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An un-bear-ably great haul (maul?): Get your Gloomy Bear goods at 100-yen shop Can Do

• Krista Rogers
  Sep 23, 2025
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Cute carnage is back in vogue right now, but don’t worry–this new product series doesn’t come with any actual blood splattered on it.

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• Japan
• (100 yen shop • Can Do • character goods • collaboration • creepy • Gloomy Bear • guro-kawaii • practical)

We deeply regret going into this tunnel on our walk in the mountains of Japan

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 7, 2025

Seiji’s stroll in Okutama takes a dark turn.

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• Japan
• (beautiful • COK • cool • creepy • funny • Mountains • Nippara • Nippara cave • Nippara Limestone Cave • Okutama • outdoors • scary • Seiji Nakazawa • SNJO • tourism • travel)

Japan is getting haunted sticker picture booths just in time for Halloween【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 15, 2024

Three girls mysteriously died inside the machine and all said the same name as their last words, backstory says.

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• Japan
• (COK • crazy • creepy • Horror • photo booths • scary • sticker picture booths • sticker picture machines • sticker pictures • Uketsu • Watausa)

Czech Republic makes multi-eyed mascot friend for Osaka’s multi-eyed Myaku-Myaku mascot

• Master Blaster
  May 17, 2024

So happy together…

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• Europe, Japan
• (2025 Osaka World Expo • art • crazy • creepy • Czech Republic • Mascots • Myaku-Myaku • Rene Roubicek • weird)

Osaka’s creepy cute mascot speaks for first time, adds more fuel the creepy OR cute debate【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 15, 2024

Myaku Myaku says hello.

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• Japan
• (crazy • creepy • cute • Expo 2025 • Myaku-Myaku • Osaka • weird • World Expo)

Freaky face found in Japanese playground’s sandbox is as impressive as it is terrifying

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 5, 2023

Instead of building a sandcastle, someone built a monster.

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• Japan
• (art • cool • crazy • creepy • funny • sand • sandbox • scary)

A closer look at the knockoff Totoro figure that will haunt my nightmares…and maybe yours too!

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 21, 2023

If this is the spirit that lives in my local forest, then I’m staying out of it.

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• Japan, USA
• (anime • bootleg • COK • crazy • creepy • figures • funny • knockoffs • My Neighbor Totoro • scary • SNO • Studio Ghibli • Totoro • weird)

Creepy shrine video has Japanese Internet wondering where it is, if it leads to alternate world

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 29, 2022

It even feels like it has its own “Don’t come in here” warning alarm.

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• Japan
• (alternate world • creepy • isekai • scary • shrines • video)

Eight boars drop dead around Japan’s Killing Stone【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 18, 2022

Stone said to imprison evil fox spirit spilt in half earlier this year.

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• Japan
• (animals • boars • crazy • creepy • fox spirit • Killing Stone • kitsune • Nasu • scary • weird • wild boars)

That time our reporter’s classmate became possessed by a dead child at school

• Oona McGee
  Jul 28, 2022

Kokkuri-san is a Japanese ouija board that shouldn’t be messed with.

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• Japan
• (COK • creepy • eerie • elementary school • exorcism • Ghost Day • ghost stories • ghost story • Kokkuri-san • Mariko Ohanabatake • ouija • purification rituals • schools • SNJO • spirits • spooky • stories • students • superstition • temples)

Shigeru Mizuki’s world of Japanese yokai comes to life in new exhibition in Tokyo

• Dale Roll
  May 4, 2022

“Betobeto-san” © 水木プロダクション (Mizuki Productions)

A parade of monsters is coming to Roppongi Hills this summer, and it sounds like a treat! 

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• Japan
• (anime • art • COK • cool • creepy • exhibition • Gegege no Kitaro • Japanese art • manga • Roppongi Hills • scary • Shigeru Mizuki • Tokyo • Tokyo City View • yokai)

Train station entrance in Yokohama is straight out of a post-apocalyptic horror game【Video】

• Scott Wilson
  Apr 17, 2022

Nope.

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• Japan
• (creepy • Kanagawa • scary • train station • train stations • twitter • Yokohama)

Amigara Fault for cars?! Tunnel in Okayama just barely big enough for vehicles to fit through

• Scott Wilson
  Dec 11, 2021

It was made for me… and my car.

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• Japan
• (creepy • driving • Driving in Japan • Okayama • scary • tunnel • tunnels)

Japan’s shortest train line may also be its creepiest, looks like something out of a horror film

• Katie Pask
  Jun 13, 2021

Need a place to shoot a budget apocalypse movie?

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• Japan
• (creepy • higashi-narita • Narita • Narita International Airport • Shibayama • SNJO • Tokyo • trains • travel • weird)

Japanese “Creeper Reply Badge” capsule toys make us cringe with their cliche replies 【Photos】

• Shannon
  Aug 22, 2020

If you find yourself answering girls’ messages like this, you’re probably a creeper.

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• Japan
• (Capsule Toy Store • capsule toys • creeper • creepy • gacha gacha • Japanese Twitter • ojisan • useless inventions • Yokohama)

Police officer arrested for repeatedly clogging women’s toilets, watching them get upset about it

• Master Blaster
  Oct 2, 2019

Suspect claims an interest in women’s restrooms drove him to commit the crime spree.

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• Japan
• (burglary • clogged toilet • convenience stores • creepy • Fukuoka • police • Public restrooms)

Obsessed stalker tries to mark object of his affection by mixing body fluids into her lotion

• Katy Kelly
  Jul 27, 2019

As far as nightmare scenarios go, this is probably number one.

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• Japan
• (creepy • gross • Nara • pee • scary • stalkers • stalking • Toilets)

Three friends go into a pitch-black “haunted” tunnel in Japan, freaky terror ensues【Video】

• Koh Ruide
  Jul 17, 2019

Watch your step when entering one of the most haunted places in Japan.

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• Japan
• (creepy • fright • Horror • Japanese Twitter • Kumamoto • scary • tunnel)

Japanese man approaches high school girl on the street claiming to be husband in past life

• Koh Ruide
  Jun 27, 2019

A distraught man finally discovering his soulmate, or a sleazebag trying to pull off a real-life Taki from Your Name?

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• Japan
• (COK • creepy • crime • high school girl • sexual harassment • suspicious person • weird • your name.)

Beginner Live2D anime artist creates eldritch horrors that warp reality when they move【Video】

• Katy Kelly
  Feb 10, 2019

The leap from static drawings to animation has never been so drastic.

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• Japan
• (anime girls • creepy • cute • Live2D • virtual YouTubers • weird • wtf)

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