Creatures of the Night
This giant tree-dwelling creature is known for smoking a large cigar and sitting on the branches of a balete tree.
Kapre
To stop a manananggal from reuniting with its lower body, you are supposed to sprinkle this common kitchen condiment on the abandoned torso.
Asin
This iconic, long-running Philippine anthology horror film series from Regal Entertainment has terrified audiences across multiple decades with urban legends and ghost stories.
Sounds like rake, cackle, and crawl.
Shake, Rattle & Roll
This famous stretch of road in Quezon City is legendary for the apparition of a ghostly woman in white who hitches rides with lone drivers late at night.
Balete Drive
A terrifying Visayan monster that detaches its upper torso and flies into the night in search of pregnant women and hearts.
Manananggal
You should never sweep the floor at this time of day, or you might sweep away incoming wealth and blessings.
Gabi or Night
Often dubbed the "Queen of Philippine Horror Movies," this actress starred in classic spine-chillers like Feng Shui.
Kris Aquino
A long-running mall legend in the 1990s claimed that a massive snake-man hybrid lived beneath a major shopping mall and kidnapped shoppers through a trapdoor in the dressing rooms. Which mall is this supposed creature located?
Robinson's Galleria
This horse-headed hybrid creature cause travelers to get lost (maligaw) unless they wear their shirts inside out.
Tikbalang
If you visit a wake or a funeral, you ought to do this before going home so you don't bring a spirit back with you.
Pagpag
In the 2004 horror film Feng Shui, a cursed Chinese mirror brings extreme fortune followed by a gruesome death to anyone who possesses it.
Bagua
Rumor has it, this grand infrastructure project in Manila required the blood of street children to be mixed into the concrete foundation to ensure its structural integrity.
San Juanico Bridge or Manila Film Center
A demonic baby or shape-shifting spirit that lures travelers in the woods with the sound of a crying infant before revealing its true terrifying form.
Tiyanak
This vegetable is the classic folk remedy said to repel aswang and other malevolent entities.
Garlic or Bawang
In this 2023 biographical horror film, Piolo Pascual plays a real-life 19th-century Filipino priest who became the first documented serial killer in the Philippines after believing his victims were possessed by demons.
Mallari
Located along the national highway in Guimbal, Iloilo, this supernatural urban legend involves a century-old acacia tree that supposedly transforms into a grand Spanish-era mansion when a mysterious White Lady hitches a ride to the location.
Guimbal Vanishing Mansion
This graveyard scavenger replaces real corpses with banana trunks that look like the deceased.
Balbal or Bal-bal
Pointing your finger at one of these sacred, piled earth mounds in the yard is believed to cause swelling, injury, or sickness if you fail to say "tabi-tabi po".
Punso
In Chito S. Roño's 2006 film Sukob, this specific, unsettling omen appears in the printed wedding photographs of characters who are destined to die next.
people appearing headless
hen viewed from an aerial or bird's-eye perspective, this major government building in Ermita is famously shaped exactly like a coffin or casket with a cross on top, fueling legends of trapped wartime spirits.
Manila City Hall