Japanese Legends

Read some scary Japanese legends and myths. Lots of the horror movies that come from Japan are based on the urban legends below. Find out more about them and send a chill down your spine.

Years ago in Japan, there was a tradition where people would gather in a room and light 100 candles. Then they would start telling scary tales and ghost stories. At the end of each story, they would extinguish a candle. The room would grow darker and darker and the stories would become scarier and scarier. At the end of the final ghostly story, the room would be in complete darkness.

So let’s light a few candles and read these scary Japanese legends:

Japanese Legends
Kuchisake Onna
The Slit-Mouth Woman.
Hanako-San
The toilet ghost
Sadako
The Ring Ghost.
Japanese Legends
Red Cloak
Aka Manto
Tek-Tek
Teke-teke.
Kayako
The Grudge Ghost.
Japanese Legends
No Face
Nopperabou.
Long Neck
Rokurokubi.
Hikiko
The Bullied Ghost.
Japanese Legends
Pale Man
Te-no-me.
Tiny Mouth
Futakuchi-onna.
Okiku
The Well Ghost.
Japanese Legends
Snow Witch
Yuki-onna.
Snake Woman
Nure-onna.
Oiwa
The Poisoned Ghost.
Japanese Legends
Giant Skeleton
Gashadokuro.
Mountain Witch
Yama-uba.
Kappa
The water monster.
Japanese Legends
Ouija
Kokkuri-san.
TBA
Yama-uba.
Urban Legends
Posted in Urban Legends on Nov 11th, 2007, 6:54 pm by scary for kids   
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11 Responses

  1. February 29th, 2008 | 12:21 pm

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  2. emo_girl007
    July 2nd, 2008 | 5:02 pm

    OMG!
    I can’t belive they
    saw the ghost from
    the ring.

  3. bloody0angel147
    August 23rd, 2008 | 3:49 pm

    *sigh* gotta love the Japanese legends!

  4. paranormalgirl1001
    April 12th, 2009 | 7:01 pm

    the toliet gjost ive never heard of that

  5. May 15th, 2009 | 6:36 pm

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  6. Sitaliea
    June 10th, 2009 | 7:04 am

    im kind of creeped out now

  7. XooRoxy_GalooX
    June 26th, 2009 | 8:40 pm

    omg!i love the slit mouth woman story and the toliet ghost its so fricken awesome!

  8. bunneemonstuh
    January 1st, 2010 | 6:42 am

    omg, usually stuff can’t freak me out too much but when I saw the Grudge (the actual movie) both the American and Japanese version I had to look under the bed which I had never done before! I even had nightmares about them for weeks and sometimes I regret watching it…but now I can only handle watching the slit mouth women but I’ll watch the others when it’s day time.

  9. nightmares4545
    March 9th, 2010 | 3:16 am

    these are all so creppy.
    and thats a good thing:D

  10. beachbunny416
    June 4th, 2010 | 1:38 am

    few words: cool creppy awesome:-D

  11. kutiethekiller
    June 12th, 2010 | 12:04 am

    Does the toilet ghost smell like a dirty toilet?=D

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