Tag: Urban Legend

Hasshaku-sama

Hasshaku-sama or the Eight Foot Tall Lady or simply the Tall Lady is a japanese urban legend started in the 2000s in Japan and appearing on 2chan in 2008 in a scary story posted there.

Hasshaku-sama is said to have a variety of ages and clothing, but almost always around eight feet (2.4 meters) and very pale skin. She frequents isolated locations and will hunt you down unless you hide in a room with protective talismans to ward her off.

She can mimic people’s voices to lure them towards her and is relentless in her pursuit once she’s targeted you.

Notes

  • She’s been compared to Slenderman as they are both tall thin beings who had stories about them circulate online message boards.
  • She’s also been compared to Yama-onna (the mountain woman) who is a yokai who stalks people in the rural mountainside. See here.
  • The image comes from the horror game Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water where Hasshaku-sama appears as a spirit you can encounter.

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Ghost of Maules

Le Loyon or The Ghost of Maules was an urban legend in the area around the village of Maules, Switzerland. An unidentified person roamed the forests in a gas mask and dressed in a military boilersuit in addition to a cloak.

First sightings date towards the turn of the millennium but only reached global news coverage in 2013 when the Ghost of Maules was photographed and the press ran stories about them. They then left their gear out in the open and criticized the media attention and tales of them as a dangerous boogeyman. No sightings of them have been reported since 2013.

Le Loyon was often seen picking flowers according to some reports.

Notes

  • Image of a soldier during a military operation in Germany. Shown here simply to illustrate what the Ghost of Maules looked like to people. For more info click here.

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