Scary Philippines...

It's Christmas season and it's slightly weird for me to post this topic. It's Christmas and it's supposed to be about 'smiles and happiness' but this post is about the top 10 scariest places in our country, the Philippines. Honestly, I love horror films and ghost stories but I can't hide the fact that thinking about those spooky things could really make me so dread. I can see that Filipinos really believe hoaxes and urban legends. Mostly in the provinces, like fairies, scary creatures , curses and many more. As far as I know, these places really scared every single people in the Philippines. According to my opinion , these places definitely make me feel so cold and dread. Whenever I hear some scary stories about these places, I couldn't control myself from being scared.

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10. Philippine Military Academy (Baguio City)
- Several ghosts haunt this place. Sometimes late at night a platoon can be heard marching in the parade grounds. A ghost of a cadet dressed in parade uniform and left in one of the lockers still appears. A ghost of a priest who was beheaded during the Japanese occupation period appears here as well as the ghost of a white lady.

9. International School Manila (Former Campus) - Fine Arts Theater (in Makati)
- One year, one of the high school students was acting as the stage manager for the Community Play. The theater was already uncomfortable for her when it was dark, but one night, on her way out, she was leaving through the front doors of the auditorium, something she couldn't see followed her up the aisle. Very aggressive, very menacing and very scary. She ran out the door just in time as they slammed shut behind her. Suffice it to say, she never stayed in the theater alone again.

8. De La Salle University (in Manila)
- There is a chapel located on the 2nd floor of the De La Salle University and according to some ghost experts, there are many supernatural entities in that place that can be seen. The main Building is haunted by several ghosts said to be the victims of a mass killing during World War II. They start haunting the place when evening has crept in and the area is already silent. Sightings of headless monks and screams of people are being heard there during rainy nights.

So I'll never dare myself to take my College at DLSU , never.


7. Central Philippine University - Ruby Hall (in Iloilo City)
- A school janitor as well as students and teachers have reported that wile passing by the building at night after it is locked down, one classrooms lights would always be turned on while everything else is shut off. They have reported strange creatures running around the classroom. This is one of the most haunted halls in the university. This is a medical hall and it houses several cadavers for the use of the med. students. From cold spots and moving furniture, to sometimes being pushed or tripped while walking.


6. Ozone Disco (in Manila)
-The tragedy happened on March 18, 1996 when I was 3 years old. It's once a disco house mostly for youths and it caught fire and people tried to get out but people were pushing and panicking so no one got out. At that night, the place were overcrowded, and the door was supposed to open by pulling it (from the inside) but people did the opposite. The tragedy killed 162 lives and most of them were College students. Some people hear disco music in their houses at night and see faint people dancing and no one can explain how. Since it was burned down, there were stories that any establishments placed near there were didn't able to experience luck.


5. Miriam College (in Katipunan, Quezon City)
- On the 2nd floor ladies comfort room of the caritas building a nun haunts the bathroom and is said to peak over the stall while girls are using the bathroom. A face can be seen when you look above the door, but there are no feet when you look below the door.

So while in your school's comfort room while in the cubicle, just cover your face or else...


4. University of Santo Tomas (in Espana, Manila)
-UST is the oldest campus here in our country and it was founded on the year 1611 by some of Spanish Sectors. Ghosts and wailing voices are heard from the 3rd and 2nd floars of UST Main Building. Since this is the oldest building in the oldest Catholic university in the Philippines, it is undoubted that some Spanish friars and Filipino souls were tormented and killed in this place. Countless ghost experience in the dorms of the students were reported.

3. Balete Drive (in Katipunan, Quezon City)
- This road is so familiar, every single people in our country, young or old know this place. Balete Drive is a residential area famous for the apparition of a white lady. It is told that there was a teenage girl who was raped by a cab driver in the 50s in that area. It is possible that the lady of Balete is seeking revenge. So, never walk alone at night in Balete Drive.


2. Manila Film Center
- When the construction of Film Center at the Cultural Center of the Philippines complex was rushed in the early 1980s for a film fest, the ceiling scaffolding collapsed killing several workmen who fell to the orchestra below. Rather than halt construction to rescue survivors and retrieve the bodies of dead workmen, cement was poured into the orchestra, entombing the fallen workmen. Some of them were buried alive in the orchestra. Various ghostly activities were reported on the site including mysterious sounds, voices and poltergeist activity. In the late 1990s a group called the Spirit Questors began to make visits to the film center in an attempt to contact and appease the souls of the workmen who were killed in the building. Some of these spirits claimed to have moved on but a few allegedly remain.


1. Diplomat Hotel (in Baguio City)
- This was a Seminary during the early 1900, world war 2 came and several priest and nuns were killed some of them beheaded by Japanese occupying forces. This was converted into a hotel after the war. In it self it was pretty eerie, big rooms with to king size beds bibles at the side tables and the rooms are dimly lit. Clerks, bell hops, and hotel guest, complain of wailing even during day time, and when night comes, apparitions of headless priest roam the corridors, some even say that they see ghost carrying their heads on a platter. Hauntings are not limited inside the hotel for when you stroll outside the compound you would see neighboring houses with crosses painted on their doors and windows, and are kept shut when darkness falls. The former Diplomat Hotel in Dominican Hill, Baguio City, Philippines is believed to be haunted. In the early 1900’s it was bought by Dominican friars from the American owners. It has now been abandoned.

There's one time that I watched a celebrity dare inside the abandoned hotel. When the celebrities got inside the hotel, cold air and a scary whisper confronted them. It's true because it's live.

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It's obvious that most of all scary places are schools and campuses. Thinking about PCSHS (my school), there were some ghost stories that were experienced by some of the students and teachers and two of them were my classmates. Believe it or not, it's in our classroom. Ahmmm, I'll just say, good luck to me and good luck to the computer lab. with a ghost that was reportedly using one of the computers. The ghost could be a gamer or just checking out his/her friendster, it's weird but it's freaky...really freaky.