Ghost stories from Philippines

The Last Plate

In the summer of 2010, I agreed to house-sit for my Aunt Lita while she and her husband vacationed in Thailand. Their home, a sleek modern structure on the outskirts...

The Hollow in the Hill

The road to our house in the highlands of Bukidnon, Philippines, is a winding ribbon of packed earth that climbs through coconut groves and past a few scattered wooden houses....

The Lobby of the Unseen

My Aunt Clara never spoke of the night at the Grand Meridian Hotel. It was a place that had seen better decades, its marble floors cracked and its chandeliers dimmed...

The Persistent Static

It was a humid Tuesday evening in early October when my brother-in-law’s vintage radio, a bulky mahogany Philco that had been in his family for decades, began to emit a...

The Mannequin in Apartment 4B

I never believed in ghosts. Not really. I was a pragmatic man, an engineering student who dealt in blueprints and load-bearing walls. My world was made of concrete and steel,...

The Breath in the Basin

It began three winters ago, on the first of November, in a half-finished house on the edge of a town that was slowly being eaten by the highway. My family...

The Hollow Night Watch

The city never sleeps, or so they say. But at 2:47 AM, even the flickering neon of late-night convenience stores seemed to hold its breath. I was a skeptic, a...

The Nightshift Reel

During my tenure as a media liaison at the Government Communications Complex in the capital, I was one of several officers detailed to the old executive mansion adjacent to the...

The Marble Garden of San Isidro

In the summer of 1980, when I was twelve, my family lived in Quezon City. My brother, Marco, a civil engineer, had been assigned to a project in the province...

The Swaying Oak

The summer I turned seventeen, my grandfather passed away. I remember it was a Tuesday, and the air in our farmhouse felt heavy with the scent of old wood and...

The Hollow Floor

In the autumn of 2001, a fresh government had just taken the reins in the capital city of Veyra, and the press office of the Presidential Palace was a hive...

The Painter’s Lament

It was late autumn when we decided to finally repaint the upstairs hallway. The old color, a faded mustard, had begun to peel near the ceiling, and the musty smell...

The Cinder Garden

The old cannery on Meridian Street had been dead for a decade before my father bought it. The neighborhood kids swore the basement was full of forgotten lockers, but the...

The Cipher on the Fourth Floor

It happened during my third month at the Convergys site in Makati, back in 2010. The building was a converted warehouse that still smelled of diesel and old cardboard. We...

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