April 1st - Earth tremors, bombs or ghosts?
Here’s one for you people in Okinawa. In the late afternoon and evening of April 1st, did your apartment experience some random banging going on? Mine certainly did and I wasn’t alone it would seem. At first I put it down to the wind, but then I realised that the wardrobe door was also making random bangs every now and then. Next thought was an earthquake, but the number of tremors must have been very high, with each one just lasting long enough for the doors in my apartment to rattle once before stopping. Could have been bombs/explosive training somewhere in Okinawa, although I am on the south coast and (as far as I know) quite a way from most military training areas, Japanese or American.
The only other explanation would be that the Okinawan ghosts decided to play some April Fools’ joke on everyone by knocking on the doors. As many people in Japan know, Okinawa is probably the most haunted place in the country due to many of the things that happened during WWII. Almost every Okinawan you see has said they have seen a ghost, with students reporting that they have seen the ghost of a child around the school dormitory at night. My explanation that it might have just been another student didn’t go down too well! Indeed, there are a couple of places in Okinawa that Okinawans simply will not go to through fear of ghosts.
So, did any of you folks in Okinawa hear or feel it on Tuesday night, and if so, what do you think caused it?
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