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* In ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza}} 3'', a series of subquests in Downtown Ryuugi centers around 'The Seven Mysteries of Ryuugi', as told by a group of gossiping schoolgirls. Inevitably, each of the mysteries turn out to either have a mundane explanation, or - more frequently - comes down to somebody running a scam. For the perfect punchline, the main character himself essentially turns into the Seventh Mystery - a '[[CoolOldGuy ripped older guy]]' who shows up when people fall prey to loansharks or scammers to beat them up. Considering how [[MadeOfIron invincibly]] BadAss Kazuma Kiryuu is, he's certainly closer to being supernatural than any of the other so-called mysteries...

* One episode of the ''KeroroGunsou'' anime has Keroro setting up shop in an abandoned school, planning on [[ScoobyDooHoax staging a few ghost sightings]] and turning it into a tourist trap to help fund the invasion. He tests out his scheme on Fuyuki and Momoka, who happen to be in the same building on a ghost-hunting expedition, by throwing a set of seven (actually five) "school haunting" cliches at them.

* Thors, the military AcademyOfAdventure featured in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsOfColdSteel'', has a set of seven mysteries that your main character, Rean Schwarzer, can investigate in an optional quest. All of them turn out to be mundanities: a supposed graveyard that was really just a bad test paper a student buried "six feet under," a "haunted piano" that was really just being tuned, a supposed poltergeist that was just the result of frustrated cooks, etc. The twist is that there is apparently an entirely different second set of seven mysteries also taking place at the Academy that is only briefly alluded to.

* A major plot point ''Manga/TasogareOtomeXAmnesia''. The Paranormal Club believes that finding all seven mysteries will help them discover the secrets behind [[CuteGhostGirl Yuuko's]] murder. Much of the plot involves distinguishing between rumors or ghost stories and true mysteries.

* In ''Manga/MyMonsterSecret'', the Seven Mysteries are specifically named, but the protagonists quickly realize that ''they're'' the Mysteries; the "Afterschool Vampire" is the series' female lead [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire Youko Shiragami]], the "Dwarf of the Hallway" is ClassRepresenative Nagisa Aizawa (a doll-sized alien who pilots a MobileSuitHuman), etc. [[spoiler:However, eventually they realize that these legends have been around for years and thus must refer to the ''past'' generation -- for example, the "Afterschool Vampire" isn't Youko but rather her father Genjirou.]]

* ''Anime/DirtyPairFlash'' manages to set up a HighSchoolAU situation in its second season as an excuse for this plot.

* There's an RPGMaker game called ''SevenMysteries'', though strangely it's only this trope for the first four chapters. The remaining three deal with the hero of chapter four trying to get to the bottom of everything. As it turns out, [[spoiler: a psychotic student had killed seven classmates over a two-week period, framing his last victim, a shy transfer student, for his crimes. The girl's angry ghost was haunting the school, tormenting people who wandered in at night with horrific hallucinations. The headmaster knew about the haunting, but to avoid shutting the school down he conspired with the murderer to kill off the victims/witnesses and stockpile the bodies in a hidden room.]]

* There's an RPGMaker game called ''Seven Mysteries'', though strangely it's only this trope for the first four chapters. The remaining three deal with the hero of chapter four trying to get to the bottom of everything. As it turns out, [[spoiler: a psychotic student had killed seven classmates over a two-week period, framing his last victim, a shy transfer student, for his crimes. The girl's angry ghost was haunting the school, tormenting people who wandered in at night with horrific hallucinations. The headmaster knew about the haunting, but to avoid shutting the school down he conspired with the murderer to kill off the victims/witnesses and stockpile the bodies in a hidden room.]]

* The third episode of ''OtogiJuushiAkazukin'' revolves around the seven mysteries. They all turn out to be caused by the heroine, Akazukin.

* Apparently, the Seven Mysteries of North High are the subject for ''[[SuzumiyaHaruhi Suzumiya Haruhi no Chokuretsu]]'', a game released for the DS in Japan.

* In the Doraemons Special, Nobita and Matadora uses the seven mysteries to scare off two robbers from the school at night with the help of their gadgets.
* In ''UruseiYatsura'', the teacher Onsen-Mark tries to do the traditional midsummer spook-the-youngsters-with-scary-stories routine and mentions the Seven Mysteries of Tomobiki High. Unfortunately, due to the {{weirdness magnet}}s in the class (Moroboshi and Co.), most of these were already the subject of various previous chapters, and the class was bored.

* Came up in ''{{Mahoromatic}}'', with the added twist there actually ''was'' a [[http://www.mania.com/10-ghost-story-anime-episodes_article_126092.html ghost]] in a classroom.
* "The Seven Mysteries of Fudo High" in the ''KindaichiCaseFiles'' story "Smoke and Mirrors". They all turn out to be [[spoiler: rumors started to cover up dead bodies hidden in an old building that used to be a lab for a crooked pharmaceutics company. Not to mention there were originally ''six'' mysteries.]]
* Mai's arrival at Fuuka Gakuen in ''MaiHiME'' quickly becomes one of that school's seven mysteries.
* Appeared in the later seasons of ''RanmaOneHalf'', revolving around a "lost school store" and its aged keeper, "the Secret Don of Furinkan High" whose stories of the school's past tied into the Warring States era, WWII, the Mongol Empire, and the Napoleonic Wars (and were, of course, pure fabrication). A later episode introduced an actual ghost girl to haunt the place.
* In ''MythicalDetectiveLokiRagnarok'', the girl sidekick takes Loki to her school to show him their seven mysteries. As usual, only the last one lacks a mundane explation.
* In the ToeiAnimation version of ''{{Kanon}}'', after discovering Mai fighting demons at the school, Yuuichi asks Kaori if she's heard of a girl that appears at night. Kaori thinks he's talking about the obligatory "cute girl ghost" of the seven mysteries. However, every single one is completely bogus, including the ghost; Mai's supernatural connections have a very different origin.
* One of TheSevenMysteries is the main cause of plot in ''UtaKata''. The rest don't show up.

* The school in ''{{Kekkaishi}}'' has 77 Mysteries. The increase is due to the school sitting on the manga's resident AppliedPhlebotinum.
* One episode of ''MariaHolic'' focuses on the seven mysteries of Ame no Kisaki Girls' School, a high percentage of them involving [[{{Nosebleed}} blood]]. To the surprise of no one, [[SchoolgirlLesbians Kanako]] is directly responsible for all of them due to her [[ImagineSpot fantasies]]. Kanako's homeroom teacher later tells her that the seven mysteries applying to the whole school change every year, but seven ''other'' mysteries about Kanako's dorm manager have never changed; they range from the genuinely mysterious ("[[OlderThanTheyLook what the hell is her real age?]]") to mundane FridgeLogic ("why are Virtual Boys not banned along with the other electronics?"). If anyone happens to learn all seven mysteries, the dorm manager will do...[[NoodleIncident well, something, anyway]].

* ''SeitokaiNoIchizon'' - Manga - The students confuse this with a scary story tournament, so the school ends up with dozens of mysteries, all horrifying. Minatsu undoes it all by adding the legend of the girl who goes around destroying all the ghosts. But Ken's story is the scariest:

* ''Manga/HiganbanaNoSakuYoruNi'' is all about a school's seven mysteries (and the creation of an eighth...)
** And, as such, has this entire subject as a DiscussedTrope.
* A major plot point ''TasogareOtomeXAmnesia''. The Paranormal Club believes that finding all seven mysteries will help them discover the secrets behind [[CuteGhostGirl Yuuko's]] murder. Much of the plot involves distinguishing between rumors or ghost stories and true mysteries.

* The first episode of HauntedJunction had the PowerTrio searching not just for the Seven Spots, but for the seven ghosts associated to them. HilarityEnsues.

* In ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'', part of the extended prologue in Twilight Town features Roxas and his friends investigating "Seven Wonders" that appear to have mundane explanations, while the true explanations are quite extraordinary, the blanket explanation being that they're either glitches in the simulation or Nobodies screwing around with things on purpose... Well, except for the staircase one. Rai's an idiot.
** The Seven Wonders are also in the ''real'' Twilight Town in ''358/2 Days'', and inspecting Pence's notes reveals that they're all the same as the simulated Twilight Town's with similar mundane explanations, with the exception of an "Eighth Wonder," which turns out to be an invisible Heartless.

* A mission late in ''CrisisCore'' has Zack seeking out the seven wonders of Nibelheim, all of which have mundane explanations, and gets him a reward for figuring out.

* In the second ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'' [[UsedToBeASweetKid Carl]]'s [[MultipleEndings Gag Reel]] has him recall the time he, Noel, Tsubaki and Makoto (who he was at the academy with) had him go through one of these because he was feeling homesick.
* In ''[[RyuGaGotoku Yakuza 3]]'', a series of subquests in Downtown Ryuugi centers around 'The Seven Mysteries of Ryuugi', as told by a group of gossiping schoolgirls. Inevitably, each of the mysteries turn out to either have a mundane explanation, or - more frequently - comes down to somebody running a scam. For the perfect punchline, the main character himself essentially turns into the Seventh Mystery - a '[[CoolOldGuy ripped older guy]]' who shows up when people fall prey to loansharks or scammers to beat them up. Considering how [[MadeOfIron invincibly]] BadAss Kazuma Kiryuu is, he's certainly closer to being supernatural than any of the other so-called mysteries...

A common punchline is for the seventh mystery to be that there is only six mysteries.

* In ''DaCapoII'', these mysteries are the basis for a TestOfCourage.

* The third ''MegaManStarForce'' game has "The Seven Wonders of Echo Ridge," despite there being only six, as mentioned by an NPC ''very'' late in the game, after no doubt having driven batty many players who thought to look for them all out of curiosity.

Especially common in a school setting, these tend to be awkwardly brought up during [[FestivalEpisode summer episodes]], where mysterious legends are attributed to a not-particularly-old place. Nearly always end up being complete horsehockey, except for perhaps the last one. Common themes include voices in an empty room, faces in a wall, staircases with more steps going up than coming down, and other variously spooky and paranormal things.

* In ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'', part of the extended prologue in Twilight Town features Roxas and his friends investigating "Seven Wonders" that appear to have mundane explanations, while the true explanations are quite extraordinary, the blanket explanation being that they're either glitches in the simulation or Nobodies screwing around with things on purpose... Well, except for the staircase one. Rai's an idiot.\\
The Seven Wonders are also in the ''real'' Twilight Town in ''358/2 Days'', and inspecting Pence's notes reveals that they're all the same as the simulated Twilight Town's with similar mundane explanations, with the exception of an "Eighth Wonder," which turns out to be an invisible Heartless.

* ''LightNovel/DirtyPair Flash'' manages to set up a HighSchoolAU situation in its second season as an excuse for this plot.

* There are Seven Mysteries within Green Dolphin '''Prison''' in ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure : Stone Ocean'' - one of them being the unusual and rare appearance of Louis Vuitton bags at the prison shop - however, they don't appear to have anything to do with the plot and are the ''least'' mysterious things about the dangerous prison.

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* In ''DaCapoII'', these mysteries are the basis for a TestOfCourage.