Legend From Philippine Region

The White Lady.

The White Lady is undoubtedly one of the country’s most famous ghosts, with every locality having their own version of this ghastly apparition of a woman with long, black hair and wearing an all-white dress.

The White Lady is usually a woman with a sad past, having been murdered or dying in an accident. As we’ve said, although there are many stories about White Ladies, the most famous concerns the one who is said to reside in Quezon City’s Balete Drive.

The Headless Priest.

Chances are you may have experienced being scared by old folks as a child about a headless priest coming out of your wound. As absurd as that may have sounded when you grew older, it just proves that stories of headless priests are alive and well, especially when November is drawing near.

As their name suggests, these clergymen roam universities, graveyards, churches, or any other conveniently eerie places. Sometimes they carry their heads with them; other times they do not, and are ostensibly searching for them.

As to why they lost their heads, these priests were said to have been decapitated either by Filipino revolutionaries during the Revolution or by Japanese soldiers during World War II. Urban legends about priests have also been most likely reinforced with earlier stories of biblical figures and martyrs who had been beheaded, like St. John the Baptist for example.