Orbs
White or translucent balls of light that appear in photos. They are sometimes said to be spirits or energy, but they are thought to be the camera flash reflecting off dust, water droplets, insects and the like.
Mystery Timeline｜1989–present
Mysteries of the Heisei & Reiwa
Scary stories born on internet forums, the filming of deep-sea creatures, UAP hearings and other mysteries from 1989 to the present.
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1990s onward (spread of digital cameras)
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Heisei era (boom in the 2010s)
Isekai Tensei (Reincarnated in Another World)
A story pattern in which a hero dies and is reborn in another world, or wanders into another world alive. It became a huge boom in the 2010s from novel-posting sites. Tales of going to another world and back are old, like Urashima Taro, and the internet also has urban legends about "ways to go to another world."
