Hanako San is a Japanese urban legend about the ghost of a young girl that’s supposed to haunt school toilets, opening and closing doors and scaring anyone who enters the bathroom, knocks on her stall, and calls her name.
Hanako, the ghost in the toilet almost achieved the status of a national phenomena in Japanese legend 20 years ago, when a wave of stories of ghost-sightings swept through the nation’s school yards.
Every child had a “Hanako” story to tell. The stories, of course, are many and varied but every schoolchild in Japan, at one time or another, has stood in dread and anticipation as he or she ventured into the school toilet alone.
This is similar to the legend of Kashima Reiko, a female ghost without legs who also lives in school bathrooms. She calls out “Where are my legs?” when people enter the bathroom. The correct way to answer her varies. In one version, you have to say: Kashima Reiko: KA = Kamen (Mask), SHI = Shinin (dead person), MA=Ma (Demon).
Yet another version features Aoi Manto or Aka Manto, a male ghost who waits in the last stall in the girls’ bathroom. Anyone entering the bathroom hears a voice asking, “Which do you prefer, the red paper or the blue paper?”
If they pick “red,” he kills them by slashing their back or neck repeatedly with a blade, to make them look like they’re wearing a red cape. If they pick “blue,” then they’re killed by hanging.
He’s known as Aka Manto, Aoi Manto, Aoi Hanten, Aka Kami, and Aoi Kami.
my troll bladder had to go to the bathroom right after reaading this -_-
Wow creepy Iam scared now I LIVE IN JAPAN. IAM ON HOILDAY AGGGGHHHH
It was more bout the other things than the girl she talks bout in da pic dont I think?
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I really dont get what you have to say when she says”Where are my legs?” Can someone help me understand what to say
I saw this hanako story in one episode of tv program: Uso! Japan, where they researched it. From what I could understand it seems that the situation steems from a young girl who had been locked inside a tiny cottage with other people who seemed to be suffering some disease (or whatever it was) that caused their deaths, then a man came and set the cottage on fire while the girl begged to be left out (this was in old Japan period). Near the place where she died there was a group of kids playing hide and seek (Kakurenbo in japanese) in this game kids ask “Are you ready?” and the others who are hiding say “not Yet” and this goes on for a few times until they are ready, then the person seeking says “here I come”. So hearing this words the ghost took them on, that’s why when someone goes to the girls bathroom and knocks (4 times) on the 4th toilet stall at a certain time at night and asks “Are you ready?” she answers with “not yet”, until the time when she is ready and comes out and kills/grabs the kid that asked.
I looked up how to Play the game and it worked it was weird
All these toilet stories about all school toilets being haunted, i read a story about ” the curse of the 3rd bathroom stall” and on wednesday i got stuck in the 3rd toilet stall so my bff had to struggle under the cubicle walls and try to pull the door open but we both got stuck but my other bff had to kick the door while my other bff pulled the lock and the door burst open!
Stupid! Now I can’t go to the CR.
LOL HER HEAD GOING UP YOUR BUM xD. Just think of that. This aint scary….it’s hilarious!
The photo totally freaked me out!
next time i go to japan im not going to any of the public restrooms alone, they all seem to be haunted. lol
ummm @midnight spirit it’s not toilet paper it’s only paper and i don’t know…. y don’t u go to dat bathroom stall and ask him if he’s mad about being dead or maybe he’s enjoying being dead
What? “Which toilet paper do you prefer? Red or blue?”
Seriously? That sounds stupid, no offense.
“If they pick “red,†he kills them by slashing their back or neck repeatedly with a blade, to make them look like they’re wearing a red cape. If they pick “blue,†then they’re killed by hanging.”
Why would he even do that? Is he mad at someone or something? Someone answer me!
IF YOU LOOK CLOSELY ENOUGH AT HER HAIR…
you can see your yesterday’s dinner.
the guy in the girls bathroom has NO buisness being there…even if he is lonley…………..
wow, that sounds just like the toilets in our school, I’m scared now. :s
Red paper or blue paper response: Can’t you ask me this in the class room,aka-manto sempi? And besides, why are you in the girls bathroom? Sheesh, you spaz.
oh and eva if sheès a ghost it might go through her
at least it is in japan……………………………..
what if u dont see hanako and just instantly sit on the toilet and poo O_o thats weird…. just thinking about it right now D:
i wuld pick red b/c i wuld live!!
@VicioustMistress: Same here. My lil sis and I have devised a plan about what to do if a head pops up from the toilet, and it involves doing…business…on her. LOL. But still, I’m scared.
Just saying about the red or blue paper thing, what if you were colour blind? And I actually feel bad for Hanako. Her story is actually alot like Hikiko’s.
i would poo on her head. LOL. She sounds like a freaky ghost to me. LOL
lol just sit on the things head lol it has no buiness bing in the tolit in the first place :P