Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-33696343-20181119134615

Years ago, when I was in Japan, around 1994 or so, there was an urban legend called The Red Man. The Red Man is a so-called murderer that was killed by vicious coyotes and was skinned alive. His resting place was in the forest that he died in and was buried in leaves and straw when two men witnessed the attack. Now it is said that his spirit haunts Mito, Ibaraki.

It is said that if you hear the man, he will emit a loud screeching sound that you can only hear. If you see the man as a hallucination, he will run towards you and he will either posess you or in certain cases, will let you free. Most of the time he posseses people and drives them to insanity. Very few people were set free. I am here today to tell you what i've experienced. By the way, I forgot to mention, my name is Byron.

I was walking down the street going back home with my friend. My friend's name by the way was Miki. We were talking about what we were going to do over the weekend. She gave me something that I wasn't expecting to get. She gave me a necklace. A very weird necklace. She told me to keep it for being a true friend to her for so long. Then, we said goodbye and she went home. Then, it got very cold all of a sudden and I felt a feeling that someone was watching me. A deep voice told me: DEATH APPROACHES YOU. I ran away, and guess who it was? That's right. The Red Man. He was chasing me. He was demanding me to leave his resting place. I finally got the hell out of there with all of my stuff surprisingly.

I went home to see if the man was real. Of course at the time, I didn't know who The Red Man was. So I had to do some major research of him. He is known to cause fear, extreme depression, and for people to commit suicide. So, the next day, I went to find the home of the deceased man. The house looked barely messed up since the furniture was brand new. All the rooms were wiped clean. I went into the bathroom to find a broken piece of a mirror. Shards of glass were in the bathtub. Nothing interesting was in there. When I was about to leave, I heard the water turn on itself. I went to check to see if anyone was here, nope. I saw the Red Man as a hallucination on the street, and ran as fast as I could to avoid him.

The best thing to do to avoid the man is to ignore him, to make him think you're not interested. DO NOT run away. If you run away, that's a very easy way to get killed or possesed by him, unless you're very lucky like I was. Don't provoke him, or you will die. 