Tsukiko Otonashi is a fashionista who is too beautiful to be a detective. She is also intrigued by urban legends so much so that she believes all crimes are somehow linked to these legends. She even conducts her investigations in such a way as to prove them to be true. Tsukiko also likes to make use of whatever she can. She especially likes to enlist the help of crime lab officer Hitoro Katsuura, who happens to have a crush on her. Many other unique characters will make appearances as she investigates the crimes related to urban legends, using odd and exquisite techniques.
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Strange things are happening in present day Japan. Fake Documentary "Q" blends found footage and alternate reality premises to present a disturbing vision of a paranormal world lurking underneath day-to-day experiences.
Web series where two friends, TJ and Amy, search for filming locations for their upcoming Slender Man film project. As they walk through a graveyard, they encounter the Slender Man, initially believing it to be Jake, the father of TJ's daughter, Dahlia. The two are separated in the ensuing chaos, with Amy being confronted by the Slender Man on her own. TJ finds her in a delirious state, with hand-shaped burn marks on her body. TJ is then forced to protect her daughter and deal with Amy's fragile sanity, while the threat of the Slender Man looms over them. Additionally, two other mysterious entities make their presence known, both of whom appear to have an interest in Dahlia.
Teenage weirdness investigator Marshall Teller adventures through his new small-town home with his friends, geeky Simon Holmes and mysterious Dash X.
A number of inexplicable phenomena have been plaguing the town of Domori. In order to protect the town's children, a new homeroom teacher known as “Nube” arrives. Normally gentle and a bit outgoing, Nube has a secret side: he is, in fact, the only psychic teacher in Japan. Rumor also has it his left hand is possessed by a demon! Hell's messenger of justice is here to take on the school's seven mysteries, ghosts, and evil spirits attacking his students.
Urban legends, seemingly true yet seemingly fantastical, connect the past and future. While conducting research at Bride’s Pool, professor of folkloristics Poon Dor-lai experiences what appears to be paranormal encounters, but soon uncovers criminal exploits behind it. She teams up with journalist Fu Chi-pok to probe into the matter, unravelling the unknown background of bride-to-be Wong Yuk. The two decide to team up to continue work on Chi-pok's missing father's research paper on urban legends, but in the process, they discover many cases that bear similarity to the legends and they begin to suspect his disappearance.
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Five years ago, a string of grisly murders shook the city to its core and now the rumors have begun once more. Boogiepop... Everyone knows about Boogiepop: meet her one dark night and you are taken. People tell each other the stories and laugh: no one believes that she can possibly exist in this day and age. Still, strange things appear to be going on and the darkness is taking on many forms. Something is out there.
A children’s magazine show talking us through the fact and fiction of mysterious subjects and spooky goings on.
The science of living and the randomness of death are combined with a dash of Darwinism. Forensic experts, pathologists, toxicologists, herpetologists, and other experts offer eloquent explanations of mortality.
Follow Rob Lowe and his two sons, Matthew and John Owen, as they investigate unsolved legends and eerie age-old stories on a bonding family adventure years in the making.
In a bet to prove whether ghosts or aliens exist, two high schoolers face terrifying paranormal threats, gain superpowers and maybe even fall in love?!
Mikado Ryugamine moves to Ikebukuro at his friend’s invitation and quickly becomes entangled in the city’s dangerous underworld. After witnessing the legendary Headless Rider, he finds himself caught up in escalating violence and gang conflict that begin to throw Ikebukuro into chaos.
Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories spin-off. The story will center on the Tōkeshū ninja group in Tokyo, the city where dreams and desires swirl like eddies in a river. With ancient techniques passed down through generations, the ninja are intent on wiping out the "darkness" enveloping people in the current Reiwa era.
Nueno Mesuke, better known as Nube, is a school teacher who does more than just teach. You see, Nube's left hand is a huge, nasty-looking demon's claw. He uses it to get rid of malicious demons, ghosts, spirits and other supernatural beings that are giving his students a hard time. Nube's left hand was normal, until one fateful day when he exorcised an extremely powerful demon from a child. He was outmatched and lost his left hand. The only way to fight it was to let it enter his body. As a result, Nube has a demonic left hand where his own hand used to be. To educate and protect — that is what Jigoku Sensei Nube does.
A live-action/animation mixed collection of short school ghost stories.
*Marble Hornets: Rosswood* is a miniseries set within the *Marble Hornets* universe. The series follows Alex Kralie and Jay Merrick as they investigate Rosswood Hospital in search of information about urban legends and disappearances for Alex's webseries *Kralie: In The Reel World*. The miniseries has been confirmed as non-canonical by the creators.
Yamishibai is a picture-story style of animation whose motif is surrounded and based off the rumors, and urban legends throughout the history of Japan.
MythBusters is a science entertainment television program created and produced by Australia's Beyond Television Productions for the Discovery Channel. The show's hosts, special effects experts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, use elements of the scientific method to test the validity of rumors, myths, movie scenes, adages, Internet videos, and news stories.
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Celebrities and comedians share and discuss various intriguing urban legends from around the world. The show concludes by leaving viewers to decide what to believe.
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9 episodes • 2012Avg: 7.1
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Falling to their death...The curse of Masakado Kubizuka!? | Apr 13, 2012 | 8.0 |
| 2 | The murder of the wealthy woman! The 400 year old curse of the diamond | Apr 20, 2012 | 6.0 |
| 3 | The disappearing bride...You’ll die if you meet someone who looks identical to you!? | Apr 27, 2012 | 8.0 |
| 4 | The legend of Mount Takao!! The teacher who died because of the forbidden love | May 4, 2012 | 7.0 |
| 5 | The legend of the National Diet of Japan...Is the miniskirt clad legislator the murderer!? | May 11, 2012 | 8.0 |
| 6 | The legend of the Tokyo Tower and Sky Tree! The TV station murder | May 18, 2012 | 7.0 |
| 7 | The zashiki-warashi bore witness!? The locked room murder of the divorced couple | May 25, 2012 | 8.0 |
| 8 | On the night of a full moon crimes will occur!! The serial murder of the fortune tellers | Jun 1, 2012 | 6.0 |
| 9 | Goodbye Tsukiko...Tokugawa's buried treasure murder!! | Jun 8, 2012 | 6.0 |
7 episodes • 2013Avg: 7.1Golden Era
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Urban legend of Mount Fuji called death!? | Oct 11, 2013 | 8.0 |
| 2 | The couple kidnapped by aliens in a UFO murder case!? | Oct 18, 2013 | 7.0 |
| 3 | Friday the 13th! Serial murder camping!? | Oct 25, 2013 | 8.0 |
| 4 | The unexpected real culprit of the legendary three hundred million yen incident! | Nov 1, 2013 | 6.0 |
| 5 | The Hanako of the toilet curse!? Idol school murder | Nov 8, 2013 | 8.0 |
| 6 | Killer android!? The secret of the man who loved the robot | Nov 15, 2013 | 6.0 |
| 7 | Legend of the beautiful vampire acrtess who die twice | Nov 22, 2013 | 7.0 |