New ghoststory

January 17, 2007

During the Japanese Occupation? or shortly before the 1940's war started,
my (eldest, now deceased) maternal aunt - the good friend of Americans, was
working with the PMC [= Procter & Gamble, now owned by the British Unilever
=(PRC) if I'm not mistaken] as promo girl. There was already STAR margarine,
CAMAY soap, etc then.
She was staying in Manila at a certain place which address was mentioned
some weeks back by my other aunt. I remember my 1st aunt related to me: in that
house they had a shortwave radio and well-known personalities visited it - including
a certain "General Lim" - The General after whom Camp Vicente Lim in Laguna was named???.
It must have been a secret meeting place for anti-Japanese resistance or guerillas
whatever. But I know my aunt never worked as a guerilla. She had a lady friend there
whose name I've forgotten.
Back in their home in Batangas, one night my LOLA (her mother) dreamt of her husband
(who died about 1935?) whispering to her ear (in Batangan Tagalog: NAPAARAP NA BINULUNGAN DAW SIYA): "KAUNIN MO NA SI SALUD" Repeatedly. (KAUNIN = SUNDOIN or FETCH). So what my LOLA did was to relate this to her brother who made arrangements to hire a car and he fetched my aunt from that place. The story goes that even as they were already near Cuenca Batangas, they almost fell into a ravine because the bridge had been destroyed (by plane bombs?) - Possibly this is the same bridge that is currently under repair/construction berfore one reaches Cuenca... (If this is the case then this event must have been at the start of the war and not "liberation" time. Not long afterwards, that house in Manila
was raided by the Japanese (Kempeitai?) and everyone staying there was arrested including
her lady friend. This lady friend my aunt also saw in a dream wearing a white dress with
her hair flowing... After the war ended she went back to the place. She met the lady's
mother who tearfully related to her what had happened - her friend was brought to Fort Santiago where she was tortured to death (breasts slashed...), suspected as an anti-Japanese fighter.

So what is the difference of these dreams from those related even in the Bible that
happened to prophets, holy men... I simply cannot take these for granted for these
are signs that there is more to this world than MATTER...

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