The Suicide Drawing

The story is this, in Japan shortly before a teenage girl committed suicide; she drew this picture, scanned it and posted it online. In Korea this story broke out and it spread like wildfire (Quizazz, 2011, p. n.d). There are various posts around in Korean forums that say that the viewer gets drawn to the girls blue eyes, they say they can detect a hint of wraith and sadness within the eyes. Maybe the girl had died with so much sadness and anger that her spirit haunts the image, or maybe the image provokes sadness, similar to the song ‘Gloomy Sunday’.

According to Quizazz (2011) in the article Urban legends: Regional and Cultural, they say the freaky bit is this, they say it is hard for a person to stare into the girls eyes for longer than 5 minutes, and there are reports that some people have taken their own lives after doing so (p. n.d). People say the picture changes, as you view it there is a hint of a growing taunting smirk appearing on the girl’s lips or a dark ring that grows around the girl or her eyes.

I heard Japanese movies are the scariest kinds of scary movies out there. I hate scary movies for the fear it causes but, I like them for the thrill at the ‘jump’ or ‘pop-up’ scene. This is another one of those types of scary stories I love and hate at the same time, and no matter how hard I try, I can’t stare into her eyes for more than five minutes.