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When You Understand Japanese Horror Mysteries: The Well

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Tara A. Devlin

8 months ago

My sister was always crying and so  noisy. Today was especially bad. I put my hand over her mouth to shut her up,  but she stopped moving. I had no choice but to throw her down a well near our house.  When I looked the next day, she was gone. Five years later. I got into a fight  with a friend and hit him with a bat. He didn’t move even when I called out to him.  I threw him down that same well and left. When I went back the next day, his body was gone. Ten years later. A woman I spent time with
  at a hotel when I was drunk got pregnant. I didn’t want that hassle. I put my hands around  her neck and then threw her down the well. When I went back the next day,  her body was gone as well. Fifteen years later. My boss told me off in front  of everyone, and I was so annoyed that I stabbed him and threw him down the well. When I went back  the next day, naturally, his body was gone too. Twenty years later. I grew tired of looking after  my sick mother. I just wanted her to disappear. I thre
w her into the well still alive. At  first she flailed about, but soon she stopped moving and just floated in the water. When I  went back the next day, she was still there. When I went back the day after that, and  the day after that… she was still there. So what do you think the twist in  this story is? Leave your thoughts in the comments below and check back next week  when I share the answer. See you guys then!

Comments

@KowabanaJapan

As many of you guessed, the twist in this story is that the mother was helping her son all along. Whenever he threw a body down the well, it disappeared. Yet when he threw his mother down there, she didn't. Why? Because she was getting rid of the bodies all along. Extra points if you remember the Kowabana story that followed this exact same premise! UC9o-HIry3DcOM1P6t_eVNFw/c58rYLF6xviBB4r0pMAN

@IsaacFook

The mother helped the narrator cleaning up his mess all this time

@ticklefox184

Many mothers clean up after their entitled children, but this one took it to a ridiculous extreme 😅

@Adeno

Sadako: Stop throwing people into my house!!!

@ProfLakitax

This old country well might just be deeper than expected. The well just might be soo clogged up with bodies right now that the mothers body can’t sink deep below the surface.

@Marigen1971

The mother did him wrong covering up his murderous ass.

@cosmoslucifer2027

Maybe her mother was the reason of the disaapearence of those bodies , and with her death, there is no one to clean up for his crimes :v

@Frooooooo

The mother was the one who get rid the body from the well. So when he killed his mother, nobody else help to get rid of the body anymore.

@kojik.kemora9905

Mom helped NARRATOR removed and made all them bodies disapear.

@kawaibakaneko

Guess the old mom was the one taking care of the bodies... Wich is truly horrifying since the first victim was her younger sister

@GuardTower

mother was cleaning up after her son

@bryandavidasuncion9515

Take a penny and some magic. Even though your life is tragic, You can throw all your dreams down the well

@soulreaver1983

Absolutely outstanding video many thanks as always Tara

@amandap7733

Narrator's a certified psycho

@blobofdespair

Ah, this reminds me of an old Kowabana story...cannot remember the name

@AmandaFessler

Aside from the mother, who drowned, everyone else he'd thrown down the well actually survived and got out. And now they're probably out to get him.

@brickproduction1815

You told this one in a kowabana episode. The mother helped the narrator

@eetadakimasu

too many ppl in the well

@SubacaiDarkwing

I just had the "Oh!" moment when listening the second time. Such a shame, all mum's help cleaning the well being repaid this way. Although she probably should have seen it coming. 😅😹

@darkfent

My other plot twist: it's a magical well, just clogged...que yo mammas joke