16th Century Filipino Teleporter Mystery

A painting by Cornelis Veerbeck XVI of a galleon at war. (Wikipedia)

Albrecht Durer illus. (Wiki)

Here is a possible case of “teleportation” recorded in 1593 AD. It’s about Gil Perez, a Filipino guard who, one morning, suddenly found himself at the plaza of the Palace in Mexico City. The night before, Gil was stationed at the Governor’s Palace in Manila in the Philippines.

The story of Spanish Era Filipino soldier Gil Perez has been told and retold time and again, but it has kept its simplicity. As he guard of the Governor’s Palace in Manila, he was doing his duty on that fateful night when, come morning, he found himself in a different place—the plaza in near the Palace in Mexico City! He was wearing a uniform different from the other guards and he must have caught the attention of people. He was brought to the Mexican authorities and was questioned by the Viceroy and his Council.

Gil Perez promptly introduced himself and explained how he was ordered to stand guard at the doors of the Governor’s Palace in Manila and how he later realized he was in a strange place. Being a loyal and obedient soldier, he insisted that he would continue with his duties as he had been told since he was still in a “palace of some kind” even when he had no memory of how he got there. He could not believe his ears when he was told he was in Mexico, at the other side of the world! He mentioned that the Governor of the Philippines, His Excellency Don Gomez Perez Dasmariñas took a blow to the head from an axe and died.

Unbelievable as his story was, Perez was then interrogated by Church authorities but he insisted he somehow traveled from Manila to Mexico in faster than a cock crows. It’s unclear, but Perez may have been accused of desertion or for practicing “the black arts” and was jailed. He languished in prison for two months in Mexico until a galleon arrived from Manila bringing news about the Governor of Manila being murdered. Passengers of the ship also recognized Perez and even remembered seeing him the day before he was arrested in Mexico. Dumbfounded, the Mexican authorities sent Perez home. To this day, what happened to Gil Perez is still a mystery.

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Supernatural Mojo Store in Boracay Island

A tourist poses beside a mojo store display table in Boracay.

Here is a small mojo store in Boracay Island situated along world-famous White Beach. The stuff sold and displayed here appear to be charms which come from different places in the Philippines and abroad. For instance, many of the wooden statues on display are likely from the Northern mountain regions of the Philippines like Baguio. They are called anito and they represent either ancestral spirits or granary gods.

If you're into lucky charms and other scary stuff, then the items in this store should be of interest to you. It's hard to say what the items shown in the pictures are for. But you can see what appears to be a dream catcher in one of the pictures (top); there are also monkey skulls, which, in some cultures, are considered lucky. Sometimes, they are used to cast spells - for good or otherwise.

Boracay island is just off the northern tip of Panay island in the Philippines, where it is said, many residents practice a local form of witchcraft and where monsters like aswangs and manananggals roam at night looking for victims. The aswang is supposed to be like a werewolf that can shape-shift into a large dog through the application of a magical balm on the skin; the manananggal on the other hand, is a woman who can separate her upper body from her torso when she goes off in search of fresh, young human meat. Could there be charms in this store that will help protect you from such supernatural creatures? Could there be charms here that can turn you into an aswang? Perhaps they are just ordinary trinkets with no otherworldly powers at all? There's only one way to find out!

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Orbs in a Moonlit Night in the Philippines

These photos were taken on a moonlit night in Rizal in the Philippines. The orbs that appeared seem to be at various distances and seem to have differing hues when examined closely. Whether or not these are merely the result of reflection from particles in the air, it's hard to tell. But the area is supposedly rife with supernatural beings. A interior picture taken reveals a bright orb near a folded mattress. How is this orb connected to the ones outside?

There have been tales of white lady ghosts, smiling dark-cloaked strangers appearing in the vicinity, and cigar-smoking ogres (kapre) knocking on second floor windows. In one road, there were reports of a specter wearing the traditional barong tagalog seen floating above the pavement. Are these real?

The orbs may be difficult to see, so please double-click on the images to see them in a bigger format. The bright "orb" in the first two pictures is actually the moon.

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Ghost Caught on Camera in Old Bulacan House

In an old house in Bulacan province that supposedly has ghosts (according to previous residents), this apparition was captured at night by a Samsung dual LCD digital camera. It looks like reflected light, but no items inside the room have been established as a source of reflections that could have created the image. The figure appears to have a long-sleeved shirt, like a traditional Filipino barong tagalog, although there is no indication of a lower body or even a head. This shirt apparition was not visible as the area was being photographed. In another snapshot of the same staircase (left), an orb is visible (double-click to enlarge). Could the two be possibly connected?

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At left is a picture sent in by Stephanie Findley of Australia. It's a photo of what appears to be a pair of orbs. According to Findley, a "ghost" often shows up in digital pictures taken inside her home. She says the ghost also appears in other rooms. Ruling out the reflections on the wall, she has no explanation for the two orbs. Two gifted ladies told her that the spirit of a young girl roams the house!

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Brownie House Sprite Leaves Foot Marks on Walls

In this house in the Philippines, a few strange things have happened since the new occupants have moved in. Mysterious foot marks have appeared on the freshly-painted walls. They appear to have been made overnight while people are sound asleep. The marks were initially thought to have been made by kids with dirty hands and feet and were promptly cleaned. But when the marks continued to appear overnight and a presence was felt in the house (even when there were no kids around), it became obvious there was something supernatural going on. Most of the marks showed what appeared to be toes, but only three of them were obvious.

It was thought the muddy visitor was an ogre, or kapre in local terminology. Kapre in the Philippines tower two storeys high and smoke a big cigar that never goes out. They do not appear clean and are hairy. Some (or the same one) have been seen in the area by those who could "see things." Later, based on a consultation with a local medium and healer or albularyo, the house was not visited by a kapre, but instead was inhabited, or frequented, by two playful nature entities or elementals (earth) that were as small as and looked like kids.

According to the mystic, unlike the kapre, which can be difficult to drive away, these little beings can be reasoned with and are actually lucky in a household. Those who went for the consultation forgot what these entities were called by the mystic. After a bit of research online, the house occupants concluded that the little elementals were brownies.

In European folklore, brownies are three-foot-tall, hairy house sprites with simple nostrils for noses, that adopt families and do household chores at night. They can eat food that's left for them although they may resent it if the food is offered to them in return for doing chores in the house. They also do not like it if there is too much food. They do not like to be seen and it is said that if they are provided with clothing, they will leave the house forever. In the Harry Potter series, there's this house sprite called Dobby (left; promotional image) who was set free from servitude after Harry tricked him into accepting a sock. Now this is debatable. It is not clear if brownies leave an abode because they are set free by a gift of clothing, or they leave because they feel insulted by the gift (they do prefer to wear dirty rags, hence the name "brownie"). If they are mistreated, brownies supposedly turn into boggarts, which are mean and mischievous.

Having read about brownies (left; drawing from Wikipedia), the occupants decided to try an experiment and left an item of food on the table one night. It was just little one piece of chicharon, or puffed pork skin in a plastic packet. A pair of scissors was placed over the packet. In the morning, the chicharon and packet were gone and the scissors placed on a table mat. There were only two people in the house that time, and neither of them took the chicharon. Was it the brownies that took the food? Who knows. Maybe the brownies simply preferred some types of food over others. They are said to have a taste for honey, milk, cream and porridge. Other food left on the table the next night was untouched and no chores were inexplicably done overnight. Perhaps they left.

Possible brownie house sprite caught on camera in Bicol, Philippines

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Orbs - Sometimes They're There, Sometimes Not

 

Orbs appear as glowing round things in photographs generally taken with a digital camera using a flash. Orbs appear in photos when you least expect them and they come in different sizes and variations. They are supposedly simply image artifacts as a result of the light from the flash reflecting off tiny particles in the air near the lens, like dust, water, droplets, and even insects. In spite of this, some orbs do not appear to be the result of reflections. Some believe they are manifestations of spirits that show themselves in this form. Rosanna Roces, an actress in the Philippines, has told of her experience with orbs, which she claims, are able to listen and understand her.

The photo above (top) was taken in a house's old front yard. You can see plenty of orbs in it. It's up to you to decide what they actually are. Strangely, in a photograph taken the next night (following), there were no orbs captured. In some cases, orbs can appear as if in motion or show up as trails. The orb trail shown here (left) appeared in a photograph taken in a hotel room in Naga City in the Philippines. Were the orbs just particles in the air, or spirits having a party?

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Mysterious Creature Photographed in a Man-made Cave in Ecovillage in CamSur, Bicol

I have no idea what's been captured on camera here. If you look at the full picture (top), you will see what appears to be a “creature” hanging from the ceiling of a cave. The cave is actually a man made structure for tourists at the Ecovillage park in the Camsur Watersports Complex in Bicol. The cropped section that follows reveal more details. Did you notice that there are also two orbs captured by the camera above the creature? They may just be marks on the concrete wall, but I could be wrong.

I only noticed the creature after the image was magnified on a laptop. In the detail (left), you can clearly see its two eyes that glow. It seems to have a body but there are no signs of appendages like feet and arms. If you examine the magnified image closely, you will see that it has three whitish dots on its forehead that form an upside down triangle. Its appearance kind of reminds us of a Pokemon from the animated series.

The look of the creature can easily remind you of a bat or a cat, but the eyes are far too wide. Coincidentally, my friend was talking about hearing a cat meowing loudly upon entering the cave. We were with him and while we all looked for a cat, we did not hear it. Later, I confirmed with the others in the group that only he heard a cat. So is the strange creature a kind of Cheshire cat? If so, the white rabbit must be nearby! It's possible the "creature" is just a picture formed by cracks in the cave wall, but there's always the doubt.

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Floating Crystal-like Object Captured by Camera in Ecovillage in CamSur, Bicol

I've never really before realized how easily it is to capture strange apparitions and otherwordly objects with a camera. Before digital photography became popular, it was a chore to magnify pictures one by one just to examine the details they hold. But the ease by which photos are instantly viewed and scrutinized these days using computers has made a big difference in how you appreciate pictures from your vacation. It's also made it easier to see any strange things you may have captured in them.

Take the case of the picture above taken from inside the man made cave in Ecovillage in Camarines Sur, Bicol (the Philippines). At first glance, it just appears to show the concrete rocks and walls of an artificial cave for tourists. But look closely at the left side and you will see something out of the ordinary. It seems to be a smudge of light. If you magnify the image (left), it appears transparent and crystalline. See how the outline of the stalagmite shows behind it? I have no idea what it is. In another part of the man made cave, a creature-like thing was captured by the camera. Are these apparitions somehow connected with the pyramid on the roof of the white mansion nearby (below)?

Who really knows if it’s true? Some people believe special energies can emanate from pyramid structures with the same dimensions and orientation as the pyramid of Cheops (inset in above photo; from Wikipedia) in Egypt. If you visually compare the Ecovillage mansion roof pyramid to the Cheops pyramid, the angles appear similar. Is the floating crystal-thing an effect of the pyramid at the Ecovillage white house? Perhaps you can go there and check things out for yourself! Maybe you'll get lucky and catch a few inexplicable things with your camera, too!

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Orb with Smiley Face Captured by Camera Near Child

Having seen how orbs mysteriously appear in some pictures taken by digital cameras using a flash, it seems strange that some orbs, when magnified, appear to have images in them. One orb that was captured by the camera seems to have a smiley face inside (left; detail). It appeared near a child on a terrace near an old house in Bicol province that was said to harbor ghosts. Pardon my use of smileys to protect the subject's identity. I just couldn't help it. Anyway, you'll be able to discern the smiling orb at the spot where the arrow points to.

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Red Orb with Scowling Face Caught by Camera after Kid-like Apparition Sighted

My friends and I were in Bicol pretending to be ghost hunters in a hundred-year-old house when we caught what may be one of the most amazing and scariest pictures I have ever taken. I myself was surprised by what I captured on camera (left; magnified). Once the image orb is viewed in close up, a scowling face is revealed. It was quite unexpected but the image coincided neatly with what my friend saw for an instant after the lights blacked out.We had just exited the haunted house when the power outage occurred.

We had just come out of an abandoned house. That house is really part of a group of houses in a family compound. We were in a parking area and weren't expecting anything to happen when the lights went out. My friend had the flashlight and he turned immediately to shine the light behind him when he exclaimed and said he saw a kid behind him for an instant! He didn't really give details, except for the that it was a kid. He really did seem to have seen something which shocked him. There were other kids with us but they were all in front of him. I was behind him so I knew there was no one standing where he saw the apparition. At left is the orb face with emboss effect applied to it. You can clearly see here that there is a question mark-like symbol on its forehead.

Right after my friend saw the ghostly-kid, I took two pictures of the general area with two with him as the foreground. I immediately checked out the first shot and was amazed to find a red orb where the kid was seen. I magnified it and saw what appeared to be a scowling child's face inside the red orb! I showed it to my friend and he said that it's the kid he saw. The other image (immediately below; cropped section follows) also contained an orb, but it looked like an eye (left; magnified and contrast-enhanced) instead of a ball with a face. Could it be the same manifestation as the face orb?

The photo at the top is the original and not enhanced (as well as the one on the left). You can see the faint red orb on the left side. The second photo has had the contrast enhanced. The image below shows the close up of the orb from the non-enhanced picture. Even when faint, you can clearly see eyes and a nose inside the orb, and the face does appear to be scowling! The way the orb catches the light makes it appear to be almost tangible, as if semi-material. Is this orb a manifestation of a child's spirit? Is it the image of an elemental spirit related to the brownie? And why is it red, anyway? Does the color mean it's a fire elemental?

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Check out the picture of another eye-like orb in this post: Ghost Hunting in an Old House in Bicol Reveals Orbs and a Mysterious Light

House sprite leaves footprints on walls. Possibly a brownie.

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Strange Werewolf Planter Décor in Bicol

In the Philippines, there's not a dearth of strange and inexplicable stuff. Local beliefs and knowledge may seem strange to Westerners, but they are part of the lives of Filipinos. Those who live outside the big cities—in places where belief in spirits and the spirit world take precedence over what's obvious to the senses—know for a fact that the world is not always what it seems.

Take this strange werewolf planter décor in a house in Bicol. It seems to have been carved from a single trunk of a tree with a fork. It's a quaint piece of art that shows a funny werewolf grinning at you from behind a tree. We would assume that it's a werewolf since it stands on two feet and seems bipedal. In the Philippines, werewolves are called aswangs. Aswangs are ordinary people who use a mystical salve to transform into an animal such as a dog or a very big bat. While in animal-form, they do their dirty deeds—like feed on human flesh—or whatever it is they do at night.

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In the classic Filipino movie, Mga Bata ng Lagim, actress Chichay's character (left; screen photo from Q channel) found a salve in an old house which she rubbed on herself. She grew bat wings and turned into an aswang while she slept. Unfortunately, that was cut out and the version sometimes shown on television does not have that scene.

This werewolf planter is by no means the only one of its kind in Bicol. It's said that there's another sculpture in the house that has a werewolf on it's haunches. I didn't get to take a photo of that one because it's missing. Somewhere in Bicol, there's a sculptor who likes werewolf themes. If you can find him, you can ask him why he likes to sculpt werewolves.

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