Oh, it was dreadful. It happened right in here. I'd hidden because Olive Hornby was teasing me about my glasses.

The door was locked and I was crying and then I heard somebody come in.

They said something funny, a different language I think it must have been.

Anyway, what really got me was that it was a boy speaking so I unlocked the door to tell him to go and use his own toilet

And then I died

Do you recognize this story? Do you know who might have said these words?

Maybe if I was able to do a British accent you would hear a resemblance to Shirley Henderson,

the actor who played this character in a movie.

You know who it is already, right?

Moaning Myrtle from Harry Potter in the Chamber of Secrets.

As many of you might know, Moaning Myrtle was born Myrtle Elizabeth Warren

and was sorted into Ravenclaw House before dying

tragically young in the girl's bathroom at Hogwarts when she made eye contact

with Salazar Slytherin's Basilisk after it was unleashed from the Chamber of Secrets.

Myrtle is one of the most famous examples of a common phenomenon in the world of scary stories

in urban legends, the bathroom ghost.

But as I'm sure you've heard, ghosts and spirits can be pretty much

anywhere. I'm Elise Peresian and today we're going to explore a few different types of

ghosts, what they signify and why they may haunt specific places, even in

your bathroom. All this and more on this episode of Unspoqueable. Remember when we talked about Bloody Mary and some of the factors that make the bathroom

mirror a mystical

well it turns out that there are other stories of bathroom ghosts particularly in schools that make this genre of spirit even more intriguing

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