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Especially common in a school setting, these tend to be awkwardly brought up during [[Festival Episode|summer episodes]], where mysterious legends are attributed to a not-particularly-old place. Nearly always end up being complete horsehockey, except for the [[Cute Ghost Girl]]. Common themes include voices in an empty room, faces in a wall, staircases with more steps going up than coming down, and other variously spooky and paranormal things.

 

 

A common punchline is for the seventh mystery to be that there is only six mysteries.

 

== Anime and Manga ==

* In ''[[Urusei Yatsura]]'', the teacher Onsen-Mark tries to do the traditional midsummer spook-the-youngsters-with-scary-stories routine and mentions the Seven Mysteries of Tomobiki High. Unfortunately, due to the [[Weirdness Magnet|weirdness magnets]] in the class (Moroboshi and Co.), most of these were already the subject of various previous chapters, and the class was bored.

* "The Seven Mysteries of Fudo High" in ''[[Kindaichi Case Files]]''.

* Appeared in the later seasons of ''[[Ranma ½]]'', revolving around a "lost school store" and its aged keeper, "the Secret Don of Furinkan High" whose stories of the school's past tied into the Warring States era, WWII, the Mongol Empire, and the Napoleonic Wars (and were, of course, pure fabrication). A later episode introduced an actual ghost girl to haunt the place.

* In ''[[Mythical Detective Loki Ragnarok]]'', the girl sidekick takes Loki to her school to show him their seven mysteries. As usual, only the last one lacks a mundane explation.

* In the [[Toei Animation]] version of ''[[Kanon]]'', after discovering Mai fighting demons at the school, Yuuichi asks Kaori if she's heard of a girl that appears at night. Kaori thinks he's talking about the obligatory "cute girl ghost" of the seven mysteries. However, every single one is completely bogus, including the ghost; Mai's supernatural connections have a very different origin.

* ''[[Dirty Pair]] Flash'' manages to set up a [[High School AU]] situation in its second season as an excuse for this plot.

* The third episode of ''[[Otogi Juushi Akazukin]]'' revolves around the seven mysteries. They all turn out to be caused by the heroine, Akazukin.

* The school in ''[[Kekkaishi]]'' has 77 Mysteries. The increase is due to the school sitting on the manga's resident [[Applied Phlebotinum]].

* One episode of ''[[Maria Holic]]'' focuses on the seven mysteries of Ame no Kisaki Girls' School, a high percentage of them involving [[Nosebleed|blood]]. To the surprise of no one, [[Schoolgirl Lesbians|Kanako]] is directly responsible for all of them due to her [[Imagine Spot|fantasies]]. Kanako's homeroom teacher later tells her that the seven mysteries applying to the whole school change every year, but seven ''other'' mysteries about Kanako's dorm manager have never changed; they range from the genuinely mysterious ("[[Older Than They Look|what the hell is her real age?]]") to mundane [[Fridge Logic]] ("why are Virtual Boys not banned along with the other electronics?"). If anyone happens to learn all seven mysteries, the dorm manager will do...[[Noodle Incident|well, something, anyway]].

* Ikki's school in ''[[Air Gear]]'' has seven mysteries, most of which are explained by the presence of a secret room Kogarasumaru eventually uses as their home base.

* ''[[Higanbana no Saku Yoru ni]]'' is all about a school's seven mysteries (and the creation of an eighth...)

* One episode of the ''[[Keroro Gunsou]]'' anime has Keroro setting up shop in an abandoned school, planning on [[Scooby-Doo Hoax|staging a few ghost sightings]] and turning it into a tourist trap to help fund the invasion. He tests out his scheme on Fuyuki and Momoka, who happen to be in the same building on a ghost-hunting expedition, by throwing a set of seven (actually five) "school haunting" cliches at them.

 

== [[Radio Drama]] ==

* The plot of the ''[[Hatoful Boyfriend]]'' Drama CD is about Ryouta and Sakuya investigating the seven mysteries of St PigeoNation's.

 

== Video Games ==

* In ''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'', the Glitz Pit has its Seven Wonders that one of the NPCs tell you. It turns out that they are all true, and you must investigate them to advance the plot. Of course, in typical Mario fashion, these Seven Wonders have some humorous explanations and aren't all that mysterious given what Mario has seen in the past.

* A mission late in ''[[Crisis Core]]'' has Zack seeking out the seven wonders of Nibelheim, all of which have mundane explanations, and gets him a reward for figuring out.

* The third ''[[Mega Man Star Force]]'' game has "The Seven Wonders of Echo Ridge," despite there being only six, as mentioned by an NPC ''very'' late in the game, after no doubt having driven batty many players who thought to look for them all out of curiosity.

* Apparently, the Seven Mysteries of North High are the subject for ''[[Suzumiya Haruhi|Suzumiya Haruhi no Chokuretsu]]'', a game released for the DS in Japan.

* In ''[[Da Capo II]]'', these mysteries are the basis for a [[Test of Courage]].

* In ''[[Ryu ga Gotoku|Yakuza 3]]'', a series of subquests in Downtown Ryuugi centers around 'The Seven Mysteries of Ryuugi', as told by a group of gossiping schoolgirls. Inevitably, each of the mysteries turn out to either have a mundane explanation, or - more frequently - comes down to somebody running a scam. For the perfect punchline, the main character himself essentially turns into the Seventh Mystery - a '[[Cool Old Guy|ripped older guy]]' who shows up when people fall prey to loansharks or scammers to beat them up. Considering how [[Made of Iron|invincibly]] [[Badass]] Kazuma Kiryuu is, he's certainly closer to being supernatural than any of the other so-called mysteries...

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