Do you believe in ghosts, dead people coming back to see their loved ones, and paranormal and supernatural things?
A 41-year-old woman, who is a native of Capiz and now resides in the New Bilibid Prison (NBP) Reservation in Muntilupa City, says she has a “third eye” and it is normal for her to feel and see paranormal and supernatural things like “kapre,” “duwende”, dead people, “manananggal”, and spirits.
Lyn has been living in the Reservation in Barangay Poblacion, Muntinlupa for 20 years. She was born and raised in Capiz.
She said her third eye has been present since birth.
“Matagal na since birth,” she said.
For the past two decades, Lyn said she has seen paranormal and supernatural things and beings in NBP Reservation, a sprawling land which houses the prison facilities, homes for employees of the Bureau of Corrections, schools, churches and tourism sites.
Lyn said within their yard at their home in NBP lives a “kapre,” which is a creature that lives in trees in Philippine mythology.
The “kapre” lives in the mango tree in front of their house. She said the “kapre” even courted someone who lives in the house.
Aside from the “kapre,” Lyn also sees the dead family members of her friend while a “white lady” lives at the back of their house.
Lyn, a Catholic, said she knew that she had the third eye because of an incident.
Their father is a folk healer in Capiz and when she was seven, Lyn said she told his father about seeing a teen boy in a tree who she learned was an “engkanto”.
“Sabi niya bukas ang pangatlong mata ko,” Lyn said.
Their eldest wanted her third eye to be closed but she refused.
“Sabi ko mas mabuti makita ko sila kaysa hindi,” she added.
Her father advised her just to ignore the supernatural things that she sees.
Among the 16 children in the family, Lyn said five of them have the third eye.
Lyn said she has experienced supernatural things while living in NBP.
A “white lady” lives at the NBP grotto, or Memorial Hill. In the mango trees at the NBP Sunken Garden lives “kapre and “tikbalang.”
She said she is not afraid when she sees supernatural or paranormal things.
“Hindi naman kasi hindi ko naman sila ginagalaw. Ang mahirap lang dun kung galawin mo sila,” she said.
NBP was a prisoner-of-war camp during World War II and Lyn said she also saw ghost soldiers in the Vicar area.
Once, she said, she was driving an e-bike along Katihan Road on her way home to NBP when a man she knew boarded the vehicle.
The man turned out to have died that day. From the side mirror, Lyn said she saw the man but sensed that he was already a spirit.
“Nakaupo siya pero ramdam ko na. Sabi ko sa kanya, ‘Tanggapin mo na. Gabayan mo na lang ang dalawang anak mo,” she said.
The man disappeared upon reaching the front of their house in NBP.
For those who don’t believe in ghosts, paranormal and supernatural phenomena, they consider Lyn’s stories as pure imagination and concoction.
But Lyn is unfazed.
“To see is to believe,” she said, adding that through “orasyon” (prayer or incantation), a person’s third eye can be opened. (Jonathan Hicap)
