YES, HAUNTED NGA YUNG BAHAY NAMIN SA PROBINSIYA. AND I LIVED THERE FOR 16 YEARS!

encounters i remember very well... pasensya na taglish, i'm a better story teller in taglish than in pure tagalog or pure english...

1. i was like 7 or 8 years old. we had, for years, heard this noise like someone was walking on the hallway at night almost every night. when my father went for his "cursillo" (that's the catholic charismatic renewal way back then for those who are not familiar with the term) it became more and more audible, as in naririnig na talaga namin yung yapak sa hallway. then after 1 month it was my mother's turn to go to the cursillo. naku po, kumakatok na siya dun sa door ng master's bedroom!!! the night before my mom went to the cursillo we were all (meaning my parents, sister, aunt, maid and myself) staying in the masters bedroom already because this ghost was really making a lot of noise, stomping feet on the hallway and knocking on the door. my father got so angry he shouted "p*t*ng *na mo magpunta ka na sa impyerno wag mo na kami istorbohin!" alam nyo ano ginawa ng multo? it shook the whole house banging on all the walls, then it jumped onto the newly made porch roof that my father and his friends just erected days before. ayun yupi ang roof ng porch!

when my mom got to the cursillo she consulted the bishop about this. the bishop surmised that since it got worse before both of my parents were to go to cursillo, maybe the ghost is asking for prayers. so ayun nag-mass yung bishop sa bahay namin. would you believe nawala na yung naglalakad sa hallway after that!

2. my mom had just come from manila so we were in my sister's room hearing news from our grandparents and also eating the pasalubong she brought. there were 5 of us, my mom, sister, aunt and the maid who was like part of the family. the door was closed and locked. my father was downstairs reading a book. then the door suddenly opened and an old woman's face peeked in, puting-puti po lahat pati hair nya! sigawan kami lahat, akyat naman ang erpats ko. nung tanungin namin siya kung may nakita siyang matandang babae sabi nya wala daw. but all 5 of us in the room saw her. and the thing no one can explain is how the door opened when there was a deadbolt was locking the door!

3. i was 14 years old already. my aunt (who was an old maid) was telling all of us that she would wake up in the night and she would see this black figure of a man standing over her, like watching her. she said she would hide under the blanket in fear but this figure would then sit on the bed. one night she woke everyone up screaming because this black figure sort of embraced her. anyway she had a nervous breakdown and would never stay in the house alone anymore.

our maid said she has this cousin who had this "powers" that maybe could help, but absolutely no payments in cash or kind since her cousin does not use his powers for monetary gain. so we asked this guy to come.

this guy asked for a plain sheet of bond paper and a white soup bowl filled with water. he then cut the paper into 4 pieces, then put it into the bowl while praying over it. when he took the paper out it was like a black and white photos. there was a family of 3 (old woman, old man and young man), a picture of a spanish style house burning, a sort of map with the old house and our house superimposed, and some other i don't remember anymore. he said that the old lady has already gone up to heaven because we had prayed for her, the young man is also asking for prayers, but the old man is already evil! he also said they were our relatives (the owners of the lot during the spanish time pa). so we prayed with him around the house. after that he said the young man was already saved, but the old man is too evil for him to deal with. the only consolation is that he was able to ask the old man not to enter the house anymore. BUT ANYTHING OUTSIDE THE HOUSE IS FAIR GAME AT NIGHT!

4. now the face to face encounter..... it was just after a typhoon, i was already 16 at the time. my father and i just finished fixing a couple of windows that got blown down. it was already around 9pm when we finished and my father asked me to bring the tools to the kamalig. now this is important: the place was well lighted, with a light bulb above the door and inside the kamalig, plus there is a 100 watt light bulb above the kitchen door just 5 meters away and our neighbor's house side door light which was also very bright. when i got there i saw that it was very dirty with leaves and things that get blown by the wind, so i took the dust pan and walis tingting to clean. then, 1 meter to my left behind me there was this voice, "Hoy tama na yan gabi na!" i turned to face the man who said it but there was nobody there. i looked all around, nothing. so i picked up again the walis and dust pan, but when i was about to enter the kamalig, 1 inch from my left ear, he said it again, "SABI KO TAMA NA YAN GABI NA!!!" i could see him just 1 inch away from my left eye, so i turned to face him. nose to nose i stared into his eyes, they were red and angry. he stepped back about 1 meter, and he was about 5 foot 10 inches tall, big, burly, black, and i could see the neighbor's light passing through his body!!! so what am i to do??? RUN AND SHOUT LIKE CRAZY OF COURSE! the kitchen screen door was closed but i barged right through destroying the lock and the screen and i was trembling and shouting like ****! and i pissed in my pants!

i never went out of the house after dark after that encounter!

there are lots of other things, like feeling something suddenly enters the room even if there is no one there but you, or things disappearing then suddenly appearing. too many to mention. we sold the house some years back. of course we never told the new owners anything hehehe!