Japanese Urban Legend

Japan always has a lot of cool creepy stories. Hadn't heard this one before, so thanks OP.

>>17341509
That is pretty creepy.
Don't really know that much, but just in the interest of bumping.
Hanako-San is a japanese version of bloody Mary, supposedly a ww2-era little ghost girl who when summoned on the third stall on the third floor, that the person who went int there and asked "Are you there, Hanako-san??"

Silence, usually, if you're lucky most of the time you will hear absolutely nothing at all, but if you were to hear her voice, and listen to her words "I am here" you would be faced with a choice, at least in some variations she is known to stand outside the stall door, and if you resist the urge to open it and look into her eyes, freedom and a quick exit would be in order until after she disappeared.

Who knows what will happen to you after you see her. It's all just an urban legend, I mean most who've tried had nothing happen to them. But every now and again reality likes to have a window of what can and can't happen. Who would know why you disappeared without a trace

>>17341509
Spirits that kill people with good intentions seem so very Japanese, no wonder the poor bastards have such a high suicide rate.

This ol' internet diddy just does not exist of course.
Some of you may have heard of it.
The Red Room.

Supposedly a young boy returns home from school, a friend of his didn't show up, and apparently there was a huge commotion going on about his absence but nothing confirmed.

Hearing of a rumor that it was linked to "The Red Room" a supposed website that didn't exist, not knowing much about it, that night after a lengthy search the boy almost gave up. And was about to sign off when something caught his attention.

A pop-up.

>>17341901
Closing it down at first, it came right back up.
He hadn't notice it before, but it was the address.

The address had read RedRoom.
Confused, he realized the words read "Do you like?"

He exited.
And it popped up once more.

Exiting a third time, it popped up on ceremony.

No matter how many times, it just kept on coming back up, maybe a virus he was telling himself, maybe his friend accidentally sent it to him while they were IMing or something.

After a couple dozen more times, the pop-up just wouldn't go away.

But the boy noticed something.
The question had changed.

>>17341909
"Do you like the"
Now bothered, he tried closing down the browser, killing process, but it's come right back up

"do you like the"
Getting irritated he kept trying to wrestle with the window and close it down, but still it kept persisting.

Again and again, completely lying to himself that his clicking the red X was going to actually end this cycle.

But still, the half-question persisted. But suddenly something was different he noticed about the window.

No new addition to the message, just a clickable hotlink.

Annoyed, he clicked the link to find some sort of answer to the nature of this nag-ware.

The page was simple.

It was just titled The Red Room.

>>17341916
And scrolling down the page, his middle finger just rolling, it was just names, all sorts of peoples names, male and female, scrolling and scrolling, there was no particular order or pattern to their names, just one after another and one after another, all just added randomly to the list and list.

But it was when his middle finger stopped, he blinked a few times, he felt his head feel hot, then a splash of coldness as he saw the last name on the site.

It belonged to his friend.

Just scrutinizing the screen, he scrolled up to the top of the page, trying to find any other links or pages.

Nothing, just names and names and more names.

Then another pop-up showed up.
And another question.
"Do you like The Red Room?"

spoopy, reminds me of the crimson room

>>17341927
The principle and teacher had come into class that morning, students noticing something different about their demeanor, wanting to talk to them about something serious.

Most of the class didn't react, just quietness when they heard the news, maybe a few grieving faces here and there, but most were just in shock.

Two of their fellow students, had commited suicide.

One the night before.

The other two nights before.

It was apparently a pact suicide or something, since there deaths were so similar and the fact they were good friends.

>>17341935
They had found the young boy, he was wet with his own blood, his room had smelt like copper or meat, apparently he had used a piece of glass from his computer monitor to cut his wrists open and in his final moments, had smothered the walls with his own blood.

The previous night, his friend had done the exact same thing.

Both of them, had painted the walls with "Red room" over and over in their blood.

Later on that day, as rumblings and rumors spread.

Another had come looking.

She didn't find it of course.

But she did notice the pop-up that wouldn't go away.

She noticed the expanding question.

And she did notice the last 2 names on the website.

>>17341941
I may have gotten some of it wrong, but that's just generally what I remember, I read about it like 10 years ago and saw the flash animation, that would probably be the most correct one.

Check it out guys.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvkRCQqIKG8

>>17341900
>no wonder the poor bastards have such a high suicide rate

That's mostly due to cultural views about preserving one's honor, as well as high stress and pressure in the modern age.

>>17341941
>this is what happens to n00bs who don't have a popup blocker

In all seriousness, thanks for posting. Keep 'em coming if you have more.

The Purple Mirror
A young girl in her teens for her birthday had received a gift from her mother, a purple mirror.

Hanging it up on her wall, it had quickly become her most prized possession, and she was growing increasingly and increasingly infatuated with her own beauty. So much so that most would describe her as vain.

She had it for months when she started to eat less and less. For some reason she become fixed on the idea that her beauty was coming from her ever slimming waistline.

So as her self-admiration grew, so did her growing eating-disorder.

>>17341994
as the months grew into years, she was growing more and more skinny, her eating disorder had grown into a horrible monster that was consuming nothing but her.

Everyone around her was becoming distressed, people in the streets would stare at her, many not able to resist the urge, but she assumed it was because she was so incredibly breathtaking and stunning.

But everyone around her, friends and family alike, had told her that she was becoming horribly skinny and that she needed to see a doctor. But she persisted her own beauty and chalked up their comments as just jealousy, since so many admired her in her own eyes, they must have grown bitter because of her incredible physical features.

>>17342001
But no matter what, no matter how frail and gaunt her features got, how her bones seemed to be poking out of the thinner parts of her skin. She looked into that purple mirror over and over, and still she looked beautiful, she knew it, she saw it, she believed it.

This was her ritual, her reassurance of her own reality, this purple mirror was a gateway to her truth, that she was one of the most incredible looking woman in the world, if not of all time.

Her 20th "coming of age" birthday was coming up, and the months leading up to it, she was so sure, she knew she was going to look good for it. The belle of the ball, she knew no amount of jealousy from her friends and family would bring her down.

And she began to get ready on the night of her party.

And then she looked into the mirror.

>>17342015
She saw it, this wasn't right she thought to herself, she couldn't be staring at this. What was this.

She almost moved away from the mirror, making sure that it was her, but her reflection moved with her, she touched the mirror, inspecting to make sure it was her beloved purple mirror.

It was it, but the reflection met with her own fingertips.

This was it, this was her.

But it couldn't be she thought. Why is her cheeks so frail? Why is her skin so pale? Why is her hair so scraggily and thin? Why does she look so grotesque?

Her bones were showing, her skin had grown loose with nothing to cling to. She realized they weren't lying.

No one had lied.

She truly was a skeletal and horrifyingly skinny young girl.

>>17342022
This couldn't be real, but as the reality sunk in deep. Her mind was racing, she had no answer for this sudden change, why did she see herself as so beautiful? Why is she so ugly? Why today? Why now?

These questions proved too much, and when her parents had found her, on the floor, her mirror shattered into pieces, there was no screaming from her room, there was no crying, there was nothing to indicate what she had done, they didn't even hear her break the mirror.

Pieces of her flesh were pulped and shredded, blood all over the carpet. She had used the biggest shard of the mirror to stab into her face, her cheeks, nose, forehead, her lips, even her eyes.

She had left nothing unscathed.

Dying but not dead, she only sort of looked up at them with her red and wet disfigured face, and said "The Purple mirror"

>>17342044
Now apparently after she died, after she was just forgotten most of the world, her peers, and her friends.

There was reports of a few young teenagers who had died years later, no true cause was found to their deaths, just all of them had died shortly before on on their 20th birthdays.

But eventually they found one unifying factor in the cases

"I found one again, outside my door, it was purple like the last one. Someone is playing a game surely. I hate my friends or whoever they are for doing it. Probably just a prank"

Another one of the deceased's friends had reported their friend complaining about finding shards of purple as well before their deaths.

And soon they realized that almost all of these teens reported the purple shard.

>>17342059
Pretty soon the legend was spreading, and the patterns were becoming clear and the young were realizing the truth of what was going on.

Almost everyone of them had heard of this purple mirror story, all of them about the young girl who was skinny and so frail, yet so deluded about her own beauty.

With her hatred of the world, and her hatred of herself, and her grief and her anger, she had created some sort of metaphysical phenominon.

Most figured it out, apparently if a teenager or child hears the story, they must forget about the phrase "The Purple Mirror" by their 20th birthday. If they do, nothing would happen, but those unfortunate enough to still have it on their minds by their 20th would pay her toll.

I guess in those last moments, she wanted to be forgotten, to not exist, and anything else but that would invoke her anger, her hatred of the world that lied, the mirror that lied. And remembering the mirror or herself would invoke her into existing once more.

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>>17341945
iirc this was Nevada-tan's favorite creepypasta

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>>17342214
She had excellent taste, even if she did something rather heinous.

Hey OP, if you're still around, got anymore? I'll share some more. These are quite fun to read about actually.

I would also like moar.

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Is posting manga okay? Fuan no Tane is a fantastic read, I've yet to finish +, though.

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>>17344768
I'd prefer we stick to urban legends, especially since it looks like you're done, but if you want to come back and post more, /x/ enjoys spooky manga too and you could start your own thread.

>>17345118
Fuan no Tane is actually based on urban legends, though, that's why I even bothered to post it.

>>17347183
It was hard to tell from what little you posted.

>>17347910
Sorry, it's an old /x/ classic so I thought most people would already be familiar with it. Looking through it again all these years later, most of the stories aren't very good, though I can post a couple more if people are actually interested.

>>17347915
Is it just a collection of stories, then? And yeah, post more. 90% of /x/ manga threads just turn into Junji Ito, so I haven't bothered with them in a while.

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>>17348700
I love me some Ito, but there's more to horror manga than just him, just like there's more to spooky stories than just Lovecraft.

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>>17348709
Also, if you want more Japanese urban legends/stories, check out Saya in the Underworld. It's a blog run by some chick who translates them from Japanese to English. Her site is where the Midnight Game came from, if that still gets posted around here.

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>>17348713
>Not hugging the cute little baby

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>>17348716

I'm not a huge fan of his work, unlike most /x/philes, but there are some I enjoy, like the Amigara Fault.

>Also, if you want more Japanese urban legends/stories, check out Saya in the Underworld.

I'll give that a look sometime, thanks.

>Midnight Man

That was a big craze around here for a while, but then it died out.

>Not hugging the cute little baby

IKR, what's wrong with her? She should hug this one too. >>17344610

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>>17348722
I really like the Mountain of Gods and the Hellstar Remina was just so over the top it's almost goofy, like a lot of his work. In a lot of ways, he's like a Japanese Lovecraft, though. A lot of it is hit and miss.

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>>17348735
>Let's play!

I want to play.

(Sorry, X-Phile here.)

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A lot of these aren't really scary, just kind of mildly creepy. I think this story is a global one, though. I know I read a similar one about a game of Blind Man's Bluff that was written in like the 30s or something.

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>>17348754
Wait, so do they all end abruptly like this? I'm starting to think I've read some of these before and had the same complaint. They get you interested, then leave you hanging like a suicidal ronery guy from /r9k/.

>>17348765
Yeah, but I think creepypasta works best when they cut off the implied gruesome ending than trying to shock you with either gore or a lame "and then he ran away and the goast never bothered him again."

>>17348754
Whoops, it wasn't Blind Man's Bluff, but a short story called Smee by A. M. Burrage. Apparently he's well remembered for his ghost stories, but I only know the one.

>>17348768
I get that and I think the last one ended okay, but with the others, they just feel incomplete. Sort of like if you went through all your horror novels, read five pages in the middle, then picked up the next one. I'm still finding them interesting enough, though, so don't stop posting just because of me.

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>>17348774
Was just taking a break to dig up that story I'd mentioned. It's pretty good, got the proper amount of chills and suspense, even if the author does tell you right off the bat that it's a goast lady. A bit wordy, but that's just because people talked different in 19th century England.

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>>17348778
Honestly, these feel like those greentext stories people used to tell. Does /x/ still have the "true" story threads? I haven't checked, those used to be my favorite part of coming here.

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>>17348784
Also I'm gonna head to bed now, I'll be back to shitpost tomorrow probably.

>>17341941
also red room backwards is moorder

>>17348781
>Does /x/ still have the "true" story threads? I haven't checked, those used to be my favorite part of coming here.

Mine too. You still get some once in a while, usually a Nope thread. But we've been having an influx of shitposters again lately, so a lot of the better threads get drowned out or people lose interest and leave.

>>17348790
It's also a short story by H.G. Wells.

>>17348790
Doubt it would have the same double meaning to the Japanese. It would probably be something like "aka no heya" if I'm remembering right, someone correct me if I screwed up.

>>17341822
OP here.
Hey, thanks for reading. There are a lot of Japanese urban legends that are still unknown to the outside people. I'll translate more of them.

>>17341894
That's toire no hanako-san. There's also a similar legend about red paper and blue paper.

>>17342080
That's a good story. I liked it.

>>17344575
That's the giant skeleton Gashadokuro. I saw it for the first time in Gakkou no kaidan

>>17343458
Keep them coming mate.

Um, wow, OP, you do know that you can reply to multiple posts in one post of your own, right?

Anyway, got anything else to share with us?

>>17347183
I've read both fuan no tane and its sequel. Not too scary if I tell you honestly. I prefer Ibitsu like stories.

Go and read kisaragi station it's pretty cool

>>17348913
Sorry, didn't know that. Thanks for the info.
I'll translate a few more stories tomorrow and post them here and on my website. If you haven't already, the url is: kowaihanashi.blogspot.com

>>17348930
I see on your blog it says "I'm a student and self-study Japanese as a hobby", so how long have you been doing this and how fluent are you?

>>17348943
As you can see, I started the blog in 2016. I've been studying Japanese from October 2012. I can say that I'm at the intermediate stage. I've played a few DS games and Corpse party dead patient in Japanese. Btw I've never took any JLPT exam.

>>17348952
That's a good start, then, I just wanted to make sure you weren't one of those weebs that watches anime a couple times and decides he's suddenly an expert.

>>17348969
Haha. No. But I know a person irl who claim to understand Japanese just by watching Naruto. Those people are annoying.
Btw, Japanese is a damn hard language.

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>>17348977
>I know a person irl who claim to understand Japanese just by watching Naruto.

These are the kind of people you hope never reproduce.

>Japanese is a damn hard language.

Yes, yes it is. Which is why you get these weebs who think they can master it no problem and end up only being able to say "kawaii baka ecchi desu".

>>17348995
Haha. Sadly, there are even youtube channels dedicated to teaching Japanese through anime.
Good pic mate.Hehehe

See you tomorrow. Going to sleep.

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Pleasant dreams.

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Anyone know what manga this is from?

>>17349579
Fuan no Tane

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaNYC9N6Nxk
yokai.com

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>A mysterious doll possessed by the spirit of a child has captured the curiosity of people across Japan for decades. The legendary Okiku doll, named after the girl who long ago used to play with it, is a 40-centimeter (16-in) tall kimono-clad figure with beady black eyes -- and hair that grows.

>The Okiku doll has resided at the Mannenji temple in the town of Iwamizawa (Hokkaido prefecture) since 1938. According to the temple, the traditional doll initially had short cropped hair, but over time it has grown to about 25 centimeters (10 in) long, down to the doll's knees. Although the hair is periodically trimmed, it reportedly keeps growing back.

>It is said that the doll was originally purchased in 1918 by a 17-year-old boy named Eikichi Suzuki while visiting Sapporo for a marine exhibition. He bought the doll on Tanuki-koji -- Sapporo's famous shopping street -- as a souvenir for his 2-year-old sister, Okiku. The young girl loved the doll and played with it every day, but the following year, she died suddenly of a cold. The family placed the doll in the household altar and prayed to it every day in memory of Okiku.

>Some time later, they noticed the hair had started to grow. This was seen as a sign that the girl's restless spirit had taken refuge in the doll.

>In 1938, the Suzuki family moved to Sakhalin, and they placed the doll in the care of Mannenji temple, where it has remained ever since.

>Nobody has ever been able to fully explain why the doll's hair continues to grow. However, one scientific examination of the doll supposedly concluded that the hair is indeed that of a young child.

So, here's a new story for you guys:

There was a guy who lived in an apartment building.
After returning from the work, he entered the elevator of his apartment.
When the elevator reached the floor, on which he lived, the elevator door opened and he collided with another guy who was entering the elevator.
That guy was someone whom he had never seen in the apartment building before.

The next morning, the guy came to know about the neighbor's murder that had happened yesterday's night.
The following night, someone rang his doorbell. When he peeked through the peephole, he saw a Policeman standing on the other side.
The policeman said," A murder happened in this building last night, do you know about that? I want to inquire you about any suspicious person you might have seen."
The guy remembered about the suspicious guy he met in the elevator but decided to keep quiet as he didn't want to get involved in the incident. He replied," Sorry, don't know anything about it."
The Policeman said,"OK. Thanks for your cooperation.", and went away.

A few days later, the criminal was caught and his face was being shown all over in the news. When the guy saw the news, he turned pale with fear.
The criminal was the same guy who visited him a few days ago, dressed as Policeman.

>>17350975
Aren't they Japanese? How could he tell.

>>17351250
I didn't get it?

>>17349589
Post story pls.

>>17348913
Um, wow. Did you know you're a gigantic newfag? I have an urban legend for you, your mother sucks dicks in hell.

>>17351260
>arr rook same

>>17342214
Who is Nevada tan?

>>17352747
A little murderer girl. She killed a classmate over something petty, no one knows her real name because the Japanese media doesn't release the name on underage killers. They call her Nevada-tan because the only picture that is supposedly of her she's wearing a hoodie from some Nevada sports team.

>>17341941
where is the plot to this
what am i missing is there a twist
what ive got is

>haunted website kills people who look for it, girl confirms this probably dies too

is that it

>>17352920
Natsumi Tsuji
>>17352747
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/nevada-tan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sasebo_slashing

>>17352943
Yup. Welcome to the world of Japanese horror.

http://sayainunderworld.blogspot.com/
Has some translated creepy stories.

>>17348706
This is the first time in manga that a character (the baby) actually looks japanese.

>>17354555
You're clearly not reading the right manga, then. There's plenty where the characters actually look Japanese. Try looking into more seinen manga. I'll recommend 21st Century Boys and Homunculus and Oyasumi PunPun to get you started. All excellent manga that any /x/phile should love.

>>17348882
Yellow charmin, please!

>>17354848
This may or may not be my fetish.

>>17348977
I don't think its that hard except for the kanji.

>>17354926
It's the vocabulary that's hard to remember.

something like this in this
http://comic.naver.com/webtoon/detail.nhn?titleId=350217&no=30&weekday=tue

>>17355338
Kinkier ending than I imagined. Have you read a lot of these?

>>17354272
Imagination creates better horror than any picture or video will

>>17354555
Anime characters don't look like humans and given that their base designs are same they have to switch the hair color and eye color and style.

Get over yourself you faggot

>>17355654
You must be watching some shitty ass anime, m8.

>>17355338
Korean webtoons are creepy as hell.
There is also one about the tunnel.
http://comic.naver.com/webtoon/detail.nhn?titleId=574303&no=50&weekday=mon

>>17341509
>Haaaa! That's why I couldn't hear anything...
kek

bamp

>>17354651

ew, dude. You know he whizzed on that and let it dry, right?

Pre-Used Charmin.

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>>17342080
>mfw 23

Moar?

Thanks everyone for reading the stories. I think I'll post the new story in a new thread as this thread will get archived soon anyways.

This thread is nowhere near the bump limit, though.

>>17344768
Gtfo fag, he said legends not anime or manga.

>>17359882
Are you dense? Fuan no Tane is based off of urban legends, which is why it was posted. The original poster even explained that's why he posted them.

>>17350975

That's pretty fucking neato. More pls

>>17341509
>"No...what I saw was...hands and they were covering your ears."
>"Haaaa! That's why I couldn't hear anything..."
Then the girl turned to him and said
"Baka sempai! If you got yourself killed, I wouldn't have anyone to make lunch for and my mornings would be so boring"
"S-ssorry" the businessman stuttered

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>>17359955
would watch this anime honestly.

>>17359873
Sounds good.

>>17360105
>>17359955
The girl is also the ghost, with split personality issues. She constantly tries to lure him to his death, but also as much tries to save him. She just can't decide.