Since it's Halloween, let me share my spooky elevator experience. Who wouldn't remember elevator scenes from the famous horror movie "The Eye". I have my same fare elevator experience.
I was high school back then. My kuya was confined in the our resident hospital at Quezon city. I went there with my tita to pay him a visit. At that time some of the floors of the hospital is under renovation. Well of course, we access the elevator. We pressed the ground floor button. Then finally the elevator arrives to our floor, the down sign lights up, so we went in. To our surprise the elevator went up and it opened, there were no people around instead a dark floor, which is under renovation. We pressed the close button but still the elevator door opened and closed twice. It was really uncanny but we tried to stand still. How come it closed and open in the same floor with no people around and that floor is under renovation? Finally it closed and went down to the ground floor.
The next experience was in the same elevator. I was there again to visit my cousin who was confined. Now, I’m with my mom, tita and a male passenger. The elevator went down again it opened in the floor with no person around. We felt an air entered the elevator, lifting the strands of our hair. My mom whispered; “may kasama tayo”. We felt goose bumps around our skin, even the male passenger looked scared. I felt someone was beside me and it was really cold. The elevator opened again, and there were no people around. My mom whispered; “umalis na ata”, then it went down to the ground floor.
2007 all souls day
Every “All Souls Day” we offer a prayer and food in the altar as a remembrance for our departed love ones as well to the souls who had been forgotten in time. I was leading the rosary when my younger brother kessel went to the altar to eat the food. My mom told him that it was an offering for our dead loved ones. Because of his young age and innocence kessel cried out asking if there were ghosts around. After our rosary my mom and kessel decided to stay outside in our veranda. Kessel pointed and told my mom: “mama, si tita susan o, pumasok”, my mom looked around but she saw nothing (tita susan was in her house sleeping with my cousins). Kessel told my mom again: “mama si tita susan, ba’t di mo pinansin” silence… “Ayan tuloy lumabas na”. My mom called me and told me what happened and we told tita susan the following day. Right then we believed that souls roams around during “all souls day” and visits house to house to have some feast. They don’t literary eat the food but I guessed they appreciated our effort to make them feel that we still remember them.
Have a peaceful All Saints and Souls day!
