JAPANESE URBAN LEGENDS

HARIONAGO

Her Deciving Smile
One day, Aki was getting ready to leave her school. She was putting books in her bag, suddenly, her friend came in the classroom. "Aki!!" Shouted her friend. "Chihiro! Keep it down!!!" Aki shouted back. "Sorry, did you hear the news? I heard that someone died last night! It was on the news." Chihiro informed. "I know, I know. Stay safe while walking home, I get it." Aki sarcastically answered. Aki soon was done packing her school bag and exited the school, starting her route home. As she was walking home, it got darker and darker. She found a lady in a beige kimono who smiled at her. Aki smiled back and the lady stopped smiling, only then did Aki realize that she would be soon killed by the hooks in her hair.
The next morning, Chihiro turned on the news and saw Aki's lifeless body on the ground, covered in scratches and hook-like stab wounds. Chihiro was upset for the entire day, when she had to go home, she felt nervous that she would be killed by what had killed her best friend. She was walking the same route that Aki took since they lived in the same neighborhood, Chihiro soon saw the same woman. Chihiro ran away to her house and slammed the front door behind her, locking it and running upstairs to a room with no windows. She locked herself in the room and soon went asleep, in the morning, she exited her room and found the windows shattered and scratches on the walls of her house.

Origins Of The Harionago
If you see a lady smiling you at night, don't approach nor smile at her. She could be a Harionago. Harionago's stand in the streets of Japan, smiling and looking at you. If you approach her, you'll notice the hooks in her hair, it'll be too late by then. If you smile back at her, she'll stop smiling and attack you. If you see her, don't smile or approach her, run away to a safe place with strong doors and windows. Otherwise, you might wake up to an undelightful surprise.