Case file · Haunting
The ghosts of the Hakkōda march
In January 1902, 199 of 210 soldiers on a winter training march in the Hakkōda mountains of Aomori froze to death; ghost stories of marching soldiers followed.
1902 CE · 40.66, 140.88 · status: legend
The account
It is the deadliest mountaineering disaster in history. Locals and later visitors reported voices, footsteps and figures in uniform in the snow, and the site appears in many haunted-place guides.
The sceptical view
The disaster is fully documented; the haunting reports are anecdotes shaped by the tragedy.