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There are tons of ghost stories here in Okinawa.  The following are what I could find around the web, some were repeated with slight variations, so I'm not sure which is the most accurate.  I've yet to see anything "spooky", but I'm curious.  I'm not really into supernatural stuff, but if there really are ghosts, they would be here.  Just from the shear number of people that have died on this island in such a short amount of time.

I work in the bomb dump, and the locals that work out there with us absolutely will not go to certain places.  Two of the Japanese cops that work out there were driving by a small building that has no power or lights and they saw light coming from under the door.  Freaky.

Another one that I didn't find on the web but have heard is about an old CIA "interrogation" building that used to be out in the area.  It had been abandoned since the end of the war, and mostly forgotten about.  Some SPs (Air Force cops) were doing a daily security check at night on the area and when they drove by there were lights on inside the building.  There was no power or lights in the building for who knows how long.  Soon after, the building got torn down.

There is a road in the bomb dumb where a Japanese soldier was killed a long time ago.  When the Japanese cops drive through that area they turn the rear view mirror down.  It's because if you don't, you can see the dead guy sitting in your back seat.

.....Old Makiminato Gate 2.....

A US military base gate on Hwy 58 (rumored to be the old Makiminato gate 2) used to have a frequent visitor, a GI from WW11. Each Friday and Saturday night at the same time, a GI in full combat gear would approach the gate, which was manned by Marines. When he reached the gate guard, he had a cigarette in his hands and would ask, "Gotta light?" After the gate guard lit the cigarette, the GI would disappear into thin air. When this happened many times, Marines refused guard duty at this gate and it was finally closed. One theory about why the GI showed up every weekend is that sometimes when people die, their images are caught in a kind of time warp. A certain thing could trigger this record player so that an event the person did when they were alive is replayed. Some say if you go to the area where this gate used to be you can still see the GI ask for a light, even though the guard house is no longer there.

.....Old Makiminato Housing Area.....

In the Old Makimanato Housing area there were a few reports of people living on base near the large off base grade school. These reports had fully battle ready Japanese WWII soldiers showing up in odd places such as the back yard, the bedroom, the laundry room, the bathroom, etc. These reports had, in all accounts, these soldiers seeming to be very lost. I have been told that the small ravine running behind these houses was an ambush point where the Japanese soldiers would wait out American Soldiers working their way west along the creek bed below.

Okinawa Tunnel

There is a tunnel on Okinawa in which a car accident occured, killing a young man and woman. Rumor has it that the tunnel is haunted, but only by the ghost of the woman. An American named Jim got out of work late one night and decided to take the tunnel home because it was a shortcut. Jim's coworkers had warned him not to drive through the tunnel alone, but Jim was not superstitious. Jim drove his motorcycle through the tunnel and found it was badly lit. For the first few yards, it did not seem bad. But as he drove farther into the tunnel, the weight on his motorcycle suddenly started to feel heavier. Jim knew he had only a few small things in his backpack, but it felt like the weight on his motorcycle had doubled.

He looked into his rearview mirror, and to his surprise saw what appeared to be flowing, long, black hair blowing in the wind and a young woman's face, althought he could not quite see the face. Jim shrugged it off as an illusion because he was tired and it was so late. But the weight and image in the mirror did not go away. Jim became very impatient with whoever it was and finally said out loud, "What do you want?"
The answer was:
"I WANT YOU!!!"