Excerpt from an internet forum called Stories That Will Give You Goose Bumps, found on an aggregator website
Name: Anonymous-But-True Horror Stories
Date Posted: 05/17/10 (Mon) 20:30:43
ID: ZDKsJPWc0
I’m posting because the stuff about that creepy blog reminded me of this story. I don’t post stuff on the internet much, so sorry for any mistakes.
This happened about five years ago, but I still wonder about that blogger.
I’ve loved motorcycles since I was in my twenties, and I used to go searching for blogs by other bikers like me.
I don’t remember how I found this particular one, but the guy rode the same model of Suzuki as I did, so I probably found it while searching for stuff about that bike. I think it was on FC2, and it seemed like just some middle-aged man’s hobby blog. It didn’t have many likes or comments, and I could tell it was purely for this guy’s personal satisfaction. The site contained a lot of posts, though. I think he’d been using it for a while as a kind of journal. He covered a lot of helpful topics such as how to do custom work and maintenance, so I checked the blog often, but I never left any comments.
The blog was about half what I just described and half trip reports with pictures. The reports didn’t talk about anything special. It was just stuff like pictures of his bike at Lake Biwa and comments about how much he loved the soft serve at some random roadside station.
Then things took a weird turn. One day I opened the blog from my bookmarks bar, just like I always did, and found he’d deleted all his previous posts. He’d been posting as usual only three days before.
All the info in the profile section had disappeared, and his profile photo, which used to be a picture of his bike, was now a black square.
It was like everything on the blog had vanished overnight.
The blog was so empty that, for a second, I thought I’d accidentally gone to the wrong site. But the title was still there, and it was definitely that guy’s blog.
His list of posts now had only one entry.
It was new, and the title was just one letter: “A.”
His titles were usually descriptive, like “Trip to Kochi on X Month, X Day” or “How to Maintain Your Tires,” so this slapdash label was really unusual.
Something else was weird, too. The post was locked.
It required a password to access it.
Though we’d never met, as a frequent reader, I felt a kind of connection with this guy, so I really wanted to know what was in the post. I thought it might even explain why he’d erased his blog.
I searched the site for a password but couldn’t find anything. Well, everything had been deleted, so there weren’t many places to look.
Eventually, I gave up and started trying random passwords. Things like the name of the blog, the bike he rode, 0000, and so on. But nothing worked.
I chose four numbers and decided to give it one last go.
It was his birthday. I knew the date because it was the same as mine.
I remembered seeing it on his profile when I first started reading his blog.
To my surprise, the numbers worked. I still remember feeling kind of giddy.
The post titled “A” didn’t have any words, just pictures.
The first one looked like a roadside station. His bike was there, so I assumed he’d taken the photo himself.
Up until then, I’d thought that maybe someone hacked his blog. But this was proof he was the one who made the post.
I think the second picture was of a dam. It was a picture of his bike next to a sign reading Dam, with a lake visible in the background.
I assumed these were pictures he’d taken for a trip report.
The next one showed a ruined torii gate at the base of a mountain with stairs leading up the slope. That was when the pictures started getting weird. I think he was taking photos as he climbed the stairs, because there were pictures of the sky above, of the surrounding forest, and of the top of the stairs. It felt like he was taking photos at random, rather than trying to capture any specific images.
After that came a picture of the main shrine, but it was cut off and only partly in frame. The image was out of focus and blurry, so it was hard to make out, but the building looked to be in disrepair, with a collapsed roof. The doors were closed, so I couldn’t see inside.
The next photo showed a little shrine called a hokora, like the kind you sometimes see by the side of the road. It was about as tall as the guy, with double doors under a small roof. The composition of the photo was strange, like he’d clicked the button at random with the camera tilted. The hokora was a lot smaller than the main shrine, but it looked just as run down, and its doors were also closed.
The next picture showed the same hokora. But this time, its doors were open.
Hokora are usually meant to enshrine some sacred item. But this one had a bunch of dolls crammed inside. Barbie dolls, fancy porcelain dolls, traditional Japanese dolls, anime figures, dolls of all types, sizes, and eras filled the little structure, right up to the ceiling.
The next photo was the last one.
It showed a man’s back as he bowed toward the hokora.
That was where the post ended.
After I finished looking at the post, I went back to the main page and saw a new entry in the list; it hadn’t been there before.
This post was titled “It’s All Over.”
The new post was also locked, but I couldn’t figure out the password.
About a month or so later, the whole blog disappeared.
This is just my assumption, but I think the man in the last picture was the guy who owned the blog. He was dressed like a biker, after all.
But in that case, who took the photo?
I hope that guy is okay.