look, but because it also surprisingly makes it a lot easier for a lot of people due to the strong features being enhanced.
Ojii-san`s case is just sad. Imagine going about your day and then someone decides they deserve your money more than you do, convinces people they're the victim and then inept cops show no common sense to the point you end up dead. That woman looked like a Treasure Troll. Remember those? What? I can make fun of her. Her selfishness ended a life.
Idk man, not defending her or anything but I find it ridiculous that the blame goes to her when the cops clearly killed that guy, she just created a window of confusion to leave. It feels as if they’re actively trying to redirect attention to her to get it away from the police force’s incompetence
@@rollingvice Do you not notice that in 99% of these cases covered it’s usually an man killing a woman or a man killing a man, how are woman living it easy when they’re the main victim and rarely ever the killer
@@phantomarchive IPV is committed at a near 50/50 rate by men and women. Just because a feminist media machine tells you one thing doesn't mean it is true.
I've heard about a situation similar to mystery 2 except a wallet or bag it was a child. A man was walking with his daughter leaving a store heading to his car, wife still in the store. A woman grabs the child's hand and starts screaming kidnapper. Two men run over and started wrestling with him. If the wife hadn't come out he would have been arrested and the child would have disappeared.
I wonder if the Yakuza games are a backhanded critique of the Yakuza themselves. At face value it seems to make the organization look like super heroes...but if you actually play the games and listen to their stories they are NOT complimentary towards Yakuza, portraying them as violent, petty, dishonest, and even stupid. The main character is an exception, but he's usually not in the Yakuza proper for long.
@blahblahblah1312 yeah, the Yakuza game have a protagonist who... to put it bluntly... is trying to force the Yakuza to BE honest businessmen by physical force. But well.. most merely pretend to be honest.
That first story scares the absolute shit out of me and triggered a very repressed memory of me getting stuck in a very small cavern when I was little. Thankfully there were plenty of people around to help me get out quickly, but that memory sent my heart into overdrive and a lump in my throat. Imagining waking up in that situation is my actual worst nightmare
I just realized the 'Let me be cute' challenge of making things scary is possibly a play on words with 'Kawaii and Kowai' and that just makes me happy after all the despair I saw in this video.
Thanks for the shoutout, Lazy! I've been a fan of your channel for a long time and was quite surprised when I heard the name of my channel haha. Great video as always and I look forward to more in the future!
I love Japanese ghosts are just like: “This ghost will ask you to pick a number between 1 & 10. If you guess wrong you’ll be skinned alive. If you guess it right they’ll tear your spine out.” Damned if you do, damned if you don’t
In a way, I'd say that makes Japanese ghosts scarier than most western ghosts. With Japanese ghosts, you don't have to do anything wrong; just being in the wrong place at the wrong time seals your doom. Heck, running away doesn't always save you; some of the ghosts will follow you til they succeed in killing you.
Don't worry too much though. Some of them you can actually outsmart with a 3rd option lol. For the toilet paper one, you say "No paper" (basically none) and he'll leave. For the one with the slit-mouth woman, don't answer her question when she asks if she's beautiful. Ask "Am *I* beautiful?" and run while she's confused
An extra detail for case #2 that I’ve heard was that the reason why Ojii-San was at the store that day was to buy more food for his grandchild’s pet hamster. Just another humanizing tidbit that really drives home how unnecessary and tragic his death was. His poor family.
I doubt it. Although we have the powers of captain hindsight and captian common sense the police never seem to have those powers when it comes to something as serious as murder. As skeptical as I am, about a lot of things the fact they didnt even bother to look into the Yakuza is stupid, when they are clearly a suspect
Have heard/seen from various sources that Japan's conviction rate is in the high 90s percent. Problem is, it apparently often has less to do with the competence of the investigation and more with the prosecution being able to pressure the accused into confessions/plea deals. You can imagine how many cases go truly unsolved because they got the wrong guy and just closed the case.
5:09 what’s disturbing, is how she maybe wasn’t the first one to notice the shoe. I’m sure that some people if they saw that, they wouldn’t bother going through the effort of going outside to open the septic tank.
Just my guess here: Woman shouts thief and bystanders take her word for it and jump the guy. Rookie police show up and are probably told by multiple people that the man was a thief trying to steal from this woman, so they act on the info they're given and attack the man. By the time more experienced police show up, the damage is already done. Once the guy is dead, the police save face if its just some criminal who died rather than an innocent person, so they have every reason not to look too deeply into the incident. More likely than not, it was family or perhaps journalists not willing to let the issue rest that finally forced the police to clear his name.
@@randomstuff-qu7sh i fully agree. Im not a fan of wrongful death lawsuits when it comes to suing the police, but in this case its definitely a wrongful death these rookies refused to call an ambulance, and the department would rather be stuborn than apologize, im glad the family got the closest thing they can het to justice since they wont look any further to who caused this manslaughter
@@xenos_n. Nah, not by “some reason”. Some of the most inhumane and nastiest scary stories or true crimes I’ve ever heard of ARE from Japan. It’s something about the Japanese having such a savage history and culture that create those type of stories. Like have you ever heard of the case of Junko Furuta? A crime straight from hell.
Omfg and in the case w that same girl, the men who committed those heinous atrocities to that poor young girl are FREE MEN! With new identities and fresh new starts… absolutely sickening and straight from hell.
Just wanna say thank you for giving us a heads up for the first Jeff photo. I know most have seen it and are somewhat used to it but there are those that for some reason haven’t. And then there’s some like me who have seen this plenty of times and yet don’t want to look at that disturbing thing. Much appreciation.
The mystery of Ojii-san and how that woman attempted to rob him and he was seen as the bad guy and died because of it is so sad. The woman who attempted to rob him is the bad guy. It's so sad what happened to him. Ojii-san thought the police would help him, but they didn't. They're the ones who caused his death because they didn't listen to him.
I know! When I saw the "unedited " image it made me feel something I've never felt before, a really bad feeling! Does anyone know why that image is so disturbing?
Hi it would be amazing if you would do a video about Finnish mysteries or cases. They don’t get so much attention than they should. I understand that many of those murder cases and mysteries don’t have a lot of articles translated in English but as a Finnish person I would love to help with words translations and pronouncing names of people and cities.
honestly, would love for someone to cover the anneli auer case, or even the sand pit murders, a hypothesized serial killer. they're fascinating cases. also, torille!
I've heard of the first story multiple times before, but what I was told always ended at "he wanted to watch her use the restroom and froze to death when he couldn't get out." You're the first person I've seen cover this case that added multiple details and explainations and I appreciate that.
Story 1: corrupt and/or incompetent police Story 2: incompetent police Story 3: incompetent police Story 4: blissfully without police being bastards and educational too! Good stuff sir!
i got over the fear of that image of jeff by telling myself and my friends that it was a horrible attempt at photoshop. now, 10 years later i feel like the fear has revived and i’m the scared 15 year old again.
I stayed at my grandmas house last year and I had always been scared of her realistic dolls. I was lying in bed and there where three displayed on the wall on a shelf. I looked at them and laughed at myself for being a dumb kid back in the day. I looked away and looked back and I suddenly felt like maybe one moved, just a little bit….I got full of the same cold fear LMFAO I guess that kind of thing lingers.
I was scared so badly when I was in my late teens by Jeff, but I got over it when the creepypasta turned out to just be about your typical serial killer. Now realizing there is a whole creepy lost media rabbit hole related just to the image makes it horrible to look at all over again.
@@hadeswoof8060 "I looked at them and laughed at myself for being a dumb kid. When I looked away laughter was still heard, but it was not mine." - 2 sentence horror story
In my early teens, the image scared the shit out of me. To the point where being home alone and reading his story after looking at the image had me feeling scared and paranoid. However, my fear died down after I realized how bad the writing was and when I saw all the art of Jeff by fangirls turning him into some cute edgy emo anime boy. That being said, that original image is still really unsettling and catches me offguard if I see it unexpectedly.
The painting people pair with that supposed cursed poem doesn't scare me anymore, since I found out the artist was going through a period where she made creepy looking paintings working through her emotions. Blind Dweller did the video where I saw the whole painting if you want to know where to look.
“Damn…I’m out of toilet paper…” *Morpheus steps into the stall, two toilet paper rolls in his hands* “You take the blue roll, the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red roll, you stay in wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.” “…”
Why does the less-edited version of Jeff look scarier to me than the one we're all used to? I think it's something about the eyes being more 'human/real' and that just not being something I associate with Jeff.
I was convinced I was not afraid of that Jeff image anymore, and I even watched Jorge's video during the day and wasn't affected. But man, seeing that image at 12:30am truly hits different, and I'm back to being that afraid 14 year old 😭
Mad props to you, Lazy, for giving a spotlight to KyotoRobato. His video of the Jusco Phantom is one of best English-translated contents out there that covered the incident without sensationalizing it.
@@TheSteakJustice I used to like it back in the day too tbh...but honestly it started getting more and more grimey over the years for me...and my ex pulled something really unforgivable which caused people from there to get my info...so I stopped going there
@@sofieebee8993 Jeeeeeeez I'm sorry that your departure had to be spurred on by something awful. How some motherfuckers will up and try to ruin someone's life so casually is beyond me. Hope the unwanted 'attention' died off sooner rather than later.
The naoyuki one could go either way in my opinion. The evidence stacks kind of equally in both ways and you should never forget the stupid shit people will do to fulfill a secret fetish. you never really know a person no matter how nice they seem on the outside. Still the evidence that that wasn't the case is there too.
Not saying what happened with him either way, but the argument that, because he was smart and a good guy, he couldn't have a weird fetish is ridiculous. I bet most people you meet in life have a bizarre fantasy that no one knows about. I even worked with a guy many years ago that just disappeared one day, and we found out later that he ended up being busted for molesting kids. He was just a normal guy, nobody could have predicted it.
@@HazelnutErthat could be explained by a lot of things, honestly. He might've kicked off the shoes before going into the pipe, and someone might've taken one, or thrown the other in the tube to dispose of it.
Wouldn't someone have heard him yelling out if he was trapped unwillingly? As much as I want to believe it was foul play and he was a decent guy, my guess is that he was likely too embarrassed by his situation, and decided he would rather die than suffer the embarrassment alive.
The first mystery is extremely bizarre to me. I keep thinking about how he got in there, but I can’t figure it out. Yet his body only had minor abrasions? And he died of hypothermia? There’s too many questions. The family deserves answers.
My sister used to live in Japan! When she moved back home, I thought it was weird that her phone would *always* make sounds when pictures were taken. She told me that Japanese phones can’t have silent cameras but I didn’t really understand. Now that I’m older I really appreciate that they do that to fight their problems with predators but they have soooo much more they need to do. It’s a huge issue
@Uh Oh Stinky of course it’s not fixing the problem. Only very slightly making things safer so people hear when/if someone takes a picture of them. I agree they need to make MAJOR changes. Japan likes to act like they’re such an innocent, crime free country, but the crimes against women specifically are awful and often lack proper justice. I’ve heard people argue that Japan is safer for women because they have womens only sections on trains… which is baffling to me because the reason they do is BECAUSE of how unsafe it is for women. They’re honestly doing the bare minimum making people feel safer in dangerous situations, but not addressing the dangerous people themselves
Oji - Sans case actually got me thinking: most human traffickers might actually be women. Hypothetically, it would be super easy for a woman to just grab a baby from a dad at a store, and then accuse the man of trying to "take my baby!" When he tries to take his child back
When I saw this, I remembered that the mystery incident "鮫島事件" that actually happened was a terrifying incident ... I can't write it here because it's too terrifying.
Awesome vid as always. I remember one story where a father was walking in the parking lot with his son and his wife was in the car. A random woman came up grabbing his son and started screaming about the father trying to kidnap her son. People came running holding the father down while the woman was literally starting to walk away with his son and they kept holding him down. In true mom moment fashion the actual mother ran across the parking lot and yanked their child away from the woman. She said she didn't even remember starting to move and she was there and the father said it was the most terrifying moment of his life because the "good samaritans" wouldnt listen to him. Seeing the mother pop up out of nowhere they quickly realized thier mistake. Although I 100% believe they had the best of intentions but in that particular situation they probably should have detained all parties instead of assuming the man had been in the wrong. I imagine the damn near tragic mistake keeps them up at night. Hell it probably keeps all parties up at night.
@@fronthal157 Damn Rambo, firearms aren't the answer for everything. Heard of crossfire? Or making a misidentification like the people in the commentor's comment?
@@rwentfordable firearms are absolutely the answer for people trying to lay hands on me while someone makes off with my kid. That's what firearms are for. Force equalizer. God made men, and Sam Colt made them equal.
@@fronthal157 how would we know if that wasn't their child? What I'm saying is that people would have a gun to protect themselves, so why wouldn't a kidnapper do the same to protect themselves from being taken down? People abuse the use of fire arms like hostile animals. One look and they think they are in danger and shoot whether they are in the wrong or not. This is why gun control is a thing so people won't abuse it and use it to shoot innocent people. The witnesses thought the man really is a kidnapper and the lady is the mom trying to take her child back. If that was to be the case, would you want that man to hold a gun so he can get away with the child?
The story of the old man who died was so confusing to me. I don't understand why nobody simply opened the wallet to see his credentials. That would have solved the crime that quick. Wtheck? And as for the man in the pipe - it certainly wouldn't be the first time someone was made to look like some deplorable human being in death. So they not only lose their life, but their dignity as well. And they didn't have to lay a hand on him. What a slow, agonizing, disgusting death. Edit: I just realized somebody already mentioned this
The man in the pipe is a japanese police thing. There is no possible way for the story to be true, he knew the person wasnt even there, would have had to have gone backwards hands first into sewage, knowing he would likely freeze to death and brought nothing to eat or drink. The police just didnt have a good suspect. The bar is pretty high in Japan and things like this arent even considered a coverup. The conviction rate is too high for them not to make excuses to leave no case unsolved, because that is bad for them.
@@aprilgarcia6119 Oh that can be explained by the crowd thinking he was a perv and then him refusing to hand over his wallet. Police were like yup guilty. The problem is that those guys always say they are innocent, so any resistance to try and show them is just going to be met as resistance. Also he got convicted on a technicality because he died and couldnt explain himself. The only version of events anyone got basically was the one where he looked guilty...even though at this point they know he is not. The system has to be perfect.
@@aprilgarcia6119 Like the women disappeared and he still wouldnt hand it over so it is incredibly suspicious to them that he was still protecting his identity. Now was he just panicked and desperately holding on to his wallet? probably, but he doesnt get to tell that story.
I had solved mystery 4 but no one believes me. it's from a manga, or a fan acted out scene from the final chapter of "pretty face" volume 53. in late 2003 some japanese readers of the manga acted out the final few scenes of the manga from their bedroom and posted it online. it then got spead with the "make me cute" meme format. fun bonus: the plot of the pretty face manga is, well almost scene for scene the jeff the killer story.
I enjoy how Lazy's channel isn't only about true crime, but they add a bit of history, too. ✅ Japanese "red or blue" toilet paper urban legend. Thanks, Papa Lazy! 😄
OMG! The reddit post for the septic tank case is mine! This is so great, thanks for the detailed video and shoutout! I never thought my post would make its way to RUclips =))
Why is nobody talking about how incredulous the squat toilet case is???? One of the most puzzling cases ever.... Like I couldn't wrap my head around that one damn
OMG i was just rewatching ur old videos and now u uploaded an extra long video!!! THANK U!!! u still going to do the Fifty Stories Around The World Series? Much Love Mate! :)
There are too many stories like that of Ojii-san's, where women use their presumed 'innocence' to their advantage. I literally witnessed a woman *almost* successfully abduct a child from their father (and only failed to because luckily a bystander asked the child who the woman was) because she cried for help when he tried to save his child and several people tried to pin him down We as a society really are failing a lot of people with these sexist assumptions about men as perps and women as victims.
100%. Women can easily do this kind of thing. All they have to do is pretend to cry and people will come to their aid. I had an ex that used to like to play games like this when she was drunk. She got me kicked out of loads of nightclubs and bars with this routine. She was a real piece of work. She thought it was funny.
@@EphemeralProductions I understand, and im sorry you guys have to go through it. I hate the fact that woman can bat their eyelashes and get away with things, purely because they are female. For years, people have done what they can to protect woman, but what about men? In the media lately, i've been seeing a lot of female serial murderers killing men for some fucked up reason and it breaks my heart. We have been fighting for equal rights for ages, we whine and complain about men, but when men do it, it's mysoginistic? That's double standards in my eyes and it's disgusting. Im honestly disgusted by the state of woman nowadays, but even more so by government officials who are biased towards woman who are criminals and let them walk free. In saying that, stay safe out there, lads! Do you what you have to in order to protect yourselves. ❤️
@@EphemeralProductions Men and women should be equal under the law in terms of humans rights, but as you said there should not be preferential treatment just because they are females.
My reactions to the cases: 1. Confusion and anger 2. Anger 3. Anger 4. Oh hello there, childhood. good to see ya again! ((So the Japanese were the first ones online that made cursed images? Wow. You learn something new everyday.))
First case makes me think of the Kendrick Johnson case in parts. Different location of the body, but he was also found crammed in a tight space smaller than his body size, and cops also determined he died accidentally. Cause you know, people just crawl into uncomfortably tight spaces for fun.
The photo in number two to me looks like a camera glitch when she moved her head from front to the side. You see similar things on Google maps with image stitching. Not sure of the camera system in the store but just a theory.
I remember the good ol days when I could click on one of your videos and just set it down and listen. No I have to skip several minutes into the video, just to find the beginning. First video of yours I've watched in months.
Something about the Japanese flavour of horror is just so appealing to me. Everything feels so stilted and jarring, to my African/westernised sensibilities. I love it
Eh. IMO, they're kinda meh. I hate the fact that no matter what you do, in most encounters with yhe japanese creature things, you die a violent grotesque death. Who the hell survived then to tell the story?
@@thejunktownsheriffkilliand4800 Fair criticism. I'm evaluating how I feel about them, as opposed to what I think. I understand being put off by those things you mentioned though, for sure.
Even if the first guy was a peeping Tom, how does his shoe end up on his head and another in the river? And if he knew his friends schedule, he was definitely old enough to know that he'd need some supplies in there, I really can't believe he was a peeping Tom, given the information in the video, he sounds a little too intelligent to have not thought through the plans and brought warm clothing (that he kept on, maybe from a thrift store? So he could toss it all after) and why go two days early? Go down there like 2 hours early... If he was that perverted But if he did do all that, then what? He lost a shoe in a river and decided to put the other one on his head? Why? To be found when he was trying to hide? Thankfully it sounds like the community didn't believe that story, I just hope his female friend didn't think of him as a peeping Tom and changed her opinion about him.... Besides what punk rocker is afraid to say what he thinks(like villagers votes were bought) or ask for what he wants (even if it's something super nasty like being... Like having... Stuff on him while watching)... Also how often do deaths occur in that village that the police would be foolish enough to destroy evidence by accident, and a coroner quitting right after that case... Nothing says "I've lied and don't feel I should be the community coroner, more than quiting after a strange and mysterious death" I wonder what his tox report showed, if the coroner was allowed to do one and someone didn't interfere with it, because black drunk level's of alcohol or large quantities of sedatives I'd imagine would be found... That or a concussive blow to the head Besides if you want to see a friend do that and have days while she's gone, then you could just setup a safer alternative... I guess? Idk that's not a mindset I can really get into... But I'm sure some perv out there would have a better thought out plan in the time it takes to watch the video and read my comment, or even just watch the first 13minutes
From what I know with most cases of peeping toms involving public bathrooms, they use cameras. It really doesn't make sense for him to crawl in such a place especially with no guarantee who would use the toilet in the first place; especially not his childhood friend who was out of town at the time. Only someone with severe mental instability would go through with an idea like that, not thinking about the consequences. It is pretty obvious to me that it was a cover-up, especially with the coroner quitting almost immediately after. No toxicology reports, him dying from hyperthermia instead of toxic fumes, and the nature of his garments especially his shoes. You'd also think with an area like that with such a small murder rate, they'd utilise everything possible to get to the bottom of the situation. Instead of coming up with such a quick story, with no real worry about the dead man's image in the eyes of the villagers; which small communities tend to do.
@@snikrdoodls14 I couldn't agree more, everything, every small part of the story screams "cover up" And all while using the "pervert" excuse to both hide the murder, and send a message that anyone else who wants to try something won't just die, their whole reputation will be destroyed That and the message obviously says "we own the law here"
It is just a japanese police thing. The conviction rate is too high, and it sets a high bar for investigations. When they dont have any leads like they didnt hear, they just go with something plausible and wipe their hands of it. Having an unsolved case is career suicide.
@@Luminousreign I've heard that before... That it's 98% success rate, but I thought that figure only was for when they had a suspect in custody (as if I'm not mistaken they're able to use some very very enhanced interrogation methods to get a confession) I didn't think it applied to situations like s**cide, or murder with no suspects and such But I can be wrong, it's been a while since I read an actual paper on police conviction rates(not on crime solved rates, which this would fall under)
@@JaykPuten Yes, the counterbalance is they are very careful and non-intrusive about investigating and arresting people because they want the justice system itself to seem almost perfect. Take the old man story for example, they arrested him because he was being restrained for seeming like a perv (by their social norms) , which included him refusing to give I.D. He can really never be innocent in the japanese system, especially after he died.
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@@AnnieNorthman89 Why? Still seems like a guy getting himself killed to live out a sexual fetish. If you think that it's too weird or crazy, then you haven't heard the stories of people dying for their fetishes.
@@Lobsterwithinternet I've seen and read about many types of deaths and killings and whatnot and I know all about autoerotic asphyxiation. It's not that strange to me. The case just sounds messy.
I'm wondering if he didn't get in willingly then perhaps he put the shoe there as his only means to protect his face from someone going to the bathroom?
@@leighmorgan2959 I'm truly at a loss...maybe he was in such a state perhaps due to the tight space creating compression rendering him unable to do so?
@@haileygrey5047 hmm, not sure, from the picture it looks like it was wide enough for his shoulders no ? Actually didnt they say he died from compression on his chest ?
Geez. Screw everyone involved in that old man's case. Why would you tackle an old helpless person to the ground and leave them handcuffed despite them obviously distressed and not being okay in any form or fashion? It wasn't even about helping the woman anymore, it was just so they could mistreat an elderly person. Check the damn wallet for identification and it's case closed.
"The story goes that a young man was watching TV at 2:30 AM" I, a young man, am along in my kitchen cutting an avocado at exactly 2:30 AM. I hate this.
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I hope mine does too
Hey lazy, can you do more true scary stories?
💀💀
Hopefully
Who is your waifu?
The Ojii-san case is really disturbing. I mean, could nobody just check the wallet for some sort of identification before killing an old man?
that's the EXACT same thought I had
Not when it comes to women and how believable they’re thought to be
Nah it’s Japan. Why would they?
The level of incompetence in that case is insane
all cops are like that
If my dead body is found stuffed in a toilet, let it be known that I am not a scat fetishit and I was simply targeted for my rebellious anti-corruption punk rock song.
lol fetishit
Sure. 😏
Just to be clear, are you genuinely not a fetishist or a fetishist who doesn’t want to admit to it?
exactly what a scat fetishist would say
Nah you listen to "anti-corruption punk rock" you definitely like going into septic tanks don't ya?
Haven't heard about #2 in some time. Glad to hear that the courts actually stepped in to give some hefty compensation to the family
Is that really a real case? Sounds at least completely bloated. They got the wallet with his cards. How in the world is it possible to think that it's not his wallet?
@@herrschmidt5477 I've heard it before many times, but not so much lately. I wonder if maybe it wasn't bags he was holding that she was after. It wouldn't be easily identifiable, and it seems minute enough that it could get lost in translation
The rookies should have been fired tho!!!
I wouldn't want any compensation if I was the family in this case. I'd track down everybody responsible for his death and incinerate their homes as they are asleep inside.
@Caleb OKAY adrenaline? from an old man possibly robbing someone?^^
The funniest thing about Jeff the Killer, in my opinion, is that the search for the image source is a way more interesting story than the actual creepy pasta.
Bro I gasped when I saw it cuz it scared me and then I was like "oooooo scaryyyy"
No one thinks the creepy pasta is scary. Hell Internet Historian made a goofy video on it with Chills voicing Jeff
@@acjnse8258 its scary if you're like 11
The vast majority of creepypastas be like
@@Massck yeah there are a few gems but you have to shift through a lot of American authors over describing guns or dipshit kids writing 'smart' characters etc etc. But some are great.
I do wonder if the "uncanny" images of the thief were intentionally exaggerated, in the same way that missing person posters often push any notable details to an extreme.
If the thief had wide features, then the forensic artists might make them look even wider. The end result looks unnatural, but it sticks in people's minds.
Also, much respect for Juzo Itami. I doubt he thought he was untouchable. Rather, anything done to him in retaliation would only validate his cause all the more. He got the last laugh.
Juzo Itami died a chad. He deserves that much praises.
You realize what we saw of the thief was a screencap from security camera footage, not composite images made by forensic artists, right?
To take a quote from Warhammer 40K, 'Death is nothing compared to vindication'.
Juzo Itami's suicide note contains some very sentimental words about his wife. Itami was known for being hard-headed and cynical, and people who knew him say he never would've written about his wife that way in a suicide note. They think he was told what to write by the Yakuza who killed him.
Yeah i've know about that, i believe he was killed by the yakuza.
Imagine the cringe he went through while being forced to write those sentimental last words. I would have rolled my eyes and said just shoot me already.
It could have been overtly not his style so those close to him would know it was fake. How would some low rank hitters know any better?
@@D3x5t4r feel bad for his wife
@@D3x5t4r That says a lot when he chose to die by his own hands rather than die by the yakuza's hand. I decide my life on my own terms!
That second case is so upsetting!! If those cops were smart, they would have just looked at the name on the credit cards/ID! And the fact that they didn’t report his innocence for 7 years is infuriating! Such a tragic death!😢
Didn't they ever receive any punishment for Ojii's death?
I can’t find anything related to this case online
Wow, so just the cops?
And shit against men happens all the time, its typical
@@siemino7444 Shit happens against women all the time and most men get away without even a slap on the wrist.
@@Seek1878 Yeah but if it involves manipulation and anything similar to that then females take the cake.
Mystery Two was so sad. Idk why the police or the other shoppers didn’t check his wallet to see who was telling the truth
Mob mentality is a wicked thing, especially when it's a woman's word against a man's.
Because low iq
That's the first thing I thought of. He just came from a bank machine to withdraw money he must have had a card in his name or even an ID in his wallet.
because women
Because women are (supposedly) always to be believed and never lie.
its crazy how the focus was on the woman trying to rob him and not how the cop literally killed an old man.
Right????? He needs to be locked up tf
Crazy right? It's the complete opposite of what actually happened... everyone was focused on apprehending the old man and forgot about the woman and let her get away.
I wondered about that too, what where they going to do with her, charge her for the manslaughter? But it was the police who killed him.
@@JDVN7 not to necro but wtf are you talking about
Yup. Worst case, the woman was only guilty of trying to rob him. But the cops restrained an elderly man, pinned him down with their knees (aren't there enough examples of cops killing people this way?), and refused to get medical assistance despite him throwing up and passing out. They are guilty of murdering him. Far worse crime than the woman.
The Nayoyuki Case is pretty disturbing, I feel like he was the victim there, and to be labeled a peeping Tom on his close friend after his death just put a nail in the coffin so to speak, it’s so messed up, especially because no one really knows what happened
That's terrible, and I can see that actually happened. People's cruelty and malice is limitless. Perhaps they just threatening him and force to climb there, perhaps they just wanted to scare and humiliate him, maybe destroy his reputation and life, but in result they just kill him in one of the most miserable way possible
I think that Nayoyuki was either dead or unconscious and was put in the septic tank while totally limp. Its not uncommon for people to dispose of bodies in septic tanks to mask the smell. I also think if someone was conscious after they got trapped there they’d have wounds on their hands or body from trying to claw their way out.
I guess there’s also a part of me that just wants to hope he wasn’t aware of what was happening when he died, because that’s just such an awful way to go.
@@HeyLeFay the problem is how would they have been able to get 2 people in there & get out, sure they couldve been smaller, but i still find it kinda hard to believe they put him in there, only option is they forced him to get in or he went in on his own
The second story is so upsetting. All those involved in the killing of that old man and defense of the thief should have been treated as the killers they are. Zero justice. Horrible.
Or at least manslaughter and misconduct in duty.
If I was the man's family member, justice would still come, in the form of a gallon of gasoline and a lit match right to the doorways of the homes of the two rookie officers as they sleep one night. One second, they are in dreamland, the next, they are roasting at 3000 degrees Fahrenheit. There is no such thing as "no justice". You have to seek it out and take it yourself.
@Blue Sky Country that's not justice, that's revenge.
@@nunceccemortiferiscultu7826 Exactly. Revenge is justice for the seeker of the vengeance, and if I was the victim's loved one, that would be all I cared about. Nothing more, nothing less.
And then paid them 125$ at first….
the Japanese made horror folklore out of running-out-of-TP anxiety, god bless them
omg such an under-rated comment :) RUN without WIPING!!! poop stains in the undies OR FULL OUT poop loads!!! your pick xD
"Nah man, I'm good. I'll just use the toilet paper roll."
I get anxiety when I watch them play with each other s***, and throw up on each other. 🇺🇸👌
Well, if you want to be scared shitless, there's no better place than the toilet.
It was already a horror story, they just amped it up 😭😂
The first one freaks me out. I used to have nightmares about getting stuck in tubes after climbing into playstructures and not being able to get out, even though something like that never happened to me. The case isn't the same but it's similar enough to scare me.
When I was little I was scared of the hole in underground pools to get sucked in..
Oh god, those things scared me too.
There is an old Looney Tunes cartoon with a dog that finds himself crawling down a pipe that gets narrower and narrower, only to find a lit stick of dynamite at the end (placed there by Bugs Bunny, I do believe). Horrifying.
I’ve had those dreams too in the past.
Does anyone remember the Rugrats episode were Tommy is scared that he'll get sucked down the drain in the bathtub?
Japan is known to be one of the cleanest and most crime free country in the world. But I've always noticed how when crime do happens, it's always a crime that is incredibly disgusting, inhumane and blatantly Evil.
Yes! I wonder why
Japans crime rate is so low since most crimes go without being investigated, such as sexual abuse, or even when charged they have a 99% conviction rate. Even if you are innocent, you will probably be arrested for a couple of months
@@silviamorales448 Pretty pathetic to treat citizens this way.
Most petty crimes aren't recorded especially sexual assault, stalking & sometimes even r*pe.
I went to college in Kyoto & half of my female friends in our dorm were stalked by either the same man or multiple & no one did anything until one of my friends shoved her highheel into the man's eye. She was charged for assault...
@@desubysnusnu its so weird to see someone from the amberverse here 😭
It took me wayyyy too long to realize that the knife sponsorship was a sponsorship and not the start of a true crime case. I thought we were just getting excessive detail on the murder weapon because maybe it'd be important to this non existent case 😂
Lmao
Actually, if you tell Aka Manto "No paper, no paper at all." he apparently walks away, leaving you with...well, no paper, but without killing you, so good enough in my book.
Also, most Japanese toilets have a bidet & some have dryers, so no sweat. 🤷🏻♀️ After visiting Japan I installed auto bidets on all of my toilets. I was so impressed & felt like a cavewoman when I got home to my normal toilets. 😂
@@43MinutesWithJamieRose Well they have bidets now, but Aka Manto originated in the 70s if I remember correctly.
@@jimmybean420 Actually, Kuchisake Onna (who has a glasgow smile) will kill you or carve a smile into your face but if you tell her you have appointments or show her an engagement ring on your finger, she excuses herself and walks away.
Teke Teke on the other hand...run. That thing does not care for begging, nor for clever tricks. It just straight up kills you.
I'd rather die horrible death than have unwashed ass itch me whole day
@@darklord884 the version of kuchisake onna i always heard was that she'll ask you "am i pretty?" and if you say no she'll kill you for insulting her, but if you say yes she'll say "then i'll make you pretty too!" and slit your face like hers, but if you say something like "you look just ok i guess" or "you could use some pomade" she'll leave you alone
a lot of japanese urban legends are based on being forced to make a binary choice, so the answer i always to pick neither option and do your own thing. maybe because japanese people are naturally really polite and alway feel like they have to take something when they're offered
I like how a lot of these urban legends are basically instant death. Legend goes you encounter a demon or whatever that asks you to pick one of two choices but you always die a violent grizzly death regardless of what you do and the only way out is to be prepared or just run away. The spooky toilet ghost with the red and blue paper for example. It’s a lose lose scenario, you either get your spine removed or have to run away without wiping. Who comes up with this shit?
😂
people of culture come up with it...😬
How about you use water and soap
Hey man, the ghosts make the rules we're just out here dealing with the spooky
Children. Like he said, it's popular among youth.
Naoyuki's death is one of those cases that I can't get over cos that pipe.... I can't.... deaths in small spaces just haunts me forever.
I take it you've heard of the "nutty putty" pot holing guy? I could be stood in the open countryside & still fell claustrophobic thinking about that one.
@@Mister_Tedious yeah, this is one of those where it boggles the mind how you even get into the pipe. Why?@??!?!?
It reminds me of that Junji Ito story, The Enigma of Amigara Fault. Stuff of nightmares
@@shaghayegh186 read it... ew.
Hmmm the more I think about the way Naoyuki was found... it really feels more like he was BURIED, then anything else... but... how?
@@marhawkman303 I guess he kept going and going until none of his original self remained
As someone who has had to deal with Japanese policemen first hand, I can most definitely say that generally speaking they don't do too much to help. (Especially when it comes to sexual assult)
Ive heard about that from another channel. It's why as much as would like to visit I wont. Until they go after these predators, I will protest.
Asian police is horrible, they don't do shit to help. All they do is harass innocent people.
@@miguelzurita3216 Sanctimonious grandstanding.
The west went the opposite direction and now people are finally realizing just how much women lie about these things.
I'm from Japan and agree that they are part of the reason sexual assault is such a problem
So true. They saw me in trouble and did nothing
In regards to case #2: most stills that are released when trying to identify someone will be uncanny valley universally. this is because they play up the most noticeable features of the suspect both to drive interest in how horrific the photos tend to look, but because it also surprisingly makes it a lot easier for a lot of people due to the strong features being enhanced.
Ojii-san`s case is just sad. Imagine going about your day and then someone decides they deserve your money more than you do, convinces people they're the victim and then inept cops show no common sense to the point you end up dead. That woman looked like a Treasure Troll. Remember those? What? I can make fun of her. Her selfishness ended a life.
Idk man, not defending her or anything but I find it ridiculous that the blame goes to her when the cops clearly killed that guy, she just created a window of confusion to leave. It feels as if they’re actively trying to redirect attention to her to get it away from the police force’s incompetence
@@motherlove8366 still her fault for starting it. women really are living in easy mode.
@@rollingvice Do you not notice that in 99% of these cases covered it’s usually an man killing a woman or a man killing a man, how are woman living it easy when they’re the main victim and rarely ever the killer
@@phantomarchive there is no excuse for this woman to try and steal that man's wallet.
@@phantomarchive IPV is committed at a near 50/50 rate by men and women. Just because a feminist media machine tells you one thing doesn't mean it is true.
I've heard about a situation similar to mystery 2 except a wallet or bag it was a child. A man was walking with his daughter leaving a store heading to his car, wife still in the store. A woman grabs the child's hand and starts screaming kidnapper. Two men run over and started wrestling with him. If the wife hadn't come out he would have been arrested and the child would have disappeared.
Yes i heard this story also husband was outside the store with baby asleep in carrier when female kidnapper picked up carrier.
@@crazychameleon3061 I think I heard the same one- mom ran after her and grabbed her hair and threw herself over the baby carrier?
This is making me afraid of going outside now
I'm fairly sure a story like that was in one of Lazy's videos
i wish that crazy woman an early grave
I wonder if the Yakuza games are a backhanded critique of the Yakuza themselves.
At face value it seems to make the organization look like super heroes...but if you actually play the games and listen to their stories they are NOT complimentary towards Yakuza, portraying them as violent, petty, dishonest, and even stupid. The main character is an exception, but he's usually not in the Yakuza proper for long.
@blahblahblah1312 yeah, the Yakuza game have a protagonist who... to put it bluntly... is trying to force the Yakuza to BE honest businessmen by physical force. But well.. most merely pretend to be honest.
Majima best character.
It is more subtle way of showing how Yakuza really works.
That first story scares the absolute shit out of me and triggered a very repressed memory of me getting stuck in a very small cavern when I was little. Thankfully there were plenty of people around to help me get out quickly, but that memory sent my heart into overdrive and a lump in my throat. Imagining waking up in that situation is my actual worst nightmare
Naoyuki's death was absolutely insane. I'm getting chills just imagining him getting stuck in there with no way out.
I just realized the 'Let me be cute' challenge of making things scary is possibly a play on words with 'Kawaii and Kowai' and that just makes me happy after all the despair I saw in this video.
I don't understand
@@mayvieyoung287 kawaii means cute in Japanese while kowai means scary. They sound quite similar when said out loud so it's a play on that
You deadass?
What do you mean 'you just realized'??? He literally referenced exactly that in the video
@@jakecooper5855 kitten.......shh...it's okay
Nothing like listening to Lazy on a Saturday evening. Loving that intro too, eerily calming.
Thanks for the shoutout, Lazy! I've been a fan of your channel for a long time and was quite surprised when I heard the name of my channel haha. Great video as always and I look forward to more in the future!
I love Japanese ghosts are just like: “This ghost will ask you to pick a number between 1 & 10. If you guess wrong you’ll be skinned alive. If you guess it right they’ll tear your spine out.”
Damned if you do, damned if you don’t
I like the third answer. RUN! lol
In a way, I'd say that makes Japanese ghosts scarier than most western ghosts. With Japanese ghosts, you don't have to do anything wrong; just being in the wrong place at the wrong time seals your doom. Heck, running away doesn't always save you; some of the ghosts will follow you til they succeed in killing you.
they’re just in a silly goofy mood yanno? they didn’t get their snickers
Don't worry too much though. Some of them you can actually outsmart with a 3rd option lol. For the toilet paper one, you say "No paper" (basically none) and he'll leave. For the one with the slit-mouth woman, don't answer her question when she asks if she's beautiful. Ask "Am *I* beautiful?" and run while she's confused
If you go out in the tall grass on the outskirts of town, you'll be in danger if you don't have a Pokémon with you.
The oji-san case is so sad but embarrasing imagine killing someone and then being called ugly by everyone
An extra detail for case #2 that I’ve heard was that the reason why Ojii-San was at the store that day was to buy more food for his grandchild’s pet hamster. Just another humanizing tidbit that really drives home how unnecessary and tragic his death was. His poor family.
The old man/oji-san case made my blood boil. It's just infuriating how the case was handled with no care at all, resulting to a poor man's death.
Dude…
The director that took on the yakuza (twice!), was a TRUE badass!!
I hope his family and loved ones have found peace after his murder.🥺❤️
I doubt it. Although we have the powers of captain hindsight and captian common sense the police never seem to have those powers when it comes to something as serious as murder. As skeptical as I am, about a lot of things the fact they didnt even bother to look into the Yakuza is stupid, when they are clearly a suspect
Have heard/seen from various sources that Japan's conviction rate is in the high 90s percent. Problem is, it apparently often has less to do with the competence of the investigation and more with the prosecution being able to pressure the accused into confessions/plea deals. You can imagine how many cases go truly unsolved because they got the wrong guy and just closed the case.
5:09 what’s disturbing, is how she maybe wasn’t the first one to notice the shoe.
I’m sure that some people if they saw that, they wouldn’t bother going through the effort of going outside to open the septic tank.
It was her personal bathroom wasn't it?
2nd story… why couldn’t the police just quickly check the wallet to determine who it belonged to? Such a senseless waste of life.
People get overly emotional and stop thinking.
Just my guess here: Woman shouts thief and bystanders take her word for it and jump the guy. Rookie police show up and are probably told by multiple people that the man was a thief trying to steal from this woman, so they act on the info they're given and attack the man. By the time more experienced police show up, the damage is already done. Once the guy is dead, the police save face if its just some criminal who died rather than an innocent person, so they have every reason not to look too deeply into the incident. More likely than not, it was family or perhaps journalists not willing to let the issue rest that finally forced the police to clear his name.
@@randomstuff-qu7sh i fully agree. Im not a fan of wrongful death lawsuits when it comes to suing the police, but in this case its definitely a wrongful death these rookies refused to call an ambulance, and the department would rather be stuborn than apologize, im glad the family got the closest thing they can het to justice since they wont look any further to who caused this manslaughter
@@randomstuff-qu7sh too deeply???? You mean opening a wallet and looking at the name on everything in it is deep investigating???
Unprofessional rookies, that's why. By the time the professional officers arrived, the woman probably already got away with his wallet.
I always love when Lazy posts videos relating to urban legends, unsolved mysteries and/or horror stories surrounding Japan.
Japan seems to have one of the creepiest dark sides for some reason.
@@xenos_n. cuz they focus on impressionable appearances towards foreigners as opposed to internal boundaries &/or beauty. Lol
@@xenos_n. Nah, not by “some reason”.
Some of the most inhumane and nastiest scary stories or true crimes I’ve ever heard of ARE from Japan. It’s something about the Japanese having such a savage history and culture that create those type of stories. Like have you ever heard of the case of Junko Furuta? A crime straight from hell.
Omfg and in the case w that same girl, the men who committed those heinous atrocities to that poor young girl are FREE MEN! With new identities and fresh new starts… absolutely sickening and straight from hell.
The first one.... Can you imagine if his shoe hadn't been covering his face?? And she looked down?? 😯
My question would be why was his shoe on his head in the first place?
@@nottechytutorials the shoe probably fell of and the attackers dropped it in the pipe before or after, the shoe then floated over the face
@@Pisolithus That or he did it to protect his face from the smell.
@@Luminousreign definitely wouldn't have helped
@@-redacted2554 maybe he had smelly feet.
Just wanna say thank you for giving us a heads up for the first Jeff photo. I know most have seen it and are somewhat used to it but there are those that for some reason haven’t. And then there’s some like me who have seen this plenty of times and yet don’t want to look at that disturbing thing. Much appreciation.
The mystery of Ojii-san and how that woman attempted to rob him and he was seen as the bad guy and died because of it is so sad. The woman who attempted to rob him is the bad guy. It's so sad what happened to him. Ojii-san thought the police would help him, but they didn't. They're the ones who caused his death because they didn't listen to him.
As usual, you've outdone yourself, Lazy. This one really sent a few serious chills down my spine.
Ooh, Pokemon ghost emoji, tell me how.
I know! When I saw the "unedited " image it made me feel something I've never felt before, a really bad feeling! Does anyone know why that image is so disturbing?
@@jamielehman4934 search up the “uncanny valley” it’s a phenomenon that makes images of “almost human” looking pictures appear very unsettling
@@OverloadDSN Thanks! I'll check it out! 😃
I started rewatching all Lazy’s videos while I’m off work with covid. Lazy’s voice is so soothing, definitely helping me get through this!
Hi it would be amazing if you would do a video about Finnish mysteries or cases. They don’t get so much attention than they should. I understand that many of those murder cases and mysteries don’t have a lot of articles translated in English but as a Finnish person I would love to help with words translations and pronouncing names of people and cities.
Like that guy with the beard and antlers who's on the cover of many Korpiklaani albums?
honestly, would love for someone to cover the anneli auer case, or even the sand pit murders, a hypothesized serial killer. they're fascinating cases. also, torille!
Oh that all sounds rather interesting, if you do come across some content in English, please do share!
I'd love to hear them! Hopefully Lazy will reach out to you
TheInvestiGator does wider world cases.x
I've heard of the first story multiple times before, but what I was told always ended at "he wanted to watch her use the restroom and froze to death when he couldn't get out." You're the first person I've seen cover this case that added multiple details and explainations and I appreciate that.
Story 1: corrupt and/or incompetent police
Story 2: incompetent police
Story 3: incompetent police
Story 4: blissfully without police being bastards and educational too!
Good stuff sir!
i got over the fear of that image of jeff by telling myself and my friends that it was a horrible attempt at photoshop. now, 10 years later i feel like the fear has revived and i’m the scared 15 year old again.
I stayed at my grandmas house last year and I had always been scared of her realistic dolls. I was lying in bed and there where three displayed on the wall on a shelf. I looked at them and laughed at myself for being a dumb kid back in the day. I looked away and looked back and I suddenly felt like maybe one moved, just a little bit….I got full of the same cold fear LMFAO I guess that kind of thing lingers.
I was scared so badly when I was in my late teens by Jeff, but I got over it when the creepypasta turned out to just be about your typical serial killer. Now realizing there is a whole creepy lost media rabbit hole related just to the image makes it horrible to look at all over again.
@@hadeswoof8060 "I looked at them and laughed at myself for being a dumb kid. When I looked away laughter was still heard, but it was not mine."
- 2 sentence horror story
In my early teens, the image scared the shit out of me. To the point where being home alone and reading his story after looking at the image had me feeling scared and paranoid. However, my fear died down after I realized how bad the writing was and when I saw all the art of Jeff by fangirls turning him into some cute edgy emo anime boy.
That being said, that original image is still really unsettling and catches me offguard if I see it unexpectedly.
The painting people pair with that supposed cursed poem doesn't scare me anymore, since I found out the artist was going through a period where she made creepy looking paintings working through her emotions. Blind Dweller did the video where I saw the whole painting if you want to know where to look.
Nice way to spend an early Saturday afternoon - it’s freezing, so I’m snuggled up under the covers and listening to some Lazy. Perfect!
The Jeff image kind of has the same creepy feel to it as that weird Momo character that was circulating around a couple of years ago.
its my childhood man i used to be so obssessed with jeff back in the days.
This video is so good I had to watch it again today. Lazy’s content is always worth multiple viewings!
Some of these stories gives me intense panic attacks but It's ok.
That poor old man, I can't believe it took so long to "exonerate" him.
“Damn…I’m out of toilet paper…”
*Morpheus steps into the stall, two toilet paper rolls in his hands*
“You take the blue roll, the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red roll, you stay in wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.”
“…”
I’ll take both. 🤣
Why does the less-edited version of Jeff look scarier to me than the one we're all used to? I think it's something about the eyes being more 'human/real' and that just not being something I associate with Jeff.
I was convinced I was not afraid of that Jeff image anymore, and I even watched Jorge's video during the day and wasn't affected. But man, seeing that image at 12:30am truly hits different, and I'm back to being that afraid 14 year old 😭
That woman's face was freaky looking. I wonder if that was the pixellation or if she really looked like a kabuki villain.
My first thought was that she looked like a demon.
The fact the origin of the Jeff The Killer photo can’t be confirmed is more unsettling than the story itself
The first case has always baffled me. Definitely a weird one. Great upload.
Mad props to you, Lazy, for giving a spotlight to KyotoRobato. His video of the Jusco Phantom is one of best English-translated contents out there that covered the incident without sensationalizing it.
Yes,I love KyotoRobato's channel, it's got amazing content!
@@snacksized_biteme7473
Indeed. I binge-watched at least four of his videos including the one for the Jusco Phantom as soon as I found his channel.
As an ex-4chan oldhead it blew me away that more people weren't aware of the "White Powder 2" image until I tried finding it one time and couldn't.
I used to be on 4chan because of an ex but I was wondering what made you stop going there? If you don't mind me asking
@@sofieebee8993 I guess I kinda grew out of it? I mostly went on there in high school because it was somehow not blocked there for a long time.
@@TheSteakJustice I used to like it back in the day too tbh...but honestly it started getting more and more grimey over the years for me...and my ex pulled something really unforgivable which caused people from there to get my info...so I stopped going there
@@sofieebee8993 Jeeeeeeez I'm sorry that your departure had to be spurred on by something awful. How some motherfuckers will up and try to ruin someone's life so casually is beyond me. Hope the unwanted 'attention' died off sooner rather than later.
The naoyuki one could go either way in my opinion. The evidence stacks kind of equally in both ways and you should never forget the stupid shit people will do to fulfill a secret fetish. you never really know a person no matter how nice they seem on the outside. Still the evidence that that wasn't the case is there too.
Not saying what happened with him either way, but the argument that, because he was smart and a good guy, he couldn't have a weird fetish is ridiculous. I bet most people you meet in life have a bizarre fantasy that no one knows about. I even worked with a guy many years ago that just disappeared one day, and we found out later that he ended up being busted for molesting kids. He was just a normal guy, nobody could have predicted it.
Especially his shoe was found far away from him
@@HazelnutErthat could be explained by a lot of things, honestly. He might've kicked off the shoes before going into the pipe, and someone might've taken one, or thrown the other in the tube to dispose of it.
Wouldn't someone have heard him yelling out if he was trapped unwillingly? As much as I want to believe it was foul play and he was a decent guy, my guess is that he was likely too embarrassed by his situation, and decided he would rather die than suffer the embarrassment alive.
Love these videos from Japan. I dont know why but they grab my attention more then any others.
The first mystery is extremely bizarre to me. I keep thinking about how he got in there, but I can’t figure it out. Yet his body only had minor abrasions? And he died of hypothermia? There’s too many questions. The family deserves answers.
Yea it's so absurd . There's no way he'd fit there , unless there was some type of opening or smth .
My sister used to live in Japan! When she moved back home, I thought it was weird that her phone would *always* make sounds when pictures were taken. She told me that Japanese phones can’t have silent cameras but I didn’t really understand. Now that I’m older I really appreciate that they do that to fight their problems with predators but they have soooo much more they need to do. It’s a huge issue
Wouldn't silent cameras be a plus for predators too?
@Uh Oh Stinky of course it’s not fixing the problem. Only very slightly making things safer so people hear when/if someone takes a picture of them. I agree they need to make MAJOR changes. Japan likes to act like they’re such an innocent, crime free country, but the crimes against women specifically are awful and often lack proper justice. I’ve heard people argue that Japan is safer for women because they have womens only sections on trains… which is baffling to me because the reason they do is BECAUSE of how unsafe it is for women. They’re honestly doing the bare minimum making people feel safer in dangerous situations, but not addressing the dangerous people themselves
Anyone sensing the irony of an episode about Japanese true crime being sponsered by high quality Japanese kitchen knifes?
Not gonna lie I thought he was about to talk about a Japanese knife scam
At least someone on that
Oji - Sans case actually got me thinking: most human traffickers might actually be women. Hypothetically, it would be super easy for a woman to just grab a baby from a dad at a store, and then accuse the man of trying to "take my baby!" When he tries to take his child back
No bad man would willingly take care of a baby. Much more common for crazy women to steal babies.
When I saw this, I remembered that the mystery incident "鮫島事件" that actually happened was a terrifying incident ... I can't write it here because it's too terrifying.
What is it in english?
Perfect timing as always. Thank you for uploading so many mystery/unsolved videos lately. My fav 🧡
THE JEFF THE KILLER PICTURE WAS SUCH A JUMPSCARE- I read the warning and everything and i still jumped
Awesome vid as always. I remember one story where a father was walking in the parking lot with his son and his wife was in the car. A random woman came up grabbing his son and started screaming about the father trying to kidnap her son. People came running holding the father down while the woman was literally starting to walk away with his son and they kept holding him down. In true mom moment fashion the actual mother ran across the parking lot and yanked their child away from the woman. She said she didn't even remember starting to move and she was there and the father said it was the most terrifying moment of his life because the "good samaritans" wouldnt listen to him. Seeing the mother pop up out of nowhere they quickly realized thier mistake. Although I 100% believe they had the best of intentions but in that particular situation they probably should have detained all parties instead of assuming the man had been in the wrong. I imagine the damn near tragic mistake keeps them up at night. Hell it probably keeps all parties up at night.
Carry a gun. Shoot to kill. No jury would convict a parent whose child is being stolen.
@@fronthal157 Damn Rambo, firearms aren't the answer for everything. Heard of crossfire? Or making a misidentification like the people in the commentor's comment?
@@rwentfordable firearms are absolutely the answer for people trying to lay hands on me while someone makes off with my kid. That's what firearms are for. Force equalizer. God made men, and Sam Colt made them equal.
It was in a Reddit confessions or something
@@fronthal157 how would we know if that wasn't their child? What I'm saying is that people would have a gun to protect themselves, so why wouldn't a kidnapper do the same to protect themselves from being taken down? People abuse the use of fire arms like hostile animals. One look and they think they are in danger and shoot whether they are in the wrong or not. This is why gun control is a thing so people won't abuse it and use it to shoot innocent people. The witnesses thought the man really is a kidnapper and the lady is the mom trying to take her child back. If that was to be the case, would you want that man to hold a gun so he can get away with the child?
As tragic as it is to hear what happened to Juzo Itamo, damn dude was a real king for standing his ground until the end.
Akamanto : Red or Blue Toilet paper???
Me : *Uses Bidet*
Akamanto : Understandable, Have a nice day.
You were the first horror narrator I listened to and I still get so excited seing your uploads. Thank you for another great one.
Same, 5 years and I still watch Lazy whenever he uploads.
The story of the old man who died was so confusing to me. I don't understand why nobody simply opened the wallet to see his credentials. That would have solved the crime that quick. Wtheck?
And as for the man in the pipe - it certainly wouldn't be the first time someone was made to look like some deplorable human being in death. So they not only lose their life, but their dignity as well. And they didn't have to lay a hand on him. What a slow, agonizing, disgusting death.
Edit: I just realized somebody already mentioned this
Nobody was trying to investigate or verify anything because they'd already made their assumptions.
The man in the pipe is a japanese police thing. There is no possible way for the story to be true, he knew the person wasnt even there, would have had to have gone backwards hands first into sewage, knowing he would likely freeze to death and brought nothing to eat or drink. The police just didnt have a good suspect. The bar is pretty high in Japan and things like this arent even considered a coverup. The conviction rate is too high for them not to make excuses to leave no case unsolved, because that is bad for them.
@@Luminousreign Yeah, that was definitely a crazy story. But I was referring to the man who had his wallet stolen
@@aprilgarcia6119 Oh that can be explained by the crowd thinking he was a perv and then him refusing to hand over his wallet. Police were like yup guilty. The problem is that those guys always say they are innocent, so any resistance to try and show them is just going to be met as resistance. Also he got convicted on a technicality because he died and couldnt explain himself. The only version of events anyone got basically was the one where he looked guilty...even though at this point they know he is not. The system has to be perfect.
@@aprilgarcia6119 Like the women disappeared and he still wouldnt hand it over so it is incredibly suspicious to them that he was still protecting his identity. Now was he just panicked and desperately holding on to his wallet? probably, but he doesnt get to tell that story.
Cant believe lazy gave KyotoRobato a shout-out!! 👏👍
the scariest part about japan is definitely not the demons but the justice/police system TuT
I had solved mystery 4 but no one believes me. it's from a manga, or a fan acted out scene from the final chapter of "pretty face" volume 53. in late 2003 some japanese readers of the manga acted out the final few scenes of the manga from their bedroom and posted it online. it then got spead with the "make me cute" meme format. fun bonus: the plot of the pretty face manga is, well almost scene for scene the jeff the killer story.
That is interesting need to check it out
How do you Know that ? Do you have the video
Giving this a like and comment so that this comment goes higher and someone who knows more than me can investigate.
Nice.
can we find the referenced manga?
I enjoy how Lazy's channel isn't only about true crime, but they add a bit of history, too.
✅ Japanese "red or blue" toilet paper urban legend.
Thanks, Papa Lazy! 😄
Poor Ojii-san. I don't know what I'd do if this happened to my grandpa. :(
OMG! The reddit post for the septic tank case is mine! This is so great, thanks for the detailed video and shoutout! I never thought my post would make its way to RUclips =))
Why is nobody talking about how incredulous the squat toilet case is???? One of the most puzzling cases ever.... Like I couldn't wrap my head around that one damn
OMG i was just rewatching ur old videos and now u uploaded an extra long video!!! THANK U!!! u still going to do the Fifty Stories Around The World Series? Much Love Mate! :)
There are too many stories like that of Ojii-san's, where women use their presumed 'innocence' to their advantage. I literally witnessed a woman *almost* successfully abduct a child from their father (and only failed to because luckily a bystander asked the child who the woman was) because she cried for help when he tried to save his child and several people tried to pin him down
We as a society really are failing a lot of people with these sexist assumptions about men as perps and women as victims.
100%. Women can easily do this kind of thing. All they have to do is pretend to cry and people will come to their aid. I had an ex that used to like to play games like this when she was drunk. She got me kicked out of loads of nightclubs and bars with this routine. She was a real piece of work. She thought it was funny.
@@D00M3R-SK8 my guy why didn’t you leave as soon as this became an issue?
@@EphemeralProductions I understand, and im sorry you guys have to go through it. I hate the fact that woman can bat their eyelashes and get away with things, purely because they are female. For years, people have done what they can to protect woman, but what about men? In the media lately, i've been seeing a lot of female serial murderers killing men for some fucked up reason and it breaks my heart. We have been fighting for equal rights for ages, we whine and complain about men, but when men do it, it's mysoginistic? That's double standards in my eyes and it's disgusting. Im honestly disgusted by the state of woman nowadays, but even more so by government officials who are biased towards woman who are criminals and let them walk free. In saying that, stay safe out there, lads! Do you what you have to in order to protect yourselves. ❤️
@@EphemeralProductions Men and women should be equal under the law in terms of humans rights, but as you said there should not be preferential treatment just because they are females.
@@fidelio9301 👍. Yup
My reactions to the cases:
1. Confusion and anger
2. Anger
3. Anger
4. Oh hello there, childhood. good to see ya again!
((So the Japanese were the first ones online that made cursed images? Wow. You learn something new everyday.))
First case makes me think of the Kendrick Johnson case in parts. Different location of the body, but he was also found crammed in a tight space smaller than his body size, and cops also determined he died accidentally. Cause you know, people just crawl into uncomfortably tight spaces for fun.
The photo in number two to me looks like a camera glitch when she moved her head from front to the side. You see similar things on Google maps with image stitching. Not sure of the camera system in the store but just a theory.
Just as I was looking for something to fill the air while putting together a printer Lazy comes to save the day! 🙏🏽🤣
Printers are pre-built.
@@trafalgard.waterlaw7330 🤪🤪 you don't say. I obviously had to set it up, its a blue tooth printer and I never put ink into one or set one up before
@@trafalgard.waterlaw7330 not 3D printers
@@sonters looking at OP's comment 3D printing was never included.
@@arczero8632 I don't know what it's setup has to do with what I said. An Android phone is pre built... It has Bluetooth too.
Toilet paper demon: you want the red paper or blue paper?
Me: None thank you. I prefer to lick myself clean using my hands.
I remember the good ol days when I could click on one of your videos and just set it down and listen. No I have to skip several minutes into the video, just to find the beginning. First video of yours I've watched in months.
Something about the Japanese flavour of horror is just so appealing to me. Everything feels so stilted and jarring, to my African/westernised sensibilities. I love it
Eh. IMO, they're kinda meh. I hate the fact that no matter what you do, in most encounters with yhe japanese creature things, you die a violent grotesque death. Who the hell survived then to tell the story?
@@thejunktownsheriffkilliand4800 Fair criticism. I'm evaluating how I feel about them, as opposed to what I think. I understand being put off by those things you mentioned though, for sure.
Even if the first guy was a peeping Tom, how does his shoe end up on his head and another in the river? And if he knew his friends schedule, he was definitely old enough to know that he'd need some supplies in there, I really can't believe he was a peeping Tom, given the information in the video, he sounds a little too intelligent to have not thought through the plans and brought warm clothing (that he kept on, maybe from a thrift store? So he could toss it all after) and why go two days early? Go down there like 2 hours early... If he was that perverted
But if he did do all that, then what? He lost a shoe in a river and decided to put the other one on his head? Why? To be found when he was trying to hide? Thankfully it sounds like the community didn't believe that story, I just hope his female friend didn't think of him as a peeping Tom and changed her opinion about him....
Besides what punk rocker is afraid to say what he thinks(like villagers votes were bought) or ask for what he wants (even if it's something super nasty like being... Like having... Stuff on him while watching)...
Also how often do deaths occur in that village that the police would be foolish enough to destroy evidence by accident, and a coroner quitting right after that case... Nothing says "I've lied and don't feel I should be the community coroner, more than quiting after a strange and mysterious death"
I wonder what his tox report showed, if the coroner was allowed to do one and someone didn't interfere with it, because black drunk level's of alcohol or large quantities of sedatives I'd imagine would be found... That or a concussive blow to the head
Besides if you want to see a friend do that and have days while she's gone, then you could just setup a safer alternative... I guess? Idk that's not a mindset I can really get into... But I'm sure some perv out there would have a better thought out plan in the time it takes to watch the video and read my comment, or even just watch the first 13minutes
From what I know with most cases of peeping toms involving public bathrooms, they use cameras. It really doesn't make sense for him to crawl in such a place especially with no guarantee who would use the toilet in the first place; especially not his childhood friend who was out of town at the time. Only someone with severe mental instability would go through with an idea like that, not thinking about the consequences. It is pretty obvious to me that it was a cover-up, especially with the coroner quitting almost immediately after. No toxicology reports, him dying from hyperthermia instead of toxic fumes, and the nature of his garments especially his shoes. You'd also think with an area like that with such a small murder rate, they'd utilise everything possible to get to the bottom of the situation. Instead of coming up with such a quick story, with no real worry about the dead man's image in the eyes of the villagers; which small communities tend to do.
@@snikrdoodls14 I couldn't agree more, everything, every small part of the story screams "cover up"
And all while using the "pervert" excuse to both hide the murder, and send a message that anyone else who wants to try something won't just die, their whole reputation will be destroyed
That and the message obviously says "we own the law here"
It is just a japanese police thing. The conviction rate is too high, and it sets a high bar for investigations. When they dont have any leads like they didnt hear, they just go with something plausible and wipe their hands of it. Having an unsolved case is career suicide.
@@Luminousreign I've heard that before... That it's 98% success rate, but I thought that figure only was for when they had a suspect in custody (as if I'm not mistaken they're able to use some very very enhanced interrogation methods to get a confession)
I didn't think it applied to situations like s**cide, or murder with no suspects and such
But I can be wrong, it's been a while since I read an actual paper on police conviction rates(not on crime solved rates, which this would fall under)
@@JaykPuten Yes, the counterbalance is they are very careful and non-intrusive about investigating and arresting people because they want the justice system itself to seem almost perfect. Take the old man story for example, they arrested him because he was being restrained for seeming like a perv (by their social norms) , which included him refusing to give I.D. He can really never be innocent in the japanese system, especially after he died.
Hell yeah! I’ve been looking for more creepy Japanese stories / myths!
Would be nice to explore more on the East Asia side of things haha.
The way Lazy says "Expand Dong" in the credits everytime sounds so exasperated it's so funny
Sous chef here, can’t recommend Kamikoto knives enough. My father bought me a set when I started working at my first nice restaurant and I’ve used them pretty much every single day since. They’re truly top tier knives!
Oh my life,that first story had my claustrophobia screaming! Poor guy, Naoyuki just have been terrified
The first case, that was just one big mess, no pun intended. How strange yet so fascinating.
Yeah, I think he was killed and not climbing in there voluntarily. It reminds me of the kid that was found in the chimney in an abandoned cabin.
@@Ron4885 He must have been killed and stuffed in there. How they managed to do that in such a small and compact space is beyond me.
@@AnnieNorthman89 Why? Still seems like a guy getting himself killed to live out a sexual fetish.
If you think that it's too weird or crazy, then you haven't heard the stories of people dying for their fetishes.
@@Lobsterwithinternet I've seen and read about many types of deaths and killings and whatnot and I know all about autoerotic asphyxiation. It's not that strange to me. The case just sounds messy.
@@AnnieNorthman89 Yeah, it does.
Southeast Asian ‘face’ culture doesn't really help the situation either.
Always a good day when Lazy comes to play! So happy to join you all today in the Land of the Rising Sun.
About Nayoyuki, I also wonder how he got his own shoe off and why he would’ve placed it on his own face. Weird.
I'm wondering if he didn't get in willingly then perhaps he put the shoe there as his only means to protect his face from someone going to the bathroom?
@@haileygrey5047 but why wouldnt he shout if someone was going to toilet ?
@@leighmorgan2959 I'm truly at a loss...maybe he was in such a state perhaps due to the tight space creating compression rendering him unable to do so?
@@haileygrey5047 hmm, not sure, from the picture it looks like it was wide enough for his shoulders no ? Actually didnt they say he died from compression on his chest ?
@@leighmorgan2959 I think so.edit: meaning I think so that he died from chest compression.
Geez. Screw everyone involved in that old man's case. Why would you tackle an old helpless person to the ground and leave them handcuffed despite them obviously distressed and not being okay in any form or fashion? It wasn't even about helping the woman anymore, it was just so they could mistreat an elderly person. Check the damn wallet for identification and it's case closed.
"The story goes that a young man was watching TV at 2:30 AM"
I, a young man, am along in my kitchen cutting an avocado at exactly 2:30 AM. I hate this.
I always end up watching these videos in the early hours!! It's really dumb.
I thought I had escaped the Jeff The Killer creepypasta this week (youtube decided to suggest me some videos, at night) but Lazy got me.
It’s so weird, I’ve never read any creepypasta, especially jeff the killer so this is the most I’ve learned about that. 😂
It’s 2022 wtf
@@JazziG59 and? I'm tired of seeing that ugly face since 2007 😂