There was an article in one of the famous Horror Books in
the Philippines that I wanted to investigate. I’m sure most of our local
readers have read the story but for the benefit of those who haven’t, here’s
how it goes, copied and pasted from the pages of True Philippine Ghost Stories.
Now, as a Paranormal Researcher, all that’s left for me to
do is to re-trace the steps the anonymous writer has left us and where do we start?
The place of the incident of course.
My wife’s family lives in San Juan so to avoid the traffic
of Araneta Avenue, you have to drive along the quiet side streets of New Manila
and driving along that area always gives me the creeps.
Dona Juana Rodriguez is just three corners away west bound
from Balete Drive – another famous street by reputation and Dona Juana is no
different. With its row of Old Houses enclosed in high walls and trees meeting
each other on the roads, who wouldn’t be scared?
I tried looking for the house that matches the description
of the story but to no avail. I even asked street sweepers and nearby Barangay
Officers if they knew of a place that seems eerie but they all denied that
there was one.
So what’s next in my agenda is to go to the National Library
and look for the Newspaper Archives that is described in the story but what
surprised me is that the archives never contained the article published in the
70’s paper. I asked one of the resident staff and they told me that they had no
idea what happened.
Scared?
-Sheldon
Intigued by the facts, I went to the National Library some months ago. Unfortunately,
ReplyDeleteno such story was published on the Second Sunday Edition of the December 1972.
In order to minimize the error, I checked all the complete issues but did not find the
said story.
Although this diminished the credibility of the Author, it is possible that he or she
quoted a wrong newspaper or month. In any case his or her claim that the Edition
of Second Sunday was missing was a big lie.
In other words, do not bother to look for the house. It was a fabric of wild imagination.