333 名前：Trader＠Live![sage] Manuscript day：2007/04/05(Thu) 09:19:09.94 ID:QqLyVeXR
Encounter with a group of high school girls on a train I don’t usually take. This is what I heard:
Girl: “I heard a super scary story”
Other girls: “Really?”
Girl: “My grandma lives by herself and one time her phone rang. When she answered it she heard someone say ‘Mom? It’s me…’ So she goes, ‘Yoshikazu? Is that you?’ and he replies ‘yeah’…
… But here’s the thing!
Uncle Yoshikazu died last year in an accident!”
Other girls: “Whaaat? Omg that’s so scary? What happened next?”
Girl: “So he says, ‘I’ve caused an accident…’ and like my grandma just bursts into tears. She tells him, ‘don’t worry about the accident anymore. It’s ok, just pass on peacefully…’”
333 名前：Trader＠Live![sage] 投稿日：2007/04/05(木) 09:19:09.94 ID:QqLyVeXR
めったに乗らない電車で女子高生の一群と遭遇そこで聞いた話
女学生「めっちゃ怖い話し聞いた」
その他「何？」
女学生「一人暮らしのうちのおばあちゃんに 電話がかかてってきて出てみたら『お母さん？俺やけど････』って言っておばあちゃんが『ヨシカズか？』って聞いたら『うん』って･･･
・・・・でもな・・・・
ヨシカズおじさんって去年、交通事故でﾀﾋんでるねん」
その他「えぇ～！！怖いーーー！！！ それで？」
女学生「『･･･俺、事故起こして････』って言うから、おばあちゃん泣いてしもて『もう、事故の事は気にせんでいいから、成仏して････』言ったんやて」
In this story-within-a-story, the narrative twist relies on two completely different registers of ”scary.” Within the story, the girls are sharing what seems to be a fairly common ghost story of a passed relative contacting surviving family members. However, the phone call the grandmother received ultimately isn’t supernaturally tragic: the caller’s script is a clear example of the ore-ore phone scam commonly used to target the elderly. The scam is by no means unique to Japan, but the distinctive use of the informal first-person pronoun ”ore” makes the Japanese version of the scam especially suitable for this kind of reference. The scary twist here, then, is not the uncle’s ghost calling back from the beyond, but the all-too common scam that grandma might have fallen victim to had uncle Yoshikazu been alive.
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