Comments on: Wacko Jacko’s Ghost!

By: rama

rama — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 01:44:07 +0000

yes, that would only be proper & polite. celebrities like Michael Jackson are human beings too with feelings that can get hurt or offended. it just so happen that they are public figures and their job is to entertain us, but that does not give us any right at all to hurt them in the same way that we do not have any right at all to hurt other fellow non-celebrity human being.

By: rama

rama — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 01:36:22 +0000

Dear Mr. blackshama,

Sir, pls have the decency not to call Michael Jackson ‘Wacko Jacko’. Being called such has always been offending to him.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pwinJ2__5Y

He’s already dead and it’s only but proper that people don’t call him that to show at least a modicum of respect. Pls have a heart.

Thank you.

By: Ishmael Ahab

Ishmael Ahab — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 08:25:31 +0000

I know what you are saying. We Filipinos have so many superstitions. These is still very much alive even today. What’s with whiteladies and other monsters.

Even the whole island of Siquijor was branded as haunted.

I also recalled that I was almost eaten by a monster known as “tiktik” when I was inside my Mom’s womb. I do not know if its true but my Mom and Dad believes that the attack occured.

In our village, there still tiktiks roaming at night.

By: Joe America

Joe America — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 07:22:36 +0000

Bert,

Our chief ghostbuster is Bill Murray, so I don’t know that things are so much better off in the US.

Good to see you poking about here on FV.

Joe

By: Joe America

Joe America — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 07:17:31 +0000

Remote barrio, I dunno, which I call a fishing village. It is a barangay about 20 minutes removed from its parent town. Commercial establishments include maybe 5 sari sari stores and a pool room. About 50 fishing boats go out nightly.

It is as far from a gated subdivision, conceptwise, as it is possible to get.

Joe

By: Amadeo

Amadeo — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 05:46:24 +0000

The “white lady” inhabits the trees near the village where my Mindanao place resides,
and the villagers are truly spooked by her.

Joe:

I’m from Northern Mindanao and it has been a while that people have referred to a place as a village. Unless one truly lives in a remote barrio or sitio in any of the provinces of Mindanao. Are you then maybe referring to villages as in the many gated subdivision villages in these parts? Also now referred to as townships?

By: Bert

Bert — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 05:15:49 +0000

Now,I know ghostbusting is pretty easy, Joe. All you need are lots of money to buy the high tech equipments, and lots of guts…commodities Pinoys are in short of. Of rare Pinoys who has the potential of derringdo required of ghostbusters, for example, is Esperon, but he specialized in election matters and might not be interested in ghostbusting. Sayang.

And our government budget just enough for computerized-automated election.

Kaya, we are stuck with our mangtatawas to drive away the evil spirits and ghosts.

By: Bert

Bert — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 04:23:09 +0000

Joe, you Americans are lucky. You have your exorcists and your ghostbusters.

We Pinoys make do with our mangkukulams who can double as an exorcist on the side. Of course we have also our reliable mangtatawas.

By: Joe America

Joe America — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 01:45:03 +0000

I once drove down a side road into the hills. I came up over this little knoll and stopped to look out over the hills. The creepiest feeling came over me. Truly surreal. I climbed into my car and headed quickly back to where I belonged. I found out later that this was the site of some of the most intense rebel/Japanese fighting toward the end of WWII. It is where the Japanese had fled to, nowhere else to go.

I fear they are still there.

Joe

By: Ding Gagelonia

Ding Gagelonia — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 01:32:21 +0000

Filipino superstitions for quite a lot of situations are aplenty Joe – from elves in small earth mounds (nuno sa punso) to giants in old trees (kapre), such as that the Philippines has it’s own cyclical genre of fright flicks woven around them.

There have been varied theories from the early Filipinos being ancestor and spirit worshippers to present day folk believing in mediums to talk to dead loved ones, including those who died in violent circumstance to point to their killers.