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[EzeWong]

Anyone know any good quality Korean Scary Stories? I've heard a few and would love to scare the bejesus out of my after school program kids in the spirit of haloween.

Please no fan death stories though kkthx.

[peppermint]

how old are the kids? If they're middle school or higher, they'll probably have a ghost story or two about kids who offed themselves at the school over a failed test or something. You could always riff on that, tell them the math teacher told you about the ghost or something. Just remember, Korean ghosts tend to be female, extremely white skin after death and long hair.

if they're still in elementary school, I'd make the ending a little silly just to keep the kids from freaking out about it later on.

[pkang0202]

how about western scary stories?

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/006440465X/metafilter-20/ref=nosim/

I remember reading those in elementary school. They were good.

[EzeWong]

I've never really ever been scared of western stories. I used to read RL Stein all the time and it had no effect on me.

But some of the Korean ones gave me shivers.

I just read online that theres this ghost that waits for girls with long hair at the edge of beds. So if you sleep with your hair down touching the ground, the wraith will count your hair as fast it can. If it counts them all you die.

My FAVORITE one I can remember too well.

I don't want to ruin it but it involves a man looking through a keyhole of a door and seeing nothing but red.

Does anyone know this story?


PS. They are middle school kids, but they just had midterms so I don't want to give them any ideas about offing themselves.

[aphase]

[diver]

http://www.travelpod.com/travel-blog-entries/tobiah/neasia/1121452260/tpod.html

Beware the Red Mask!

Red Mask
In the western world we have so many urban legends designed to scare us, guide us along some moralistic path, or make us believe that the bizarre can happen. Here in East-Asia a particular urban legend has sprung-up like wildfire. The story of the Red Mask had all the kids talking in the hagwan this week.

When I came to work on Monday, all the kids were discussing whether they thought that the "Bagan Maskeeh" or "Red Maskeeh" was real. Some of the children were legitimately scared, while others just thought it was a cool story... regardless, Red Mask fever has swept Korea. This urban legend began in Japan and made it's way to Korea over the Internet. The story goes like this:

A Korean woman has plastic surgery in Japan. During the procedure, something goes horribly wrong and she is left with a grotesquely scarred face. The edges of her mouth are cut all the way up to her cheek bones making her face resemble a "psycho-smile." Horribly disfigured she's determined to take out her anger on children. If you live on the first floor of an apartment building or go into dark alleys she may find you. If she does she will ask you a question. "Am I pretty?"

If you say that she is pretty, she'll call you a liar and cut your face to be just like hers. If you say she's ugly, she'll be insulted and cut the left side of your mouth... basically you should be scared because it's a lose/lose situation.

The Red Mask conversations lasted about 3 weeks. In that time the story began to evolve to include blue masks, white masks, yellow masks, ect...

Incidentally, I swear I've spotted the white mask in my neighborhood. I see her hiking around Suji in a track suit, wearing a perm, a visor, and a white mask resembling a duck bill to keep the sun off her face.

[MollyBloom]

[semi-fly]

You could always try reading them the original Grim Fairy Tales (German). Not that watered down crap you see in the American version.

If that doesn't help show pictures of Nicole Richie or Paris Hilton, the kids are bound to have nightmares for a month.

[lorenchristopher]

I've shown this video before and it scared the daylights out of them, but they think it's great and always ask to see it again:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sT41wRA67PA&feature=related


Once you've got them freaked out, you can show this one just to lighten things up a bit:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo8CP9Hhb58

[browneyedgirl]

[MollyBloom]