Vanishing Inn

The Vanishing Inn was a fabled inn located within the Shinomen Mori, whose tale mimiced the characteristics of a kwaidan.

Tale
Some travelers found an inn within the Shinomen, filled with surly villagers and hosted by a beautiful young woman, mourning her recently-dead parents who supposedly built the establishment. She offered her best food to the samurai, and sang a song for him. Eventually the samurai realized the villagers were actually shikko-gaki, his beautiful hostess was a Bog Hag, and the food was human flesh taken from the bodies of previous travelers. The samurai fought his way free but when he returned the next day, he found no sign the building was ever there. Records of the Brotherhood of Shinsei contained accounts of acolytes who shaved their heads after defiling themselves by eating human flesh.