Yūrei

Yūrei  is a ghost in the Japanese folklore comparable to the Western model of ghosts. Like their Chinese and Western counterparts, they are thought to be spirits barred from a peaceful afterlife.

Ubume

This is the tragic ghost of a woman who has died during childbirth—with or without her baby. She returns to the living as she still cares about her children. She is usually depicted as a baby-carrying woman, who gives her baby to passersby and then disappears. Once the passerby gives a look at the baby, it turns out that it was merely a big rock or bundle of leaves. She is sometimes depicted as a dreadful woman in a blood-stained koshimaki (Japanese summer attire) carrying an underdeveloped fetus.

Onryo

This kind of Japanese ghost story also relates to vengeful spirits but unlike the goryo, which is not necessarily a wrathful spirit, the onryo is almost always a malicious ghost as they died full of anger, and only return to scare the living to death and take their souls. Victims of domestic abuse or women martyred by wicked stalkers or maniacs will most likely turn into onryo in the afterlife. This category also serves as a staple for J-horror movies and has appeared as the renowned Kayako from The Grudge or Sadako from The Ring.

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