got a good thing going there lol -In March 2009, a landlord in Osaka, Japan noticed something odd while reviewing his records. Apartment 3B had never missed a rent payment in over a decade. Every month, on the 1st, the money arrived on time. No complaints. No repairs requested. No late notices. The problem was simple. No one had lived there since 1997. According to building records, the last registered tenant, a woman named Keiko Tanaka, moved out suddenly after giving notice. The unit was cleaned, the locks were changed, and the apartment sat empty while the landlord searched for a new renter. None were ever approved. The listing expired quietly. But the rent kept coming. Always the same amount. Always from the same regional bank branch. Always marked “3B monthly.” When the landlord finally contacted the bank, they confirmed the account existed but refused to disclose the account holder due to privacy laws. Police were notified only after a welfare check confirmed the apartment had no signs of occupancy. Dust covered the floors. The utilities had been disconnected for years. Investigators later learned the account paying the rent was opened in 1997 under a different name. That person had died in 1998. The account should have closed automatically. It didn’t. The payments continued until 2009, when the landlord attempted to refund one month’s rent. The money was returned unopened, marked “recipient unknown.” The following month, no payment arrived. The account vanished. No fraud charges were filed. No suspect was identified. The landlord was told to relist the unit. Apartment 3B was rented out two weeks later. No one ever claimed the missing money. And no one ever explained who kept paying for an empty room for twelve years.