Philippines

Filipino folklore produces some of the most physically unsettling creatures in world mythology. The aswang, a shapeshifter that walks among neighbors by day, still triggers occasional panics in provincial towns. The manananggal severs its own torso to fly at night hunting the sleeping. White Lady sightings along Balete Drive in Quezon City have made taxi drivers wary of that road for decades. This archive covers urban legends and ghost stories from across the Philippines — creature lore like the tikbalang and kapre, haunted sites such as Clark Air Base Hospital and the Manila Film Center with its buried construction workers, and the modern legends passed around Filipino social media each October.