Greetings
A story I heard from my makeup artist when I was in Kagrra,. Talk of ghost stories bloomed from a strange event during the tour... which reminds me, she told me this story.
It was when that makeup artist was still starting out, and she went to a photoshoot job at the foot of the famous Mount Osutaka, near Nagano Prefecture, where that JAL Airline crashed. She was tottering down the road alone, with her tools used in nighttime photography, when she saw a person walking toward her from up ahead. Just as they were passing each other, she nodded and returned to the other side.
"A person out in this place at such a time?" she thought, and when she looked over her shoulder, nobody was there anymore. She found it strange, but since there were surely farming families in the area, it could've been a person straying from the road and going to a field, so she didn't pay it much heed then.
Nevertheless, when it turned morning and she saw the road she walked by herself the night before, she was amazed. There was absolutely no field, or any such place for the person to be hidden in, just vast plains extending out all around. When she told this to the owner of her Western-style lodging house, he said 'Do you think perhaps it might've been a woman, wearing these kind of clothes, and approximately this age?"
"Yes, that's right... Exactly such a person..."
"Just as I thought~ Yeah, all of the people in this area see her, but she's surely a victim of that accident don't you think? However, this is the first time anyone has greeted her," the owner said, seeming to smile awfully brightly.
It was when that makeup artist was still starting out, and she went to a photoshoot job at the foot of the famous Mount Osutaka, near Nagano Prefecture, where that JAL Airline crashed. She was tottering down the road alone, with her tools used in nighttime photography, when she saw a person walking toward her from up ahead. Just as they were passing each other, she nodded and returned to the other side.
"A person out in this place at such a time?" she thought, and when she looked over her shoulder, nobody was there anymore. She found it strange, but since there were surely farming families in the area, it could've been a person straying from the road and going to a field, so she didn't pay it much heed then.
Nevertheless, when it turned morning and she saw the road she walked by herself the night before, she was amazed. There was absolutely no field, or any such place for the person to be hidden in, just vast plains extending out all around. When she told this to the owner of her Western-style lodging house, he said 'Do you think perhaps it might've been a woman, wearing these kind of clothes, and approximately this age?"
"Yes, that's right... Exactly such a person..."
"Just as I thought~ Yeah, all of the people in this area see her, but she's surely a victim of that accident don't you think? However, this is the first time anyone has greeted her," the owner said, seeming to smile awfully brightly.
<Coach's Investigation>
It's a little unreasonable to associate just this woman who disappeared with the victims of the accident. Shouldn't a makeup artist have more than a general sense of woman's fashion, professionally? If that person thought "surely farmer families are in the area" when she witnessed the figure of a woman, wouldn't she not be able to agree with the thought that the woman would be connected to the incident? ......I guess. It's likely that if you'd gotten a little more information, you wouldn't simply write impressions like "these kind of clothes" in the story. Because this part touches on the "core" of a ghost story, I'd like you to take care. That being said, if you could do that I think this story would've become an excellent work.