Glimpses of Heaven

Dear insansapinas,

I stayed awake late night Saturday trying to finish reading some books which are due this week. I did not like any story plot so I turned the TV on. The gospel channel was showing King of Kings. The acting was flat and it suffers in comparison with  Mel Gibson's version, The Passion of Christ. It ended half past twelve. At 12:00 I paused to say a little prayer. It was Resurrection. I remember my mom who told us kids to jump during this day so we would grow taller. 


Glimpses of Heaven
It was the next feature that intrested me. It was entitled, Where Do we Go after we die? In the Apostles' Creed, it says that Jesus Christ descended into hell...which was explained to be an act of liberating the souls of people who died before the Redemption.

The intro of the special feature was showing clip photos of the celebrities like Elizabeth Taylor, Jayne Seymour , Sharon Stone, George Foreman and others I can not identify. So I knew that it was not some kind of religious program that asks the viewers to repent to earn heaven and avoid hell.


The first topic was about bed vision. This is about the last moments of the dying people. The narrator was a hospice nurse who had long years of experience with this phenomenon. One of these was an Arab woman who asked her what was the angel doing near her windows. She described the apparition to be 8 feet tall and was wearing white robe. She summoned her relatives, feeling that her time was due and the apparition was an angel who was escorting her.

My mother witnessed the last few days of my father here on earth. Although he died when my mother took a break in taking care of him in the hospital, she said that there were instances when my father who was comatose would call the names of his deceased parents and relatives as if they surrounded him in his bed.


Another patient was a man sick of cancer. He was so weak that any time, the nurse felt that he would die. All of a sudden, the man who was already comatose suddenly sat up with his arms wide open trying to welcome somebody  that was invisible to the eyes of the nurse. Then he died.


Elizabeth Taylor was still alive when that program was originally  shown. Hers was more of the NDE case, near death experience. One writer compiled cases about NDE for 30 years. Taylor was interviewed by Larry King about a surgery which she underwent where she  flatlined before it was over. She saw her spirit rose, saw the doctors and nurses in that room and then she saw a bright light. At the end of the light was her husband Mike Todd who died in a plane crash. She said that it was so peaceful in that place that she almost did not want to go back but her husband told her, it was not yet time.


Sharon Stone, the actress of Basic Instinct had the same description when she  lost consciousness for a few minutes. Jayne Seymour too had a near death experience.


Among the celebrities who did not have a pleasant NDE was George Foreman. He said that he experienced a hellish, frightening place of nothingness and despair He admitted that his depression of losing to Mohammad Ali and another young boxer and his money drove him to a lifestyle of vices, women and trouble. He changed his ways and became an ordained minister.

There was this four year old girl who claimed that she had already gone to heaven. Everything she saw in paradise, she drew and painted. The painting was so lifelike that parents believed her. Besides she did not have any lesson in painting. 



Another young boy with an NDE had a car accident. Their car was totalled with him inside the van and his father was thrown several meters away. He ended up paralyzed from neck down. His parents were Atheists. 

AJ Perez, Organ Donation, Early Edition and Highway to Heaven

Dear insansapinas,
I read that the ABS CBN young talent, AJ Perez' family is donating his cornea to a girl, Fatima Soriano who is blind since birth. AJ Perez died in a vehicular accident last Saturday.

(If you do not believe in paranormal, stop here and go to the last paragraph. Babalik din kayo. hohoho). 


This reminds me of an episode of Early Edition, a TV series featuring a man whose psychic ability is to see the headline for the next 24 hours. The series was already canned and old episodes run in a not so  popular channel.


The episode was the donation of a robbery suspect of his heart to a young girl who has been waiting for a donor. 
The psychic was admitted in the hospital for concussion that he got from a hit and run vehicle. There he met the young girl who was very playful despite her heart problem. She needed to have a heart transplant or else she dies.


The young man who was supposed to be the heart donor was forced to join a much older man who  had made him a sidekick in his carnapping, robberies and other crimes to support his ailing mother.


To be a heart donor, he had to die first.

Full Moon

Dear insansapinas,
Late ang blog tungkol sa full moon pero kasi noong Saturday, dala-dala ko ang camera at hinahanap ko ang full moon,di ko makita. Naupo ako sa couch, naghintay, nakatulog pala ako. 


Anyway, hindi ito ang retrato ng pinakamalaking full moon pero at least makikita ninyo kung ano nag mukha ng buwan. May mukha ba yon?

Maraming implications ang bilog ang buwan. Sa akin na may lahing humahati-ang-katawan-pag-bilog ang buwan, dapat nong Sabado, itinali ko ang aking sarili sa bed (pero dahil nga antukin ako) di na kailangan, tapos dapat nagsuot ako ng retainer para di umusli ang aking pangil, pag-alas-dose . mwihihihi  Oo Virginia, sa aming probins sa Bicol, pinagkakatakutan ang bilog ang buwan. Yan kasi ang paniniwala na naglalabasan ang mga aswang, manananggal at mga aliens na mahilig gawing smorgasboard ang katawan at dugo ng mortal.

Manananggal

Pero lately, wala na yata akong nababalitaang mga manananggal at aswang. Siguro namamasyal palagi sa mall. O kaya yong mga namatay ay hindi nailipat ang bato sa kanilang mga anak dahil mga OFW ang mga ito. Wala sa bansa.Sa akin yong ibinigay na bato hindi ako sigurado kung bato nga. Butones yata yon. bwahahaha. 

Pero ang paniniwalang may epekto ang full moon sa sanity ng tao ay pinaniniwalaan pa rin kahit dito sa Amerika. Sa isang convalescent hospital kung saan may inaassign kaming nurses, abala sila pag bilog ang buwan. 

Can psychics predict earthquakes?

Dear insansapinas,

I woke up today with a message from a fellow blogger if ever I had the premonition about  the earthquake in Japan because he said he did. 


Since I was diagnosed with C last 2007, I completely turned off my radar. So it means I am operating 7 out of 10 brain cells of my psychic bandwidth. BUT, when you have it, no matter what you do to suppress this instant message from the other realm, it still can come, like the internet, it could come  back door and in my case, it comes in my dream.


But before I discuss my latest dream that kept me awake last Thursday (see my blog in Friday) let me tell you what the "sensitive people" feel when there is going to be a calamity like earthquake. First, there is the unexplainable fear of the earthquake. It seems you feel like there is an earthquake when there is none. Para bang naramdaman mo ba? Ang alin? Ang earthquake? Anong earthquake?

When the earthquake in early 1990's happened, a week before, (my radar was still on), I had this irrational fear of going out. I felt that something was going to happen. I run out of excuses of not coming out so I met my friend in her office where she had several visitors from other countries. That was 12th floor. Then earthquake struck. I tell you, no matter what religion you got or you are a professed atheist, the first that you will call is GOD. 


So no one can predict earthquake; not even the scientists with the most advanced technology and the people with psychic abilities can not just tell the people, to keep safe because an earthquake is coming or else he/she will be lynched for sowing fear. For people who make money for having the gift of vision, it is a blessing. For people who chose not to become rich by using the "gift" for money-making, it is a curse. Besides a vision is only a vision which remains to be interpreted. Oftentimes, there were other interpretations or meaning given to it. So a person with the "gift"  just keeps it to himself/herself and worry what is that uncanny feeling that won't go away . Then the EARTHQUAKE strikes and he realized that was his fear all about.


For several nights until last Thursday, I had been dreaming of water. The ocean. One dream was about me riding on a boat which was going to that part of the ocean where water had completely receded.

One interpretation of that kind of dream is travel. Me, travel? Malayo. Then, there was a dream of people queueing. I do not want to join. Hindi ko alam kung ano ang pinipilahan nila. All around was devastation.  Besides hindi sila mga Pinoys. When I woke up, I thought, it is a premonition of my coming terms to my mortality, nakapila sa pinto ni San Pedro. Pero wala naman akong makitang mga anghel at alapaap.Sabi ko, hindi ba ako sa itaas pupunta? mwahaha.


These dreams lasted only for a few minutes, then I woke up and slept again for a few minutes to wake up horrified. I saw a pit where there were people and fire and water were falling from out if the sky. Impyerno? Hindi, ang liit naman. Hindi magkakasya ang politicians natin. Whooops. 


The other dreams shook me that I do not want to close my eyes.Aside from hurting, I finished a novel just so I remained awake.
Then came the photos in CNN. It was deja vu.


Pinaysaamerika

Afterlife, Unfinished Business and Reincarnation

Dear insansapinas,
Lately, old movies that I watched in the TV are those which delved on afterlife. (Tinutukso talaga ako. Parang nang-iintriga).




Always
My favorite among them is ALWAYS, a romantic-comedy film directed by none other than Speilberg and starred by Richard Dreyfuss and Holly Hunter. The song featured in the movie was Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by the Platters.


Dreyfuss as Peter died when he tried to save his friend Al. He left behind a girl friend (Holly Hunter) who was devastated by his death. 
In the afterlife, he met his spirit guide (Audrey Hepburn) who told him that his new role is to guide the living. She said that people hear the spirit's voice inside as if it were their thoughts.


It turned out that he was going to guide the new pilot who replaced him in his job as well as in the heart of his girl friend. He selfishly tried to sabotage the relationship. It was when his girl friend almost died that he released her memory of him so that she can move on.


Call me whatever but I like the scene when Dreyfuss as a spirit danced with her in her moments of melancholy. Kaiyak. Tissue nga.


Heart and Souls-Unfinished Business


Heart and Souls is a 1993 fantasy/comedy film about the souls of four deceased people who are trapped on earth and can only be seen by a single living human being who is recruited to help them take care of their unfinished business.


Robert Downey starred as the banker who was supposed to be the instrument of the four ghosts who were his invisible companions from the time he was born. Roaming as lost souls  after they died the bus crash, they did not know that the 20 years that had elapsed were supposed to be enough to put a closure in their unfinished business with the help of Downey. They were give a few more days by the driver who was fetching them for their final destination. The first soul was able to return the rare stamps that he stole from a family; the other male ghost was able to perform in a stage as a singer. The black lady found her long lost son who was put into adoption. It was the cop who they encountered all the time when Downey violated traffic rules.


The last soul would like to meet his boyfriend whom she liked to marry when she met the death in the fatal crash. She never told him how much she loved him when she was still alive. The boyfriend died seven years ago, lonely and never recovered after her death.


After the unfinished business, she was picked up by the ghost bus.


Made in Heaven-Reincarnation


A movie which starred Timothy Hutton. The film was marketed with the tagline "How in Heaven did they meet? How on Earth will they find each other?"

Near Death Experiences and Life After Death

Dear insansapinas,

My  friend in Arizona  called to ask me about U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, one of the victims of the shooting spree of the alleged  troubled gunman, Jared Lee Loughner. 


"What about? I asked. 
She is in a coma. What is possibly happening to her? she continued.


I clarified to her that I am not a paranormal expert although I experienced paranormal activities. Besides, the consciousness of a person even if the body is immobile depends on how he is  tuned in to the different dimensions. Everyone has a gift but many are not aware of it. Some opened the gift but they refused to take it out from the box. I am one of them. 


So my opinion is that she is hovering around and she is determined to live. She may not be even aware of what had happened to her. 


Among the top ten unexplained phenomena are : 

Near-Death Experiences and Life After Death

People who were once near death have sometimes reported variousmystical experiences (such as going into a tunnel and emerging in a light, being reunited with loved ones, a sense of peace, etc.) that may suggest an existence beyond the grave. While such experiences are profound, no one has returned with proof or verifiable information from "beyond the grave." Skeptics suggest that the experiences are explainable as natural and predictable hallucinations of a traumatized brain, yet there is no way to know with certainty what causes near-death experiences, or if they truly are visions of "the other side."

I have had two NEs, excluding the incident when I died as a baby. As someone who was close to entering the "DOOR", I can say that nobody,  NOBODY COULD TALK ABOUT WHAT IS BEYOND THE DOOR BECAUSE THEY WILL NOT BE ABLE TO COME BACK IN THE TERRA FIRMA. What about the ghosts or spirits that visit the humans?


There are several planes or dimensions which are not necessarily up there or down there. These souls have not gone to the ultimate destination. Some of them stay for unfinished business, some make a deal to stay and protect or guide their loved ones (like my father) and many are into cleansing. The evil or the shadows stay to torment the living. Misery loves company.


In some paranormal movies, the characters in the coma  are made to stay away from the light by some psychic people who are acting like a savior to the confused souls. Remember, POLTERGEIST?  

Cell Phone in 1928 -Time Traveler

Dear insansapinas,
Isang babae ang nakita sa footage ng isang film ni Charlie Chaplin na nakikipag-usap thru a cell phone.

Bigla akong naexcite kasi may collection ako ng Charlie Chaplin movies. Pero ito tingnan ninyo muna ito.
Bago ko hanapin yong video ko. Naghahanda kasi akong pumunta sa ospital.





Si Marc Logan, ng tv patrol, nakinig sa usapan. Ito ang narinig niya.


Pinilit naming i-transcribe ang conversation ni lola at ito ang aming napala.
"wer na u, louzhvat na kouzh"
"eto naghahanap ng scalper wala pa ko tiket"
"hindi nga pwede ang pasaload!"
"padala ka na lang ng g-cash!"
"eto mms ko yung perang tinatanggap dito"
"kasi nung i-try kong magpa-load"
"hindi nila kilala ang mga perang ibinabayad ko eh"

Pinaysaamerika

Ghost at iba pang Paranormal Stories ay isang multimillion business

 Dear insansapinas,

ghost in the car

Punong puno ng series about ghosts ang TV mula kahapon. Mga ghost adventurers, ghost hunters., etsetera,etsetera.


Para ka namang sirang nanood para lang marealize na 90 ng docu-reality shows ay mga mukha lang ng mga ghost hunters kuno ang pinapakita na para nakakatakot ay mukha silang green dahil sa night vision effect.
Leche. Plan.


Makarinig lang ng kaunting sound, takbuhan at imbestigahan. Siguro pag pinakitaan mo ng tunay na multo ang mga yon, hihimatayin. Wahahaha.


Sa mga experience ko sa mga multo, kung minsan hindi mo alam multo na pala yong nagpakita saiyo.


1. halimbawa ay istudyante naming nagpakita, na namatay ng gabi, kinabukasan ay nakita siya ng mga kaklase niya at ang babaeng in charge sa graduation. Nagsubmit siya ng requirements para grumaduate. By the time, tumawag ang family na namatay siya sa bangungot, nakapagpaalam na sa mga kaklase niya. Ang dating mahilig sa maong ay nakadressed to kill ng araw na iyo.


2. Yong half-asleep, half-awake ka saka sila magpapakita.
Halimbawa nang mamatay ang aking lolo. Nakita ko siyang pumasok sa aming kuwarto kung saan sama-sama kaming magkakapatid (sa takot). Nakita ko siyang lumapit sa akin at pinalo ako sa puwet.Salbahe ko kasi noon. siguro isang paalala sa kin yon para hindi maging pasaway. As usual ako lang ang nakakita.


Halimbawa nang magpaalam ang aking father. Nasa twilight zone din ako ng makita ko siyang pumasok sa kuwarto kung saan magkakasama kami lahat. Hindi pa siya patay. Nasa ospital siya at binabantayan ng aking panganay na kapatid. Pero bakit siya nasa bahay, tanong ko Sino ang kasama niyang umuwi?  Lumapit siya sa lahat. Hinalikan kami. Ang lamig.  Siguro ako lang ang gising o ako lang kasi ang nakakita o nakakaramdam. kinabukasan nakita ko ang kapatid ko galing sa ospital, may binulong sa mother ko. Kailangan na kaming magsuot ng itim.


3. May mga multo na pasaway o mabiro


Kagaya ng multo sa isa sa mga bahay na tinirhan ko sa SF at ibang lugar sa Bay Area sa California. Akhsually, lahat pala ng tinirhan ko meron. Hindi ko alam kung " nagrerenta" o sumasama sila sa akin.



Pero mas kumbinsido ako na doon lang sila sa bahay na yaon. Unang engkwentro ko ng multo ay doon sa bahay ng aking boss. Naku nakakatakot ang multo doon, Babaeng masungit. Pag tulog ako, tinatabig ako. Siguro nahihigan ko yong lugar niya o kaya mas maganda ako sa kaniya.



Ikalawang engkuwentro ko ay sa isang three storey house. Doon ako sa third story nakatira. Isang gabi, may nagrarattle ng pinto. Sa lakas, naalis yong kadena. Wala namang puwedeng umakyat doon na hindi dadaan sa second floor na sarado naman. Nang mahulog ang kadena, binuksan ko kaagad ang pinto na may dala-dalang pambambo. Wala namang tao. Mahaba yong hallway na walang taguan kung may nagbibiro o may nagtatangkang pumasok sa kuwarto ko.

The Scariest Movies

Dear insansapinas,

Ito sayang ang perang ibinayad ko kung ako nanood sa sine. kasi siguro kalahati lang ng movies ang pinapanood ko. Mas marami pa yong " nandiyan na ba? lumabas na ba ang monster? tapos na ba? moments.
 Dalawampu ito pero sampu lang ang isinama ko.


 1. The Shining- 1980- Starring Jack Nicholson at ang lumabas na si Olive sa Popeye. Gusto ko dahil about multo pero takot ako nang pumapatay na si Nicholson. Ngiii.

2.  The Exorcist- 1973 - Kung hindi mo ito pinanood, wala ka sa mainstream Tipo bang ang tanong ay napanood mo ba ang exorcist? Pag sumagot ka ng hindi, tatalikuran ka na para bang paghahanapin ka ng kausap mo. Ito yong nagsimula akong magdala ng tubig sa bote at nagwiwisik sa mga kaibigan ko pag pasaway sila.


3. The Chainsaw massacre 1974- hindi ko pinanood, period.  Kasi hindi narerun sa TV.


4. Silence of the Lambs- Hindi mo naman nakitang kumain ng tao si Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal, the Cannibal pero nakakatakot talaga siya.


5. Jaws 1975- Ang pumapatay na ORCA. mapapasigaw ka pag hinahabol ng pating ang mga lumalangoy sa dagat. Kailan ko lang ito talaga napanood ng buo.




6. The Ring- 2002. tungkol sa paghihiganti ng pinatay na batang mahaba ang buhok. Pag napanood mo ang video, ikaw ang susunod. Nggggi. Mula nang napanood ko, takot na ako sa tunog ng phone.


7. Halloween- 1978 Huwag ninyong ipakwento sa akin at hindi ko matandaan. Ang alam ko pupmapatay ang isang nakamaskarang lalaki at panay ang sigaw ni Jamie Lee Curtis, anak ni Tony Curtis at si Janet Leigh na isa ring biktima ng serial killer sa Psycho. Like mother, like daughter? 

Do the Dead Greet the Dying?

Dear insansapinas,
This was an article written by David Kessler for Oprah.com. 

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Excerpt of his article:

Throughout my years of working with the dying and the bereaved, I have noticed commonly shared experiences that remain beyond our ability to explain and fully understand. The first are visions.

As the dying see less of this world, some people appear to begin looking into the world to come. It's not unusual for the dying to have visions, often of someone who has already passed on. Your loved one may tell you that his deceased father visited him last night, or your loved one might speak to his mom as if she were there in the room at that time.

It was almost 15 years ago that I was sitting at the bedside of my teacher, Elisabeth Kübler Ross, when she turned to me and asked, "What do you think about the deceased visiting those on their deathbeds to greet them?"

Naririnig natin yan na ang mga mamamatay na ay tinatawag ang kanilang mga namatay ng kamag-anak.
Nang mamamatay ang aking father, sabi ng mother ko, tinatawag niya ang aking lola at lolo. Para bang sinusundo siya.


Sa isang episode ng Ghost Whisperer, nang namatay panandalian ang kaniyang asawa ay sinundo siya ng kaniyang kapatid at ama para itawid sa isang ilog. Sabi ng kaniyang kapatid, matagal siyang naghintay at siya ang natokahang sumundo sa kaniya. Ayaw niyang sumama dahil ayaw niyang iwanan ang kaniyang asawa.



Sa aking paniniwala, marahil ay di rin tumawid ang aking ama para tuluyan na siyang pumunta sa kabilang buhay hanggang ngayong malalaki na kami at malapit ng mamatay ang aking ina.


Sa lahat ng okasyon ay nagparamdam siya, nandoon tumutulong; nandoong nagbibigay ng babala; nandoong nagpapakita ng kalungkutan. Sinulat ko na rito na nang ako ay mag-asawa ng maaga, nakita siya ng mother ko na umiiyak sa puno ng hagdan bago siya nawala. Nandoon din siya noong nabomba ang sinasakyang barko ng aking kapatid. Naroon siya at sumalo sa kapatid kong ilang buwang taong gulang lamang na nahulog sa kama at tatama sana ang ulo sa semento.


Nang malapit ng mamatay ang mother ko, nagrereklamo siya bakit hindi na nagpaparamdam ang aking father. Lalo na sa akin na nang bumaha ng lahar sa Pampanga ay panay ang papanaginip niya na hukayin ko siya. 
Sinunod ko yon at inilipat ko ang kaniyang buto sa isang memorial park. Ilang buwan lang ay pumutok ang Mt. Pinatubo at tinabunan ang sementeryo kung saan siya nakalibing.


Bago ako pumunta sa US ay isinama niya ako sa isang lugar sa aking panaginip. Malungkot ako doon, nag-iisa. Nang nasa US na ako ay doon ako tumira sa malungkot na lugar na iyon. Siguro ang mensahe niya sa akin ay yon ang klaseng buhay na mararanasan ko.


Nang mamatay na ang mother ko, hindi na siya nagpaparamdam. Ang mother ko naman ang madalas magpapanaginip. Sabi niya siguro, toka mo naman ngayon.

Balete Drive, Manila Film Center, Corregidor -Haunted Places in the Philippines Part 2

Dear insansapinas,
Ito ang part 2 ng Haunted Places in the Philippines series. Mababasa ang Part 1 dito.


Balete Drive

Balete Drive is a street located in New Manila, Quezon City, Philippines. It is known for apparitions of a white lady and haunted houses which were built during the Spanish Era (19th century). The century old houses  were believed to be haunted by  wandering spirits of their former owners. New Manila has an abundance of balete trees, which, according to legend, is a favorite spot of wandering spirits and other paranormal beings. Paranormal experts believe that the white lady was raped by Japanese soldiers during the Second World War.  Some said that it was a cab driver who raped a college student  and her body was dropped in that area.. Most believed the first story which was published in 1953 by a news reported who allegedly had nothing to report.  Witnesses of the white lady, advise motorists to avoid the street at night, especially if they are alone. If it is necessary to travel the route, they advise that the backseat of the car is fully occupied and that no one should look back or look in any mirrors. The apparition wears a night gown, has long hair but has no face or one covered with blood.

source: wiki and other articles

Manila Film Center

The Manila Film Center served as the main theater for the 1st Manila International Film Festival (MIFF) from the 18th to the 29th of January, 1982. The building has also been the subject of controversies due to an accident that happened during the final stages of its construction in 1981.
An accident occurred around 3:00 a.m. on November 17, 1981 during the construction of the Manila Film Center. Its scaffolding collapsed, and at least 169 workers fell and were buried under quick-drying wet cement. A security blanket was immediately imposed by the Marcos administration, and neither rescuers nor ambulances were permitted on the site until an official statement had been prepared. The rescuers were eventually permitted to go inside the accident site 9 hours after the collapse. Some said that there were not even a dozen workers who died.

Various ghostly activities were reported on the site including mysterious sounds, voices and poltergeist

activity. In the late '90s, 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 remained.

 Many believed that the haunting is just an urban legend.

 source:wiki and other articles.

Corregidor Island 

Sarah, Oprah, Boy and Kris

Dear insansapinas,

Sarah at Oprah
Ikalawang araw nainterview ni Sarah Ferguson ang dating asawa ni Prince Andrew. Inexplain niya bakit siya tumanggap ng pera para may access ang reporter sa asawa niyang prinsipe. Lasing daw siya. Tanong na Oprah kung ano ang ininom niya. Sabi niya baka raw wine o orange juice. Bigla along nasamid. Mukha namang hindi siya lasing doon sa tape noong kinuha niya ang bag ng pera.


Tanggap naman na nagkamali siya. Pero in third person ang pagrefer niya sa sarili niya.

Insinuate niya niya na she is a victim of abuse.

Directa naman si Oprah magtanong kung she is living beyond her means  kaya siya palaging broke. Naisip ba raw niya na mali yong noong una pa na mali ang ginawa niyang humingi ng 500,000 kapalit ng access sa asawa niya. Biglang break. 


Boy Abunda and Kris

Hindi tinanggap ni Boy Abunda ang "feeler" hindi offer ang sinabi sa position ng Tourism Secretary. Ang alam ko noon nag-iisip siya kung ambassador.


Maraming mwawala sa kaniya. Kailangan magdivest siya sa mga interests niya. Baka nga naman promote niya ang kniyang pabango sa mga turista o kaya naman maintriga ang mga celebrities na turista.



Ayaw ni Kris sa Malacanan, masama raw ang feng shui. Kaya ba ayaw na rin ni Noynoy? Pero gusto ni Kris yong Arlegui mansion.

Kapag lumipat sa Arlegui, alam na natin ang pinakamalakas mag-implwensiya. Laban kayo?


Ako wala akong pakialam kung saan sila tumira. Nakakapagod ang makipagdebate pagkatapos magbabago rin pala ang desisyon.


Pinaysaamerika

Teresita Basa- A ghost who named her murderer

Dear insansapinas,
Here in the United States, there are police authorities who make use of psychics to help them solve crimes.

Their function is to lead the investigators who in turn gather evidence to identify and bring the suspects to trial.

This story however about ghost who led the police to her murderer was the first. And the Victim was a Filipina. A Nurse.

I read this story from the Oxford Book of Supernatural. Then when I googled the name TERESITA BASA, I got this article.

The Murder of Teresita Basa. On February 21, 1977, a woman by the name of Teresita Basa was found brutally murdered and partially burned in her Chicago high-rise apartment...
There were no clues and no suspects.
 
Dr. Jose Chua and his wife worked at the same hospital as Teresita, but they barely knew her. Nevertheless, one evening Mrs. Chua suddenly went into a trance and announced in perfectly fluent Tagalog, a Phillipine dialect--
 
"I am Teresita Basa."
She then proceeded to tell the Chuas that she was murdered by an orderly, Allen Showery, who had stolen her jewelry and given her pearl cocktail ring to his wife...
Terrified, the Chuas reported the information to the Chicago police. Two veteran detectives assigned to the case were highly skeptical of the information, but having no other leads, they decided to investigate. When they searched Showery's apartment, they found Teresita's jewels--and his wife had the pearl cocktail ring!
When Allen Showery was confronted with this evidence he immediately confessed to the murder of Teresita Basa, but at trial his attorney moved to dismiss the case on the grounds that evidence provided by a ghost is inadmissible in a court of law.
The judge disagreed. Allen Showery was convicted of murder and sent to prison for fourteen years...
The decision created quite a stir in legal circles because it was the first case on record in which the chief witness for the prosecution was a ghost.

What was not mentioned was, later, the suspect admitted his crime.
Taunted and stalked by the ghost? Maybe.


Pinaysaamerika

It 's all in the Family -Close Encounters with Ghosts-Halloween Series

Dear insansapinas,

Contrary to the belief of my friends, I never opened my third eye. One is because I got four eyes. I got prescription glasses. mwehehehe

Kidding aside, my “gift” or curse came into my realization  when I was already busy juggling my academic and corporate lives. I can not  afford to give in to requests to find out if some

People have ghosts in their homes or if their loved ones would like to communicate with them. I did not intend to make the “gift” as a source of income.

Before my I-can-talkslash-see-dead people episodes, I was a normal person who could not sleep alone in an unlighted room nor stay in the house which is rumored to be haunted.

Besides, my mother was warned by some old folks who had seen my eyes that I was the type of person who could easily be spooked or stalked by people in the other realm.

My first encounter with ghost was with the family. The Ghosts of the Death March.

I was scared to death then, hearing the shoutings, the scampering noises of soldiers who tried to escape, the sounds of the guns and the curses of the Japanese soldiers.

The second one that I could recall was a day before my father’s death. My mom came home after weeks of stay in the hospital attending to my comatose father. So she was dead tired after we finished our dinner. My eldest brother was tasked to replace my mom in her vigil in case my father woke up.

All of us were huddled in one room. My brothers and sisters had fallen asleep or were they?

I felt I was the only one awake and scared. The lone light bulb flickered. I saw my father entered the room. He was very lonely. I forgot that he was in the hospital. I just thought that my brother brought him home and he was well.

I was about to ask when he came towards us. He kissed every one of us. Nobody woke up. I felt the kiss was icy cold. Then he left.

I was about to ask him where he’s going.

The following morning, my eldest brother came. My father expired during the evening.

There were other ghost sightings that if I am going to write, it would be Christmas and my theme is still Halloween.

There were scary encounters, that’s why I do not recommend for those who have no

Strong spiritual guidance to refrain from summoning spirits.

One encounter was here in the States. It was the home being rented by my friend where I temporarily stayed. I felt an angry discarnate that I felt her hands in my throat. It was a woman, I could sense her shadows. It was a dark one.

The other encounter was when I had the least idea that I am a sensistive person.

I thought it was just one of those nightmares. But the dream was recurring. The woman tried to strangle me too. I know that I was not the object of the fury of these earthbound spirits but because I can sense them, I can geth bad vibes.

As to the “talking”, there were only a few who could calibrate in my frequency since I closed also the antennae.

 Pinaysaamerika

It’s all in the Family- Part 3 Halloween Series

 Dear insansapinas,
This is a continuation of my pinoy ghost series.This article is a repost from my Now What, Cat?

photoforwarded thru e-mail.

Sister/Nurse 2



When my sister was studying nursing, she stayed with me during weekdays. Our house in Quezon City was too far away from her school. She occupied my first bedroom. I had an extension made which functioned as bedroom/private office for me.

That early morning, I was awakened by loud raps at my door. My wall clock showed that it was quarter to four in the morning. Grudgingly, I reached for my slippers.

As soon as I opened the door, my sister sprang towards me with a single syllable"ghost", coming out from her lips repeatedly.

After calming down, she narrated how she heard a queer whistling sound emanating from outside her room. She saw the door knob moved. At that instant, chills ran in the length of her spine. Her room was in total darkness. Only the light coming from the garage seeped in her screened window with sturdy grills. Slowly, an image began to form. It was a man. Awestruck, she closed her eyes and opened them slowly when she heard the "man" singing. For nearly a minute, she stared at the apparition, unsure what to do next. He was a young man. He got black curly hair and a well-trimmed mustache.
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After coming face to face with the ghost, my sister slipped under the covers, afraid that if she got up, she would collide with the stranger. "He's coming to me" my terrified sister thought as the singing grew louder. She started praying aloud, hoping that if it were an evil spirit, it would go away. It did.

Minutes went by and when she was sure that the singing sound disappeared, she ran to my room.

I did not know what to make of my sister's statements. As far as I know, I bought the lot, and built the house that made us the first owners/ occupants thus eliminating the possibility of spirits of the former occupants lurking around. But I did have a share of my weird experiences in that room before I moved to my new bedroom.

Early morning, I did not waste a single minute to make inquiries about the lot where our house stood.

Mesmerized by the story that I told her, the oldest resident of that village remembered that the first owner of the lot was a young man, a seaman who according to the parents who sold the lot to the developer did not come back from his last sea voyage.

I informed my sister of my finding. The description fitted the vision.

I asked her if she wanted to swap room with me or stay with me instead of her room with a single bed.
She gave a little thought to my suggestion and chose the second option. I hoped that the stranger will not make a comeback.


But I was wrong. Hardly had I closed my eyes, after several hours of trying to catch some sleep, my sister burst into my room.

She was a lot calmer. But she said that he was back. Slowly she explained what she did. Before he started singing, she told her that the place was no longer his and if he needed some guidance, she offered to pray for the repose of his soul.

As the ghost disappeared, my sister heard a soft whisper of thank you and a melody slowly fading from the distance.

He never was seen again, until another sister who's visiting for the weekend  occupied the room.

Youngest sister

My youngest sister was born months after my father died. She was only a few months old when she fell from the bed in the middle of the night. She was supposed to be beside my mother when all of us went to bed that night. Every one of us wanted to be my mother's side. We're afraid of ghost.We just moved in to an old house after we left the bungalow where my father died. 

My mom was puzzled when she woke up in the middle of the night not because of my baby sister crying but someone was standing beside the bed cooing. 

It was  my baby sister "standing" by the bedside...propped up by an unseen force. She could not stand by herself. She could not even hold her head yet. 


My mom woke us up to ask who put my baby sister there. I thought she fell from the bed. But if it was so, she would be lying on the floor with all the pillow and her baby blanket.


But she was not aware that yet. She met her real ghost in my place again. I had my new house blessed. They slept over in my house that night. And there she met my resident ghost.


The resident ghost said that he saw light when my house was blessed. Then he disappeared. He thought that he could stay in my place. This was different from the ghost that my other sister met.


And he was not the lady ghost who was fond of hiding things in the house.



Pinaysaamerika

It’s all in the Family- Part 2 Halloween Series

 Dear insansapinas.

Eldest Brother

My eldest brother was in his first year college when my father died. A teenager who felt he gained freedom from curfew set by my father, he adopted the habit of coming early dawn after hanging out with his “barkada”.

He learned how to drink and smoke and ignored my mother’s admonition until he saw a ghost. The ghost of the past…that of my father.

He came late and went to bed without changing his streetclothes. He was about to fall into sleep when he felt someone was tugging his legs. Thinking that it was one of my brothers, he pulled his legs

to flex his knees ready to give a kick.

He froze. In the darkness, he saw my father’s silhouette. He heard the message. If he’s not going to stop being irresponsible, my father was going to take him with him.

Call it a nightmare or a hallucination but my brother rushed to my bed and told me that my father is “ nagmumulto".

There was a big transition after the ghost sighting. From a teener, he became an adult who helped my mom took care of us.

My Twin Brothers

I did not have the opportunity to sit down and hear my brother to talk about his experience with ghost. He was still a teenager when he came to the United States and his visits came once a year which was mostly spent on talks about his life abroad.

But his twin who was the agnostic half had supernatural encounters; ghosts and demons. And he is not even “gifted”.

He has this guilty pleasure of pouring boling water in a cup with coffee, sugar and cream mixed together. He would not settle for cold coffee.

That morning, he was left alone in the house. It was a holiday. It was not a big deal since he really did not join the family in a meal anytime of the day. Any day.

He usually left before breakfast to avoid morning traffic going to work and came home late in the evening when everyone was already in the bedrooms. 

As usual, he boiled water ( takuri) and he was pouring the bubbling hot water when he heard knocks from the main door.

He left the cup of coffee and opened the door. There was no one.He went back to the kitchen and cooked hotdogs for his pan de sal. Right after putting the hotdog in a small plate, he heard the knocks again.

Angrily, he left the hotdog and coffee which was still steaming hot to find out who had been  disturbing him to enjoy his breakfast. The doorbell at the gate was not working so a visitor had to knock loud on the door to be heard inside.  It was eight in the morning.

What he saw was a woman who said that he should change. Nothing more. Thinking that she was just a beggar who was asking for money for some reasons..e.g. someone is sick…she is sick or she was a victim of scam... blah blah….he slammed the door.

One who was not easily intimidated, he was pissed by the woman who just suddenly appeared in our doorstep.

When he went back to the kitchen/dining room, he saw that his coffee cup was empty and the hotdogs were shaped more like fingers.

He did not scream. He run to the door to look for the woman. The backdoor was bolted from the inside.  He saw no one outside. It was only a few minutes had passed and if she came and left without a car, she would be walking the long road towards the gate of the subdivision.

He threw away the hotdogs; made himself another cup of coffee and decided to talk me as soon as possible.

My Sisters

I got three sisters and all of them have ghost stories of their own. Two ghost sightings in my own house.

Both of my two sisters are nurses.

Nurse/Sister 1

Although she had shares of ghost stories with her classmates in UP, the one which frightened her most was her experience in Boston hospital.

There were already stories about ghost sightings in that ward but she thought that just because she lived and grew up in our house which we believed we shared with other entities, she would not get scared.

But she did. It was there when she had experienced   goosebumps, hair-raising and sudden lost of mobility moments when she sensed the apparition near the elevator.

To be continued...


Pinaysaamerika

It’s all in the Family- Halloween Series

Dear insansapinas,
Read my other ghost stories.

Many people do not believe in ghosts but they are scared that they might see one.
If seeing a ghost is included in the DNA blue print of a family, I suspect that the codes had been very well written for each of the member.


My Father

Among the family members, my father had the remotest desire to see a ghost. He did not believe in one since he had been and had lived in so many parts of the Philippines that he would have the chance to stay in a haunted place.


He had no idea that he would meet one when he moved to a city to accept a job offer.
The employment fringes included housing accommodation for him and the family.
Since the house that was being constructed was not ready yet, the company temporarily
Made him stay in a six bedroom old house. Alone. No one told him that it had a reputation of being haunted so that the rent was merely a pittance. We moved in to the new house later.


On the first night of his stay, he heard all sorts of noise, knockings, foot falls and moans.
He was a man who was not easily scared so he kept quiet about the unusual experience.


But the ghosts in the house which was not occupied for a long time must be very determined to drive him away so they can have the house all for themselves. On the third night he learned what the word fear meant.


According to him, his hair stood up on end and he was “ paralyzed” for a few seconds when the apparition stood by the door which he opened when he heard the knocks, thinking that it was a new employee who also came from the city and was going to share in the house until he found a place of his own.


He could not run outside because the door was blocked. So he merely shut the door and jumped on his bed.


Lest, his co-workers would laugh at him, the next morning he just kept quiet but he insisted that he moved to the new house even it was not finished yet. He thought that if he had stayed one more night in that house, he would have barricaded himself with a lot of crucifixes .


I read an explanation about ghosts being cranky . She attributed the emotion to the frustration of trying to communicate and the people do not hear them.


He told this story when all the family members and the neighbors experienced the ghosts of the Death march.


Mother

Most of the ghost apparitions experienced by my mother were after my father died.
When we were all grown up and my father’s manifestations became less, she told us that she believed that my father must have asked for a deferred crossover so he could watch over us. My mother then was not even 40 years old and was pregnant when he died.


One psychic wrote that the common reason for the deliberate missing of the crossover was passion ( either it is love or hate.) Obviously, my father was that of love.


Those who are motivated by hate were more the earthbound type. They do not want to move on because of reasons other than love.


The first time that he saw my father after he died was on the third day after we buried him. In our hometown, the old people required the widow to take a bath on this day early morning when no one ‘s up yet.


My mom told us that she saw my father standing by the door. She forgot that he’s dead. She just realized when the apparition disappeared. She noticed however that he was slightly elevated from the floor. Sylvia Browne, an authority on paranormal said that the Other Side actually exists three feet about our ground and vibrational levels.


Our dog did not stop from barking and howling at night so that a neighbor must have
Caused his sudden disappearance.


When we moved back to Manila, one of my brothers stayed with a relative in the province.


We were busy settling in the city so that my mom was always tired whenever she came home. Tired as she was every evening, she checked on us after she had rested. One night, she went to the boys’ room and found that there were two figures on the bed. She did not switch on the light. But when she saw my eldest brother in the kitchen taking his late dinner, she asked him if they had a guest sleeping over. When he said none, she went back to the bedroom and checked again. There were not two but just one sleeping on the bed.


She just thought that it must be a pillow that she saw and mistook it as a body. Before she went back to bed, she heard a whisper…to go and see my other brother who was in the province.


That she did and found out that my brother was sick for days and the relative did not inform us.


There were minor manifestations but one that she would not forget was when I , the rebel
Run away to marry at a very young age.


She said that she saw my father at the foot of the stairwell, crying.


To be continued...

Ang Aking Tatay na di ko Tatay-Halloween Stories

Dear insansapinas,
Kung multo at multo lang naman ang pag-uusapan, mas maraming kuwento ang aking mother.
Hindi siya katulad ko na I-talk-to-dead-people. Siya lang ang ay I-can-see-dead people.


Ilang beses niyang nakita ang aking father matapos na siyang mamatay. Pero nang una niyang makita ang aking father ay buhay pa siya. Nope, hindi siya ang doppelganger na sinasabi ng iba.


Baby pa ako noon at nagtatrabaho ang daddy ko ng pm shift kaya lampas alas dose na ng gabi kung siya ay umuwi.


Ang sabi nila (kapitbahay namin), yong bahay daw namin ay daanan ng mga engkanto at iba pa. Huwag ninyo akong tanungin, wala pa akong kamalay-malay noon.


Isang madaling-araw, nagising ang mother ko na may nagbukas ng pinto sa kusina. Doon pumapasok ang aking father instead na sa balkonahe namin.


Ang gamit namin noon ay petromax kasi ang koryente ay hanggang alas dose lang. So ang mga aswang siguro naglalabasan pag wala ng koryente. ngek ngek ngek.


Ang gamit naming moskitero (hindi yong musketeers ni king Arthur) kung hindi yong mosquito net para di kami kagatin ng lamok ay malaking pampamilya.


Eniwey, hinintay ng aking mother ang pagpasok ng aking father mula sa kitchen.


Narinig niya ang yabag pero hindi siya lumabas sa kulambo. Napansin niya na kumulimlim ang petromax. Nakita niya na nakatayo ang aking ama sa paanan ng kulambo. Ang nakikita lang niya ay ang pantalon nito hanggang baywang.


Tumuloy ito sa salas. Kaya inisip niya na baka may gagawin pa o kaya maghuhubad ng sapatos.


Nakatulog siyang kaunti nang marinig niyang bumukas na naman ang pinto sa may kusina. Tapos nakita niya ang father ko na pumasok.


Tinanong niya kung saan siya pumunta. Sagot naman ng aking ama na sa trabaho. Ang bilis mo naman, sabi ng aking mother.


Sinabi niya na nakita na niyang dumating siya at pumunta ng salas. So akala niya lumabas ulit at kababalik lang.


Sabi naman ng aking father, kararating lang niya.


Sabi ng mother ko eh sino yong nakita kong nakatayo sa may kulambo?


Pinaysaamerika

Ang Katok sa Pinto sa Baguio Teachers' Camp-Halloween Stories

Dear insansapinas,
Ilang beses ang grupo naming nagpunta sa Baguio Teachers' Camp pag summer. Tuwing pupunta kami doon ay may kuwento ng multo.


Isang summer, pumunta kami ng grupo ko para magkaroon kami ng working seminar paggawa ng sylabus. Actually, gawa na namin yon, discussion na lang ang ginawa namin at sa gabi ay libre ang mga kasamahan kong lumabas habang ang iba ay nagbabaraha o kaya scrabble. Bonding namin yon at paimpress na solid kami sa aming College.


Isang gabi, ang mga grupo ng boys ay lumabas para maggoodtime habang kaming mga babae ay nag-uubusan ng barya paglalaro ng forty-one. Alas dose na wala pa ang mga boys kaya tulog na kami. Total alam naman naming dala nila ang susi sa main door. Sila naman ay magkakasama sa isang kuwarto except yong isa na kasama ang pamilya niya. May sarili silang kuwarto.



That time , solo namin ang building na yon kasi kaaalis lang noong isang grupo. 


Kinabukasan, kuwento sila.

Itong palang mga boys ay naiwan ang kanilang susi sa excitement. Hindi naman sila puwedeng kumatok dahil hindi namin mariring. Isang oras daw silang nambabato ng bintana namin, walang gumigising. Yong isa nga raw ay umakyat pa ng dustpout para gisingin kami, wala rin. Habang abala ang iba sa paghanap kung paano nila kami magigising, yong isang kasamahan namin ay naramdaman na nagclick yong pinto. Binuksan siya noong naiwang kasamahan naming lalaki na kasama ang pamilya.



Tamang-tama dumating yong buong pamilya para sumalo sa breakfast. Sabi namin, buti na lang gising pa sila at binuksan nila ang pinto.


Sabi noong lalaki, tulog na raw sila kaya lang may malakas na kumatok sa pinto nila.Binuksan niya walang tao. Sinara niya ulit at muli na namang kumatok. Lumabas daw siya ng kuwarto para hanapin kung sino ang kumakatok at bakit ito nagtatago. Papunta siya sa hallway ng marinig niya ang mga boys na kumakatok naman doon sa ibaba, kaya bumaba siya at binuksan ang pinto.


Sinabi namin na baka yong katok ng mga boys ang narinig niya. Sabi niya hindi. Malakas ang katok sa pinto nila at ang katok sa ibaba ay hindi maririnig kung hindi lalabas ng hallway.


Noong gabing yon, nag-abang kami ng multo. Ahohoy. Ninuninu


Pinaysaamerika

How it is to live with ghosts-Halloween Stories

Dear insansapinas,
Noon nagtataka ako kung anong nahihita noong mga ghost hunters kasi hindi naman sila nagchacharge doon sa mga kliyente nilang gustong malaman kung may multo nga sa kanilang bahay.


Yon pala inaalok nila sa mga TV network ang kanilang video.Sa panonood ko naman wala naman akong makita o marinig na nagpapatunay na multo. Sabi nila merong narerecord sa kanilang mga equipment. Wala namang kasama sa kanila na "sensitive" na kahit walang equipment ang lakas magparamdam ng mga nasa ibang dimension.


Sabi ko sainyo "sensitive " ako. hindi yong sensitive na magtatampo o magagalt pag may narining akong di ko gusto at di ko na babatiin yong tao  hanggang pumuti an gbuhok niya malagas o pumuti. (ah may mga occasion palana ganoon ako ako. guilty. pag ako nagtampo, manikluhod ka man, di kita papansinin. Toink).
Sensitive ako sa mga ingay,galaw at amoy sa ibang dimension.


Ang macoconclude ko ay di yong bahay ang haunted, ako ang sinusundan. AHHHHHH.


Yong bahay sa SF, wala raw doong multo hanggang dumating ako. Ibig mong sabihin, bitbit ko Dito sa bahay ng kapatid ko, wala naman siyang nararamdaman, pero ako, paboritong ginigising ng mga ingay. Hindi ingay ah na naghihila ng kadena o something, kundi nanggigising. Wall to wall carpeting ang bahay so hindi maririnig.


Noong isang madaling araw, kumatok na naman. Di ko na pinansin. Hindi naman nanggaling sa pinto kung hidi sa wall. Istorbo.


May nahulog sa carpet. Ang lakas naman ng bagsak eh dapat, walang sound yon kasi ang kapal ng carpeting namin. Yong tipong lulubog ang paa mo pag bagong vacuum.


Yong plastic bottle ng gamot ko na nakapatong sa gitna ng maliit na cabinet (wala pang 2 feet ang taas) ay nahulog. Wala namang hangin. Wala namang lindol para yon gumalaw mula sa gitna at kusang mahulog sa carpet. At ang lakas ng ingay. Talang nagpapansin. TSEH.


Nonng isang gabi, nanonood ako ng TV sa living room. Sarado ang ilaw pero yong ilaw sa kitchen ay nakabukas. Madilim kasi sa hallway papunta sa bathroom.


Bukas, sindi ang ilaw. Dalawang fluorescent lights yon. Di ko sinara. Inisip ko na baka mapupundi na ang isang bulb at papapalitan ko bukas.


Kinabukasan, okay naman. Di naman siya bukas, sara. Talagang gusto lang maglaro.


Okay naman sa akin ang mga paramdam niya o nila. Hindi ko alam kung sino siya. Ayaw magpakilala. Ang alam ko kasi marami.


Mabuti na lang di na ako kagaya noon na matatakutin.


Doon sa bahay namain sa Queson City, mayroon doong nagpaparamdam. Minsan tulog na ang mga kapatid ko, nakahiga kami sa bunk bed, kuwarto ng mga girls nang marealize ko na ako na lang pala ang gising.


Ang aming kumot noon ay manipis lang dahil mainit naman, tama lang na huwag matulog nang nakabilad ang katawan.


Naramdaman ko na nagfofloat ang kumot. Nakikita ko na ang paa ko. Ngiiiii. Hinawakan ko ang dulo at nagtalukbong ako. Tseh.


Itutuloy para sa mga multong nakakatakot.


Pinaysaamerika