Filipino Urban Legends

Biringan City – the said to be invisible land filled with supernatural creatures located in Samar. These creatures intend to shape like a human and invite normal people to their place. Once they make people believe in their words, they will likely to give those people luxury of all things, from food to money. But the magic and tragic starts there. Minutes become hours and families of victims reported their loved ones to be gone for weeks but those who came back thought that they were just there for minutes.

Aswang – most people described them as the Filipino combination of vampire and werewolf. Though there are many different illustrations of what they really look like, but one thing is for sure: they are really scary. They are defined as “shapeshifters” as they live like normal people then change their looks at nights to haunt over young children or unborn child. Some people say that their sound are detected through how the low or high the sound is. If it’s loud, the creature is far from you, but if it’s low, better to run faster than a jet because it’s already behind you.

Tiyanak – demonic baby creatures that eats humans. They usually use their adorable and lovely faces as a baby to prey people and when these people fall into their tempt, they will eventually suck out blood all over their body. Most people say that they are the offspring of a demon and a human, some say it was a fallen angel from heaven that was cursed. There are certain movies that talks about these creature talking about a baby who died even before being baptized or a curse from God for doing unhuman deeds.

Jeepney Ride – Jeepneys are public transport in the Philippines which is already part of every Filipino’s lives. This is a story about a student that went home late after a project at school. On her way, she often saw the jeepney driver looking at her in his rearview mirror. More terrifying is that the driver keeps going turns into a route she doesn’t even know. But instead of saying something, she decided not to since it is very scary to be left out of nowhere. The driver then went to the correct route and the student arrived safely. According to the driver, he saw her with no head in the rearview mirror that’s why he did what he did to throw away the bad energy. He then requested to make the clothes be burned. Few days later, the driver died.

Sirena – Filipino version of mermaids. Although mermaids are pictured as to be beautiful sea creatures that have a face of a human being, some people don’t see them as an attraction. These mermaids are portrayed to be scary looking creatures with green like fins and scales. They are reported to cause shipwrecks to eat sailors on board.