Top 10 Scariest Japanese Urban Legends

Top 10 Scariest Japanese Urban Legends
the West is full of classic urban legends and cautionary tales with a twist but if you heard of any of these stories welcome to watchmojo.com and today we're counting down our picks for the top 10 scariest Japanese urban legends before we begin we publish new content every day so be sure to subscribe to our channel and ring the bell to get notified about our latest videos for this list we've taken a look at the scariest urban tales and folk tales either involving creatures rituals or scenarios from the Land of the Rising Sun if you remember the phrase purple Muir you will die on 20th birthday number 10 gotcha do Kudo or giant starving skeleton said to be made up of the bones of unburied people who have died of starvation or at war the gashadokuro is always hungry it hides in the woods at night where it can blend in with skeletal trees and then attacks unsuspecting passers-by according to the myths the only warning that you're being stalked by one of these giant stealthy skeletons is that intended victims will suddenly experience of ringing in their ears if that happens be sure to hightail it out of there said to be both invisible and indestructible the only true prevention is a sheet Oh charmed member 9 note it enough or the snake woman according to Japanese folklore this snake woman is reputed to haunt shorelines and will trap fishermen and swimmers before crushing them to death and sucking the blood from her victims with her long tongue she lures her victims with a small bundle said to resemble a baby if the victim offers to hold the baby she will let them live if they try to get rid of it the bundle becomes incredibly heavy and they are unable to escape in other stories she just wants to wash her long hair in peace and will attack any who interrupts her so be forewarned number 8 KO taki tunnel said to be cursed it's considered one of the most haunted places in Japan several rumors revolve around the tunnel including its length found in kyoto prefecture it's set to be 444 meters long equivalent to about 1000 456 feet with for being a suspicious and unlucky number in Japanese tradition however it's set to varying lengths depending on the time of day sometimes longer and sometimes shorter furthermore it's said to have a particular mirror inside if you look into this mirror you will glimpse a vision of your own death number 7 10 Oh May this creature was the inspiration for one of the most memorable creatures in the 2006 fantasy drama Pan's Labyrinth the pale man however this hideous creature comes straight from Japanese lore and is 10 oh man his name means hand eyes or eyes on hand and the legend says that a blind old man was beaten to death by hoodlums as he lay dying he wished that he had seen them to know who they were wishing he'd had eyes on his hands because of his rage he came back as a ghost with eyes on his hands and now will kill whoever he lays his eyes on number 6 Tomi knows he'll what if words could kill who apparently these ones do the legend goes that there's a poem called Tomi knows he'll in the vein of the ring a seemingly innocuous action taken with an everyday object could be deadly if read out loud something terrible will happen to the reader ranging in severity from illness injury misfortune or death most online versions of the poem are spoken via text-to-speech software no word on if it's considered safe to read the translation aloud even in the digital age it's stories like this one that feel the most powerful because well why take the risk number 5 gozu or cow head this the snake woman urban legend also deals with cursed literature allegedly discovered in the 17th century it's said to be the scariest story ever written and that anyone who reads it will die of fright there are multiple accounts of the story from this era but only in reference of its notoriety and that it's too awful to repeat according to the legend most of the copies were destroyed but some fragments remain one account tells of an elementary school teacher accidentally reading fragments to their students causing several to suffer fits and rest to breakout and panic number four the red-room curse one for the modern age the red-room curse tells of a pop-up that appears on the intended victims computer the pop-up asks do you like the Red Room even if you close the window it'll keep coming up once asked the unfortunate intranet user will die with the room in which they're found dripping in their blood it started as a simple if unsettling flash animation but the legend became infamous when it was linked to the death of twelve-year-old Satomi Matata who was murdered by a classmate in an empty classroom number three acha mentos and al mentos red cape blue cape japan has a thing for toilet ghosts there's hanako-san who haunts school bathrooms and kashi morocco but they say after you hear the full story she'll appear to you after a month so let's leave this be but of all the bathroom bogeys this one is the worst acha or Almonte Oh usually haunts the last stall in a public bathroom if you use it a voice will ask you if you want the red or the blue paper the results vary but a common version goes like this say red it slices the back of your neck say blue they choke you to death to survive the murderous ghost decline either option do not ask for a different color as the ghost will send you to the netherworld [Applause] number two take a ticket this Japanese urban legend tells of a young girl who's hit by a train on her way home from school cut in half she now haunts places like railroad crossings and schools she crawls around on claw-like hands sharpened to the bone from years of dragging which now make the tell-tale teka teka sound however it sounds a bit like an oncoming train so you can't be quite sure when she's near angry and vengeful she chases those waiting around too long if she catches you she will cut you in half to make you like her and if you think you can outrun her bad news she's super fast before we unveil our number one pick here are some honorable mentions Oh [Music] number one kuchisake-onna or the slip mouth woman this one is the most disturbing because it feels like she really could be walking around near you and you'd never know the tale dates all the way back to the 8o period once very beautiful this woman was horribly disfigured when her mouth was slit from ear to ear she covers her face traditionally with a scarf and sometimes with a medical mask a vengeful spirit she stops unsuspecting victims and asks if they think she's pretty do you think thank Freddie if they answer no she either shows them her mouth and then slits their face with scissors or wait for them to go home and savagely kills them if yes she screams how about now and then slits their face any way to escape.