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There is a scary game that young Toads play in the Mushroom Kingdom, especially around October. They try to conjure up a ghost in their bathroom mirror. Many don't really believe that a ghost is going to appear. But they try to raise one anyway, for the fun and the entertainment. Some are willing to settle for any ghost, but others have a particular ghost in mind.
One of these is a ghost of a young female Shadow named Vivian, who is also known as Vivian Sirens and Bloody Mary. She used to be a resident from the older days of the Mushroom World. Many residents thought that she was a witch and was imprisoned until she passed away. Another of these ghosts is "La Llorona," the weeping Tostarenan who wanders the streets of Tostarena in the Sand Kingdom, looking for her lost children. Still another is a ghost by the name of Ashley, a young girl who died in an accident in Diamond City. Her ghost is one of the "vanishing hitchhikers." It is said that again and again she thumbs a ride home in a passing car, then vanishes before she gets there.
Here is how Ghost hunters try to raise a ghost:
1: Try to find a quiet bathroom, close the door, and turn off the lights.
2: While you stare at the mirror, repeat the ghost's name, usually forty-seven times or a hundred times. If any ghosts will do, they say "any ghost" in place of a name. If you do manage to raise one, its face will slowly replace your face in the mirror.
Some say a ghost is likely to be angry at being disturbed. If it gets angry enough, they say, it will try to shatter the mirror and come right after the player. But the player can always turn on the lights and send the ghost back to where it came from. And when that happens the game is over.