KULBA tale 5:

Mirror Terror

By Pepin

We use a mirror everyday to see how we look. However, there are times that it can deceive us. It does not only reveal to us our physical image, but there are also secrets and mysteries that it tries to hide from us.

Way back in 1995, Anne, an eight year old student from one of the prestigious schools in Iloilo, experienced how a mirror does its tricks. It was two in the afternoon, and she was in a music class in the oldest building of the campus.

Five minutes had passed, but the teacher hasn’t arrived for class. Anne decided to go to the comfort room to fix her self. She asked Katrina to go with her, but the latter was busy playing with the other girls. She went on her own; unaware of what was to happen to her.

The comfort room was in a complete silence when she entered. There were five cubicles and the tiles were clean, although there were cracks on them. At the left is the washing area with two sinks and a medium-sized mirror hanging on the wall between them. Everything in side was in order.

Anne was looking at herself in the mirror as she was combing her long black hair. But suddenly a reflection stood behind her. She looked back but saw no one. She continued fixing her hair. Five minutes later, the reflection stood behind her again, but still no one was around inside when she tried to look around. She turned back to the mirror, but this time she saw a reflection of a nun smiling at her. Surprised and stunned, she cannot move away from her post. The image was clear, and she saw the beautiful old nun with her two eyes.

She kept on smiling at her, and Anne didn’t want to be rude. And eventhough she was trembling, she smiled back to the person in the mirror. But she did not get what she was expecting in return, because blood began to drip on the nun’s lips and her fangs slowly came out. Her eyes turned red and her stare fumed. Her saintly face turned atrocious.

Anne dropped her brush, ran her way out of the comfort room, and told her account to Katrina and the other girls. After hearing her word, the group went immediately to the comfort room to investigate. They stared at the mirror, but everything was in still silence.

Another horrifying mirror trick. Credits to theunknown from new york, USA.

KULBA tale 4:

The extra team members

By Pepin

It is during the grade school years when a boy or a girl becomes more active to do things, like playing with friends, messing around the classrooms, bullying others, or doing sports.

Jerson, a football player wannabe from Iloilo City, was already involved in a rigid training at age nine. He can kick, do defense, and run as fast as he could. In fact he was one of the favorites of the coach to be part of the school’s varsity team for football.

But training was not always fun and challenging for him and his fellow players. One day, back in 1998, his coach called for a second try-out. It was five in the afternoon, and the class was already over. But Jerson and other hopefuls decided to extend for another hour for the last try-out.

They were divided into two teams. One team called themselves “Supreme Fighters” and the other one was “Extreme Kickers.” The practice game started out fine, and everyone was enjoying every moment of it. There were a lot of sweats, and even trash talks, but these made the game more exciting.

However, in the middle of the game the coach of the Extreme Ballers kept on calling for a time out. He was a little bit confused with the other team, and complained to the referee, saying “Our opponent has two players more.” The referee, also puzzled, counted the players of the Supreme Fighters, and found out that it has the exact number of players required for the game. The protest was a sham, and so he decided to resume the match.

Jerson, who took time out himself from the play, heard about the complaint, and he became observant with the other team. He knew that this was impossible because the members of both teams were counted prior to the start of the game. But he cannot be sure, because he also thought that the other team might be playing tricks to win. And so he monitored the game closely.

But he was staggered to note that the other team did have two extra members playing in the field. He can’t explain why. He immediately approached the referee and whispered to him, “Kindly count the players.” The referee did what Jerson asked of him, and he was surprised that there were indeed two extra players in the Supreme Fighters team.

He whistled and asked everyone to pause in the middle of the field. “Stay where you are, players. Do not move!” he shouted. Then he counted the players of both teams. He was more flabbergasted, because both teams have the exact numbers of players required for the game after he finished his counting. “Then who are the other two?” he asked, but no one answered him back.

At that very instant, the coach, Jerson, the referee, and everyone else were terrified. They can’t explain where did the two players, who wore the same uniforms and kick their way on the game, came from. They decided to end the try-out match and decided to resume it the next time around. It was about six thirty in the evening then.

KULBA tale 3:

The latest attacks of the Aswang

By Pepin

The invasion of a group of people, labelled as aswang, has been on the news lately. It was in the month June that accounts of their activities were first reported, and according to some people, a lot of innocent children are still missing until this very moment.

According to Marie, a 41 year-old native of San Joaquin, Iloilo, the dreaded family of aswang arrived in one of the municipalities of Antique. They distributed themselves in the different provinces of Panay that some of them went to Iloilo, Aklan, and Capiz. A couple stayed in Antique. Their mission is to capture little children and pregnant women.

At first, people declared that they are a group of kulto (cults) who are on a mission to gather new members. But because stories of them attacking people spread, they were then considered as aswang. According to many, members of the kulto do not attack or slay a person.

One account of how they victimize innocent lives was circulating in the southern part of Iloilo. Marie shared that one of these alleged male member of the aswang family captured a child at around ten in the evening. But a group of baranggay tanod (safeguards of the community) saw this horrendous creature. They ran after him to kill him and get the child back. However, when they were about to grab him and the child he was holding, he transformed into a black bird with red eyes and flew away. The child was left on the ground and was immediately secured by the group of tanod. At a distance, the people present at the scene saw how the aswang altered its form from a black bird to a black dog and then it finally disappeared.

A similar incident was even reported in the local newspaper, The News Today, last June 9, 2010. Here is the link of the full story:

http://www.thenewstoday.info/2010/06/09/city.residents.claim.aswang.attacked.their.village.html

Today, little children are instructed by their elders to get inside the house before the clock strikes six in the evening. Pregnant women are also heavily guarded by the community against the possible attack of these members of the aswang family. Although a lot of people claim that this is hoax news, but then again there is no single proof that they are not true, and these stories of people, who encountered them, are giving the people of Panay a stronger evidence of their (aswang) presence.

Here is a clip from ABS-CBN's Magandang Gabi Bayan. This was a halloween special report on some encounters with paranormal creatures. This Youtube video was uploaded by Mykolcabrera from Novaliches, Philippines.

KULBA tale 2:

Tayho

Pepin

Life at the province of Aklan is uncomplicated. Everything is there, and the place can easily satisfy your wants and needs. But there is more to this province than its simple living.

Not a long time ago, Petzy, a university student, was walking alone on a wide and grassy road going to her home. She passes the same pathway everyday, and even if she is blindfolded she knows her way home.

It was Monday, and the moon was on its last quarter. It was kind of breezy and cold, but she knew that it was just a change in the climate, after all it was almost Christmas season. Her handbag was hanging on her right shoulder and a pile of reaction papers were cuddled on her left arm. Although it was strange that night, after she heard several noises that were unusual to her, she continued her walk.

But her heart pounded harder when she suddenly heeded the sounds of running horses at her right. She knew that no one was tending any horses in their community. She walked faster, and she wanted to run, but she was afraid that someone might suddenly capture her if she makes too much running sounds. She walked hurriedly but she made her steps light on the ground.

She reached their gate, but her peripheral vision caught something. There were two “tayho (centaurs)” standing at one hill, staring at her. She was more terrified that time, and she was not certain what will happen to her next. She was afraid that they might hurt her or curse her to death. Their half human and half horse forms appeared as unreal silhouettes to Petzy, but she was wide awake at the very moment. She knew that she can’t be wrong of what she was seeing.

The two centaurs walked away, and she realized that they meant no harm to her and to her community that sleeps quietly at night. Until this moment, nobody really can tell what these creatures are up to, but for Petzy, they are here on this earth to let everybody know that they are not just products of fantasies.

This is a video of a mythical creature caught on tape. It is up for you to decide whether it is real or not. Credits to purelyME89 of Malaysia.

KULBA tale 1:

The ghost children

By Pepin

Hospitals are the most haunted places on earth. How can’t it be, when hundreds, even thousands of people die in there every year? Hospitals are battle grounds of life and death; the last place, where some people stricken with a disease, will expel their last breath.

Sir Noe’s story, a nurse in one of Iloilo’s tertiary hospitals, happened inside the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit or PICU. It was about three in the morning, and his eyes are near to shutting off. But he kept his wakefulness through a story-telling session with a fellow nurse.

It was a peaceful night duty for both of them – no toxic cases, no resuscitations, and no intubations happened. There were only three children and a neonate who were confined inside the unit, and they were not complaining about anything that night.

Sir Noe was laughing out loud over some jokes that his colleague are telling him, when suddenly a cold breeze opened wide the entrance door of the unit. And with his two eyes and vigilant mind, he witnessed two ghost children entered the calm space. They were running and giggling at each other as if they were in a play pen. Sir Noe pointed his fingers at them to notify his colleague, but his mouth remained shut and his whole being was shocked at that very moment. The apparition lasted for a short time, and the ghosts vanished in thin air. Frightened, Sir Noe alerted his self right away and calmed his nerves. He did not know what to say, he was just taken aback by the incident.

What he saw is “what he saw,” and his story was added to the many more encounters of health care workers who are toiling in an institution that provides a place of birth and a lair of death – and even a playground for innocent souls.

Here is a video of a child ghost caught on camera. Credits to Cluffo of the United Kingdom