okiku mystery dolls from japan MYSTERY,RUMOR OR FACT WORLD

I first heard about this doll okiku about 1 month ago exactly on the radio horror show Friday night. According to people who've never seen this doll, this doll is scary with all the nuances of non-logical. How can an inanimate object can grow hair continuously.

Almost like jenglot, this doll is really beyond reason. A Japanese researcher revealed that the results of forensic tests that were grown hair is exactly the same doll with hair at the age of 10 years.

Okiku name is taken from a child who was playing with a doll with a size of 40 inches high, dressed in a kimono with black eyes like beads and bushy hair. Okiku doll has been in the temple town of Iwamizawa Mannenji in Hokkaido Prefecture) since 1938.

This doll was originally purchased in 1918 by a young man named Eikichi Suzuki in sapporo, where he saw a beautiful doll with Japanese Kimono. Eikichi bought this doll for 2-year-old sister named Okiku, this child was very fond of dolls and play it every day.

But unfortunately, Okiku died shortly afterwards of a fever. Later at his funeral, family want to put the doll in his coffin but somehow they forget. The girl's family then put the doll in the household altar and prayed for every day in commemoration of Okiku.Some time later, they saw the hair starts grow.by this story is the spirit of the girl who took refuge in a doll.

In 1938 the family moved to shakalin Suzuki, doll okiku Mannenji finally deposited in the temple in Hokkaido. According to the priest at the temple, a traditional Japanese dolls are always short-haired, he also confirmed that stretches okiku doll hair, although the cut continues on a regular basis, but his hair to grow steadily. According to the temples, traditional doll originally had short cropped hair, but as time continues to grow about 25 centimeters long, up to the knee doll,Although this doll hair cut regularly, but the story goes that the hair grows again.

This story has inspired a wide range of Japanese horror movies popular among them is the film Haunted School.