People that Disappear in the Philippines
When I talk about people that disappear in the Philippines, I'm talking about something different from what I was talking about when I wrote "How to Disappear or Vanish without a Trace in the Philippines". The words and phrases "disappear" and "in the Philippines" are the only things the articles have in common.
No More Jack Hunter Stuff
I'm actually thankful that I stopped dreaming about Jack Hunter and stopped receiving any email from someone claiming to be Jack Hunter. I think the last dream was at least 3 weeks ago.
Dealing with paranormal things usually doesn't bother me. It's starting to bother me. In the coming days, I'm going to be focusing on some of the folklore in the Philippines and explain why I think it's not all folklore.
People that Disappear in the Philippines
It's unnerving when something strange happens once. Imagine how unnerving it is when it happens twice. I'm going to mention the second strange occurrence.
A couple of weeks ago, I was on the street in front of my house, walking toward a local sari-sari store, tindahan (Tagalog for store), mini-store or whatever you want to call it. It's nothing more than a small shack where the owner resells products bought at the regular market, broken down into smaller portions. Anyway, I was walking toward this store when I spotted my wife's cousin, Julius (who happens to live with my mother-in-law in our compound) walking in the same direction at about 50 meters in front of me.
I was a mere 10 meters away when he passed the store and turned right onto another small road. Not more than 5 seconds later, I turned onto the same road and he was nowhere to be seen! I have some friends that live on the left side of the road and their front gate was locked. The other people that live on the left and right sides of the road have fences surrounding their property and the gates face the main street. At the end of the road, there are bushes and a trail that leads to where other people live. It's basically a dead end for anything but people who walk or stray animals.
There is absolutely no way that Julius could have made it to that trail before I turned onto the road, even if he sprinted. There were no openings on the left or right sides of the road for him to enter someone else's property either. The question I asked myself was "Why is he avoiding me?" There is no animosity or anything between us.
Well, I turned around and headed back to my compound, downhill to my mother-in-law's house. It only took a couple of minutes to get there. When I arrived, I spotted Julius sleeping on the floor in her living room (people do that here, you know). I waited until he woke up and asked him why he had avoided me earlier and he was clueless as to what I was talking about.
So, who was that disappearing person?
I have absolutely no idea. It couldn't have been Julius. He was fast asleep when I returned and he would have been out of breath had he been the person who ran away from me fast enough to get back to my mother-in-law's house. The person looked like Julius, walked like Julius and probably smelled like Julius, but I never got THAT close.
This is the second time something like this has happened to me. Unless there's a whole bunch of doppelgangers running around, I can't explain it. I've been told about this happening to other people, but I never believed it. Until recently, that is, because it has happened to me.
The paranormal epicenter?
I'm starting to believe that a lot of the folklore that people talk about here in the Philippines is more fact than fiction. There are just too many strange things going on all the time.
I've come to believe that the Far East, and particularly the orient, is the paranormal epicenter of the world. It doesn't matter which country you visit in this area, be it the Philippines, China, Singapore, Hong Kong, etc., you will hear some amazing stories if you take the time to listen.
I'm listening.
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I think it's awesome that you have only been in the Philippines for a couple years but already measure things in meters. I work in export sales and am still not acclimated to the metric system.
I'm a skeptic however and don't put to much thought toward the paranormal, though I do believe strongly in our minds playing tricks on us because mine does all the time. Just the other day, my mind tricked me into thinking I liked my job enough to stay late until 6:30PM and miss out on dinner.
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It didn't take long to start using meters instead of yards, or centimeters instead of inches, because everything here is measured that way.
I laughed at your skeptic mistake. That's an easy mind game to fall for.
Nice shot, Tim.
Astral travel? Now there's something I will probably never believe in.
I also am a skeptic, and you can say what you want, but I will need more convincing before I believe in this so called "metric system"…
Could you have seen Julius "astral traveling" while he slept?
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does sound like quite the doppelganger experience. :O
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RT — the world is a strange and wonderful place – from a mystical standpoint, I believe the less "noise" within the environment [noise being outside white noise, messages, advertising, radio waves, television channels, etc. and so on] – the more opportunity for connection to something else.
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weirdness has been happening to me a lot lately too.
they iz coming!
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Who is they? And if they're coming, I'm going.
That made me think for a minute! I've no idea how that could happen, but it kinda freaked me out a bit…
Hey RT– funny but I live down here due south of you in Bali, and I hear exactly the same sort of stories– stuff that we might dismiss as 'paranormal' in a lot of the Western world. When I talked about it initially with my Indonesian wife, I was surprised that she didn't just pass it off as nonsense, when I voiced my skepticism.
As skeptical as I've always been, I will say that I've learned to keep my mouth shut, partially because so many locals casually refer to unexplained events and I don't want to offend anyone, but mainly because I've had a couple of things here happen that I don't have an explanation for, either!
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This story makes me frightened..
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You have some pretty crazy stories, and they just keep getting crazier! I love reading about all the weird stuff you encounter, as not only is it interesting, but it makes you believe more in paranormal things. I really do think the Philippines might be a paranormal epicenter.
RT,
Have you heard the story of Gil Pérez who was rumored to have teleported from Manila to Mexico City back in 1593?
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I haven't read it, but I will now, now that you've pointed it out to me.
This stuff is not scary to me but I hate not knowing the answers to whats going on.
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Are you sure Julius' name isn't Peter Parker? Because closed in alleyways, surrounded by locked doors are no feat for Spiderman. I bet you didn't even look up to see if you could catch a receding glimpse of his skin tight Spidey outfit! That would explain the alley disappearance and the quick get-back-to-his-sleeping-bag-so-quick act.
That's hilarious, Crystal. No, I didn't look up to see if he swung, crawled, of flew away.
I agree with you that the Far East tends to have a lot of folklore and unusual stories. Many Asian cultures have a very accepting view of the paranormal, and so it's more openly talked about (compared to Western culture).
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what you've seen is a normal paranormal in our country, they are ghost in particular but different kind. We have different kind of ghost, the shadow people you talking about, the normal white spirit ghost, the ball of fire and the this last one that imitates or copy a person. I am sure of that because I experienced them a lot mostly during work and most of my staff noticed or experienced it as well. Dunno how to explain it but they are sometimes good spirit in which they try to make you remember or think to a person you know that you might have been forgotten or somewhat been thinking but can't remember why?