Case file · Haunting
Loira do Banheiro
Brazil's best-known school ghost, the 'Blonde in the Bathroom', is often traced to Maria Augusta de Oliveira Borges, who died in Guaratinguetá in 1891 at 26. Her house later became a school, where pupils claimed to see her.
1891 CE · -22.82, -45.19 · status: legend
The account
The story spread nationally as a playground dare: flush three times, swear and the ghost appears, cotton in her nose. It resembles Bloody Mary and Japan's Hanako-san.
The sceptical view
The link to Maria Augusta is a local tradition. The legend itself is a typical urban legend found in many countries.