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The term 'Spirited Aways' or 'Spirited Away' is used within the Fatal Frame Series to describe a specific group of missing people. These people have completely disappeared without cause or reason, but what the most important fact towards their disappearance is that there is suspicion of the paranormal being involved.

When a person has been said to be spirited away, it means that they have been taken by spirits to another place. The bodies of the victims are usually never found. Spirited Aways don't necessarily disappear in similar circumstances or even similar locations.

People can be spirited away (i.e. taken to another place by paranormal influences) and survive (such in the cases of Miku Hinasaki, Mio Amakura and Rei Kurosawa), but they aren't classified as Spirited Aways, because they survived and came back.

This specific term was not used until the third game in the Fatal Frame Series, but all the games thus far have used the theme of one being taken by ghosts and spirits.

Specific Types of Spirited Aways

• People who have 'found' the Lost Village
• Lost Patients
• Victims of the Tattooed Curse
• Mikoto's friends captured by Long Arms
• The Kidnapped Girls

Known Spirited Aways

Fatal Frame

• Mafuyu Hinasaki
• Junsei Takamine
• Koji Ogata
• Ryozo Munakata
• Clock Boy
• Crawling Girl
• Girl in the Well
• Masato Hinasaki - novel version only

Fatal Frame II

• Mayu Amakura
• Masumi Makimura
• Miyako Sudo

Fatal Frame III

• Yoshino Takigawa
• Makie Kuzuhara
• Kozue Kuzuhara
• Kiriko Asanuma
• Serizawa
• Misao Amakura

Fatal Frame IV

• Madoka Tsukimori

Possible Spirited Aways

Due to certain factors (translation/canon endings), it is unknown whether the following are or are not spirited away.

• Kei Amakura
• Mio Amakura
• Shizu Amakura
• Misaki Asou

Misc Info

• The concept of being 'spirited away' is a common theme/story in Japanese folklore. The term is called 'kamikakushi' (神隠し) and the concept was the person was taken away by a spirit or displeased god. (Tengu stories are often linked to spirited away tales). Another term often used is 'Onikakushi' (鬼隠し) refers to a person 'spirited away' by a demon. Kamikakushi is used within the Fatal Frame Series
• The urban legend of Sugisawa Village also deals with a lost village and the concept of people being spirited away.
• In Fatal Frame IV, the japanese term kamikakushi was used in regards to the kidnapped girls (Ruka, Misaki, Madoka, etc) when they disappeared and were kidnapped by You Haibara. Even though they were actually never captured or lured by spirits which follows the definition.