Case No. 016
Case Codename: The Purple Bathroom
Client: Sun Hongbin
Gender: Male
Age: 25
Occupation: Teacher
Family: Parents
Contact Address: Room XXXX, No. XXX Changyang Road, People's Celebration City
Contact Number: 68XXXXXX
Incident Details:
December 2, 2002. The client's first visit. Audio file 01620021202.wav.
"Hello, Mr. Sun."
"Mm..."
"When you called us, you said there was something strange about the school's bathrooms. Is that right?"
"Yes. I teach at the Affiliated High School of the University of Technology. The school has two buildings... three, if you count the cafeteria. Oh, and there's also a student activities building. Four buildings in all."
"Mm."
"All four buildings have the same decor. Though 'decor' is probably too grand a word... The bathrooms all have that standard school-bathroom look. I've never been inside the girls' bathroom, but I've caught glimpses when passing by... You can't see the stalls, just that everything's white, same as in the boys' bathroom. Tiles, white walls, and stalls with pale blue doors. Something like that."
"Mm."
"About a month ago... It was roughly a month ago that I found out the girls' bathroom on the fourth floor of the teaching building wasn't like that."
"The girls' bathroom on the fourth floor of the teaching building?"
"Yes. I'd never been there before, never even passed by, so I didn't know about it. I only found out recently. I heard it from students... Some story that was going around among them..."
"Please, go on."
"Well... I thought it was just a typical rumor among students. A simple ghost story. Someone had supposedly hanged herself in the bathroom. You know what school bathrooms are like, right? There's a long drain, with a water tank mounted against the wall. You can only flush it from the stall at the far end. The