Cause And Effect

Hooray! I have my Followers back.For months I haven't been able to see the Follower icons on my blog page. Then last week my browser decided to update itself and they reappeared. I've now been able to become a Follower of some of you who befriended me since they vanished. It feels like a reunion.A number of incidents at college has brought the theme of 'consequences' into my mind. This can make a...

The Moody Brick and the Tragic Story of Joseph Sanders

One of my favorite chapters in my book Haunted North Alabama is the chapter about The Moody Brick.  In fact,  The Moody Brick is one of my favorite ghost stories.   When I did a presentation on ghost stories at the library,  a lovely lady named Ms. Dorothea came to see the presentation just to discuss...

Star Apparel's Attorney

From:Quanzhou Textile Star Apparels Co.Ltd Subject: Request for Legal assistance To: undisclosed recipients: ; Reply-To: q.h.textile_co_ltd@asia-mail.comAttention: CounselCompliments of the season, We need your Legal service as a Legalrepresentation on behalf of Quanzhou Textile star apparels co.,Ltd We are atextile company with principal business in garment manufacturing and trading.We are presently...

Cracked Ghost Stories: The Anus Ghost

Recently, cracked.com posted a list of the seven most ridiculous ghost stories.   It was a wonderful list that I enjoyed on every level.  I didn't agree with the writer on every count.   He did seem to think all Japanese ghost stories are insane.  I love Japanese ghosts and folklore and I know...

Alabama Psychiatric Hospitals Will Soon Be Ghosts

This month Alabama announced its intentions to close all but two of its psychiatric hospitals.  As an Alabama mental health professional, I saw this news as devastating.   I've worked in inpatient psychiatric care for 4 years.   The hospital I worked in was for short term care, three to five days was our average length of stay.   Our biggest problem and my greatest...

Maria Labo

Legend Collected from Internet: A young woman named Maria went to Canada as a caregiver. There, she took care of an old man which, according to rumours, was possessed by the so-called "vampire" (some "aswang") curse. When the old man died, he passed the curse (some say, his powers) to Maria. Finding no luck in Canada, Maria...

The ghost of the Manila Film Center

This is not really a legend since it actually happened. But the story about the haunting is the legend. About The Manila Film Center is an abandoned auditorium by Manila Bay in the Cultural Center complex. A Korean company is currently making efforts rehabilitating the image of the center with a transvestite Las Vegas-like...

Manananggal in Tondo

Manananggal, aswang and kapre are the common Filipino mythical creatures that somehow reached the urban city to plague and terrorize the people. These creatures are the famous subject for an interesting and goosebumping stories that stimulates the imagination of ones' mind. Until now, people still think that they're one of us, and sometimes, they are pointed to cause an inexplicable happening. For...

The San Juanico Bridge has a bloody foundation

Legend [Taken from Internet (PinoyExchange.com):] "Imelda Marcos was in charge of building the bridge. She consulted a manghuhula who said that the bridge would never be finished unless the blood of children [would be spilled on the foundation]. So Imelda ordered [street children to be kidnapped] and [their...

The Robinson's Half-Human Half-Snake

The belief of a snake twin is very old, way back 17th century, when Fray Ignacio Francisco Alzina's 1668 "History of the Bisayan Islands" mentioned about it. Remember Amaya - the main character in GMA Channel 7's TV series entitled Amaya? The idea of snake twin of Amaya came from him. While for Chinese, snake is a good-luck...

The WHITE LADY at the Balete Drive

About A White Lady is a type of female ghost reportedly seen in rural areas and associated with some local legend of tragedy. White Lady legends are found around the world. Common to many of them is the theme of losing or being betrayed by a husband or fiancé. They are often associated with an individual family line or said...

Jose Rizal is Jack The Ripper

Claim:"Jack the Ripper" is the best-known name given to an unidentified serial killer who was active in the largely impoverished areas in and around the Whitechapel district of London in 1888. He was so called because of a letter who was written by someone who claims he was the killer, however the letter was considered as a...

Jose Rizal - Adolf Hitler's and Mao Zedong's Father?

Is Adolf Hitler his son? The claim that Adolf Hitler was Rizal’s progeny must be based on the following facts:Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889 (that means he could have been conceived sometime in August, 1888), in the little village of Braunau, near the German- Austrian border. He was born an Austrian and remained one...