Ghost stories from Philippines

The Counting Game

In the summer of 2009, my sister Lina and her cousins were staying at our grandmother’s old farmhouse in the countryside of Wisconsin. The house had been abandoned for years,...

The Unseen Gardener

The old manor, a relic of a bygone era, had stood empty for decades, a lonely sentinel against the perpetually bruised sky. Its last inhabitants, the wealthy Atherton family, had...

The Stationary Floor

In my early days at Meridian Mutual, I worked the graveyard shift in the customer service wing, a cavernous space on the seventeenth floor of the Meridian Tower. The building...

The Lantern Keeper’s Ledger

I’ve never believed in ghosts. Not really. Even after everything I’ve seen—cold spots, misplaced keys, the way certain rooms make my skin prickle—I always found a logical explanation. But there’s...

Boy Aswang In Davao

This is my second personal encounter with (in the absence of appropriate description) supposedly “aswangs”. It happened three years after my first experience in 2003. The new house I was...

The Weeping Cane

My grandmother, Lola Ising, would always tell this story at family gatherings, her voice dropping to a hush as the rice cooker steamed and the children played under the table....

The Empty Seat

I was eleven when my family moved from our small town in Japan to a sprawling, fog-choked city on the West Coast. The new school was a labyrinth of gray...

The Grey Circuit

The halls of St. Agatha’s Technical Institute in the highlands of Nueva Vizcaya were older than any of us. Our youth leadership conference had been granted the use of the...

The Ceramic Tea Set

The old house on Jalan Dahlia had always felt watchful, even during the day. I’d moved there six months ago, seeking the quiet of the highlands to finish my thesis...

The Weeping Cinder

I hadn’t stepped foot in my parents’ house for nearly a decade. The structure itself was new, erected in 1995, but the land beneath it was old, steeped in quiet...

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