My ‘Out-of-this-World’ Experience - August 2016

Have you ever had experience a phenomenon that cannot be explained no matter how you tried to understand it?  Are you familiar with the phrase ‘beyond one’s imagination or understanding’?  If you have this some sort of experience that makes you feel that hair-raising/eerie or déjà vu feeling, please share through email message to merlinagp@gmail.com.  It is my pleasure to post your experience in this Blog.  Let the circle of sharing begins.

Experiences for the Month of August, 2016

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Experience No. 26: The Curse Upon Her
Experience No. 27: 'Si Apo Bantay' (The Guardian)
Experience No. 28: A Love Smell

   

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My ‘Out-of-this-World’ Experience No. 27

Have you ever had experience a phenomenon that cannot be explained no matter how you tried to understand it?  Are you familiar with the phrase ‘beyond one’s imagination or understanding’?  If you have this some sort of experience that makes you feel that hair-raising/eerie or déjà vu feeling, please share through email message to merlinagp@gmail.com.  It is my pleasure to post your experience in this Blog.  Let the circle of sharing begins.

Experience No. 27: 
“Si Apo Bantay (The Guardian)”
(Shared by Jesus jr Israel <alamatngpuyat@gmail.com>)

Every house has its own “guardian” ranging from benevolent, mischievous, and malevolent “creature”. Have you ever felt some eerie presence when you are alone? Or you just suddenly lost something like a key for example and even if you have already torn up the place you cannot find it? At the end, when you already gave up searching you will find it in the most unexpected place? If you have felt this, you have an unseen housemate or roommate(s). As I have mentioned above these guardian/housemate could be benign or malevolent depending on certain factors. First is your personal outlook in life, second is the way you treat others, and lastly but most importantly is your faith. Anyway, this my story.
As a child, I have an imaginary friend just like other toddlers. However, I was too young that this imaginary friend was also visible to the eyes of others and have existed even before the house was built. Ok, Moving on… The house of my grandparents is one of the oldest lots in the area. They built that house sometime in 1980’s. The area was then full of Talahib (a kind of grass that is about the height of a man). The neighborhood is typically 100 meters away from one another and to make the long story short, that house existed even before Makati was declared a City. 
As the story continues, I forgot the name of my imaginary friend but in that house that apparition (the imaginary friend) was called “Apo” a word coined for an elderly Ilocano. He/she is quite small, about 4 feet in height, hunchback but moves very fast (really fast). Almost everyone who saw it said that it was a very fast shadow, well in my vague memories it was a shadow (rarely to show his/her face). It always shows up and then disappears near the coconut tree on our backyard (where I usually catch spiders). My grandmother warned me to stay away from that tree because someone/something live in it. “Baka mabati kayo at magkasakit pa kayo” my grandmother said. Guess what, as very kind grandsons, we didn’t heed what our grandmother told us.
One night, my brother suddenly chilled and had a convulsion. My grandmother poured ice cold water to stabilize his temperature and brought him to the nearest hospital. “Anong nangyari kay Jayson Nay?” I asked my grandmother. “Ayon kinukumbulsyon, pupunta muna kami nila mama mo sa ospital”. Hearing that, I remembered that we played hide and seek and Jayson hid behind the tree. My brother was confined that day but the doctors cannot diagnose his sickness. When my grandmother went home to get some things needed in the hospital, I confessed to her that we played near that tree a day before Jayson had a convulsion. After hearing my confession she went to Nanay Auring, an albularyo that could perform a ritual called “tawas”. 
On the said ritual, the mangagagamot found out that my brother peed at the coconut tree where Apo was standing, that made the spirit angry and cast something at him that made him sick. After that and a week of recovery, my younger brother returned to his normal annoying self again and we never played near that tree again until it was cut down when I was 9 years old but its presence is still there. Honestly, the house spirit was not purely malevolent at all, it just guarded our house most of the time. We would always forget to lock the gate and the doors but no one dares to rob us. Also most of our neighbors today still see the apparition up to this day. 
Anyway, maybe the robbers know that we don’t have any valuables or the house just looks like a haunted one. However, believe it or not, Impossible but it happened to me!.

My ‘Out-of-this-World’ Experience No. 3

Have you ever had experience a phenomenon that cannot be explained no matter how you tried to understand it?  Are you familiar with the phrase ‘beyond one’s imagination or understanding’?  If you have this some sort of experience that makes you feel that hair-raising/eerie or déjà vu feeling, please share through email message to merlinagp@gmail.com.  It is my pleasure to post your experience in this Blog.  Let the circle of sharing begins.

Experience No. 3: The Wallpaper
(shared by Jesus jr Israel <alamatngpuyat@gmail.com>)

Ever since I was a child, there are unusual occurrences that I had experienced.  As I went along my childhood, I saw some unusual faces (not human), shadows, and weird entities. Some of these experiences caused me and my brothers unusual sicknesses up to the point of having it every week.  As time went by, I tried to ignore these events and sometimes just laugh about it, especially when it comes to the idea of doppelgangers.  Thanks to this blog event, I will be able to share some of my stories.

This phenomenon occurred last 2012, my first year of service in the organization.  Just like any other office building which has its own tales of horror and unusual happenings, the old building where I work also have several entities such as SSD’s Typist, the two child at MIS and the Man at the CR.  If you’re not familiar with this, please go ask Robert… his eyes are surely to open wide.  Anyway, back to my story… This happened during the formulation of the Makati City Comprehensive Land Use Plan (CLUP), when we were asked to stay overnight at the office during the preparation of the draft. 

When I woke up, I checked my phone if there are any messages or phone calls but I was surprised to see the wallpaper of my phone was suddenly changed into a woman on her mid-30s, with skinny fair skin, and black hair,  The background of the picture was quite the same as to our office arrangement and she looks like she is staring at something.  I checked the gallery of my phone to see if there was an image file the same as that wallpaper but I can’t find it so I looked again at the wallpaper.  I was wondering because it somehow looks like a selfie but I noticed that the left side of her hair is short and looks just like Claudine Barretto’s hair in a movie that I cannot recognized the title.  I also noticed that her neck has violet veins and in that moment I had a theory on my mind that the woman is not alive.

That theory became stronger when I saw Mark sleeping on the sofa.  I thought he pranked me, but when I asked him if he changed the wallpaper of my phone, he replied “Eh may password ‘yang cellphone mo... Paano ko ‘yan ma-aaacess?”(1)  After the conversation with Mark,  I showed it to Sir June asking if he recognizes the woman and he answered no .  Then I went to Nanay Letty and she replied “Hindi ko kilala ‘yan.  Tanong mo ‘kila Ma’am Merl… Baka sila kilala nila… Sakto nag-aalmusal sila doon sa conference room”.(2)   When I asked them if they know who that woman is, MGP replied “Wala akong naaalalang ganitong mukha… Naku ang creepy naman”.  (3) 

We tried to check the CCTV if someone mischievously touched my phone but the video footage only showed how I explored the whole floor by rolling while sleeping.  Then I handed over my phone to MGP for her to inspect it but she also didn’t saw the wallpaper file.  She then tried to change the wallpaper but the woman’s picture was gone when she looked again.

Up until now, whenever I looked at the stockroom’s door I still remember that event. Believe it or not, it happened… Impossible but it happened to me.

English Translation:

(1) Your cellphone has password.  How can I access it?

(2) I don't know her.  Ask Ma'am Merl.... perhaps they know her.... At that time, they are having breakfast at the conference room.

(3) I can't remember a person with that face.... that's creepy.