Darkness Falls on the Palace: Ghost Stories from Malacañang
Oct 18, 2016 • Karl R. De Mesa and Pao Hernandez
4. Strange Lighted Things
Via wikipedia.org
Long corridors dominate most of the buildings and it’s the same in Mabini Hall. Sometimes the lights will turn off one by one, as you walk down the corridor, just like in the horror movies.” Whenever this would happen, it would prompt people to start praying, asking the entities to stay put and not follow us home,” exclaims Lydia Beley.
3. The Young One
Even in the newly-renovated restrooms of Malacanang, the sound of water dripping can make the hair in your neck stand on its ends. Tales have been circulated before of a child occupying the stalls, waiting for you to see his ashen face before he disappears into thin air.
Sightings of ever-young guests are common in the old buildings within the Palace grounds but witnesses say these children bear no ill intentions, just the juvenile need to be noticed.
2. Hurried Footsteps
Via youtube.com
At 6 a.m., a team all set for their team-building was treated with a conundrum, as they held open the elevator door to phantom footsteps. Two of their officemates were running closely behind them and when they saw nothing but themselves on the office mirror walls, these four girls, which includes the author Pao Hernandez, were telling each other: “Where are they?” “You heard the running, right?” “We have got to get down fast.”
Between these phantom sprinters and floating beheaded guy said to roam the halls, the employees of Malacanang are better off walking in clusters to fend off unwanted company.
1. There to Stay
Via gov.ph
Horror stories have accumulated with every sitting president, but it was during the term of former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo that people in the Palace experienced particularly memorable sightings. Witnesses recall one of Arroyo’s generals suddenly going stiff with fear. This uniformed man with stars on his shoulders, told those around him, “There’s a Katipunero walking down the hall.”
It was, however, a time of tragedy when the people of Malacanang felt the pang of horror. Seven of their own had just flown to their deaths. Their bodies have been brought and honored at the grand reception of Heroes Hall. It was during their wake that guests and staff heard the wailings of a man and a woman– voices of burdened souls tied to Malacanang’s haunted halls.
Stories culled from interviews with employees from Malacanang.
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