The ghost hunters' own cameras keep stopping. Read their report
For once, we barely have to work. The debunkers filed their findings and the findings are... read them yourself. Kachimode — the company PAID to certify houses ghost-free — reports that during investigations 'video cameras stopped recording and microphones malfunctioned'. Their words. And the closer: some properties show 'various mysterious phenomena... CONSISTENTLY over a long period of more than a year'. Consistently. Over a year. In the report of the company whose product is reassurance. When the reassurance industry logs anomalies, we log the reassurance industry.
Now the infrastructure around it. A national database lists every stigmatized property in Japan — location, reason, the works. Except some entries say only: 'Obtain details from real estate agent.' A public blacklist with REDACTED ENTRIES. What history is too much history for the haunted-house registry? Exactly.
Follow the professionals' movements: surveys from 10pm to 6am — electromagnetic waves, atmospheric pressure, thermography — supervised by 'a university professor who specializes in monitoring the supernatural'. That is a real academic post. Ask which department. Ask who funds the department. The professor knows things; professors always know things; that's the whole problem with professors.
And 9 million homes stand empty in a country short of housing. The official explanations: demographics, family disputes, superstition. Fine. Sit tonight, 10pm to 6am, in the one with the shutters drawn, and choose your explanation at 3:41am when the microphone stops. We'd finish this thought, but the room just got cold—