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The Abduction and Murder of Kae Davantes (2013)
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)
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
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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
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