The Tsunami Taxi Ghosts
Why did taxi drivers report picking up the dead?
4.7 (33)
48 mins
Explore the eerie stories from Japan after the 2011 tsunami, when taxi drivers reportedly picked up passengers who appeared completely ordinary, only for them to vanish before reaching their destination. Uncover how these strange encounters became linked to the Japanese belief in yūrei, restless spirits of people whose sudden deaths left them unable to say goodbye or return home.
Ep 1:
When the Ocean Erased a Coastline
On March 11, 2011, a monstrous earthquake and tsunami tore through Japan's coast, leaving thousands dead, families shattered, and rituals of grief violently interrupted.
Ep 2:
The Fares With No One in the Seat
A university student's thesis uncovers seven eerily matching taxi driver accounts of vanishing passengers, running meters, and rides to addresses that no longer exist.
Ep 3:
Knocks, Voices, and a Body Not Her Own
From knocking spirits to a young woman possessed by drowning children she never knew, Ishinomaki's living become unwilling vessels for the region's restless dead.
Ep 4:
Where Faith and Science Collide
Psychiatrists call it grief hallucination, but the patterns resist easy answers—while Reverend Kaneta, a 26th-generation priest, bends his own faith to ease suffering souls.
Ep 5:
Carrying the Dead Home
As empty fields replace vanished villages, one priest builds a café for the grieving while taxi drivers keep fulfilling ghostly rides—an ancient duty to the dead.
Discussions (5)
Benedict
Level 8 · 1 mo agometers still running says it all
Jaxon
Level 2 · 1 mo agoPTSD explains all of it tbh
Zeke
Level 2 · 1 mo agoA taxi driver finishes a ghost's ride and leaves the fare at a shrine. That's not a horror story, that's the most respectful customer service I've ever heard of.
