Both the Seller and the Buyer Met Mysterious Deaths… Kansai’s Top Specialized Cleaning Company Reveals “Mysterious Paranormal Phenomena”

Just when you thought it was all resolved…

“Kansai Clean Service” handles everything from specialized cleanup of so-called “accident properties” and the sorting of a deceased person’s belongings to cleaning up hoarder homes where decluttering is extremely difficult. The employees of this company have faced nothing but grueling conditions: rooms filled with foul odors and bodily fluids, and mountains of trash that seem never-ending no matter how much they throw away.There have also been hair-raising horror experiences. (Excerpted and re-edited from the new book *Scary Rooms Seen by a Specialized Cleaner* (by Kansai Clean Service, published by Gakken), released on July 2.)

In the previous article, “‘The Ghost of a Woman with Long Hair…’—A ‘Hair-Raising Horror Experience’ from Kansai’s Top Specialized Cleaning Company, ” we introduced a strange job request brought to the company. In this second part, we’ll provide a detailed report on what happened afterward at the property where the paranormal phenomena occurred.

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A certain “vacant house” in Osaka Prefecture. Due to a series of paranormal phenomena, Kansai Clean Service decided to purchase the property at the owner’s request.Afterward, they performed a “soul-removal” ritual on the Buddhist altar (a ceremony in which a priest chants sutras to send the spirits residing in altars or graves back to the afterlife) and properly disposed of all memorial photos and family registers. No one saw any spirits during the work, and no paranormal phenomena occurred. However, as they continued cleaning, they found something that caught their attention.It was an urn whose owner was unknown.

When we checked with the client, they said, “I have absolutely no idea what it is.” We also checked with relatives, but not a single one of them knew anything about it. Had it been forgotten over the long years? Or had it been left there without anyone knowing?We carefully performed a memorial service for the urn, treating its contents as the remains of an unclaimed soul. After purchasing the property and clearing it out, we immediately put it up for sale. The buyer was a man who said he enjoyed DIY projects. He was a carpenter by trade and planned to renovate the place himself before moving in.

I honestly told him about the ghost story. I explained that while it wasn’t a “haunted property” in the traditional sense, there were these circumstances. The man replied:

“I don’t believe in that sort of thing, so it’s no problem for me.”

The sales contract was finalized, and the property was transferred to the man. The mother of the client—the mother and son who had commissioned me—passed away. She reportedly began feeling unwell the very day she entered the property with me and passed away shortly after. She was still in her 50s.

About half a year after the sale, a representative from Kansai Clean Service happened to be passing by the area. Curious about “what had become of that property,” he went to take a look and found that the house was gone. The lot had been cleared.

Traces of a ground-breaking ceremony remained. Sticks with paper attached—called “gohei”—were stuck in the ground. These are used by Shinto priests during ceremonies. They were probably going to build a new house there. Had the buyer decided to build a new house instead of renovating? I didn’t think about it any further.

The Tragedy That Befell the Buyer

About a year later, I happened to pass by the area again. I had assumed a new house would be built there by then, but the lot remained vacant. The remnants of the ground-breaking ceremony were still there, weathered and crumbling. Trash had been dumped on the lot, and even a bicycle had been abandoned there. I spoke to a woman living nearby.

“What happened to this place?”

The woman replied.

“It seems the buyer was planning to renovate the house themselves, but I heard they suddenly died in an accident.”

She said the lot had remained in that state ever since. Apparently, when the house was demolished, they discovered an old well at the back of the property. Kansai Clean Service, which had cleared out the house and handled the sale, hadn’t noticed it. The woman from the neighborhood said, “I wonder if that well is causing trouble.”

Since ancient times, water has been considered the source of life, and it has been believed that deities dwell within it. When filling in a well, a ritual called “breathing room” is performed. Large stones are placed first, followed by gravel, soil… gradually using smaller materials. Finally, a stick is inserted to allow the well to “breathe.” It is said that if this is not done, misfortune will strike.

It is unclear how that old well was handled. The only fact that remains is that misfortune befell, one after another, those involved with that house. The mother and daughter who saw the woman’s spirit. The daughter who was in a car accident on her way home after viewing the property. The mother who took to her bed the day she moved in and eventually passed away. The man who bought the house declaring, “I don’t believe in ghosts,” and died in an accident.

Who was the female spirit that the client and her child claimed to have seen? Whose urn was it, after all? Did the man who bought the house see something as well? Did everyone who tried to inherit the property meet with misfortune? What on earth is on that land—?

No one knows the answers anymore.