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Why? Well, that's a mystery. There's probably six more.

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.

Especially common in a school setting, these tend to be awkwardly brought up during [[Festival Episode|summer episodes]], where [[Day-Old Legend|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.

Note that this is ''not'' the same as there being seven [[MacGuffin|Objects of Power]], or other [[Numerological Motif]]s associated with the number seven - it's specifically the Japanese cultural phenomenon of places with seven unrelated but strange and mysterious things that happen in an otherwise normal place.