Previously: The Mojave Phone Booth.
Type: CC (corporeally challenged)
Period/location of origin: Unknown, Hokkaido, Japan. Details of subject’s history suggest modern origins, re: presence of trains.
Appearance: Subject, called Kashima Reiko, or the Mask Death Demon, has the appearance of a young Japanese woman. Her most notable quality is her lack of legs; her body ends mid-torso. It is not, it should be noted, a pretty sight.
Modus operandi: Subject typically appears in public restrooms, although her presence has occasionally been noted in the washrooms of private residences. Upon appearing, subject will ask target a series of questions in a particular order. These questions are:
- “Where are my legs?”
- “Who told you that?”
- “Do you know my name?”
Failure to answer correctly will result in subject forcibly removing target’s legs from his or her body.
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Containment: Answering subject’s questions correctly is the only known method with which a target may survive an encounter.
- If subject asks, “Where are my legs?”: The correct response is, “On the Meishin Expressway.”
- If subject asks, “Who told you that?”: The correct response is, “Kashima Reiko told me that.”
- If subject asks, “Do you know my name?”: The correct response is, “Mask Death Demon.” This response may be arrived at through careful analysis of subject’s human name: “Ka” comes from the word “kamen,” or mask; “shi” comes from “shinin,” or dead person; and “ma” stands for demon. Do NOT, under ANY circumstances, reply “Kashima.”
Additional notes: Subject bears the name of the human she once was: Kashima Reiko, a woman viciously attacked in a public restroom by a group of men and left to die. Although subject sustained fatal injuries, she did not suffer immediate death; her expiration spanned an extensive period of time, during which she search and called out repeatedly for help (which did not, unfortunately, arrive). Subject eventually passed out from loss of blood atop a railway track running alongside the Meishin Expressway. Subject did not revive before a train traversed the track, severing her body at the waist and finally killing her. Following her traumatic death, subject became an onryo, a vengeful spirit in search of both her legs and revenge.
The perpetrators were never caught.
Subject should not be confused with teketeke, another CC taking the form of a young Japanese woman with no legs, or Hanako-san, who also appears in public restrooms.
Recommendation: Subject will appear to potential targets within the 30-day period following target’s initial awareness of subject’s existence.
I’m sorry.
I’m so sorry.
Resources:
Just Another Reason Public Bathrooms Are Terrifying.
Ghost Stories from Japan: Kashima Reiko.
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It’s really just a literary device used to keep you from forgetting the story, it appears in many urban legends and appears to be pretty effective. People will be going about their daily lives but maybe be bit more cautious around out-of-sight, out-of-mind public areas where they may be exposed to a more immediate danger in the form of human predators.
So she only appears in public restrooms? Not inside your house’s restroom?
Okay thanks for having this demon come after me. Now I’m scared of bathrooms and this is day 2 right now for me. (Btw I think the encyclopedia and the games are very cool)
Are you alright ww⊂((・x・))⊃
hehe 2 years stronk. I remember reading this story and a couple others on here and the same day one of the lights in my bathroom gave out and I was ssoooo scared
Just so everyone knows, I heard this story in another form about two years ago without the warning and absolutely nothing happened.
Honestly I think if you stumble on a story that does the whole “now that you’ve heard the story you’re next” trick the best thing to do is look for a different telling of the story and see if that version has the same warning. If it does, then definitely be careful. If not… I don’t know. Probably not going to be a problem
is it gonna come to india?
how could you do this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
what am i gonna do?
Consider myself terrified, hope this isn’t a super common thing to happen to people.
This is really gonna help me if I ever see her
At first, I couldn’t memorize what to say.
me too. I am not gonna leave my house for 2 to 3 months.
How could you mess up your readers like this? Not cool.
Wow okay thanks for making me even more paranoid than I am at 11:53pm while alone in the house.
Lucia, you should really warn people when it comes to these types of legends. I nearly fainted on the recommendation, I’m scared.
Well, it’s comin’ to INDIA then.
And hope she doesn’t get to the Philippines. I live in the Philippines, you know. Thanks Lucia, for boosting the “nightmare fuel”.
Oh god no.
I remember being scared by Carmen Winstead when I was a kid because I thought it was true. Now I am feeling it again, the terror flowing to my veins.
I hope I won’t get to memorize this answers.
I also live in the Philippines, and I remember when the Lucia Joaquin story went viral, I was reading it early in the morning xD
What is the story? I used to know but forgot it, hehe.
BTW, Carmen Winstead is up here now. I’ve also received Lucia Joaquin stuff. I feel you.
Go fudge yourself (but with love) <3 🙂
can you like look up the answers if she asks you? or do you just have to go with what you know
You can’t look up. she will kill you immediately. so you gotta remember.
I’m very scared right now. I just read this today, and I can’t speak Japanese, nor want to see her. If this “Mask Death Demon” is real, is it only in Japan? D;
She can also reply in English it’s real and its unknown if it’s in Japan but it may also be in China
do you have a time limit to answer the questions once you meet her?
No you don’t, but if it takes you 2 hours, then she might just kill you.
You’re all still alive right? ?
Yes, don’t worry, we’re all alive. I read this article about 4 months ago, and I’ve yet to encounter a demon in an empty public washroom. 😛
Then again guys this is just a legend but no need to scare anyone but…
My friend was playing outside and she told me she heard words and saw an 8-foot tall woman with black hair… and they were “Po..po..po” I thought she saw Hachishakusama, so I told her what to do and she is alive. Some of these legends could be…true
Still alive. Learned not to read spooky stories when lacking enough sleep lol
You should really warn people BEFORE HAND that if they read this post then they will summon a ghost. Even if its not true you could really fuck someone up. Not cool man, not cool.
Yo CANDY, if people are on this website they should be prepared for this or at least a good scare.
This is me, read this post about 5 minutes ago. Still alive hurray!
NOT.
is she gonna book a flight to indonesia? from japan to indonesia is 2,988 miles.
Guys, it’s basically a surprise quiz.
Hey put that end bit at the start you jerk. I don’t need that paranoia garbage right now
Just avoid public bathrooms within 2 months and you will be fine after that
…shame on that last two lines.
Um I’ve heard of Kashima Reiko on another website and it’s been two years since I read about the story. It’s probably not true. But if she really does appear, is she going to ask the questions in Japanese or English? And if she does ask in Japanese, what should you do if you don’t understand?
She replies in both but if she replies in Japanese then you just reply to what the site said.
This isn’t true, is it? I’ve got the answers on a post it just in case, but this is super scary
Oh come on. That wasn’t cool. Guess I’ll have to remember the answers now.
Why?
Then why’d you tell us this?
If you know it’s going to happen, why?
I’ll have to remember this by memory now -_-
Wait just a sec
What if you pronounce it WRONG??
Will she kill you?