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Kuchisake-onna
Kuchisake-onna is a cryptid โ a creature whose existence is unconfirmed by science โ with reported sightings near Gifu Prefecture, Japan, JP. This file collects the accounts and folklore surrounding it.
Where and when was Kuchisake-onna sighted?
- Location
- Gifu Prefecture, Japan, JP
- Date sighted
- Unknown
- Coordinates
- 35.391, 136.722
- Testimonies
- 0
- Last updated
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What is Kuchisake-onna?
Kuchisake-onna, the "Slit-Mouthed Woman," is a modern Japanese urban legend describing a pale woman wearing a surgical mask who stops passersby, usually children walking home, and asks, "Am I pretty?" Removing her mask reveals a mouth slit ear to ear, and answering either "yes" or "no" allegedly seals the victim's fate, since a wrong answer means death and a right answer means she cuts the questioner's mouth to match her own. The legend caused genuine panic across Japan in the summer of 1979, especially in Gifu and Nagasaki prefectures, prompting schools to organize group walks home and police patrols to reassure worried parents about a rash of sightings. Children reportedly traded a folk countermeasure: offering her hard candy or shouting "pomade" three times as a way to distract her long enough to escape. Some folklorists trace her origins to Edo-period tales of scorned or mutilated women, reshaped through 1970s tabloid coverage into a modern moral panic archetype, a pattern common to many contemporary "phantom attacker" scares worldwide. No verified victim or perpetrator was ever identified despite months of nationwide alarm.
๐ Source: Enigma Atlas
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