If this was already a known fact, well... I couldn't find it in any
English sites sooooo.... If this is some seriously old news, I
apologize.
My friend and I were looking up some creepy, scary stories (because that's what we do all the time lol) and we came across an interesting blog entry about how the famous Vocaloid song, "Dark Woods Circus," was based on a true story.
My friend and I were looking up some creepy, scary stories (because that's what we do all the time lol) and we came across an interesting blog entry about how the famous Vocaloid song, "Dark Woods Circus," was based on a true story.
In the Edo period of Japan (and after WWI), people sought after
pleasures so the demand for "pleasure tents" sprung. The tents would be
filled with rare items or whatnot.
But sometimes people would kidnap or buy children and cut off the children's body parts and display them as part of the entertainment.
Obviously they couldn't really put a human with an animal part, but what the children had to bear were grotesque. Sometimes they would get acid thrown at their face, get an arm or a leg cut off, have a muscle removed, etc...
But that's not all - sometimes people would pay to see children be raped.
This was all for money.
(Korea also did this to some extent).
Why is this not known? First, you to see them, you had to look through a small hole, so taking a photo was hard. Second, if you took a photograph, there was a high chance that it was burned. It also wouldn't be surprising for the Japanese government to burn any documents regarding those tent circuses since the government's pretty notorious for trying to cover up those kind of stuff (to those who don't believe this, look up information about the Japanese textbook cover-up about their military's horrible, horrible crimes during the occupation of Asian countries during WWII).
