The 1930s legend that inspired Squid Game ???? #legend #japan #scaryfacts - Video

Aka Manto, which translates roughly to "The Red Cloak," is one of Japan's oldest and most chilling urban legends — a masked spirit said to haunt the final stall of public and school bathrooms, particularly in women's restrooms. The legend, traced by folklore researchers back to the 1930s as a Japanese schoolyard rumor, describes a tall figure draped in a flowing red cloak, his face hidden behind a mask, who poses a single deceptively simple question to anyone using the toilet alone: "Do you want red paper or blue paper?" Choose red, and the spirit slashes you so thoroughly your dead body is left soaked in your own blood — the red of his name. Choose blue, and you are either strangled or drained of your blood entirely, until your skin turns the same pale blue. Trying to outsmart him by naming a different color is said to drag you straight to the underworld. The only ways to survive are to refuse both options, ignore him completely, or escape — though some versions say he blocks the door. The legend has rippled through pop culture for nearly a century, appearing in anime, horror games, and most famously, in director Hwang Dong-hyuk's confirmation that the red/blue card selection in Squid Game was inspired by Aka Manto's deadly choice.

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