Anybody that has passed through the remote areas of the Japanese countryside can attest to just how silent and tranquil an area it can be. At night, when howling winds and the creaks and cries of nature are the only sounds you can hear, it's even more eerily calm. So just imagine stumbling into one of these on a lonesome road one night:

Such is the plight of Japanese Twitter user Jump Up, a resident of Northern Kyushuu who has had enough of being haunted by realistically terrifying scarecrows. Jump Up posted pictures of some disturbing and macabre scarecrows that have been giving him the creeps. The Tweet reads, "A request to all farmers of Japan, "Please stop going all out when making your scarecrows."

And you really can't blame him. While farmers in the Japanese countryside have been known to use scarecrows, called kakashi, recent incarnations of the inanimate (we hope) crop protectors have featured mannequin heads with applied hair. Farmers believe the more lifelike, the more effective they are in warding off crows. While the effectiveness of scarecrows has been debated, there is no doubting how startling and frightening these disembodied mannequin heads (among other things) can look when illuminated by the beams of passing cars. Suddenly catching the headlights of passing cars, they appear as ghosts approaching out of nowhere.

Jump Up echoed those sentiments, stating in Twitter comments that there are too many of the scarecrows in his area, and that on drives through the countryside late at night, he feels like he is going to die.

Well, we hope Jump Up's cry for help doesn't fall on deaf ears. Those scarecrows are out of this world--but hey, maybe they're the ones really listening to him...