Red Room Curse

The Red Room Curse (Japanese: 赤い部屋, Hepburn: Akai heya) is an early Japanese Internet urban legend about a red pop-up ad which announces the forthcoming death of the person who encounters it on their computer screen.

[4][5][6][7] A lesser known variation states that the target will instead have a crack appear somewhere on their body which quickly grows in size, splitting them apart.

[3][8] In the late 1990s, a Japanese interactive Adobe Flash horror animation, considered to be the origin of the Red Room Curse urban legend, was uploaded to GeoCities.

[10] "Girl A" was reported to be a fan of the Red Room Curse animation,[11] having the video bookmarked on her computer at the time of the murder.

A short film titled The Red Room Curse inspired by the urban legend was released in 2016.