Is there spooky places in the philippines that are a phenomnon, like in america i think there is this place where a house sits on a vortex that contradicts all the laws of science. like this house is tilted and u try to stand up straight but u can not but you can make a broom stick stand up by itself. and u roll a ball down a hill and it comes back up the hill, and its full of optical illusion...

does the philippines have a mysterious vortex? or maybe a very deep hole that ppl say goes straight to hell? or an island that is inhabited by the devil?

or an old spanish fort? or maybe not spanish ghost, cuz i think spanish already did their torchering in their life so its not fair to torrcher in their after life, but maybe the malay ancestors are getting some payback?

hehe. The PI is probably one of the most haunted places ever, apparently. I swear, most ppl there will tell you that they have seen ghosts or know of ppl who have seen ghosts or know of places which are haunted. Even my cousin's school,
in UP Diliman is apparently haunted coz so many ppl have died there. Corregidor and Bataan are also supposedly haunted by ghosts frm WW2. Maybe even Intramourous. Um...well there's also apparently a lot of haunted houses or less known haunted areas in the PI. Juz ask around and ppl will tell you some kinda ghost story. The bathroom in one of my frend's elementary school was apparently haunted too. So yeah, theres a lot of hauntings in PI, you juz gotta ask ppl about it.

siquijor i guess...

i saw a documentary about the island fortress of coregidor, very spooky

Siqujor and Dumangas there supposed to be black magic and Aswang there. And at night from far away the island is supposedly glowing.

I think I know where you're talking about... I ve3 been there alot of times and it's a trip. It's called Mystery spot in Santa Cruz.

i wouldn't want to go to capiz, i heard tehy got witches. also i wouldn't go to luneta at night, cuz i might get robbed. it's like central park i guess.

Balete drive? Haha i dont know been in the states for too damn long.

panay islands:

ilo-ilo;
antique;
capiz;
aklan.

According to a lot of Manangs and Manongs ( Old men and women) Those places which a lot of people have died during the Japanese occupation or died in a violent death or people who wanted to show themselves in order to living people would pray their souls so that they would have eternal peace!

One is Balete Drive in Quezon City . White Lady often appears there!

Lots of ghosts in the Philippines!

THIS HAPPENED TO ME BEFORE!!!!

Earlier this morning I saw a White Lady on our neighbour's front yard picking-up the newspaper & the White Lady yelled at me "good morning!". I was so scared I ran back inside my house & hide under my bed




I think our place is much "spookier" than Balete Drive, Q.C. bcuz, i also saw a Black Lady, a Mexican Lady & a Chinese Lady at mall earlier today

theres dewendes almos anywhere...dunno bout the cities though

Intramuros is also spooky because thousands of people were killed by the Japanese during the closing months of the war . Some of the people haunts the place

Baguio has a lot of ghosts..due to the Earthquake that happened in 1990(91?), in which many died.

^Ive seen a white lady there, and Ive heard a lot of stories from reliable sources claiming theyve experienced hauntings in this hotel, etc etc

yeah, the panay region were the scariest place i've known, hahaha through news.....

BALETE DR.

Balete Drive is NOT scary, I've walked there at night a couple of times & there's nothing unsual....

Here is a list of some spooky or haunted places in the Philippines:

Baguio City - Diplomat Hotel - This was a Seminary during the early 1900, world war 2 came and several priest and nuns were killed some of them beheaded by japanese occupying forces. This was converted into a hotel after the war. In it self it was pretty eerie, big rooms with to king size beds bibles at the side tables and the rooms are dimly lit. Clerks, bell hops, and hotel guest, complain of wailing even during day time, and when night comes, apparitions of headless priest roam the corridors, some even say that they see ghost carrying their heads on a platter. Haunting s are not limited inside the hotel for when you stroll outside the compound you would see neighboring houses with crosses painted on their doors and windows, and are kept shut when darkness falls.

Baguio City - Philippine Military Academy - Several ghosts haunt this place. Sometimes late at night a platoon can be heard marching in the parade grounds. A ghost of a cadet dressed in parade uniform and left in one of the lockers still appears. A ghost of a priest who was beheaded during the Japanese occupation period appears here as well as the ghost of a white lady.

Baguio City - Teacher's Camp - It is believed that this was once a battlefield of the native citizens there. Ghosts of native warriors, as well as spirits that are still restless, are reportedly seen there.

Corregidor - Hospital Ruins, and bunkers - Sounds of activities can be heard within the area of the hospital ruins, which were destroyed during WW2, sounds such as footsteps, and rumblings of normal hospital activities. Around the bunker area, sounds of ghostly moans can be heard, assorted noises as well.

Corregidor - Malinta Tunnel - Witnesses report eerie sounds and seeing a spirit near by.

Davao City - Juna Subdivision - Champaca Street - ghosts caught on video and seen by the naked eye.

Diliman Teacher's Village - Claret School qc - Many stories were spread since 97 the first was the high school student who jumped from the 5th floor to the ground that appears when the area is silent and the 2nd is the headless priest. That school is said to be an old cemetery.

Espana - Manila - University of Santo Tomas - Ghosts and wailing voices are heard from the 3rd and 2nd floars of UST Main Building. Since this is the oldest building in the oldest Catholic university in the Philippines, it is undoubted that some Spanish friars and Filipino souls were tormented and killed in this place.

Iloilo City - Central Philippine University (CPU) - This school was founded by American Missionaries and during WW2 many of the missionaries were executed by the Japanese.

Iloilo City - Central Philippine University (CPU) - Football Field - A female ghost is said to be seen jogging on the tracks early in the morning. She is said to join you while you are jogging and strikes up a conversation and will disappear after she passes a certain spot. Several students, teachers, and the school president have reported jogging with her.

Iloilo City - Central Philippine University (CPU) - Ruby Hall - A school janitor as well as students and teachers have reported that wile passing by the building at night after it is locked down, one classrooms lights would always be turned on while everything else is shut off. They have reported strange imp like creatures running around the classroom. This is one of the most haunted halls in the university. This is a medical hall and it houses several cadavers for the use of the med. students. From cold spots and moving furniture, to sometimes being pushed or tripped while walking.

Iloilo City - Central Philippine University (CPU) - Valentine Hall - The ghost of a dead female student haunts the women’s restroom, several female students since the early 70's have reported seeing her. The ghost is usually seen during noon. Classes have been interrupted because of screams from the girls. According to the students she appears behind them while they are looking in the mirror while doing their make up or fixing their hair. The ghost of Rev. Valentine who was beheaded can be seen on certain nights standing at the entrance of the hall dedicated to him. The ghost is reported to be headless.

Katipunan - Quezon City - Balete Drive - Balete Drive is a residential area famous for the apparition of a white lady. It is told that there was a teenage girl who was raped by a cab driver in the 50s in that area. It is possible that the lady of Balete is seeking revenge. Never walk alone at night in eerie Balete Drive.

Katipunan - Quezon City - Miriam College - on the 2nd floor ladies comfort room of the caritas building a nun haunts the bathroom and is said to peak over the stall while girls are using the bathroom. A face can be seen when you look above the door, but there are no feet when you look below the door

Katipunan - Quezon City - Miriam College - CSC - there was also this "manananggal" that lives there. It used to be a student that was hit by a car inside the campus. Rumors are that every school fair, someone faints.

Katipunan - Quezon City - Miriam College - Immaculate Heart Of Mary Hall - One witness claims that when they where in Grade 3 encountered that a spirit scratched her ankle when they were doing the 99 steps. And then, when she came back to the corridor, she was crying. And then she told us all to cover our nametags and never shout our name until class time.

Katipunan - Quezon City - Miriam College - Miriam Of Nazareth Hall - in the Grade 2 bathroom, there was this girl who was washing her hands, and there was a demon that came out of the toilet bowl. The girl prayed hard but nothing happened.

Katipunan - Quezon City - University of the Philippines Diliman - Ghosts sightings at the College of Education, College of Science Library, Palma Hall, College of Mass Communication, UP Main Library.

Makati City - Asian Institute of Management - A Professor died of a heart attack a few years ago in one of lecture rooms on the third floor of the main building. There are voices; shadows and cold spots can be felt in that specific room where the professor died. His car remains in the faculty parking area even until now.

Makati City - International School Manila (Former Campus) - Fine Arts Theatre - One year, one of the high school students was acting as the stage manager for the Community Play. The theatre was already uncomfortable for her when it was dark, but one night, on her way out, she was leaving through the front doors of the auditorium, something she couldn't see followed her up the aisle. Very aggressive, very menacing and very scary. She ran out the door just in time as they slammed shut behind her. Suffice it to say, she never stayed in the theater alone again.

Manila - Arellano high school - there are spirits mostly seen by the students and teachers because when a building in front of the school collapsed by an earthquake many years ago, the remains were placed in the said school. so the spirits were staying in that place.

Manila - De La Salle University - A chapel located on the 2nd floor of the De La Salle University -main Building is haunted by several ghosts said to be the victims of a mass killing during World War II. They start haunting the place when evening has crept in and the area is already silent. Sightings of headless monks and screams of people are being heard there during rainy nights.

Manila - Film Center - When the construction of Film Center at the Cultural Center of the Philippines complex was rushed in the early 1980s for a film fest, the ceiling scaffolding collapsed killing several workmen who fell to the orchestra below. Rather than halt construction to rescue survivors and retrieve the bodies of dead workmen, cement was poured into the orchestra, entombing the fallen workmen. Some of them were buried alive in the orchestra. Various ghostly activities were reported on the site including mysterious sounds, voices and poltergeist activity. In the late 1990s a group called the Spirit Questors began to make visits to the film center in an attempt to contact and appease the souls of the workmen who were killed in the building. Some of these spirits claimed to have moved on but a few allegedly remain.

Manila - Ozone Disco - Once there was a disco there and it caught on fire people tried to get out but people were pushing and panicking so no one got out. Some people hear disco music in their houses at night and see faint people dancing and no one can explain how.

Manila - Rizal Park area - Near the Rizal Park in Manila has the angry spirits of dead Japanese soldiers in the ruins of a building outside of the park. many Japanese soldiers died in the building when it was blasted. Reports of a cold presence and menacing feelings.

Muntinlupa - San Jose Village - An overgrown black bird with powerful wings can be heard circling the village whenever there's a pregnant woman. It's wings are so powerful that you'll sometimes feel like its windy but only on the place where you're standing at.

Muntinlupa - San Jose Village - St. Bernadette St. - From 12 midnight onwards, a lot of tricycle drivers have already encountered the white lady who loves to get a free ride. More often, this lady would be sitting beside the driver. Other times, a red lady is said to roam around the area following people who dread to walk this haunted street at night.

Muntinlupa - San Jose Village - St. Clemence Street - Another white lady haunts St. Clemence Street where her hair stands up and appears to be very angry.

Muntinlupa - San Jose Village - St. George Street - At St. George Street you can sometimes hear someone calling you but the voice is hidden in the tall grasses beside the street.

Muntinlupa - San Jose Village - St. Joseph - a mysterious headless priest is said to haunt the playground and the hill beside it.

Muntinlupa - San Jose Village - St. Peter’s Street - Ghostly apparitions of people partying near an old cave at St. Peter's Street can be seen during unholy hours from 12mn to 3am.

San Juan Greenhills - Resalest educational center - A principal who haunts the students and stole money from them, people said that the haunted principal is a greedy ghost who lives in that school.


Here is the link:
http://theshadowlands.net/places/philippines.htm

really? i want to see that white lady there. then i can ask her for a date. the best thing with her is she disappear afterwards...no commitments.

Manila Film center is another spooky place to visit
See the related link:
http://www.gmapinoytv.com/sidetrip/blog/in...ban-legend.html



The Manila Film Center, in a far corner of the Cultural Center complex on Roxas Blvd., is probably the country's most infamous structure. Some would say it is cursed, although a Korean-owned company is currently making a flamboyant effort to rehabilitate its image with a transvestite Las Vegas-like act. Now housing the "Amazing Philippine Theatre," the massive building is patronized nightly by dozens of Korean honeymooners who pose in front of the kitschy Egyptian Pharoah figure above the doorway before entering to enjoy the performance by the "country's prettiest gays." Most of the couples are completely unaware of its ghostly reputation, if one doesn't consider Filipino males with long hairless legs as apparitions.

But prettiest gays or not, ordinary superstition-loving Filipinos have avoided the building like SARS.
Even before it was finished in 1982, in time for the Manila International Film Festival, Imelda's film palace -- as others would call it -- suffered the first of its outrageous misfortunes. On November 17, 1981, during the pouring of cement, an upper floor collapsed, sending an untold number of workers hurtling into fresh cement or onto upright steel bars where they hung like barbeque (this was a witness's analogy, not mine) for hours until their bodies were retrieved.

The story all this time, or at least as I and countless others believed it, was that Imelda immediately ordered the bodies in the cement to be paved over so that work could resume and her looming deadline met. News about the tragedy was censored during the martial law era, so rumors and ghosts filled the vaccum.

Ghosts take over

Since then, as legend would have it, the Manila Film Center has become a haven for the supernatural, as spirits of the dead bodies encased in high-strength cement plead for recovery and a decent burial. So-called "spirit questors" have confirmed it, as well as various mediums (media?) and manghuhula.

In other words, that Parthenon-inspired white elephant in a dark, secluded spot next to Manila Bay is a fu****g scary place.

On top of that, it has become a gargantuan symbol of Imelda's edifice complex. The Manila Film Center did once house government agencies that promoted Philippine cinema, and is credited, at least by Marcos-era impresario Johnny Litton, for making possible Peque Gallaga's classic, Oro, Plata, Mata.

Later, after the Cory government repudiated everything Imeldific, the film palace lost its glamor when it became the government's central passport office. Then the 1990 earthquake struck. The building shook and the stairs and road around the structure cracked.

Sufficiently spooked, the passport people abandoned the building, which was visited afterwards only occasionally by people interested in the occult or film fanatics led by the CCP's Ed Cabagnot who once organized a colorum film screening there. In 2001, the Koreans started renting it for their version of the gay shows that draw the tourist multitudes in Thailand.




Giant Egyptian-inspired dog figurines now welcome Korean honeymooners to Filipino gay shows at the film center. In Egypt, dog gods from antiquity stand guard outside the tombs of the Pharoahs.
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All this time, the Manila Film Center has retained a reputation as a cursed, spooky remnant of Imeldific excess. Only the Koreans have had the guts to use it commercially.

The question that has hovered like Casper above all conversations about the place: How many are really buried in there?

That question drove our Halloween-night I-Witness documentary on what really happened on November 17, 1981. Fact-finding, not ghost hunting, was our mission.

I must say that we weren't that much more successful than the generation of ghost hunters who preceded us. But what we realized made us doubt what everyone has taken for granted all these years.

A half-baked conclusion

After numerous return trips to the film center's dark and eery catacombs, futile efforts to find a paper trail, and interviews with survivors and loved ones of dead construction workers, my half-baked conclusion: Not more than a dozen died (we heard figures as high as 169, which was based on an Inquirer account of a spirit questor expedition years ago), and NONE of them left behind in the Manila Film Center. Why are you surprised?

First of all, we couldn't find anyone who knew anyone in there, including relatives. If there really were dozens of skeletons still encased in cement in the film palace, we are almost sure we would have been able to trace loved ones, or they would have found us. The construction workers who survived the incident did not know anyone, nor did they know anyone who knew anyone missing in the building.

We know from years of working in media that the relatives of missing people are extremely persistent and vocal, driven as they are by a human desire for closure on their grief. I think this would have been the case even if they were bribed by Imelda, which is one theory for why they have been so quiet through all these years. I have my own theory: the missing don't exist.

One witness told us that workers cleared the bodies and the debris from the theater floor before resuming the construction, which was finished the same day that international stars like Jeremy Irons and George Hamilton waltzed in.

Anatomy of an Urban Legend

If the ghosts we hear about represent the souls of the dead unceremoniously buried under the theater floor, then they are probably ghosts in our minds. In other words, they are an Urban Legend that spread due to the confluence of the following: the horror of what happened in November 1981; news censorship during martial law which created a black hole where credible information should have been; hatred of the Marcoses, so many were prepared to believe the worst about an Imelda project; and the average Filipino's unquestioned belief in ghosts.

Unless someone can produce the facts to prove otherwise, or even just relatives, the case of the missing workers inside the Manila Film Center must be one of the country's biggest urban legends ever.

If there are any ghosts at all, they are the lies and illusions from the past which have yet to be exposed for what they are. Scarier than the ghosts in our minds are the real-life ghosts in our midst: a place of horrible tragedy that has been swept under the rug of censorship; an Imelda Marcos who still waltzes around town in her terno as if the crimes of martial law never happened; and the possibility that such horrors can happen again and no accounting takes place.

Our consolation is a new view of the Manila Film Center: it's not a giant tomb, but just the scene of yet another Marcos-era bloodbath. If all of those who have been so bent through the years on finding ghosts can summon the same will to locate all the facts, maybe we can finally see the truth.

go ahead, I better see that white lady pregnant...

yeah so it wold like in the grudge. that little boy.

^oh yea

sayang namn tong philippine film center. if the govt is juz not corrupt, this film center wouldve helped the modernization of the philippine cinema industry, thus making our movies good quality and world class now.

So do you think its possible for ghosts to haunt films?
Maybe?


That photo of the Egyptian dog looks very creepy. Most be alot pof ghosts with all those people buried there. Imagine if you lock inside the building at night. It would be even scarier.

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Mermaid picture from the Philippines
This mermaid is said to come from Siquijor?

If you want to join a group here is the list:


The UP Paranormal Society is a duly recognized, special-interest student organization based in the University of the Philippines – Diliman. The society is geared towards research on the various topics in the paranormal field and the promotion of its awareness and understanding. It aims to provide help and encouragement to the higher development and pursuit of higher ideals of individuals, especially the members, in order to appreciate their full potential. . These they had been accomplishing for almost six years since their foundation last August 1997 by Ms. Lea Dimarucut and Ms. Catherine Perrin, through their various activities such as talks, workshops, seminars, meditation sessions, field trips, and trainings among others. They participate in the activities of the university (University Student Council), such as the Alternative Classroom Learning Experience (ACLE) and the UP Fair, as well as in the activities of various groups in the university such as those of other student organizations and other groups. These are being done in order to reach out to the students. They have been of service to people, both inside and outside of the university, desiring help for better understanding of paranormal phenomena. Thus, they have always been consulted by students of UP as well as those of other schools, doing research connected to the subject. They have also served as resource on the paranormal phenomena on a number of occasions in various TV programs such as Magandang Gabi Bayan, Imbestigador, Debate, among others. From its foundation up to the present, the organization remains respected in the field of the paranormal.


Link:http://members.lycos.co.uk/parasoc/

Ooooooo! Thank you very much Ek-ek for the site!

(I dont think that mermaid link works though )

I heard malate is gay central

that spooks me

^ Ya bro. I'd rather face them ghosts than those aggressive gays

The gays are very scary indeed! I rather face them ghosts too.

Gays that are more scary than ghosts.

martin, do you look like this when your head gear is off?

jkz...

^looks like it yea

gay flips are like the worst man...they even dress in girl clothes

Another spooky places are cemeteries and old houses

Old houses seems to have spirits

I've seen this feature at Living Channel Asia where they had Manila, particularly Intramuros and according to the museum visitors there have seen some "tour guides" greeting them Good morning, Good afternoon, etc. However, according the "care taker" of the museaum, they don't have any tour guides.


Friendly ghosts, eh?

i would say antique in panay. that & capiz. its suppose to be land of the witches.

Capiz!

sa mt. banahaw. i think its creepy there. i heard there are kapres and UFO sightings there.

Sabi daw, ang St. Scholastica sa Marikina, ay "haunted," dahil sa mga nawawalang girl scout na umaapak sa rubber tree ng paaralan.

sa Capiz sabi nila may multo talaga..

capiz is where the witch & mangkukulam stories come from. its like voodoo town there. the local religion is a mix of catholicoism & ancient malay animist religions that were indigenous to the original malay filipino stock.

yes it is very true!!!! even the canadians i know who served their missions there saw what really happens. he experienced chairs flying in the air and hitting the wall of the hoouse, voices heard where theres no one anywhere, spirits trying to kill them and many more.