Hey guys it’s Mike Chen, and before we get into this video, I just want to thank you
guys so much for all your support over the years, and this channel reached 2 million
subscribers!
It's such an awesome and humbling milestone, so I appreciate you guys so much for watching,
commenting, liking the videos, and just all your support over the years, which is really
why I keep this channel going, and hopefully we'll continue to make it better for you guys.
Anyway, I don’t really have any phobias or debilitating fears, but there are things
in this world I’m not really comfortable with.
For example, sharks while I'm swimming in the ocean, or scary movies, and dolls.
Yes, dolls creep me out, I know that most people, especially kids think of dolls as
immensely lovable and huggable playthings.
They're meant to comfort and entertain us; not scare the living bejeezus out of us!
But personally, I think of them as mostly creepy and sometimes cursed.
And this is especially true for a particularly pee-inducing doll from Japan called the Okiku
doll.
Now, I briefly talked about this doll before in one of my list videos, but I want to go
into depth here.
So if you know anything about Japan or watch some of the Japanese movies and TV shows and
read some of their urban legends, you’ll know that country does not mess around when
it comes to anything creepy.
I mean, its horror movies are the scariest, its haunted places, I think, are the creepiest,
and this is no exception when it comes to haunted, or cursed dolls.
And this one, in my opinion, might be one of the creepiest in the world.
Now just looking at this doll may not conjur up any chucky-esque images but this is one
doll chucky may even swipe left on.
The story goes that a man named Eikichi Suzuki bought this doll while he was in Sapporo,
Japan for his 2-year-old baby sister in 1938.
The doll, as you can see, is wearing a traditional Japanese kimono, it has black eyes and hair
covering it's porcelain face.
The man brought his sister the doll, the sister, named Okiku, loved the doll so much she even
named it after herself.
But unfortunately, a short time later the girl fell ill and eventually passed away.
In her remembrance, her family placed the doll on their household alter and began to
pray to it every day.
This is where things begin to become weird.
The hair on the doll which was originally a neat shoulder-length had started to grow,
and was soon at the knees of the doll.
And even when the hair was trimmed it soon grew right back.
The family, believing that Okiku’s spirit has inhabited the doll, decided to, instead
of burning it right away with holy fire, they gave it to Mannenji temple in Hokkaido, Japan
before they moved away.
The doll - to this day - is still in a wooden box at the temple where you can still see
it, and it’s probably the only doll in the world that needs regular haircuts because
the hair just keeps growing.
Even though there is still no plausible explanation as to why or how Okiku dolls' hair continues
to grow, scientific research has concluded that the figurine’s hair is indeed akin
to that of a young child, probably Okiku in this case!
But I just wanted to bring up another possible explanation.
I don't believe that the doll is inhabited by Okiku's spirit, I believe the doll is actually
possessed by a Harionago, or long haired woman, which is an urban legend about a Japanese
ghost with extremely long hair that can keep on growing her hair and use it as a weapon
to attack, in general, young men who smiles at her...or maybe Okiku became a Harionago?
I mean, I'm just trying to figure out the whole never stop growing hair part.
Anyway, apparently the long haired-woman ghost, it's a pretty evil ghost who walks around
the streets and because she's so beautiful people tend to look at her.
So, if you're a guy, and you look at her, and then she smiles at you and you smile back...he
hair just continues to extend and hooks you and just rips you to pieces.
So if you do go and see this doll, and I don't know why you would...maybe don't smile at
her.
And anyways, speaking of dolls, I just wanted to talk a little about this new game that
is being played around Japan and apparently the whole world by people who just wanna die,
I think.
Anyway, the game is called "Hide and Seek For One".
Basically, you take a doll, you take the innards out of the doll, you fill it with uncooked
rice, you sew it up with red thread, then you put the doll in a bathtub of water at
exactly 3AM.
Apparently you're supposed to keep a knife with you in case things go wrong?
Anyways, at 3AM you're supposed to go up to the doll and say "Tag, you're it" then stab
the doll, cut the red thread and just go hide with saltwater in your mouth because that's
supposed to ward off evil spirits.
And then when you go back and check on the doll, the doll has disappeared!
Now, your job is to go find this doll.
Okay, I have no idea why anybody would think this is at all a fun game?
And just because you have a knife, doesn't it mean the doll can just get a knife itself?
Like every Chucky movie ever made?
And you're at a severe disadvantage being, I don't know, 20 times bigger than a doll?
So yeah, again, Japan with the creepiest doll stories probably in the world.
And if anyone has ever played this game, let me know in the comments, how did it go?
Are you still with us?
And if anyone's been to Okinawa and saw the Okiku doll, let me know what you thought.
How did you feel?
Did you smile at it?
Alright guys, thank you all so much for watching, I'll see you later.