![]() ![]() Written/directed by Danishka Esterhazy, Level 16 revolves around a group of girls trapped at the Vestalis Academy, a prison-like boarding school that teaches feminine “virtues” and how to be a lady, all so that the girls will be ready for adoption at the age of 16. A film like Level 16 is a perfect catalyst for such a lesson. But it’s my hope that more of those like myself are beginning to wake up to the wrongs that have been attributed towards women. Growing up, I would hear about these things, but I couldn’t or wouldn’t understand them. ![]() First published 1904.…As a white male, I’m ashamed to admit that it is only in the past decade that I’ve really noticed how cruel and controlling the world is to women. Obake Files: Ghostly Encounters in Supernatural Hawaii. She appeared at a wedding reception at a Waikiki hotel, in a shopping mall and at the Kapi’olani Community College. Whether or not these stories were true, the story took hold, and other sightings of the Faceless Woman were reported at the drive-in.Īfter the drive-in was torn down to make way for a housing development, the Faceless Woman (and often legless as well) was sighted around Oahu. When she turned around, no one was there. Then she observed that the figure had no legs. In the mirror, she saw a figure behind her with long hair and no face. In another version of the story, the girl went into the restroom about midnight to refresh her lipstick. Supposedly, she was so frightened that she had a breakdown and had to be hospitalized. The girl approached, and the woman turned slightly. According to one version, the girl went into the restroom and saw another woman standing in front of the mirror, combing her long, beautiful hair. A newspaper article reported “rumours” that a girl had encountered one such ghost in the restroom of the drive-in. In Hawaii, a Faceless Woman began making appearances in Honolulu at the Waialae Drive-In in 1959. The merchant saw that the man had no face-and then the light in the lantern went out. Haltingly, he told the soba man about the girl, adding, “I cannot tell you what she showed me.” “Was it anything like this that she showed you?” asked the soba man, stroking his own face. The merchant flung himself down beside the man, out of breath. It proved to belong to a soba man (seller of buckwheat noodles) who was resting on the side of the road. The merchant dared not look behind him, and he didn’t stop until he saw the gleam of a lantern. He screamed and ran away up the Kii-no-kuni-zaka. Suddenly she turned her head toward him, stroking her face. The merchant continued to plead with her not to cry and to allow him to help her. She continued to weep, hiding her face in the long sleeves of her garment. She was young, slender and well dressed and wore her hair in a style that indicted she came from a well-to-do family. According to the merchant, he was hurrying up the slope late one night when he saw a woman crouching by the moat, weeping bitterly. It resembles more contemporary versions that fit an urban legend motif. One story came from a merchant man and took place in Tokyo on the Kii-no-kuni-zaka, a slope of the Akasaka Road. ![]() Lafcadio Hearn, one of the first Westerners to study the folklore and traditions of Japan, documented old stories about the Mujina, a faceless ghost in the form of either sex, in his book Kwaidan (Weird Tales), published in 1904. Often classed as an urban legend, the Faceless Woman has old origins. The ghost is a beautiful woman, usually seen first from behind, who terrifies people when they discover she has no face. A Faceless Woman is a type of Ghost who appears in Haunting legends and folklore around the world. ![]()
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