The Truth of the Haunted House (幽霊屋敷の真実 ,Yūrei-yashiki no Shinjitsu?) is the 274th and 275th episode of the Detective Conan anime.
Cast
Gadgets
Case
Situation
Part 1
Ran catches a cold and visits the doctor. When there one of the doctor's patients mentions that his apartment is haunted by a girl who was burned to death four years ago.
| Murder (Past)
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| Location:
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Park
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| Victim:
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Rui Tabuchi
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| Time:
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Two years ago
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| Cause of death:
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Burning
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| Suspects:
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Two mysterious men
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| Two years ago, a woman was killed at the park near the apartment complex by two men in which one of them has large scar his cheek. The murderers are still on loose.
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Conan and Kogoro decide to investigate. Once there they meet three other people who are living in that apartment. Ran who is fearful of ghost tells her father they should leave at 7 pm. When the clock strikes 10:20 pm, Ran wakes up to find a ghost in the television telling her to leave. Kogoro and Conan wake up due to her screaming. Kogoro tells Ran it was probably a dream and goes to the toilet. After he's done the water turns red. Kogoro backs away from the toilet and screams when he sees a ghostly image.
| Haunting
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| Location:
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Houichi Otonashi's apartment complex
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| Victims:
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Apartment complex residents
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| Haunted things:
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Haunted toilet, brillant shadow and a haunted VHS
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| Suspects:
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Kikuji Banchou, Iwahisa Yotsuya, and Tsuyuhiko Botan
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| A haunting supposedly done by the spirit of a dead murdered girl is driving the residents of the apartment out. Conan believes the haunting is being manufactured by one of the residents for some purpose.
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Part 2
The three people excluding the old man are given more back story. One man does not believe in the ghost, one man is a horror movie filmer, and the other man just lives there but believes in ghost. They are told that two suspects of the burning four years ago ran from the scene and one of them was identified. Conan finds out how the ghost trick was done.
People
Resolution
Conan puts Kogoro to sleep and tells them the reason those tricks were done. He reveals that the culprit is one of the two suspects who killed the woman four years ago, which is
Kikuji Banchou and that he is hiding the other suspect too. Banchou's motive behind the haunting was that the lights the old man saw were evidences of the accomplice's present in his hiding place in the abandon building next door. So Banchou decided to scare everyone living on the old man's floor away, before anyone would think of reporting the lights to police or investigating it.
| Haunting
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| Location:
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Houichi Otonashi's apartment complex
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| Victim:
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Ran Mouri
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| Culprit:
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Kikuji Banchou
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| Kikuji tried to scare Ran by pretending to be a ghost to scare her, but the attempt was unsuccessful and she knocks out Kikuji.
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Banchou then attempts to escape and tries to scare Ran who is on his way. Ran however, who is not scared at all, quickly incapacitates him. Both Banchou and the other suspect is later arrested. The motive was the woman who is burned into death has bankrupted despite she has a huge debt to Banchou and the other suspect.
After the case was closed, Ran told Sonoko that she isn't afraid of ghost anymore. Sonoko then pretend to cry and use makeup to make her look like
kuchisake-onna to tease Ran.
Manga to anime changes
- In the manga version, this case takes place right after Shinichi Kudo's New York Case, which actually aired later in the anime series. At the beginning, Conan is shown disguising his voice as Shinichi's and asking Ran about her sickness over the phone. He also tells her that the serial killer they encountered in New York was actually murdered, because it would be unusual for someone to erase his fingerprints and blood trails if he decided to commit suicide. In the anime version, this scene didn't happen until the end of episode 288, and in this case it was replaced with Sonoko talking to Ran in her bedroom instead.
Trivia
- The dead girl on TV watching Ran is an allusion to Sadako Yamamura in the Japanese horror film Ringu.
- The names of the guest characters are derived from Japan's four most famous ghost stories: Yotsuya Kaidan, Botan Dourou, the Banchou Sarayashiki (the ghost from which is named "Kiku" or "Okiku"), and Miminashi Houichi or "Houichi the Earless". "Otonashi" is a double pun, as it means "without sound", which relates to the subject matter of the original tale.
Gallery
BGM listing
Part 1
Part 2
In other languages
| Language |
Title |
Translation
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 Arabic |
حقيقة الأطياف المرعبة |
The Truth of the Terrifying Ghosts
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 Catalan (Catalan dub) |
La veritat de l'edifici encantat |
The truth of the haunted building
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 Catalan (Valencian dub) |
El secret de l'edifici encantat |
The secret of the haunted building
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 Galician |
O segredo da mansión encantada |
The secret of the haunted house
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 German |
Das Geheminis des Spukhauses |
The Secret of the Haunted House
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 Indonesia |
Kebenaran rumah hantu |
The Truth of the Haunted House
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 Italian |
La verità sulla casa infestata dagli spettri |
The Truth of the Haunted House
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 Spanish (American dub) |
El secreto de la mansión embrujada |
The secret of the bewitched building
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 Spanish (Castilian dub) |
El secreto del edificio encantado |
The secret of the haunted building
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 Thai |
ความจริงของบ้านผีสิง |
The Truth of the Haunted House
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 Vietnamese |
Sự thật về ngôi nhà ma ám |
The Truth of the Haunted House
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See also
