Do you believe in ghosts, dead people coming back to see their loved ones, and paranormal and supernatural things?
Muntinlupa resident Lyn, 41, said she has a "third eye" and she feels and sees paranormal and supernatural things like “kapre,” “duwende” (dwarfs), dead people, “manananggal” and spirits.
Lyn has been living in the New Bilibid Prison (NBP) Reservation in Barangay Poblacion, Muntinlupa for 20 years. She was born and raised in Capiz.
Muntinlupa resident Lyn says she has the third eye that allows her to see ghosts, dead people and other paranormal and supernatural things (Jonathan Hicap)
She said her third eye has been present since birth.
“Matagal na since birth,” she said.
For the past two decades, Lyn said she has seen paranormal and supernatural things and beings in NBP Reservation, a sprawling land which houses the prison facilities, homes for employees of the Bureau of Corrections, schools, churches and tourism sites.
Lyn said within their yard at their home in NBP lives a “kapre,” which is a creature that lives in trees in Philippine mythology. The “kapre” lives in the mango tree in front of their house. She said the “kapre” even courted someone who lives in the house.
Besides the “kapre,” Lyn also sees the dead family members of her friend while a “white lady” lives in the back of their house.
A "kapre" as depicted in an episode of "Kapuso Mo, Jessica Soho" (Screenshot from GMA Public Affairs video on YouTube)
The main gate of the New Bilibid Prison Reservation in Barangay Poblacion, Muntinlupa (Screenshot from Google Maps)
According to Lyn, a "pugot na ulo" (decapitated head) appears at this waiting shed in NBP Reservation in Muntinlupa (Screenshot from Google Maps)
Some residents of NBP said they have seen ghosts on Burma Road in NBP Reservation in Muntinlupa (Screenshot from Google Maps)
The NBP playground (Screenshot from Google Maps)
Third eye
Lyn, a Catholic, said she knew that she had the third eye because of an incident.
Their father is a folk healer in Capiz and when she was seven, Lyn said she told his father about seeing a teen boy in a tree who she learned was an “engkanto” (supernatural being).
“Sabi niya bukas ang pangatlong mata ko (He said my third eye is open),” Lyn said.
Their eldest wanted her third eye to be closed but she refused.
“Sabi ko mas mabuti makita ko sila kaysa hindi (I told them I’d rather see them than not),” she added.
Her father advised her just to ignore the supernatural things that she sees.
Among the 16 children in the family, Lyn said five of them have the third eye.
NBP
Lyn said she has experienced supernatural things while living in NBP.
A “white lady” lives at the NBP grotto, or Memorial Hill. In the mango trees at the NBP Sunken Garden live “kapre and “tikbalang.”
She said she is not afraid when she sees supernatural or paranormal things.
“Hindi naman kasi hindi ko naman sila ginagalaw. Ang mahirap lang dun kung galawin mo sila (I’m not because I don’t disturb them. It becomes a problem when you disturb them),” she said.
It is normal for her to feel and see supernatural or paranormal things.
NBP was a prisoner-of-war camp during World War II and Lyn said she also saw ghost soldiers in the Vicar area.
Once, she said, she was driving an e-bike along Katihan Road on her way home to NBP when a man she knew boarded the vehicle.
The man turned out to have died that day. From the side mirror, Lyn said she saw the man but sensed that he was already a spirit.
“Nakaupo siya pero ramdam ko na. Sabi ko sa kanya, ‘Tanggapin mo na. Gabayan mo na lang ang dalawang anak mo (He was sitting in the back but I already sensed it. I told him, ‘Just accept [your fate]. Please guide your two children),’” she said.
The man disappeared upon reaching the front of their house in NBP.
For those who don’t believe in ghosts, paranormal and supernatural phenomena, they consider Lyn’s stories as pure imagination and concoction.
But Lyn is unfazed.
“To see is to believe,” she said, adding that through “orasyon” (prayer or incantation), a person’s third eye can be opened.