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One Of Japan's Weirdest Game Stories Becomes Reality (Sort Of)

Have you played Persona 4? You should. It's awesome. It's basically a 100-hour-long murder mystery, and it all kicks off with a scene that has now played out in the real world in Michigan.

Persona 4's first mysterious murder comes in the form of a body found hanging from a telephone pole and with no clear signs of violence done against it. WXYZ reports that a disturbingly similar situation has arisen in Oak Park, Michigan, where the body of a man wearing only underwear and a t-shirt was found hanging from the top of a 1,000-foot broadcast tower.

So if Atlus' JRPG is any indication of what's going on in this case, where should police begin looking next? In Persona 4, a group of plucky high-schoolers journey into a strange, psychologically-driven world that exists inside of a television set in a local electronics store. I don't want to try to do the police officers' jobs for them, but they may want to stake out local strip malls.

[via Destructoid]

Comments
  • maybe the guy just finished becoming a part of the mile high club when suddenly turbulence knocked him out of a plane and he fell into a worm hole, that subsequently spit him out there a week before his actual plane ride, don't woory we will know next week
  • Well that's unusual and creepy.
  • (shudder) Well that's creepy.

  • Thats weird. They better not say that its persona 4's fault.
  • I heard about this here too (i live in Michigan). All I heard was that it was near a TV station. I didn't know that the body was at the top of the poll. The Plot thickens....
  • No one deserves to die like that. What is wrong with society?
  • That has to be on my top list of weirdest deaths ever.

  • That's creepy.....life imitating art? Or coinkydink?

    Either WXYZ is a funny call code...

  • that is disturbing
  • Weird that I live in Michigan and this is the first I've heard of this story.

  • Sounds like this victim [puts on sunglasses] ran out of power. YEEEEAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!
  • Geez, that is very disturbing.  Hopefully they can get to the bottom of why (and how) this occured.

  • Here we go. Once the media gets wind of this all the video game hate will come flying.
  • Autopsy done, verdict: suicide. So now we don't have to worry about the media pointing the finger at video games over this. http://www.dailytribune.com/articles/2011/03/09/news/doc4d77d442a23cb829562250.txt
  • Two thoughts: - Whoever did this is sick and needs to be caught pronto - How the heck did the person take him all the way up there and strap him? Is there a ladder or something?
  • wouldnt someone have seen?cctv? and  i dont see how you can blame the game for this because if the killer didnt do this it would be something as bad instead

  • Strange.

  • Weird. Just weird. Oh and also extremely sick.

  • The Japanese do enjoy being theatric when it comes to suicides, that would be my first guess. A fan of the games, bored with life.

  • Was it foggy?

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