I knocked and a small voice said "yes"
...and they told me, other people have seen that ghost before too
... when he comes home he used to get me ice cream but...
Hey guys on Ask Japanese it"s CathyCat and today we hit the streets of Tokyo
and asked some Japanese students about some horror stories that they know about
or that they might have actually happened to them and we got some real creepy horror stories
I was terrified so you are in for a treat
Mentioning treats, Tokyo Treats is sponsoring this video
Thank you so much, more about that at the end of the video
And let's go and ask Japanese about their horror stories
Since it's Halloween, tell me some horror stories
In Japan we believe in a ghost called "Toilet bound Hanako"
Hanako from the Toilet?
In elementary school we were trying to raise that toilet that is said to live in toilets
You have to knock to an empty toilet and say "Let's play together Hanako!"
And if you raise her she will answer with a "yes"
A common ghost in Japanese schools - Yes a toilet school ghost
We tried raising here, but the boys outside were playing pranks saying "yes" from outside
I got tired of it and said we will do it one last time
We first checked that nobody is in there, everyone was behind me, I knocked and...
.. a very small voice answered "yes"
What!?
The sound didn't come from the toilet but from a vacant space between the toilets
I randomly knocked on a space that people cannot enter, and heard that voice
We all ran away screaming in horror, and our teachers told us off for being loud
Damn that's scary
I heard this story from my grandmother...
It's about a spirit fox playing pranks on my family
The grandfather of my grandmother was out at night
He got lost in the dark, and saw a woman there
He asked her for the way, and arrived home but...
realized that his feet were drenched in water
When he turned around, the path he had come had turned to a rice field
WHAT
So the fox spirit might have bewitched him then
I find that story very scary
So the woman was an illusion of the fox spirit? - yes
The woman might have been a ghost
But at least he made it home alright that night
The fox spirit might just have been playing a prank on him
Your stories are fun to listen to
This story happened to my mother
My mother used to live on the second floor of a building (Japan has no ground floor)
The lived in an area with many animals and heard animal sounds a lot
She was changing once, and she heard the sound of not an animal but human footsteps
There was a truck parked in front of the house and it sounded like someone was in the truck
But when she looked to her window
A man was staring back at her
What
This is the scariest
That's a real life horror story - This is pretty real horror
What happened then? - She was too shocked to scream
Real people horror stories might be the scariest
This was not a horror story but actually a crime story...
But I got enough shivers so I will give you guys some candy
Oh wow - Here we go
Do you know these - I know
It's sweets we know here in Japan but with halloween ghost printing
This looks tasty, raspberry chocolate!
Right what do you say if you want sweets on Halloween?
Trick or Treat
Me too. Trick or Treat. - There we go
Trick or Treat!
Whee thanks for taking part in our interview
Please enjoy the treats. Thank you.
Now I am curious myself what's in this Tokyo Treat box
It's a subscription service that sends you cute Japan treats
And since today's topic is Halloween there's a lot of Halloween treats in here
For example you have the sweet potato
The moment it gets autumn Japan love sweet potato Kitkats
Everything gets sweet potato but especially also the Kitkats
Halloween Halloween pizza flavor
Is it the same in your country, the moment Halloween comes a lot of packages will be Halloween themed
And they managed to find a lot of Halloween themed packages
There is also a Tokyo Layer Loaf, Maple Pumpkin
Caramel Corn becomes a little vampire, look at the teeth!
There is loads more in here, if you want to get your own box
check out the description box below to see if you can get
your own little Tokyo Treat box get send to you
I am quite excited, there are a couple of things I am gonna have to try later too.
Thanks so much Tokyo Treat
This happened last year
I was working in an underground pool area...
I had turned off the lights, and turned the key to go home at night...
Then there was a clicking noise and the light got back on
for an unknown reason
On the first floor there is also a place where you can turn on the underground lights
I speculated that they turned it on by accident there
I ran upstairs and said 'Did you just turn on the lights downstairs?"
They said "What? We did not."
They even have a cover to avoid that from happening by accident
But for an unknown reason, after I had it all locked it turned on
Normally light turning off is scary but in this case light turning on scared me
Eeep scary
Did you ever find out what happened? - Never
But apparently ghosts appear more frequently where there is water
I also once saw a woman stand outside in the dark
I thought she was working on the poolside too and went out to greet her
But she was gone
I went to the office and said there was a woman outside but then was gone...
They said 'Oh that ghost has appeared here before'
What that woman was a ghost!?
The were also stories of the ghost of a woman in a coat that others had seen before
A pool has a lot of water, and it is said ghosts appear easier around water.
The staff told me all that. The ghost didn't do anything bad to me or others but
But that light turning on around 9 or 10 at night was super scary
So you saw the woman in the coat
I didn't see that one, but two other staff members had seen her.
I was surprised to find out about that history of my job
This freaked me out, I will give you sweets later as thanks
When I was in middle or high school I had forgotten something at school
I went back to get it and used the toilet afterwards
Nobody was around but...
in the total darkness, I head the sound of someone flushing the toilet
I was very scared then
Nobody was around? - yes
Maybe it was the famous Toilet Bound Hanako? - Possibly
Hearing the sound of the running water, I hurried and ran out of the school
Oh god this is awful, let me treat you girls to candy
What do you say on Halloween?
Trick or Treat - You are right lets go
Trick or Treat - Great job here you go
There is a lot - How cute - Why did you pick this?
I used to drink this drink a lot when I was a kid. I want to try that nostalgic flavor again
There is jelly inside the drink - Yes you shake it
Thanks for the treat
I picked the loaf - Thanks so much
So the jelly inside the can is hard now, so you shake it up to be able to drink it
(shaking)
It's done. Let's drink it
It is not chilled but it's carbonated and has nata de coco too
(unpacking and eating)
Wow this is good. And super sweet.
Very squishy texture
It's tasty! Thank you
This happened to me in elementary school
Sometimes when my dad came home late, he would buy us ice cream
He had bought some that day too, but I had already fallen asleep
On the next morning, I knew there was ice cream so I went up to eat it
But when I looked my ice cream was gone
When I asked where my ice cream had gone, they said
"You ate it last night!"
Turns out I had eaten it without knowing
(lol)
I ate it when I was not conscious and when I woke it was gone
You wanted it so much you sleepwalked - possibly
The Halloween treats were really popular from Tokyo treats
with the Japanese people and I am sure they will be popular with you
There are a couple of specifically Halloween Themed limited items in that box that you have seen
But not just that, they have another box here which is called Sakuraco
The Tokyo Treats one was full of October and Halloween
This one is going to be more mature and it is the Ibaraki Harvest theme
This one actually contains traditional treats from Japan
So it's less POP and more CULTURE
They write a little magazine with everything, explaining the items but also
about different places in Japan so
you can learn while you are actually enjoying your treats
And oh it comes with a little greetings card
Lots and lots of traditional Japanese snacks
I know that the pop snacks are very popular on Youtube
But actually these traditional snacks here are really popular with the locals here in Japan
So you can really learn about Japanese culture through them
We for example have some rice crackers here
Savory things like the senbei here, those are rice crackers...
I am actually gonna have that one now
(munch munch)
These ones here look a little bit softer these are shrimpy shrimps
(unpacking) Smells good
Oh that's the good stuff
Which was your favorite of the Japanese Horror stories? Let us know!
And if you are curious about getting your own snacks and treats subscription box then check the box down below
for Tokyo Treats and Sakuraco. Thank you so much for sponsoring us
I am gonna devour this one later
I catch you guys soon in the next video
If you are curious about Japanese horror stories this is gonna be the next video that might be right down your alley
My name is Cathy Cat and I catch you soon on another video here
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