The Philippines Folklore & Urban Legends Iceberg Explained
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- Опубліковано 14 чер 2024
- Based on the success of my Japanese Folklore & Urban Legends iceberg explained video, I decided to head south of Tokyo and cover the urban legends and folklore the great country of the Philippines have to offer, and so in this iceberg explained video I'm doing a deep dive into Filipino folklore, cryptids, true crime, urban legends and unsolved mysteries. This is the Filipino Folklore & Urban Legends Iceberg Explained...
Stay tuned for more!
Timings:
00:00 - Intro
00:44 - Why Do Pineapples Have So Many Eyes?
02:15 - Manila City Hall Looks Like A Coffin
02:39 - The Monkey And The Turtle
03:57 - Instant Noodle Wax
04:40 - Leaving Your Shoes/Slippers Outside
05:20 - Tabi Tabi Po
05:56 - Aswang
07:28 - Crab Mentality
08:10 - Hanging Coffins
09:24 - Balete Drive
10:47 - Manila Film Centre Deaths
11:40 - Red Over Blue Flag
12:23 - Red Horse Beer
13:52 - Shio Pao Is Made Of Cat Meat
14:33 - Biringan City
16:30 - KFC Rat
17:14 - Ativan Gang
18:31 - Davao Death Squad
20:02 - Cooking Creation Story
21:33 - Tambaloslos
22:03 - Mount Banahaw
23:07 - Jollibee Uses Earthworm Meat
23:36 - Mananabas
CONTENT WARNING
24:18 - Mary Cherry Chua
25:26 - Bahay Na Pula
27:40 - Chiong Sisters
29:15 - Amomongo
30:06 - The Possession Of
Clarita Villanueva
31:43 - Orie Chef
33:40 - Outro
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Encanto in Colombia: *sings Disney songs everyday to solve familial problems.
Engkanto in the Philippines: *tricks, kidnaps, and/or kill people and causes familial problems.
As a true Filipino, I find this funny and balanced.
*As all things should be*
Lmao so true
The one engkanto in my house enjoys hinding my things... Idk why..
disney should make the filipino sequel, let’s see all the white girls freak out
Don't forget about the casual disfigurement they do
As a Filipino in the Philippines, I can say you did a great job. Laughed when u described the tambaloslos being hung and can't get the Tikbalang out of my head because the description is similar. Basically Tikbalangs are reverse centaurs who force themselves upon women and misleads anyone in the forest.
Thank you so much 😁 I was a little worried I'd misinterpreted some stuff but I'm glad to hear this
@@FoxAkimbo you're great! I didn't even know a few of these. You really worked hard on this
Rammus
@@JHI.N ok
@@nacht9586 but is it really ok?
Here's an unexplained story near my place.
Tres Marias (3 Marias)
Back in the day in Clark, there are a bunch of trees near the road but one day people decided to cut down the trees to put establisments in. However, although they are mostly successful, there are 3 trees that remains in the road because people who are tasked to clear them has died. Days passed and another worker who tried to cut down the trees has passed away. To this day, the Tres Marias (3 Marias) are still standing together in Clark and no one even tries to cut the trees down.
The Pineapple with so many eyes is not scary. It seems weird yet it has a clear moral lesson on why that happens. It is a non-horror story that is told to Filipino children to do our responsibilities to our fullest.
it's still a legend
Honestly this feels more like an origin story than a folk tale or a warning tale. Origin stories are found almost everywhere in primal/classical religion and mythos. A reason behind the tides rising and falling or for the beginnings of a certain species, they're all rationalizing how something got to where it is
As a filipino, most of these urban legends and folklore are more about teaching children discipline, when you think about it hard enough, you will realize the lessons of these stories all make listening kids shiver.
when you grow up, you think back and its way too dark for kids but pretty effective
Yeah, the noodle thing sounds like another way to convince children not to binge eat instant noodles.
The scary ones are for children to go home before 6
As a trans Fhilipino woman/man
This actually makes sense but I bet china's stories are more scarier
@@Yogurt_Boy As a non-trans Filipino woman, I do agree Chinese stories are probably scarier
As a Filipino, the slippers being left outside is different than what I know. Based on what I heard, you shouldn't leave your slippers outside because someone will copy you basically a doppelganger and would show up to people you know
oh i leave my slippers outside
I remember a story don't know if its a filipino story but here is how it goes. The slipper was always inside of the house one day the slipper was bored and so he spread false information about every other object in the house and when the gods saw what the slipper did he punished it an never made it go inside the house so it won't make a mess
Nowadays, you shouldn't leave your slippers outside..cause they will get stolen. In fact anything you leave outside will get stolen. 😁
GAGGG what thatIS CREEPUY
sa tingin ko yung slippers na story niya is from here in zamboanga. may culto kasi dito noon na nag tatarget ng bata.
As a filipino im actually suprised that someone made an "urban legend" thing.
You really did a good job on this.
You reminded me of a friend on Roblox and Discord 💀
@@SethAtSNK 💀
the chiong sisters case is still one of the saddest cases i've heard. the fact that one of the sister's body, jacqueline, was never found to this day is devastating. i can only imagine how their family feels.
Yup, and it was so infamous, because the suspects were also elites, like those in Vizconde Massacre case involved children of Filipino elite.
One thing I learned about "Aswangs" in my Anthropology classes. Back in pre-colonial Philippines, aswangs are basically just mythological ghouls who eat corpses, which could be just a misdirected superstition from graverobbing or wild animals scavenging on dead bodies on a shallow grave. After all, people make these sort of folk tales about something they couldn't fully explain.
Right when the Spanish started colonizing the archipelago, Spanish priests are the most engaged with the locals to the point they are likely to learn their language with the most ease than that of their foot soldiers and officials. They noticed how superstitious these locals are and some of their pre-existing norms such as shamans (even gay shamans), mid-wives (who also performs abortions every now and then), and their very own pagan religion centered around nature and ancestry (like Anito) conflicts with Christianity. If fact, these are considered sinful in the context of the religion they are trying to spread to the islands to assert control.
So what these priest did is they used the locals' own superstitions against these "sinful" acts by branding them and the ones who practice it as monsters that needs to be hunted down. Suddenly, these shamans that were the tribe's advisors and weather reporters are now witches. Mid-wives are now aswangs (specifically Manananggal). Trees are now inhabited by Kapre, Engkanto, and Nuno sa punso so that people won't worship nature. Spirits of ancestors are now evil spirits that could possess non-believers of Christianity. And rebels, well... If someone spotted a figure lurking in the lush forests or maybe disguising themselves as wild animals through their animal furs, they'll be one of those shapeshifting aswangs. Strangely enough, these shapeshifting aswangs only target those who are affiliated with the Spanish.
Well that has been a long read so thank you for coming to my TED talk.
this makes so much sense! I really appreciate learning thiz
So uhhh... Let me put this one out to the russians,
Like... They wanted ti take over Manila, ye them rus wanted some of dat land... However a particular anerican had the idea of KILLING them, and pretend that theres an aswang nearby. That scared the shit outta them and the rest is idk
Thanks to the Spaniards, most of our culture is gone, it's been shamed extremely.
@@bloatedcow1361 for the martial arts, blame japan
@@alexbacon8683 Why would we blame japan?
I'm surprised that there wasn't the funny urban legend of there being a gigantic human-eating snake leaving under our Robinsons malls, that's probably one of our urban legends that stuck most with me because of how bizarre it is.
Edit: Also, the Orie Chef mystery has actually been solved. It was basically ran by a woman who made random accounts to play Facebook games, but once the urban legend started, she went with it and had fun with the legend as well. Problem is is that the woman with the "scary face" is actually a real woman, Daphne Coomber, who does look like that because of an accident, and is upset with how much her pics are made into horror stories.
Also changed SM to Robinsons cuz I'm an idiot.
Omg this is the first thing that I remembered when talking about urban legends here in ph.
Not an SM mall, but a Robinson's mall, specifically Robinson"s Galleria. The story goes that the mall fitting rooms are like elevators that will take female customers trapped inside to the basement where the monster waits. The story also involved a popular actress, Alice Dixson, who allegedly almost fell victim to the man-snake, who is supposedly a child of the owners of the mall chain. Dixson has recently debunked the legend, or at least her involvement in it.
@@robinbryan Don't forget the haunted Star Mall, its nothing compared to abandoned malls in the US
It was Robinsons
There's a Filipina celebrity that she saw the humanoid snake in an mall
The smiling horse (We call it happy horse for jokes sometimes) is real. My friends and I were freaking out when we found 4 of them when we bought two cases of Red Horse. I still have one of the happy horses but we returned the three others with the whole case at the ministore
The Happy Horse were just the older Red Horse design. They later on replaced the old design with the one we had now.
I love the Orie Chef urban legend. Seeing westerners cover it is always the funniest thing she just says things in a way that has plenty of typos that it's barely translatable to English, but it really is just the usual auntie stuff she used to post haha.
Id like to add one story I love telling, as an avid urban legend reader from the Philippines:
San Juanico bridge was the longest bridge for the longest time in the country connecting two major islands in Visayas. However its construction wasnt easy.
Numerous construction companies gave up in constructing it, surrendering because they cant get the foundation intact.
Desperate they consulted a local witch doctor and was advised to offer child sacrifices to appease the enkantos in the seas. Local govt enforced a strict curfew, with an emphasis to their children.
After a few months, the construction didnt encounter anymore problems
The kicker, it was made for the first lady of the philippines then, the same woman who wanted the manila film theater rushed and caused the accident of the 169 people as said in the video
Marcoses
It seems Lady IM is vicious. That's the concept people calling her as far as I know because of San Juanico bridge and tragedy in Manila Film Center.
Yep, that’s the Marcos family, the famous president of the Philippines who’s known to be a tyrant/dictator and the most corrupt, caused a famine to an island which is very abundant, and destroyed homes to make a private zoo, and also the multiple crimes against humanity they did during Marshall law and also their family is blacklisted by multiple countries one of which is the USA. And I honestly hate how the son of the dictator has a chance of becoming the president
I don't think this happened actually but Imelda Marcos (that lady who rushed the workers into building the film theater which resulted in people dying) is capable of doing such an evil thing. True story, she forced all the inhabitants and villagers living on an Island called Calauit to evacuate in order to build her safari there just because she wanted one. She also bought a whole collection of 3,000 pairs of expensive shoes many of which were stolen from the Filipino people. All the dissenters and her critics have 'disappeared' for some reasons during the dictatorship. Now her son is running for president and if he wins TOMORROW (Election Day of Philippines), we may have history repeated again.
@@lapissed9620 wdym of history repeated again?
The siopao being a cat myth has less to do with xenophobia. The urban legend started because a lot of stray cat disappeared. It was found out a lot of informal settler get cat to sell it to med school to be experimented by students.
It's a rumor not an urban legend 😂
I remember that one episode in Imbestigador a long time ago where a guy from the slums was arrested for havig barrels of water containing sacks with cats in it.
Oh- my mom used to experiment on the insides of frogs,snakes and mostly cats because they take a while to die so they use some kind of chewable tablet that kills cats but it takes a while. But don't worry they cats they kill are the suffering and dying one's that are waiting in their deathbed so they decided to use those cats to end their misery and the pill they give them makes sure cats have a very painless death so no harm done and the most humane way to kill them. And I was around 2nd grade when I saw other students on the lab do surgery and experiments on frogs back then I was fascinated and so did my classmates they even joined me then our teacher was getting mad for being nosy but the teacher in the lab personally invited us to see and learn everything there and to be honest it was fun to see just that the disgusting looks of the frog intestines and smell of the frogs was so stinky and I couldn't eat well after lunch because of it because the smell stuck on me for a while so I lost appetite.
Yeah siopao cat
So that's the cat that caught my attention
for someone who's been living in Philippines since birth, I only know 10-15% of these stories I'm even shocked that some folktale actually exist
because a lot of these are exclusive to different regions, ethnic groups and tribes
Yo! Thank you for using my iceberg for the video! I do sincerely apologize for some entries and their apparent vagueness, as well as missing popular entries like the My Way Killings. Still, I definitely thank you for your report on this!
I may probably make a new one next time with more content and possible focus to pre-colonial myths and legends
Yup, the My Way killings. That was because the victims and suspects were usually drunk, hogging the microphone in videoke or karaoke establishments, the victims or suspects sang the song in their own drunken rendition, other side were pissed off, confrontation happens, stabbing happens.
@@circleancopan7748 agree. it was also a popular song to sing, people have queued the number, often several times, and when they're drunk, they all think it's their turn. when someone steps up to sing, the others think he's stealing their turn.
Tabi tabi po was also used when we go visit grassy quiet places and/or peeing outside (only boys) (only when we really need to pee), this alerts and makes the things or elements like dwarves or like scary things aware that we will pee or step/visit on their territory.
not only to make them aware but we are also asking to be pardoned since we're basically trespassing/peeing on their territory
Also used when passing by graves too.
True we used this once when we visited my classmate living passed the cementery
its rlly creepy there the house is near a cliff far from any houses
and its out of town far from any people were familiar with we were told pin something on our clothes for protection
A urban legend worth mentioning are the story/stories of "Headless Priest". so the basic story starts that late at night there's a decapited priest that ask you "have you seen my head' while holding it at the same time on his hands. there are a lot of versions and they tend to differ by location mostly seen on churches,catholic schools,hospitals and century old national high schools. the legend probably originates during the japanese occupation (1942-1945) where during that time catholic priest were beheaded for various reason an example would be assiting the guerrila groups scattered within the country.
We had that same story in Boac Cathedral in Marinduque
So what happens if you tell him he's holding it?
@@garrettlewis4482 no body has the guts to ask him everyone is scared of it just roam around the interior of the church old convent and school room with it tongue licking out the priest is believe to be beheaded by bandits during the spanish colonial times
Sounds like saint denis
What are we supposed to reply?
I grew up in Calbayog City, the city right beside the rumoured Biringan. I've heard so many stories about that place and it's the number one legend people always ask me about when I move somewhere.
Edit: in those stories, Biringan is a beautiful place with buildings that are supposedly made of gold and with many bright lights. The people who live there are also romoured to be beautiful and almost perfect, other than the fact that they are missing a "Cupid's bow" on their mouths.
Once you are lead into the dazzling city, it's said that you would never want to leave and when the people who had gone missing and romoured to have gone to Biringan come back out of no where, they would have no recollection of the place or even just outright refuse to say anything about it.
There was a story once about a large cargo ship full of high end materials arriving to Samar and asking locals where the city of Biringan was. The locals said that the city didn't exist, but when night fell, the men in the cargo ship spotted bright city lights in the distance which they followed and ended up in the city. It's romoured that the men were welcomed there and they had an amazing night full of drinks until they passed out and woke up in the morning in the middle of no where, no beautiful city at sight.
I have a few classmates who also said once that they were traveling from calbayog to catarman using a motorcycle at night and they saw really bright lights in the forest. They chose to ignore it. And to be fair, I would too. Cus when I was younger, I was taught to ignore and simply don't mind the weird and supernatural happenings if I didn't want to get dragged into them.
My English teacher talked about this on the first day of school. It's honestly my favorite urban legend.
Biringan was an Enchanted area, meaning, all Engkantos and Engkantadas lived there.
I love the Cooking Creation story. There are Christian variants but overall that's the gist of it. There are definitely more Creation Stories in the Philippines but I know we're pressed for time. Thanks for covering Filipino urban myths, folklore and customs!
As a Filipino it's great to hear these stories popularized among other voices. I deeply appreciate it! By the way, another fun mysterious fact is that saying "tao po" when entering house has a superstitious root. "Tao po" loosely translates to "Hi, human here" (Tao = person/human). It is not merely a greeting, but an acknowledgement that you are a human who poses no threat.... to whom? Who knows lol.
I think it was because back then, deities and spirits were said to be mischievous beings who would often play tricks on the humans so to reassure people when entering their house they say "Tao po"
"knock knock"... I'm a human being, not a mischievous entity who will bring you supernatural harm...open the door pleeassee.."
And when another urban legends came up about something knocking on your door a night...
Yes tabi po apo is another one when peeing or stepping near a tree so the apo or dwendes would be warned and would appreciate the warning so we won't get cursed
No wonder why my mom says that everytime when no one is opening the door
This the most accurate and well researched Philippine Folklore that I've watched so far. You nailed it!
That's great to hear!
@@FoxAkimbo Seriosusly you nailed it, the pronunciations of the creatures everything. One thing you missed though. The Robinson's mall Snake man or Half Man Half snake urban legend go give it a shot. Peace!
What??
No.
@@sephysartjourney Well not the pronunciations but ok
This is well done and I hope whoever made the iceberg adds more like the "White House", "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star or Sarrat Forest", "Legend of Sampaguita", even the " Snake man in Robinson"
i should think every town or district in the philippines has their peculiar mystery thing. the visayas has maria labo, and in a southern tagalog province, there was a family of doctors rumored to have turned aswang. *cue "awoo" sound effect from cheapskate old local horror flicks*
There's another folk tale about the balete tree in Bacolod/Silay City. Three huge Balete trees called "Tatlong Dalaga" (The Three Maidens). They say its a gateway to the world of the engkantos and some rumored that they saw a ship pass through them. People also say that some "people" take taxis/tricycles to be dropped off near the Tatlong Dalaga only to then vanish. They also say to not take pictures of the Tatlong Dalaga lest the engkantos haunt you.
This folk tale isn't at all common and was told to me by my mom who lived in a province near the Tatlong Dalaga. She says whenever they would pass by them that she would duck and refuse to look at them. I saw them about four years ago and they were huge. Writing this down here so hopefully this folk tale wouldn't be lost to time.
Edit (An urban legend cause why not?):
The Star Mall is built on top of a cementary. Because of this the mall is rumoured to be haunted. One bit that I remembered was that someone watched a movie in the cinema there. Everything was pretty normal, other people were also watching there....up until the movie ended and the lights turned on the 'other people' disappeared. They say those were the restless spirits from the cementary the mall was built upon. I've been there myself and I agree that there's something....off about the place.
Honestly these are pretty fun to write and remember cause us Filipinos love to tell spooky tales to one another. Also filos if there's anything wrong, correct me cause my memory of these stories are kinda foggy
I'm from Silay and the Tatlong Dalaga urban myth is pretty well known within my city!
Funnily enough though, three or two of the balete trees have already been trimmed down lol.
for the Pina, the one we were told was different. for us, when she got cursed, it was when her mother got sick, and Pina had to take care of her mother and clean the house but said she couldn't find the stuff to clean and the mom had to do it instead. and i can't remember the exact way the curse happened but when Pina didn't come back from trying to get something, the mom went to check on her but found a pineapple in her place.
That is correct, Pina was lazy and just wanted to play all day, left all the chores to her mother who also worked all day, then one day her mom got sick. Her mom asked her to cook and do the chores but she kept on complaining and asking where each stuff can be found like the pot, laddle, salt, etc. Her mother got frustrated and cursed, "May you grow a thousand eyes!".
yeah, this version was what i read when i was in elementary too. And her mother was sick and she told Pina to cook rice but she couldn't find the things needed so her mother had to do it after all and said 'may you grow many eyes so it can help you see the things you are looking for easier' but when she got better, Pina was gone and what the mother only found was the plant with many eyes along with Pina's clothes on the ground.
Because legends have different versions as it were passed down from one person to another.
yeah, that's the one that was told to me lol
I know it's sad and all but I just laughed imagining the situation where she just finds the pineapple and just cry-eating 'Pina, noooo *nom'
The Monkey and the Turtle story is an allegory to a tribal war. It has variations but the popular version came from Jose Rizal in which traces to an Ilocano folk tale.
In some way when i was younger i think the story i was told is where he cooks the turtle for some reason in a boiling hot water i think? But thats all i can remember.
The cooking of turtle was the creepypasta version of the story. The throwing in the brook was the purest one I found.
I'm part Filipino and I'm so excited about this. 💜💜💜
I'm a Bicolano and can confirm the Tambaloslos. My grandfather and Titos (Uncles) always told me a story of being constantly walking and walking in a circle without noticing it so they took off their polos and wore them inside out and finally got back home. But I never knew it was called a "Tambaloslos"! Thank you FoxAkimbo!
Edit: Thanks for the 100 likes!
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I'm Bicolano too, but the tambaloslos version I heard was different. My mom and my grandparents told me that it lives by the lake and by night, it dips its balls in the lake to cool off.
Cant believe tambaloslos is just some creep demon. Might as well kill it
i also had an uncle from bicol who had that story. he said when he got tired, he flipped his clothes and looked through between his legs (like upside down) and found the right pathway. and if i remember right, he mentioned "tambaloslos", but being tagalog, it was unfamiliar to me so he substituted "tikbalang" instead.
Actually, I’ve always passed by the “Manila Film Centre” and the look of the building looks really eerie and old.
I had a talk with my parents about it and they told me instead of taking the bodies out, they Buried it underneath instead.
I’m not sure if it’s true but my dad said when he was there he heard crying.
They say it’s because of the poor trapped souls that died and had no justice for.
I’m not really sure how it looked like before but now it’s just like an abandoned building and there’s cars just parked there.
@Isopropylic *NO CUZ EXACTLY.*
what's forgotten about this is , the quick dry cement - well dried , so for construction to continue , they saw off the limbs of workers so its gon be easier to work on top of em
They had a Korean restaurant there one time. It was too quiet tbh.
And they will never get justice now
@@nunyabiznes33 true lmao
As a Filipino, the crab mentality here is rampant and very true here. You're better off just keeping your accomplishments to yourself because often from what I observed here people will congratulate you but when your back is turned they're spreading bad rumors about you to other people out of jealousy.
that's true. but it never stopped a lot of us from showing off on social media.
The red on the Philippine flag does not represent war, it represents patriotism and valor (or courage and bravery), but it does not necessarily mean war, the reason the flag is flipped during war is to prioritize the meaning of the red over the blue
Correct me on this if any of you may but this is as far as I remember/ can recall
Yup. This is true
it only means war when the red is on top, signifying we are on war.
I find it fascinating how Filipino culture associates a lot of mythological creatures and "monsters" to ancestral spirits. And they're not always good and sweet, they are pretty morally grey, too.
sometimes your ancestors are assholes yknow JSSJJSNS
Would highly recommend watching the animated series Trese in Netflix and even reading the original graphic novel if you want to see more Filipino urban legends/myths/folklore. They had an interesting retelling of the White Lady in Balete drive!
I can confirm that show is excellent
The tiyanak scene always gets me
I watched that and loved it! Really great series and I hope they produce more seasons. I really enjoyed hearing about Filipino folklore and monsters.
Where is Hagibis? He’s the Pinoy equivalent of Foster’s Prince Valiant and Frazetta’s Thunda!
These are literally things that were part of my childhood. I believe most of these especially saying "tabi tabi po". The urban legends like the legend of the pineapple were thought to us at school and news of aswang sightings exist back then.
As much as I love some European and Japanese folklore, I feel like my people’s mythology (Filipino) is greatly underrated. Thanks for putting them in the spotlight.
There is an urban legend in the Philippines about a big snake living in a mall called Robinson Galleria, in the urban legend the big snake attracts the customers and eat them alive and the big snake will poop gold.
Oh yeah, this one's an odd ubran legend told by my mom lol. It's also said that the Robinson's logo represents a twisted snake.
Don't forget the lizard people living in their game arcade
Wait I thought it was in pure gold?
i heard it only eats attractive people
Eh I thought Valentino excretes gems.
As a Filipino in the Philippines, I’d love to explain the Orie Chef urban legend as it is a very fascinating story in order to explain its chaotic nature.
From what I can gather, Orie Chef is a middle aged woman in the Philippines who just had way too much time on her hands - a housewife but also someone who can cook. The reason why her posts can look “unsettling” other than the “unfamiliar” language used and the caps lock (which is common in the Philippines especially in Facebook) is because people who had discovered her might’ve interpreted or translated her words literally (such as her wanting to be cremated next to her husband, etc etc). The reason why she had many duplicate accounts is solely because she wanted double accounts to help her in Facebook games such as Farmville which is a strategy that people did to gain more rewards and the like. (The names reference a lot of Filipino jokes such as Sum Bun Gera = tattle tail, Mai V Bai = MayBahay / Wife, Ing Gi Tera (envious) etc)
The reason why the dark stuff such as the implied cannibalism may exist and numerous other duplicated accounts is likely because in the Philippines, computer shops are widely known, and according to information I gathered around, she forgets her passwords (hence making new accounts in the process) and she could be a potential victim of not logging out her account in such computer shops, with others potentially using it to troll or post really dark stuff on there (or make new accounts posing as her), hence why the urban legend is very well known in the Philippines. It’s really nothing weird, but I can’t help but feel bad for Orie Chef in this mess. Poor woman.
TLDR: Orie Chef made new accounts because she kept forgetting her passwords and might’ve been a victim of not logging out her account in computer shops, hence the disturbing content being posted on her accounts and other people posting disturbing and dark stuff under more duplicate accounts to gain attention.
Anyway, really good video! It’s very nice seeing Philippine legends being explained and compiled into one video. There were some I didn’t even know and I’M Filipino, so it was really interesting! Great work as always. < 3
Jit trippin.
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"As a Filipino that moved out of the Philippines when I was 10 and moved back 12 years later"
Yep.
it had been debunked tho , forgot who debunked it but they got a hold of an orie chef account and the user said he made lots of accounts to use for his fb games
I really appreciate that you apologized for mispronouncing some words, though most Filipinos won't mind and actually find it cute or innocently funny when non-Filipinos say Filipino words. Also, I love that you did a thorough research about each topic as I've watched some contents which made me go "Wait, what???" because of misinformation or misconception about us Filipinos, our country, or culture.
“Filipino stories are so unique” because we’re the best and have strong culture
There was a story i heard that in ww2, when the Japanese came to the north of Luzon, they were already nearly defeated and were so out of rations they started cannibalizing. Apparently, one of the Igorot father's saw his child chewing on something that was given to him by the Japanese and when they looked at it, it was a human finger.
I asked my mother, it was a true event.
May ganyang kwento din lola ko
definitely possible because the mountainous areas were horrible to traverse too at that time.
Japs were known to dishonour enemy corpses. We can count how many cannibalism IJA and IJN did.
Chichijima Incident.
POWs who were healthy and portly were ended up cooked.
@@dentonkellyjr8095 and they had run out of supplies by then. it's not too farfetched.
IT actually got timed with the Philippine's Labor Day Holiday as regards to when it was posted, such a well explained video, really love the description of every entry!
Happy Labour Day!
@@FoxAkimbo Thanks bro. It's been like 6 days but oh well, I guess it's not a problem any more. XD
I am a Filipino living in our country, but I do not even know some of these! Well done!
thanks for mentioning our country's folklore!
It's been awhile since I've seen a youtuber talk about it tbh so It's a nice thing for me to see :D
correction & addition info about the manila film center: the Marcos family (specifically Ferdinand Marcos' wife Imelda) had the center built in 3 months and the reason why they scaffolding fell into the quick drying cement is because she had 2000-4000 workers taking shifts and they couldn't spend time to have it dry so before the first floor of cement was dried, they moved onto the second. Because of this, the foundation was poor and caused the scaffolding to crash. The reason paramedics weren't allowed in until ⁹ hours later was because Imelda Marcos ordered a media blackout since she was in fear of what the incident would do to her reputation. In the video, you said only 7 people died, that's a false fact Imelda Marcos told the media to lessen the impact of the incident. In reality, 30+ people were killed (we don't know the exact number because as I said, she ordered a media blackout). Loved the video btw!!
And people still support her bastard of a son
Should've included the Martial law disappearances
do you have a source please?
If this is true I want to slap this in the faces of the people glorifying Imelda today. There were news about her voting in her hometown Ilocos just this day for the presidential elections which her son is running for. All the comments were praising her 😩🔪 "Mother of the nation" and some shi
@@bagpaper6964 those are the younger morons the older people know Imelda they don't like her that's why she isn't in the propaganda
@@bagpaper6964 whether the rumor was true or not, Just because their political choice does not go along with yours means you can go slap people for it. grow up and be a good citizen.
YOU DID SO GOOD ON THIS MAN. As a native Filipino i kinda wanna make a reaction video on this and explain the more plot-holy entries, does that sound good to you man?
Sounds great!
I thought this was gonna be a Filipino baiting video LOL but hey HANDS DOWN! You got a lot right and some of these things, especially Orie Chef, I don't really know. So thanks for giving me something to look up hahahaha! You could have expounded on the Chiong sister case because if I remember correctly, there are rumors that one was alive? I remember everyone was talking about it in the office for days.
There are A LOT MORE you can put, and I'd be glad to help you out! And I gotta say actually Ativan gang is real, and they have been doing stuff since the 90s because I remember they were in the news a lot.
i was honestly expecting the story of julie vega, or the robinsons galleria story, but i still really enjoyed this video! about the segada hanging coffins, i believe that they are hung at the side of mountains so that they would be closer to heaven :)
I made the iceberg and like I have those entries in my tba list and I forgot to add them haha
Julie Vega and my sister had the same common denominator. Madlum River in San Miguel, Bulacan.
A bad luck iceburg would be cool. There's so many superstitions that give bad luck and it would be cool to know others across the world
Great video mate, saving my sanity at work yet again 🤙
WAIT THE INSTANT NOODLE ONE?! Idk about everyone else in south east asia, but my parents told me since childhood that I can't eat more than 2 packets of instant noodles in a week because of the wax.
There were so many fake videos on Facebook back in the early 2010s "explaining" how its real. I had no idea it was just an urban legend, and from the Philippines too.
Edit: 2010s not 2000s
Facebook started mid 2000s
@@speedeespeedboi9527 true, mustve remembered it wrong and is actually around 2010s then
Very well explained. More videos of this please. 😉
Thank you for doing this.
Absolutely love how you mentioned the different vairations of Aswangs. I'm a researcher and oftentimes the Aswang thats portrayed in the media has only one type. Subscribed just for this. Thanks for doing your work!
My pleasure ❤️
Seeing Philippines in the title.
Filipinos: My time has come.
anyways I love seeing these folklore and urban legends again because the last time I heard about these is during my childhood. hays old days
As a filipino, when my English teacher compared how the old stories are so much scarier than the modern stories, each time I hear one of those stories, especially the thing when you hit at night without meaning to, which WILL assassinate you in your sleep, scared me to the point I stayed up all night.
very beautiful story
I think the Biringan City is a Mandela effect circulating in the country because around the area where Biringan City is said to be located, a city called Borongan exists which is a big and beautiful city
The descriptions doesn't match though bc it's said to be full of high-rise buildings and skyscrapers. But Borongan looks more rural
Biringan was both Mandela and Creepypasta.
My culture's stories seem "weird" too but that's the whole point. They're memorable. The lessons are intrinsically woven in. Like the pineapple story is a lesson about the downfalls of shirking responsibility, lying, etc. Essentially, do what your mother says and don't screw around, or you'll end up cursed.
Often stories are funny too. It's passive learning. Like around the world, there are countless stories about "How/Why [character] got/lost/found/won/etc. their [quality of their species/etc.]"
How this tree got its fruit, why this animal got their tail, how this bird lost its plumage, etc. It verbally teaches people how to recognize various species of plants and animals, which can be eaten, what their role in the ecosystem is, etc.
It's better to make up a weird, funny story than to sit there are dryly describe it. You aren't going to forget these stories. They have a logical timeline that you'll recall effortlessly. This is how cultures have thrived using verbal storytelling to pass important information from one generation to the next.
Great work on the research and compilation of facts in this video! I'd like to share a Philippine myth I've heard many times as a kid whenever I stayed at my province in Batangas. It's about the kapre, a giant dark-skinned creature known to be smoking a tobacco and living in trees. Some elders say not to stare at the trees at night because you might stare eye to eye with the kapre when you see its red glowing eyes. The kapre is said to have a magical belt making them invisible but you would know if they are there when you smell random smoke when there are no people, tree branches moving without gushes of wind, and if you could hear someone laughing out of the blue in a quiet night in the province. It really gave me the creeps as a kid especially when my dad would take me on walks in the evening at our province since we lived near the beach and the air was clean. Elders also say that you shouldn't randomly point at night or pick flowers near trees because you could provoke unseen creatures who think they own the lands.
Now I miss going to my province. Mythical legends are really part of our culture because parents and guardians often use it to scare kids to obey them and behave hahaha!
6:53 no worries! you did great! thanks for taking the time to research urban legends from my country
Thank you for such a gorgeous and well crafted video!! I've had a strong interest in other cultures and their legends, but the Philippines is almost always overshadowed by Japan and FINALLY we have more content about Filipino stories!!. Have a blessed day 🐾
Glad you enjoyed it so much!
As a Filipina, I applaud your pronunciation 👏👏
Thank you so much for covering some of our folklores.. really hits the spot and makes us reminisce our childhood 🎩🔥
My pleasure! I'm happy I was able to do justice to the Philippines folklore!
Now you have my sub my good sir, i havent heard these urban legend for a very long time.
Love your videos 📹 ❤
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19:54 there were actually "vigilantes" who would actually do this but it was later discovered that they did this to remove rivaling drug gangs as they were actual drug gangs themselves.
I also remember seeing a news video of one of their victim's dead body, wrapped in packaging tape to a point of a mummy with a sign saying "Drug queen ako"
The unlisted deaths were cartel style killings in Mexico.
The Drug War there was deadlier than in the Philippines, and Filipino Drug War was reverse in Mexico. There were shock videos of law enforcers being snuffed by cartels, while here, the cartels were snuffed by law enforcers.
Maaaaaaan I've been subbed to you since your 1st iceberg. I didnt expect you to cover my country's urban legends. Our legends are as batshit insane as our neighboring Asian countries, especially the Japanese where we share the concept of supernatural beings have "territories"
Thanks for sticking round ❤️
I love this!!!! I forgot some and thank you for reminding about them! Some are true base on personal experience. It's kinda really scary.
i can tell you put so much work in this, as a filipino myself i really loved this video and didnt really know most of these, just earned a sub
I'm surprised you didn't add "Chuna Mae". The people in Visayas was scared of tsunami because someone shouted TSUNAMI!!! But apparently it's just "Chuna Mae". It's still funny up to this day 🤣
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My friends and I back during my college days many years ago, we were always looking for a "Happy Horse" whenever we go to our local resto bars. Whenever one of us gets one, we treat it like a good luck charm, and that person who got it will be lucky for the rest of the day.
Funny enough, I've gotten a Red Horse that has no labels on it once.
I am half Filipino and I didn't even know some of these existed. This is amazing and truly interesting, thanks!
The most scariest creature in the Philippines is called the "Module" it haunts every Filipino students. I've seen it many times. It's very disturbing.
Yo shouldn't say that word the legends said if you don't finish it by the week a teacher will find you and hit your hand with a meter stick
Some Modules have propaganda on it, Right or left. VERY SCARY.
I'm a Filipino and this video is really refreshing and factual considering the fact that I haven't heard of some of the folklore mentioned. Thank you for sharing these sir!!
Love that you covered a topic that isn’t talked about much. Good video as always! 🔥
Haven't really heard much of these stories in my life even if i'm a pure filipino, but you did a great job.
I love it when foreign people makes these types of video's, it's really entertaining to watch.
You just summoned the entire Filipino community keep it up the good work : )
Thanks, will do!
My lola said that her grandmother was invited to Biringan City... She told me that the encantos use their food to seal you inside so when my grandmother refused to eat their food she was able to leave the city.... she also mentioned that the reason my lola refused to eat because the rice given to her was pitch black in color...
You got yourself another sub
great job
Such a well-researched video, it's so fun seeing your culture be told! May I just add that another variation of aswang is called the "Tiktik". Most people think of it and manananggal as the same the same thing as they make the same "tiktik" sound in which the closer they are the quieter it is. Though they both feed into fetuses, tiktiks however doesn't have wings, they just appear as ordinary people but with extremely long tongue. They are "usually seen" on roof of houses where a pregnant woman resides.
Another thing I want to add about the Engkantos is that (I heard from my grandmother and the other elders who lived in the urban/mountainous areas here in the Philippines who are more learned in the urban legends of my country) is that Engkantos are relatively harmless (well most of them) and they would just show you their world.
They live in forests which are usually away from the bustling city and according to my grandma, the oldest and biggest tree is where they live. And if you somehow encounter one, they will give you a tour of their home that - just like the video said - are supposed to be incredibly pretty (straight out of a fantasy if you will) and even the Engkantos both men and women are all otherworldly beautiful.
And at the end of your journey, you will be offered food and drinks as a sign of their hospitality and *IF* you did accepted and ate them, you will never *ever* be able to return to the human world, essentially trapping you into their realm forever.
Also the Tambaloslos is said to live in trees as well (my ancestors might've just have some kind of grudge against trees ig).
They hang out on the branches and they have wide mouth that reaches on their ears. They have black skin and they love watching travelers getting lost or going in circles (which is ultimately their fault) and according to the elders, you can even hear the Tambaloslos laughing at your misery that blends well with the tree branches creaking whenever a wind blows.
The best counter for them is to take off your shirt, turn it upside down and wear it again. It works well with Tikbalangs too which has similar abilities with the Tambaloslos (makes you go in circles and is really *really* hung).
I want to add another funny urban legend that can only be heard in my city, is that there was this rumor that there's a gigantic animal/monster or whatever it is living underneath my city's church. The church is located near the beach so they speculated that the animal is a sea dweller.
Some say that the priests and the church staffs would have to feed a whole pig to the animal in just 1 meal alone to keep it alive and that it was actually the reason why the Church prosper so much that's why the take great care of it.
But again, this is merely an urban legend created by the people living in my city and is not real but it's honestly really funny because some even theorized that it was a giant snake 😂 but nope, no giant snake nor a giant monster is living underneath the church, just a giant imagination.
@@raika-chan3418 it's always a giant snake under a building lol
Mate, that god baking humans story was really beautiful. I will now share this story on my instagram.
i love seeing your thumbnail at 2 am
I remember the stories which are common here in the Philippines when a newly constructed bridge was baptized using Children's blood which was true at some parts. Because there was a little girl who was sacrificed on a bridge and the construction company paid the family i think 20,000 pesos which was a huge amount at the time.
Funnily enough, blood does strengthen concrete
@@XiELEd4377 roman concrete or modern concrete?
Oh wow, I'm actually half Filipino so this is really interesting!
Enjoy!
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@@ZottOQ I get why 😂
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As an American college ball player Filipino folklores are some of the best ones as they are pretty unique
I'm really enjoying about folklore and urban legends about my country
There is also a legend here in our town. Here in Dingle, Iloilo, there is a lake called Lake Bito and some say that there was a couple living in the middle of the lake (then there was no water) and the man and his dog went to a mountain. After they went there the dog went back to the house and the woman started to question the dog where his owner was but the dog didn’t speak so she started to hurt the dog and after the dog talked and said that his owner was taken by Encantos and after that, water came out of the ground and they drowned and the sorrounding terrain was made into Lake Bito.
As a Filipino living in a province i can confirm that a lot of my friends relatives or their friends have been invited to the 'engkantos's home or somehow accidentally visited their home. Their homes were usually on huge trees and mango trees
Love those colorful mics 🎤 bro 😁
I really love these videos because they really show some insane things from different cultures, which i loved both this video and the Japanese folklore iceberg.
I was wondering if you be interested in making an iceberg for African folklore, more specifically Southern African folklore because they are just as trippy as the Filipino folklore
Completely agree! I will be possibly getting to an African folklore soon :D
As a Filipino I can confirm that I am a Filipino
Really glad to see someone cover stories and urban legends from my country! Even as I grew up hearing these stories, I never get tired of them so hearing them be covered in this iceberg tier list is something rather refreshing and still interesting to listen to.
More to come!
'Tabi Tabi Po' basically translates to 'May I pass, please' , Theres also the one with you shouting 'Tao Po' to call for somebody when meeting them at the door as there was a superstition that you are asking the invitation of other non-human entities (i.e: ghosts,demons, fae)
4:40 my teacher actually talked about this in our class when she was young her whole neighborhood would not leave their slippers outside because apparently the killer only picks those who leaves their slippers outside and apparently the killer was already caught. ( not really sure but I did believed my teacher saying the killer was already caught)
Thank you for making this. I am from the Philippines and didn’t know anything about the Philippines. Thanks once again!
We also have the "Tiktik" that has a lot of different stories
In my province, the Tiktik is a powerful "Aswang" which loves eating fetuses and they are easy to detect because of their distinct "Tik tik tik tik" sound, in my province, they say that this sound is just a misdirection, they say the nearer they are, the quieter the sound is, making the impression that they are going away and striking the prey when the people protecting the mother lowered their guards down, although very hard, they can also be fought with a stingray's tail
I'm quite curioused about other filipino's version of tiktik, if you have one share it with me or us!
As a Filipina in Philippines you did a great job bro astig mo👌✨
very amazing do a video on the other countries
Duuuuuuuuude foxakimbo thank you so much for making this not to learn but to be entertained and informed, I'm a Filipino myself and the first entry, alamat ng pinya/the legend of pinapples/why do pineapples have so many eyes, gives me so much nostalgia when I was a kid
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