Toire no Hanako-san

Toire no Hanako-san, (花子 さ ん?) Or Hanako-san in the Toilet (ト イ レ の 花子 さ ん Toire no Hanako-san) is a Japanese urban legend about a girl who is haunting the school bathrooms. She will appear when his name was called. Hanako is the ghost of the occupants of the toilet are quite popular in Japan.

Hanako-san is a famous urban legend and widely scattered so that it has a variety of versions. The calling Hanako-san serngkali performed by the children in the school as proof of courage ritual, or as a new student hazing methods, such as the Bloody Mary legend in Western schools.
Hanako-san called up by knocking on the bathroom stall door three girls on the third floor three times while asking 'Are you here, Hanako-san ", and a mysterious voice will say" I'm here. "In the booth will be present with a girl figure red skirt. Sometimes he appears with a white dress.
'Hanako' is a common female name in Japan in the 1950s, when the legend is [believed] started at that time.

Hanako ghost legend began in the 1950s when it was a scene where the little boy sighting in a school toilet with a red skirt, short bob hair, and could appear in the bathroom elementary schools in Japan. Based on the stories and rumors, that at that time there was a little boy who was hiding in the toilet of the school from the pursuit of his mother crazy, but unfortunate he was found and killed by the mother. Other versions mention that Hanako is a little boy who died because of air raids of World War II, when he was playing hide and seek with his friend and hid in the toilet. and some stories say that he is the ghost of a former student who had an accident at school. (one story from Fukushima prefecture, said that he is someone the girl who committed suicide from the library)The legend of the ghost of Hanako began in the 1950s, when it was a scene where the ghost sightings young children in schools with a red skirt and a short-haired bob, and usually appears in the shower-bath in elementary school dijepang, based on the stories that circulate and desas- rumors at the time, said that there was a little boy who hid in the school while being chased by a crazy mother, however unfortunate he was found and killed by the mother. Another version says that Hanako is a girl who was killed by an air raid of World War II, when he was hiding in the school toilet, and some other stories say that Hanako is a girl who died in school toilet because of an accident.

Each school has its story Hanako respectively, excitement ghost Hanako's back occurred in 1980 where the ghost was no longer appears in the toilet but also in elementary school and junior high school. Hanako usually appears in women's restroom but sometimes also appear in the unisex toilet.

Hanako existence at all threatening and terrorizing dislike with a vengeance. He only spirits that just appeared to show the existence, and became mascot today the dreaded ghost children. Hanako will not chase or injure. There is no special way to ward off Hanako. Some even say that the original ghost Hanako is a good figure even willing to help anyone who was in trouble and was mentioned often bring good luck.