Every country has its own Urban legend and each one of them is unique. Since I live in the Philippines I want to share with you guys some of our Scary Urban Legends, in case that you don't know where the Philippines is, it is located in South East Asia and it's actually made of over 7 and a half thousand Islands which all of them have a unique culture, tradition, and of course scary stories....
Since I'm pretty excited about this one, let's stop the intro and let's get started!
The Snake Man
For many years there is actually a story going around Manila about a half-snake and half Human that live in the local mall. That mall is the Robinsons Mall which is owned by Robina Gokongwei-Pe.
People actually say that Robina Gokongwei-Pe has a set of twins and one of them was born normal and the other one was half snake half human with an insatiable appetite for human flesh. Robina panic about what she would do to this creature so she came up with a plan, she opened a shopping mall so that she could hide her son in the tunnels and basement below. According to the rumors, the shopper would try on some clothes inside the dressing rooms and they would be swallowed by remote control floors where the snake man would be waiting below. There was actually a Filipino movie about this entitled "Ahas" if you're interested you can watch it here.
The elevator
There are actually variations of this urban legend all over the Philippines but they often follow the same pattern, which is there was a doctor in the hospital, he walks into the elevator with another patient inside, as both of them face the door they saw a boy running down the hallway towards the elevator and his eyes were wide and pale. The doctor quickly presses the close button leaving the boy shut out just as he gets to the elevator. As the elevator goes down the basement, the patient turns to the doctor and asks "why did you do that? the boy wanted to get on and you stopped him" the doctor shook his head slowly and says "I wanted to but he had a red wristband on" if you didn't know, they only put a red wristband on dead patients. The patient looks down for a moment in silence and then raised its own arm up to the doctor, smiled, and said "just like mine".
Mt. Banahaw
If you didn't know, Mt. Banahaw is a sacred mountain in the Philippines, but with all the respect it receives Mt. Banahaw also have scary stories. One of those is the disappearing hikers, it is the most famous scary story in Mt. Banahaw. People say that some of the hikers go up the mountain and never returned and no trace of them is ever found. There are some rumors about the mountain is a landing site for the alien spaceships and those aliens have been abducting the hikers for years. These visitations were actually witnessed by hundreds of people including a TV crew who filmed it, in the story some hikers were spending the night on the sloped of the mountain. One of the hikers woke up and decided to sleep outside of the tent as it would be more comfortable and there was a blinding light. When the hikers woke up the next morning they were on top of an entirely different mountain, the hikers didn't know how they get there unless they were uneducated by Aliens.
The headless Priest
This legend actually goes back hundreds of years, it all started during the Filipino revolution and the WW2 or World War 2, numbers of Filipino priest are beheaded by soldiers. They say that the ghost cannot rest until they could found the peace which they could not when they're still alive, for the headless priest they cannot rest in peace until they find their heads. There are some rumors that they saw the headless priest walking in the graveyards at night searching for their heads or even more scary carrying it in their hands looking for a way to reattach their head. They could speak so they will approach you if they see you hoping that you can reattach their heads and send them to the afterlife. This legend is scary and sad at the same time, I mean they just want to go to the afterlife.
The Bloody Bridge
The San Juanico Bridge is the longest bridge in the Philippines and it has some scary stories behind it. But before we proceed to that I will give a brief explanation about San Juanico Bridge. This bridge is connecting Samar and Layte, it was built as a gift from Ferdinand Marcos, the former president of the Philippines to his housewife Imelda who was a native of Layte. He basically lest his wife in charge of the bridge. Now, this is when the story occurs, during its construction local notice several children were disappearing from both Samar and Layte and when the bridge was complete the children stop vanishing. There are rumors that the foundation of the bridge was made stronger by mixing the blood of babies and structures using a ritual use to strengthen structures, some people even said that the bodies were added to the cement mixture by the construction workers while preparing the cement.
The white lady of Balete drive
This one comes from Quezon City where many believe that Balete drive is hunted by a ghost called the white lady. They said that she's a harbinger of death, she is a revenge ghost that wants the living to feel the fear and terror she felt before she died. They said that she has been seen since the 1950's suddenly appearing and vanishing along the road. there's actually news about this and if you're interested you can watch it here.
Maria Labo
This name is actually really famous all over the Philippines, The word "Aswang" started from Maria Labo. If you don't know what "aswang" means well it is a mythological creature in Filipino mythology where it is believed to eat humans and other animals. In life, she was a caring mother and all she wants is the best for her family. One day she signed up as an overseas Filipino worker and move to Canada to care for the sick. One of her patients was dying of an unknown disease. Eventually, before dying the patient bit Maria passing on his vampiric powers to her, Maria accepted the power without knowing what will the consequences be. Maria returns to the Philippines where her hunger for human blood begins to grow. When she can't resist it any longer, she cooked her two sons and eat them, after that she became an "aswang". When her husband came home, he saw what Maria did and he flew into a rage and attack her and slash her face with a bolo knife she manages to escape and now locals said that is you saw her don't have second thoughts and run as fast as you can. There is actually a movie about the story of Maria Labo it didn't have eng sub though but if you're interested you can watch it here.
Well, that's all! there are basically more urban legends in the Philippines for example the "mananaggal" "kapre" "tiyanak" and many more but I just listed 7 for some reason, I hope you liked it and thank you so much for reading, bye!
Tiyanak
Kapre
Manananggal
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