Hey everyone! The song predates the creepypasta and both are based on a simple old Japanese children's game. The game is an old folk song and a famous game for children in Japan. The lyrics to this song are somewhat ominous on their own and pretty mysterious. The original upload of the song on NicoNicoDouga came out in early 2009. The creator now calls the song "Kakome Kakome" to clear up the confusion with the game. The first entry of the creepypasta to the creepypasta wiki was in late 2011. And this is the original post because you can see each 'work in progess' step in the revision history of the post. Hope this help clear up the timeline a little more!

FUN FACT: if you recognize this song but can’t place why, it may be because it was featured in the corpse party soundtrack for the second chapter

The kids in the legend didn't die; the sceintists' experiments made them immortal. Hence "the children who can never die."

honestly the experiment part is creepier than the murder part

Everyone: This is a lil creepy Me: The poor kids-

*Please play with us* Me:How bout Monopoly?Thats a good *none violent* game.

"Who surrounds you everywhere?" *THE FBI*

POV: you actually have friends but they aren't alive.

This song is creepy as hell, but I keep listening to it. I guess the melody is addicting for me.

I noticed something: Rin is the girl who had her arm removed Len is the boy who had a deformed skull and haku is the girl who had most of her jaw removed

Hearing this song again give me flashback when I was in middle school- When I was in middle school I joined the japanese language club. On our last meeting my teacher showed us this video and we decided to play kagome kagome... While the room is a bit dark bc of the heavy rain outsude. And after the class is dismissed we need to pass by a dark corridor bc the staff dont switch on the lamp. Talk about creepy. Im just glad there's no thunder or lightning--

In portuguese, "Kagome" sounds like "Cago-me", which means "I just shit in my pants".

This song was always more sad than it was scary for me These kids are all alone and eternally suffering and likely in a lot of pain due to the torture and abuse they went through, but as they’re immortal they cannot die and move on to the afterlife, and are permanently stuck in the building that abused them and likely are haunted by the dark memories. All they desire is to move on, but they’re stuck in what’s essentially a living Hell forever. I can’t blame them for acting the way they did, being obsessed with the person who arrived in the building. They just want a friend who will play with them and make them suffer less The kids aren’t evil, they’re just abused and abuse can cloud one’s mind. They just want a friend, or have their suffering ended by passing on. The kids had nothing, or we can assume so by them being in an orphanage, and they saw those teachers as family… until they revealed their true colors AND RIPPED RUKO’S HEAD OFF. An experience like that definitely would mess someone up. I’d love to see someone make a sequel to this song where someone comes and saves the kids, heals them up and takes them out of the abusive facility or lets them pass away so they aren’t in pain anymore.

i sang this to my baby sister while she was crying and she calmed down and my mom said "great, shes like you, she likes weird satanic foreign songs"

This song woke me up yesterday. It just started randomly playing on my phone and I never fell back asleep.

So just to clarify, apparently after WWII nazis went to a japanese orphanage and took some children. The count of these children and be inferred during 0:57. Now, when the nazis took these children they knew that there was a supposed 'kill switch' in the brain. So, they thought that if they took out that supposed kill switch, the kid would become immortal. As suspected, all the children died but one. Apparently, it worked on her (I don't know her name though I think they didn't specify her name) but, the little girl became weird. Having to be odd such as standing alone in hallways, often creepy staring and even behavioral problems. Now the nazis saw this as a problem and wanted to behead her. But seeing how she was acting odd, they knew it was no easy task. So, they let her play a game simply called 'Kagome' which means 'circle around'. Now the rules of this game are very simple. You stand in a circle with one person in the middle. The said person in the middle must cover their eyes as everyone else circles around and just chants 'Kagome'. Once the chanting is done, the person in the middle- with their eyes still covered-- must guess the person who is exactly behind them. Now that the rules are covered, I can continue explaining. The little girl stood in the middle as the nazi doctors circled around her, and once they were done they let the little girl guess who was behind her. Sadly, the little girl did not guess correctly, and the nazis beheaded her. Apparently, the orphanage is still standing and some people have even wandered in. It has been reported that people who went into the room where the bundle of children played, you could see them and they would plea you to play a game of Kagome with them. The thing was is that you couldn't leave, and you had to play a game of Kagome with them. So, you stood in the middle while the children chanted. If you got it right, they'd let you go if you didn't, you suffered the same fate as the little girl. Sorry if this is wrong in some places ! I tried going off of memory

I swear people are arguing over the origins of this game so let me make this clear before theere are anymore misconceptions. 1. This song is based off of a creepypasta known as ‘Kagome Kagome’, of course though the song itself has some altered bits that differ from the original creepypasta such as making references to the holocaust during when Conversion Camps experimented on Japanese Orphans (Japan was an Axis Ally at the time of the holocaust if I remember, correct if I’m wrong). More specifically that one experiment where they tried to unlock immortality by trying to see how they could disable a child’s ability to die. 2. There are two different kinds of ‘Kagome Kagome’, one of them is the creepypasta where you chop of a body part when you lose. And of course other is the original Kagome Kagome. The creepypasta Kagome Kagome is just an edgelord version of the original child friendly fun Kagome Kagome japanese game. 3. Calm down and don’t egt aggressive if you have questions or corrections please ask nicely. 4. Funfact Japanese are actually genuinely scared of the game Kagome Kagome (the original one not the edgelord one), there’s a belief that playing Kagome Kagome summons evil spirits. I don’t know how this belief came to be especially from a child’s game but yeah.

me: *sing the song* friend: *closing my mouth* can you stop singing it!? What if the demon comes!?

This song reminds me of corpse party ~

Everyone is saying that this attracts evil spirits, but- The original purpose was to ward them off, and get rid of possession.

Girl’s sleepovers Friends: hey let’s play a scary 3 am game Me: let’s play kagome! Them: not today satan!!!

I get reminded of corpse party whenever I listen to this.

2:35 This is probably my favorite- And scariest- part of the song. The art just makes it seem so scary. Heck imagine if you were in that situation.

*The Promise Neverland is typing...*

Me: *listening to this song with earbuds plugged in & the volume on 70* Luka: *singing her part* My mom: her voice is pretty, she's nice, I like her Me: *laughs* I agree but this song is NOT pretty My mom: I don't care I like her Me: ok

0:50 the most scary thing about this Rin's hand LIKE WTF HAPPENED

4:56 : oh hey luka 5:06 : whoops my bad

Me before listening to Kagome, Kagome: NOPE NOPE NOPE TOO CREEPY Me after: ok that's wasn't so bad a bit creepy but also sad

Ok so listening to this with headphones is way freakier cause the voices move around and it feels like they're circling you

I like how Teto is in vocaloid songs even though she's UTAU

Everyone is talking how scary this is but actually this is so sad

anyone else really love the instrumental bit that comes in around 3:12? the whole song is fantastic ofc but something about that part in particular really strikes me. it sounds almost cheerful, but in an uncanny and frantic way and adds a lot to what was already a pretty unsettling song 😍

Atleast len didn't die

Again with the happy tune and the depressing lyrics

I swear, Vocaloids horror songs will just never get old. Especially Oliver's songs. I just can't get enough of listening to his sweet little voice.

The kindergarten class I tutor has this one kid with parents that let him see scary shit and one day it was raining and he wanted to play this game So I pulled him aside and asked "Did you get this game from a site called Creepypasta?" And he gave me this EVIL little smile and goes "Yeah I did" They still played it

*Song starts* -What the heck is this? I hate it. *at the end of the song* -Not bad at all tbh *plays one more time* -This is,, i just,, oh,, THIS SONG IS AWESOME I don’t care how scary this song is This thing is catchy af

Everyone's talking about how scary the song is but can we talk about how great the fucking art is?

I just came across this song and I don't know about you, but 2:24 has such a calming tone to it i swear

No one: Not even a potato: Depressed creepy 10-14 year olds: I find this relaxing. Edit: I- why does this comment from 10 months ago have so many likes 😃

This could become a horror game in where you'd have to explore their pasts to escape.

Corpse Party - Vocaloid Version

cant believe it's been 10 years

HAVE YALL NEVER NOTICED HOW WHEN LukA TALKS IF YOU hAVE HEADPHONES ON YOU HEAR HER ON THE LEFT AND MIKU TALKS AND YO HEAR HER ON THE RIGHT LIEK WOAH -I was typing uhm, fast.-

the best part about titles in another language is that your friends won't know what it means until you tell them to search it up. the reaction is ALWAYS priceless!

This is about children back in World War 2, the Germans used to do sick and twisted experiments with them. This song is about the children's souls coming back to haunt them, and ultimately kill them by playing, "Kagome" or Circle You, where they slowly circle around the victim and ultimately lash out at them, killing the victim. All the vocaloids in the large picture are supposed to represent each of the children who were killed, and are each different spirits.

After years of listening to this song, I just came to realization that the child whose head gets cut off is actually Yokune Ruko

I summoned a demon listening to this song But we cool tho

“Kagome, Kagome” Me: “Inuyasha, Inuyasha”

Me: "hey wanna play kagome, Kagome" My Friend: "What's that" Me: pulls out a knife "a game where I can chop you to bits" My friend: "0-0" Edit: Oh my god, what was wrong with me

the fact i'm crying at this song not because it's scary. But the strange nostalgia and the fact i found this song in my darkest time in my life...

Respect to the cameraman that recorded this

🎶Taaaco bell, taco belllllll Meat and lettuce so yu-ummy🎶

anyone on a creepy vocaloid songs marathon? ... okay then.. i guess i am weird...

First heard about this song in high school 10 years ago and it still fills me with dread listening to it. Can't even listen to it in full

This wasn´t made from a creepypasta, its much more worse than a creepypasta because all of this is real and beyond. This song reports only a few cases but was based on the Unit 731 experiments made on WW2, wich has an estimate of 10.000 victims to this kind of brutality towards woman, men and children, please look it up if you will.

Wow, with headphones I like how some voices are one the left ear while some on the right

why do people hate it id understand i like the song 😺

Hi quarantine make me comeback to this :)

The only song that len didn’t die even after brutal incidents.

The instrumentals sound like they belong in a video game, to be honest XD

Me: Hey this song looks creepy Also me: but its like Kagome from InuYasha Still me: ok then I'll watch it Me after video: shouldnt have watched that shouldnt have watched that shouldnt have watched that shouldnt have watched that

Storytime! *Sakura Fields was designed to be a child's paradise. Opening in the 1980s, it was a massive complex, equal parts daycare and amusement park, built from the ground up by known philanthropist Bezarius Elliot. The building had games, toys, playground equipment, bumper cars, and even a full indoor roller coaster. Best of all, the daycare had four mascots, a family of half-animal beings meant to be the surrogate siblings and teachers of the children dropped off there - Leon-nii-chan, the strong and protective half-lion big brother, Princess-chan, the half-fox on site magician, Shadow, the half-jackal trickster, and Pangur Ban, the quiet White Cat. The facility opened to citywide acclaim, however, it was only open six months before it abruptly shut down, and the building was abandoned. And to this day, anyone who enters the facility has disappeared without a trace. *

I love how the children in this video are some of the vocaloid casts. It's pretty cute. Well not technically cute since their all playing tiny morbid ghost children.

So what I've gathered is that these children were brought to a place in the woods and experimented on. They eventually all died but wished for more people to play with them. They remembered all the doctors circling them and thought it was a fun game. They lure children in and ask them to play. Then they say, "let's play 'circle you'". Obviously curious, the child offers to be in the middle. Then the others start circling them, giggling an insane giggle that eventually drives the "player" to madness. The children insist that you stay and torture you with the game until you eventually die. They don't know this, however, because their dead. Therefore, they think you're just sleeping. And while you sleep, they get bored of waiting and lure in a new "friend" and thus, the cycle begins again. Now im not sure if this is right (and correct me if im wrong) but that's what i gathered from it. :3

Characters featured: Miku Hatsune Luka Megurine Rin Kagamine Len Kagamine MEIKO KAITO Gakupo Kamui Haku Yowane Teto Kasane Neru Akita Ruko Yokune Ted Kasane And the brown-haired one at 4:01 that I can't recognize (if anyone knows his/her name, please tell me)

One scary thing for me is that the video started without and ad. May not seem like much but to me that was kinda scary, Starts right as u click it.

"who surround you everywhere?" My fcking depression

Me:Oh this songs start sounds so cute! **FINDS OUT MEANING AND LOOKS AT LYRICS** Me:mmnopeimout

I'm getting corpse party flashbacks from this... **shudders**

This song traumatized me Never again

Oh the memories of being 10 and being immediately exposed to violent gore of my favorite sonic character.

The little child with his head decapitated, is he still alive if he is immortal? Since some children were successful at being immortal and are still playing the game in the orphanage.

3:42 look closely and you can see an insane hatsune miku.

As a Japanese,I used to play the Kagome Kagome with my cousins when I went to Japan game but whenever I discovered this song and its story,I never played this game again.I’m 16 now and I’m still scared that some scary ahh childrens spirits come haunt me 💀

I remember when I would listen to this song a couple years back, I was addicted to this I had trouble what it was called but I finally found it. Dang it's way more creepy then I remembered it being.

"Circle you Circle you" is a game in which a child chooses the be the middle child. The middle child has to guess which child is behind them. If they guess correct, they move to the next round. If they loose, they get a body part chopped off. The last player in which has survived the longest, wins. The winning child then kills themselves to end the game. Do NOT try this game at home. You will not survive at best chances.

Ok so I clicked on this song forgetting that I had left my blue tooth connected speaker in the other room I plaed the video then I hear the creepy eary music of the beginning of this song in the other room I then put my phone closer to my ear and came to find the music wasn't coming from my phone for about five seconds I had a heart attack then I paused the video then I realised .... I left the speaker

My first interaction with this song was when my friend who likes to torment me showed me this song cause I was really big into WWII (and still am), but what I was most interested in was the Axis Powers, specifically Germany and Japan. I was told that this song was about the Germans doing experiments on Japanese children to try to find the secret to immortality. This song now lives rent free in my head

I remember i had a dream as a child, i was surrounded by poeple and they kept singing "circle you! circle you!" until they got so close i was crushed.

Songs like these are the only thing (next to cry's and Pewdie's videos) that's keeping me on KZfaq in fear I won't get to listen to them again.

the melody 'kagome, kagome' and the pic creeps me out.... MAA!!!!

I remember when I was still pretty young my friends and I went to this abandoned field It was almost 5:45 pm wich means it's starting to get dark! We played kagome kagome I wasn't the person in the middle of the circle it was my other friend (let's call him Tim) we sang the song and started to circle around Tim After finishing the song I was the one who's behind Tim, he guessed it right and now it's my turn to be in the middle I closed my eyes and they started singing. While in the middle of singing the song, someone called one of my friends name and then the song stopped....I didn't get what was happening so I opened my eyes and all of my friends were gone! I was a little confused of where they went so I looked around the field looking for them...after like 10 minutes looking for them I couldn't find them and it was already 5:52! Thought they must've gone back home without me so I tried to head back, before heading back, I smelled something rotten! It didn't smell like trash though, it's smelled more like...a dead animal or something! I tried to follow the smell When I got closer, I heard someone shout my name! It was Tim, he said it's getting late we should head back! I ran back to Tim, not knowing what that smell was from! After years, I'm starting to get a little worried about that smell. Most of my friends moved away So I couldn't talk to them anymore and it's been years! I also moved houses.... sometimes i still wonder what that smell was, it was just to strong to be an animal's dead body

what a bop fr

Taco Bell Taco Bell

I don't know which is scarier...the song or the 360p

I have an english lyric that fits more with the soundtrack..... It starts with.... In a building surrounded with shade Down the shadowed hallways that they play Through the door that led to a dark room Was the children forgotten by you~ "Ahh, we've been waiting for so long, waiting for someone to come and stay" Played a game they love, Chant a song they love Kagome, kagome Circle you, circle you Don't run there is no escape Circle you circle you What games can we play now youre here Before daybreak, before light Lets be friends and play games all night Circle you, circle you "Be careful who you turn your back to" Thats the first version....will add the second verse soon😊

Honestly I don't see how people think this song is creepy, both the tone they're singing in plus the music and the lyrics are more sad than anything

I know there’s lyrics at the bottom. But here. ------------------------- An old building outside of sunlight's reach Hallways with decay starting to leach Behind the door in the backroom Were children, remembered by what, by whom? They had been waiting for you to visit them for a long time We're so happy! We're so happy! Stay and play with us for a while! Circle you, circle you Please don't try to run from us Kakome Kakome What games will we play, can I guess? Before the moon sets again You can play with us until then! Circle you, circle you Who surrounds you everywhere? Orphanage deep in the forest greens So no one would find the dark machines Made from a little child's brain Immortality born of child's pain The children in the orphan place Circled the teacher with their smilings faces Singing a child's song "Circle you, circle you" Circle you, circle you Children, you just lost the game Don't run away, you're the same Before the moon sets aside Cut their necks off as they cried Circle you, circle you Who surrounds you everywhere? Even if your head is crushed in Even if your arm is taken The children who can never die They laugh at you sweetly Circle you, circle you Don't run away, you'll be missed Circle you, circle you Please drink with us, we insist You should come play with us Play forever with us Circle you, circle you Who surrounds you everywhere?

That hallway kinda reminded me of Corpse Party(but then again every hallway I see that has windows and looks school-like reminds me of Corpse Party :/ )

In BTS universe story game there is a story name "Shattered" in that story mention the "kagome" song and the background story so as soon as I finish the story I came here to watching the video and know more about the incident and now after watching this video I felt really bad about the children who victims in this horrible place 😰😰🙁🙁

Rin's arm is missing, which apparently did happen in the legend, but there was a boy who was left "mentally retarded" and missing a forehead, and a girl who was left missing a lower jaw and tongue. Could they be represented by Len and Haku? Len has bandages on his forehead and Haku has some on her lower face, so maybe that's them? And in the legend, a heterochromatic kid was decapitated for messing with the scientists' tools. I just noticed Ruko, who got decapitated, was heterochromatic. Well done.

Everyone says the song is scary, but I find it strangely relaxing... Maybe I'm just ill.

Does anybody else notice when they sing circle you circle you it sounds like they are singing taco bell taco bell?

I used to scared shitless beacuse of this song.

Forgot how absolutely terrifying this song was 😀

We Gotta throw the whole Forest away

THEYY ALL NEED A SNICKERS

This song is so good bro it’s a banger fr

bruh I found this song around 2 days ago and I've just been listening to it over and over to learn the chords because I couldn't find any well written chords for this song online and I just HAD to learn how to play it