English Version
This is an account said to have come from a real phone fortune-telling session in Japan. Phone readings are a popular style of consultation where a client speaks directly with a fortune-teller or spiritual adviser. In this story, however, the session took a frightening turn when an angry ancestor allegedly came through the client herself.
What is phone fortune-telling in Japan?
Before getting into the story, here is a quick explanation for anyone unfamiliar with the service.
Phone fortune-telling is exactly what it sounds like: a client calls a fortune-teller and receives a reading or consultation over the phone. Many readers belong to fortune-telling companies, and the client connects with them through that service.
Hours vary depending on the company, but many accept consultations late at night. That is part of the appeal: when someone feels they need advice immediately, they can speak with a professional reader without leaving home.
Each fortune-teller has different specialties. Some use tarot cards, some claim spiritual sensitivity, and others focus more on counseling-style advice. That means people sometimes call not only about love and relationships, but also about things like feeling haunted, sensing a spirit nearby, or experiencing strange phenomena at home.
The woman who called about a haunting
Love problems are said to be the most common reason people call. But every now and then, a client is dealing with something much darker.
The woman in this account will be called Mrs. Inoue, a pseudonym. She was in her 40s, lived in the Kanto region, and shared a home with her salaryman husband and their two children. By all accounts, she was a gentle, soft-spoken wife and mother.
She had always liked fortune-telling and charms, and she was interested in ghost stories and supernatural topics. But until then, she had never personally experienced anything paranormal.
One night, her husband was away on a business trip. Her two children were also late coming home because of club activities and part-time work. While she was alone in the house, she suddenly felt as if the entire building had started rattling.
At first, she thought it might be the wind. She opened a window, but there was nothing strong enough to shake a house.
Then she wondered if it had been an earthquake. She checked the news, but there were no reports of one.
Still uneasy, she messaged a neighbor she was friendly with and asked if anything strange had happened nearby. The reply came back: no, nothing at all.
From that day on, the same thing happened at the same time every night. At 8 p.m., the house would rattle.
Thinking something was wrong, Mrs. Inoue asked her husband and children to be home at that time. But the rest of the family felt nothing.
Then the disturbances escalated. There were knocking and cracking sounds inside the house. The television turned on by itself. When she was in the bath, something pounded on the outside wall.
She tried to tell herself it was only her imagination. But she could not believe that was all it was. Eventually she became unable to sleep at night and sat alone in the living room.
That was when she flipped through a magazine feature on fortune-telling and found an advertisement for a reader who specialized in psychic phenomena. She decided to request a phone reading.
The reading that became a possession
While waiting for her appointment time, Mrs. Inoue began to feel sick, as if she might vomit. She managed to endure it until the scheduled call, but by the time the reading began, her body felt as heavy as stone. She could not move from the sofa.
Lying down, she started the call with the fortune-teller.
The moment the session began, she was struck by intense nausea and exhaustion. Then she lost consciousness.
According to the account, for about five minutes while she was unconscious, the spirit of an ancestor came through her.
In a deep, low, masculine voice completely unlike Mrs. Inoue’s usual gentle way of speaking, the spirit angrily told the fortune-teller to pass on a message:
“The grave is filthy, and water has collected inside it. No one comes to clean it. No one manages it. We have become a laughingstock. I devoted my life to this family. At least keep the grave clean.”
Then the voice changed into that of a woman.
“There is a memorial tablet forgotten in my grandmother’s house, where no one lives anymore…”
At that point, the fortune-teller had little choice but to listen over the phone and promise to deliver every demand, hoping the ancestors would return Mrs. Inoue’s body to her quickly.
Once the promise was made, Mrs. Inoue came back to herself.
Panicked, she asked, “Did I say anything rude to you?”
She had no memory of the conversation. While unconscious, she said, she had only dreamed that she was shouting at someone.
The fortune-teller repeated the ancestors’ message exactly as it had been spoken. Mrs. Inoue said both parts sounded familiar.
The very next day, she went to the family grave and to her grandmother’s now-empty house. Sure enough, the grave had been neglected and water had collected inside it. In the deserted house, she found a memorial tablet that had fallen behind a closet.
She cleaned the grave, took the memorial tablet home, and contacted her older brother, who had been responsible for managing both the grave and the house. She had believed he was divorced and living alone. Instead, she learned that he had remarried without telling her and moved to another prefecture.
After the grave was cleaned
Mrs. Inoue acted immediately after the phone reading. After that, the frightening phenomena that had troubled her so much stopped completely. The rattling, the noises, the television turning on by itself—everything went quiet.
Later, after the grave and memorial tablet were properly cared for and offerings were made, something unexpected happened. Her husband won a large long-odds horse-racing payout. Then their eldest son was accepted into a difficult university.
According to the story, after the family began looking after the ancestors properly, good things started happening one after another.
A reminder about graves and ancestors
This was supposed to be an ordinary phone fortune-telling session, but it allegedly turned into a sudden spirit possession. Even if the strange events were a message from her own ancestors, spending night after night alone with those disturbances must have been terrifying.
In Japan, visiting and maintaining family graves is an important act of respect. Whether you take this story as a supernatural warning, a coincidence, or a modern ghost tale, it reflects a very real cultural belief: the dead should not be forgotten.
If you visit cemeteries or memorial sites in Japan, do so respectfully, during appropriate hours, and only in places where visitors are allowed. For families, this story offers a simple reminder: clean the grave, honor the ancestors, and say thank you—before they decide to send a more dramatic sign.
Japanese Language
今回は、実際にあった電話占いのエピソードをご紹介します。電話占いという電話で直接占い師に相談をするという占いのスタイルがあります。その占いの最中に、怒ったご先祖様が相談者に下りてきてしまったのです。。▶本気で当たる占い体験をしてみたい方はをクリック 。公開日：2019年10月14日 更新日：2020年2月2日 。電話占いがどんなものかをちょっと説明！。。電話占いでのエピソードをご紹介する前に、そもそも「電話占いってなに?」という方のために、 電話占いがどんなものかをちょっとだけ簡単に説明しますね。
。電話占いっていうのは、電話で占い師と直接話しをして相談をするのというものです。ほとんどの占い師は、 電話占いの会社に所属していて、相談する人は会社経由で占い師に電話をするというもの です。。受付時間は会社によって違いますが、深夜でも相談をを受付ているところも多く、相談したい！という時にいつでも プロの占い師に相談できるというのが魅力 です。電話占い師の中には、それぞれの得意分野があってタロットカードや霊感などが得意という占い師もいますし、 カウンセリング的な占いが得意という方 もいらっしゃいます。
つまり、電話占いで「 霊がついた！」とか「 心霊現象がつづく… 」なんて、相談もできるわけです。電話占いでご先祖様が降りてきた！。。電話占いでは、恋愛の相談が圧倒的に多いのですが、時に かなり深刻な心霊現象に悩んでいる相談者の方 もいらっしゃいます。その中でも強烈な心霊現象に悩んでいる方がいらっしゃいました。。その方は、井上さん(仮名)という40代の女性の方です。お家は、関東でご主人はサラリーマン、お子さんとの4人で暮らしているという、優しい物腰の奥様です。
この方は、もともと占いやおまじないが好きだったそうで、いわゆる 心霊現象なんかにも興味はあったけれど、それまで一度も体験したことはなかった んだそう。。そんなある日、旦那さんは出張、2人の子供は部活動とアルバイト帰りが遅い日の夜に、突然、家がガタガタと揺れたような気がしたそうです。「風かな?」と思って窓を開けてみるも家を揺らすほどの風は吹いていない…。「じゃあ地震?」と思ってニュースを見てみても地震の情報はなし。なんだか気になって、仲良くしているご近所さんにメールをして聞いてみても「そんなことはなかったよ」という回答。
。そして、その日を境に、いつも同じ時間に…夜の8時になると同じように家がガタガタと揺れたそう。これはなにかがおかしいと思って、旦那さんや子供にその時間に家にいてもらうようにしたそうです。でも、他の家族は「なにも感じない」んです。そして、家の中でラップ音がしたり、テレビが勝手についたり…。お風呂に入っていたら、 外から壁をドンドンと叩かれたりと、心霊現象がエスカレートしていったわけ です。。自分の気のせいではないか…とも思ったそうですが、どうしても気のせいとは思えず、夜中に眠れなくなって一人でリビングに…そこで、めくった占い特集の雑誌の広告ページにあった「 心霊現象 」が得意な占い師に鑑定依頼をしたわけです。
電話占いの順番を待っている間、なんだか気分が悪くなって吐きたいような気分になったそうですが、それでも時間までなんとか耐えてとうとう予約時間が来たら、 身体が石のように重くなってソファーから動けなかったそう です。横になったまま、占い師との電話がスタートすると… 途端に猛烈な吐き気と倦怠感が襲ってきて、意識を失ってしまいます。。。そして、この意識を失っている5分位の間に、先祖の霊が井上さんに降りてきてしまったのです。穏やかな物腰とは正反対の男性的で怒った声で先祖の霊は占い師に 。
「この言葉をこいつに伝えろ、墓が汚れて中に水がたまっている。だれも掃除に来ないし、管理もしていない。これではいい笑いものだ。俺は、この家の為に尽くして人生をかけてきたんだ。せめて墓は綺麗にしてくれ。」。と野太く低い声でささやきます。そして、その後は女性の声に変わって。「もう誰も住んでいない祖母の家に忘れられている位牌があるの…」と。。。相談を受けた占い師は、こうなってしまった以上、先祖の霊の要求を聞いて早めに井上さんの身体を返してもらえるように電話越しに話しを聞くしかありません。
そして、すべの要求を必ず伝えると約束したら、元の井上さんが戻ってきて。「 あの。私、先生に何か失礼なこと言いませんでした?」と。慌てた様子。意識を失っている間、ずっと夢の中で誰かを怒鳴っていたそうです。占い師は、先祖の霊からの言葉をそのまま井上さんにお伝えして、井上さんは「両方ともに心当たりがあった」ので、翌日、お墓と廃屋になってしまった祖母の家に行ってきたそう。すると、本当に お墓は荒れ果てていて中に水がたまっていたんだ とか。そして、廃屋の押入れの陰に位牌が落ちていたそう。
。。お墓を掃除して位牌を持ち帰り、墓と家の管理をしていた兄に連絡しました。お兄さんは離婚して、一人で暮らしているはずだったんですが、井上さんが知らないうちに結婚して、他県に引っ越していたと。そして、その後…。。占い師に相談した翌日井上さんはすぐに行動を起こし、その後、あんなに悩んでいた心霊現象はピタッと止まって、物音もなにもしなくなりました。そして、お墓と位牌をちゃんと管理して供養するようになってしばらくした時の事、なんと 旦那さんが万馬券を当ててきた んです。
その後、長男は難関大学に合格し、以前とは打って変わって良いことばかりが起こるようになったそうです。。「電話占いの途中で先祖が下りてきてしまった」のまとめ。電話占いの最中にまさかの降霊…となったわけですが、自分のご先祖様からの合図だったとしても、一人で心霊現象に絶える日々は本当に怖かったことでしょう。皆さんはお墓参りしていますか?ちゃんと供養して感謝しましょうね。じゃないとご先祖様からの刺激的な合図が来るかもしれませんよ
