daughter-ofpearl: unexplained-events:Okiku, the haunted doll (Japan) resides at the Mannenji
daughter-ofpearl: unexplained-events: Okiku, the haunted doll (Japan) resides at the Mannenji temple in the town of Iwamizawa (Hokkaido prefecture). According to the temple, the doll had short crop hair, but over time it has grown to roughly 10 inches (or 25 cm since the rest of the world uses the MS) and comes down to her knees. The hair is trimmed from time to time, but keeps growning back. There is a story about a young boy that buys this doll for his little sister who happens to be sick. The little girl passes away due to her sickness a year later. A few weeks later the family started to notice the doll’s hair grow. Okiku is also the name of a maid that committed suicide and haunted her master. Whatever the story or reason may be behind this creepy doll’s hair growth, this is so fucking creepy. K this creeps me out because we had a Japanese doll just like this at my jr high that was haunted/used by a ghost!!So my school was very old, and during WWII, it was used as a hospital for soldiers who had returned home. There was a LOT of paranormal activities at the school, from seeing shadowy figures to unexplained banging (during an exam there was very loud banging in our classroom, like it sounded like there were buffalo stomping around above us. It was LOUD. my teacher phoned upstairs to ask them to quiet down, and the librarian said she was the only one in the room). Well, in 8th grade, we had a social studies unit on Japan and its history. The first day of the unit, our teacher put out some decorations, maps, other trinkets, and a Japanese doll similar to the one in the photo. We all went home. When we came back in the morning, all the decorations had been knocked over, posters pulled down, and the doll was put back in the closet where my teacher had been storing it. We thought the teacher was pulling a prank on us, but she wasn’t. Funny considering the attitudes on Japanese people during WWII… Still gives me the creeps! -- source link