Stories After Dark

Stories After Dark


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The Abduction and Murder of Kae Davantes (2013)
May 09, 2020

25-year old advertising executive Kae Davantes went out with her friends one Friday night in 2013. She was found dead the next morning, an hour away from both her house in Las Piñas and Bonifacio Global City where she was last seen. • Listener discretion

The Manila Hostage Massacre (2010)
April 16, 2020

The Philippines' notoriously slow justice system caused a former police captain to hijack a bus full of Hong Kong tourists in Rizal Park, ending in the death of 9 people. • Listener discretion is advised due to the graphic nature of this story. • Episode

Mount Makiling and Its Guardian Spirit Maria Makiling
March 30, 2020

Out of the more than 600 hundred mountains in the Philippines, Laguna's Mount Makiling, though technically a dormant volcano, is probably the most popular in terms of folklore, with a multitude of stories about the

The Ozone Disco Fire (1996)
March 22, 2020

In 1996, hundreds of young people flocked to Ozone Disco along Timog Ave. in Quezon City, Metro Manila, not knowing that most of them would no longer come out of the nightclub alive. • Listener discretion is advised due to the graphic nature of this story

The Baguio Massacre (2014)
February 25, 2020

Everyone was shocked when news broke out in 2014 about a massacre committed in the barangay of Kayang-Hilltop in Baguio City. Five people were killed, four of them only minors, in what has been considered a city with one of the lowest crime rates in the P

Gil Perez: The Legend of the Mysteriously Transported Soldier (1593)
January 26, 2020

A Spanish soldier guarding the governor-general's palace walls in Manila suddenly feels exhausted and decides to rest against the wall with his eyes closed for a bit. When he next opens his eyes, he is outside a different palace thousands of miles away in

The Maguindanao Massacre (2009)
January 01, 2020

Maguindanao isn't usually a place tourists would want to visit in the Philippines, and for good reason. It is home to bandits, rebel insurgency groups and warring political families, and in 2009, fifty seven people, including 31 journalists, were brutally

Avelina Teodoro and Constancia Pineda: Schoolgirl Backstabbing (1929)
December 07, 2019

In 1929, the Court of First Instance of Pampanga sentenced Avelina Teodoro to life imprisonment for stabbing Constancia Pineda to death. That the murder was so cold-blooded or that it was committed by a female wasn’t even the most shocking thing about the

Cosette Tanjuaquio: Kidnapped for Ransom (1964)
November 15, 2019

15-year old Cosette Tanjuaquio was in her bedroom one Monday night when four men came in her aunt's house in Quezon City where she was staying and abducted her. She wouldn't be found until 83 days later, purely by accident. • Episode photos and credits: i

Loakan Road and Balete Drive: Haunted Philippine Roads
October 31, 2019

Loakan Road in Baguio and Balete Drive in New Manila are two of the most popular haunted roads in the Philippines, and they both involve a tree and a "kaperosa" or white lady. • Episode photos: instagram.com/p/B4SzXidnJY1 / References: storiesafterdark.ho