The Red Room Curse- Is it Real?

The red room curse is an internet based Japanese legend with a yet unknown origin. It is based on a pop up which appears on the victim’s screen. The pop up is red in color and something is written in Japanese on the pop up and along with the pop there comes a voice of girl(All in Japanese) asking Do you like--? 

No matter how much you try to close the pop-up it keeps appear again and repeating the words.
Do you like it?
Do you like the Red Room?

According to the sources, the people who have seen the pop-up are found dead with their walls painted red from their own blood.

The red room became prominent at the time of Sasebo slashing when found as the top bookmark on a girl’s computer. Sasebo Slashing was the murder of a school girl 12 year old, Satomi Mitarai by an 11 year classmate of her. Know more about Sasebo Slashing.

It also acquired the space over internet when someone made a short film depicting the story. In that short film, the person comes across the pop up and suddenly felt someone standing behind him.

                                                                           

Also there is a flash video of a boy available on internet about the red room. Both of these are useless for you if you don’t understand Japanese.

The Red room has many stories across internet. Most common around them is the story of 2 boys discussing about the rumor of the red room pop up.

2 boys were discussing about the pop up on the video chat. Both signed off from the chat and started searching about it. One of the friends did not believe in any of this. He searched something and found nothing. He stopped searching and started the usual surfing internet, he accidently landed on some website which popped up a red box saying “Do you like--?” (All in Japanese) in the voice of a girl.

The guy closed the pop-up and after endless tries of closing it, the pop up kept appearing again and again. Everything about the pop up was the same but the question was now changed from “Do you like--?” to “Do you like the red---?” and then finally to “Do you like the Red room?”

Then suddenly a red screen appeared in front of him showing the names of the victims who have died by this curse, including the name of his friend at the last. He did not know that it was the name of the victims. Thinking it to be some kind of a prank by his friend, he tried calling his friend. The call got disconnected all the time. Suddenly, he realized that someone was standing behind him.

The next day, both the boys were missing and there was a rumor that two guys had committed suicide, painted their rooms red with their own blood. While investigating, the police found the second boy’s system and it had the same red screen with the name of these 2 boys in the last in order of their deaths. And the screen turned off.

The other names on the red screen might have been the previous victims.

Personally, I have not come across anyone who has been victim of the popup. Or it was created or originated. I think the story was made to scare people and it gained popularity.
There is no such way to check whether the curse is real or not. That’s what make legends like this cool. And makes the interest in the legends like this going.

Click to see the red room pop up

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