Comments on: Beautifully Frightening: Kyoto Aloha Shirt Marker Pagong’s Haunted House PR Coup

By: Gemma Ising

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By: [OK] Michael

[OK] Michael — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 12:02:07 +0000

Well, well, well. We have winner already. I waited a few days to approve the comments giving other people a chance to guess.

Dylan, A rather morbid take on Obon, don’t you think? No, not quite.

Paula, You are the winner! Yes, to send chills down the spine thereby cooling you off. I am not sure that I buy it, but that is the reason that Japanese go.

Michael Lambe, Come on, don’t you think that is unsportsmanlike conduct? Don’t you live just down the street from the Pagong Haunted House?

By: Michael Lambe

Michael Lambe — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 04:51:16 +0000

If I already know the reason can I still participate? It wouldn’t really be a guess…

By: Paula

Paula — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:55:23 +0000

I’ve heard/read about this before… Apparently, the Japanese believe ghost stories etc. have a cooling effect (chills down the spine?), so visiting a haunted house would help battling the summer heat.

By: Dylan

Dylan — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 13:32:20 +0000

Do they visit haunted houses in the summer because of the Obon festival – when the ancestors are said to pay everyone a visit?