Time to Sleep: Crazy Girl

Before I go to sleep, I just want to share a very strange thing that happened when I was on my way home from work this morning. You guys probably know by now that I am used to strange things, this blog is all about strangeness. BUT THIS IS DIFFERENT.

Okay, let me tell you the story. I was walking my way home, already within the vicinity of the subdivision where I reside. I was listening to music on my ipod, just walking normally not rushing and enjoying the cool weather, when suddenly I noticed this girl walking a few distance before me. She was wearing a grey t-shirt and blue shorts, she was kind of chubby and she looked like she was freshly showered. Nothing unusual about her, nothing demanding more than passing interest, or so I thought at the time.

Suddenly she turned and gazed at me. I didn't think anything of it, people are naturally curious and maybe she was just checking who was walking in the street with her. Suddenly she made this "L" sign with her right hand and placed it on her forehead. At that time, I didn't understand immediately what it meant, I thought she wanted to ask the time (some people are always asking for the time, can't they afford a wristwatch?). Then it dawned on me, the "L" sign is actually stands for the word "LOSER".

I was aghast, I don't know this girl, this is the first time I ever laid eyes on her. How dare she make such a rude and not to mention totally inappropriate gesture towards me? I removed my the earphones of my ipod from my ears to demand that she explain herself. She was already mouthing words before I could remove my headset and then she was saying gibberish, words which are not related to each other! What I mean is she sang a stanza of the Philippine National Anthem, then she said the word "Youth for Christ" and then "Kentucky Fried Chicken". I mean, duh, what is that? Does that make sense to any of you?

For like 10 seconds, I was too surprised to say anything. Then I felt blood rush to my head and I stiffly put the earphones in my ears again and played music. I turned my back on the insane girl and of all the nerve, she touched my elbow as if she still wanted to speak to me. I shook her hand off and walked away and she followed me for like 10 meters. I couldn't hear her anymore, I had loud music playing in my ear. Then I guess she gave up and then went back to wherever hole she came from.

This is not actually the strangest thing that has happened to me, but this is certainly one of the most disturbing. I was afraid to turn my back to her, to be honest. I was worried that she might stab me in the back, I definitely think that either she was high on drugs or demented. Maybe its her idea of a sick joke, I don't know.

Anyway, that's what happened. I will not devote more time thinking about her, she doesn't deserve it. Gosh, a few more minutes and my brain cells might have died, she was so icky, she was crazy!

Well, enough venting. Thanks again for reading this far. Take care and enjoy my blog! Love you!

P.S. This the gesture the "Crazy Girl" made.

Charmedwishes...

Blessed be!

Departure

This story was told to me by my cousin years ago. It was a personal ghost story told by his teacher during his orientation class in high school. It goes like this...

Once his teacher had to drive a relative to the airport. After bidding farewell to his relative,he drove his way back home. At the carpark,he saw an old lady and a small boy, presumably her grandson, walking slowly towards the exit of the carpark.

Feeling sorry for both of them, he offered the old lady and kid a ride. The old lady politely refused and continued on their way. Thinking nothing of it, he drove out of the carpark.

On the highway to his surprise, he saw the old woman and kid in front of him! As he drove pass, he noticed that the old lady was waving at him.Without any delay,he speeded his way home.

When he reached home, he immediately went to his kitchen to have a glass of water. He happened to look out from the window of his flat and to his shock he was looking directly at the old lady and the small kid!

The teacher was staying on the 3rd floor, he could see the old lady was still waving at him but this time all he could see was two skeletons,waving and nodding at him!

After that, the teacher fell ill for 2 weeks and during that time he had nightmares of the old lady and the small kid calling out to him, asking him to join them on their journey to HELL!




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Taking of the Soul

My mother told me this story, and everytime she tells this story she always cries. This took place in the province of Bicol here in the Philippines.

Well, this is what happened. Its about my mother's friend whom we will just call Delia. This happened way back in the 1980's. Her family was poor but she didn't care, she had her husband and kids (a boy aged four and a baby girl barely a year old) and that's what counted. They lived in Naga City for less than a month, and they needed desperately to find a place to live. My parents found an apartment, which was supposedly "haunted". Everyone called it the, "the ghost house" but they weren't scared, they needed a place to stay and of course it was cheap.

When Delia and her family got settled in at their new place, her husband received a phone call from his aunt who lives in Manila saying they needed him to do some business there and since they needed the money, Delia's husband left. So it was just Delia and her 2 young kids who were left in the apartment.

One night, Delia's baby daughter was sick and kept on crying. Delia tried her best to make her feel better. Delia began to breastfeed the baby but she woudn't suckle. Because Delia was also tired taking care of the baby and her little boy, she fell asleep.

In the middle of the night Delia woke up, and saw this man, a young man with an unearthly glow, walking towards the door of their apartment holding something... He was wearing a white shirt and blue jeans. Delia was very surprised to say the least and looked at the door because the apartment door had three locks and there was no way he could have come in without making any noise.

Delia looked at her baby daughter and she tried to wake her up--but she wouldn't wake up--the ghost must have snatched the baby girl's soul--because the baby was DEAD.

Delia was of course almost mad with grief,but it was already too late to do anything. She just consoled herself saying it must have been a good ghost because he was wearing a white shirt, he was probably bringing her spirit to heaven.





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Giant Rat-Eating Plant

A new species of pitcher plant has been discovered in the Philippines. The giant pitcher (Nepenthes attenboroughii) lives high on Mount Victoria, and was reported by missionaries who were lost in the mountain area in 2000. An expedition to find the giant pitcher was held in 2007 by natural history explorer Stewart McPherson, botanist Alastair Robinson, Andreas Fleischmann, and three guides.

Pitchers create tube-like leaf structures into which insects and other small animals tumble and become trapped.

The team has placed type specimens of the new species in the herbarium of the Palawan State University, and have named the plant Nepenthes attenboroughii after broadcaster and natural historian David Attenborough.

“The plant is among the largest of all carnivorous plant species and produces spectacular traps as large as other species which catch not only insects, but also rodents as large as rats,” says McPherson.

P.S. I think this plant is very useful especially if its going to be cultivated along rice fields where rats are known to inhabit. Heaven forbid though if they evolve and become man-eating plants like the one in Little House of Horrors.




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The Voice of the Corpse

This story was told by one of my close friends. He is a worker at a port. I don't know if his story was real or imagination, but it is an interesting story. I will tell the story in the first person point of view just so it will be easier.

I am a worker in a port. My daily duty is to discharge and to load cargo to the vessels. Three years ago, I lived in one of the slums in Manila and it was a really poor neighborhood. The house I was staying in was made of wood and its walls were covered by layers of scrap tarpaulin. It is a very small house. There were two rooms in the house. I lived in a room of only twenty feet wide. I think the other room was a same size like my room.

Actually, I rented this room from a young man who was about twenty six years old. He was a taxi-driver. His parents were working in the province and he was their only son. He and I had a good relationship. He was a gentle young man and had a soft voice. Our two rooms were divided by tarpaulin as most of the houses are in the slums in Manila.

We sometimes meet in a small bar to drink a little. At that time he told about his family and his girlfriend. He said the parents of his sweetheart would not recognize him as a prospective son-in-law because of his bad habits in drinking. Another obstacle was that the girl came from a rich family and they did not want to give their daughter to the hands of a taxi-driver. He said he was felt bad about this and he must elope with his girl as soon as possible. He said he will take her within three days to his home. These were his words while we were in the bar.

2 nights after that,I came home from my work. The time was about 9:30pm. I went to my bed as usual. I needed to go bed early because my shift the next day was very early. As soon as I lay down, I fell asleep. Suddenly, I was awakened by a voice. It came from the room behind my head. I was sure it was a voice of a girl singing a song. I know the song that she was singing because it was a very popular song in Manila. It was sung by a famous woman vocalist.

I was surprised because I realized that the room where the voice was coming from was a room of my taxi driver friend. There were no other people, only the taxi-driver. But later, I remembered the words of the taxi-driver that he was planning to elope with his sweetheart. I thought this was his girlfriend's voice who was taken by him sometime ago. Suddenly, I smelled a foul odor that was like the smell of a dead rat. But soon, it disappeared on the breeze.

I fell asleep again because my body was tired after many hours of labor. The next morning, I prepared to go to work and I glanced at the taxi-drivers room, meaning to ask him about how he and his girlfriend were doing. The room was locked as usual. The taxi-driver always leave early at the break of dawn so I shrugged it off. My question was forgotten the whole day because I was busy with my work. I worked the whole day at the port and that evening I came back home. I slept immediately and I got up at noon the following day and since it was my rest day, I went outside to visit somewhere in the suburb.

I came back home when the time was about nine. I went to bed and tried to sleep. Suddenly, I heard the voice of the girl singing a song like the previous night. I thought the taxi-driver was home already and his sweetheart was doing housework. At that moment, I smelled that bad smell like the previous night. I thought there was dead rat somewhere and the foul smell was coming from it. I tried to ignore it and soon, I fell asleep. I spent three nights like the same. Whenever I look for him (the taxi driver), his room was always locked and I couldn't even see his shadow.

Then one morning, I got up from bed hearing the noise of the people outside. I found many people gathered in front of the house I was renting and there was an ambulance. I went towards them and asked what's the commotion about? One of the neighbors said there was a corpse of a girl in the taxi-driver's room and it was discovered by a child. The child was trying to get inside the room to steal when he saw the ROTTING CORPSE OF THE GIRL. You can be sure, I was horrifed and felt really sick with what I heard. I felt that I was at the gate of death because the corpse of the girl was lying behind the walls where I was lying and sleeping. There were only three or four feet between us.

Then, another shocking thought hit me: Whose voice have I heard these past few nights? I couldn't begin to think about what it meant.

However, one week later, the taxi driver was caught by the police. He was the killer of the girl whose corpse was in the room next to mine. The story was that one night the taxi-driver had an accident on a street where there were no other people. His car run over a girl, killing her instantly. He took the girl in his car and tried to go to the hospital but he began to fear that it was his fault and he might go to jail. He drove his car to his home and put the corpse in his room near the wall where I was always sleeping. Then he ran and hid somewhere in the city.

Three days later, the corpse began to rot and the bad smell was coming from it. I could only assume that it was the girl's ghost singing the song in the room next to mine. Of course, I had to leave the house and look for another place to live after that.



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Scary Filipino Rap

I was surfing the net and came across this website about a rapper name Filipeanut. What i found interesting was this rapper made a song (or rap) about scary beings from the Philippines. He named the rap, "Scary Filipino Stories". Anyway, I will post his link here and share his music. The song is not actually scary, its even funny. But I guess its an overview of some of the ghoulies we have here in the Philippines.

Note:

Aswang

The aswang is the most feared of supernatural creatures on the Philippines. They can enter the body of a person and through this person they inflict harm on those the they dislike. Most common are the female variety who appear as an ugly old woman with long, unkempt hair, blood-shot eyes, long nails, and a long, black tongue. She has holes in her armpits which contain oil. This gives her power of flight.
A being of enormous power, she can transform herself into any shape, even inanimate objects. She preys on children, pregnant women, and ill people. Once she has overpowered a victim, she will take a bundle of sticks, talahib (grass), and rice or banana stalks, and transform these into a replica of her victim. This replica is sent home while she takes the real person back with her. Upon reaching its home, the replica will become sick and die. The victim will then be killed and eaten. She is said to be particularly fond of the liver.

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Haunted Call Center In The Philippines

Silence! Dont Disturb My Baby

I am working in a call center here in the Philippines. I’ve been engaged to this kind of job for almost a year now. Staying up late in the office is the nature of the job. You will do and receive a lot of calls. Most of the time everybody is busy. But what’s not hidden to almost all of us is that their are also other beings dwelling in the office and constantly mingling with us.

When I was new to the place I found it very adorable and fun, the atmosphere is filled with enthusiasm. But as months came I’ve notice something weird about the place. I felt like something spooky is happening all over, so I confirmed it my colleagues who’ve stayed in the company longer than I have. It was then I found out that there are indeed some unexplainable things happening in the center. As my colleague stated the whole story and the personal experience that he had, the hair on my neck, my feet and my arms raised all at the same time.

There are more than one ghost that dwells within the walls of the center. There were four of them, the green man, the burned child, the white lady at the altar and the lady on the floor. Almost all the employees were aware of this beings that dwells silently with us. Their are even times that they literally make their presence very noticeable. I instantly believed with it at once cause I’ve been a believer of ghost stories even before. But I have no idea of how terrifying it is, not until I experienced the horror myself.

It was one tired full evening, we just finished our last dance practice with my colleagues. There is a dance competition for all call centers at that time so everyone had to cope up with the schedule add the practice as well. We were all squatted on the floor at a big room located in the end of the office. All were very noisy and excited to go home, we were all laughing and chatting as we polished and finalize all our plans for the final performance when suddenly, on top of every noise, on top of all the voices, we heard a loud cry of a newly born baby, a type of cry that one hears when a baby is disturbed during his sleep. The cry faded instantly as everybody stopped and looked at each other. Everyone was shocked and did not even say a word.”Was that a cellphone?” one of us asked. But no one can tell who it was. Their are only four cellphones in that room at that time and none of them had that kind of ring tune. That was not a cellphone, when everybody realize that, the big circle that we formed instantly turned into a crumple of people, with faces obviously terrified of what they’ve heard.

Our head officer managed to pacify us and instructed us to calm down and ended the meeting at once. We all went out of the building with a terrified soul. All of us were scared of what had happened. I was able to mention that to the security on duty and all the he said was, “that’s nothing new in here!”

We were all afraid but we can do anything else but accept the reality that we are working in a place where we have a lot of connection, not only outside the country but also beyond the world of the living. And here is what’s more terrifying. On that same night, the company’s system and generator suddenly shut off. The operation was disabled for about an hour and no one can explain why that happened. Was that the exchange of the disturbance that we did?