One of the most popular forms of literature in Japan is that of "kaidan", literally meaning "strange story", during the Edo period, but over time "kaidan" has come to specifically mean stories of "yūrei", or "Japanese ghosts". Many Western academic studies concerning kaidan thus ...
Jan 7, 2025 — by Evelyn Sinclair in True Ghost Stories A Winter's Mystery Picture this: a winter night so quiet you can hear snowflakes whispering as they fall. The cold reaches into your bones, no matter how many layers you're wearing. You're in a tiny mountain village, where the...
Oiwa is one of the most famous Japanese ghost stories ever written. In Japan, it is known as “Yotsuya Kaidan” and it tells the story of a woman who is poisoned by her unfaithful husband. Her disfigured ghost returns from the dead to exact revenge. Oiwa – Yotsuya Kaidan Oiwa was a b...
In this collection of classic ghost stories from Japan, beautiful princesses turn out to be frogs, paintings come alive, deadly spectral brides haunt the living, and a samurai delivers the baby of a Shinto goddess with mystical help. Here are all the phantoms and ghouls of Japanese folklore: ...
Short, scary ghost stories presents a collection of online scary stories and real life ghost stories for Halloween.
Source: Radiance Films, MVD Entertainment Special Thanks to Derek Stubinski DAIEI GOTHIC: JAPANESE GHOST STORIES presents a collection of three of Japan's most famous ghost stories that have haunted people for centuries in a limited edition Blu-ray s...
Release date 八月4, 1973(Japan) Contacts + Add Become a member to see contact information for Ghost Story: Challenge of the Long-Neck Monster. + Add Cast 8 cast members NameKnown for Shunsuke Ikeda Ichiro / Kikaider 01 Kikaidâ Zero Wan(1973) ...
The ghost stories (and entomological essays) of ‘Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things’ represented part of Hearn’s dispatches from Meiji-era Japan, where the Greek-born, UK-raised, America-based writer settled in 1890, marrying a local woman, fathering four children, and becoming...
I'm posting this here because I've had a few stories that I can't explain and I don't know who else to tell without sounding crazy. I am a paramedic in a busy city. I am typically one of two paramedics on the overnight- 6pm -6am. About two weeks ago, I went to a call for...
Paranormasight: The Seven Mysteries of Honjois less terror-filled, but no less atmospheric — an anime-indebted visual novel set in a single Tokyo neighbourhood during Japan’s 1980s economic boom. Over the course of a single evening, a series of gruesome events take place: the result, you...