Japanese Urban Legends

Directions

Pick the slide you wish to claim. Put your your name in the speaker notes section. You may pick an urban legend not listed, just choose then next empty slide.

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Find at least five pieces of information about your legend in bullet point format (ten points each).

PUT ALL INFORMATION INTO YOUR OWN WORDS

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Find information from at least three different sources. Link those sources in the speaker notes at the bottom of the screen (ten points each)

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Put an image of your legend on the slide (20 points).

Aka Manto (Red Cloak) - Rylee hall Source 1 Source 2 Source 3

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• Male spirit who haunts bathroom late at night
• Started in the early 1930s
• Revealed to be charming and handsome beneath his mask
• Will make you choice between red and blue toilet paper
• He wears a mask so no one will be able to tell who he is

Kuchisake-ona (Slit-Mouthed Woman)

Teke Teke

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Teke Teke is the ghost of a school girl in japanese urban legend, who cut cut stuck on train tracks and and was split in half.

The only was to escape Teke Teke is to answer her questions exactly the right way. She will ask you: “Do you need your legs?” You need reply: “I need them right now.” Then, she will ask you: “Who told you my story?” And you must reply: “Kashima Reiko.

The sound ghosts make is the sound of Teke Teke dragging herself across the the floor with her legs split off.

Legend has it, if you come face-to-face with Teke Teke, her soul will curse you and you will have to forever roam the streets, severed from the waist down.

Some legend state when you learns of Teke Tekes story, she will come to them within one month.

Toire no Hanako-san (Hanako-san of the Toilet)

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Okiku Doll – Rae

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The Red Room Curse - Ava Thorne

• The red room curse is an internet based curse, it is a red pop up ad on your computer that says "do you like the red room?".
• No matter what you do you cannot close the add popup, it keeps reappearing on your screen.
• Once you see the ad, there is no going back. Eventually the computer will go to a screen showing the names of all the past victims of the red room.
• After this, there are varying beliefs on what happens next, some say that the target can feel some sort of evil behind them while others just say that they become unconscious but eventually the target is found dead in their house with their blood painted all over the walls so it truly is a red room. Although, others say that the targets go insane, commit suicide or sometimes murder.

• There have been some accounts of the curse being true, a girl, referred to as "Girl A” killed her classmate and after investigation it was found that the popup was on "Girl A's” screen before she killed her classmate.

Hikiko-san

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Hanako-san, the Girl in the Bathroom

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Cursed Kleenex commercial- kelsey

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• The cursed Kleenex commercial was a commercial put out in 1986 that is said to curse anyone that watches it
• Everyone involved in the commercial later died or became sick
• The baby in the commercial was believed to have died in a car wreck shortly after
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Gozu ("Cow Head")

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Jinmenken ("Human-Faced Dog")

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Kāneru Sandāsu no Noroi

• Known as The Curse of the Colonel in English, this refers to a supposed sports curse affecting the Hanshin Tigers baseball team.
• The curse is said to be placed upon the team due to the treatment of a statue of Colonel Sanders by fans prior to the 1985 Central League Pennant.
• After the Tigers’ surprise victory against the Seibu Lions, a raucous celebration was held.
• During this celebration, fans of the team who resembled players who had performed well leaped into the Dotonbori river.
• Lacking a caucasian who resembled star player Randy Bass, fans stole a statue of Colonel Sanders from a local KFC, and threw it into the river.
• The statue was recovered in 2009, apparently lifting the curse, as the tigers won game 7 of the 2023 Japan Series.