Kwento Ni Nanay

Dead Spirits Roaming

Pinagmumultuhan na bahay sa Iloilo (Haunted house)

Doon sa amin sa Iloilo ako lumaki at nakatira kasama mga magulang at kapatid ko.

Isang gabi napakalakas ng ulan noon at sobrang lamig, habang nakadungaw ako sa bintana ng kwarto. May nakita akong bata na tumatakbo at naririnig ko ang malakas niyang tawa. Nagtaka ako kasi ni wala siyang suot na pang-itaas kahit malamig ang panahon noon at umuulan ng malakas. Nagalala ako sa bata na ngayon ko lang nakita ang itsura at maputla ang itsura at baka magkasakit. Kaya lumabas kaagad ako at tinignan siya, pero wala na siya dun.

Sinundan ako ng nanay at tatay ko na may dalang payong, kasi nagtaka sila bakit ako biglang lumabas ng bahay at umuulan. Kinwento ko sa kanila ang nakita ko. Pumasok ang tatay ko sa loob ng bahay at lumabas agad na may dalang flashlight para hanapin ang bata sa may bukid para pauwiin siya. Pumasok naman kami ng nanay ko sa loob ng bahay. Nang bumalik ang tatay ko, sinabi niyang walang katao-tao sa labas at wala naman bakas ng paa na may naglaro sa maputik na bukid.

Nang matutulog na kami, sinabi ng nanay ko na may ikwekwento siyang sekreto. Minana daw niya ang bahay sa magulang niya na noon pa nakatira dun. Nagkaroon daw sila ng panganay na anak na lalaki nung 1960, pero namatay ito ng 5 years old sa sakit na tubercolosis o TB, dahil hindi naagapan. Posible daw na ang batang nakita ko ay ang multo ng namatay niyang kapatid na madalas magpakita dati nung bata pa siya pero ngayon lang ulit nagpakita. Kung totoo na ang batang iyon ang anak ng lola ko, ibig sabihin ay tito ko ang nakita kong bata.

Cultures all around the world believe in spirits that survive death to live in another realm. In fact, ghosts are among the most widely believed of paranormal phenomena. Recent surveys have shown that a significant portion of the population believes in ghosts. Since most of us prefer to believe that we will continue to exist in some capacity after death, the idea that we might invent something like ghosts seems a reasonable one.

The idea that the dead remain with us in spirit is an ancient one, and one that offers many people comfort; who doesn't want to believe that our beloved but deceased family members aren't looking out for us, or with us in our times of need? But it’s also true that if you already believe in ghosts, or are told a place is haunted, you are more likely to interpret events as paranormal. Some paranormal experiences are easily explainable, based on faulty activity in the brain.

It is not surprising that despite the efforts of thousands of ghost hunters on television and the Internet for years, not one single thing of hard evidence of ghosts has been found.Psychologists studying religion have long suspected that a belief in the paranormal can be a kind of shield from the even harsher truths of the world. We tend to think that we are more in control than we really are, we think the chance that any event is due to luck is much lower than it really is, we would not want to think any succession occurrences could be merely random. The idea is that when something unexpected happens – a death, natural disaster, or failure – the brain searches around for answers, looking for meaning in the confusion. The fact that brain injuries, alcohol, drugs, mirrors and even suggestion – can affect our thinking, memory, and perception in unexplainable ways is convincing proof that what we think of as “supernatural” may probably exist only in our own minds.

Credit to: autumn guinaldo