The Truth of the Haunted House

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Episode 274-275 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	The Truth of the Haunted House
Japanese title:	幽霊屋敷の真実 (Yūrei-yashiki no Shinjitsu)
Original airdate:	April 15, 2002 (Part 1) April 22, 2002 (Part 2)
Season:	10
Manga source:	Volume 35: Files 5-7 (355-357)
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri Sonoko Suzuki Tomoaki Araide
Case solved by:	Kogoro Mouri (via Conan)
Next Conan's Hint:	Beaker (Part 1) All-you-can-eat (Part 2)
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Organizer:	Chika Ichimaru
Storyboard:	Chika Ichimaru
Episode director:	274 Toru Kitahata 275 Mashu Ito
Animation director:	274 Atsushi Aono 275 Izumi Shimura
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa, Next Conan's Hint (Part 1) Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri, Next Conan's Hint (Part 1) Akira Kamiya as Kogoro Mouri Naoko Matsui as Sonoko Suzuki Hideyuki Hori as Tomoaki Araide Mahito Tsujimura as Houichi Otonashi Houchu Ohtsuka as Kikuji Banchou Naoki Makishima as Iwahisa Yotsuya Kouji Tsujitani as Tsuyuhiko Botan Fumiko Miyashita as TV voice Yukiko Iwai as Next Conan's Hint (Part 2) Ikue Otani as Next Conan's Hint (Part 2)
Music
Opening song:	I can't stop my love for you♥
Closing song:	Yume Mita Ato de

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri Sonoko Suzuki Tomoaki Araide Hikaru Yasumoto (background)

Gadgets

Gadgets
Voice-Changing Bowtie Stun-Gun Wristwatch

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)
	Location: Park Victim: Rui Tabuchi Cause of death: Burning Suspects: Two mysterious men

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
	Location: Houichi Otonashi's apartment complex Victims: Apartment complex residents Suspects: Kikuji Banchou, Iwahisa Yotsuya, and Tsuyuhiko Botan 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.

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. 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

Houichi Otonashi
	68 years old Room resident 5

Kikuji Banchou
	34 years old Room resident 4

Iwahisa Yotsuya
	22 years old Room resident 2

Tsuyuhiko Botan
	27 years old Room resident 1

Resolution

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He puts Kogoro to sleep and tells them the reason those tricks were done. He reveals that the culprit is one of the two suspects which is Kikuji Banchou that he is hiding the other suspect too. 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.

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.

See also

• Season 10