Japanese Urban Legends

Red Room Curse

The Red Room is an urban legend about a pop-up that appears when you are surfing the internet. They say that the people who have seen the pop-up are found dead, their walls painted red with their own blood.

So overall this urban legend is terrible for me since the internet is a lot of my life.

This legend began with a flash animation of a boy being cursed after encountering the pop-up, but gained a lot of popularity when it was found that the girl who committed the Sasebo slashing in 2004 had the animation as a bookmark.

Here is a famous story that goes along with this legend:

It is said that there was a boy who was addicted to the internet. He heard of the urban legend The Red Room from one of his friends at school. When he got home, he looked on the internet if he could find out anything more about what it was. All of the sudden, a small window popped up with a red background. Written in black was the message "Do you like-?"

The boy closed the window, but it popped up again. He tried over and over again to close it, but it just kept reappearing. Eventually, the boy noticed that the message on the pop-up changed. Now, it read: "Do you like the red room?" and in the background, a child-like voice said "Do you like the red room?"

Just then, the screen went black and a list of names appeared in red. At the bottom of the list, the boy saw the name of his friend, the one that told him about The Red Room.

Suddenly, the boy became aware of something behind him and lost consciousness.

The next day, the boy or his friend didn't turn up for school. There was a rumor going around that something horrible had happened to them. The next day, the classmates heard the sickening news; both of them had committed suicide, painting their room red with their own blood before dying.

This legend is not related to the famous Red Room that is reportedly found on the deep web, and it is unknown if the Red Room got its name from the Red Room Curse. The Red Room is an equally sinister thing, however, and involves people paying money to watch others get brutally tortured.

Nobody knows if there is a way to avoid the death after the pop-up. It is said that the people who have encountered it didn't live long enough to tell their tale.