Between Onomichi Station and Matsunaga Station on the JNR Sanyo Main Line in Hiroshima Prefecture, there existed a dangerous, long, tight curve called the Matsunaga Curve, and at that place, in Showa 30…
There is a Mandela Effect that the Onomichi Railway has appeared, but among the people who remember that there was no Onomichi Railway in Onomichi, many recall a major accident at the Matsunaga Curve on the Sanyo Main Line in the Showa 30s (late 1950s to 1960s), and the details of the accident match, and there were said to be many people who, at the time, went to look at the accident site and witnessed the derailed train lying on its side. Also, someone who suffered a serious head injury requiring fifteen stitches says that at the time they were hospitalized in Onomichi City with a severe head trauma, and thereafter they went to Onomichi many times and also attended memorial services, and in the first place they have memories of going many times to Onomichi in the Showa 20s (late 1940s to 1950s) before the accident, when Onomichi, having escaped air raids, was flourishing; but there was no private Onomichi Tetsudo railway in Onomichi, and they have no memory that a major accident occurred on the Onomichi Tetsudo right after the war, which is to say, the Onomichi where the Onomichi Railway exists and no major accident occurred at the Matsunaga Curve is greatly different in shape on the map from the Onomichi of their memory. Those whose memory was of a history in which there was no Onomichi Tetsudo in Onomichi recall that at the Matsunaga Curve there had been multiple major derailments in the past, and, even in the Heisei era most recently, there was an accident in which, due to strong typhoon winds, a freight train derailed, the tracks were damaged, and it took months to restore service; they remember that the newly established Higashi-Onomichi Station between Onomichi and Matsunaga was a small, slanted station with a considerable elevation difference between the up and down platforms, and that until Higashi-Onomichi Station was built, all trains, including passenger trains, traversed that section at reduced speed. One person says that during a trip through the…
This case is part of the Mandela Effect case database based on "The Window of Opportunity: A Guidepost to the Mandela Effect — The Ultra-Secret X-Files" by Aoyama Takuto.