WANT TO HEAR SOME GHOST STORIES? Part 2
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This one happened to my mountaineer-friend, Sandy.
For many believers of the other world, Mt. Banahaw in Quezon Province is a positive or good mountain inhabited by good spirits. On the other hand, the neighboring Mt. Cristobal is considered a bad place dominated by negative spirits. For my mountaineering buddies, it was a difficult decision to climb Mt. Cristobal. Were we willing to subject ourselves to spirits who may do us harm? There were quite a lot of stories that circulated in our outdoor community. There was this group who had a great time and laughed out loud while they were inside a tent. They heard laughter outside and they all went out to check who were in the campsite. All of a sudden, they heard nerve-wracking laughter inside their empty tent!
There was also this very brave and macho mountaineer who, all of a sudden, declared that he would no longer climb mountains. That declaration was made after he took a leak in the dark forests of Mt. Cristobal. There were also these typical stories of a white lady crossing the path of hikers; and of three backpackers who showed up in the middle of the night to other campers asking for directions to another campsite. The three looked ordinary hikers, except they showed up twice to the same group, and their feet were not touching the ground.
Enough of intimidating stories! We decided to climb Mt. Cristobal anyway and leave everything to chance (bahala na!). For a frightful bunch, ordinary sounds and events can cause some alarm. Some fireflies showed up and somebody said that the elders associate fireflies with spirits. "Nonsense!" "Drink!," we howled. When sleep time came , a lot of sounds terrified some of the girls. "Somebody was walking around the tents!" (After another climb, we found out that the walker turned out to be shrews jumping around our tents).
When we climbed down, somebody had a terrible allergy attack. "Must be the dust." To sum up our climb, there was really nothing special that happened to our group. We did not even see a white lady.
Or so we thought.
After a week, one member, Sandy reported that he had high fever when he came home from the Mt. Cristobal climb. Although very sick, he still slept beside his brother. In the middle of the night, his clothes were all wet and he decided to change his clothing. While getting up, he noticed a huge, black dog standing by the foot of their bed and the dog was looking intently at him. Sandy thought that he must be very, very sick that he was seeing things. He proceeded to change his clothes with the unmoving dog intently watching him. When he went back to the bed, he noticed his brother cowering under the blanket. Curious, Sandy asked his brother why he was acting that way. His brother said, "Kasi, Kuya, may malaking aso sa kuwarto natin!" (There's a big dog inside our room!).
This one happened to my mountaineer-friend, Sandy.
For many believers of the other world, Mt. Banahaw in Quezon Province is a positive or good mountain inhabited by good spirits. On the other hand, the neighboring Mt. Cristobal is considered a bad place dominated by negative spirits. For my mountaineering buddies, it was a difficult decision to climb Mt. Cristobal. Were we willing to subject ourselves to spirits who may do us harm? There were quite a lot of stories that circulated in our outdoor community. There was this group who had a great time and laughed out loud while they were inside a tent. They heard laughter outside and they all went out to check who were in the campsite. All of a sudden, they heard nerve-wracking laughter inside their empty tent!
There was also this very brave and macho mountaineer who, all of a sudden, declared that he would no longer climb mountains. That declaration was made after he took a leak in the dark forests of Mt. Cristobal. There were also these typical stories of a white lady crossing the path of hikers; and of three backpackers who showed up in the middle of the night to other campers asking for directions to another campsite. The three looked ordinary hikers, except they showed up twice to the same group, and their feet were not touching the ground.
Enough of intimidating stories! We decided to climb Mt. Cristobal anyway and leave everything to chance (bahala na!). For a frightful bunch, ordinary sounds and events can cause some alarm. Some fireflies showed up and somebody said that the elders associate fireflies with spirits. "Nonsense!" "Drink!," we howled. When sleep time came , a lot of sounds terrified some of the girls. "Somebody was walking around the tents!" (After another climb, we found out that the walker turned out to be shrews jumping around our tents).
When we climbed down, somebody had a terrible allergy attack. "Must be the dust." To sum up our climb, there was really nothing special that happened to our group. We did not even see a white lady.
Or so we thought.
After a week, one member, Sandy reported that he had high fever when he came home from the Mt. Cristobal climb. Although very sick, he still slept beside his brother. In the middle of the night, his clothes were all wet and he decided to change his clothing. While getting up, he noticed a huge, black dog standing by the foot of their bed and the dog was looking intently at him. Sandy thought that he must be very, very sick that he was seeing things. He proceeded to change his clothes with the unmoving dog intently watching him. When he went back to the bed, he noticed his brother cowering under the blanket. Curious, Sandy asked his brother why he was acting that way. His brother said, "Kasi, Kuya, may malaking aso sa kuwarto natin!" (There's a big dog inside our room!).
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