6 Fascinating Facts About Aokigahara, Japan's Legendary Suicide Forest

Legend has it that Emperor Sutoku was forced off his throne and into exile by his father. He died an anguished soul and vowed to haunt the nation in the form of a terrible creature. The tengu would hunt young boys and priests with his long talons and sharp eagle eyes, consuming their genitalia to feed his power. While the boys were returned home after the fact, the priests hung upside down from the trees in Aokigahara forest, until they died or went insane.