Stories After Dark

In February 2019, 11-year-old CJ Bautista killed himself and when his mother checked his phone, she found messages from a classmate and recent online searches about a "suicide game" called the Momo Challenge. Listener discretion is advised due to discussions of suicide in these stories.

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Music: "This House" and "Echoes of Time v2" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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In 2018, 16-year old Christine Lee Silawan became the object of a man's obsessive desire through Facebook. She ended up brutally murdered the following year when they finally met in person. Listener discretion is advised due to the graphic nature of this story.

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Music: "This House" and "Echoes of Time v2" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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In 2001, multi-awarded actress Nida Blanca was found murdered inside her car in San Juan, Metro Manila and suspicion fell on her American husband Rod Strunk based on the confession of mercenary Philip Medel.Listener discretion is advised due to the graphic nature of this story.

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Music: "This House" and "Echoes of Time v2" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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Trans woman Jennifer Laude was killed by US serviceman Joseph Scott Pemberton in a motel in Olongapo, sparking outrage among the LGBTQ community and putting the spotlight back on the Visiting Forces Agreement which previously became controversial in the 2005 Subic rape case. Listener discretion is advised due to the graphic nature of this story.

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References: ⁠storiesafterdark.home.blog⁠

Music: "This House" and "Echoes of Time v2" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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In May 1953, before newspapers around the world heavily featured the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, their attention was on an 18-year-old girl named Clarita Villanueva who was locked up in the Old Bilibid Prison. For two weeks, she kept on screaming that she was being attacked by two demons until American pastor Lester Sumrall came to exorcise her.

This story was suggested via email by listener Sam Lichauco.

Episode photos: instagram.com/p/CA0L9HTJHyoReferences: ⁠storiesafterdark.home.blog⁠

Music: "This House" and "Echoes of Time v2" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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25-year old advertising executive Kae Davantes went out with her friends one Friday night in 2013. She was found dead the next morning, an hour away from both her house in Las Piñas and Bonifacio Global City where she was last seen. • Listener discretion is advised due to the graphic nature of this story.

Episode photos: instagram.com/p/B_9rYvkpoQ2

References: ⁠storiesafterdark.home.blog⁠

Music: "This House" and "Echoes of Time v2" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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The Philippines' notoriously slow justice system caused a former police captain to hijack a bus full of Hong Kong tourists in Rizal Park, ending in the death of 9 people. Listener discretion is advised due to the graphic nature of this story.

Episode photos: instagram.com/p/B_DJKqppvM6References: ⁠storiesafterdark.home.blog⁠

Music: "This House" and "Echoes of Time v2" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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Special acknowledgments: (41:40) / Podcast trailer for The Asian Madness Podcast: (42:58)

Out of the more than 600 hundred mountains in the Philippines, Laguna's Mount Makiling, though technically a dormant volcano, is probably the most popular in terms of folklore, with a multitude of stories about the "diwata" or fairy who guards it.

Episode photos: instagram.com/p/B-YBKPjnOHUReferences: ⁠storiesafterdark.home.blog⁠

Music: "This House" and "Echoes of Time v2" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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In 1996, hundreds of young people flocked to Ozone Disco along Timog Ave. in Quezon City, Metro Manila, not knowing that most of them would no longer come out of the nightclub alive. Listener discretion is advised due to the graphic nature of this story.

Episode photos: instagram.com/p/B-CiQKXHOAU

References: ⁠storiesafterdark.home.blog⁠

Music: "This House" and "Echoes of Time v2" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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Everyone was shocked when news broke out in 2014 about a massacre committed in the barangay of Kayang-Hilltop in Baguio City. Five people were killed, four of them only minors, in what has been considered a city with one of the lowest crime rates in the Philippines and in Southeast Asia. Listener discretion is advised due to the graphic nature of this story.

Episode photos: instagram.com/p/B8_4IexHLQuReferences: ⁠storiesafterdark.home.blog⁠

Music: "This House" and "Echoes of Time v2" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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