Nightmare Fuel / Avatar: The Last Airbender - Smoke and Shadow

• This story features a very frightening concept that involves spirits known as the Kemurikage—ghosts that haunt people and kidnap children. Although the beings causing trouble aren’t the real deal, the legend is very, very real: Long ago, a warlord named Toz abducted children when villages could not provide, and they were never seen again. The mothers of these lost children died of grief, and the poor souls of these weeping mothers became known as the Kemurikage. Consumed by sadness and an insatiable thirst for vengeance, they abducted the children from the warlord’s encampment, but even then they could not pass on until the first Fire Lord brought the warlords to justice. Compared to any spirit we’ve seen, these are like something straight out of a Japanese horror movie.