Teke Teke

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Teke Teke is a famous Japanese urban legend about a vengeful female ghost (onryō) who was sliced in half by a train. She drags her upper torso along the ground on her hands or elbows, making a distinct "teke-teke-teke" scraping sound, and hunts people down at night to cut them in half. In many versions of the lore, the girl was shy and often the target of cruel schoolyard pranks. One day at a train station, classmates tossed a cicada onto her shoulder. Terrified, she panicked, fell onto the tracks, and was run over by a high-speed train, which sheared her body in two. Dying in extreme agony and rage, her spirit transformed into a malevolent entity seeking vengeance. While she typically haunts railway stations and dark alleys, regional variations claim she can scale walls or sprint across rooftops. Despite having no legs, she moves with unnatural, terrifying speed by scuttling on her hands or elbows, often outrunning cars. When she catches a victim, she uses a scythe, sickle, or sheer supernatural force to slice them in half at the waist.