Halloween 2025 Special Episode Part 1

A darkness settles over places built for beauty and refuge—then stained by violence. In this first part of our Halloween 2025 special, I trace the heavy, unshakeable energy that haunts the world’s most infamous sites: Baguio’s ruined Diplomat Hotel, the ghost-lit halls of Fort Santiago, the cement-cold legend of the Manila Film Center, and international counterparts like New Orleans’ LaLaurie Mansion, the Tower of London, and Alcatraz. These hauntings aren’t random scares; they’re the memory of concentrated human suffering frozen into stone, soil, and structure—echoes that Filipino folklore names and feeds: the multo, the White Lady, the kalu...