“Then we remembered someone saying that our street was like a portal where creatures not from this dimension pass through. If this were true, maybe the group we heard was moving from one place to another.”
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True Weird: Ghost Stories on Jiggy’s Geek Speak
Jiggy Cruz invited me on his podcast, Jiggy’s Geek Speak to talk about encounters with the supernatural. We talk about our experiences, as well as those of people we know. Since we both scare easily, none of us want to listen to this podcast just in case there’s a third voice in it (unless it […]
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True Weird: The Role of the Supernatural in Hong Kong’s National Identity, Part 2 of 2
Danny Chan teaches Communication and Language in Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He is currently finishing his Ph.D. dissertation in Hong Kong Studies on Time, Temporality, and Spectrality in Hong Kong. I had the opportunity to interview him about Hong Kong’s relationship with the supernatural. I expected urban legends and stories linked to nature. Instead, what […]
Read morePhilippine Urban Legends: The Stories that Grow from a Mix of Animism, Technology, and the Scars of Dictatorship
Mention the Philippines and most people think of weird food (fertilized duck egg, anyone?) and beautiful beaches. But stick around long enough, and you’ll find that (sometimes literally) beneath the country’s modern malls and mysterious mountains runs a lower mythological tradition so rich, its moved from the forest to the cities, morphing from myths to […]
Read moreTrue Weird: Some Themes in Manila Urban Ghost Stories
Each culture has its own themes of the supernatural, stories that occur again and again in different places and different eras, becoming more folklore than coming from fact, the kinds of stories told around a campfire.
No one really knows where these stories began, only that they have been adopted by public imagination and have been made personal in the telling.
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Baguio: The Haunted City of the Philippine North
Aside from being the summer capital, Baguio also has the reputation of being one of the most haunted cities in the Philippines.
Read moreBiringan: City of the Lost
Biringan City may be a myth, but it is one that refuses to die.
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Ghost Stories from a Taal native
We met Irene at the ruins of a crypt that dated back to the Spanish era. Our hosts had brought me and my friend there to catch a glimpse of the Taal not yet accessible to tourists. The structure was discovered last year. Irene’s father, Mang Bernard, was the first to explore its depths, lowering […]
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