i've heard that cab drivers who pick up ghosts still drive them to the destination even after theyve visually vanished, open the door for them to let them out, and continue on. japanese tales of spirits and their culture of respect never ceases to break my heart.
I remember reading the article about the taxi driver when it was first published. He went on to say that after his initial fear, his reaction shifted to sadness, and he said that he would gladly pick up another ghost passenger again.
You forgot to mention the elderly people who enlisted to clean up the mess. 😢 They were willing to sacrifice themselves so young people didn't get exposed to radiation. Some true heroes.
Yes, that was truly excellent of them. While if they wore good dust masks they could probably live the rest of their natural lives well, I imagine many didn't even know that. Without good masks, hopefully any cancer risk would be kicked far enough out to be negligible for them, but for younger folks, it may have well caught up to them in time. If it's any consolation, scientists studying Chernobyl are generally if not always just fine, because they take care not to take radioactive material into their bodies. The radiation exposure alone is liveable.
@@downwithtrudeau actually surgical masks are a horrendously bad idea for that, they arent air thight, they will let particles into your mouth and nose. Trust me, you dont need to wear even n95, which is better, for long doing something like grinding down stone to realize you're coughing pebbles.
@@gabriellang7998 but you see it's practically impossible to get an airtight seal on a mask like that, for most cases it mitigates the risk enough, but you cant guarantee it will be airtight. There's a good reason why gasmasks and half face respirators exist, not only for handling chemical stuff so ABEK filters,talking about refular P3 filters
I remember the cab driver story's end, he completed the trip as a sign of respect, and even opened the door for her to get out when he got to the area, in order to be sure to please the ghost.
And then there are the New Orleans taxi drivers who never pick up anyone from some parts of town after midnight because they'll vanish and stiff them on their fare 😂
With regards to TEPCO and trying to sit it out: the prime minister at the time (Naoto Kan) drove to their head-office (unannounced), walked in, and proceeded to shout at the representatives in frustration over their lack of action. Pretty much unheard of in Japan, but at least it got them to slowly start doing something.
It's just insane to think they got payed for this disaster after ignoring all the warnings. I doubt it's ideal for them but it just feels like the 'bad guys' won
Can that be a thing that world leaders do now? Can the President of the United State's job description now include "telling companies to stop fucking around to their faces?" That's badass.
@@scalpingsnake it's more like they got partially bought, because they failed so hard the government had to take over to ensure Tokyo still had power (which is exactly the kind of thing a government is for). Punishment for their failures is for the courts to sort out, as there is likely to be a lot of people over several years making the wrong choice, maybe not all for bad reasons at the time. Hence why we have courts and hearings, because emotional driven punishments are just lynchings and most people don't want witch burnings, they want justice. Justice takes time, because guilt must be proven before a punishment can be decided. And you don't want to miss any guilty or punish the innocent.
The most powerful story from this disaster has got to be the legion of retirees and elderly who volunteered to do cleanup because they didn’t want youngsters to suffer the long term effects of radiation exposure.
That didn’t stop the old people from volunteering because right after the disaster no one really knew how bad the danger was so they went in just to be safe. After they did extensive testing they realized that the radiation was relatively minimal and they began proper cleanup.
@@gladitsnotme Well, the reason was that the harmful effects of the kind of exposure they were expecting,(larger doses than what ended up happening) take many years to develop, and the elderly are very unlikely to live long enough for that to happen, as they would pass away from old age, regardless.
There was one town who spared from the tsunami with only a single death, Fudai, Iwate. It was all because of one of the previous mayor, Kotoku Wamura's, decision to have an Extremely controversial floodgate built. It was because of him knowing how much death and distruction a tsunami could cause that he managed to save his town years after his death.
Yea he was voted out of office and hated until the tsunami hit, which by then he'd passed away. Now there's a shrine for him. He'd read of a much earlier tsunami (early 1900s) of unprecedented size so he prepared to defend against that level, which caused animosity since every other city prepared for the more common ones. Those cities were destroyed, but not his
I never realized a scientist could be so great at telling ghost stories. This gave me chills. Also, thank you for mentioning that part about "ghosts are real enough to the people who [experience] them." When my sister passed, hearing her laugh was the only peace I knew for months.
@Eizak Hearing sounds that are not real doesn't mean that you are ill. Talk to young parents who sometime hear their baby crying while in fact (s)he sleeping peacefully: Would you say they suddenly became schizophrenic for a period of their lives, and then magically heal afterward?
I had a similar experience after I lost my dad. One night shortly after he passed I felt a gentle, very warm hand on my side like he had come to comfort me (I'd been bawling my eyes out, as you can imagine). I don't know that it was a real sensation that I was actually experiencing, but what I do know is that it helped me sleep that night.
I love it that they ran the scenarios and assesst the risk and 5 years later it happened. I guess it doesn't matter where you live, your boss never listens.
@@conors4430 the funny thing is, spending a little bit of money to improve safety feature would have saved them the entire reactor, and thus money. Had they taken the suggestion, Fukushima would have been regarded as an example of the safety of Nuclear energy, that it withstood the worse nature could throw at it and still go strong. But, because the folks running TEPCO were interested in maintaining short term profits rather than spending a little for long term safety goals, Fukushima now serves as a tale to scare folks from nuclear power; the one power source that has a realistic chance of reducing carbon emission while still being able to power our modern lives.
That poor man who doesn't like the rain because he sees the faces of the dead in the puddles is so chilling. It shows the trauma all survivors suffered and will suffer for the rest of their lives. The world has moved on but those survivors will always have the events of that day imprinted on their minds for the rest of their lives. God bless them all. 🙏
Good points. My wife died of cancer 2 years ago. We have a large home and at times while I don't see her, I am convinced she is here. It is weird as shadows bounce off walls, and the air seems to change at times for no reason...I miss her greatly...
@@hddunI’m so sorry for your loss. I hope you have so many good memories with her, that at times you are able to look past the loss of her, and into those memories. I wish you the best ❤
Religious or Not It really is (Note, not trying to start a conversation about beliefs and such, I am just saying the line hits hard regardless of if your spiritual or not)
@@Bibidybobidyno, no ghosts. Just how they deal with the trauma and loss. Mass delusions. Happened before. No proof of their ghosts story’s anyways besides word of mouth.
@@quinnholloway5400in absence of God, man creates his own god. Religion or not, one thing they have over non religious is peace in the afterlife. GOD, etc. they don’t have a foundation like Jesus. So easier to make up ghosts for trauma to deal with it. Then to deal with the truth
Not even science is sure that an afterlife is impossible, best we know is that our technology cannot determine auditory and visual paradolia from what could be a spiritual energy; I don't think we really can detect ghosts with our current technology I think it's just it detecting something unusual but not paranormal and our minds puts false meaning on the supposed findings, at least for the most part, still could be the possibility of life beyond this one we just won't know until our inevitable demise.
@@shotakonkin2047 The real scary thing to imagine is, what if there's nothing after death. For example, imagine if a machine had sentience and suddenly gets destroyed by something. Will it go to the afterlife? No, it's gone.
I was living in Tokyo when the earthquake hit. It was my five year wedding anniversary. The next several days and months were some of the most surreal of my life. Thank you for making this. Amazingly well done.
The last minute story not only gave me chills, but broke my heart into pieces... I'm so deeply sorry for everyone who's lives changed by the unforseen disaster😭
ghost stories told by a scientist who respects the context of the story hits extra hard because it leaves you mind racing with more thoughts and questions
@@rafaelnunezjr Demons aren't real, the word demon comes from the ancient greek word that mean ''lesser god, guiding spirit, tutelary deity, guardian spirit'' it had no evil connotations, it was the same thing as a guardian angel.
@@emiliosalazar9962 when people perform witchcraft spirits show up, why on earth would you call those guardian angels? Would they show up to save you or hunt your soul? Angels are one thing and Demons are another. Good and evil and 2 different things. This is found in the Bible - For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. - Ephesians 6:12 Notice how it mentions "against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms".
Watching this reminded me of how I was seeing my deceased friend for 3 months after his death.He took his own life violently and we were close. I saw him in car windows as I walked by and in water reflecting on the ground when it rained. He was always smiling and it never scared me. In fact it helped me grieve to know he was alright. I think of him every day.
@@davidtoddmickens5558 honestly I'd say it's mostly ignorance. If you're at all interested in the idea let's say of 'common sense' You should look up the book 'common sense isn't common'. I can't remember the name of the author but I read most of the book a few years back. It's written by a sociologist and it's actually really interesting to realize (as he explains in detail backed up with evidence) That common sense isn't actually common, especially when it comes down to different cultures and different parts of the world. And also just general human ignorance, I mean do you have any idea how many people almost just lack the ability to think to themselves "hey maybe, just maybe I'm somewhat wrong in this situation"? Like not to make it about politics but it's very common amongst the politically charged type, whether that be on the left or the right doesn't matter. So that's just one glaring example of how people are really ignorant of things that probably make a lot of sense to you and me. I mean it's ironic how we have y'know THE internet with the wealth of basically endless knowledge and people are still ignorant as hell, still relying on the very first Google result that pops up. It's like oh snap we kind of missed the fucking point, and It's funny in kind of a twisted way.
Honestly this is the first time I've ever heard of this event. It's kind of a damn shame because this is a really big deal, actually. Just holy cow, And maybe a good portion of it is in his presentation but this is like a really big deal. A Moment of silence for all the people who had no idea that they were going to just be gone forever this day. Really puts mortality into perspective.
I was very close to someone in the military, they were stationed in Japan when this happened. He told me how horrible it was, for over a week he and other units were fishing people out of irradiated water. Just trying to help damage control while their government figured out what to do. Out of everything he had seen from tours elsewhere he said this was the one of the worst because this wasnt a warzone. This was were he lived.
@@bluepvp900 It's unlikely they were in truly irradiated water. Now if they were in a large, flooded solar power array, Cadmium and other heavy metals could be leaching into the water like crazy. Among wind turbines? That would be challenging work trying to use air units to rescue people stranded on roofs.
As someone suffering from PTSD, I am not surprised to hear that survivors now see "ghosts." In a way flashbacks are like the ghosts of memories, coming back to haunt us. Sometimes mine are so real I can see, smell, hear, and feel everything that happens in a flashback. So seeing and speaking to the "ghosts," of potential victems in the water could easily be flashbacks of the tradgedies they've endured.
After going through Hurricane Michael, I can't stand thunder storms or the smell of pine trees, that particular part of the video really hit home for me.
@@bethmoore7722 For some yes for others not so much. There have been plenty of people that weren't in positions of trauma or grief that saw spirits or ghosts.
I was in Chiba, Japan when this happened, I was trapped on a train for an hour and then had a 3 hour walk home as all the trains stopped. My wife had a seven hour walk home from Tokyo. As she left her work building she saw huge pieces of concrete that had fallen off the building. Luckily not hitting anyone. I remember the train screeching to a halt then rocking so violently I thought it would roll over. The lamp posts I could see on the street outside were vibrating very quickly. We all then got off the front of the train and had to walk along the tracks to the nearest station ahead. It had severe damage to the signs, roof, a lift had fallen through the shaft and water was pouring out of walls and pipes. I then went down on to the street and it was eerie, no electricity, cars bumper to bumper and not moving, buses packed like sardine tins and women buying pairs of trainers to walk home in from the few shoe shops that were still open and discarding their high heels. People were on the street with hard hats on. I got home to my 9th floor flat and the place looked like it had been in a washing machine. All night long there were aftershocks and the building was swaying. No sleep that night. The next morning I stood on the balcony as an aftershock hit, it was like a roller coaster and a few hundred metres away a neighbours old wooden house burst into flames. They must have been cooking breakfast and spilt oil or a gas pipe burst. What made things worse was a law that said a national disaster couldn't be announced until all parliamentary members were present in the diet building and agreed to it. This slowed things down somewhat as politicians had to travel to Tokyo to declare this and travel was severely restricted. However, they did manage to sneak in a law overnight that made the radiation level in a nuclear reactor the same legal level on the street anywhere in Japan. Then they could say everything was safe and therewas nothing to worry about. Radiation was found all over the country, in grass, in cows milk and in human breast milk. People who had money quickly fled to Okinawa. The French Government laid on planes for it's citizens to get out. The UK government advised it's citizens to get out then did absolutely nothing to help them. There are stories of how calmly people reacted but believe me it wasn't like that. I remember standing in a queue outside a supermarket to buy a bag of rice and as the doors opened at 10am, people just rushed in and grabbed what they could. A free for all. Supermarket shelves were empty and opened only for a few hours each day. They put limits such as one bag of rice and one loaf of bread per person but people got round that by having families spilt up and target different supermarkets. They had to ban shellfish for a time and tuna in America was found to have radiation in it as it is a fish that travels back and forth across the Pacific. Then other fish that feed on tuna were found to have radiation in them. The terrible thing was that not one prefecture in Japan agreed to take the waste from Fukushima for recycling or disposal. It had to shipped out of Japan to developing countries who agreed to take it. People were homeless for years and lived in school sports halls. The Government really failed people and still are. I did a radio interview with a station in the UK explaining how the immigration office was packed with people trying to get re-entry visas, which were required at the time for people to leave Japan and come back later if you were a resident. Usually the wait for a re-entry visa was half a day but they were smashing them out in 30 minutes at about £30 a pop. On my walk home I saw lots of damage, a burning oil refinery, burst water mains, cracked walls. I remember the newspaper story about a building site that had a crane overhanging a main road in Tokyo, a really brave Korean worker climbed the tower crane as it was shaking and turned it round so if it fell, it wouldn't fall across the main road. We should remember the Fukushima 57. They knew they would die shortly after going in to clear the site at Fukushima but they still did it. The part about ghosts reminds me of all the ghost sightings during WWI and WWII. People just trying to make sense of things and their imagination takes over.
Thank you for your comment. This is a very enlightening street level view of what really went on there at the time. I'm a finnish man who watched it all unfold live on youtube. The stream was pushed hard on the very top edge of the front page as a "breaking news" kind of banner. Me and my friend could not believe what we were seeing. It was also the first livestream of any major news event we had seen on the internet, so it had a certain sense of realness and rawness that we hadn't experienced before. I remember that day in the same kind of detail as the 9/11 attacks. Rest in peace to all the victims, bless their eternal souls. May God grant strength to all those left reeling from those events.
This is my favorite so far of the half-life histories. This event hasn't been covered much on youtube, not nearly as popular as Chernobyl. It has unknown dangers to it, so I think it's important for people to understand what happened and what problems it could cause in the present and future.
One of the reasons that not many talk about Fukushima is that the Japanese leading administration historically has been really good at covering and turning people's eyes to other issues. The current Tokyo Olympics games for example have political motives (ofc all countries do). One being to convince its people and other countries that Fukushima is not as serious. Much of the food supplies the olympic athletes get come from Fukushima region. It is a huge region but I am not sure if it can still be trusted.
This episode is quite good as it puts into proper context the true scale of both of the worst nuclear disasters. Within lvl 7 disaster rating itself Chernobyl sits around 85/100 and Fukushima sits around 20/100. Both are bad but 1 of the 2 was so much better handled and to this day has been rectified way beyond the other easily by a magnitude of 10 in a significantly shorter timeframe; and that is the main takeway from this. TEPCO refusing to acknowledge the genuine international nuclear council security concerns about backup systems is well; negligent at best, but no-one ever could've predicted and prepared for 2 1-in-10000 year highest scale rated natural disasters to occur simultaneously in a one-two punch fashion on an un-precedented scale. Japan as a whole doesn't get enough credit for how they have handled and still handle this disaster and it ought to be recognized the steps they have taken and will continue to take to fully rectify this.
He even interviewed some of the people who returned. One was a sweet middle aged woman who reopened her.... I think bar? After returning. Her whole family was lost in the disaster if I recall right, but she keeps working hard instead of falling to despair. It is heartbreaking and heartwarming at the same time.
"Ghosts of the Tsunami" by Richard Parry is an unforgettable book. In it he explains, in part, the problems that a parent group encountered bringing to justice a cowardly teacher who abandoned children to be swept away, make a local school board aware and confront them, and many more individual stories. Japanese cultural norms and customs were examined in their responses and actions, and then, the psychological role of ghosts is examined. Excellent book that lets you into an intimate lives of a culture of privacy, propriety and scrupulous regard for one another, facing disaster and crisis.
Rebar in water is a curse. A kid I used to cliff dive with as teenagers was impaled while diving off a bridge he had never jumped off before. Rebar got him in the chest and he died. Then a fellow i didn't actually know got impaled by rebar when him and his kid got pulled in by a dam where we kayak. He was lucky enough to survive.
I've been all about this recently after I watched a Japanese show that mentioned 3/11 and made me wonder. 3/11 for them is 9-11 for the US. TH-cam search some of the videos, clips of them are included in this video. It's humbling and makes you really empathize for Japan.
I don't know why, but the comment about the clock nearly had me crying. I saw another video on this topic, but it focused almost solely on the plant and the workers rather than the surrounding area. The people who worked around the clock to suppress and contain the reactors are heroes.
I was stationed in Japan for 4 years up as a Marine, up until last year. This is just my opinion and observation: Japan has an eerie, calm, and often depressive atmosphere to it that I could never quite explain. It seemed that no matter how positive the occasion was, something still lingered in the air. This, plus the fact that there are often more cloudy/rainy days in that region compound to the austere atmosphere. I befriended some really great young Japanese friends out there obviously and many would confide and tell me they were not happy with life or the country. I believe that this country-wide feeling is what primarily explains the "ghosts". Rampant depression + environmental conditions + traumatic events. The mind is a powerful thing.
its quite dismissive to tell people that their experiences are just the result of mind tricks. we are energy and it seems arrogant to completely dismiss the possibility of spirits living after the body stops breathing, whether you are religious or not. the laws of physics say that energy is never destroyed, only recycled.
@@wellthisisinteresting4912well how would you expect someone to believe sightings of "spirits" unless they've seen them personally. When someone would tell me they saw their dead long dead uncle in the crowd I'd expect them to be mentally unwell, grieving and by extension mistaking them due to similar looks or just simply on drugs. People underestimate how much your mind can fuck with you
its just one of those countries who knows. maybe the ancient samaurai put a curse on it. look what happened in ww2. i suspect its seasonal depression. their culture doesnt really flourish its neon lights but not alot of concerts i suspect. its just that part of the world where its very cloudy and rainy and foggy alot im guessing. or the land really does just have an energy about it.
@swagtachiuchiha1501 sounds like you're trying every exucuse possible to rationalise someone (infact most peoples) experience. you sound terrified of life after death and are trying to calm yourself and come up with reason to which even your precious science can't explain
Imagine being the enginner who built this place, you literally did everything you can, designed so many safety protocal, and nature throws a 50ft wave at your power plant
I can tell you first hand design engineers make some real common Sense blunders. It may pass code but in practice doesn't work. Not saying that was the case here
To put it in perspective they built the second stack by Me on a fault line and never used the second stack because of it and now the original is well passed it's decommission date. The only reason why it's still operating is they passed a levy to keep it going even though it is no longer generating any profit after expenses
Imagine making the decision to build a nuclear reactor.. next to the ocean shore, at near sea level elevation in an active earthquake zone…. Who could possibly have anticipated trouble??
@@stephenm103 Yes but also no. They anticipated trouble, they anticipated a huge amount of trouble. They simply didn't anticipate enough to match reality.
Fukushima Daiichi was well designed with the exception of the location of the diesel backup pumps. Unit 6's diesel pump was air cooled and above ground instead of water cooled in the building basement and as such survived and managed to provide cooling to unit 5 as well.
Engineers: hey, uhh, the generators might be vulnerable to waters specially in an event of flood TEPCO: just install a door to prevent it Engineers: ohh, you mean water tight doors? TEPCO: no, just doors
I was in rural coastal Japan not long ago and was shocked and impressed by the sheer size and scale of the tsunami protection along the coastline. Every single town near there is virtually abandoned, but those who aren’t have heavy duty and large scale tsunami barriers, fencing and signage. Was a very eerie feeling driving through those areas
This was very well presented and I thank you for that. You captured the essence of the Japanese people, the culture, and the tragedy. My mother was Japanese. I'm 1/2 Japanese born in Japan but raised in the States. My mother very seldom talked about her childhood living in Tokyo during the war, but she did one day after having a bad argument with my father. She said that he would never know what it would be like, as a 6y/o child running through the streets of Tokyo trying to make it to the bomb shelter. Her father and brother were carrying her mom and they were jumping and running over dead bodies. Or the sound of grasshoppers jumping against a pan lid while being cooked 'cause that was the only thing to eat. Her father sent her to her grandparents farm in the country just before Hiroshima and Nagasaki were bombed. Friends and family lost. The horrors that she eventually saw. She passed away many years ago, but she is always with me. Her altar (per Buddhism) sits in my husband's great, great grandparents china hutch in our dining room. She eats with us, hears our stories and days events, her grandson (our son) always talks to her.... Again, thank you.
That's so bittersweet. I also feel that I have a strong connection to my ancestors, though I've never had anyone visit me or let me know that they're here. I suppose it's a spiritual thing, maybe your mother was more suited for the afterlife than my ancestors were? Not sure. She's probably very proud of you. ❤️
Her spirit is always around you. If you feel a ice cold feeling, she is there (my late grandpa chose this way to “hug” me). Grandpa was the word that popped my head. So I knew it was him. Sometimes you may smell her perfume. Your mom’s experience was showing how strong she is, how the family were heroes. ♥️
The background music, the pacing, the composition, and even your tone of voice have made this series so emotionally evocative it's unreal. You deserve an award for this, Kyle, but I wouldn't know which one to nominate you for...
I was living along the Tohoku coast when the tsunami hit. I watched the wave come in. The first clip you see of black water overwhelming a roadside barrier? That was from my town. To say it haunts me to this day, eleven years later, is an understatement.
thank you for sharing your story, it is very interesting to me. I hope you and your family, friends, and the local people of your town can recover soon.
Yeah. Sure you were. Everyone down the comment section were there and seen it personally, very dramatic. We have half japanese, quarter japanese, tohoku residents, power plant engineers, plane pilots, everyone and their mother came to see the tsunami. Have another like, if that's what you want.
@@overmind06 Ever think that people who were in the northern region of Japan at the time are more likely to search for this type of content due to their intense personal experiences? Or, are you too busy policing the comment section and responding as though you know who they are, where they are from, and what their intentions are?
I forgot what it was, but I was watching a docuseries set in Japan a year ago, and it didn't really have anything to do with natural disasters, but they were in that area for an episode and they interviewed a woman who had lost her husband and most of the rest of her family in the tsunami. The way she talked about the ocean was so amazing to me. The Japanese, especially along the coast, have always had a deep and complicated relationship with the ocean. For thousands of years, it's been a source of food and life and protection from foreign invaders, but it has also rained down death and destruction from time to time. They have a deep love and respect for it, but they also know and fear what it can do. It's beautiful in a bittersweet sort of way.
James may from top gear/grand tour spoke to the restaurant owner mentioned in this video in the exclusion zone. It’s in the video series our man in Japan on Amazon prime.
@@tardvandecluntproductions1278 the US has alot of people who believe in ghosts but not the same way as Japan does. People aside these are about nuclear accidents not ghosts anyways.
"It doesn't really matter whether or not you think ghosts are real or whether spirits exist. They were and are real enough to the survivors." This is the correct response. Whether something spiritual really is going on or if we're simply seeing a response that the human brain fabricates to deal with overwhelming trauma and loss, the important thing is that we meet and accept grieving people wherever they are in their grief.
@@FlorSilvestre12 No one can prove anything about anything (except in math). We can only demonstrate accuracy beyond reasonable doubt. There has never been any sort of scientific evidence for ghosts. Additionally, all explanations of ghosts we've seen so far can be explained scientifically via things completely unrelated to ghosts. It is not reasonable to believe in ghosts anymore.
While I don't belive in ghosts directly I belive we all leave something behind, the living still have memories of the dead and with a tragedy this big it is clear our brain can't cope with it so seeing so called ghosts is natural. For us they might be ghosts shadows of the past, for them they were their children, parents, loved ones or the people they hated and this tragedy had to leave a mark in everyone's mind.
The clock being stuck at 2:47 in itself is probably the biggest of ghosts. I'd do the same as the man if I was in his place only I'd never reset it even if people returned. It would serve as the reminder of how precious our lives are and serving others is a humble honor.
I was stationed in Japan when the disaster happened. I gained so much respect for the Japanese people. Their resilience is unmatched in the face of death, starvation & dehydration. I'll never forget the faces on the bodies I moved.
@@jacksonpettit4690what? GTFO. "the germans are" ...what? It doesn't help anyone to compare tragedies and act like one country handled their history better or worse than another. we don't need historical dick measuring here buddy, so again, GTFO
This low key almost made me want to cry. These documentaries are literally top tier and I wait for these every single time. I loved these so much. Please keep making these videos
That final anecdote you shared at the end - absolutely haunting. I hope all those who survived can eventually find peace. May those who perished in the disaster be able to rest easy.
One of the memories that sticks out most clearly for me from when the tsunamis hit was a news video from a traffic cam in a city, I'm not sure where. You could see water rushing past second story windows in the narrow streets, and at one point there was even a full boat that got brought along with the water. A fishing trawler at least 25 feet long being carried along like a bath toy.
@@nuyabuisness7526 there’s one that’s taken on someone’s phone from the roof of an office block where the wave comes down the road towards them and keeps getting bigger and bigger until literally everything is being pulverised. Out of all the footage I’ve seen this one showed the devastating power of the tsunami. It’s unbelievable.
When reading all the times T.E.P.C.O had ignored the warnings, you sounded mad like it was personal. I liked it, that's how it should be. That might be the bigging intentional fuck up ever.
This is is how EVERY corporation handles EVERYTHING. If the cogs are turning, everything is good, no action required. Potential problems in the near future? Are the the cogs still turning? Yes, everything is good, no action required. Imminent destruction expected. Are the the cogs still turning? Yes, everything is good, no action required. Catastrophic failure? "We responded rapidly to this completely unforeseen disaster" "Aren't we the heroes"
@@anthonyward8853 What about Tohoku Electric that built the Onagawa Plant, taking these warnings seriously? Its reactor 2 is scheduled to restart this year, despite the entire plant being far closer to the epicenter than Fukushima Daiichi yet avoiding much of the same disaster.
I wouldn't go so far as to say "intentional," but it was absolutely negligent af, like it should be on a criminal level. It's basically the Titanic of nuclear disasters, minus the loss of life (radiation-related, at least)
‘Move the generators to higher ground’ ‘No’ ‘Move the generators to higher ground’ ‘No’ ‘Move the generators to higher ground’ ‘No’ ‘Move the generators to higher ground’ ‘No’ ‘Move the generators to higher ground’ ‘No’ Well done TEPCO 😐
there was a movie about the Suicide forest on the NW side of mount Fuji. I guy gets lost in it & is led out by what turns out to be an apparition. The final twist is the apparition shares something about his deceased wife... Japan presents as having very conservative culture while also having a dark superstitious Poe underbelly. No doubt some of what we see reflected in films is just good old story telling.. .but...? ...makes me wonder that in the West we have become very disconnected from ourselves, just rushing around like crazy to keep our heads above water, that we are too run ragged to notice supernatural phenomena?
I think the most interesting thing was the graduate student who based her thesis on the taxi cab ghosts following the tsunami. She interviewed countless drivers and many had similar stories of picking up ghost passengers, looking back when it was time for their stop and they were nowhere to be found, but the cab fare was still running and the drivers had the receipts of the unpaid fare to back it up. Whether it was more of the same social phenomena occurring or more of a collective psychological defense mechanism in order to process the grief, or actual paranormal encounters, the taxi cab accounts still remain fascinating.
He’s right you bird brains just don’t grasp it. He’s saying it is a form of belittlement likely because he believes in an afterlife and it’s insulting to suggest our loved ones are not in that place but roaming about confused and in a state of purgatory. Hate how you guys tried to mock him in a gang style setting just because you didn’t agree. Y’all acting like he’s the one with the problem. Sad
@@blackadam6445 no, that person just made an overconfident statement about something none of us can know for sure. Its ok to have an opinion, but to say anything like its authoritative in this situation is silly.
Yet, even with all of the neglection from TEPCO the disaster was professionally contained and life was just shortly affected with what could've become a nuclear crisis greater than Chernobyl. Props to those engineers and workers that actively shortened the meltdown and did not commit errors to the handling of dangerous materials.
yes, there is a infographics show episode that showed how courageous those workers were, and how much the leaders tried their best to choose the lesser of two evils; pump seawater into the reactor and potentially cause damage and contamination, or let it sit, releasing the steam that the remaining water was generating
They did play with the advantage of knowing Chernobyl beforehand... also, there's the geographical location, the professionalism of those engineers, and the fact that the meltdown itself wasn't as sudden -- I think -- as Chernobyl's... Basically, the workers had to put everything at risk to cover for the fuck-up of the higher-ups. As it usually happens
@@ThaFKINman Do you have any actual evidence of that? As in, that it's not contained. Because the most I could find was that it was contained, but cleanup efforts without using humans was meeting some challenge due to robot designers forgetting that shielding is important when dealing with ionizing radiation, especially for sensitive electronics.
Thank you for being so forthcoming about the actual severity of the disaster, I always grew so frustratied with the media fear mongering and direct comparisons to Chernobyl over the last few years.
It's stupid to compare it to chernobyl. In 40 years fukushima might be fine and dandy, Chernobyl is still melting and it is still at risk of explosion 35 years later.
@Rynnie yeah all the controversy from fukushima at the time in the news was about the sea water being discharged into the ocean. i dont remember the meltdowns being mentioned much. while its not great to dump radiation into the environment, better to keep the reactors under control while they dealt with the damage from the earthquake and tsunami.
@@NoxysPlace it isn't melting as far as I know, but the old confinement is at risk of collapsing any time and since there is a lot of highly radioactive materials and dust, the new confinement was built for protection. Plus they are slowly working on building the machines that would carefully disassemble the old confinement, it's still risky because if the old one collapses under the new one there's still risk of some radioactive dust spreading outside, plus it'll make working inside much more difficult. So yeah, it's still really dangerous.
I'm skeptical when it comes to ghost stories. However. My grandpa died in 2009. He owned a manufacturing plant that made doors for mobile homes. After he died ownership shifted to my dad who kept the plant running. In the following years leading all the way up to 2018 when the plant shut down many workers mentioned an old man walking up to the open doors leading in and watching them work. Some even said he'd ask them questions relating to their work. When they mentioned it to my dad they described the man wearing overalls, a t shirt, old tattered brown boots and a hat with a logo for some old hunting supply store that used to be in our town. These were the kind of clothes my grandpa wore on a regular basis. Most of them said they didn't see his face but some mentions being able to see that he had beard. And these employees were new hires. People who had never even met my grandpa. And they described him nearly perfectly. After a while everyone who worked there and new about it would joke "not even death can keep him from working". It's stories like this that challenge my skepticism towards ghosts.
Great story sounds like your grandpa was a respected hardworking man. Sorry for your loss. I agree with you, I mean we are energy, and we left residues of this kind of energy werever we go, i think your grandpa left a lot of his energy in the plant he owned and thats why it kept manifastating. Let me tell you a quick story about this kind of energy. My mom was a chemistry teacher in a high school, in mexico. One day, on a weekday we were running errands until past dusk; when we arrived home she realized that she had forgotten her house keys in the lab at school. So we had to go get them. When we arrived to the school and greeted the night guard, we headed down to the lab. And as we were walking down the aisle i can swear on my fathers grave that we could hear people, students inside the classrooms. Chatting, yelling, moving desks even laughter and scoldings, but as if you heard all of this through a tv or an old speaker. Like distant, i dont know how to explain but my 8 year old brain inmediatly realized those were not "human" interactions plus the late hour. Naturally, i shat my pants and asked my mom wtf was going on. She tried to calm me explaining about this energy. "Teenagers have a lot of energy", she said, "and I think some of that e energy does not escape the classroom and resonates when everything is quiet". It made sense to me; and this came from an educated, skeptic professional. i calmed down a bit and we found the keys and left with no issue. Since then i think apparitions, ghosts and these kinds of manisfestations are just residues of the energy we once exuded. But what do I know? :)
For me, I'm not a skeptic. I used to be one until I saw it with my own two eyes. But for the rest of the skeptics out there, I don't care if any of you take my word for it, I don't even wanna prove it to you at all. I would actually recommend for you guys to stay away from it. Because if you actually came across it, you would be wishing you hadn't.
@@JavelinAngel1295 what's the worst thing a ghost has ever done? Knock things off of shelves and counters, make aome annoying noises, and at worst thrown things or flipped channels on a TV. My cat does all of that and sometimes scratches me or leaves mice on my floor. And I'd be grouchy too if people screamed and ran every time they saw me, and tried to exorcize me from my home. *I don't actually believe in real ghosts
Chilling story at the end. My cousin saw a deceased relative on the side of the road with his wife. They didn't talk the whole way back home cause they knew what they saw. They are both down on earth and would never normally tell me this kind of story.
To people saying “he shouldn’t have insinuated that ghosts are real”, 1) it’s a big metaphor 2) he said it himself: it’s besides the point. No matter if you believe in real ghosts, the grief of Japan is a ghost that haunts the public. Grief manifests in strange ways, and Kyle was simply pointing out a trend of ghost stories among people who were affected by the Tsunami.
Metaphor or not, the title of this video is massively misleading. The one and only reason I clicked on this video is because I noticed it was from Kyle Hill, he has my trust. If this video had come from literally anyone else, I would have passed on it without a second thought.
@@anthonyward8853 Ghosts/hauntings can have a few different meanings, you know. And Kyle touched on all of those. It's not click-bait or anything. Just appropriately named.
@@anthonyward8853 Ever heard the term, Ghosts in the machine? How about inner demons? And how the English language can have multiple definitions of the same word? Or aforementioned sayings are not literally, you have a bloodthirsty, evil creature inside you, or that your computer has a mind of it's own. In this case. The ghosts, as far as I am concerned. Is the lingering mental trauma of a people. How it manifests itself is besides the point.
I appreciate the respect with which you presented the ghost stories of those whose lives were obliterated by the disaster. I know that you are a man of hard facts and science, but none of us can imagine what it is like to have a life change so drastically and so suddenly.
I recall reading about how people stuck on a bridge could hear the voices of thousands of people screaming for help as they got dragged out into the ocean to die. If that doesn't fuck you up nothing will.
Man it was such an unfair tragedy against japan, huge earthquake and tsunami is beyond devastating by itself, but to then have a nuclear meltdown. My heart goes out to all that died from that
Preventable, nuclear disaster is what makes it so much worse. Predicted, natural disaster causing exactly the situation that lead to the meltdown, and nothing had been done.
I know Kyle said we shouldn't compare chernobyl and Fukushima, but in terms of pure human stupidity, they are almost the same, but Japan handled the aftermath much better imo
I was on the navy when this happened and my ship was one of the first responders. Probably the worst thing I've ever seen in my life. This brought back memories I didn't wanna remember...
@@3DRiley_ right? I mean, I understand the need to believe in something. It's grounding. I don't get why it needs to be turned into a recruiting drive where everyone needs to be shamed into believing and praying for others to believe though.
"The cab driver, now terrified, turned around to look at the young woman, but no one was there until next time." Commas can turn this bit into a horror plot.
@@ryanm8529 Basically, Punctuation has changed the original meaning of the sentence into something else. Much like capitalization. It's the whole "I helped my Uncle Jack off a horse" (Helping his uncle off a horse) "I helped my uncle jack off a horse" (helping his uncle masturbate a horse) Or "Let's eat, grandma" (inviting grandma to eat) "Let's eat grandma" (inviting everyone to eat grandma)
I really have to say, this video touched me. I remember watching this closely as a child as it was happening. This was really an amazing video, and had one of the best first minutes I've seen in a piece of media. Thank you.
The clock probably froze because the earthquake knocked its battery loose. Or if it was mechanical (unlikely), then the pendulum's swing was interrupted by the earthquake. The cab story...maybe the cab driver made up the story on purpose, maybe he fell asleep waiting for the end of his shift and had a crazy dream, maybe the story was invented by one of those "creepypasta" internet forums that specializes in scary stories...who knows.
@@deusexaethera ...or maybe the cabbie was telling the truth. Several years ago when I was a taxi driver, I drove my cab through a ghost late at night on a desolate highway, so don't disbelieve everything you hear. 😒
They were reinforced waterproof doors. It was a reasonable compromise between preparedness and cost-effectiveness, given how unlikely the event was. In most parallel universes, that tsunami never happened. Our timeline was unlucky.
Fascinating telling. I'm so glad you opted to include the ghost stories and tell them respectfully. Too often are such things ridiculed or dismissed as irrelevant. As you said, the ghosts are real enough to those who see them, and that's all it has to be. Be it a manifestation of grief or a supernatural visitation, the experience is still real to those who have it.
@Pasta Derich Yeah,in the literal sense. But here that doesn't matter - the grief is very real. That's what matters here. This isn't a bunch of kids going into a "haunted" old house and being spooked by weird old house sounds, this is a nation dealing with a profoundly traumatic event in ways that seem weird to a western observer. Thus I feel the people seeing these ghosts deserve a bit more respect than the usual ghost story teller.
@Pasta Derich you may think that until you come face to face with one. And when someone else is with you and sees it too. Oh, and when it happens at lunch time when you are least expecting it.
When this happened I was just preparing to accept a scholarship from Japan. It’ was cancelled due to the circumstances and I never did go to Japan. I always wonder what life would have been like had things gone differently. Incredible doc.
You told this story with so much care for what actually happened to the people, It gave me chills snd I'm still in tears, I can't fathom the terror and despair they must hsve been through. Incredible Job, Kyle
Thanks for this one Kyle, I was there in Japan when this happened, about 100 miles south of Fukushima. I remember the craziness of the earthquake, and then the realization of the what was happening at Fukushima Daichi. I left in 2018, and even then 7 years later there were still city workers taking radiation readings around our apartments. Your docs are great and this one hit a lot more personal. I very much appreciate your humble and informative style. Cheers.
It’s important to “KnowThySelf” They don’t know to go “North West” To go to the halls of Amenti, or 4D/5D. They may not have enough frequency to leave.
If it helps, the concept of a soul is a primitive explanation devised to comfort people scared of an afterlife, which was then weaponized in the form of religion to force those fearful people into obedience. So neither you nor those killed in any Japanese disaster ever have to fear being a lost soul.
@@arkoisagoodboy while I agree with the religion aspect of your comment, I must say, I am not religious. I'm a rather spiritual being. Carl Sagan is my idol, so I understand the aspect of imagined self-importance and the fear of no afterlife giving birth to ideas of hope and belief that there is one. But, I can't escape the idea in my own head that there is more than just neurons and mother nurture that makes us tic. Perhaps you would say it is my own fear, but I have none. I have hope. But, at the end of the day, I do not know. Anyone, from the greatest and wisest of leaders, to the homeless man sleeping by the bodega, no one can really say that they truly know. Science uses terms of conjecture for a reason when it comes to things like quantum mechanics. They are wise enough to admit that even they do not truly know, and I love that blunt objectivity. We all have our beliefs, but for one to say that THEY know, is only their own arrogance thrown into the form of words.
You got spooked by a fantasy story. In hundreds of years of science there is absolutely ZERO evidence of ghosts or a soul. It is time to come to terms with this fact, no matter what you WANT to believe or not... what is the point?
I've been learning more and more about the Japanese culture while learning the language, and something I found interesting is that Japan has a sort of time period where they are visited by their ancestors. I had discussed this with my tutor and it was explained to me that it's usually about a few days or a week long where for example, say, at dinner they have a framed photo of someone who has passed on at the table and will still be served food as though they were visiting. That it's a period to be visited by those they have lost and it is typically during the changing of the season. So hearing stories about people in Japan seeing ghosts of family/friends/loved ones after such a tragic event isn't a big surprise, at least to me, since they have a culture in which they are concious of those that have passed on. Perhaps it's because of that, they may be more susceptible to experiencing these events?
Excellent episode; loving this series. 21:40 "It might take 40 years before all the fuel is FOUND and removed." ...Not knowing where unbelievably radioactive Corium is an incredible unsettling thing.
If you have ever walked the ground of a place of death and great suffering it feels different. I visited Dachau many years ago as a high-school student. To this day the feeling of that place haunts me, it is one of my clearest recollections. I think if there is enough death and pain it saturates the ground leaving behind something that is almost tangible. As you enter the rooms near the crematorium you see pictures of the same rooms stacked chest high in dead bodies waiting for disposal. Men, women and children all with frozen looks of horror on thier faces, some of thier eyes were still clear and it was as if they were staring right into you. To this day the thought makes my blood feel like ice water in my veins. I have no doubt that lost souls wander that ground even if unseen they are there. As I grow old I wonder if death will answer that burning question for me.
Okay, I will love to share this. The feeling of a heavy presence that makes you feel like you are suffocating is something I often experience. One that creeps me out to this day is actually a TH-cam video and the battle ground in st Augustine. We decided to take a trip up to St Augustine in Florida to go camping in their camping grounds by the beach. The whole center of the town just felt, off in many places. However, when we were leaving we took a road that lead around the battle grounds. That is possibly the most negative energy I have ever felt in my life. Only Me and my sister felt it no one else did in the car, which was weird. Once we passed it everything faded away, Jesus I can imagine that place at night…
@@michaelmorse4444 it would be interesting to explore. If you could measure the amount of stress hormones were released and at what levels does effects our perception. The tough part is determining wether or not the presence of an "entity" increases that stress hormone output.
@@cwdrock I mean the sheer amount of stress hormones released in the face of certain death. Such an experiment couldn't ethically take place because of the amount of trauma inflicted upon the subjects. But I can imagine that its like someone who plays dark souls scrawling a message in their own blood so that others don't fall prey to the same trap. In the caveman days that would provide other humans with a distinct advantage. Being able to smell and sense danger before any conscious evidence is laid bare. Lather rinse and repeat until you get modern day ghosts.
I don’t know much where to start but I have so many emotions flooding back after these years. I remember where I was standing when the earthquake hit. I remember seeing hundreds of people people sway back and forth like dolls as the floor beneath me rumbled violently. I remember the sirens blaring and announcement made as the tsunami approached. My luck was my location within a shipyard in Tokyo Bay, which was fairly well sheltered from any direct impact. We did, however, have ships with thousands of tonnage swung around like plastic in the wind, brows collapsing and the impact absorbed by rubber guards on the pier. I remember bracing as the swells impacted our vessel. I remember the news reports constantly flooding in over the next few days. I remember receiving our orders to cease repairs and get to sea to avoid further contamination. I remember, a few years later, visiting the evacuated areas around the plant. I remember observing the takeover of plants and animals and witnessing the black mountains of contaminated top soil which had been bagged and stacked in fields and stadiums. I remember seeing remote monitoring stations staged around the town as me and a friend drove around. Most of all, I remember seeing a few other people- the locals who remained- driving around as well. Almost seemingly out of place in a place which looked as abandoned and desolate as it was. Walls still collapsed. Rubble still littering the roads and sidewalks. Bags on porch stairs which were left in the rush to evacuate. Quite and eerie sight. I also, however, greatly appreciate you bringing to light some of the hard facts about the scales comparison, or lack thereof, to the Chernobyl event and how it’s really hard to remotely make that comparison. As someone who understands nuclear power after being involved in operation of a power plant, I appreciate that an awareness can be made to both how well in the present and how horribly in the past that this was handled by TEPCO despite the glaring disaster that it was. I mere 3 years from the anniversary of a day I will never forget I was able to get within 3km of the plant. Much closer than anyone could say of a place like Chernobyl and Pripyat. I hope the souls and spirits less fortunate on that day can find peace once again.
My family is from Fukushima (not part of the exclusion zone) and I was in Japan in 2011. Thank you for covering this so thoroughly and respectfully, and even addressing the cultural impact and TEPCO. I'm now in California and see a lot of parallels between TEPCO in Japan and PG&E in California, with the massive wildfires.
Who asked for your input? People died, and this is what you have to say? How shriveled and blackened your heart must be, to only think of domestic politics in the face of universal disaster.
During my two decades in the US Navy, there were two events that dominated two months of my service: recovery operations of the USS Cole after it's attack by suicide bombers in 2000, and the recovery and assistance efforts following March 2011 tsunami and nuclear incident. In both cases, I happened to belong to commands that were front and center in those efforts (USS Tarawa and COMSUBGRU 7) allowing a rare perspective into the controlled chaos that is part and parcel for actions in the face of larger than life events.
Wow that's crazy honestly, can you give us a bit more detail? I'm actually really curious as to what you all tried to do, or even what you felt like you could do? I can't even imagine what that would be like to be there. That's just insane.
@@jordanfelt5978 Well, the first thing to know is the NACCC. This is a part of Naval Reactors and you'll find them in any location where a nuclear aircraft in home ported. As USS George Washington was being prepared to be stationed in Yokosuka, the NACCC was built. The NACCC (sometimes called Nuclear Alert Command and Control Center but in Yokosuka it was Naval Area Commander Control Center) was to be the command location in event of any nuclear incident aboard the aircraft carrier. After Fukushima, it's function was adapted to the nuclear emergency and coordinate the recovery assistance the US military offered Japan. The NACCC was built on top of Fluckey Hall where COMSUBGRU 7 worked, and would be manned in emergencies by the staff of CSG-7 (mainly submarine personnel who are all familiar with nuclear propulsion systems). CSG-7 would also be the command/communication hub due to its shore side capabilities. While not a submariner myself, I was the technician who maintained and coordinated the video teleconference systems as well as worked as the assistant security officer. Both were busy jobs as VTCs happened multiple times daily (both in the NACCC and CSG-7), as well as try to handle access to buildings by those without clearances for unsupervised access (mainly from the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force). This is already getting long for a TH-cam comment, but yeah, there are some stories to be told about the assistance the US provided during these operations. You mainly hear the negative ones, mainly with the USS Ronald Reagan traversing a radioactive plume, but there are a number of positive stories.
@@NukeMarine I got you, well thank you for the information although it's all very technical. I mean who's to say what kind of TH-cam comment is too long or too short? I mean what's one of the negative stories that you're referring to? I mean I'd imagine that they would become grateful for any help they could yet. Especially with a horrible disaster of this magnitude.
If I recall correctly even the Yakuza were helping with peacekeeping efforts for civilians who needed to wait in line and were helping with money donations all over. On top of the elderly who were enlisting to go in place of younger people who had their whole lives ahead of them. The same generation who saw the horrors of what radiation did to bodies, were facing out head on to spare others. I may not be Japanese, and cannot share their pride in heritage but they truly do still make me feel pride in being a human when they show what we can be capable of in times of strife.
This might sound odd but I highly recommend the 2016 film “Shin Godzilla.” It’s written as a satire of the Japanese government and its response to the 2011 disaster. Instead of an earthquake/nuclear disaster, the disaster is Godzilla, a radioactive monster. The endless layers of bureaucracy makes the government’s response to Godzilla too slow to be effective. Some of the imagery in the film is directly comparable to footage of the 2011 disaster, waves caused by the monster washing over the cities and graphs of spreading radiation. It really is an excellent movie.
I was 7 years old when this disaster happened, watching it unfold on television was something frightening, especially to someone of that age. The event burned itself into my memory, and to this day i can still recall the moment, I was sitting in the living room playing with legos, when the report of this disaster came up and i just sat there and watched the whole thing. Truly frightening even when you are on the other side of the planet.
Its interesting to see how a person's first major world event frames their perspective on the rest of their life. I remember watching the 9/11 attacks on tv and thinking "This is it. Here's the thing that kicks off World War 3 somehow." And now I view geopolitics from the perspective of "Will this set off the powderkeg?" I also remember my mother's stories about growing up in Vietnam/Cold-War era upper midwest and I feel chills thinking about how much closer to the brink they came. Now I can see how a Fukushima-era person might see the immanent demise of our biosphere at the hands of our own negligence
Well, I was there in Nagoya. There was no or limited coverage on Japanese TV. I also did not know what to do due to lack of official guidance. Khan periodically appeared on news dressed in overalls. I sat for hours on my floor wondering if I had to get the next plane out.
I was also nine when this happened. This event and the Joplin tornado will forever be engrained in my mind. 2011 was an insane year in terms of disasters, Japan had the earthquake and the US had events such as 4/27/11.
Great idea! That way, the ash from a volcanic eruption can easily build up and choke the machinery! Of all the countries to build a nuclear reactor, Japan is one of the worst because of the sheer geological violence constantly occurring beneath their feet. Nowhere in Japan is safe.
@@frostyguy1989 then just put them underneath the roof or in the highest floor of the building accompanied by draining pipelines instead of putting them in the basement or the rooftop. Still, yeah, Japan like a lot of places in the Pacific Ring of Fire is a really geologically violent place, thats why fukushima needed overkill security measures to prevent the disaster.
@@ChucksSEADnDEAD speaking of sea walls, a doc I saw showcased a sendai tsunami survivor activist fighting against sea walls. The walls basically made the towns behind them into reservoirs when the waves raised higher than the wall and since all emergency planning were based on them, whole towns drowned because ppl were ordered to gather at central points like gymnasiums or plazas at historical low planes of the towns... Not to mention all the walls that just broke.
I have really enjoyed every video in this series. I think they are well put together, informative on what has really happened with each situation, and they help to show and highlight what people really went through. I would love to see more.
Thanks for watching, and for all the feedback. I’m really proud of this series.
We love the series Kyle! Keep doing these! 😎👍🏻
Love your work dude-bro.
Love this series
Keep up the great work!
As you should be. These are incredibly well done. Great work!
“Ghosts are more tolerable than the void created by death” *damn*
That.....that hit fucking hard.
Powerful quote.
@@AxxLAfriku wtf
Yo tysm Kyle you mean the world to me
@@AxxLAfriku Eyy It's been awhile but looks like I found you again.
i've heard that cab drivers who pick up ghosts still drive them to the destination even after theyve visually vanished, open the door for them to let them out, and continue on. japanese tales of spirits and their culture of respect never ceases to break my heart.
I wonder if there’s a way to set the spirit free
@@AlxndrHQ there is, the Cab driver did it.
@@Onii_Chan184 ah okay, makes sense
I remember reading the article about the taxi driver when it was first published. He went on to say that after his initial fear, his reaction shifted to sadness, and he said that he would gladly pick up another ghost passenger again.
.... The only thing I have to say.. and this isn't to insult anyone.. is...
" Whhhuat thea fffucke "
You forgot to mention the elderly people who enlisted to clean up the mess. 😢 They were willing to sacrifice themselves so young people didn't get exposed to radiation. Some true heroes.
Yes, that was truly excellent of them. While if they wore good dust masks they could probably live the rest of their natural lives well, I imagine many didn't even know that. Without good masks, hopefully any cancer risk would be kicked far enough out to be negligible for them, but for younger folks, it may have well caught up to them in time.
If it's any consolation, scientists studying Chernobyl are generally if not always just fine, because they take care not to take radioactive material into their bodies. The radiation exposure alone is liveable.
@@dojomojomofo in shorter terms all they needed is surgical masks..
@@downwithtrudeau actually surgical masks are a horrendously bad idea for that, they arent air thight, they will let particles into your mouth and nose. Trust me, you dont need to wear even n95, which is better, for long doing something like grinding down stone to realize you're coughing pebbles.
@@Remon_ Any mask if not fitted well will not serve you well. There are ways to test the fit, ask your local hospital doctors if they know, or google.
@@gabriellang7998 but you see it's practically impossible to get an airtight seal on a mask like that, for most cases it mitigates the risk enough, but you cant guarantee it will be airtight. There's a good reason why gasmasks and half face respirators exist, not only for handling chemical stuff so ABEK filters,talking about refular P3 filters
I remember the cab driver story's end, he completed the trip as a sign of respect, and even opened the door for her to get out when he got to the area, in order to be sure to please the ghost.
Wow. Thanks for sharing..
this is sweet. thank you for sharing
And then there are the New Orleans taxi drivers who never pick up anyone from some parts of town after midnight because they'll vanish and stiff them on their fare 😂
@@abadhaiku Pay up or get trapped in the cab for eternity.
That was so nice of him.
With regards to TEPCO and trying to sit it out: the prime minister at the time (Naoto Kan) drove to their head-office (unannounced), walked in, and proceeded to shout at the representatives in frustration over their lack of action. Pretty much unheard of in Japan, but at least it got them to slowly start doing something.
It's just insane to think they got payed for this disaster after ignoring all the warnings. I doubt it's ideal for them but it just feels like the 'bad guys' won
Can that be a thing that world leaders do now? Can the President of the United State's job description now include "telling companies to stop fucking around to their faces?" That's badass.
Should’ve hanged all the executives publicly.
@@scalpingsnake it's more like they got partially bought, because they failed so hard the government had to take over to ensure Tokyo still had power (which is exactly the kind of thing a government is for).
Punishment for their failures is for the courts to sort out, as there is likely to be a lot of people over several years making the wrong choice, maybe not all for bad reasons at the time. Hence why we have courts and hearings, because emotional driven punishments are just lynchings and most people don't want witch burnings, they want justice.
Justice takes time, because guilt must be proven before a punishment can be decided. And you don't want to miss any guilty or punish the innocent.
@@drpibisback7680 everyday people need to do this with both the government and companies
The ghosts are real enough to those who see them. This doc gave me chills
Did not expect Crypt to be here
@@bulletproofwhale5869 Where there are ghosts we appear
Actually getting CRYPT to admit that you gave them chills is a feat of monumental proportions to say the least!
Yoooo didn't expect you guys to be here
They are hallucinations brought on by trauma. The simplest explanation is with few exceptions the truth.
The most powerful story from this disaster has got to be the legion of retirees and elderly who volunteered to do cleanup because they didn’t want youngsters to suffer the long term effects of radiation exposure.
But I thought none of them died?
That didn’t stop the old people from volunteering because right after the disaster no one really knew how bad the danger was so they went in just to be safe. After they did extensive testing they realized that the radiation was relatively minimal and they began proper cleanup.
@@gladitsnotme
Well, the reason was that the harmful effects of the kind of exposure they were expecting,(larger doses than what ended up happening) take many years to develop, and the elderly are very unlikely to live long enough for that to happen, as they would pass away from old age, regardless.
@@My_initials_are_O.G.cuz_I_am thats just sad
heros...heart breaking
There was one town who spared from the tsunami with only a single death, Fudai, Iwate. It was all because of one of the previous mayor, Kotoku Wamura's, decision to have an Extremely controversial floodgate built. It was because of him knowing how much death and distruction a tsunami could cause that he managed to save his town years after his death.
This is amazing thank you for sharing it and God bless him for doing right by the community he loved
i wanna see pictures of the town but its all the damn floodgate
Wow, I had never heard of this and just looked it up. Thanks so much.
Yea he was voted out of office and hated until the tsunami hit, which by then he'd passed away. Now there's a shrine for him. He'd read of a much earlier tsunami (early 1900s) of unprecedented size so he prepared to defend against that level, which caused animosity since every other city prepared for the more common ones. Those cities were destroyed, but not his
That's amazing, thank you for sharing!
I never realized a scientist could be so great at telling ghost stories. This gave me chills.
Also, thank you for mentioning that part about "ghosts are real enough to the people who [experience] them." When my sister passed, hearing her laugh was the only peace I knew for months.
@@Selfinflictedhummusrocket Hearing the laugh of a lost loved one is not schizophernia. Pull your head out of your ass
@Eizak Hearing sounds that are not real doesn't mean that you are ill. Talk to young parents who sometime hear their baby crying while in fact (s)he sleeping peacefully: Would you say they suddenly became schizophrenic for a period of their lives, and then magically heal afterward?
Maybe cause you did not expect a scientist would tell something that would normally go against them?
I'm so sorry for your loss.
I had a similar experience after I lost my dad. One night shortly after he passed I felt a gentle, very warm hand on my side like he had come to comfort me (I'd been bawling my eyes out, as you can imagine). I don't know that it was a real sensation that I was actually experiencing, but what I do know is that it helped me sleep that night.
I love it that they ran the scenarios and assesst the risk and 5 years later it happened. I guess it doesn't matter where you live, your boss never listens.
More like, your boss views safety measures as a cost, and he’s in the business of making money, not thinking long-term safety.
@@conors4430 and there lies the problem: Utility companies should never be for-profit.
@@conors4430 the funny thing is, spending a little bit of money to improve safety feature would have saved them the entire reactor, and thus money. Had they taken the suggestion, Fukushima would have been regarded as an example of the safety of Nuclear energy, that it withstood the worse nature could throw at it and still go strong. But, because the folks running TEPCO were interested in maintaining short term profits rather than spending a little for long term safety goals, Fukushima now serves as a tale to scare folks from nuclear power; the one power source that has a realistic chance of reducing carbon emission while still being able to power our modern lives.
Haha Japanese missing something techinical? I don't think it's culturally possible. They knew. Calculated risk.
Love seems like an ill-fitting descriptor.
That poor man who doesn't like the rain because he sees the faces of the dead in the puddles is so chilling. It shows the trauma all survivors suffered and will suffer for the rest of their lives. The world has moved on but those survivors will always have the events of that day imprinted on their minds for the rest of their lives. God bless them all. 🙏
Truly haunting
Good points. My wife died of cancer 2 years ago. We have a large home and at times while I don't see her, I am convinced she is here. It is weird as shadows bounce off walls, and the air seems to change at times for no reason...I miss her greatly...
@@hddunI’m so sorry for your loss. I hope you have so many good memories with her, that at times you are able to look past the loss of her, and into those memories.
I wish you the best ❤
@@hddunim sorry for your wife man. God bless the two of you really.
Bruh it's like 12 o clock, I'm going to have nightmares because of this.
"Ghosts are more tolerable than the void created by death" is such a powerful line
Religious or Not
It really is
(Note, not trying to start a conversation about beliefs and such, I am just saying the line hits hard regardless of if your spiritual or not)
I would think it like another form of life after death...anyone's thoughts?
@@Bibidybobidyno, no ghosts. Just how they deal with the trauma and loss. Mass delusions. Happened before. No proof of their ghosts story’s anyways besides word of mouth.
@@quinnholloway5400in absence of God, man creates his own god. Religion or not, one thing they have over non religious is peace in the afterlife. GOD, etc. they don’t have a foundation like Jesus. So easier to make up ghosts for trauma to deal with it. Then to deal with the truth
@@quinnholloway5400there is no freedom of religion in Japan. Hence why they have such issues.
“Ghosts are more tolerable than the void created by death," what a powerful quote
Yep. The human brain is capable of amazing things, especially when faced with a tragedy of that magnitude.
Keep it in perspective though, it is just a quote.
Not even science is sure that an afterlife is impossible, best we know is that our technology cannot determine auditory and visual paradolia from what could be a spiritual energy; I don't think we really can detect ghosts with our current technology I think it's just it detecting something unusual but not paranormal and our minds puts false meaning on the supposed findings, at least for the most part, still could be the possibility of life beyond this one we just won't know until our inevitable demise.
@@shotakonkin2047 The real scary thing to imagine is, what if there's nothing after death.
For example, imagine if a machine had sentience and suddenly gets destroyed by something. Will it go to the afterlife? No, it's gone.
@@captainspaulding5963 , and it is capable of huge hubris, that is often the predecessor to such tragedies.
“A sign at the front forbids playing Pokémon Go”
Nature is healing
🤣🤣
"But there's a Gengar in the basement."
You can accidentally catch a ghost.
@@hankscorpio42069 Cancer for a Gengar!? Fair Trade...
But that duxkclops looks really tempting
I was living in Tokyo when the earthquake hit. It was my five year wedding anniversary. The next several days and months were some of the most surreal of my life. Thank you for making this. Amazingly well done.
I was living in Nagoya. It was terrifying and heart breaking. I will never see nuclear power the same way again.
Thank you for sharing this
The last minute story not only gave me chills, but broke my heart into pieces... I'm so deeply sorry for everyone who's lives changed by the unforseen disaster😭
That emoji use is highly disrespectful
@@gupadre8255 diagnosis: terminally online
@@gupadre8255 how lmao, are you ok??
@@skoovee no. But at least I ain't living in a 3 St the best. Okaym?
@@gupadre8255 Coherent sentences please
ghost stories told by a scientist who respects the context of the story hits extra hard because it leaves you mind racing with more thoughts and questions
Demons are real. People call them ghosts…
@@rafaelnunezjr they are also known as politicians
@@gembocobo9484 😋
@@rafaelnunezjr Demons aren't real, the word demon comes from the ancient greek word that mean ''lesser god, guiding spirit, tutelary deity, guardian spirit'' it had no evil connotations, it was the same thing as a guardian angel.
@@emiliosalazar9962 when people perform witchcraft spirits show up, why on earth would you call those guardian angels? Would they show up to save you or hunt your soul? Angels are one thing and Demons are another. Good and evil and 2 different things. This is found in the Bible - For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. - Ephesians 6:12
Notice how it mentions "against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms".
well okay, I guess I can mark "Kyle Hill made me ugly-cry on my lunch break" on my list of things I never saw coming but happened anyway.
Also on my lunch break. Trying to rally myself rn
nice pfp. Red Pandas are cute
Not alone
Yep...same.
I almost cried, exactly on my lunch break too.
The bit with the taxi and the young woman asking "have I died?" strikes me as so immensely sad.
Same.
Ditto
that part of the video gave me massive chills
It's called Yurei or unrestless spirit who's still looking for their death cause
I'm legit teared up and the hair on my body is standing up
Watching this reminded me of how I was seeing my deceased friend for 3 months after his death.He took his own life violently and we were close. I saw him in car windows as I walked by and in water reflecting on the ground when it rained. He was always smiling and it never scared me. In fact it helped me grieve to know he was alright. I think of him every day.
I'm sorry for your loss, I hope he found the peace he never found in life.
I hope...we hope.... for you and him
I’m so sorry.
I've never heard someone talk about this disaster in a way that gave me chills. Something about how you tell stories just hits harder than most, Kyle.
I feel his voice has a sense of investment, and care. I think that'll set his voice apart from others who do this kind of thing.
i cried a little
The inhumane ignorance total lack of Common Sense
@@davidtoddmickens5558 honestly I'd say it's mostly ignorance. If you're at all interested in the idea let's say of 'common sense' You should look up the book 'common sense isn't common'. I can't remember the name of the author but I read most of the book a few years back. It's written by a sociologist and it's actually really interesting to realize (as he explains in detail backed up with evidence) That common sense isn't actually common, especially when it comes down to different cultures and different parts of the world. And also just general human ignorance, I mean do you have any idea how many people almost just lack the ability to think to themselves "hey maybe, just maybe I'm somewhat wrong in this situation"? Like not to make it about politics but it's very common amongst the politically charged type, whether that be on the left or the right doesn't matter. So that's just one glaring example of how people are really ignorant of things that probably make a lot of sense to you and me. I mean it's ironic how we have y'know THE internet with the wealth of basically endless knowledge and people are still ignorant as hell, still relying on the very first Google result that pops up. It's like oh snap we kind of missed the fucking point, and It's funny in kind of a twisted way.
Honestly this is the first time I've ever heard of this event. It's kind of a damn shame because this is a really big deal, actually. Just holy cow, And maybe a good portion of it is in his presentation but this is like a really big deal. A Moment of silence for all the people who had no idea that they were going to just be gone forever this day. Really puts mortality into perspective.
“The man now hates the rain, because he sees the faces of those who’ve died, in the puddles”
This quote is enough to send chills down anyone’s spine
Yeah that was hard hitting
They just in recent weeks announced they will dump the rest of the wastes into the ocean since they so called don't have anywhere else to put it all.
Nuclear is one of the cleanest and cheapest sources of energy, when done right.
do i not have a spine or a soul
Indeed
I was very close to someone in the military, they were stationed in Japan when this happened. He told me how horrible it was, for over a week he and other units were fishing people out of irradiated water. Just trying to help damage control while their government figured out what to do. Out of everything he had seen from tours elsewhere he said this was the one of the worst because this wasnt a warzone. This was were he lived.
I am so sorry for him and the others. Mad respect for those who work in that field. I wouldn't be able to do it.
Damn, no wonder why people saw ghosts after that
I hope your friend is still alive, because that would be a miracle for anyone fishing people out of irradiated water.
@@bluepvp900 It's unlikely they were in truly irradiated water. Now if they were in a large, flooded solar power array, Cadmium and other heavy metals could be leaching into the water like crazy. Among wind turbines? That would be challenging work trying to use air units to rescue people stranded on roofs.
They just in recent weeks announced they will dump the rest of the wastes into the ocean since they so called don't have anywhere else to put it all.
As someone suffering from PTSD, I am not surprised to hear that survivors now see "ghosts." In a way flashbacks are like the ghosts of memories, coming back to haunt us. Sometimes mine are so real I can see, smell, hear, and feel everything that happens in a flashback. So seeing and speaking to the "ghosts," of potential victems in the water could easily be flashbacks of the tradgedies they've endured.
nah, the ghosts are real I believe
No, this is different. I have experienced both, in depth. Totally different thing.
@@frankievalentine6112 wow, could you describe the differences, if you're comfortable sharing?
The elderly people who came back to feed the stray cats/dogs (pets?) in the area daily have my eternal respect and admiration.
Why would something that’s complete bollocks “break your heart?”
@@paulthrutner9114 when did they say it broke their heart?
YES!
God bless them.. amidst all the death, horror and overwhelming hopelessness they chose to make a difference in some of the most helpless lives.
@@paulthrutner9114 Now you know why people like her are so GULLIBLE...
@@paulthrutner9114 its bollocks to feed animals?
“unfathomable energy fathoms below”…nice touch.
That got me, too!
"Earth shattering earthquake" and "active reactors"
Well it is... all of our energy reserves released in a few minutes. That's an almost impossibly huge amount of energy to picture,
Sounds like a Terraria boss announcement
someone could shoehorn a Shin Godzilla reference in there
"The man now hates the rain, because he sees the faces of those who died in the puddles."
An incredibly apt statement about trauma
After going through Hurricane Michael, I can't stand thunder storms or the smell of pine trees, that particular part of the video really hit home for me.
Trauma may be the most active ingredient in the production of ghosts. Add survivor’s guilt, and you’ve got a haunting.
That shook me. I’m not sure if he was talking about friends or random people and to be honest I don’t know what would be worse to see.
This reminded me about SCP-2316
Perhaps the Writer had a simular Trauma?
@@bethmoore7722 For some yes for others not so much. There have been plenty of people that weren't in positions of trauma or grief that saw spirits or ghosts.
I was in Chiba, Japan when this happened, I was trapped on a train for an hour and then had a 3 hour walk home as all the trains stopped. My wife had a seven hour walk home from Tokyo. As she left her work building she saw huge pieces of concrete that had fallen off the building. Luckily not hitting anyone. I remember the train screeching to a halt then rocking so violently I thought it would roll over. The lamp posts I could see on the street outside were vibrating very quickly. We all then got off the front of the train and had to walk along the tracks to the nearest station ahead. It had severe damage to the signs, roof, a lift had fallen through the shaft and water was pouring out of walls and pipes. I then went down on to the street and it was eerie, no electricity, cars bumper to bumper and not moving, buses packed like sardine tins and women buying pairs of trainers to walk home in from the few shoe shops that were still open and discarding their high heels. People were on the street with hard hats on. I got home to my 9th floor flat and the place looked like it had been in a washing machine. All night long there were aftershocks and the building was swaying. No sleep that night. The next morning I stood on the balcony as an aftershock hit, it was like a roller coaster and a few hundred metres away a neighbours old wooden house burst into flames. They must have been cooking breakfast and spilt oil or a gas pipe burst. What made things worse was a law that said a national disaster couldn't be announced until all parliamentary members were present in the diet building and agreed to it. This slowed things down somewhat as politicians had to travel to Tokyo to declare this and travel was severely restricted. However, they did manage to sneak in a law overnight that made the radiation level in a nuclear reactor the same legal level on the street anywhere in Japan. Then they could say everything was safe and therewas nothing to worry about. Radiation was found all over the country, in grass, in cows milk and in human breast milk. People who had money quickly fled to Okinawa. The French Government laid on planes for it's citizens to get out. The UK government advised it's citizens to get out then did absolutely nothing to help them. There are stories of how calmly people reacted but believe me it wasn't like that. I remember standing in a queue outside a supermarket to buy a bag of rice and as the doors opened at 10am, people just rushed in and grabbed what they could. A free for all. Supermarket shelves were empty and opened only for a few hours each day. They put limits such as one bag of rice and one loaf of bread per person but people got round that by having families spilt up and target different supermarkets. They had to ban shellfish for a time and tuna in America was found to have radiation in it as it is a fish that travels back and forth across the Pacific. Then other fish that feed on tuna were found to have radiation in them. The terrible thing was that not one prefecture in Japan agreed to take the waste from Fukushima for recycling or disposal. It had to shipped out of Japan to developing countries who agreed to take it. People were homeless for years and lived in school sports halls. The Government really failed people and still are. I did a radio interview with a station in the UK explaining how the immigration office was packed with people trying to get re-entry visas, which were required at the time for people to leave Japan and come back later if you were a resident. Usually the wait for a re-entry visa was half a day but they were smashing them out in 30 minutes at about £30 a pop. On my walk home I saw lots of damage, a burning oil refinery, burst water mains, cracked walls. I remember the newspaper story about a building site that had a crane overhanging a main road in Tokyo, a really brave Korean worker climbed the tower crane as it was shaking and turned it round so if it fell, it wouldn't fall across the main road. We should remember the Fukushima 57. They knew they would die shortly after going in to clear the site at Fukushima but they still did it.
The part about ghosts reminds me of all the ghost sightings during WWI and WWII. People just trying to make sense of things and their imagination takes over.
Thank you for your comment. This is a very enlightening street level view of what really went on there at the time. I'm a finnish man who watched it all unfold live on youtube.
The stream was pushed hard on the very top edge of the front page as a "breaking news" kind of banner. Me and my friend could not believe what we were seeing. It was also the first livestream of any major news event we had seen on the internet, so it had a certain sense of realness and rawness that we hadn't experienced before.
I remember that day in the same kind of detail as the 9/11 attacks. Rest in peace to all the victims, bless their eternal souls. May God grant strength to all those left reeling from those events.
Thank you for your insights and I wish you all the best.
Underrated comment
you think a taxi driver who probably drove for decades hulicinated and imgagined the girl in back seat or was on drugs in japan
Thank you for sharing your story.
This is my favorite so far of the half-life histories. This event hasn't been covered much on youtube, not nearly as popular as Chernobyl. It has unknown dangers to it, so I think it's important for people to understand what happened and what problems it could cause in the present and future.
One of the reasons that not many talk about Fukushima is that the Japanese leading administration historically has been really good at covering and turning people's eyes to other issues. The current Tokyo Olympics games for example have political motives (ofc all countries do). One being to convince its people and other countries that Fukushima is not as serious. Much of the food supplies the olympic athletes get come from Fukushima region. It is a huge region but I am not sure if it can still be trusted.
Geographics and Plainly Difficult have covered the Fukushima disaster quite well, check it out.
This episode is quite good as it puts into proper context the true scale of both of the worst nuclear disasters. Within lvl 7 disaster rating itself Chernobyl sits around 85/100 and Fukushima sits around 20/100. Both are bad but 1 of the 2 was so much better handled and to this day has been rectified way beyond the other easily by a magnitude of 10 in a significantly shorter timeframe; and that is the main takeway from this. TEPCO refusing to acknowledge the genuine international nuclear council security concerns about backup systems is well; negligent at best, but no-one ever could've predicted and prepared for 2 1-in-10000 year highest scale rated natural disasters to occur simultaneously in a one-two punch fashion on an un-precedented scale.
Japan as a whole doesn't get enough credit for how they have handled and still handle this disaster and it ought to be recognized the steps they have taken and will continue to take to fully rectify this.
Also check out AbroadInJapan Chris did an insanely good documentary on the disaster.
He even interviewed some of the people who returned. One was a sweet middle aged woman who reopened her.... I think bar? After returning. Her whole family was lost in the disaster if I recall right, but she keeps working hard instead of falling to despair. It is heartbreaking and heartwarming at the same time.
"Ghosts of the Tsunami" by Richard Parry is an unforgettable book. In it he explains, in part, the problems that a parent group encountered bringing to justice a cowardly teacher who abandoned children to be swept away, make a local school board aware and confront them, and many more individual stories. Japanese cultural norms and customs were examined in their responses and actions, and then, the psychological role of ghosts is examined. Excellent book that lets you into an intimate lives of a culture of privacy, propriety and scrupulous regard for one another, facing disaster and crisis.
Similar experience in Thailand after the 2004 tsunami. Reports of ghosts were common.
There is no way I was the only one to read Tsushima.
@@skibuttman08 you are not the only one
Thanks for the recommendation. I'll add it to the list.
yes i read about that, it was tragic
"Im afraid of the rain because I see the faces of the dead in the puddles"- that one gave me chills
This is one's that scares me..
at first, i read "in the poodles". that was a fun timeline.
It's a load of shite
I cried after that line.
Same !! They were deep words
My Buddy was one of the Marines that went to help. He fell and got impaled by rebar while looking for survivors. He lived but had a gnarly scar.
Rebar in water is a curse. A kid I used to cliff dive with as teenagers was impaled while diving off a bridge he had never jumped off before. Rebar got him in the chest and he died. Then a fellow i didn't actually know got impaled by rebar when him and his kid got pulled in by a dam where we kayak. He was lucky enough to survive.
I can't even comprehend how traumatic this must have been for the people affected even to this day. My heart goes out to them
I've been all about this recently after I watched a Japanese show that mentioned 3/11 and made me wonder.
3/11 for them is 9-11 for the US. TH-cam search some of the videos, clips of them are included in this video. It's humbling and makes you really empathize for Japan.
@@bkp8345 3/11 is an amazingly tragic date for recent Spanish history as well... hm... I wonder if there's a pattern there?
Your heart going out to them will do jack shit
@@yuriscynicism Pretty hypocritical of someone with a jack shit comment
I don't think in their way of thinking that they'd be traumatised. They would see it as their lot to bear.
This series really does wonders for hitting that science craving, and that gritty realism behind legitimate tragedies
your science craving makes you believe all their lies
@@davedee6422 I think this was from HAARP
I don't know why, but the comment about the clock nearly had me crying. I saw another video on this topic, but it focused almost solely on the plant and the workers rather than the surrounding area. The people who worked around the clock to suppress and contain the reactors are heroes.
Don't forget the liquidators, may they rest in peace and their memory live on as the courageous heroes they were.
It actually made me tear up.
I wanted to capture the real trauma here
@@kylehill mission accomplished
@@kylehill You did. Fucking brilliantly too. I think this is personally your best video to date.
I was stationed in Japan for 4 years up as a Marine, up until last year. This is just my opinion and observation: Japan has an eerie, calm, and often depressive atmosphere to it that I could never quite explain. It seemed that no matter how positive the occasion was, something still lingered in the air. This, plus the fact that there are often more cloudy/rainy days in that region compound to the austere atmosphere.
I befriended some really great young Japanese friends out there obviously and many would confide and tell me they were not happy with life or the country. I believe that this country-wide feeling is what primarily explains the "ghosts". Rampant depression + environmental conditions + traumatic events. The mind is a powerful thing.
its quite dismissive to tell people that their experiences are just the result of mind tricks. we are energy and it seems arrogant to completely dismiss the possibility of spirits living after the body stops breathing, whether you are religious or not. the laws of physics say that energy is never destroyed, only recycled.
@@wellthisisinteresting4912well how would you expect someone to believe sightings of "spirits" unless they've seen them personally. When someone would tell me they saw their dead long dead uncle in the crowd I'd expect them to be mentally unwell, grieving and by extension mistaking them due to similar looks or just simply on drugs. People underestimate how much your mind can fuck with you
how dare you try to bring logic to good ghost stories
its just one of those countries who knows. maybe the ancient samaurai put a curse on it. look what happened in ww2. i suspect its seasonal depression. their culture doesnt really flourish its neon lights but not alot of concerts i suspect. its just that part of the world where its very cloudy and rainy and foggy alot im guessing. or the land really does just have an energy about it.
@swagtachiuchiha1501 sounds like you're trying every exucuse possible to rationalise someone (infact most peoples) experience. you sound terrified of life after death and are trying to calm yourself and come up with reason to which even your precious science can't explain
Imagine being the enginner who built this place, you literally did everything you can, designed so many safety protocal, and nature throws a 50ft wave at your power plant
I can tell you first hand design engineers make some real common Sense blunders. It may pass code but in practice doesn't work. Not saying that was the case here
To put it in perspective they built the second stack by Me on a fault line and never used the second stack because of it and now the original is well passed it's decommission date. The only reason why it's still operating is they passed a levy to keep it going even though it is no longer generating any profit after expenses
Imagine making the decision to build a nuclear reactor.. next to the ocean shore, at near sea level elevation in an active earthquake zone…. Who could possibly have anticipated trouble??
@@stephenm103 Yes but also no. They anticipated trouble, they anticipated a huge amount of trouble. They simply didn't anticipate enough to match reality.
Fukushima Daiichi was well designed with the exception of the location of the diesel backup pumps. Unit 6's diesel pump was air cooled and above ground instead of water cooled in the building basement and as such survived and managed to provide cooling to unit 5 as well.
Engineers: hey, uhh, the generators might be vulnerable to waters specially in an event of flood
TEPCO: just install a door to prevent it
Engineers: ohh, you mean water tight doors?
TEPCO: no, just doors
Should’ve used some flex tape
Designed and constructed by GE of America
@@richardscathouse the doors or the entire thing
@@theghosttm8245 Or some Gorilla glue!
@@richardscathouse GE did not design the sea wall.
This was like watching a love letter, poem and a horror story being read all in one I loved it
That’s such a good summary of it
You're weird. Nothing to love here.
the tuna or whater fish you might eat that is caght in the pacific now has higher than normal radioactive levels...increasing the you will have cancer
I was in rural coastal Japan not long ago and was shocked and impressed by the sheer size and scale of the tsunami protection along the coastline. Every single town near there is virtually abandoned, but those who aren’t have heavy duty and large scale tsunami barriers, fencing and signage. Was a very eerie feeling driving through those areas
This was very well presented and I thank you for that.
You captured the essence of the Japanese people, the culture, and the tragedy.
My mother was Japanese. I'm 1/2 Japanese born in Japan but raised in the States.
My mother very seldom talked about her childhood living in Tokyo during the war, but she did one day after having a bad argument with my father.
She said that he would never know what it would be like, as a 6y/o child running through the streets of Tokyo trying to make it to the bomb shelter. Her father and brother were carrying her mom and they were jumping and running over dead bodies. Or the sound of grasshoppers jumping against a pan lid while being cooked 'cause that was the only thing to eat.
Her father sent her to her grandparents farm in the country just before Hiroshima and Nagasaki were bombed. Friends and family lost. The horrors that she eventually saw.
She passed away many years ago, but she is always with me. Her altar (per Buddhism) sits in my husband's great, great grandparents china hutch in our dining room. She eats with us, hears our stories and days events, her grandson (our son) always talks to her....
Again, thank you.
That's so bittersweet. I also feel that I have a strong connection to my ancestors, though I've never had anyone visit me or let me know that they're here. I suppose it's a spiritual thing, maybe your mother was more suited for the afterlife than my ancestors were? Not sure.
She's probably very proud of you. ❤️
Her spirit is always around you. If you feel a ice cold feeling, she is there (my late grandpa chose this way to “hug” me). Grandpa was the word that popped my head. So I knew it was him. Sometimes you may smell her perfume. Your mom’s experience was showing how strong she is, how the family were heroes. ♥️
So sad 😢 but at least she's still with you 🙏
The yankee did not go home...
Sounds like what my grandparents and parents went thru over USSR russian colonization of my country!
The background music, the pacing, the composition, and even your tone of voice have made this series so emotionally evocative it's unreal. You deserve an award for this, Kyle, but I wouldn't know which one to nominate you for...
I was living along the Tohoku coast when the tsunami hit. I watched the wave come in. The first clip you see of black water overwhelming a roadside barrier? That was from my town. To say it haunts me to this day, eleven years later, is an understatement.
thank you for sharing your story, it is very interesting to me. I hope you and your family, friends, and the local people of your town can recover soon.
Yeah. Sure you were. Everyone down the comment section were there and seen it personally, very dramatic. We have half japanese, quarter japanese, tohoku residents, power plant engineers, plane pilots, everyone and their mother came to see the tsunami. Have another like, if that's what you want.
😢❤️
I bet you’re fun at parties. Are you this senselessly cruel to everyone you don’t believe?
@@overmind06 Ever think that people who were in the northern region of Japan at the time are more likely to search for this type of content due to their intense personal experiences? Or, are you too busy policing the comment section and responding as though you know who they are, where they are from, and what their intentions are?
I forgot what it was, but I was watching a docuseries set in Japan a year ago, and it didn't really have anything to do with natural disasters, but they were in that area for an episode and they interviewed a woman who had lost her husband and most of the rest of her family in the tsunami. The way she talked about the ocean was so amazing to me. The Japanese, especially along the coast, have always had a deep and complicated relationship with the ocean. For thousands of years, it's been a source of food and life and protection from foreign invaders, but it has also rained down death and destruction from time to time. They have a deep love and respect for it, but they also know and fear what it can do. It's beautiful in a bittersweet sort of way.
James may from top gear/grand tour spoke to the restaurant owner mentioned in this video in the exclusion zone. It’s in the video series our man in Japan on Amazon prime.
I can't believe it has been 10 years since this happened. I still remember it well.
Yeah i was 10 years old when it happend saw it on the news remember exactly where i was and what i was doing
It's like the 2004 Indonesian Tsunami and the Russian meteorite a few years ago. Unforgettable.
Same....
Damn, ten years
It sure has been a while.::
Dude I think I speak for everyone when I say we love these documentaries. Could you do 3 mile island next?
Edit: thanks for the gold kind stranger!
I think he did
The US doesn't really have a cultural history around spirits and ghosts as much as Japan has
You do speak for everyone
He's on it, he mentioned it in a recent live session, his Office Hours videos, and agreed they're great
@@tardvandecluntproductions1278 the US has alot of people who believe in ghosts but not the same way as Japan does. People aside these are about nuclear accidents not ghosts anyways.
"It doesn't really matter whether or not you think ghosts are real or whether spirits exist. They were and are real enough to the survivors." This is the correct response. Whether something spiritual really is going on or if we're simply seeing a response that the human brain fabricates to deal with overwhelming trauma and loss, the important thing is that we meet and accept grieving people wherever they are in their grief.
Wise and well-said.
That's idiotic. We should not accept something that definitely does not exist.
@@PubicGore Can you prove that they don't?
@@FlorSilvestre12 No one can prove anything about anything (except in math). We can only demonstrate accuracy beyond reasonable doubt. There has never been any sort of scientific evidence for ghosts. Additionally, all explanations of ghosts we've seen so far can be explained scientifically via things completely unrelated to ghosts. It is not reasonable to believe in ghosts anymore.
@@PubicGore I fail to see why it matters if it's reasonable, especially in the context of being part of the grieving process after a mass death event.
That taxi driver story just gave me chills. Whether you believe in ghosts, or you don't... I hope that girl finds some peace in whatever is beyond.
There is no such thing as ghosts
@@user-zb8tq5pr4x what proof do you have
That’s the eeriest story in the video
While I don't belive in ghosts directly I belive we all leave something behind, the living still have memories of the dead and with a tragedy this big it is clear our brain can't cope with it so seeing so called ghosts is natural. For us they might be ghosts shadows of the past, for them they were their children, parents, loved ones or the people they hated and this tragedy had to leave a mark in everyone's mind.
@@Suchsdirhaltaus You literally believe in ghosts
The clock being stuck at 2:47 in itself is probably the biggest of ghosts. I'd do the same as the man if I was in his place only I'd never reset it even if people returned. It would serve as the reminder of how precious our lives are and serving others is a humble honor.
preach
I can feel the same way. Just like for years I couldn't reset my watch. It still has the time when Hurricane Francis took my wife.
Time waits for no man
@@williammitchell4417 move on lol
@@Jacob-zv7xw L
I was stationed in Japan when the disaster happened. I gained so much respect for the Japanese people. Their resilience is unmatched in the face of death, starvation & dehydration. I'll never forget the faces on the bodies I moved.
The Germans are
@@jacksonpettit4690what? GTFO. "the germans are" ...what?
It doesn't help anyone to compare tragedies and act like one country handled their history better or worse than another. we don't need historical dick measuring here buddy, so again, GTFO
@@jacksonpettit4690 🤦🏻♀️
@@jacksonpettit4690 Wtf?
The Germans and their former colonies are good at rebuilding a peaceful nation with an economic powerhouse keeping the euro afloat
This low key almost made me want to cry. These documentaries are literally top tier and I wait for these every single time. I loved these so much. Please keep making these videos
Yeah. It's touching. It was near my birthday and my parents' birthday. Hehe.
Eminem's brother is vegan, Billie Eilish is vegan (she is referenced in Side B of MTBMB), etc. Hehe. (:
Nuclear is one of the cleanest and cheapest sources of energy, when done right.
They just in recent weeks announced they will dump the rest of the wastes into the ocean since they so called don't have anywhere else to put it all.
I low key didn't know low key was still a thing
That final anecdote you shared at the end - absolutely haunting.
I hope all those who survived can eventually find peace. May those who perished in the disaster be able to rest easy.
This was extremely well done. That photo of that poor girl sitting in the ruins is one of the most powerful images I’ve ever seen….
Timestamp?
@@fasuto8656 I'm sure you've seen it by now, but I think the one OP is talking about appears for the second time at around 9:10.
@@ianpartrick8347 thanks
One of the memories that sticks out most clearly for me from when the tsunamis hit was a news video from a traffic cam in a city, I'm not sure where. You could see water rushing past second story windows in the narrow streets, and at one point there was even a full boat that got brought along with the water. A fishing trawler at least 25 feet long being carried along like a bath toy.
@@nuyabuisness7526 there’s one that’s taken on someone’s phone from the roof of an office block where the wave comes down the road towards them and keeps getting bigger and bigger until literally everything is being pulverised. Out of all the footage I’ve seen this one showed the devastating power of the tsunami. It’s unbelievable.
"Ghosts are more tolerable then the void created by death"
That sentence put a tear in my eye.
When reading all the times T.E.P.C.O had ignored the warnings, you sounded mad like it was personal. I liked it, that's how it should be. That might be the bigging intentional fuck up ever.
This is is how EVERY corporation handles EVERYTHING. If the cogs are turning, everything is good, no action required. Potential problems in the near future? Are the the cogs still turning? Yes, everything is good, no action required. Imminent destruction expected. Are the the cogs still turning? Yes, everything is good, no action required. Catastrophic failure? "We responded rapidly to this completely unforeseen disaster" "Aren't we the heroes"
@@anthonyward8853 What about Tohoku Electric that built the Onagawa Plant, taking these warnings seriously? Its reactor 2 is scheduled to restart this year, despite the entire plant being far closer to the epicenter than Fukushima Daiichi yet avoiding much of the same disaster.
I wouldn't go so far as to say "intentional," but it was absolutely negligent af, like it should be on a criminal level. It's basically the Titanic of nuclear disasters, minus the loss of life (radiation-related, at least)
‘Move the generators to higher ground’
‘No’
‘Move the generators to higher ground’
‘No’
‘Move the generators to higher ground’
‘No’
‘Move the generators to higher ground’
‘No’
‘Move the generators to higher ground’
‘No’
Well done TEPCO 😐
Safety regulations are written in blood.
there needs to be a movie made about this mass haunting.. just listening to the facts gave me such an eerie feeling..
there was a movie about the Suicide forest on the NW side of mount Fuji. I guy gets lost in it & is led out by what turns out to be an apparition. The final twist is the apparition shares something about his deceased wife...
Japan presents as having very conservative culture while also having a dark superstitious Poe underbelly. No doubt some of what we see reflected in films is just good old story telling.. .but...?
...makes me wonder that in the West we have become very disconnected from ourselves, just rushing around like crazy to keep our heads above water, that we are too run ragged to notice supernatural phenomena?
@@robertburdoff1789I'm surprised the Japanese have time to reflect on it either when they have such a strong work ethic.
I think the most interesting thing was the graduate student who based her thesis on the taxi cab ghosts following the tsunami. She interviewed countless drivers and many had similar stories of picking up ghost passengers, looking back when it was time for their stop and they were nowhere to be found, but the cab fare was still running and the drivers had the receipts of the unpaid fare to back it up. Whether it was more of the same social phenomena occurring or more of a collective psychological defense mechanism in order to process the grief, or actual paranormal encounters, the taxi cab accounts still remain fascinating.
@@unnhkp8mza522 huh?
@uNnHkP8mza You really thought you said something heroic there didn't you?
@uNnHkP8mza bro...
He’s right you bird brains just don’t grasp it. He’s saying it is a form of belittlement likely because he believes in an afterlife and it’s insulting to suggest our loved ones are not in that place but roaming about confused and in a state of purgatory. Hate how you guys tried to mock him in a gang style setting just because you didn’t agree. Y’all acting like he’s the one with the problem. Sad
@@blackadam6445 no, that person just made an overconfident statement about something none of us can know for sure. Its ok to have an opinion, but to say anything like its authoritative in this situation is silly.
Yet, even with all of the neglection from TEPCO the disaster was professionally contained and life was just shortly affected with what could've become a nuclear crisis greater than Chernobyl. Props to those engineers and workers that actively shortened the meltdown and did not commit errors to the handling of dangerous materials.
yes, there is a infographics show episode that showed how courageous those workers were, and how much the leaders tried their best to choose the lesser of two evils; pump seawater into the reactor and potentially cause damage and contamination, or let it sit, releasing the steam that the remaining water was generating
🤣🤣🤣 sounds like you think they ever contained it.. they still can't get equipment in some areas because radiation is still out of control
If it were bigger than Chernobyl it would cut Japan in half with a Fallout Zone so thank God it wasn’t
They did play with the advantage of knowing Chernobyl beforehand... also, there's the geographical location, the professionalism of those engineers, and the fact that the meltdown itself wasn't as sudden -- I think -- as Chernobyl's...
Basically, the workers had to put everything at risk to cover for the fuck-up of the higher-ups. As it usually happens
@@ThaFKINman Do you have any actual evidence of that? As in, that it's not contained.
Because the most I could find was that it was contained, but cleanup efforts without using humans was meeting some challenge due to robot designers forgetting that shielding is important when dealing with ionizing radiation, especially for sensitive electronics.
Thank you for being so forthcoming about the actual severity of the disaster, I always grew so frustratied with the media fear mongering and direct comparisons to Chernobyl over the last few years.
It's stupid to compare it to chernobyl. In 40 years fukushima might be fine and dandy, Chernobyl is still melting and it is still at risk of explosion 35 years later.
@Rynnie yeah all the controversy from fukushima at the time in the news was about the sea water being discharged into the ocean. i dont remember the meltdowns being mentioned much. while its not great to dump radiation into the environment, better to keep the reactors under control while they dealt with the damage from the earthquake and tsunami.
@Slim Dim What are you on about
@@NoxysPlace it isn't melting as far as I know, but the old confinement is at risk of collapsing any time and since there is a lot of highly radioactive materials and dust, the new confinement was built for protection. Plus they are slowly working on building the machines that would carefully disassemble the old confinement, it's still risky because if the old one collapses under the new one there's still risk of some radioactive dust spreading outside, plus it'll make working inside much more difficult. So yeah, it's still really dangerous.
they were so dumb to shut down the reactor in the first place in an instant like that
That last cab story gave me goosebumps. Love your videos. Thank you!
I'm skeptical when it comes to ghost stories. However. My grandpa died in 2009. He owned a manufacturing plant that made doors for mobile homes. After he died ownership shifted to my dad who kept the plant running. In the following years leading all the way up to 2018 when the plant shut down many workers mentioned an old man walking up to the open doors leading in and watching them work. Some even said he'd ask them questions relating to their work. When they mentioned it to my dad they described the man wearing overalls, a t shirt, old tattered brown boots and a hat with a logo for some old hunting supply store that used to be in our town. These were the kind of clothes my grandpa wore on a regular basis. Most of them said they didn't see his face but some mentions being able to see that he had beard. And these employees were new hires. People who had never even met my grandpa. And they described him nearly perfectly. After a while everyone who worked there and new about it would joke "not even death can keep him from working". It's stories like this that challenge my skepticism towards ghosts.
Great story sounds like your grandpa was a respected hardworking man. Sorry for your loss. I agree with you, I mean we are energy, and we left residues of this kind of energy werever we go, i think your grandpa left a lot of his energy in the plant he owned and thats why it kept manifastating. Let me tell you a quick story about this kind of energy. My mom was a chemistry teacher in a high school, in mexico. One day, on a weekday we were running errands until past dusk; when we arrived home she realized that she had forgotten her house keys in the lab at school. So we had to go get them. When we arrived to the school and greeted the night guard, we headed down to the lab. And as we were walking down the aisle i can swear on my fathers grave that we could hear people, students inside the classrooms. Chatting, yelling, moving desks even laughter and scoldings, but as if you heard all of this through a tv or an old speaker.
Like distant, i dont know how to explain but my 8 year old brain inmediatly realized those were not "human" interactions plus the late hour. Naturally, i shat my pants and asked my mom wtf was going on. She tried to calm me explaining about this energy. "Teenagers have a lot of energy", she said, "and I think some of that e energy does not escape the classroom and resonates when everything is quiet". It made sense to me; and this came from an educated, skeptic professional. i calmed down a bit and we found the keys and left with no issue. Since then i think apparitions, ghosts and these kinds of manisfestations are just residues of the energy we once exuded. But what do I know? :)
@@gonzalodavidvazquezgonzale5796 that's so interesting. Thankyou for sharing your experience
For me, I'm not a skeptic. I used to be one until I saw it with my own two eyes. But for the rest of the skeptics out there, I don't care if any of you take my word for it, I don't even wanna prove it to you at all. I would actually recommend for you guys to stay away from it. Because if you actually came across it, you would be wishing you hadn't.
@@JavelinAngel1295 what's the worst thing a ghost has ever done? Knock things off of shelves and counters, make aome annoying noises, and at worst thrown things or flipped channels on a TV. My cat does all of that and sometimes scratches me or leaves mice on my floor.
And I'd be grouchy too if people screamed and ran every time they saw me, and tried to exorcize me from my home.
*I don't actually believe in real ghosts
@@atashgallagher5139 Believe what you want man. I only spoke my story.
Chilling story at the end. My cousin saw a deceased relative on the side of the road with his wife. They didn't talk the whole way back home cause they knew what they saw. They are both down on earth and would never normally tell me this kind of story.
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To people saying “he shouldn’t have insinuated that ghosts are real”,
1) it’s a big metaphor
2) he said it himself: it’s besides the point. No matter if you believe in real ghosts, the grief of Japan is a ghost that haunts the public. Grief manifests in strange ways, and Kyle was simply pointing out a trend of ghost stories among people who were affected by the Tsunami.
Metaphor or not, the title of this video is massively misleading. The one and only reason I clicked on this video is because I noticed it was from Kyle Hill, he has my trust. If this video had come from literally anyone else, I would have passed on it without a second thought.
@@anthonyward8853 How is it misleading?
@@anthonyward8853 How is this misleading ?!
@@anthonyward8853 Ghosts/hauntings can have a few different meanings, you know. And Kyle touched on all of those. It's not click-bait or anything. Just appropriately named.
@@anthonyward8853 Ever heard the term, Ghosts in the machine? How about inner demons? And how the English language can have multiple definitions of the same word? Or aforementioned sayings are not literally, you have a bloodthirsty, evil creature inside you, or that your computer has a mind of it's own.
In this case. The ghosts, as far as I am concerned. Is the lingering mental trauma of a people. How it manifests itself is besides the point.
This was absolutely fascinating and very well done! I have so much respect for TH-camrs like this.
I appreciate the respect with which you presented the ghost stories of those whose lives were obliterated by the disaster. I know that you are a man of hard facts and science, but none of us can imagine what it is like to have a life change so drastically and so suddenly.
I recall reading about how people stuck on a bridge could hear the voices of thousands of people screaming for help as they got dragged out into the ocean to die. If that doesn't fuck you up nothing will.
@@MrJcTTK holy shit that is horrifying
17:56 "A sign at the front entrance forbids playing Pokemon Go"
There's always that one guy who tries to catch them all.
Looks like they're trying to catch more than just pokemon.
what Pokémon would you even find there? Yveltal?
Nuclear is one of the cleanest and cheapest sources of energy, when done right.
They just in recent weeks announced they will dump the rest of the wastes into the ocean since they so called don't have anywhere else to put it all.
@@ReligionAndMaterialismDebunked I agree but that's completely unrelated to the comment you're replying to
Man it was such an unfair tragedy against japan, huge earthquake and tsunami is beyond devastating by itself, but to then have a nuclear meltdown.
My heart goes out to all that died from that
Preventable, nuclear disaster is what makes it so much worse. Predicted, natural disaster causing exactly the situation that lead to the meltdown, and nothing had been done.
I know Kyle said we shouldn't compare chernobyl and Fukushima, but in terms of pure human stupidity, they are almost the same, but Japan handled the aftermath much better imo
Meltdown only caused one death
@@MohamedRamadan-qi4hl Zero, actually. There was one guy they thought might of gotten cancer but it turned out his cancer pre-dated the disaster.
This might be your best work yet. Got literal chills from the ending.
Really sad
I was on the navy when this happened and my ship was one of the first responders. Probably the worst thing I've ever seen in my life. This brought back memories I didn't wanna remember...
wow how did the navy react to it?
@@rer4472 it was pretty Much a "rescue" mission. Save who we could
@@TheCainiacs sorry for having to see everything that happened there it was truly horrific.
"Have I died?" Wow, how utterly heartbreaking.
Almost scares me and gave me chills
@@pleaseletmehavemyprivacy3450 because we recognise the plight of being one such...
I pray no soul be lost thus.
Jesus saves.
@melly sounds like she never knew him then.
>Jesus saves
What a depressingly sad way to view life and death.
@@3DRiley_ right? I mean, I understand the need to believe in something. It's grounding. I don't get why it needs to be turned into a recruiting drive where everyone needs to be shamed into believing and praying for others to believe though.
"The cab driver, now terrified, turned around to look at the young woman, but no one was there until next time." Commas can turn this bit into a horror plot.
Punctuation can save a person's life...
It's the difference between...
"Let's eat, Grandpa!"
"Let's eat Grandpa!"
I don't get it my brain is being fried
@@ryanm8529 Basically, Punctuation has changed the original meaning of the sentence into something else. Much like capitalization. It's the whole
"I helped my Uncle Jack off a horse" (Helping his uncle off a horse)
"I helped my uncle jack off a horse" (helping his uncle masturbate a horse)
Or
"Let's eat, grandma" (inviting grandma to eat)
"Let's eat grandma" (inviting everyone to eat grandma)
@@TaranTatsuuchi LOL
@@TaranTatsuuchi holy shit
I really have to say, this video touched me. I remember watching this closely as a child as it was happening. This was really an amazing video, and had one of the best first minutes I've seen in a piece of media. Thank you.
The frozen clock and the cab stories gave me chills like holy shit
The clock probably froze because the earthquake knocked its battery loose. Or if it was mechanical (unlikely), then the pendulum's swing was interrupted by the earthquake.
The cab story...maybe the cab driver made up the story on purpose, maybe he fell asleep waiting for the end of his shift and had a crazy dream, maybe the story was invented by one of those "creepypasta" internet forums that specializes in scary stories...who knows.
@@deusexaethera ...or maybe the cabbie was telling the truth. Several years ago when I was a taxi driver, I drove my cab through a ghost late at night on a desolate highway, so don't disbelieve everything you hear. 😒
@@deusexaethera I bet you’re fun at parties.
Oh my god, I was going to say the same thing. Hhh 😨
@@pablohammerly448 Just to add. The scariest ghost stories are actually the ones that look so real initially.
"A sign at the front gate that forbids playing Pokemon Go." I did not expect that little bit of levity. Amazing series Kyle.
Well of course. . .
Don’t try and get those mutant Pokémon. Not worth it
Because Japan.
I try to write these in a way that keeps the audience in mind -- I gotta give you a little levity before hitting you with that ending
@@kylehill 💜 your content!!
“TEPCO installs doors.”
What a reaction.
They were reinforced waterproof doors. It was a reasonable compromise between preparedness and cost-effectiveness, given how unlikely the event was. In most parallel universes, that tsunami never happened. Our timeline was unlucky.
They *were* supposed to be waterproof doors. They just weren't rated against the kind of fury that was unleashed that day, hence the failure.
@@deusexaethera how do you know that MOST pararell universes never had the tsunami?
The biggest mistake was not installing the "No Water Area" signs next to them.
they must be critical roll fans and thought that doors can defeat anything XD XD XD
“This unfathomable energy fathoms below the ocean surface.” I’m having a tough time fathoming that.
500mph! Like damnnnnnnnnnnnn!
Fascinating telling. I'm so glad you opted to include the ghost stories and tell them respectfully. Too often are such things ridiculed or dismissed as irrelevant. As you said, the ghosts are real enough to those who see them, and that's all it has to be. Be it a manifestation of grief or a supernatural visitation, the experience is still real to those who have it.
@Pasta Derich Yeah,in the literal sense. But here that doesn't matter - the grief is very real. That's what matters here. This isn't a bunch of kids going into a "haunted" old house and being spooked by weird old house sounds, this is a nation dealing with a profoundly traumatic event in ways that seem weird to a western observer. Thus I feel the people seeing these ghosts deserve a bit more respect than the usual ghost story teller.
@Pasta Derich you may think that until you come face to face with one. And when someone else is with you and sees it too. Oh, and when it happens at lunch time when you are least expecting it.
"Ghosts are more tolerable than the void left by death"
Goddamn
U stealing comments now?
When this happened I was just preparing to accept a scholarship from Japan. It’ was cancelled due to the circumstances and I never did go to Japan. I always wonder what life would have been like had things gone differently.
Incredible doc.
I left Japan right before the tsunami hit, so lucky, I was at places that now don't exist - are washed away.
@@southsidegamer5611 I'm so sorry that happened... I hope you get to go one day
The power of nature is unreal. The strength and heroics of Japan’s people in the face of this disaster is unparalleled.
You told this story with so much care for what actually happened to the people, It gave me chills snd I'm still in tears, I can't fathom the terror and despair they must hsve been through.
Incredible Job, Kyle
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@@adolphusweimann9237 haters gonna hate.
They just in recent weeks announced they will dump the rest of the wastes into the ocean since they so called don't have anywhere else to put it all.
Nuclear is one of the cleanest and cheapest sources of energy, when done right.
@@ReligionAndMaterialismDebunked who's hating who?
Thanks for this one Kyle, I was there in Japan when this happened, about 100 miles south of Fukushima. I remember the craziness of the earthquake, and then the realization of the what was happening at Fukushima Daichi. I left in 2018, and even then 7 years later there were still city workers taking radiation readings around our apartments. Your docs are great and this one hit a lot more personal. I very much appreciate your humble and informative style. Cheers.
The very end gave me straight up goosebumps, and actually made me tear up. I can't begin to imagine the fear, dread, and anguish of being a lost soul.
It’s important to “KnowThySelf”
They don’t know to go “North West”
To go to the halls of Amenti, or 4D/5D.
They may not have enough frequency to leave.
If it helps, the concept of a soul is a primitive explanation devised to comfort people scared of an afterlife, which was then weaponized in the form of religion to force those fearful people into obedience.
So neither you nor those killed in any Japanese disaster ever have to fear being a lost soul.
@@arkoisagoodboy while I agree with the religion aspect of your comment, I must say, I am not religious. I'm a rather spiritual being. Carl Sagan is my idol, so I understand the aspect of imagined self-importance and the fear of no afterlife giving birth to ideas of hope and belief that there is one. But, I can't escape the idea in my own head that there is more than just neurons and mother nurture that makes us tic. Perhaps you would say it is my own fear, but I have none. I have hope. But, at the end of the day, I do not know. Anyone, from the greatest and wisest of leaders, to the homeless man sleeping by the bodega, no one can really say that they truly know. Science uses terms of conjecture for a reason when it comes to things like quantum mechanics. They are wise enough to admit that even they do not truly know, and I love that blunt objectivity. We all have our beliefs, but for one to say that THEY know, is only their own arrogance thrown into the form of words.
@@arkoisagoodboy How do you know? Have you died and come back to tell us?
You got spooked by a fantasy story. In hundreds of years of science there is absolutely ZERO evidence of ghosts or a soul. It is time to come to terms with this fact, no matter what you WANT to believe or not... what is the point?
I've been learning more and more about the Japanese culture while learning the language, and something I found interesting is that Japan has a sort of time period where they are visited by their ancestors. I had discussed this with my tutor and it was explained to me that it's usually about a few days or a week long where for example, say, at dinner they have a framed photo of someone who has passed on at the table and will still be served food as though they were visiting. That it's a period to be visited by those they have lost and it is typically during the changing of the season. So hearing stories about people in Japan seeing ghosts of family/friends/loved ones after such a tragic event isn't a big surprise, at least to me, since they have a culture in which they are concious of those that have passed on. Perhaps it's because of that, they may be more susceptible to experiencing these events?
After hearing about the man who doesn't like the rain anymore, I cried. Tears rolling down my cheeks and all. Damn that hit hard.
I love the rain so this hit hard
Lies.
these types of exaggerations are fake and desensitizes ppl to others who actually do cry. Grow up
@@tibarion local internet users cannot fathom that people cry in reaction to depressing stuff, more at 11
@@tibarion go study rather than watching anime bullshits
Excellent episode; loving this series.
21:40 "It might take 40 years before all the fuel is FOUND and removed."
...Not knowing where unbelievably radioactive Corium is an incredible unsettling thing.
If you have ever walked the ground of a place of death and great suffering it feels different. I visited Dachau many years ago as a high-school student. To this day the feeling of that place haunts me, it is one of my clearest recollections. I think if there is enough death and pain it saturates the ground leaving behind something that is almost tangible. As you enter the rooms near the crematorium you see pictures of the same rooms stacked chest high in dead bodies waiting for disposal. Men, women and children all with frozen looks of horror on thier faces, some of thier eyes were still clear and it was as if they were staring right into you. To this day the thought makes my blood feel like ice water in my veins. I have no doubt that lost souls wander that ground even if unseen they are there. As I grow old I wonder if death will answer that burning question for me.
I was there too and could hardly get out of my vehicle. The most horrifying atrocity on our earth, unimaginable!
Okay, I will love to share this. The feeling of a heavy presence that makes you feel like you are suffocating is something I often experience. One that creeps me out to this day is actually a TH-cam video and the battle ground in st Augustine. We decided to take a trip up to St Augustine in Florida to go camping in their camping grounds by the beach. The whole center of the town just felt, off in many places. However, when we were leaving we took a road that lead around the battle grounds. That is possibly the most negative energy I have ever felt in my life. Only Me and my sister felt it no one else did in the car, which was weird. Once we passed it everything faded away, Jesus I can imagine that place at night…
Stress hormones excreted by sweat pores is my theory.
@@michaelmorse4444 it would be interesting to explore. If you could measure the amount of stress hormones were released and at what levels does effects our perception. The tough part is determining wether or not the presence of an "entity" increases that stress hormone output.
@@cwdrock I mean the sheer amount of stress hormones released in the face of certain death. Such an experiment couldn't ethically take place because of the amount of trauma inflicted upon the subjects. But I can imagine that its like someone who plays dark souls scrawling a message in their own blood so that others don't fall prey to the same trap. In the caveman days that would provide other humans with a distinct advantage. Being able to smell and sense danger before any conscious evidence is laid bare. Lather rinse and repeat until you get modern day ghosts.
I don’t know much where to start but I have so many emotions flooding back after these years.
I remember where I was standing when the earthquake hit. I remember seeing hundreds of people people sway back and forth like dolls as the floor beneath me rumbled violently. I remember the sirens blaring and announcement made as the tsunami approached. My luck was my location within a shipyard in Tokyo Bay, which was fairly well sheltered from any direct impact. We did, however, have ships with thousands of tonnage swung around like plastic in the wind, brows collapsing and the impact absorbed by rubber guards on the pier. I remember bracing as the swells impacted our vessel. I remember the news reports constantly flooding in over the next few days. I remember receiving our orders to cease repairs and get to sea to avoid further contamination. I remember, a few years later, visiting the evacuated areas around the plant. I remember observing the takeover of plants and animals and witnessing the black mountains of contaminated top soil which had been bagged and stacked in fields and stadiums. I remember seeing remote monitoring stations staged around the town as me and a friend drove around. Most of all, I remember seeing a few other people- the locals who remained- driving around as well. Almost seemingly out of place in a place which looked as abandoned and desolate as it was. Walls still collapsed. Rubble still littering the roads and sidewalks. Bags on porch stairs which were left in the rush to evacuate. Quite and eerie sight.
I also, however, greatly appreciate you bringing to light some of the hard facts about the scales comparison, or lack thereof, to the Chernobyl event and how it’s really hard to remotely make that comparison. As someone who understands nuclear power after being involved in operation of a power plant, I appreciate that an awareness can be made to both how well in the present and how horribly in the past that this was handled by TEPCO despite the glaring disaster that it was. I mere 3 years from the anniversary of a day I will never forget I was able to get within 3km of the plant. Much closer than anyone could say of a place like Chernobyl and Pripyat.
I hope the souls and spirits less fortunate on that day can find peace once again.
My family is from Fukushima (not part of the exclusion zone) and I was in Japan in 2011. Thank you for covering this so thoroughly and respectfully, and even addressing the cultural impact and TEPCO. I'm now in California and see a lot of parallels between TEPCO in Japan and PG&E in California, with the massive wildfires.
You should move to a free state
Who asked for your input? People died, and this is what you have to say? How shriveled and blackened your heart must be, to only think of domestic politics in the face of universal disaster.
@@budwhite9591 everybody point and laugh
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@@aloysiusdevadanderabercrombie8 I'm laughing at YOU.
During my two decades in the US Navy, there were two events that dominated two months of my service: recovery operations of the USS Cole after it's attack by suicide bombers in 2000, and the recovery and assistance efforts following March 2011 tsunami and nuclear incident. In both cases, I happened to belong to commands that were front and center in those efforts (USS Tarawa and COMSUBGRU 7) allowing a rare perspective into the controlled chaos that is part and parcel for actions in the face of larger than life events.
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Wow that's crazy honestly, can you give us a bit more detail? I'm actually really curious as to what you all tried to do, or even what you felt like you could do? I can't even imagine what that would be like to be there. That's just insane.
@@jordanfelt5978 Well, the first thing to know is the NACCC. This is a part of Naval Reactors and you'll find them in any location where a nuclear aircraft in home ported. As USS George Washington was being prepared to be stationed in Yokosuka, the NACCC was built. The NACCC (sometimes called Nuclear Alert Command and Control Center but in Yokosuka it was Naval Area Commander Control Center) was to be the command location in event of any nuclear incident aboard the aircraft carrier. After Fukushima, it's function was adapted to the nuclear emergency and coordinate the recovery assistance the US military offered Japan.
The NACCC was built on top of Fluckey Hall where COMSUBGRU 7 worked, and would be manned in emergencies by the staff of CSG-7 (mainly submarine personnel who are all familiar with nuclear propulsion systems). CSG-7 would also be the command/communication hub due to its shore side capabilities. While not a submariner myself, I was the technician who maintained and coordinated the video teleconference systems as well as worked as the assistant security officer. Both were busy jobs as VTCs happened multiple times daily (both in the NACCC and CSG-7), as well as try to handle access to buildings by those without clearances for unsupervised access (mainly from the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force).
This is already getting long for a TH-cam comment, but yeah, there are some stories to be told about the assistance the US provided during these operations. You mainly hear the negative ones, mainly with the USS Ronald Reagan traversing a radioactive plume, but there are a number of positive stories.
@@NukeMarine I got you, well thank you for the information although it's all very technical. I mean who's to say what kind of TH-cam comment is too long or too short? I mean what's one of the negative stories that you're referring to? I mean I'd imagine that they would become grateful for any help they could yet. Especially with a horrible disaster of this magnitude.
That had to be absolutely insane.
If I recall correctly even the Yakuza were helping with peacekeeping efforts for civilians who needed to wait in line and were helping with money donations all over.
On top of the elderly who were enlisting to go in place of younger people who had their whole lives ahead of them. The same generation who saw the horrors of what radiation did to bodies, were facing out head on to spare others.
I may not be Japanese, and cannot share their pride in heritage but they truly do still make me feel pride in being a human when they show what we can be capable of in times of strife.
This might sound odd but I highly recommend the 2016 film “Shin Godzilla.” It’s written as a satire of the Japanese government and its response to the 2011 disaster. Instead of an earthquake/nuclear disaster, the disaster is Godzilla, a radioactive monster. The endless layers of bureaucracy makes the government’s response to Godzilla too slow to be effective. Some of the imagery in the film is directly comparable to footage of the 2011 disaster, waves caused by the monster washing over the cities and graphs of spreading radiation. It really is an excellent movie.
I was 7 years old when this disaster happened, watching it unfold on television was something frightening, especially to someone of that age. The event burned itself into my memory, and to this day i can still recall the moment, I was sitting in the living room playing with legos, when the report of this disaster came up and i just sat there and watched the whole thing. Truly frightening even when you are on the other side of the planet.
Its interesting to see how a person's first major world event frames their perspective on the rest of their life.
I remember watching the 9/11 attacks on tv and thinking "This is it. Here's the thing that kicks off World War 3 somehow." And now I view geopolitics from the perspective of "Will this set off the powderkeg?"
I also remember my mother's stories about growing up in Vietnam/Cold-War era upper midwest and I feel chills thinking about how much closer to the brink they came.
Now I can see how a Fukushima-era person might see the immanent demise of our biosphere at the hands of our own negligence
I was also a little kid, I was just 9 when I also saw it on the news. Couldn't stop crying.
Well, I was there in Nagoya. There was no or limited coverage on Japanese TV. I also did not know what to do due to lack of official guidance. Khan periodically appeared on news dressed in overalls. I sat for hours on my floor wondering if I had to get the next plane out.
this is exactly how i felt when 9/11 happened.
I was also nine when this happened. This event and the Joplin tornado will forever be engrained in my mind. 2011 was an insane year in terms of disasters, Japan had the earthquake and the US had events such as 4/27/11.
Fun fact: Fukushima Daini, a plant located a couple of kilometers away from Daiichi, actually survived the whole ordeal, but just barely.
Note to self: Put emergency generators on roof
Great idea! That way, the ash from a volcanic eruption can easily build up and choke the machinery!
Of all the countries to build a nuclear reactor, Japan is one of the worst because of the sheer geological violence constantly occurring beneath their feet. Nowhere in Japan is safe.
@@frostyguy1989 then just put them underneath the roof or in the highest floor of the building accompanied by draining pipelines instead of putting them in the basement or the rooftop.
Still, yeah, Japan like a lot of places in the Pacific Ring of Fire is a really geologically violent place, thats why fukushima needed overkill security measures to prevent the disaster.
@@frostyguy1989 The reactor handled the geological violence just fine. Even the flooding would have been prevented with a higher sea wall.
@@ChucksSEADnDEAD speaking of sea walls, a doc I saw showcased a sendai tsunami survivor activist fighting against sea walls. The walls basically made the towns behind them into reservoirs when the waves raised higher than the wall and since all emergency planning were based on them, whole towns drowned because ppl were ordered to gather at central points like gymnasiums or plazas at historical low planes of the towns... Not to mention all the walls that just broke.
I don't think you understand exactly how large these generators are
Chernobyl: "Do you taste metal?"
Fukushima: "Are you seeing Ghosts?"
These half life histories are some of the best documentaries on TH-cam. Keep it up, Kyle.
"the raw uncaring power of the water took everything...mothers and their daughters, fathers and their sons"
Damn goosebumps, I'm speechless
He should've included non-binary parents and people who don't go by assigned genders. It's a sad event yes but he should've used those pronouns
@@Cairo40000 (guessing this is sarcasm) hahaha
@@platinoob__2495 it's mainly sarcasm with a hint of bait. But yes thank you for actually getting it
@@Cairo40000 fk you got me
I have really enjoyed every video in this series. I think they are well put together, informative on what has really happened with each situation, and they help to show and highlight what people really went through. I would love to see more.