Sadako Yamamura
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Sadako Yamamura is the original wellwraith.
In the summer of 1946, Shizuko Yamamura brought up a statue of the oceanic god, En no Ozunu, from the ocean foor. Soon after, she began to exhibit psychic powers. The following year, against her friends' advice, Shizuko traveled to Tokyo, where upon arrival, she collapsed because of a migrane, a side effect of her new powers. While in the hospital, she met Dr. Heihachiro Ikuma, a professor of psychiatry. Ikuma was fascinated by Shizuko's powers, and had an affair with her but when she conceived, she traveled back to her hometown on Oshima Island to avoid causing a scandal for Ikuma.
Later that year, on October 31, 1947, Sadako was born, and Shizuko handed her over to her grandmother while Shizuko went to be with her lover. In 1950, when Sadako turned 3, Shizuko returned for her, and they left Oshima, not to be seen for 5 years. After 4 years, Shizuko gave birth to a boy, but he died from illness after 4 months. Sadako had psychic powers like her mother but grew up socially awkward and unbalanced.
At an ESP demonstration hosted by Dr. Ikuma, Shizuko was branded a fraud and charlatan after she abruptly ended the demonstration. Because of this, Ikuma divorced Shizuko, who fell into a deep depression. The following year, Sadako suggested that she and Shizuko go back to Oshima to escape the press. Before the year was over though, Shizuko committed suicide by leaping into the volcano, Mt. Mihara, and Sadako went to live at Yamamura Villa, run by her cousin, Takashi.
At the age of 10, Sadako predicted the eruption of Mt. Mihara, which was proven correct, but denied having any psychic powers. Knowing what could happen if her powers grew, at the age of 18, Ikuma sent Sadako to Tokyo, where she joined the Hisho Acting Troupe. No one knows what happened while she was there.
In the summer of 1966, when her father came down with tuburculosis, Sadako visited him a lot. But she was raped by a man named Nagao Jotaro in a smallpox induced fever, a young doctor who watched her bedridden father. When he raped her, he found out that, while appearing female, she had external testes due to Testicular Feminization Syndrome. It was her secret and, ashamed, she threatened to kill him telepathically. He strangled her and threw her down a nearby well. Having smallpox, he transmitted it to her when he raped her. Sadako survived on sheer willpower for 30 years in the well before dying.
Soon, a holiday resort is built on the site, a cabin over the well. Hakone Pacific Land, cabin B-4. A family who stayed there, recorded a T.V show in the VCR, but Sadako's spirit was able to, using her psychic power of nensha, record a curse over the videotape. The family was asleep and left the tape when they left. Three days later, five teenagers stayed in the cabin and found the videotape and watched it, but found only inexplicable lines and images. They recorded a random T.V commercial over the end and left. On September 15, all four died, at the same time, in different places, from heart failure. The curse has spread ever since.
