Terrifying Urban Legends in Japanese Schools That Will Give You Chills

[@LetsaskShogo]

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[@feral_shade]

I liked the more casual speaking style you used with this video, it made it more fun to watch :)

[@moonlusterblack]

Ahhh!!! The Japanese language teaching qualification sounds exciting! I look forward to seeing the dream happen for you (and I'll do my best to support it when I can)!

[@tiagopereirasantossilva556]

09:30 toilet hand from Zelda !!!

[@rohankishibe5984]

I'm from Germany and I didn't know that our composers haunt Japanese schools. The more you know!

[@damianw5861]

German composers tends to stay in Japan afterlife

[@crystronkunamzan6948]

@@damianw5861 any proof? like notes given by ghost

[@eliben4066]

Japan loves German/Austrian orchestral music

[@crazyd4ve875]

@@crystronkunamzan6948 listen to beethoven's symphony of 69

[@obsidiannutsack551]

Deutsche Komponisten sind die Besten in der Welt!

[@thefreakmachine]

Laser eyed Beethoven, now that's a story!

[@khalilahd.]

😭😭😭

[@GUSRG]

Beethoven does Beethoven things...

[@adaptercrash]

I have those too except I'm an actual humanist

[@kopaa1kop404]

I would love to see him, I am a piano player, playing sonata 14 3rd movement

[@evil1by1]

OMG Hanako san explains an elementary school experience I had. I had a half Japanese friend who went by Hanako (not her legal name) and used to tell me a ghost story about a toilet ghost that would pull you into the toilet forever. I thought it was just the weirdest ghost story I ever heard but now I understand.

[@celestehernandez2000]

That’s HORRIFYING That was one of my worst fears growing up 😭😆

[@narutoninjagoandtheflashar4256]

And now they made an anime about this specific legend. But they switched it up and put kun instead

[@TimothyLau55]

@@narutoninjagoandtheflashar4256 I thought male were safe!

[@narutoninjagoandtheflashar4256]

@@TimothyLau55 idk. I didn’t watch the anime

[@TimothyLau55]

@@narutoninjagoandtheflashar4256 just checked out the anime, it's cute and going to share with my wife. Hanako, he still haunt girl's bathroom.

[@damianw5861]

Japan actually has many scary ghosts stories, interestingly most my Japanese friends seem do not believe or pretend never believe real ghost and said never experience them. On the other hand, many of foreigner claim they saw or at least experience supernatural events while visit Japan

[@izayahbenda3111]

I don’t believe in ghost unless there’s proaf

[@kymo6343]

Japanese ghosts must be tired of harassing Japanese people. They must figure the foreigners deserve it more. XD XP

[@adriantepes4355]

I am a magick practitioner myself and as such I definitely believe in spirits. But you don't really feel anything just by visiting a place.

[@KaoruMzk]

I didn’t know there were multiple “origin stories” for Hanako-San. The one I was familiar with was the one where she was assaulted by a pervert in the school toilet. Also, laser eyes Beethoven is now my favorite ghost story ever.

[@ChloeKruegerSenpai]

I like the another story of Hanako-san compels her by a Priest 😏

[@EMNstar]

Imagine a Beethoven's Ghost Laser Light Show

[@justinlim7467]

Heck yeah, I love Japanese urban legends. They have an interesting flavour to them that’s rare and enjoyable to hear about!

[@narutoninjagoandtheflashar4256]

Even though they’re hella scary and dark

[@nichochan8681]

Me coming into this as a Filipino who likes mythology: Eh, it's not as bad as I thought.

[@a.b.cooper4807]

I recently found used copies of the manga Hanako and the Terror of Allegory, and it was really cool to see the origins of some of the legends that showed up in the manga.

[@Masquerade37]

I remember that manga! It's how I learned of many Japanese urban legends and old wives tales.

[@AdamOwenBrowning]

I learnt about the veritable amount of Japanese school ghost stories from... Ghost Stories, the anime with the hilariously terribly brilliant dub. We have them in our country too!

[@dirtcop11]

I think that stories like these are common in every culture. They are interesting and some may have had some truth in their origins. Either a child's active imagination or someone wanting to scare children is responsible for these legends.

[@manabellum]

I had heard 7 ghost story in school too when I was at primary school. But that maybe because everyone read Jigoku Sensei Nube manga back then.

[@miken9484]

This is the video I've been waiting for. I love lores, urban legends and anything scary. Please do a lengthy video on each of these stories. PLEASE!!

[@chereisiecrawford339]

Growing up in Scotland, I heard hundreds of tales and warnings from my Granny. She used to warn me not to step into a circle of mushrooms. Those are fairy rings, if you step into one, the fae folk steal you to their world where you will be killed. Japans own myths and legends are as plentiful and as terrifying to learn, but fun! I found a few similar Myths between Japan and Scotland, i am utterly fascinated.

[@Yulo303]

Interesting, I was actually somewhat familiar with some of these urban legends:) I played a Japanese sound novel game called Higanbana no saku yoru ni (On the night the red spider lily blooms) and it all takes place in a school that is haunted by urban legends that are true. Like the 13th step and music room one. But in the game they are different so it was nice to see the original stories of where they took the inspiration from:)

[@khalilahd.]

I loved this! Such a cool way to share Japanese history 😅

[@louisefarber7573]

This was so fun! Thank you!

[@maxsonskyyap]

Teke Teke is by far the most gruesome Japanese Urban Legends of all time that I had heard on social media.

[@SaekoKaze]

yowai

[@LetsaskShogo]

It haunted me when I was child too😱

[@maxsonskyyap]

@@LetsaskShogo there are two versions of it, one it's the one you mentioned in this video and the other one is when I saw it on FB back 2020 that involved with the name Kashima Reiko.

[@guiramos3733]

Thank you for this amazing video Shogo ❤️🙏🏻 I find it interesting how lots of Japanese scary stories revolve around vengeance and grudges, I wonder why those concepts are so strong and prevalent in the culture. Shogo, if you don’t mind a suggestion for either a video or podcast, as I’m a huge fan o J-Rock and some J-pop as well with my favorite band being Asian Kung Fu Generation I always find Japanese lyrics to be very enigmatic and even confusing and I never quite understood why that is and how does Japanese music/lyrics reflect their way of thinking, their perspective on life and other subjects.

[@EliotChildress]

I work in Japanese schools but am glad to know my school has too many stairs, no north bathrooms, I never go in the music rooms, do not have that statue, and can’t go in the girls bathroom. Guess I’ll have to wait to find out about the cherry trees and will just have to watch out for teketeke. 1/7 isn’t bad odds to survive against 😁

[@Jack1994hoo]

I've read so many creepy japanese urban legends and games. Would love to hear you talk about other legends like: Daruma-san, Souji-oura, Or Hitori Kakurembo

[@thatweirdgirl8466]

This is so fascinating! Please tell us more scary stories if there are any!

[@bruisedhelmet8819]

Thank you! Perfect topic for the perfect season - its Halloween in the USA and I love teaching my daughters about the freight from other lands. For my family, we consider September and October Halloween season. At my work, the stairwells change between 12 and 13 steps on each floor... so I will take that one.

[@dljb7463]

Its septembet...

[@bruisedhelmet8819]

@@dljb7463 Septober? PreOctober? ...It's Halloween season, yes, that it.

[@nightowlmystic9387]

Hanako San was the first Japanese urban legend I heard. I didn’t even know that there were so many theories on what happened to her.

[@TheLoneStranger213]

Great content. Something different than any other channels I watch. A lot of regurgitated stories. This'll be a trending topic now...

[@Aur0raAura]

What an interesting video! The urban legend about the steps was actually showcased on a pokemon anime short! Despite original story being creepy, the short made it surprisingly wholesome. 🤣

[@deaky69]

i'm really into urban legends in general so it's nice seeing this in my recommended tab

[@tomislavnagy8715]

Thank You Shogo for sharing these Ghost Stories. This was interesting.

[@moonlusterblack]

The one story of a yurei I find really sad but interesting was the story of Oiwa. I know it's a commonly famous ghost story in Japan, but when I think of her circumstances, it's just sad that she was tormented for no reason other than her husband didn't love her anymore and decided to get rid of her. I'm glad she was able to get revenge in the end, though. As for yokai, I think the Gashadokuro is pretty neat, but also terrifying. Seeing a huge skeleton would scare literally anyone. It's kind of a lesson on respecting the dead as much as you can, right? That's what it seems like with that one. Thank you for sharing these stories! A lot of those scary tropes in anime tend to make a lot more sense once you hear them. Also, I didn't know north was symbolic of death and bad luck! I learned something new today.

[@monicab204]

SPOOKY!! There are so many ghost stories from Japan. ❤️

[@LetsaskShogo]

👻👻👻

[@ricardodevilee5078]

I don't believe in the supernatural, but I still love these stories!

[@Lorelena7]

Super cool video, I remembered the "ghost stories" anime, there are a lot of those stories there :).

[@JAB6322]

These Japanese horror stories are really spine chilling. 😰 I remember there was this indie horror game inspired by Junji Itto called World of Horror where it includes Hanako-san horror legend and the Red and Blue Paper one.

[@andreiamendes9116]

What surprised me the most is that in Japan, summer is the season for horror stories 😮 In the West it's usually around Halloween, October/November.

[@nazarnovitsky9868]

Thanks for this video, Shogo !

[@gklb_2xx7]

"which paper do ya want, red or blue" me: water

[@Sienrel]

i have been waiting for this

[@TribeoftheOni.Onilover]

How amazing! I didn't expect you to go over this! 面白いですね！My favorite yokai are Oni of course, and I like Kitsune as well. I hope more people will learn about Yokai! By the way, the school near my home in Japan has a statue of Ninomiya Kinjuro in itg.

[@SENIORSEMPAITHENeKoBoY]

It's really fun to hear ghost stories

[@sophiawasylinko8448]

Great stories, Shogo! Number 5 was my favorite.

[@yvonnehorde1097]

We have a fairy tale in Germany that is called Frau Holle, where there are two girls who get to her magical empire. One of them is working hard in her service and she gets lots of gold, one of them is being lazy and the only gets covered with pitch. So, being hard working and being rewarded is something that we have in our legends as well in Germany.

[@daisymilks]

awesome video concept!!! I'm ready for the Halloween season and this is so interesting :)

[@RadenWA]

As a pianist myself I can indeed confirm that part of you does die from being made to play specifically Fur Elise too many times

[@ТеоМарков-ц1л]

For me, the most brutal story is that about Kuchisake Onna (The mouth cutted woman). Man, I will have nightmares tonight, because of you. (Just kidding).

[@Randallsilver]

That was a fun video. Can't wait for Halloween now.

[@Rinace13]

Very fun video! Thank you ☺️

[@leosuwandi7005]

Okay i'll wait in the morning to watch it!! Japanese horror always made me scared that i can't sleep 😂😂

[@chucarnaj21]

i still love yokai and ghost stories. i remember asking you about it when i was in high school

[@SickSe7en]

whoa i like that sort of videos, can u make more of them?? 🙀

[@Dodo-dd3mt]

Why do I sense a new isekai coming up with 'The Thirteen Steps' as the mode of transportation to another world?

[@aki97]

Glad (?) I wasn't the only one who was thinking about it this way.

[@rossbisset5636]

Hands coming out of the toilet has to be the worst thing I've ever heard... not that getting chased by a legless girl would be a wonderful daytime activity either

[@LetsaskShogo]

😨

[@gklb_2xx7]

"Lazer beams will come out of Beethoven's eyes " why is that even a thing? 😆😆😆

[@wilhelm2462]

german engineering.

[@meph1570]

can you please make a video about some famous yokais and the story/history behind them? or maybe about some famous yureis like Hachishaku-sama or Kuchisake-Onna. i know there are a lot of youtube videos about this topic, but when it comes from a native Japanese person, it's different. i like your channel, a place to learn and listen to storytelling.

[@BabitaKumari-ht3kr]

this video was really awesome because it was scary but funny at the same time

[@curtismiller4794]

An interesting video this clip was to watch. In addition your stories about the ghost girls reminded me of the story of the horror movie character known as the "Grunge Girl". Further more I forget the proper name of her but I once watched a movie with an Asian friend in highschool that was said to be a Japanese tale on their own version of her & her hauntings. Plus I wonder if you ever heard of her too.

[@crazynundun6619]

The lazer-eyed Beethoven could become a meme in no time!

[@zulemazahir666]

I was so scared of toilets as a kid because they were so loud and the book & older movie "It". 😅 Teke-teke is my favorite on this list. Plus it reminded me I wanted to learn more about Hokkaido in general. Thanks Shogo and the team for everything you do!

[@tylerlivingston2637]

The tale of Teke-teke is one of my favorite bits of Japanese folklore.

[@zs4630]

I'm from Canada. We need to hear the stories of the 1937 murder/forced suicide in Iwate and Ninomiya Kinjiro more in schools over here.

[@motivationmaster927]

I love this stories, I am going to show this to my friends too, so I can see how they react

[@motivationmaster927]

I am the 80th like wow

[@srsaito9262]

Here in my country Brazil we have a very similar tale like Hanako-san, we called the blond from the bathroom, and if you say her name 3 times in the mirror, knock 3 times in the door from one of the bathrooms, flush the toilet 3 times and say a curse word, she apears to get you, here we have a lot of japanese imigrants so maibe this came originally from Japan.

[@BringMeTheChildren]

Here in America we have Bloody Mary, you go into a dark bathroom, turn off the lights, bring a candle, and say “bloody Mary” three times, then she appears in the mirror.

[@Portcher]

Ah yes, the seven mysteries of the school. Can find it anywhere in school anime (usually or may pop up)

[@wednesdaysworld1471]

My favorite video so far.

[@Multi2794]

awesome video

[@Masquerade37]

I remember hearing about school wonders and ghost stories from an anime called Haunted Junction, where I was first introduced to the Red and Blue mantle, Hanako, the Kinjiro statues and many more. While I still remember this silly anime fondly, there's a character who won't fly today so it's hard to talk about it with others.

[@wiltedcypress3940]

Teke-teke is one of my favorite urban legends, but that specific speed she can reach reminds me of another of my favorite urban legends, the Turbo Granny, which is an old lady that runs at high speeds on highways and if you see her while speeding you'll get into an accident. I've seen her referred to as the 100km/h Hag at least once so I was reminded as I was watching the video.

[@dreadpiratedan]

"beethoven's tractor beam laser eyes" is literally the scariest sentence i've ever heard

[@wakita50]

When mysteries are involved: “Boku no namai wa edogawa conan”

[@J.Crime123]

12:58 This is the most terrifying part in this video and its not even a story.

[@onthewitchinghour5597]

I grew up in a haunted house and have had some terrifying expirences there. When I moved out for college, the paranormal experiences got worse and eventually everything came to a head. It took me too long to understand what was happening was paranormal. I made a few videos about it on my channel if youre interested.

[@phatcat3705]

So maybe it wasn't the house that was haunted. 😳

[@Nick-wt1no]

Finally some scary stories by the end of Summer 😎

[@jsullivan2112]

Japan has the absolute best ghost stories, hands down!

[@ShinChara]

Thirteenth stair is the Isekai Step. I like that one. Whether it goes to Sengoku Japan or Fantasy Europe, I'll take it.

[@stevenbaer5999]

I am a German Bavarian decent person I didn't know that famous German composers has a great haunting effects on Japan 🇯🇵🗾🇩🇪🇺🇲🤔

[@moroc333]

I think there's something universally scary about school bathrooms, in my elementary school there was said things would appear in the last bathroom stall, varying from popular things from media like the ghost girl from Ringu or It, the clown, to more properly urban legend stuff like a girl who was drowned in the toilet or "La llorona" (mexican folk ghost story).

[@chronoking9920]

Love spooky story’s 😎

[@thulean.uruk-hai]

@10:37 - if I were to guess, perhaps because red/blue/yellow are the three primary colors (mix them to make violet, green, and orange), you are being offered 2 of the 3 so choosing the third breaks the curse? [edit: yellow is also "between" red and blue on the visible light spectrum, by wavelength...]

[@witecatj6007]

I never knew about the music room thing. I now know why there was a messed up music room as a stage in Persona 4 ArenA.

[@mrdudetou]

The Music Room The Eyes moving and face shifting can be a optical illusion. My sister and I used to play with this optical illusion when we were small for fun scares. When the lights were off we would look at each other and barely be able to see each others face and stare until our faces would deform. I remember seeing her slowly smile. I would then ask if she is smiling. If she said no I would get scared cover my face and laugh. We would do that back and forth. I was in Elementary around that time.

[@gamingwithjacobi8757]

I’m honestly surprised that I actually new practically all of these, not only did I use to listen to old Japanese folklore like the snow woman, but I also learned of these from the anime called “ghost stories” so I’m surprised that even if the English version was a complete joke in the sense that the voice actors were given free reign to make up what was happening…I learned about these legends

[@dylangrant102]

The ghost story that scared me the most was Kuchisake Onna. I may live in South Africa but after I heard that story, I was freaked out, especially when out at night and everyone was wearing a mask.

[@VariableZero]

On the topic of Yokai, Tengu and Gashadokoro are perhaps my favorite for many different reasons.

[@sportstermissions]

I love the music room one! Beethoven laser eyes for the win!!!

[@Sienrel]

some of my favourite school mysteries (as told by my japanese ex-boyfriend) are sakura flower blooming out of season and the forgotten classroom where you will be brought to a dismal unused classroom from another world

[@Iceechibi]

I love hearing about urban legends from different cultures around the world. Japanese ones to me are funny, but also TERRIFYING. Even some of the old ones!

[@macstuff589]

You should do these videos more often

[@mangoisland]

Ooooh, a perfect way to prepare for the Halloween season next month! >:) Also, IIRC, other people say that the teke-teke also wields a scythe, to slice its victims, again separating the upper body from the lower body, just like the creature.

[@bryanaragon4979]

Very interesting I must say, Japanese urban legends had always fascinate me and it's curious to think that these modern stories or legends have vague origins and are often told as truth, since they cannot be confirmed or disproved, heightening their believability and horror of the supernatural. By the way my favorite Japanese Urban legends are: Kuchisake onna, Teke Teke, Hanako-San, Aka Manto and Hachishakusama or Eight feet tall Woman.

[@damianw5861]

I think in most Asian countries, school toilet always has at least a ghost lives in it

[@kinjoko]

I think there is a version of Hanako-san in every country. In Greece we have a very similar story with a ghost named Bloody Mary that kills you when you call her. There are probably many different "ways of summing her" but I know only 2. The first one is that you have to go to the school's bathroom and say Bloody Mary 3 times and she will come. For the second one you have to go to a bathtub at 12pm, light candles around it and go inside.

[@Elchansan]

I remember hearing the red paper, blue paper story years ago. I recall that there was a version of the story that said you still die even if you answer "yellow paper", but I don't remember what the method was..

[@MegaMegajennifer]

in ghost stories, i think if you hear the song from the haunted piano at least once, you're cursed to sometimes hear it 3 more times no matter where you go. perhaps on the phone, or the piano moves around cause theres wheels on the legs

[@keyne444]

Shogo, do you know the story of "Another"? There was a manga and an anime about it. A horror story the school invited by themselves.

[@vetaniellecalya1662]

The perfect video to watch at 4am 😅😅😅 might not fall asleep cuz I feel kinda scared 😅😅😅

[@Indian-atheist]

LOVE FROM INDIA 🇮🇳❤🇯🇵

[@VanceHelw]

12 is actually actually must avoid number for steps in Feng Shui, they're based on the "cycle of life" : Live - Getting Old - Getting Sick - Death. 13 fall into "Live", while 15 would fall into "Sick", a bad number, and 12 would fall into "death" .An architect will always put the number of step into the "live" number, which is 13,17,21. So in context of the story, a 12 steps stair bring on death make sense, but also highly unlikely as I think even for Japanese any educated architecture would avoid that number. By the way, you also count the floor you step on as the final step, so how people counting the number of steps in their stories might be different.

[@thomasturner4253]

This is interesting Every culture has ghost stories These are truly scarry

[@pinkjellybean6295]

Shogo I like this horror genre pls make more for holloween

[@rosecarrier5776]

My husband is Japanese and we seen all of this before. They are very interesting stories.

[@気呪い國屋]

I don't remember the name, but there is also a bathroom game with a ghost that came from Japan. It's a legend of a woman you can summon if you take a bath in complete darkness. If you summon her she will haunt you the next day until you see her while peeking over your shoulder. If you don't manage to spot her, she will kill you. Winning this game is rumored to make one rich, live long etc. But I really like this story

[@HerrscherofSimp3164]

So not only Truck-kun, but Stair-chan is the responsible for too many Isekais we have today. New day, new knowledge.