#UPVencounters, #scarystories & #urbanlegends part 9: Names Have Power, Taunting Calls.

I am back, everyone! Sorry for the long absence. I have not been well. A few things to recap while I was gone:

- these scary stories are told for fun, and to continue the legends of UPV — - the campus really is actually very lovely and so is Miagao itself. 99% of the time, it’s the chillest, most loving town I have ever encountered. Don’t let these stories keep you from visiting or going here.
- There are, however, very real horrors caused by humans here. My —

If anyone is wondering why I had to pause #UPVencounters and #scarystories it’s because it was starting to get real. I legit think I was calling whatever juju I was writing about and reliving some of these experiences takes a toll on the “dungan”. — Some notable examples of weird stuff that went on around me:

- knocking on my door in the wee hours of the morning. I would look outside the window and no one was there. Gaming party mates even mentioned it one time — that they heard knocking. I had just checked at the time. —

#UPVencounters, #scarystories & #urbanlegends Part 9: Hallowed Halls

Our schools have always been known to be hallowed halls of learning, places where young minds and experienced academics come together to share learning.

With a school as large as UPV, our buildings can be— far apart, usually situated amidst old trees, colleges that are disconnected from each other.

Many who have walked the hallowed halls of UPV know its parts well. SoTech used to greet you at the entrance, CAS is at the back, slowly being reclaimed by the trees, meanwhile, Fish—

#UPVencounters, #scarystories and #urbanlegends Sidenotes Part 2: What is Dungan and all its forms?

Before I begin to even begin to explain dungan, I would just like to again say thank you to everyone reading and retweeting my stories.

It has long been a tradition among — Filipinos to pass down our folklore as stories, warnings or even just fairytales. They too, teach lessons in turn.

No matter your beliefs, I find that there is nothing wrong in trying to find magic in our world, and when we do, it at least makes it feel a bit more interesting.—

#UPVencounters, #scarystories & #Urbanlegends Part 7: The Hauntings in Banwa Dorms

So far, we've only explored stories that occur mostly on UPV soil. For those of you who have tweeted about staying in the banwa, instead, I have some bad news for you.

Whatever magic falls-- over UPV, bleeds and courses through the veins of Miagao town itself. UPVnians aren't the only ones who have experienced scary things, after all. We're not the only ones who have places to avoid.

This next encounter happens in one of the houses we used to rent in the banwa.--

#upvencounters, #scarystories & #urbanlegends Sidenotes: Thoughts on folklore, how they are so different and yet so very similar.

It’s 2am and I am up, wanting so badly explain the rest of my creepy stories even outside of UPV so I will settle on some thoughts about folklore — (not the Taylor Swift variety) instead.

Much of what we know of Filipino legends are what are commonly recognized across the whole country. We all know the word aswang, we all know the tikbalang, we all know the kapre, the tiyanak and the mananangal.

We forget, however, that —

#UPVencounters, #scarystories & #urbanlegends part 6: Ang Mga Permanent Residents sa Dorm

When I got the good news that I got into UPV, we immediately started to find a place for me to stay.

As a freshie, your most obvious choice would be a UPV Dorm and I so happened to end up— in BK.

My mom’s friend who had also graduated from UPV wastes no time in telling me the following:

1) Don’t look at the old man if you see him from your room under the tree
2) Ignore the child running around in the hallways and don’t let them into your room. —

#UPVencounters, #scarystories & #urbanlegends part 5: The Screaming.

Some incidents in UPV are less known, less explained, with few knowing what they are or where they come from. While I have retold some more popular myths, some phenomena aren’t as popular because many — dismiss them as something else or don’t bother to bring them up.

These include laughter coming from the deep woods, late at night, maniacal and evil. Whispers in the tree line, the crying, too. And, very rarely, you hear the screaming.

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Now, when I say “screaming”, I don’t—

#UPVencounters #scarystories & #urbanlegends Part 4: The UPV Pact turned Curse.

Before we continue with our stories, I find it prudent to explain the potential origins on why so many… uh… “things” inhabit UPV.

Also because some younger years haven’t heard this myth yet— So let’s go back to the beginning, to when UPV was just about to be built.

Now, this is not the story of how deals were made with locals and government bodies. This is the story of the cultural price we have to pay, the price set by our beliefs in beyond what is human.—