Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Scary Toilets?

I am sure all of you heard of many different ghost stories. Do you know the story of Toire no Hanako-san, or Miss Hanako of the Toilet? It's a Japanese urban legend that can be found at most every elementary school in Japan, and it goes like this: if you go to the fourth stall of a specified girl's bathroom, usually on the third floor of the school, knock three times and call out "Hanako-san, are you there?" then you'll hear her reply, "Hai" (yes). Open the stall and you'll see a shimmering figure of a girl with bobbed hair with a red skirt on standing there. It's the ghost of Hanako , a girl who committed suicide after being bullied by her classmates (ijime), who is said to haunt the girl's bathroom looking for revenge. Or in an older version, Hanako is a girl who was playing hide-and-seek in the school bathroom during the war and was killed in an American air raid because she couldn't hear the air raid siren.
Well, I have to say that my primary school has one of the spookiest toilet I have seen and many of use who studied there agreed with that too. Both the male and female toilets are built at the basement level somewhat like a underground basement. There are these 2 long staircase linking from the surface to the toilets. The staircases are something like these. spooky?

                         
Haha, maybe not, but these are what I could find from the web which are closest to it. The length of the staircase is like the 1st picture displayed. Well, it's really creepy down there for an Malaysian primary student aged 9-12.  According to the rumours, the school was used by the Japanese during World War 2, mass slaughtering were done at the toilet area. Some even say they saw some people in army uniform outside the toilet which is an empty area filled with rubbish. I used to go to the toilet with my friends, we all went down slowly everytime, and then all of us will be running back up right after we finished with our business down there, haha. I never pass motion or shit in that toilet, i would rather hold it than to pass it down there, I think I am not the only one doing that. That really influence me going to toilets even back in my home in late nights (11pm for a 10 year old). I will be rushing back from the toilet to the living room. Although, some say ghost doesn't exist but many believe that it does exist. But what makes me believe in ghost is the toilet in my primary school. Sometimes when I am in my house's toilet, I could hear some noise above me, my grandmother told me that it's just rats, but I don't seem to believe it. So, how creepy and spooky could a toilet be?? I even heard stories from Japan about a toilet

7 comments:

  1. omg..u reali like to talk bout toilet..=_='''

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  2. dun scare me dude...i still wanna go to toilet one~
    peRRin

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  3. haha, ya lo, toilet is always a good topic for me to talk about ;p

    perrin, then you go to the 3rd bathroom la, i think it's meant for you.

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  4. LOL, you should ask me to go there and take the staircase picture for you.

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  5. Nah, I think it's too creepy to go there and take a picture of it.
    Anyway, no one knows whether the toilet still exists or not due to the renovation @@

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  6. i can confirm the toilet doesn't exist anymore..if u saw it,hahaha..tat muz be ur lucky day.-winnie

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