Japanese horrors are considered the most terrible - in films, ghosts always interact with mortals, and bright and emotional characters make the picture grotesque.
In Japanese thrillers there is an abundance of emotions, horrors, tragedies, so when we watch a movie, we often turn our backs - everything that happens in it scares too much.
Each culture has its own scary stories - Japan is no exception. In this country, there are terrible legends that all residents of Japan are afraid of.
10. Hitobashira
Hitobashira ("living pillar") - an ancient ritual of sacrificing a person who was walled up alive in a column for construction. It was believed that this rite would help to protect the building from earthquakes, military operations, etc.
Ancient people thought that, walled up in the support of the building of a living person, his spirit will help to ward off evil forces from the building and the building will stand for many centuries. They say that buildings in whose columns people are sealed are often visited by their ghosts.
9. Kushisake Onna
Kushisake Onna is a character in many anime and films. Kushisake Onna is translated as "a woman with a torn mouth."
The legend of this woman is known to all Japanese people - she tells of a beautiful lady who was mutilated and then killed by her husband because of jealousy. Kushisake Onna returned to the mortal world to avenge.
In the 1970s and 1980s, the legend became the most famous, and teachers in Japanese schools recommended that parents see off and meet their children from school. If a person walks alone at night, then Kushisaka Onna can appear and cannot be run away from her.
She wears a surgical mask and asks the question: "Am I beautiful?" If she receives the answer: “No,” she cuts off a man’s head with large scissors. If she receives the answer: “Yes,” then she takes off her mask and the person sees her mouth cut to the ears, after which the woman also cuts the mouth to the stranger.
8. Teke-teke
Teke-teke-teke is the sound that a moving creature makes. And it moves with the help of elbows.
Legend tells that a cute girl fell under a train and was cut in half. The versions are different - one says that the girl herself rushed under the wheels, the other that she accidentally fell while in the subway.
The wheels of the train chopped the girl in half, but her upper body decided to take revenge, because her anger is too great.
Despite the fact that she does not have a lower body - she moves quickly, and if someone happens to meet her, she will cut these people in half with a scythe.
7. Hell Tomino
Japanese urban legend says that anyone who dares to read a poem completely will die or be in disaster.
Everyone knows that words have powerful power, and there are those that are undesirable to pronounce. Hell Tomino has a set of words that no one should read.
Even if someone does not die after reading the poem, sooner or later he will experience something bad.
The poem was written by Emota Inuhito in the book “The Heart is Like a Rolling Stone”, in it there are lines about Tomino, who died and went to hell.
6. Aka Manto
After you learn this legend, it’s scary to visit public Japanese restrooms. “Aka manto” means a red cloak, and personifies the evil spirit that lives in a public women's restroom.
He may ask: "What color of cloak do you prefer - blue or red?" If a woman chooses red, then she will be chopped into several parts; if blue, she will be strangled.
This spirit appears in the toilet when the toilet paper has run out. Probably, to avoid encounters with this spirit, you should always have paper with you.
5. Cow's head
The legend of a cow's head is a Japanese horror story that is not in the books, but it has been passed on from mouth to mouth still. Nobody is recommended to know a terrible story, because you can die from fear.
Once, during a trip on a bus with schoolchildren, the teacher decided to entertain the students and began to tell them scary stories.
When he began to tell the story “Cow's Head”, the children began to scream and asked him to stop. But, it seemed, the teacher was in a trance and did not hear them - when he woke up, all the students were unconscious and with foam at the mouth. Some of them died a few days later.
4. Okiku doll
A doll named Okiku seems most ordinary, but only at first glance.
According to legend, a 17-year-old guy bought a doll at his marine exhibition as a gift to his 2-year-old sister - the girl was delighted with her and always played with her (this was in 1918).
A year later, the girl died, the parents left the doll at home and called her the name of their daughter, Okiku. The girl’s soul took possession of the doll, and her hair gradually grew longer (although it was short during the purchase). Now the doll is in the Mannenji Temple.
3. Inunaki Village
Inunaki Village is a mysterious and completely isolated settlement from the whole world. It contains a large number of abandoned houses, and in some of them only old people live.
At the entrance to the village you can see the sign "The laws of Japan are not valid here," and, according to eyewitnesses, life in this village is terrible.
For example, things like cannibalism and murder are quite normal. Electronic devices and telephones do not work in the village - there are public telephones and antique shops, but you cannot make a call from such a phone.
People who went to the village of Inunaki did not return.
2. The girl from the gap
Have you ever turned your attention to the gap between the cabinet and the wall? Bed and floor? It’s better not to look there, because one day you will notice something ... take a closer look and see a pair of eyes that will look directly at you.
At the first meeting with a girl, she will ask: "Do you want to play hide and seek with me?" Even if you are not in the mood for it, you cannot refuse.
The game will consist in the fact that you cannot look between the cracks, and when you meet the girl a second time, you will find yourself in another dimension ... or in hell.
1. The Kietaki Tunnel
The Kietaki Tunnel is Japan's most famous haunted place built in 1927. The tunnel is 444 meters long (4 means a damn number).
During the construction of the tunnel, workers died due to slavish and difficult working conditions, and the ghosts of these people live in the tunnel, like those who died in it.
You can meet ghosts at night, driving through a tunnel in a car, they can even scare you, being in the back seat.
There is a mirror in the tunnel - if you see a ghost in it, then after looking at it, a terrible death awaits a person. Interestingly, the length of the tunnel varies depending on what time of day it is measured.