[Journal Post]

[danse_etoile]

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

Comments

[daschillyone]

Not a uniquely Japanese thing. I remember stories of my elementary school being haunted, and that the reasons the showers were blocked off was because some kid got bullied so bad she drowned herself in the shower.

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.

[danse_etoile]

I've had a bit too many cases in my life of the story becoming a ghost.

So I'm left wondering.

Because I found the cursed piano, the ghost of Beethoven and an anatomical specimen as one combined ghost story.

[daschillyone]

Don't suppose the anatomical model gave a name, did it? Baron something or another.

[danse_etoile]

Akeley.

Pretty sure as in Henry Wentworth Akeley.

May I ask how did you guess?

[daschillyone]

I've beat him up before. He was threatening my students.

[danse_etoile]

Hrm. Me and Mrs. Sakaki had to deal with him the other day, but because we're both normal women, we had to negotiate with the ghost.

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.

[daschillyone]

I mean, he was in an anatomical model. I just hit him with a sledgehammer and his body couldn't sustain him anymore. Hairspray and a lighter would probably do the same.

I dont remember him having other voices with him, but it's not impossible that things have changed.

[danse_etoile]

Eldlich the Golden Lord.