The Mysterious SOS sign!
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Back in 1989, there were these two hikers who got themselves all lost while climbing Mount Asahidake in Daisetsuzan National Park. But here’s where things take a turn.
A helicopter comes to the rescue and spots this massive SOS sign written on the side of the mountain. The police around there were convinced that the hikers had made the sign by stacking up a bunch of huge birch trees. I mean, that sign was no joke, it was ginormous! But when the cops questioned the hikers, they were clueless about it. They swore up and down that they had nothing to do with that sign. They just got lucky, plain and simple.
Now, this got the investigators scratching their heads. If the hikers didn’t make the sign, then who did? It’s like a mystery within a mystery. So, the police gather a search team and head back to the area, hoping to find some answers.
After searching the place for a while, they stumble upon some seriously creepy stuff. They find human bones with bite marks and fractures like they had met a gruesome end.
But wait, there’s more! As they keep searching, they come across this big hole that’s just the right size for a person to fit in. And guess what they find inside? A human skull, along with a bunch of other bizarre stuff. I’m talking four cassette tapes, a tape recorder, amulets, a backpack, a tripod, men’s shoes, cameras — you name it. Oh, and there’s also a notebook and a driver’s license belonging to a person named Kenji Iwamura, a 25-year-old office worker.
Here’s where it gets even creepier. One of those tapes they found has a man’s voice screaming his head off for a solid two and a half minutes.
Translated:
“SOS, help me! I am trapped on the cliff, unable to move. SOS, help me. This is where I first encountered the rescue helicopter. The sasa (a dense bamboo thicket) obstructs any attempt to ascend. Lift me up from this forsaken place.”
The police were sure the bones belonged to the guy on the driver’s license, Kenji Iwamura. However, when they ran some tests, it turns out those bones actually belonged to a female between 20 and 30 years old. Mind-boggling, right?
The rest of the tapes had music from anime TV shows, like Macross and Magical Princess Minky Momo. They even had a cut-out of artwork from “Magical Princess Minky Momo” used as a case for one of the cassettes.
Now, let’s talk about that SOS sign. Those wooden letters were made by stacking up fallen birch trees, and it took a good two days and a whole lot of effort to create that gigantic sign. The prevailing theory was that the missing person, probably the one to who the skeleton belonged, made the sign. But in the autopsy, they described the body as too thin and weak. It would have been impossible for that person, supposedly Iwamura, to pull off making that sign all by themselves.
To make things even weirder, no axe was ever found that could have been used to chop down the trees for the sign. And here’s the cherry on top — there’s absolutely no record or report of a missing woman who could be connected to Iwamura. Talk about a mind-bending, unexplained event.
Love,
Dona
