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Hiding from Japanese Ghosts
Urban Legends in Japan
Part 1
1. Yellow ambulances are used for mental health emergencies.
2. ‘Tomino’s Hell’ is a poem which brings suffering and tragedy to anyone who reads it out loud.
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3. 'Hitobashira’, or sealing live people into walls, pillars, or buildings, and is/was a popular act of human sacrifice to please gods.
4. Kashima Reiko is a ghost of a woman from Hokkaido who was attacked and brutally raped before being left for dead. She crawled onto a set of train tracks and was cut in two. She now appears in bathrooms, asking people questions about her death.
5. You can play hide and seek with a ghost ('Hitori Kakurenbo’).
6. There are two ways to check if your house is haunted. One is by imagining you are exploring your house - http://www.scaryforkids.com/how-to-see-a-ghost/, and the other is to sit in the middle of a room and video the walls as you turn slowly in a circle, then video yourself and turn again. If you see a mysterious figure or something odd in the video, your house is haunted.
7. Whistling attracts snakes.
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