Spooky Blog explores Asian paranormal folklore and urban legends, featuring strange tales about ghosts, myths, and monsters from different cultures across Asia .
Kyokotsu are the vengeful spirits of people whose bodies were buried at the bottom of wells. The circumstances of such burials are often linked to violent deaths.
Kurote, meaning black hand, is a monstrous hairy hand that hides in toilets. When someone uses the toilet where it lurks, Kurote reaches up from the hole and strokes their behinds.
Kudan are human-cow hybrid beasts with the uncanny ability to foretell future events with absolute accuracy. These yokai are born from ordinary cows but appear as calves with human faces. Immediately after birth, a kudan delivers one or more prophecies, and then promptly dies. Whatever fate a kudan predicts always comes true. Because of this legend, the Japanese phrase “kudan no gotoshi,” meaning “just as spoken by a kudan,” is often used in official declarations and certif
