The Truth of the Haunted House

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Episode 274-275 (Int. Episode 296-297)
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)
Broadcast rating:	17.8% 18.3%
Manga case:	#103
Season:	7
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:	TV screen (Part 1) Beaker (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
Character design:	Masatomo Sudo Junko Yamanaka and Kumiko Shishido (design works)
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 Hoichi Otonashi Hochu Otsuka as Kikuji Banchou Naoki Makishima as Iwahisa Yotsuya Koji 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

The Truth of the Haunted House (幽霊屋敷の真実 ,Yūrei-yashiki no Shinjitsu) is the 274th and 275th episode of the Detective Conan anime.

Cast

Characters

Conan Edogawa

Ran Mouri

Kogoro Mouri

Sonoko Suzuki

Tomoaki Araide

Hikaru Yasumoto (background)

Mitsu Araide (background)

Unnamed officer

Unnamed officer

Gadgets

Gadgets

Voice-Changing Bowtie

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

Time: Two years ago

Cause of death: Burning

Suspects: Two mysterious men

Two years ago, a woman was killed at the park near the apartment complex by two men in which one of them has large scar his cheek. The murderers are still on loose.

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

Haunted things: Haunted toilet, brillant shadow and a haunted VHS

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 but believes in ghost. 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 Tomoaki Araide's patient

Kikuji Banchou
	34 years old Room resident 4 Horror shorts filmer

Iwahisa Yotsuya
	22 years old Room resident 2 Believes in ghosts

Tsuyuhiko Botan
	27 years old Room resident 1 Student Doesn't believe in ghosts

Rui Tabuchi
	Deceased (burned) Murdered in the park two years ago

Resolution

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Conan puts Kogoro to sleep and tells them the reason those tricks were done. He reveals that the culprit is one of the two suspects who killed the woman four years ago, which is Kikuji Banchou and that he is hiding the other suspect too. Banchou's motive behind the haunting was that the lights the old man saw were evidences of the accomplice's present in his hiding place in the abandon building next door. So Banchou decided to scare everyone living on the old man's floor away, before anyone would think of reporting the lights to police or investigating it.

Haunting

Location: Houichi Otonashi's apartment complex

Victim: Ran Mouri

Culprit: Kikuji Banchou

Kikuji tried to scare Ran by pretending to be a ghost to scare her, but the attempt was unsuccessful and she knocks out Kikuji.

Man
	Rui Tabuchi's murderer from four years ago Banchou's accomplice

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. The motive was the woman who is burned into death has bankrupted despite she has a huge debt to Banchou and the other suspect.

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.

Trivia

• The dead girl on TV watching Ran is an allusion to Sadako Yamamura in the Japanese horror film Ringu.
• The names of the guest characters are derived from Japan's four most famous ghost stories: Yotsuya Kaidan, Botan Dourou, the Banchou Sarayashiki (the ghost from which is named "Kiku" or "Okiku"), and Miminashi Houichi or "Houichi the Earless". "Otonashi" is a double pun, as it means "without sound", which relates to the subject matter of the original tale.

Gallery

BGM listing

Part 1

#	Song Title	Romaji	Translation	OST
1	I can't stop my love for you♥	I can't stop my love for you♥	I can't stop my love for you♥	I can't stop my love for you♥
2	哀のサスペンス～ジンのテーマＢ	Ai no Sasupensu ~ Jin no Tēma B	Ai's Suspense ~ Gin's Theme B	Detective Conan "Countdown to Heaven" Original Soundtrack
3	新少年探偵団のテーマ	Shin Shōnen Tanteidan no Tēma	The New Detective Boys' Theme	Detective Conan "Captured in Her Eyes" Original Soundtrack
4	のんびり気分	Nonbiri Kibun	Carefree Feeling	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
5	夜の探索	Yoru no Tansaku	Night Search	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 4 ~Isoge! Shōnen Tanteidan~
6	忍び寄る影	Shinobiyoru Kage	Creeping Shadow	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
7	悪のテーマ （パート２）	Aku no Tēma (Pāto 2)	Theme of Evil (Part 2)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
8	哀が電話を…～ジンのテーマＡ	Ai ga Denwa o... ~ Jin no Tēma A	Ai's Phonecall to... ~ Gin's Theme A	Detective Conan "Countdown to Heaven" Original Soundtrack
9	ジンのテーマＦ	Jin no Tēma F	Gin's Theme F	Detective Conan "Countdown to Heaven" Original Soundtrack
10	第２の殺人事件	Dai 2 no Satsujin Jiken	The Second Murder Case	Detective Conan "Countdown to Heaven" Original Soundtrack
11	謎解き （その１）	Nazotoki (Sono 1)	Riddle Solution (Part 1)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
12	第３の犠牲者	Dai 3 no Giseisha	The Third Victim	Detective Conan "Countdown to Heaven" Original Soundtrack
13	小五郎の推理	Kogorō no Suiri	Kogoro's Deduction	Detective Conan "Countdown to Heaven" Original Soundtrack
14	新一の名推理	Shin'ichi no Meisuiri	Shinichi's Great Deduction	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
15	犯人のアジト （忍び込みver.）	Hannin no Ajito (Shinobikomi ver.)	The Culprit's Hideout (Creeping In ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
16	驚愕の真実	Kyōgaku no Shinjitsu	Surprising Truth	Detective Conan "Captured in Her Eyes" Original Soundtrack
17	夢みたあとで	Yume Mita Ato de	After I've Been Dreaming	Yume Mita Ato de

Part 2

#	Song Title	Romaji	Translation	OST
1	I can't stop my love for you♥	I can't stop my love for you♥	I can't stop my love for you♥	I can't stop my love for you♥
2	謎解き （その２）	Nazotoki (Sono 2)	Riddle Solution (Part 2)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
3	哀が電話を…～ジンのテーマＡ	Ai ga Denwa o... ~ Jin no Tēma A	Ai's Phonecall to... ~ Gin's Theme A	Detective Conan "Countdown to Heaven" Original Soundtrack
4	ジンのテーマＦ	Jin no Tēma F	Gin's Theme F	Detective Conan "Countdown to Heaven" Original Soundtrack
5	迷路	Meiro	Labyrinth	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 4 ~Isoge! Shōnen Tanteidan~
6	犯人のアジト	Hannin no Ajito	The Culprit's Hideout	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
7	悪のテーマ （パート１）	Aku no Tēma (Pāto 1)	Theme of Evil (Part 1)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
8	事件解明 （オリジナルver.）	Jiken Kaimei (Orijinaru ver.)	Case Clarification (Original ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
9	怪人包帯男１	Kaijin Hōtai Otoko 1	The Mysterious Bandaged Man 1	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
10	謎解き （その１）	Nazotoki (Sono 1)	Riddle Solution (Part 1)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
11	陰謀 （摩天楼ヴァージョン）	Inbō (Mantenrō Vājon)	Conspiracy (Skyscraper Version)	Detective Conan "The Time-Bombed Skyscraper" Original Soundtrack
12	小さな巨人	Chiisana Kyojin	A Small Great Person	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
13	トリック	Torikku	Trick	Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack
14	沈む夕陽	Shizumu Yūhi	Depressing Sunset	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
15	忍び寄る危機	Shinobiyoru Kiki	Incoming Crisis	Detective Conan "The Time-Bombed Skyscraper" Original Soundtrack
16	対決のテーマ	Taiketsu no Tēma	Showdown Theme	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
17	蘭のテーマ （摩天楼ヴァージョン）	Ran no Tēma (Mantenrō Vājon)	Ran's Theme (Skyscraper Version)	Detective Conan "The Time-Bombed Skyscraper" Original Soundtrack
18	夢みたあとで	Yume Mita Ato de	After I've Been Dreaming	Yume Mita Ato de
19	コナンの勝利	Konan no Shōri	Conan's Victory	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Arabic	حقيقة الأطياف المرعبة	The Truth of the Terrifying Ghosts
Catalan (Catalan dub)	La veritat de l'edifici encantat	The truth of the haunted building
Catalan (Valencian dub)	El secret de l'edifici encantat	The secret of the haunted building
Galician	O segredo da mansión encantada	The secret of the haunted house
German	Das Geheminis des Spukhauses	The Secret of the Haunted House
Indonesia	Kebenaran rumah hantu	The Truth of the Haunted House
Italian	La verità sulla casa infestata dagli spettri	The Truth of the Haunted House
Spanish (American dub)	El secreto de la mansión embrujada	The secret of the bewitched building
Spanish (Castilian dub)	El secreto del edificio encantado	The secret of the haunted building
Thai	ความจริงของบ้านผีสิง	The Truth of the Haunted House
Vietnamese	Sự thật về ngôi nhà ma ám	The Truth of the Haunted House

See also

• Season 7