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Ghost
Ghost Children
Appear in the Karura Mau OVA along with Mihuyu, she sends them after the twins. Possibly a form of the Mizuko-no-ryo(rei) from the movie.
Ghosts (One and Three-Eyed)
"Like the one-eyed ghost, the three-eyed ghost can be found in various ghost stories and folk tales. The legend of hitotsume kozo (one-eyed) is said to come from a
local religion of, or simply a belief in, one-eyed God. Mitsume has the third eye on the forehead, which can see through the surface. In Buddhism also, there is a belief
that living Buddhas can open the third eye, which is the little dot we can find on Buddha's forehead. Whether the third eye is a sign of enlightenment or evil power, it is
supposed to signify the superhuman power."
http://www.personal.psu.edu/staff/k/x/kxs334/academic/fiction/tsushima_oma.html
Ski Resort Hauntings
In the Kimagure Orange Road OVA: "White Lovers," there is an old song sung in the village about two lovers.
One was the mayor's daughter, the other the son of a hunter. They were forbidden to be together so they eloped and ran away into the mountains. Chased by the villagers, they
fled to a cave, only to have the girl slip into a lava pit beneath the mountain. The boy tried to hold on to her but his hand cramped and he lost her. Stricken with grief he killed
himself soon after. Her spirit, believing she'd been left to die alone, haunts the ski slopes and lovers who come to the mountain are doomed to tragedy. Madoka and our hero lift the curse when he refuses to let Madoka go, and instead tumbles into the
abyss with her. The spirit, satisfied by the act of love, is reuntied at the end with her lover and is able to finally enter the afterlife in peace.
Not a Japanese vengeful ghost tale, but a Yuki-Onna one, a haunted mountain resort is the subject of the bishoujo game, Snow Drop, where a spirit of the snows
haunts the mountains in her loneliness.