Chapter 1
Haunted hallways and bathroom terrors
Chapter 2
Highway horrors and urban encounters
Chapter 3
Cursed technology and digital dread
Chapter 4
Folklore roots and modern metamorphoses
YOUR GOAL
Master of Spooky schoolrooms and cursed screens of Korea and Japan
Ch 1 · Haunted hallways and bathroom terrors
choko Bouncing sound waves in school corridors generate the eerie whispers that fuel classroom ghost stories.
mankai Aka Manto Toilet Legend
Will you take the red or will you take the blue? A spooky bathroom spirit has a question for you!
mankai A second-place student pushed her rival off a roof, creating an upside down ghost that bounces making kong
choko A jealous second-place student glares at her top-ranked classmate in a haunted hallway
BETA
mankai Escape haunted bathroom stalls to discover the folklore behind Korean and Japanese urban legends.
Fun Fact
School bathroom ghosts: Hanako-san is so famous in Japan that she was featured as a helpful spirit in the 1995 film 'Toire no Hanako-san'.
Glossary
yaja (noun)
Late-night high school study sessions in South Korea. Surviving these quiet hours often inspires spooky rumors of haunted hallways and bathroom ghosts.
Late-night high school study sessions in South Korea. Surviving these quiet hours often inspires spooky rumors of haunted hallways and bathroom ghosts.
Quiz
In the Kong Kong ghost legend, what drove the student to push her classmate off the roof?
Glossary
ghost (noun)
An apparition of a dead person that is believed to appear or manifest to the living. In Japanese folklore, the ghost Hanako-san famously haunts the third stall of school restrooms.
An apparition of a dead person that is believed to appear or manifest to the living. In Japanese folklore, the ghost Hanako-san famously haunts the third stall of school restrooms.
Quiz
What is the Korean term 'Yaja' which refers to late-night study sessions that fuel school ghost stories?
Quiz
In South Korea's Kong Kong ghost legend, why does the ghost move by bouncing on her head?
Quiz
In Japanese school legends, which floor's bathroom stall is Hanako-san most commonly said to haunt?