Aokigahara

I included it in a past episode of Haunting Running Trails.

Or I also think of Aokigahara Forest in Japan, which is a popular spot for suicides in that country.

I think I included that in the same episode as the Carpathians.

Each have dark histories with many questionable, frightening stories.

And they won't go to jail for doing it.

No, there's a reason why they're doing it in these places, right? And there are other reasons, right? Another possible reason why Japan has become a fixture dates back to 2017, as you mentioned in episode one, when YouTuber Logan Paul, then 22, filmed and published a YouTube video in the Okigahara Forest in Japan, better known as the Suicide Forest, because a large but deliberately unknown number of Japanese people choose to end their lives there.

The government actually doesn't publish statistics on how many do because they don't want to, the social contagion thing, right? They don't want to encourage it.

And you probably – I think most people are aware of this, right? Logan and his crew come across a dead man hanging in the forest.

a Pokemon card.

So what? You would go find, you would try to find a PSA 10 Charizard if I told you it's in Aokigahara but you can only go at night and you can only find it at night.

Would you do it? Okay, how much is it worth first? I think right now,

300k.

Bridgewater Triangle.

There's the Aokigahara, which is, I think that's the...

Is that the suicide forest? Suicide forest, yes.

Yeah, that's

Mm

... and, like, Poveglia, and the Tower of London, and the Roman Colosseum, and, you know, um, Aokigahara Forest.

All of these kind of places that I think would come up on these lists time and time again.

3rd East Drive, which-

That's a good question.

What was – oh, one of the newer ones was the – over in the base of Mount Fuji in Japan – They made me change the name of the chapter, but we called it the Sea of Trees.

The reality is this is the number one place in the world to take your own life.

And it is a vast forest where people go in with no intention of coming out.

Mm-hmm.

Um, I like to compare, like I wonder if I could compare it to the Japanese forest of Aokigahara, which is famous for being extremely dense, and there's also-

Oh

... phenomena there where people would lose their way because the compass would stop working because apparently there's strong magnetic fields there.

Person was in the back, hung.

It's a, it's a forest called sui- I think they call it Suicide Forest.

Yeah, that is what they call it.

Uh, they call it Suicide Forest because a lot of people go there to commit suicide.

It's very sad, but there's also a person there, like an old Japanese man, that, like, tells people, "Hey, get out the forest.

I hope you don't..." You know, like, like an attendee in a sense, where he's like, "Hey, man, I hope you guys aren't..." Like telling people, "Hey, don't kill yourself," in a sense, you know?