Tales of Twilight (Stories, Accounts & Encounters with the Paranormal)

[hera_82]

I'd like to share a funny, scary experience that my Tatay had, as relayed to us by my Mama:

My parents were yet boyfriend & girlfriend when this happened. My mama used to work as a nursing aide in one of the hospitals in Negros Oriental. It had been a usual routine for my Tatay to fetch my Mama as she gets off from work. He would usually walk.

One time, Mama was assigned on night shift. It was already passed midnight & the area had power failure that evening. There was this one big old tree that my Tatay had to pass by on his way to the hospital. This tree was known to all folks as "alabtan". As he was approaching the tree, he noticed two big, fiery red eyes. Whoever or whatever owns those eyes? He had only to find out. So he gathered all his courage to walk closer and closer. When he was close enough, he saw that they belong to a very very very! huge black dog. Such in an unusual size! He wanted to run back, but then he thought, he had to fetch my mom. He got to. So he gathered more courage this time, called out all the saints he know in silence, and walked pass by the tree & dog w/ his head on the ground. When he was far enough, he thought of looking back at the dog. But when he turned around, it was gone. He never heard it bark nor run. He got real real scared this time, couldn't believe what just happened to him. So he ran as fast as he could & tumbled on a log, which he didn't see was lying on the ground. But he was able to get up real fast, mind you. And went on with his marathon.

When he reached the hospital, he was all sweating, his white shirt was all soiled, & his hair was all messed up. My Mama wondered what happened to him. My Tatay never said a word.
Brave man, eh?

[splendid moonlight]

^shakoi. i thought i was the only one who once saw two red glowing eyes. only difference was that mine belonged to a person. or he looked like a person.

[diem]

@hera_82, Thanks for much for sharing

I too have heard personal, local accounts with a giant black dog with red glowing eyes, often it appears at night. In the West, particularly in England and Scotland there are ghost dogs who appear like that and are known as omens of death or calamity to a certain clan. The Egyptian God of Death Anubis is depicted as a black dog. Hecate, a greek goddess revered for magic and witchcraft, is known to disguise herself as a large black dog from time to time.

BUt for us here I guess what your father saw is one of the Other Beings, those who try to remain unseen but usually crop up to cause mischief or trouble. Or possibly it could be an aswang who are known to be capable shapeshifters, like the Navajo skinwalkers of America. If you read Wikipedia, it appears that the skinwalkers tend to have a malevolent regard for the rest of humanity...


(Skinwalkers are).... human beings who have gained supernatural power by breaking a cultural taboo. Specifically, a person is said to gain the power of a yee nadlooshii by murdering a close relative. The skin-walker will sometimes travel through the community by night, spreading misery and desecrating holy things. He or she is usually described as naked, except for a coyote skin. The yee nadlooshii is also said to have the power to assume the form of a coyote or other animal.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skinwalker
@luthienne, care to share your experience po?

[psyche_08]

i had an experience nga mura ko mapraning after this happened, i stayed in this boarding house somewhere in talamban near TC, and ive always been on the graveyard shift. i woke up around 11PM kai 1AM ako shift. here's my routine after i wake up, i open my eyes slowly then magligid pako sa bed for a few minutes, sit sa bed and stretch then magligo dayun. i dont know what's with me that night nga when i woke up ni dretso ko bangun and there was this guy's face nga nisugat sa ako pud nawng pagbangun nako. we were vis-a-vis for a couple of seconds murag an inch ra siguro ang distance sa amo face then nibalik ko higda nagbukod ko blanket, as in nagshake jud ako entire body ato nga night sa kahadlok.

[splendid moonlight]

i posted it in another thread but wouldn't mind telling it again here with more details.

i was waiting for my mother to come home one night. i was standing on an upper terrace looking down on a small walkway where people pass by in and out of the neihborhood. a man with his back bent (like he was stooping or something) passed by. he was walking fast. then he stopped just right below me, straght where my eyes could see him, and looked up to me. and his eyes were red and glowing. for some reason i was not afraid of him. he was a little old. then i saw him move again towards a nearby apartment. a light from a post catched him and i saw that he was standing straight this time and he no longer seemed old, and no longer in a hurry, then he just disappeared.

i went hurriedly downstairs of course, and told our helpers what i saw. they didn't believe me.

[diem]

@Luthienne, did the 'person' appear again? Was he from your neighborhood? Did anything happened in your neighborhood po?'

[jdimpas]

share naman

[splendid moonlight]

@diem: i knew very few people in our neighborhood. ang tapad lang akong nailhan and those people in the apartment. beyond that wala na. but he certainly was not a familiar face. nothing happened afterwards. at least not that i was aware of. i don't live there anymore.

[gilbz]

as a child i had so many unexplainable experiences which are really scary for a young soul. but i have my first really frightening experience when i was already in 3rd year college. i was busily working on my film review report one night. at around 12mn, i decided to hit the sack. before i lay on y bed, i glanced up the clock and saw that the time was just a few minutes past twelve (approx 12:05am). my head had hardly touched my pillow when i heard a growing rumbling noise coming from outside the house. it sounded like a thousand chariots are thundering down the highway in front of our house but at the same time, i seem to be hearing it from inside my head. then, the sound suddenly became earsplitting and wham! everything became still, quiet and a bit dark...it was almost like in a dream state, but i know i'm not. i can't move my body and the sound of my shouts are tiinny seemed to be coming from somewhere outside the house. I am enveloped by a kind of dark pulsating vortex which gives me the impression that i am floating. then i saw 2 pairs of thin, long-fingered hands coming from somewhere above my head touching me. it scared me to death that i closed my eyes and avoided looking up to see who owned these hands. i can't really remember exactly, but it seemed that each hand has only four long bony fingers. then, suddenly, i was able to move and jumped off my bed. i looked around but everything seemed normal and in place inside my room. it must be a dream i thought, but i know it's not. then when i looked at the clock, i was perplexed when i saw that it's already past 1am. i have the impression that the whole event from start to end only lasted 1 or 2 minutes max. at that time, i was clueless as to what the whole incident was all about. i even attributed it to a possible visit from an engkanto since there's a big kaimito tree outside my room. it was not until 7 years later in 2001 when i will come across a book that will open my mind. the sound that i heard prior to the incident, the numbness, the swirling vortex, the thin four-fingered hands and the missing time...they all point to an alien abduction encounter.

[splendid moonlight]

^ whoaaa!