Originating in ancient Japan, the Himuro Mansion lies in the southern region of the Himuro Mountain, surrounded by five shrines of five different gods located on other mountains. This mansion, as stated in The Toast article, is “said to have been the location of one of the most gruesome murders in Japanese history. Seven people were murdered after an occult ritual went horribly wrong. The Shinto ritual that the Himuro family practiced at their mansion was known as “The Strangling Ritual.”
The purpose of The Strangling Ritual was to seal off bad karma that was believed to be coming out of a portal in the Earth every fifty years. The ritual started from choosing a maiden at birth and raising her isolated from the rest of the world. On the day of the ceremony, the maiden was bound by ropes around her neck, ankles, and wrists. The ropes were then attached to five oxen. The oxen would then run on cue, pulling off all of her limbs. The ropes that bound her were then soaked in her blood and placed over the portal to seal it off for the next fifty years.
The last Strangling Ritual did not go as planned. The maiden chosen to be isolated from the world fell in love with a man who tried to save her life. This bond to the Earth made the maiden impure, and destroyed the ritual. The master that chose the maiden realized that the ritual was a failure and murdered his entire family by his own sword, then ended himself.
With the family brutally murdered, the mansion became haunted by the souls of the family. The souls are said to wander the mansion in hopes of repeating the failed ritual. People have reported seeing blood splashes on the walls from the sword. Many have also reported seeing ghosts dressed in white, preparing the grounds for the Strangling Ritual.
In 2001, Tecmo released a game for Playstation called Fatal Frame. This creators of the game say that the game was based on a true story. The story of the Himuro Mansion. One of the main characters, Miku, goes to the mansion and discovers that some of the people that she was searching for were murdered by the ghosts of the mansion. Those individuals were discovered with rope burns on their wrists and ankles. The game goes further into the ritual explaining the entire story behind the Himuro Mansion. While we do not have official records to back up this legend, the haunted Himuro Mansion is still present in today’s society.
I tried to find the mansion through Google Map, but I could not find anything…..
Did someone know exactly location of Himuro Mansion?
There’s no location. It’s just an urban legend. Even the alleged photographs of the mansion have never been proven to be real, they could literally be photographs of any other mansion or old japanese house.
This is not real. Himuro Mansion is the setting from the first Fatal Frame game on PS2, released in 2001, and the folklore is the backstory of the game.
It’s pretty good and has since had four sequels.
Is it Iwadono Castle in Yamanshi? Take a look
Would be creepy if it was real though, sounds like something ancients would do, right?
34.1954990, 135.1744730 there ya go. Surrounded by shines on other mountains hidden in the woods atop a hill
The above comment is not true. That house is indeed haunted, but not because it is the Himuro Mansion. It is the abandoned mansion of Japan’s renowned businessman in 1900s. He is the first person to recreate dyes due to the Germans halted trades. Youtube videos does claim it to be the Himuro Mansion, but it’s not. As for the murders, I do not find their files which mean it seems to be a cold and deliberately erased case OR it has existed in rural times (before records started).