日本学校厕所里的红斗篷，问你要红的还是蓝的

There is an old toilet urban legend in Japanese schools called “Red Cloak.”

The story goes like this: after school, when no one else is around, you go alone to the restroom at the end of the corridor and enter the innermost stall. Then, from above your head or outside the partition, a voice softly asks, “Red cloak, or blue cloak?”

If you answer “red,” you will be cut piece by piece until you are covered in blood and collapse in the restroom; if you answer “blue,” your blood will be drained and your whole body will turn blue, and you will die. In some versions, saying “yellow” gets you dragged underground, and saying “neither” also doesn’t work. Anyway, once you answer, you die.

Later, a variant called “Red Paper, Blue Paper” spread, asking “Red paper, or blue paper,” with similar results. This urban legend is one of the “Seven Mysteries” told in Japanese schools, along with “Hanako,” “The Moving Anatomical Model,” and “The Piano That Plays Itself in the Music Room,” with every school having its own version.

The origin of this story is said to be related to the 1930s. Around 1935, a rumor spread around Tokyo about a strange person wearing a red cloak who roamed the streets and kidnapped children. The rumor later entered schools and gradually became connected with restrooms.

Many Japanese parents heard this story when they were young, and now their children are scaring each other during breaks, saying: Go try it, go in, and when they ask you, whatever you do, don't answer.

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