Students in Japan scare themselves sick

Published: May 26, 2007 at 7:10 PM

KYOTO, Japan, May 26 (UPI) -- Eleven junior high school students in Japan managed to make themselves so anxious Saturday by telling ghost stories that they were hospitalized.

The students were among a group of 77 from Sakai Municipal Mikunigaoka Junior High School on a field trip to tour a factory. Just after noon, someone from Yakult Honsha Co. Kyoto factory in Uji called for an ambulance, the Mainichi Daily News reported.

Doctors at a local hospital said the students were hyperventilating. They reportedly had been exchanging ghost stories on the bus to the factory, working themselves up into a state of acute fear.

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