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Now and then I post on my brother’s blog about Japanese pop culture. I decided every few Fridays or so that I will find some odd thing about Japanese folklore and urban legends (it’d be hard to find something not odd from that place!) and write it up as a guest post, which I would reblog here to share with you guys, my regular readers. Without further ado, here is all you could ever want to know about Japanese bathroom ghosts:
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Japan is a weird, weird place. Anyone who is casually acquainted with Japanese pop culture knows that. But things get even stranger when you delve into the world of their folklore and urban legends. Japanese legend features a stable of ghosts, goblins, monsters, and various other bugaboos that puts the Pokemon roster to shame. Among the strangest that I’ve come across are Japan’s bathroom ghosts. So far as I can see there are six of them, and they are as follows…
“Imagine sitting in the stall, doing your business, when a disembodied voice asks you if you want a red mantle. Confused, thinking maybe there is a guy in the stall next to you playing a prank, you answer yes just to see what happens.”
It’s like watching a horror movie. I’m sitting at my screen, reading the post, yelling “YES??? Why the hell are you answering ‘yes’?? Are you nuts??”
What a strange category of ghosts….
haha I know right? You never answer “yes” to anything unless you’re certain of the outcome, haha. Japan is a weird, weird place :D
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