‘Supernatural’ Incident At High School, 18 Girls Hospitalised
by Beth on Thursday, June 20, 2013 32 comments comments
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While paranormal phenomena have a prominent place in Japanese youth culture through manga, anime, and film, rumours are spreading like wildfire about a mysterious incident at a high school in Hyogo Prefecture today.
While last week we learned that teachers were reporting the popularity of eyeball-licking at a certain Japanese elementary school, now the hospitalisation of 18 high school girls has lead to speculations that an illness that spread through the school in a matter of hours might have had supernatural causes.
Worried teachers called emergency services as girls throughout the school started acting hysterically after one girl — rumoured to have psychic abilities — began displaying symptoms such as hyperventilation and body cramps.
From Sankei Shimbun:
Mass Panic? 18 Schoolgirls Taken To Hospital From A Hyogo High School
Kamigori High School, where the incident took place.
At around 11:45am on June 19 at the popular prefectural high school Kamig#333;ri High in Kamig#333;ri, Hyogo Prefecture, a first-year female student complained during recess that she was feeling unwell, saying “I feel sick”, and experienced hyper-ventilation. Other students who saw her in this state successively complained of symptoms such as hyperventilation throughout the early afternoon and a total of eighteen girls — seventeen first-year students and one third-year student — were carried to two different municipal hospitals. All of the schoolgirls were conscious, and their lives are not said to be in danger.
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According to Aioi city police department, the female student who had first complained of feeling unwell was said by other students to have “supernatural senses”. The girl had been in a state of panic, wailing and crying, and police assume that this panic then spread to the other students in the same way.
According to the school, this state of panic lasted for more than an hour, and students were taken one after another to the nurse’s office. Due to the fact that there were some students for whom symptoms such as cramps grew worse, the school called 119 [emergency services] at just past 1:30pm.
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