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.
how can her head fit through the hole thingy?
Cool photo
@iwasdeadbeforeidied13 LOL that is to funny LMAO
She lives in a toilet? No wonder she scares them off she doesn’t want anyone S****** on her head.
0.0 ghosts and their bathrooms……
I wish I’d gone into the girl’s restroom last year to see if Hanako was there.
OH the japanese and their bathrooms!
In one of these bathroom stories, if youanswer ‘yellow’, the ghost dunks your head into a toilet filled with pee..
O-o
That man in the girls loos sounds like a pedo or a perv…. Also, say yellow and get out of the girls bathroom if anyone says that to you. Lol, and what is it with bathrooms and ghosts, I mean, thats where bloody mary used to live, in OUR school bathroom. When I moved schools it seems Bloody mary lived in everyones school bathroom. Lol.
To the loo paper question, I would say ‘Yellow’ so he cant do either to me, then I would get out and hold it till I get home.
WHY IS HE IN THE GIRLS BATHROOM? HE IS A BOY!
i hate school bathrooms, but now i hate them more O.O
Why are bathrooms so creepy?
lol do a crap on her or a pee than that would make her more angry then she would lock the bathroom doors and kill it is really scary because my mum is from japan and I have watched a scary short about hanako san saying this is not a legend it is true!
Oh crap I just shit on her! SORRY ABOUT THAT.
For the last ghost, either way u will get killed!
LOL SHE HOLDZ ZEE THRONE TO ZEE TOILET LOL
I’d prefer yellow…
I prefer white toilet paper. If a person wanted to do something that would either end up in your back getting slashed, or hanged, and someone really needed to do their business, where do u think they would besides the toilet? Lol
is this true?? im freaked out
ummm…okay. i like green paper.
this is real don’t mess with it here’s my story: this girl at my school read this and was scared of the bathroom to prove her wrong i went in there and said, “i summon hanako san” nothing happened but when i got home that day something felt wrong and when i went to the bathroom i felt watched and when i was showering in the locker rooms at school the next day i saw this grudgey looking thing look at me and it turned its head and let out a groan i screamed at it saying ,”LEAVE!” then it just diapeared but now i am afraid of bathrooms everywhere not just school…..
Well if he said “What toilet paper do you prefer” I would be like… You pervert. Why are you in the girls toilets, go into the boys… Go you perverted ghost… You may be evil but I think you are an evil pervert… Your a disgrace to male evil things…”
And then he would go away into the boys toilets. But if I had to pick, I would pick green because the ghost will make you puke. Puking is better than dieing… ROFL
I like da purple paper. Well, actually i like the white paper but then you’d probably be drained of all your blood, and purple might strangle you. o3o
If there is a ghost in the bathroom, I have to ask myself is anywhere ghost-free?