Some Scary Japanese Urban Legends!

• Kuchisake-onna

Kuchisake-onna (Slit-mouthed woman) is a woman that walks around alone at night wearing a surgical mask. The woman will stop the child and ask, “Am I pretty?” If the child answers no, the child is killed with a pair of scissors which the woman carries. If the child answers yes, the woman pulls away the mask, revealing that her mouth is slit from ear to ear, and asks “How about now?” If the child answers no, he/she will be cut in half. If the child answers yes, then she will slit his/her mouth like hers. It is impossible to run away from her, as she will simply reappear in front of the victim.

• Teke Teke

According to some old story, a young schoolgirl was cut in half by an oncoming train after she had fallen in the tracks. Now she wanders around with a scythe, “dropping in” on unsuspecting victims and cuts them in half so that she’s not alone.There was this boy who was walking home alone, it was getting dark, and he was in an unfamiliar part of the town, so he started to pick up his pace. He walked for some time, all the while the sun setting and his surroundings becoming darker and darker. Out of the corner of his eye, he caught a face, smiling at him from a window. Her elbows were on the windowsill, her hands on her cheeks. “Are you lost?” she asked. Thinking she was going to help him out, he walked closer to the woman. She suddenly jumped from the windowsill, revealing her disfigurement. Her legs and her torso were missing. Before the boy could scream, she cut him in two, just like her.

• Aka Manto

Aka Manto is a ghost that haunts the last stall in the bathroom. As you’re sitting on the toilet, a voice will ask you if you want red or blue paper. If you say red, you’re guaranteed to get sliced up into pieces. Say blue, and you’re going to get strangled. Apparently, the correct way to escape this is to say, “No paper.”  There is also another story like the toilet paper one being red or blue but with capes.

• Red Room

Two friends discuss a rumor about an Internet pop-up ad that asks “Do you like —?” (あなたは—好きですか？ Anata wa—suki desu ka??). If someone closes the pop-up, he dies. The more skeptical friend does some investigation. At home, he researches it online but is unable to find anything about the site online. After he ends his search and begins looking at his usual websites, the message pops up, with a childlike voice asking: “Do you like —?
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Even after he closes the pop up, it keeps re-appearing, repeatedly asking ‘Do you like-?’. It then starts automatically reloading and the girl’s voice becomes mangled till the boy eventually notices the question changed to ‘Do you like red?’. The boy keeps clicking off the pop-up until a new part of the message is revealed, finally asking the completed question in a normal childs voice” “Do you like the red room?” (あなたは赤い部屋が好きですか？ Anata wa akai heya ga suki desu ka??). Then a website with a list of name appears, with the boy’s friend at the bottom. The boy becomes aware of something behind him.

The next day, there is rumour and gossip at a school about two students who committed suicide, painting their rooms red with their own blood. Then, the protagonist’s computer is displayed, with the protagonist’s name at the bottom of the list. It then shuts off, along with an eerie sound.

After the video ends, if the user’s browser has not disabled pop-ups, a pop-up resembling the ad from the story will appear.

• Kashima Reiko

Kashima Reiko lived on Hokkaido, where she was assaulted by a group of men. She was left to die in a bathroom, all the while crying for help. She crawled her way outside, until she collapsed, falling unconscious on a railroad, where a train sliced her in two. She now searches around the world for her legs, mostly in school bathroom and sometimes in private residences.

-The more you know~