Ghost in the toilet!

It happened

last summer, during my first days here at Iwa High School. One day, the brass band students invited me up to the band room since they heard I could play drums. What an embarrassment! Our brass band girls are all savvy musicians, who spend hours each day practicing, and they perform often as well.
Anyway, my first week, I was given the drumsticks by the drummer herself, and managed to patter out a couple simple rock beats. Oh, but they wanted to see me rock out! It was one of those times in life I wished I could close my eyes, and let divine intervention take over, like in teen movies. Alas, instead I sheepishly explained that I never practice, and never had any lessons (except I did get pointers from my girl Andrea, but I didn't want bring that up). While Aki was showing me up on the drums, and sympathetically teaching me some new stuff, another girl threw the band room door open, yelling something I couldn't understand, and frantically gesturing for us to come to the bathroom ("toire"). She did offer a word to help me understand; "GHOSTO!!"
We followed her to the toilet, and she showed us how one stall door wouldn't close all the way. What??That's it?? Maaaybe,I suppose, you could say it looked like someone was hiding behind the toilet door. She demonstrated that when you push on the door, it wouldn't move. Just enough room for a person to be hiding. She was sqealing and laughing, along with the others.
I didn't get it!!!
Obviously, they knew there wasn't a ghost back there. Why all this drama, sqealing, and laughs about a ghost in the toilet from *high* school students????

The other day, a whole year after this "encounter", I finally find out the cultural charactor who may have been behind all that drama...

"TOIRE NO HANAKO"!!

A ghost named Hanako who lives in a high school toilet. Now it all makes sense.
She's a scary girl...




Toire no hanako-san seems to be a star of both animation and film. Feel free to google her for more... I hear the actress of the film, Kuriyama Chiaki also starred in Kill Bill.

By the way, isn't there a charactor like this in Harry Potter?

-Colleen