誰？ 表札も出してないし、近所に知り合いはいない。無視することにした。
翌日、遮光カーテンを買ってきて、窓をすべて塞いだ。夜の１０時。ノックの音がした。
翌日、遮光カーテンを買ってきて、窓をすべて塞いだ。夜の１０時。ノックの音がした。
おそるおそる玄関に行く。覗き窓に顔を近づける。警察官のようだ。
ドアを少し開け、「何でしょう？」と尋ねる。警官はカバンから紙を取り出した。
ドアを少し開け、「何でしょう？」と尋ねる。警官はカバンから紙を取り出した。
「巡回カードを書いてください。災害のときに使ったりするんで」
なんですかそれ……面倒臭そうに答えると、「いいから書け。いま書け。」と警官は笑顔でいう。様子がおかしいので、ドアを閉めた。「１１０番しても無駄だぞ」外で怒鳴っている。アパートの大家さんに電話した。
事件を告げると、大家さんのおばさんがいう。
事件を告げると、大家さんのおばさんがいう。
「神社で御札をもらって、どっかに貼っとくといいわ」
１０年前に事故で死んだ警察官だという。
「あの人も気の毒ではあるんだけどね」とおばさん。
「あの人も気の毒ではあるんだけどね」とおばさん。
翌朝、すぐに御札をもらいに行って、玄関に貼った。その日の夜１０時頃、叫び声のようなものがした。以後、警官は来なくなった。
On the same evening I moved into a new apartment in Kanagawa, there was a knock at the door.
Who could it be? I had no nameplate outside my door, and I didn’t know anyone in the area. I decided to ignore it.
The next day, I bought a net curtain, and covered the whole window with it.
That evening, at 10 o’clock… another knock.
The next day, I bought a net curtain, and covered the whole window with it.
That evening, at 10 o’clock… another knock.
Nervously, I went to the front entrance. I put my face to the spy-hole in the door. It looked like a policeman, so I opened the door a crack.
“What is it?” I asked.
The policeman took some paper from his bag;
The policeman took some paper from his bag;
“Please fill in this patrol card. It’s used at times of disaster and whatnot.”
What was this?…. I told him it seemed like a lot of bother.
“This is a good thing. Fill it in. Do it now,” the policeman replied, smiling.
Sensing something wasn’t right, I closed the door.
Sensing something wasn’t right, I closed the door.
“Apartment 110… a waste of time!” cried an angry voice from outside the door.
I phoned my landlady.
I phoned my landlady.
After I had told her what had happened, she spoke;
“Go to the shrine, and purchase an Ofuda.* Pin it up somewhere.”
She explained that it was a policeman who had died in an accident ten years earlier.
She explained that it was a policeman who had died in an accident ten years earlier.
“I feel sorry for him,” she continued.
The next morning, I went immediately to the shrine to buy an Ofuda, and pinned it up in the entrance of my apartment. That night at around 10 o’clock, I heard what sounded like a scream outside.
After that, the policeman did not come back. *An Ofuda is a talisman that can be bought at Shinto shrines, to be put up in one’s house. It is believed to protect the family from bad things, such as evil spirits or disease.
From: 実録呪霊映像
（Million Mook 38, 雑誌２００８年）
（Million Mook 38, 雑誌２００８年）
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