History Main / StringyHairedGhostGirl

* Heuksin (측신), is a Korean goddess who fits this trope, according to the myth, she is described as a woman with hair 150 cm long, and kills time by counting all her hairs. An ragefull deity, she was exiled to the domain of baths by the god [[TopGod Cheonjiwang]], with days with the number 6 being her most dangerous moments, so ancient Koreans avoided using the bath on those days; also responsible for kidnapping children by throwing them into the toilet, due to her hatred towards the hero [[SemiDivine Nokdisaengin]].

* ''Film/TheWholeTruth2021': When Putt and Pim look into the hole, they see a girl who fits this criteria in the house. [[spoiler:She's actually Pinya, their older sister who died when Pim was a baby and Mai was pregnant with Putt, from consuming rat poison.]]

** Similarly, 4th-Division captain [[spoiler: Yachiru]] Unohana resembles this once TheGlovesComeOff in her final fight with Zaraki Kenpachi.

* ''Manga/SgtFrog'' plays with this trope. The Hinata home is haunted by the ghost of a girl who was chained up there and died, but is very friendly - because it turns out she wasn't chained up there for long and died peacefully of an ailment at her own home. The only reason she stayed around was because she hoped to see her old friend, a kappa she had befriended (who, it's implied, was actually [[AncientAstronauts a visitor from Keroro's homeworld of Keron]]) one last time.

* ''ComicBook/AnyasGhost'': [[spoiler: Once Emily's true colours of being a ControlFreak and a {{Yandere}} are revealed, she transitions from being a CuteGhostGirl into this, complete with malicious acts against Anya once the latter tries to oppose her.]]

* Kayako from the ''Film/{{Juon}}'' movies, and their remakes, ''Film/TheGrudge'' movies. [[spoiler: Aubrey]] ends up as one by the end of the second movie, as well. [[spoiler: Naoko]] turns into a Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl after she is murdered by a curse-possessed Max in ''The Grudge 3''.

* Natre from the 2004 Thai horror film ''Film/{{Shutter}}''. Unlike the ghosts from ''Ring'' and ''Ju-on'', [[spoiler: the only people Natre ends up hurting or killing were the ones who deeply wronged her in life and drove her to depression and suicide]]. Heck, Natre [[spoiler: even went out of her way to warn her ex-boyfriend's current girlfriend of his crimes]], though this was probably motivated mostly by the desire for revenge against [[spoiler: said ex]].

* The Korean horror film ''Film/WhiteTheMelodyOfTheCurse'' features one; in this case, the ghost in question has white hair, and is believed by the protagonists to be the vengeful spirit of a K-Pop idol who committed suicide, at least until the end, where it turns out to actually be [[spoiler: the vengeful spirit of the ''backup dancer'' who actually wrote the song and committed suicide after being mutilated by the K-Pop idol, who lashes out at anyone who sings ''her'' song - oh, and the above-mentioned idol was her first kill.]]

* The "creeping woman" from Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "Literature/TheYellowWallpaper", who is actually a hallucination appearing to the narrator, who has been forced to stay in a room with no intellectual stimulation, or any exciting activity at all, to 'calm her nerves.' Liberal doses of nerve tonic were also prescribed, probably containing significant quantities of opium and alcohol. (Note, this was the prescribed remedy to women suffering "hysteria" in the 19th century.) [[spoiler: The narrator eventually thinks there's a woman creeping behind the odd, vine-like pattern of the wallpaper, and eventually, sees her crawling about. Then she thinks she sees a lot of them. Then she thinks ''she's'' the creeping woman.]]

* ''Series/TheHauntingOfHillHouse2018'''s most iconic and first-seen ghost the Bent-Neck Lady [[spoiler: as well as most of the non-bent-necked iterations of Nell's ghost]] match the look. [[spoiler: presumably partly as a way of disguising the ghost's identity ahead of the reveal.]]

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* Of all the ghosts in Thailand, the most famous is "Nang Naak". The story varies, but it's usually like this: An ordinary farm girl named Naak from a village falls in love with a handsome young man named Nai Maak. Despite their economical backgrounds, they eventually manage to be together. Shortly after marriage, Nai Maak is conscripted for military service and leaves Naak behind, who dies during labor along with her unborn child. Although they are buried according to local tradition, the spirit of Naak refuses to perish. When Nai Maak returns from the war, the ghost disguises herself and her child as humans to him. The revelation itself provides one of the most memorable scenes in the story when Maak sees his wife grotesquely stretching her arm through the floorboard of their elevated house to pick up a fallen lime, or a knife in another version, on the ground. The terrified husband runs away and the ghost follows him. There are many gory accounts of how Nang Naak chases, harasses, or even kills whoever comes between Maak and her. You're going to have to go on this link to learn what happens afterward - http://asiarecipe.com/thainangnak.html

* Sachiko Shinozaki from ''VideoGame/CorpseParty'' plays with this. In the original PC-98 version [[spoiler: she was a pretty typical onryō spirit aside from being a child in red instead of a woman in white]]. In the Heavenly Host saga she was the SoleSurvivor of a multiple-murder incident in the titular school. In-game she's a helpful, if distant, CuteGhostGirl. [[spoiler:Then [[TheReveal it turns out]] ''she'' was [[EvilAllAlong the true murderer]]. And ''then'' it turns out she and her mother were killed long before by the principal, corrupting her with hatred. And ''then'' it turns out she [[LiteralSplitPersonality split up into two halves]], the ''good half'' wears the white dress, and the evil half is the vessel of the [[GeniusLoci school]]'s will...]] [[KudzuPlot It only gets more complicated from there.]]
* ''VideoGame/CthulhuMythosTheSleepingGirlOfTheMiasmaSea'' features such a monster, who will later in the game chase after you in the form of the Chaos Beast. [[spoiler: Later on, it's revealed that it posses the body of a young girl.]]

* ''VideoGame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon'': Alma [[spoiler:Wade]] is the ghost of a psychic left to die in the psychic blocking chamber after she was drugged into a coma and forced to give birth to children to be used in a clone army project, so she is understandably ''pissed''. She wipes out an ''entire'' Delta team squad in three seconds by turning them into bloody skeletons, so the player is kinda over his head there. Oddly enough, the young Alma is somewhat benevolent towards the protagonist despite her penchant for scaring the absolute living piss out of him. She's often turned rooms filled with enemy {{Mooks}} into thin red gruel before the player character has a chance to. Alma's "current" self, however, is [[AxeCrazy less interested in his survival]]. It helps that [[spoiler:you're her son]]. Sadly, those games have been declared CanonDiscontinuity, so don't expect any mercy from young Alma in future installments. Alma ''does'' retain her merciful tendencies in ''F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin''; at one point, she saves Becket's life by killing an Abomination controlling a group of Replica soldiers. It isn't made clear why she does this until the very end, though. [[spoiler: She "covets" Becket due to his modifications in Project Harbinger, and uses him to impregnate herself.]] Also, unlike most here, she ''does'' get revenge on her killer (in fact the whole first game seems to be just her trying to get payback).

* ''VideoGame/TheHouseOfTheDeadOverkill'' features a boss named Screamer, which appears to be an homage to [[VideoGame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon Alma]], as it shares both Alma's appearance and mimics some of her appearances [[spoiler: such as appearing briefly in windows or sitting in the corner of the elevator]].

* Sorta visually invoked in ''VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair''. [[spoiler: When Ibuki Mioda is murdered by hanging, her body is found still hanging from a noose... and she's wearing a [[WhiteShirtOfDeath white]] robe, and her long black hair is down.]]

* ''Webcomic/TawawaOnMonday'' features one, Sada-chan, haunting the home of a video rental store worker, but, like every other woman in that setting, she has massive assets[[note]]biggest of the cast, in fact[[/note]] that actually prevent her from getting out of the man's small screen. Initially treated as a parody of Sadako herself, we find out that [[spoiler: she's anything but a malicious ghost, being nothing but a sweet girl with a tragic backstory and just wants to be loved again, even fulfilling her promise of having sex with the guy she haunts as a reward for getting her a bigger screen...though she finds the hard way that he's got a far bigger libido than she expected. Also, thanks to becoming ProgressivelyPrettier since her first comic, her [[LongHairIsFeminine long hair is treated as beautiful and willowy]]]].

* * In [[https://www.deviantart.com/slifofinadragon/art/Having-fun-while-you-can-Ch-8-Pt-4-951049178 chapter 8 part 4]] of [[https://www.deviantart.com/slifofinadragon SlifofinaDragon]]'s ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara'' [[ModernAUFic modern day]] fanfic ''Having fun while you can'', one of the ghostly [[MasterOfIllusion illusions]] Kyogoku Maria [[AWizardDidIt casts]] at the mountainside [[OldSchoolBuilding abandoned school]] (the same one from ''Gakuen Basara'' episode 8) where UsefulNotes/DateMasamune and [[UsefulNotes/SanadaYukimura Sanada]] [[MisterSeahorse Yukimura]]'s [[FanCreatedOffspring son]] Masa and his classmates have an illicit [[{{Kimodameshi}} test of courage]] involves his sister Yuki crawling on the floor and her hair covering her face, though it's the same color as mom Yukimura's.

* Sachiko Shinozaki from the anime adaptation of "VideoGame/Corpse Party", who's backstory justifies her being an [[Ax-Crazy]] one. Just like a traditional onryo, she was cruelly murdered to keep her mouth shut. Just like Sadako, she had literal split personality who wore white, and instead helps people rather than hurt, which is what Sadako's twin did. Sachiko wears red too instead of white like the usual onryo does.

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* OlderThanRadio: The painting "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ghost_of_Oyuki The Ghost of Oyuki]]" is believed to be one of the earliest examples of this trope, dating back to 1750.

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