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.

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What is Curse? Is it a living object which haunts people for years? Is it face of the evil spirit born of human fear that holds the pain forever and shows its suffering time to time? Is it something which remains in a dormant state and becomes alive at the time of the curse?

Can Curse hunt anyone? How does it hunt everybody down the same way? Well, May be....

Aisha, was a country girl from Malaysia, born and bought up in a village. But moved to Kuala Lumpur (capital of Malaysia) in 1984. She was suffering from a very rare disease that gave her Photophobia. Photophobia is not an eye disease. In this, the person gets highly sensitive to bright light an experience devitalizing headache. Photophobia in simple terms is light sensitivity or intolerance of light. The sources of which could be sunlight, fiery light, etc. In occasional cases, light sensitive people are sensitive to bright light but in extreme cases any light can be irritating to eyes. That is why, she used to wear dark glasses all the time. She never let anyone take pictures of her as the camera flash caused her dreadful, intense headaches. Everyone in her belongings knew about her problem.

One evening, at the office party, everyone was having fun and so was Aisha. She removed her glasses and was enjoying, when one of her colleague having camera took a picture and the moment flash went off, she doubled over in pain, suffered and collapsed. Soon the ambulance came and took her to the hospital. 

She stayed in the darkened room for 3 days. The man who took the picture apologized to her for his carelessness. She got discharged, but doctors asked her to take a long rest and gave her medication. She had to lose her job. Her landlord had some sympathy for her, looking at her conditions and allowed Aisha to stay there until she gets fine without giving the rent. She only went out at the nights to buy some regular use stuff and food. After a few days, she decided to move to her village.

That night, when it was dark, Aisha left house and was walking to the bus station when a car suddenly stopped in front of her. From the car, 4 men came out and passed some sleazy comments and misbehaved with her, when she retaliated, they grabbed her in their car and took her to the empty house in the outskirts of the city. 

They tied her to a chair. One of the guys took a knife and cut her clothes from her body. They humiliated her, laughed at her and beat her to the extent of humanity. One guy had a camera, he took it out to take her photos. Aisha tried her ways out to explain her condition to them about that how severe headache she gets from the flash, how she would suffer in unbearable pain. They ignored, made even more fun of her and beat her, she was crying out loud and trying to untie herself but she wasn't able to. They clicked one photo of Aisha and as soon the flash went on, she was in horrible, intense headaches.

They started clicking pictures of her while she was lying nude tied up to the chair and crying, beaten up. They kept on taking pictures after pictures beating her horribly, while she was lying naked. Soon, conditions got worse. Aisha was screaming with extreme intense pain but none of them stopped. Soon, blood came out of her eyes, nose and ears. After here unbearable conditions, she was in a state she couldn't even move. After hours of torture, they were bored of their toy. 

They decided to throw them over the bridge and so that she will drown. They took her, she was still tied up. While she was throwing her, one thing they didn't notice was that Aisha was saying something. 

She said "she will kill them all. Anyone one who will look at her pictures will die and it is she who will kill them all, everyone she will return and avenge herself."

Next morning, the men went to a photo studio to get the pictures developed. They gave the studio owner extra money to keep his mouth shut and let the contents of the pictures hidden. They also threatened to kill him. Then went home in their car. When they saw the pictures they started laughing in joy. Aisha was naked, helpless, beaten up and crying in the pic. It was a moment of laughter for them. 

Suddenly their car crashed into the tree. One of the branches of the tree smashed directly into the drivers head, he died instantly. The second man was taken to the hospital, he died the same evening.

Third man survived with minor cuts on the body and after binding him up, doctors let him go. On his way to home, he fell into a manhole and broke his leg, tried to climb up but, he didn't and as it rained that day heavily, he drowned as the water level rose in the sewer. 

Fourth man did not have a scratch over his body and went to his home. While he was sleeping, he had a dream of Aisha, she was in the same condition naked, heavy bleeding from nose, ears and eyes, several injury cuts on her body and face in helpless face and extreme anger. She began beating him with a stick so many times. When he woke from sleep, he felt the intense pain and it was increasing eminently. He couldn't control it and lost his mind, and stated stabbing himself with the fork continuously. 

He realized what he had done and realized that he was cursed by Aisha. He went to the nearest police station and handed himself to the police and accepted his crime that he committed on that frightful night showing police all the proofs and pictures. He was arrested and he told police where they had thrown her body. After hunting a while, police found out Aisha's body. But he was not unable to persist the headache any longer and he banged his head to the wall until his skull got crushed.  Police found Aisha’s body and identified by her fingerprints. Her body was sent for Autopsy.

While the doctor was taking her pictures, he was shocked to see that Aisha’s eyes got closed by the flash. The Doctor died next day and the reason was overdose of pain killers. That pictures later killed few other doctors and nurses in the hospital. Police tried to remove every presence of those pictures available. Some sources say that picture was posted online by someone. 

God know how many more, that picture has killed……

The question is-

1.       Aisha took her revenge, so why did she kill Doctors and nurses.

2.       As a victim of humiliation, she took her revenge so why is she still out there.

[NOTE: The picture is still out there on internet and may be killing as well. The author of this blog could not take the risk of searching her picture on google. The author do not want to die. You can do whatever you like.]

Good bye, Take care!!!