Picking Up The Dead: Ghosts of 3.11

On the night of March 11th, 2011, a wall of water swept across the Tohoku coast and took nearly twenty thousand lives in a matter of hours. In the years since, something strange has settled into the taxis of Sendai and the surrounding towns. Drivers report picking up passengers late at night, ordinary fares to ordinary addresses, only for the passenger to vanish somewhere along the route. Some drivers say nothing. Some quietly pay the fare themselves. A university researcher spent months collecting these accounts, and what she found suggests this isn't just local superstition, it's something closer to shared grief still finding its way home.
Traditionally, the dead are meant to return during Obon and then go back to the other shore. But in Sendai, Ishinomaki, and Miyagi, some families have started doing something different: keeping their loved ones close well past those traditional days, choosing to hold them on this shore, not just the other one. Maybe that's not a haunting so much as a way of refusing to let go.
This is the story of the ghosts who never stopped asking for a ride, and the drivers who kept picking them up.

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