Japanese Horror

              Many Japanese people have an experience in talking about seven strange phenomena called the seven wonders of the school in their days of primary school student. For example, Beethoven’s eyes in the music room shine in the night, the bronze statue Kinjiro Ninomiya, a historical figure which is icon of studying children in Japan, runs schoolyard, the frame specimen and human body specimen dance in the science room at room at night, and so on. There are many ghost stories which elementary school students imagined by fear about the school in the night.

             “Hanako in the restroom” may be the most famous anecdote shared among elementary school students. In the ghost story of the”Hanako in the restroom”, an answer comes back from the vacant toilet stall when someone knocks the door of the stall by calling “Hanako-san”.

              The story has been generally known that “someone knocks the door of the stall three times in the restroom on the third floor of the school building and ask ‘Can Hanako hear me?’. Then, the answer ‘Yes’ comes back from the stall which should be vacant”. Moreover, when the person opens the door of the stall, the person is dragged into toilet bowl by “Hanako”, a girl with bobbed hair and wearing red skirt”.