The Girl Who Could Predict Fires

The Inquirer filed a report about a three year old girl who can supposedly predict fires, but if you read the report it sounds more like that the girl is a pyrokinetic.


The little girl will mention an object within her eyesight and say that it will be on fire. In the example given, she saw a pillow and said, "Pillow... fire" and the pillow started to burn.


So, she wasn't really predicting the fire, but she was willing it to happen.


The report mentioned several eyewitnesses, which even includes the town mayor.

UPDATE: GMA News report about the girl who can predict fires
http://www.gmanews.tv/story/214371/report-3-year-old-girl-in-antique-attracts-attention-for-predicting-fires

The father recalled an incident when he took his wife and daughter into the town proper to buy soda last month.


As he was alighting from his tricycle, his daughter reportedly said, “may sunog alas nuebe (there will be fire at nine o’clock)."


He ignored his daughter's comment at first but was surprised to see the spare tire of his tricycle on fire shortly after 9:00 a.m. that day, the report said.


HERE'S THE REPORT FROM THE INQUIRER: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/regions/view/20110309-324430/Fire-seer-draws-hundreds-to-Antique-village

Fire ‘seer’ draws hundreds to Antique village
By Nestor P. Burgos Jr.
Inquirer Visayas, 03/09/2011


ILOILO CITY, Philippines—Hundreds of people are flocking to a small village in Antique to ogle over a 3-year-old girl who has been spinning the village’s rumor mill fast over her supposed supernatural power to predict fires.

Authorities and villagers, who claimed to have witnessed the girl’s power firsthand, swore to seeing clothes, sleeping mats, pillows and paper burn inside the girl’s home just after the girl predicted these things would burn.

Among the “believers” were San Jose Mayor Rony Molina and Chief Insp. Gilbert Gorero, town police chief, who said they witnessed things burn inside the girl’s home just after the girl said they would.

Mayor Molina said he was just one of the hundreds of curious people who checked what he said was a phenomenon inside the girl’s home. He said he saw a pillow burn just after the girl said “fire ... pillow.”

“I can’t explain it. I’m a town mayor and I don’t easily believe in this kind of things, but I saw it,” he said.

Police officer Gorero said he saw a biscuit burn on its edges without anyone touching it. “I did not believe it at first. Why would I? But we came to investigate after many people came to the girl’s house,” he said.

He said he saw five objects suddenly catch fire or smolder without anyone touching them.

“We have been trying to come out with a logical explanation but so far we have not found any,” the police officer said.

Molina has ordered policemen and village watchmen to monitor the girl’s house as throngs of people have started gathering there.

A fire truck was put on standby. Mayor Molina said authorities wanted to help the girl’s family get medical tests for the girl. The girl’s parents—a tricycle driver and jobless woman—might need counseling, too, because they have been losing sleep since the girl became an object of curiosity.

“They want peace and privacy but people will keep on coming until we can explain what’s happening,” said Molina.

Woman falls to her death in Shangri-la Mall

Picture uploaded by maitecaliente
http://twitpic.com/21fpfb

Here's the report from SPOT.PH
http://www.spot.ph/2010/07/01/lady-dentist-falls-off-6th-floor-of-mandaluyongs-shangri-la-plaza-mall/

Dr. Mary Ann Magtoto, a dentist, died after falling six floors inside the Shangri-la Plaza mall in Mandaluyong City today, according to ABS-CBNNews.com. Reports say she landed on the second floor of the mall at 3:50 p.m. Police “have yet to determine if the woman jumped off or was pushed,” said ABS-CBNNews.com

Twitter was abuzz about the incident this afternoon. Twitter user NeilParas posted a picture of the scene, with the dead woman lying facedown on the mall’s floor. Another Twitterer, maitecaliente, posted a photo of Magtoto surrounded by bystanders.

TV host Drew Arellano, who was at Shangri-la Plaza at the time, Tweeted, “I’m on the 6th flr and people around me heard a loud smack… They took the body away. They covered the blood on the floor with white towels but red/brown color still visible.”

Here are the tweets from http://twitter.com/inquirerdotnet
Mandaluyong chief of police says dentist Mary Ann Magtoto who fell from upper floor in Shangri-La Mall DOA at 4:20pm--Beverly

Picture and report from ABS-CBS NEWS:
http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/metro-manila/07/01/10/woman-falls-6th-flr-shangri-la-mall

UPDATES:

http://www.gmanews.tv/story/195018/cops-probe-dentists-fatal-fall-in-mandaluyong-mall
...the victim did not show any effort to protect herself from the fall), the witness said. A man who identified himself as Dr. Peter Milaor claimed that victim was his cousin, and he positively identified her as Mary Ann. The report said Milaor claimed he was able to review the video recording of the mall's closed-circuit television (CCTV), which showed Mary Ann repeatedly going up and down the escalator, seemingly contemplating deeply on something.

http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/metro-manila/07/02/10/police-woman-shangri-la-mall-jumped-6th-floor
Superintendent Roseller Sta. Maria, deputy chief of the Mandaluyong City police, said a British national saw Dr. Mary Ann Magtoto jump from the 6th floor. Sta. Maria said the foreigner said in his sworn statement that he saw Magtoto climb the escalator's railing before jumping off.

White Lady causes bus accident?

FROM GMA NEWS http://www.gmanews.tv/story/166917/Report-White-lady-blamed-for-bus-crash

A mythical White Lady was blamed for an accident involving a passenger bus that went out control and crashed in the northern Philippine city of Tuguegarao, a radio report said Wednesday.

Bombo Radyo reported at least one passenger was injured in the incident involving the bus (BVB-535) plying the route between Tuguegarao and Santiago City.

Bus driver Rogelio Gaspar said a long-haired woman in white suddenly showed up in his path, prompting him to swerve to avoid hitting her. He said he lost control of the bus.

A local resident, Nonong Decena, said several road accidents had happened in the area, with motorists saying they tried to swerve to avoid hitting the White Lady.

Decena’s claim could not be immediately confirmed with the police.

The Ruby Rose Murder

Mafia-style murder: Steel drum, cement
http://services.inquirer.net/print/print.php?article_id=20090612-210050

It took more than two hours for crime laboratory experts from Camp Crame to remove just the first layer of what served as Ruby Rose Jimenez’s tomb: A well-soldered steel barrel filled with concrete and encased in another welded steel box.

Another couple more hours or so were spent cutting open the light blue-colored drum, where the remains of the missing Ruby Rose were eventually found, immersed in soggy concrete.

“The entire thing, including the cement, probably weighed about a ton,” said an officer from the Philippine National Police Crime Laboratory, who requested anonymity for lack of authority to speak with the media.

Counting the hours they spent prying open the tightly sealed container on Wednesday afternoon, experts believed that Ruby Rose’s killers had meticulously prepared for her disappearance with the intention that she would never be found.

“Whoever was behind it really worked on it. The steel casings were welded,” said the officer.

The metal box was fished out of Navotas waters in Manila Bay the other day by local police following a tip from a suspect, who wanted to turn state witness in exchange for a lesser punishment.

A fishing magnate is a key suspect in the Mafia-style murder.

Ruby Rose disappeared on March 14, 2007, after a bitter custody dispute with her estranged husband for their two children.

Last week, police arrested one of seven suspects, said Metro Manila police commander Chief Supt. Roberto Rosales.

CIDG tapped to speed up Ruby Rose slay probe
The Philippine National Police has tapped its Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) to speed up the investigation of the Ruby Rose Barrameda-Jimenez slay case, a Mafia-style murder that sent shock waves across the law enforcement community.
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/metro/view/20090616-210720/CIDG-tapped-to-speed-up-Ruby-Rose-slay-probe


Witness says 5 killers were paid P250,000
The five men who carried out the gangland-style execution of Ruby Rose Barrameda-Jimenez each received P50,000 from the in-laws of the victim, a suspect-turned-state witness told police.
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/nation/view/20090615-210490/Witness-says-5-killers-were-paid-P250000

7 suspects in Barrameda slay summoned
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/nation/view/20090616-210715/7-suspects-in-Barrameda-slay-summoned

Ruby Rose father-in-law, 6 others face murder charges
The National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO) on Thursday said they are preparing the murder complaints against the father-in-law, lawyer Manuel Jimenez II and his brother, Lope Jimenez. Also facing charges are Eric Fernandez, Spike Discalzo, Roberto Ponce alias Abet, Rudy de la Cruz and Manuel Montero.

Montero is the informant who led police into discovering the metal box containing Ruby Rose’s body buried at the bottom of the Manila Bay.
http://www.gmanews.tv/story/164718/Ruby-Rose-father-in-law-6-others-face-murder-charges

DOJ: Testimony of Ruby Rose murder witness strong
Newly-appointed Justice Secretary Agnes Devanadera said Saturday that the police has a very strong case against a fishing magnate who has been charged with murder for the gruesome killing of a former actress' sister two years ago.

"It's very difficult to pinpoint the exact location of the drum... On the basis of what the police have gathered, merong malakas na ebidensya (there is a strong evidence)," Devanadera said in an interview over radio dzMM, referring to Manuel Montero, a suspect-turned-witness in the killing of Ruby Rose Jimenez, sister of former actress Rochelle Barrameda.

Montero told police that Jimenez was strangled to death and then her body was placed inside a rectangular steel case filled with cement.

The steel case was loaded into a ship with the use of a forklift and then dumped into the seawaters of Navotas.

The suspect's confession led to the recovery of the body of Jimenez, who went missing in March 2007 while on her way to visit her two children, whose custody has been given by the court to her husband, Manuel "Third" Jimenez III.

MORE BODIES
The National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO), the lead law enforcement unit handling the case, said Friday that Montero has admitted that their group was also responsible in several other Mafia-style killings.

Chief Superintendent Roberto Rosales, NCRPO chief, said Montero is guiding them in the recovery of the bodies, also stuffed in drums and encases in cement.

“We received reports that the group are behind other killings so we are validating them. Our witness is helping us in pinpointing the exact location of the bodies,” said Rosales, noting that majority of the supposed victims are business rivals of shipping magnate Lope Jimenez.

Rosales said that after the discovery of Ruby Rose’s body, prominent families have contacted him, claiming Jimenez and his group may have something to do with the killing of their next of kin.

“We are uncovering more killings allegedly authored by the same suspects. I’m asking these relatives to come to my office so we could discuss the cases,” he said.

http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/metro-manila/06/13/09/doj-testimony-ruby-rose-murder-witness-strong

Another Strange Offering

Fetus found in Sta. Mesa church : A church maintenance worker stumbled Sunday morning onto a fetus left on one of the pews at the Sta. Mesa parish in Manila. Benny Liasmine said he found the fetus inside a shopping bag as he was cleaning the church at around 9:30 a.m. Senior Police Officer 2 David Tuazon of the Manila Police District homicide section said the fetus was brought to the Universal Funeral Homes.

REPORTED AT:

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/metro/view/20090419-200260/MetroBriefs

UPDATE:
Boy stumbles into 12th fetus thrown in Manila in '09
Joel Aguilar found the fetus placed inside a cardboard box beside the Sta. Cruz Church in Manila's Quiapo district at 2 a.m., authorities said.
http://www.gmanews.tv/story/151172/boy-stumbles-into-12th-fetus-thrown-in-manila-in-09