You won't be able to sleep a wink tonight with these Japanese urban legends

1. The lady with the huge bag

This legend tells that one night a boy met an old woman on his way home who was wearing a huge scarf. The boy approached the old woman and she asked him: "Wouldn't you like a foot?" The old woman repeated the same question over and over again. In the end, tired, the boy told him that he did not want a leg. And immediately afterwards, a scream was heard that shook the entire neighborhood. When some people approached the source of the scream, they found the boy on the ground without his right leg and bleeding. Almost dead.

In Japan, they say that if you meet this lady on the street you have no choice but to answer her question. If you say "I don't want to" the same thing will happen to you as to the boy in this story. On the other hand, if you say "I want", the old woman will try to stick a third leg into your body. The only way to get rid of her is by giving her a friend's address and telling her that the other friend is going to buy her foot.

2. Help me!

This story is about a girl from the city of Hokkaido who came home alone one winter night. They say that the girl was in such a hurry to get home and get out of the cold that she completely ignored the siren warning of the arrival of the train at the level crossing and decided to pass. The young woman had the bad luck of slipping on the snow right in the middle of the pass. The two engineers who were on the train saw the girl, but could not stop in time and the girl ended up split in two.

One of the two drivers decided to go for reinforcements and notify an ambulance, the other stayed at the scene of the accident. After a while, the engineer saw that the upper part of the girl's body began to move as she yelled "help me!" over and over again. The engineer fell to the ground in fright because he thought it was a ghost. The girl was getting closer to him and the young man, no matter how hard he tried to get up, couldn't because he slipped on the snow with each attempt.

In the end, the girl's torso ended up climbing on top of the driver. When the other companion returned, he found his, the girl on top of the body of his friend, and the young man gone mad forever.

3. The girl who gazed at the stars.

Tsukuba University is known for the legends that await. This time, this story is about an astronomy student who, one night, returning to his apartment on campus, noticed a girl who was staring at the stars from the window of a house. The boy looked at the sky and understood why, it was the most beautiful landscape he had ever seen in his life.

The next night, the boy looked again and found the same girl looking out the same window at the sky. The student thought that the girl had to be a lover of the stars, like him, and fell in love with her, but out of shame he did not dare to go to her house and knock on her door.

On the third night, the sky was cloudy, so the young man was sad because he knew that the girl was not going to be looking at the stars that night. But it wasn't like that, there was that girl like always. So the boy plucked up his courage and decided to go up to the girl's apartment and knock on the door. When he got to his door he realized it was half open. The student entered the apartment and found the girl hanging right next to the window.

4. We're friends right?

This legend tells how four friends decided to go to a mountain where they say there were many paranormal phenomena by car to see who was the bravest. After spending time on the mountain, and since no ghost appeared, the boys began to joke until they got bored, they even took a photo as a memory and decided to leave.

When the friends got into the car, they noticed the driver wouldn't start the car. Suddenly, the driver turned around, looked his friends straight in the eye and said: "We are friends, aren't we?" The other three nodded. Then the driver answered them: “look, my feet”. The three friends looked at the ground and saw two white hands coming out from under the vehicle grabbing the driver. As soon as they saw that scene, the three friends started running leaving the driver in the car.

The youths hid in the area for hours and when they returned to the place where the car had been parked, they realized that it was no longer there. They never saw their friend or the vehicle again.

5. The Red Room

This urban cartoon tells of the famous suicide forest in Japan, near Tokyo. It is said that a taxi driver from Tokyo went to pick up a girl with a red dress and her face covered and between whispers the girl gave him the address of a place that was hours from Tokyo. Still, he agreed to take her. The taxi driver realized when it was too late that they were approaching the suicide forest.

The girl in the red dress got out of the cab and headed into the woods. The taxi driver, worried, decided to follow her. After a few minutes walking, the young woman arrived at a house in the middle of the forest and entered it. The taxi driver, discreetly and out of curiosity, decided to look at what was inside from the door lock. Inside the house he found a red room, very red, an unbearable red. The man's blood froze and, scared, he decided to run away from there.

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He got into the taxi, but before leaving the place he decided to stop at a ramen restaurant to gather strength for the trip. During dinner, the taxi driver asked the restaurant owner if he knew this girl. And the owner said yes. In addition, the owner asked the taxi driver if he had seen the girl's eyes. The taxi driver replied no, that they were covered by her hair. To which the restaurant owner revealed that the girl's eyes were completely red.

The taxi driver was stunned at that moment because he realized that when he looked through the lock on the door he saw the room, but through the eyes of the girl who was looking at him from the other side.

6. A fatal mistake.

This fable tells the story of an only son who was loved by his parents and gave him all the attention and love in the world. Until his little brother was born.

The protagonist felt how he had lost the affection of his parents because of the new member of the family. Besides, his little brother didn't let him live in peace. Most of the time she didn't want to play with him and would break all his toys. Therefore, the boy began to plan how to kill him and how to make it look like an accident.

In the end, the boy came to the conclusion that it would be best to poison the mother's nipples when she was asleep so that when it was time to breastfeed his brother, the little one would die. The boy did what he had thought and went to sleep looking forward to the next morning.

What the boy did not expect is to kill his father.

7. Open up the night

Two couples of friends decided to go on vacation together to a hotel near the coast in Japan. However, before the trip, one of the boyfriends warned that a job had come up and that he would go the next day. Even so, Mayumi, that was the name of his girlfriend and the protagonist of this story, decided to go on her own in the car with the other couple.

During the ride, Mayumi fell asleep, and when she woke up she found herself already in the bed in the room they reserved. When she went to join the other couple, they told her that unfortunately her boyfriend had died after falling down a ravine on the way to the hotel. Mayumi couldn't believe what was happening. The other couple tried to comfort her and together they decided to stay one more night, cancel the vacation and leave the next day.

In the middle of the night, Mayumi woke up because she realized that someone was banging on the door. "Open up, I've come to look for you", heard Mayumi from the other side. The couple were also woken up by the noise and told the young woman not to open the door, that it was the spirit of her boyfriend coming to take her away. The protagonist ignored the couple's instructions and decided to open the door and a blinding light suddenly bathed the entire room.

The story ended with Mayumi waking up in the hospital with her boyfriend next to her. When she regained consciousness, her boyfriend told her that the car she was in fell off a cliff and that she had been the only survivor of the accident. The young woman had been dying all night after the accident and fighting for her life and the couple actually wanted to take her to heaven or hell with them.

8. The dog with a human face

They say that there are people in Japan who walk down the street alone at night and meet a dog. When these citizens approach the dog, the animal turns its head and begins to yell phrases like "what are you doing annoying" or "leave me alone!" or "Don't take pictures of me! Who do you think you are!" in a rude way

What's more, this dog who hates humanity, they say he has the face of a person. And it is that the legend tells that the dog comes from a failed experiment at the University of Tsukuba. According to the Japanese, secret projects are carried out in the laboratories of this university together with the US army.

It seems that one of these projects involved genetically manipulating human DNA to improve the human race and thus create the perfect soldier.

Turns out, one day, one of the researchers mistakenly mixed another researcher's DNA with that of a dog, creating this grumpy, human-faced dog. The university tried to cover up this mistake and they hid the dog in a dungeon, but the dog was so smart that he managed to escape. Now, they say that he roams the streets insulting anyone who gets in his way.

9. The contortionist monster

Another legend tells that there is a strange monster that since the year 2000 appears in places with a lot of water such as rice fields or in riverbeds. The sightings coincide with the summer vacation time. Many people return to their hometown and at night, after the fireworks and before going to sleep, they decide to go for a walk, taking advantage of the good weather.

The first sighting was of two boys who were out jogging in the countryside at night when suddenly they saw something immaculately white standing out in the darkness. The two young men, disturbed by this vision, began to approach the strange figure.

When they were right next to it, they made out something in the shape of a very white person, but without bones and that moved making "eses" as if it were a snake. The story goes that these boys went crazy forever. That what they saw was so shocking that they ended up losing the connection between what is real and what is not.

10. The Rika Chan Doll

In the 1970s, there was a very popular doll in Japan called "Rika Chan" among children. The funny thing about this doll is that she brought with her a phone number to call to talk to her.

This last story is that of a girl who was alone at home, next to her Rika Chan doll and since she had time she decided to call the phone number.

When the girl called that number, she got a message saying: “Hi, I'm Rika Chan. Thanks for her call. Now I'm at home and I'm going out." Upon hearing that voice message, the girl was speechless. She couldn't believe the doll was talking to her. Of course, it seemed too short a message so he called again.

In this second call the message was different: “Hi, I'm Rika Chan. Thanks for her call. Know? Now I'm out of my house." Seeing that the message was a different one, the girl got excited and tried again.

“Hi, I'm Rika Chan. Thanks for her call. Now, I am in front of your house”. At that moment the girl hit a huge boat and got scared. I didn't know if it was true or if it was a bad joke.

In the end, he decided to get up off the ground and go down to the door. He opened the door with great fear, but there was no one. He went back to his room and suddenly the phone rang. At first he hesitated if he should pick up the phone, but in the end he grabbed the device and brought it slowly to his ear. Then, the girl could hear: "Hello, I'm Rika Chan. Thank you for your call. I'm behind you."

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