Detailed explanation
Note: That last one was scheduled to post the 5th, but something happened and it got stuck in my queue :-/ Sorry. I've been super busy with job stuff, people visiting, and some other unexpected stuff so I haven't been able to check on things as much as I'd like. I'm still trying to keep this updated every 3 days on average, but I apologize if I fall behind again.
I won't give exact places, so bear with me. This happened in A-prefecture near a famous haunted place, I-tunnel. It was high school, and me and four other dumb guys got together late one night. You've heard this all before, I'm sure. We pissed around and then decided to go to the tunnel, knowing it was supposed to be haunted. We hopped on our scooters and spent an hour driving there.
It was 2 am by the time we arrived. I was fine til we got to the little mountain road that went to the tunnel, but when we pulled up in front of it I almost passed out. It even seemed like the ones who were doing relatively okay stepped back a little, lol.
Well, as I said earlier, we were dumb. We agreed to go through with it and go into the tunnel. Usually Inoue would lead the way, but he trailed behind, obviously pretty fucking scared.
“Whatcha scared of, Inoue?” I taunted, glad to find somebody who was more nervous than me.
“I ain't scared!” he insisted, but he was pale and stared at his feet as he walked. The rest of us thought it was funny and all at once dashed ahead. Of course I thought he'd be following us, but I didn't hear any footsteps. The tunnel was so dark you couldn't see ten centimeters in front of your face, but we kept going further.
“Shit, let's get out of here!” somebody screamed, and I felt them run past me in the opposite direction. Everyone followed, and right before I got outside I heard somebody else.
“Shit! Ow, ow ow ow!” I saw his figure balled up on the ground as he cried out. It was Kimura. I didn't know what happened, but he was wailing as he held his right arm tightly.
“Hey, what's wrong?” I asked, but he just kept crying.
“Hurry and drag him out!” Inoue screamed desperately, standing at the entrance of the tunnel.
Three of us gathered around him to try and get him up, but he wasn't moving. He should have only weighed about 60 kilos, but the three of us couldn't get him to budge no matter how hard we tried. He continued screaming the entire time, which just made it all the more disturbing.
We all knew something wasn't right, and some of us started to panic.
“Ahahahahaahah!” Suddenly his screams became an eerie laughter, as if he had gone crazy. His eyes were rolling back into his head and his expression warped.
That's when he suddenly became much lighter. The three of us gripped onto him and dragged him out as quickly as we could. He continued laughing, and Inoue stepped towards us.
“Snap out of it!” he yelled and slapped him across the face.
“Huh? What the hell are you doing? Where am I?” he said, suddenly coming out of whatever trance he was in.
Nobody was in the mood to joke about it, so we explained it just how it happened.
“Well now that you mention it, my face and arm hurt.” He rolled up his right sleeve, and there was what looked like a slender bony hand on his arm.
“Let's get the fuck outta here,” somebody said, and we sped down the mountain as quickly as our scooters would let us.
Kimura was second in line going down, and Inoue was behind him. The road was perfectly smooth, but somehow Kimura managed to fall over. Me, Inoue, and the other guy behind me managed to brake fast enough not to make the situation even worse, but Kimura was covered in blood. We were beginning to feel desperate, but we managed to make it to the main road without anymore problems.
We went straight to the emergency clinic to check on Kimura's injuries and the hand-thing, and Inoue suggested that we should go to a temple to get cleansed. It was still only 4 am though, so we decided to sit in a 24 hour family restaurant while we waited for morning. That's when Inoue started talking.
“Didn't you guys see that old lady standing in the tunnel? It was so dark you'd think you were blind, but I could see her clear as day. I was scared. No way was I goin' anywhere near that thing. When you guys took off further into the tunnel, she followed you. When you turned around to come back, she grabbed onto Kimura and tried draggin' him back. Then she just disappears, and he starts laughin' like a maniac. When he fell off his scooter, it looked like his back wheel was pushed out from under him. He didn't collapse!”
We didn't have much to say while we waited for news on our friend. We learned that his scrapes and bruises weren't any danger to him, and the five of us went to the temple together.
It's been a while since all of this happened, and luckily I'm doing alright.