The next morning, Yamamotoโs mother calls. He left the house during the night, apparently repeating the same thing about the letter.
The tunnel was roughly an hour and a half from his house by car.
They leave quickly, but Yamamoto keeps insisting that he has โforgotten a letterโ and tries to get out of the car to return to the tunnel. His friends force him back in and eventually drop him at home.
Around that time, the three girls had recently returned from a trip to Kyoto or Nara where they claimed to have seen something resembling the spirit of a laughing monk.
The club tried throwing the video away once. A few days later, it was back on the shelf.
The shop employee couldn't remember her either. She checked the day's order slips afterward: nothing had been ordered from that table. In the footage, there isn't even a glass of water in front of her.
While he is distracted, Inoue gets up to use the bathroom. A woman who has been sitting at the table behind him quietly gets up and follows him. The cameraman later says he hadn't noticed her at all during the interview.