It’s one of the weirdest, and most awesome, urban legends I’ve ever read about. You know it has to come from Japan, if only because it’s so exceptionally strange. She’s called Toire no Hanako-san, or Hanako of the Toilet, and she’s a Japanese ghost that haunts girls’ bathrooms all over Japan. The third stall on the third floor of any school? That’s her toilet, and don’t you go using it, missy!
Unlike the other Japanese urban legend about Sony’s built-in failure clock, there’s nothing much to support the existence of Hanako. She’s just a girl in a red dress with bobbed hair. If you knock on the third stall door and ask if she’s in there, she’ll say in a meek voice, “Yes, I am here.” If you open the door up after that? Well, she grabs you and pulls you into the toilet, where presumably you die. She’s also been seen as a lizard, a summonable ghost like Bloody Mary, and a giant bloody white hand that will pull you in, depending on where you are when you hear the legend of Hamako. Sounds like classic urban legend stuff to me!
However, if you’re a good student, you’ve got nothing to fear. Simply show Hanako a graded exam with a perfect score, and you’ll banish her ghost forever! Then you’re free to pee in peace!
Tags: Hanako-san, Japanese ghost stories, ghost haunts Japanese bathrooms, bathroom-haunting ghost, urban legends, unusual myths, Toire no Hanako-san
