Tag page - ghosts from the past

  Security Guard with Flashlight (Image by © Colin Anderson/Brand X/Corbis) Eye to eye “Have you heard the story of the guard in our campus?” I asked just to make sure I’m the one who knows about it. “Alin ‘yung inaswang niya ‘yung asawa ng kapitbahay nya?” one of my classmates...

  Fetching goddaughters “Okay if you think your stories are scary, you should listen to this!” my classmates from Laguna boasted. “There was a woman who visited a friend whom she hadn’t seen for a long time. This woman was standing by the gate of the house of her friend, who was doing...

  The nurse  After our class, we went to one of our classmate’s houses to celebrate. Still with a hangover from our professor’s story, we took turns in telling our own horror tales. One of my classmates from Surigao del Sur started. “There was this mother who is about to go to the...

Scary tales from the teens of the ‘90s During the 90’s, stories about creatures like aswang, mananangal, tikbalang, kapre, tiktik, tyanak scared us, especially for those of us who lived in the province. But since we’re doubtful these creatures really exist, because we haven’t seen one, we...