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A Halloween Treat : The Horror OF Room 213 A reader from Lahug, Cebu City shares with us this scary tale : When I was a child, I developed a fear of hospitals because of a terrifying experience I shared with my cousin  Zeny when she was recuperating from an  appendectomy in one of Cebu’s  oldest hospitals,  a stone’s throw away from the school I was attending. Consequently, I spent every afternoon in her sick room where I awaited my father to pick me up after his office hours. One afternoon, my father was unusually late in passing for me. My cousin had fallen asleep and I was left to while away my boredom in the hospital corridor facing an inner court, an open space atrium with a Grecian fountain in the centre. Dusk had fallen and the lengthening shadows were playing eerie patterns on the ground.  A nurse pushing a wheeled table on which some bottles of medicine and injectabels lay, passed by me to enter a room at the end of the corridor three numbers away from my cous

UPON READERS’ REQUEST October 02 is the Feast of Guardian Angels. In the last few days, I have repeatedly received requests for stories involving God’s special  and most powerful angel, the Archangel Michael, Supreme Commander of God’s army in heaven. To my loyal readers of Ghost Stories and Strange Tales, this research is for you. Thank you for your interest in supernatural tales. This story is a real spiritual experience shared to us by a young adult from the state of Illinois, USA. He has purposely remained anonymous. Three elderly friends, however, swore this story is for real because Archangel Michael "has the habit of showing himself to people who call out to him for help." Well, the archangel is also the patron of warriors, the sick and mariners. This is his story as he writes us directly: SAVED BY ARCHANGEL MICHAEL When I think about this experience 20 years later, I realize that this is the first time I came to understand that God actually exists. I

THE FLOATING LADY IN WHITE by mimi illenberger mapa It always had a reputation of being haunted, this old hacienda house somewhere in La Carlota, Negros Occidental. And so when I heard this story from two octogenarian aunts, I knew they were dead serious: Tita Inday and Tita Nena spent their long school holidays with their grandparents in an ancient Spanish colonial mansion in the center of a lush sugar cane plantation. The room they occupied during those holidays was the breeziest, the sunniest and the one which had the best view of the orchard with its ripening fruit trees. It was the guest room where two oldsters from Spanish descent, Lolo Jose and Lola Miling, reserved for special guests. This room was at the end of a long corridor to which three other large bedrooms opened. Anybody passing through this corridor could not avoid calling the attention of whoever were in the other rooms because of two reasons - the occupants habitually kept their doors ajar to keep

T A M A W O !! by mimi illenberger mapa The belief on fairies is universal. A famous writer, folklorist and preternatural researcher Patricia Lysaght of Dublin, Ireland has this to say about fairies in general - - Fairies are mythical beings or legendary creatures, a form of spirit, often described as metaphysical, supernatural or preternatural. Fairies resemble various beings of other mythologies, though even folklore that uses the term fairy offers many definitions. Sometimes the term describes any magical creature, including goblins or gnomes: at other times, the term only describes a specific type of more ethereal creatures. In modern usage, fairies are usually depicted as tiny human-appearing creatures with wings and the ability to perform magic. In Philippine Mythology, a diwata, also known as encantada (engkantada), is a mythical creature or goddess similar to Western fairies or nymphs, possessing supernatural powers. Diwatas are avatars of Nature, w

K  A P R E mimi illenberger mapa While doing research for his dissertation on folk healing, a former teacher stumbled on several  strange tales involving supernatural beings, prompting him to suggest to his peers in graduate school that perhaps the university  “should look into the feasibility of offering courses in parapsychology so that students will  have enlightened information on phenomena which science  is still hesitant to certify as worthy of investigation.” This particular tale I wish to share with my readers today  began in a university campus more than a decade ago and simply refused to die down. As the years rolled by , the stories involving the creature  even became more scary as more people came forward  to add their own experience to it; the teacher felt the case was indeed worthy of investigation. This is the story of a kapre ( the name used in  Philippine folk lore for the  mythical tree-sitting demon)  who inhabited a school building down south. Right sm

THE GIRL AND THE LOST CAP (A Ghost Story From Germany) A certain boy and girl, whose names this tale telleth not, once lived near a church. The boy being mischi evously inclined, was in the habit of trying to frighten the girl in a variety of ways, till she became at last so accustomed to his tricks, that she ceased to care for anything whatever, putting down everything strange that she saw and heard to the boy's mischief. One washing-day, the girl was sent by her mother to fetch home the linen, which had been spread to dry in the churchyard. When she had nearly filled her basket, she happened to look up, and saw sitting on a tomb near her a figure dressed in white from head to foot, but was not the least alarmed, believing it to be the boy playing her, as usual, a trick. So she ran up to it, and pulling its cap off said, "You shall not frighten me, this time." Then when she had finished collecting the linen she went home. But, to her astonishment -- for he cou