The Man in the Elevator is a scary urban legend from Korea about a girl who lives on the 14th floor of her apartment building. It is also known as “The Elevator Murderer” or “The Elevator Killer”.
There was a 19-year old Korean girl named Haruko who was attending university in a large city. One night, she had to stay late in the library to finish a project and it was almost dark by the time she returned home.
Haruko lived on the 14th floor of an old apartment building. She stood in the entrance and pressed the button to call the elevator. She always hated coming home alone so late in the evening. It just didn’t feel safe.
When the elevator came, she stepped inside and pushed the button for her floor. Just as the doors were about to close, a handsome man came running up. The man was out of breath and put out his hand to stop the doors closing. Then, he stepped into the elevator and stood beside her.
“You live on the 14th floor?”, he asked, seeing the button lit up.
“Yes”, replied Haruko.
“Oh”, said the man, smiling. “I live on the 13th.”
As the elevator ascended, he pressed the button for 13.
Through the windows in the elevator door, Haruko watched the floors go by, as they both stood in silence. She stole a few glances at the man. he certainly was handsome. She wondered if he would ever be interested in dating her.
When he happened to look at her, she batted her eyelids and smiled sweetly at him.
Just then, the elevator stopped at the 13th floor. The doors opened and the man stepped out.
“See you later…” he said.
“Yes, see you,” replied Haruko.
As the doors of the elevator were closing behind him, the man suddenly turned around, pulled a sharp knife out of his jacket and said, in a menacing voice, “…upstairs!”
Then, laughing like a maniac, he ran towards the staircase.
The girl was terrified, but before she could do a thing, the doors shut and the elevator began to ascend. She began to panic.
Desperately, she hammered the buttons with her fist, trying to get the elevator to stop, but it was no use.
When it reached the 14th floor and the doors opened, the man with the knife was already standing there, waiting for her.
In Korea, people say that this is a true story. The girl was found dead, stabbed to death in the elevator.
People say that the worst part was not her death itself, but rather the sheer horror she experienced in between those two floors, when she was trapped in the elevator and knew she was going to die.
They claim that this is the reason that all elevators now have a stop button.
LOVE this
cool story cool drawing :) so that’s what unaired anime looks like :)
i love the pictures!
its nice to see a scary story with some REAL origonality
I have height fright. Thats why I take elevators if present. It always feels like the stairs are gonna give away at my touch. Im not actually afraid of falling and dying. Its only the falling part. Dying’s okay by me xD
Moral of the story: Always take the stairs.
I’ve had a phobia of elevators since I was 7.
I had an experience regarding elevators twice. One was when I got stuck and the other one’s interesting. I remember like it was yesterday(cue reality blur)(cue flashback). I was at my friend’s house. It was a five storeyed house with an open roof. The house had an elevator. My friend’s little brother kept bothering me about having some fun on the elevator. I agreed and went to the ground floor from the 3rd floor(my friend’s floor). I noticed a 6th floor button and got curious. So from the ground floor, I pushed the 6th floor button. The elevator began going up. It was almost 2 minutes later we stopped. The door opened. My mouth dropped wide and my friend’s brother let out a loud scream in my ear! What I saw was a brick wall. Nothing else. What the most scary fact was that it was written in big black letters was ‘Im gonna come for ya!’ I instantly hit the 3rd floor button and down went the elevator. We began running towards the still open door. Later that day, my friend confessed that he used spray paint to write on the wall and even paid his little brother to scream and act like that. At that moment I felt like I wanted to kill him!!! Btw true story! :)
That’s why I don’t use elevators
@reTARDIS
OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG THAT SOUNDS SO FREAKING EPIC OMG
Just for scares go on this link:
https://www.scaryforkids.com/chain-letters/
The stories are awesome… :)
I heard a story once where a girl had a nightmare in which all she could hear was screaming and darkness, and suddenly there was a crack of light but a hand was reaching for her.
The next day se got trapped in an elevator with two of her friends. No one could stop screaming and it was pitch black inside. The doors opened between two floors, but a hand was hanging down for them.
Turns out it was a rescue person trying to help them <:D
But yeah, that story reminded me of this one, 'cuz of the elevator.
Screw the elevators! I like to take the stairs ._.
ever since i was little i was always scared of going in elevators. not about getting murdured in them. i just always thaught it would get jammed or stuck and i would be trapped inside and i would die. lol. when ever my mom tried to take me in a elevator i would cry.
Did you guys see the buttons in the first picture?! It looks like there’s blood on the first one!!
http://www.scaryforkids.com/train-journeys/
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I lmao so hard at the second pic but then it reminded me of Slender Man with a face and now I’m crying
@UchihaIrene
Yeah… it sure is a japanese name….
Besides that, the story is kinda creepy….. ;D
creepy O_o
But isn’t her name Japanese? Korean names are usually something like Dae-Sung Hyun, Ji-Won Hee and Kwan-Shin Soo.
O.O
I have the fear that somewhere, somehow, a duck is watching me.
reTARDIS@ Don’t cry me too! :( I missed amy and rory! I will kill those angels! And new companion will come! This is sad!
Haruko is not a korean name. It’s japanese.
At Shadow
Once You Kill You Cant Stop So He Killed Before Why Wouldnt
He Do It Again
Now I’m also scared of Elevators… Why did the man kill the girl?