The Shirime.
Are you sitting comfortably? Then I will begin.
"In this tale, a samurai warrior is walking around Kyoto late one night when he is accosted by some naked pervert, seemingly the dumbest rapist in all of Japan.
"Before the samurai can draw steel and carve this guy up, however, the perv bends over and . . . reveals he has a huge eyeball peering out of his ass."
Graphic illustrations and much more at
Cracked.com's 7 Most Ridiculous Ghost Stories
Malaysia has lady-ghosts called Hanu Tetek whose afterlife task is to smother young men with their breasts. The illustration of this one is a little misleading, as they turn out to be hags not babes. It tends to go with the being dead bit.
The others are:
Raw Head & Bloody Bones from the Ozarks.
The Toyol - a Malaysian Kleptomaniac Foetus-Ghost.
The Headless Celibacy-Enforcing Mule of Brazil. Well I wouldn't.
(It's the fire spurting from the neck that puts me off. That and it having no head. And being a mule, of course.)
The Hairy Toe. You find one; you want to stew it. It resists. Depression Era tale.
The Spectre of the First Frozen Chicken. Stuffed with snow by Francis Bacon and still trotting around in 1970. Ah, the Bohemian thrills of our great painters!
Maybe it's a bit unfair to file all this under Japanese Ghosts. But if anyone is stuck for ideas on Halloween, I hope they go as a Shirime and send us the photos.