Video: Severed Mouth Woman
One of the cooler things about summer in Japan is the centuries-old tradition of swapping ghost stories. Some argue that the fear induced by a spine-chilling story can actually lower one’s body temperature, making it a great way to deal with the summer heat. With this in mind as the summer heat sets in, here is “Severed Mouth Woman,” a video produced by Buildup as part of their Bizarre Creatures of Japan series.
The video recounts the well-known story of the severed-mouth woman (kuchisake-onna), a malicious blade-wielding lady with a slit mouth (which she keeps hidden behind a surgical mask) who is bent on cutting open the mouths of strangers. Apparently a modern interpretation of an old Heian period legend, this tale sparked a mass panic in Japan in the late ’70s and early ’80s, as news reports circulated about a slit-mouthed woman terrorizing neighborhoods across the country. In this video, produced more than two decades after the hysteria passed, a former coroner comes forward with details about the severed-mouth woman’s identity. Using old skeletal records, her head is reconstructed here.
Enjoy, stay cool and… Brylcreem, Brylcreem, Brylcreem!
She looks kinda friendly. :)
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…I’m so going to have nightmares. ;_;
Kuchisake-onna (I think the proper translation would be “mouth-slit woman”) used to freak me out so much when I was a kid!
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Severed Mouth Woman has almost got La Llorona beat!
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hey ! this lady was the inspiration for the new Jocker !
watch the pics of the gay cowboy dress as the jocker
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I must be save! For I DO use brylcreem! :D
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God. So I’ve been skipping to ends of videos ever since I got fooled by one of those scary-face-and-loud-noise-surprise videos, and in this one I’m watching the beginning half, and going “oh, that’s kinda creepy I guess.” But then I skip to the end and it’s just like AHHH there’s this head with the slit-mouth and I’m thinking “Is it real? Is it real?” Gee whiz I guess I just created a nightmare for myself.
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damn im gonna have nightmares
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This is based on fact though, which I’m guessing you don’t know.
This is an actual thing that has been done to people and it’s cropped up in Europe on victims of gang warfare and many other places so it may be a possibility that this was based on some kind of murder or disfiguring that took place in Japan.
So as a ghost story, I don’t find this entertaining. This is a serious thing.
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holy shit!!! this is scary!!! im gonna get nightmares!!!
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wtf
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This lady better not be traveling because if she gets me somebody will pay for letting me see this website or else you got something else to worry about.
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I bet she gives great oral.
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nice video but its not truth.
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