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May. 29th, 2025 11:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I have been going over school urban legends for Japan for the last few weeks out of curiosity and it's sure a mix of:
> School is haunted by ghosts, lots of them
> Location in the school sends you to the 4th Dimension or Hell or both.
> Sure a lot of dead students from hell who want to kill you in the toilet
> Cursed Musician Paintings/Busts and Evil Science Anatomical Specimens
> More ghosts
> MORE 4TH DIMENSION stuff.
> Ghost that's an evil version of the Fairy and the Axe story.
Good lord, kids.
> Kisaragi Station
> School is haunted by ghosts, lots of them
> Location in the school sends you to the 4th Dimension or Hell or both.
> Sure a lot of dead students from hell who want to kill you in the toilet
> Cursed Musician Paintings/Busts and Evil Science Anatomical Specimens
> More ghosts
> MORE 4TH DIMENSION stuff.
> Ghost that's an evil version of the Fairy and the Axe story.
Good lord, kids.
> Kisaragi Station
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Date: 2025-05-29 04:42 pm (UTC)Kids will just make up scary stories, then a gullible one will believe it's real, cite evidence that's them being paranoid, and then it gets immortalized after a while.
There's admittedly more literal magic and stuff here than there was back home, but I'd say most of these are still more story than ghost if you catch my meaning.
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Date: 2025-05-30 01:13 am (UTC)So I'm left wondering.
Because I found the cursed piano, the ghost of Beethoven and an anatomical specimen as one combined ghost story.
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Date: 2025-05-30 02:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-05-30 02:39 am (UTC)Pretty sure as in Henry Wentworth Akeley.
May I ask how did you guess?
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Date: 2025-05-30 02:50 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-05-30 02:51 am (UTC)If he is a ghost.
... Or a he. I kept hearing a young girl's voice along with an older male voice and a young man's voice.
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Date: 2025-05-30 09:37 pm (UTC)I dont remember him having other voices with him, but it's not impossible that things have changed.
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Date: 2025-05-31 04:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-05-30 09:18 pm (UTC)She claimed to be haunting the place.
I feel like it was a student pulling my leg, but it was rather odd.
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Date: 2025-05-31 04:35 am (UTC)What did she look like?
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Date: 2025-05-31 05:00 pm (UTC)I asked for her name and she said it was 'Aradia' but everyone at the school 'called her Hanako'.
Looked like she'd been collecting mushrooms.
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Date: 2025-05-31 05:58 pm (UTC)What the...
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Date: 2025-05-31 06:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-05-31 06:25 pm (UTC)Hanako of the Third Toilet Stall is a common Japanese Urban Legend.
Basically, the key concept is it's a girl who dwells in the third bathroom stall of the third floor. There's a combination of origins, abused child, dead from an airraid, bullied to suicide. Basically sort of a Japanese Bloody Mary, you call upon her, and well, you probably should not have.
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Date: 2025-05-31 06:31 pm (UTC)... or our school has somehow become home to every school urban legend that exists.
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Date: 2025-05-31 06:46 pm (UTC)Or people think she's Hanako.
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Date: 2025-05-31 07:01 pm (UTC)Guess I'll keep an eye out for her again.
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Date: 2025-06-01 06:56 pm (UTC)Small. Grey haired. Mushrooms.