The Day The Dancing Stops (Ozone Disco Tragedy)

After 18 years, the Ozone Disco is again in headlines. The Sandiganbayan 5th Division just convicted seven former officials of the Quezon City engineer's office and two private individuals  of graft in connection with the deadly fire at the Ozone Disco Club on March 19, 1996, 

They get 6 to 10 years of jail terms.

What? Just 6 to 10 years?

The Manananggal

When we talk about the manananggal, we sometimes say that it is a type of aswang, as if they are the same mythical creature, but unlike the aswang who is a shape shifter, a manananggal is more of a self-segmenter. 

Bram Stoker Did Not Model Dracula On Vlad The Impaler.

It's one of those so-called facts that everyone knows: Bram Stoker's character Count Dracula was loosely based on Vlad the Impaler. But while there's no doubt that Stoker took the name from Vlad III's patronymic, it's doubtful that the Impaler was actually the basis for the famous vampire.

Read HERE for more.

Mythological Creatures of the Philippine Folklore

                                                                                                                        Picture taken from www.travelbook.ph

Zombie Trivia

From: Taringa! La realidad acerca de los "Zombies"

The traditional idea of a zombie doesn't kill people nor eat their brains.

In Haiti, zombies are not figures of terror. In fact, these zombies are not capable of harming anyone. Instead, the zombie— a creature between life and death, an outcast, something with no will of its own—is a fearful symbol of human bondage. The word zombie was first recorded in 1819, by the poet Robert Southey from two African words, "nzambi" (god) and "zumbi"" (fetish) and it has something to do with the Voodoo religion of South America.

According to the belief, a bokor sorcerer, through a combination of drugs and black magic, puts the living into a deathlike state, then resurrects their ‘‘corpses’’ as slaves who perform grueling labor on some South America’s sugar plantations.