Welcome back everyone, today Im returning to the series that kind of started all the
Urban Legends videos Ive done on this channel - Korea.
You loved the first one, you seem to have loved the second one - my name is Danny Burke
and this is the Top 10 Korean Urban Legends - Part 3!
Starting off at number 10 we have Haunted Korean Womens Dormitory.
The story goes like this - back in 1999, at a small rural university there were two seniors
called Kang Ji Hyun and Lee So Yeon.
The two women seemed healthy and happy up for a long while but then things started two
change.
Both had complained of sleeplessness and nightmares.
The two reported bouts of sleeplessness.
When they did sleep, they had terrible nightmares.
In the day, they said there was a strange man on campus harassing them.
One of them arrived home one night with her dress torn - she was emotionally shaken up.
These strange events wore them down, slowly withering them away.
They skipped class, stopped eating and showering.
One of the last things they were heard saying was -The man is watching us in the bathroom-
... on October 19th, they were found dead.
After they were buried, other students in the dormitory began reporting mysterious sounds.
Doors were being knocked on and doorknobs turned from the outside.
Whenever people went to investigate though, there was nobody there.
Light began exploding, glass would crack.
Then the sightnings began.
Students reported seeing two girls claiming to be Ji Hyun and So Yeon walking around the
campus, as people went to investigate, the girls would disappear.
These days, people say the ghosts have spread to other Universities, but nobody has been
able to figure out what happened to the girls and who that strange man was ...
Moving on to number 9 we have Hong Kong Grandma.
This is a creepy story told around some parts of Korea.
It originated in the 1980s and has terrorized children ever since.
Children were so frightened they refused to go anywhere or stay alone.
Legend says there was an old lady who used to take the plane to Hong Kong with her cat
to visit her grandson.
On one particular trip, the plane crashed.
Both the Grandma and her cat died.
Her spirit was restless because she was so devastated about dying before she got to see
her son.
They say that in this grief, the cats spirit and grandmas spirit fused together.
The resultant ghost was a hybrid of the old woman and her cat.
When it made its way back to Korea, the ghost was spotted by many people, following them
home before killing them.
The paranoia about this ghost reached such a peak that this story even appeared on the
news …
Next up up at number 8 we have The Ghost of JaYu Road[a].
JaYu Road is a strip of highway that runs north of Seoul.
The locals know all about the story of this road but its not really them that need to
worry about it - its the travellers that are passing through.
The road is notorious for bad weather - on many nights the fog is so bad that accidents
happen.
However, speak to any locals and theyll tell you that the fog is a sign of a supernatural
presence there.
Drivers claim they see a young woman with sunglasses standing by the side of the road
- when they approach her, they realize she is not wearing sunglasses and that her eyes
have actually been gouged out and now they are nothing but hollow dark pits.
They quickly dash out of there, not wanting to find out what comes next …
Coming in at number 7 now we have The Elevator To Hell.
Many Koreans know of a legend that instructs people how to get to hell on an elevator.
They call it hell, but the best description is that its a place where its always night
time, there are no lights, no other human being except yourself.
In any hotel, take the elevator at night on the 1st floor and go to the 4th floor.
Do not step out.
Then go to the 2nd floor, then the 6th, then the 2nd again and the 10th and then finally
the 5th floor.
On the 5th floor, she will come in the elevator.
The girl.
Do not look at her, touch or talk to her.
Shes is not of this world and wants to take your soul.
She will ask where youre going - do not answer and press for the 1st floor.
If the elevator goes to the 10th you have succeeded.
The same number combination must be pressed in order to return.
Its very important to get the number right otherwise you could be lost in this hell or
in the land between it and this world …
Coming in at number 6 we have Yoo Kwan Sun.[b] She was a martyr at age 17 after being arrested
and imprisoned during the Japanese occupation while protesting for independence.
Due to her famous story and and bravery, many classrooms and school campuses have her portrait
or statue on display.
Because of this, many stories have arisen around those items.
Legends says that on March 1st, every year, the night of Independence Movement say, her
statue will walk around the school changing Korea Independence Forever.
If thats not enough, its told that if you say her name at a portrait of her on this
night - her eyes will slowly move to meet your gaze.
Moving on to number 5 now we have Bunshinsaba.[c] This is a creepy game that originated in Japan
but has since spread to Korea, partly because of stories of it going very wrong.
The Japanese name is -Kokkuri San- and its been compared to the Ouija Board - and Im
sure many of you guys have heard stories about that.
The game needs a partner, a pen and a paper.
First, take the pen with your partner and draw a circle.
Then, you say -Bunshinsaba, bunshinsaba come to me please- … then, you should feel a
presence - you should ask -are you there?- … if the spirit wants to communicate with
you, the pen will move.
You can continue to ask things but do not take your hand off the pen until its over.
Do not break the pen or tear the paper otherwise the spirit will curse you and you don't want
that.
Coming in at number 4 now we have The Drugs.
I found this one on Wattpad, its a personal story told by a user known as Chaenam The
Queen.
This is what she said - I heard this story before when I was a kid but it still gives
me the chills.
In Busan there was one house that was forbidden to rent or even go to because in that house
were people who had died.
There was a loving father, a loving mother and 8 kids.
One day though, the father tried drugs to ease the stress.
He began to become more abusive to his family until one day, his rage made him kill his
children and his wife.
In a panic, he put their bodies in a closet.
5 years later a woman rented the house.
She reported feeling colds hands on her neck and hearing children shouting -Help us, please
have mercy- … one day she was found dead in the very same closet he had put his family
in.
Moving on to number 3 we have The Boy.
This one was told by user Chloe14 on a site for ghost stories.
She said it became known in her part of Korea.
She used to be a cheerleader for an American High School in South Korea.
They usually went to one of their rival schools on a Friday, had a game, slept in their gym
and then had another game the next day.
On one such weekend, they were setting up their beds in the gym after the Friday game.
They made them underneath the basketball hoops.
Soon they were asleep but after a few hours, she woke up to the sound of someone dribbling
a basketball across the court.
She looked around and didnt see anything.
She told herself she was just hearing things and so went back to sleep.
She woke up a while later to the same noise.
This time when she looked around, she saw a boy about the same age as her, holding a
basketball and staring at her.
She was startled by his cold, angry and sad look.
She gasped and looked away in fear - when she looked back, he was gone.
The next morning she told one of her friends from the other school about her experience.
She asked her to describe the boy.
As she did, the girls face went pale with shock.
She said the description matched with a boy from the school who had committed suicide
there just 3 days before …
Next up at number 2 we Elevator Psycho.
This is a story that may put some people off from using elevators - especially when theyre
alone or at night.
A girl was going back home late one night.
She took the elevator alone.
Just when the doors were closing, at the very last second, a man stepped inside at the very
last second.
It was almost as if they had done this before.
He looked middle age but generally non descript.
The lights flickered in the elevator, there was a slight bump.
Suddenly, he broke the silence, asking -You live on the 13th floor?- … the girl wasnt
expecting that question -um, yeah- she replied.
-Oh- he said -I live on the 12th floor- … at that exact moment, the elevator stopped on
the 12th floor.
He stepped out and said goodbye.
-see you- she said … then, just as the doors were closing, he turned back towards the elevator
and pulled a knife out of his coat pocket.
As the doors came together he said one word with a creepy smile -Upstairs …-
And finally at number 1 we have The Scratching.
This one comes from a user called Brandy on that site I talked about where people share
ghost stories.
In her own words, she said - came to South Korea to be with my husband whom is in the
Army.
I have been here for 5 months.
I have been living in my apartment for over four months.
About two and a half months ago I started getting the icy feeling like I was being watched.
This went on with no happenings until last night.
My husband is training in the field.
I am all alone in the house, just like any other night I got changed, went into bed and
called my husband.
I got to sleep around 12:30am.
I slept for about two hours when I started having a dream that I have had before.
But instead of what normally happened in the dream, an unknown force was on my back with
two handfuls of my hair, holding me down.
I woke up to find that my head where, in my dream, this force had my hair.
I blew it off thinking it was my imagination.
I fell back asleep a short time later.
The dream resumed where it had left off.
This happened one more time before I decided to just stay awake.
It was about 5:00 in the morning, I am not exactly sure.
I heard a Korean man's voice talking, it was very deep, I could not make out any words
that I know.
It sounded as if he were hissing the words.
By this time I was already terrified.
I heard knocking, and my chairs being scooted around.
This went on for about an hour.
Then it started scratching my walls.
It started soft and short at first, I ignored it until it got harder and louder increasing
a lot everytime.
Finally I could not take it any more it felt like my heart was going to burst, it was beating
so hard.
I got up and turned on all the lights in the house.
It stopped.
I got dressed and looked around to find all my chairs moved, little things moved, and
then I saw the scratch marks on the wall.
I was about 6:30 in the morning when I left.
I am looking for another apartment.
There is no way that I am going to stay there and let it keep getting worse and more violent.
Alright guys, that was some more Korean Urban Legends.
Where shall we go next?
Leave your suggestions in the comments section, thanks for watching as always guys, my name
is Danny Burke and Ill see you all in the next video …