2023 She Was Singing Them
Title: She Was Singing Them¶
Folklore Type: memorate¶
Contents:¶
"For Fatal Frame: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse, the original version of the game wasn’t made at Koei Tecmo’s studio, but at Grasshopper Manufacture’s studio, so we never saw the spirit of the boy, but they had this ping pong table that I used to sleep on when we were working on the game late into the evening, and every once in a while, I would see the spirit of a girl who would circle around the table, running slowly and quietly. If I didn’t respond when seeing her, she would walk over to the window and sing a song. “Four, four, six…” Apparently, she was singing numbers in the form of verses. I could never hear the end clearly, but I thought this was a message that they wanted me to include in the game, so I decided to include an event where a girl says numbers as if she was singing them."
Context:¶
In this blog excerpt, Shibata describes a paranormal encounter with the ghost of a girl singing numbers. He incorporates this in Fatal Frame: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse in a series of cut scenes where the player hears a girl singing the code to a door lock.
This blog post is written for the release of Fatal Frame: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse on the Xbox. The original release of this game in 2008 was exclusive to the Nintendo Wii platform. The game was not officially released in the West until March 2023 following a remaster and subtitled localization.
Source Information¶
Original Source Citation: Shibata, Makoto. "The Real-Life Hauntings that Inspired Fata Frame: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse." Xbox Wire. March 9, 2023. https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2023/03/09/fatal-frame-mask-lunar-eclipse-ghost-stories-real-life/.
| Source Type: | blog |
| Source URL: | https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2023/03/09/fatal-frame-mask-lunar-eclipse-ghost-stories-real-life/ |
| Date Published: | 2023-03-09 |
| Date Collected: | 2023-07-28 |
| Associated File Name: | Shibata-2023-The Real-Life Hauntings that Inspired Fatal Frame.pdf |