Crazy Ghost
Crazy Ghost (Japanese: クレイジーゴースト, kurejī gōsuto), also known as Red-Eyed Woman (Japanese: 赤目女, akame onna) is an image of a pale-faced, red-eyed woman that is used in many screamers. In China, the image is known as 一只可愛的女鬼寵物 (Pinyin: Yī zhī kě'ài de nǚ guǐ chǒngwù, “cute female ghost pet”).
Origin and spread
Crazy Ghost originated on a Korean site, myhome.hananet.net, as early as January 2002. Upon opening the page, the website would show the image with some text below:
殺生簿 <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=http://myhome.hananet.net/~crazyghost/goto.htm"> 위의 테그를 복사하여 테그가 실행되게 게시판에 써넣으시오. 그것이 한번이라도 실행되지 않으면 더욱 끔찍한 것을 보게 될것이다.
The Korean text roughly translates to "Copy the code above, send them to BBS and let them run. If not you will encounter even scarier things". The code provided is using HTML meta tag to invoke page redirection with a duration (immediate or 0 seconds in this case). It is speculated that on early BBSs that have HTML injection vulnerability, sending this code would cause an immediate redirect to the screamer after opening.
In October 2002, the image was published to two subpages of a private website belonging to a Chinese university student blog host, vip.6to23.com. Upon accessing the gui.htm page, the website immediately fullscreens itself, and open mm.htm as a popup. Upon opening, a dialog box that read 音量调到最大了吗?? ("Is the volume turned all the way up?") appeared. After clicking the OK button, the page displayed the Crazy Ghost image, and played g.wav, an audio file consisting of a female scream. The page opened another dialog box when the user attempted to leave the page, which read 哟,怎么你的胆量还可以啊 ("Well, you've got a lot of nerve"). Unlike mm.htm, gui.htm had no image or sound file in its source code, and was likely designed to to redirect the user to mm.htm.[1]
In 2009, the image was reprinted on a Japanese website called 魔を祓う部屋 (ma o harau heya, "Room for Exorcising Demons") under the name クレイジーゴースト.[2] A moeified version of Crazy Ghost, called キャー子さん (Kyāko-san),[3] was posted on Futaba Channel.[4][5]
Notes
- ↑ thetuburo.com/2021/12/28/crazy-ghost-gazou
- ↑ w.atwiki.jp/mustnotsearch/pages/128.html
- ↑ Likely a combination of キャー (kyā), an exclamation of surprise, and 子 (ko) a common female name ending.
- ↑ dic.nicovideo.jp/a/%E3%82%AD%E3%83%A3%E3%83%BC%E5%AD%90%E3%81%95%E3%82%93
- ↑ According to w.atwiki.jp/2jiwiki/pages/592.html, the earliest record of キャー子さん dates back to January 8th, 2008.
Links
NOTE: The following links contain a screamer!
- web.archive.org/web/20020123192058/myhome.hananet.net/~crazyghost/goto.htm
- web.archive.org/web/20071009121020/http://vip.6to23.com/jpgman/gui/gui.htm
- web.archive.org/web/20071009121020/http://vip.6to23.com/jpgman/gui/mm.htm
- Image: lohas.nicoseiga.jp/thumb/423455i
- Further reading (Japanese): thetuburo.com/2021/12/28/crazy-ghost-gazou
- dic.nicovideo.jp/a/%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AC%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B8%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B4%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88
- w.atwiki.jp/mustnotsearch/pages/513.html
