[6] True Filipino Horror Experiences (Tagalog)

Lucy

Hi guys.

I-kwento ko yun experience ng kuya ko .

Walang 3rd eye si kuya,  pero malakas ang senses nya. Madalas sya makaramdam and makarinig but he has never seen an actual na multo.

Please excuse if the story is lacking some details as I'm recounting it based on what my kuya shared to me.

It  took place in 2018.

LUCY
My kuya's friend Jane, had a Fil-Am cousin na umuwi sa Pinas for a short vacation. And nireto nya ito Kay Kuya. 

Let's refer to her as Lucy .

Lucy took an immediate liking to my kuya. My kuya kasi is very friendly and napaka likeable ng personality.  In fairness to Lucy, she also had a wonderful personality,  friendly, bubbly and sa looks, medyo pretty din naman sya. In fact, my mother and I quickly got along well with her.

Their bond grew quickly and in the second week of her stay dito sa Pinas, she asked my kuya if he could stay at her residence so that she would have someone to keep her company.  Masaya naman sila palagi.  Lucy is very outgoing. Their weekly itinerary included going to the mall, gym, derma, salon. What my brother noticed is that  she is very prayerful and always make time to pray every night at 6pm.

Their house is a medium sized two-storey house In a quiet neighborhood in Cavite. The second floor had two bedrooms,  while the first floor had one standard sized bedroom that had been converted into a prayer room and partially,  storage room . It was filled with candles and mga santo of different sizes. Every night ,Lucy would pray sa prayer room for about half an hour . Kailangan daw kasing "dasalan yun mga santo".

NOISES
Lucy's family lives in the US , so their house was mostly empty. They just pay a relative to visit the house regularly to clean and "dasalan yun mga santo".

Unlike most houses na kapag tahimik, tahimik talaga, in that  house,  peculiar sounds are like the norm. Never syang tahimik. Nun andun si kuya, they would always hear sounds , from as subtle as snap of broken stick or  twigs, taps from the ceiling , creaking of doors, to as loud as falling objects pero pagcheck nila,  wala naman, door slams even when the windows were closed  and no wind to cause the slaming of doors.

PRAYER ROOM
Whenever kuya glanced at the prayer room, especially when the door was slightly open, nanlalaki daw ang ulo nya and kinikilabutan sya.

He avoided looking inside when the door was ajar.

If he needed something from the prayer room, he'd rush in and out and  avoid looking at the santos kasi nanlalaki daw ang ulo nya. Our family is a devout Catholic, and we are accustomed to having many religious statues. Sa bahay ng lola and mga tita ko, sanay kami even sa life -sized na Nazareno, and sacred heart , pero never pa si kuya naka experience ng ganun feeling na  matakot sa santo.

THE BUZZING VOICES :
Once night  after a long drive from La Union, Kuya and Lucy were both exhausted and fell asleep in the living room.  Suddenly, nagising sila by the loud thud of parang mabigat na object ang nahulog in one of the   bedroom upstairs.  Lucy , looking startled asked kuya "narinig mo yun?". But nag tapang tapangan na lang daw si kuya and said , "may nalaglag lang, bukas na natin I check". 

After a few minutes , they  fell back to sleep, but kuya began to hear a persistent murmurs in his ears. At first para syang sound of mosquitos,   mosquitos na madami. Nagtataka sya kasi hindi nawawala kahit anong gawin nya. As he tried to listen closely, the buzzing gradually transformed into voices
Small voices na madami. Unti unti, nagiging voices ng babae na parang sabay sabay daw nag ch- chant ng words. The more kuya listened, the more nagiging words yun mga chants.

Terrified of what these voices might instruct him to do, and bago pa maging malinaw yun words, he tried he's best to ignore it . ayaw nya pakinggan, he closed his eyes and prayed. He was aware of the potential danger and was afraid na baka i-control sya and  utusan sya ng masama nun mga voices. He prayed silently in his mind and after a few minutes, the voices in his ears vanished. 

About sa nahulog na sound.from second floor, the following morning, when kuya checked the bedrooms, everything was in order.

Since that night, kuya has been very cautious.  Whenever he's in the kitchen,  where madaming knives, he doesn't stay long there, fearing that kung ano ang pedeng iutos or gawin nun mga entities with the knives.

And whenever, kuya descends the steep stairs, he opts to descend sitting down.  Paupo sya bumaba ng hagdan and gripped the railings  tightly kasi may nararamdaman daw sya parati sa likod nya and he feels baka itulak sya.

DEMONIC VISAGE
One of the creepiest pa happens  whenever they were driving at night sa tahimik na highway. Kuya's into trading business and madalas sya mag field sa mga provinces sa central and North Luzon. Throughout Lucy's stay in the Philippines,  kasama sya ni kuya mag field sa mga customers. 

While driving,  whenever he glanced at her in the darkness,  her face would look like the Devil's.  He could see her eyes, lips and teeth and they all looked demonic. Her eyes were staring fiercely at him and her teeth were somewhat protruding (which is  not like her in daytime,  what i mean ,hindi naman protruding yun ngipin pag normal time of the day) . Kuya described it as, "nanlilisik mga mata " and  "mukhang demonyo".

And every time mapapatingin si kuya, and even sa peripheral vision nya, he would find her already staring at him. Hindi nya daw maunahan ng tingin.  Tuwing titingin sya, nakatingin na sa kanya,  in her demonic look. That happened every time they were driving sa gabi at konti lang ang sasakyan sa road.
Kahit natatakot si kuya, sabi nya daw sa sarili nya " mahal ko itong babaeng ito and hindi naman siguro ako ipapahamak'

PROVOKING MOM
One afternoon, they picked up mom before dropping off Lucy to the gym.  While Kuya and mommy were at Lucy's house, enjoying a snack in the dining area, suddenly my mom recalled a past disagreement with a friend. She became incredibly angry, galit na galit and erupted into a fit of rage. Pataas ng pataas ang boses nya habang nagagalit and she couldn't be calmed down.  She was around 72yo at that time , and  she has never displayed such anger before. Her outburst was unlike anything kuya had ever witnessed. Kuya suspected that baka yun entities were deliberately provoking my mom. Natakot si kuya baka ma highblood or heart attack sa sobrang galit  So he promptly escorted mommy palabas ng bahay.  At dun lang nahimasmasan si mommy nun nasa car na at nakalayo na ng konti sa bahay.

LOLO
Another creepy thing is how Lucy would always talk about his lolo. "Kausap ko si lolo kanina ", "kasama natin ngayon si lolo sa kotse", "kausapin mo si lolo, katabi mo sya ngayon ". ..mga ganyan daw  ang sinasabi. The lolo she was referring to had been dead for many years na. . My kuya was not sure what to make of this "lolo thing " , Kaya he would just smile and did not entertain or  magtanong pa if Lucy was just joking or kung totoo na nakikita nya ang lolo nya.

ALBULARYO
After four months or so,  Lucy returned to the US. Nag break na din sila ni kuya not long after.

Last year,  kuya got to chat with Jane again.
And suddenly she asked about kuya's experience staying at Lucy's house. Jane  said that she rarely visited the house because when she was a teenager , she woke up one morning to see the their lolo nakalutang sa harap nya ,pahiga, face to face with her.

Jane also revealed that ginayuma ni Lucy si kuya. She and Lucy,  went to an albularyo in San Pablo para gayumahin si kuya.

Also it turned out that their lolo was an  albularyo and had conducted many rituals in that house, including casting demons from possessed individuals and performed healings. 

Kaya siguro madaming entities sa bahay nila. Kuya thinks some of these entities are those na ni-cast out ng lolo nila and may have left stranded sa bahay  or ayaw ng umalis.

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