Saturday, January 14, 2023

181 - Don't Look at Me

【見てんじゃねーよ、miten janeeyo】
[This is a very colloquial way to say 'don't look', "miten" is a conjugation of the verb 'to look', "janee" or "janai" means not, and "yo" is an assertive sentence-ender, these form "don't look (at me)". I chose to make that last part explicit to differentiate between another rumor they talk about in this file]

A man committed suicide by jumping onto the train tracks. The man's head, severed by the wheels of the train, separated from his torso and rolled around.

A company employee, who was unfortunately present at the scene, looked directly into the man's face. The head opened its eyes and said, "Don't look at me!"


This is the urban legend "Don't Look at Me". A similar story is known as the "Don't Look" rumor, in which a high school girl jumped instead and begged, "Don't look".


Another similar story is that of a man whose torso was cut in half in an accident, but whose upper body was chasing after the narrator, pleading, "Help..."


Now, if one were to ask whether a headless human being could actually speak, it would be impossible, of course.

This is because the head has already been separated from the diaphragm, which is used to emit air. However, although they cannot speak, they can still move somewhat.


One of the methods of execution in the past was the guillotine.

Needless to explain, the guillotine was invented in the 18th century by French physician Guillotin as a decapitation machine. It is thought to be the tool that claimed the most lives during the French Revolution, however, the concept of a decapitation machine is believed to actually have existed for much longer.


There exist stories of heads executed by this guillotine blinking a few times when their names were called out. Additionally, an executioner also claimed that a torso moved after being separated from its head.

These events can all be explained as muscle spasms after death, and since a person loses consciousness immediately due to changes in blood pressure in the brain, they cannot move of their own volition.

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