Last August, the Inquirer reported about 25 high school students in Mindoro were supposedly possessed by “evil spirits”.
Two days after the initial report, 5 more students were said to have been possessed.
It was written that: “The victims, mostly girls, pointed to evil spirits apparently angered by the cutting of a 30- to 40-year-old tree at the school backyard.”
The high school principal did point out that the tree was cut down three or four years ago.
It is interesting to note that the principal also said: “In past years, there were one or two cases of "seizure" reported but in the last week of July as many as 25 students were reported having "seizures," Tungol said.
So, is there a connection between the old tree that was cut down and the seizures/possession that the students experienced?
When did the first “possession” occur?
Did it happen soon after the tree was cut down?
Is it possible that the seizures are caused by something biological from the tree? Or maybe it has nothing to do with the tree and it was caused by something that the students have been drinking or eating or inhaling that is found in the surroundings of the school?
In a report uploaded on September 9, it mentioned that the Department of Education sent a team composed of a psychiatrist, a psychologist and a medical officer. The team conducted psychosocial intervention sessions or PSIs of faculty members and the supposedly possessed students on August 27, 2008.
The team reported that before the students experienced the so-called “initial attacks,” most of them had family-related problems, such as parents separating and deaths in the family.
Also mentioned:
“A mass was said by a Catholic priest at the request of terrified students and parents.
…local healers offered two black pigs in a bid to appease the angered spirits.”
It is always fascinating how, as much as we are a Catholic country, we still hold on to old beliefs.
You can read the full report at:
1
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/regions/view/20080820-155831/Evil-spirits-possess-25-high-school-students-in-Mindoro
2
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/regions/view/20080822-156235/Evil-spirits-attack-5-more-students-in-Calapan-City
3
http://blogs.inquirer.net/insidescience/2008/09/03/calapan-incident-not-spirit-possession-but-%E2%80%98mass-hysteria%E2%80%99-deped/#more-187
4
http://www.mb.com.ph/issues/2008/09/10/OPED20080910134758.html
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Showing posts with label child. Show all posts
Monday, October 27, 2008
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
The DIOS AMAHAN cult
Kids rescued from ‘cult’
By Rene F. Alima, Cebu Daily News, 03/26/2008
CEBU CITY, Philippines - They holed up inside a mountain cottage for five days in Carmen town, starting Holy Thursday to wait for the “end of the world.”
Members of the Dios Amahan cult, who brought their children along to await the “final judgment,” had to be pulled out of the house by policemen on Tuesday, ending almost a day of negotiation.
At least 24 persons, 10 of them children, were rescued.
A worried father, accompanied by policemen, came to rescue his children, especially his one-year-old son, after his wife, the leader of the cult, refused to release them.
READ THE FULL REPORT AT:
http://globalnation.inquirer.net/cebudailynews/news/view_article.php?article_id=126524
By Rene F. Alima, Cebu Daily News, 03/26/2008
CEBU CITY, Philippines - They holed up inside a mountain cottage for five days in Carmen town, starting Holy Thursday to wait for the “end of the world.”
Members of the Dios Amahan cult, who brought their children along to await the “final judgment,” had to be pulled out of the house by policemen on Tuesday, ending almost a day of negotiation.
At least 24 persons, 10 of them children, were rescued.
A worried father, accompanied by policemen, came to rescue his children, especially his one-year-old son, after his wife, the leader of the cult, refused to release them.
READ THE FULL REPORT AT:
http://globalnation.inquirer.net/cebudailynews/news/view_article.php?article_id=126524
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Strange Offerings
"Fetus found at Manila Cathedral"
I first saw this report on Inquirer's Twitter page yesterday.
I read a more detailed report in the paper today (October 16)
A fetus was found at the door of the Manila Cathedral in Intramuros, Manila, Wednesday morning. The fetus, believed to be about 2 to 3 months old, had been placed in a pot of roses and was found by the cathedral’s janitor and security guard. The two said they were about to move the flowers to the altar when they noticed a foul smell coming from the pot. Msgr. Nestor Cerbo, the rector, said it was the first time that a fetus was found within the church premises. (Tina G. Santos)
LINK: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/metro/view/20081016-166615/MetroBriefs
Reading that report, reminded of a similar incident that was in the Inquirer last July 8.
Church offering included fetus By Kristine L. Alave
MANILA, Philippines – A priest in a church in Manila was shocked to find a fetus inside a jar hidden in a basket of fruits offered during the Sunday morning Mass.
Monsignor Gerry Santos, president of the Manila Archdiocesan Parochial School Association, said he was unaware that the basket brought to the altar contained a ghastly gift.
In an interview with Radio Veritas, Santos said the basket was offered during the 9 a.m. Sunday Mass at the Minor Basilica of the Black Nazarene in Quiapo.
The priest said he was shocked to discover that the basket of fruit he brought home contained a small jar with a fetus inside.
“It looked like a four-month old fetus. It had hands and feet. There was a rosary inside the bottle, too,” he said.
The small jar, he said, was buried under various fruit offerings.
LINK: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/metro/view/20080708-147072/Church-offering-included-fetus
Could these two incidents possibly be linked?
Strange how both fetus were hidden in offerings for the church.
The unsub left the fetus at the church because he/she felt guilty, because the unsub was hoping to save the soul of the unborn/aborted child?
On somewhat related news, this was reported early in the year:
6-month-old fetus found in Malacañang toilet (January 17)
MANILA, Philippines – A 6-month-old fetus was found yesterday in one of the toilets in the four-story National Executive Building (NEB) in Malacañang.
LINK: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/metro/view/20080117-113125/6-month-old-fetus-found-in-Malacaang-toilet
And here's something that was reported four years ago:
FETUS FOUND INSIDE CUBAO CHURCH
http://www.newsflash.org/2004/02/ht/ht004574.htm
CUBAO, QUEZON CITY, August 3, 2004 (STAR) By Katherine Adraneda - It was an quiet Monday morning at the parish of running priest Fr. Robert Reyes in Cubao, Quezon City until some 20 parishioners started gathering around a paper bag abandoned near the altar. Inside was a six-month-old male fetus, apparently left behind just a few minutes before the start of the Mass at the Lady of Miraculous Medal Parish.
I first saw this report on Inquirer's Twitter page yesterday.
I read a more detailed report in the paper today (October 16)
A fetus was found at the door of the Manila Cathedral in Intramuros, Manila, Wednesday morning. The fetus, believed to be about 2 to 3 months old, had been placed in a pot of roses and was found by the cathedral’s janitor and security guard. The two said they were about to move the flowers to the altar when they noticed a foul smell coming from the pot. Msgr. Nestor Cerbo, the rector, said it was the first time that a fetus was found within the church premises. (Tina G. Santos)
LINK: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/metro/view/20081016-166615/MetroBriefs
Reading that report, reminded of a similar incident that was in the Inquirer last July 8.
Church offering included fetus By Kristine L. Alave
MANILA, Philippines – A priest in a church in Manila was shocked to find a fetus inside a jar hidden in a basket of fruits offered during the Sunday morning Mass.
Monsignor Gerry Santos, president of the Manila Archdiocesan Parochial School Association, said he was unaware that the basket brought to the altar contained a ghastly gift.
In an interview with Radio Veritas, Santos said the basket was offered during the 9 a.m. Sunday Mass at the Minor Basilica of the Black Nazarene in Quiapo.
The priest said he was shocked to discover that the basket of fruit he brought home contained a small jar with a fetus inside.
“It looked like a four-month old fetus. It had hands and feet. There was a rosary inside the bottle, too,” he said.
The small jar, he said, was buried under various fruit offerings.
LINK: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/metro/view/20080708-147072/Church-offering-included-fetus
Could these two incidents possibly be linked?
Strange how both fetus were hidden in offerings for the church.
The unsub left the fetus at the church because he/she felt guilty, because the unsub was hoping to save the soul of the unborn/aborted child?
On somewhat related news, this was reported early in the year:
6-month-old fetus found in Malacañang toilet (January 17)
MANILA, Philippines – A 6-month-old fetus was found yesterday in one of the toilets in the four-story National Executive Building (NEB) in Malacañang.
LINK: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/metro/view/20080117-113125/6-month-old-fetus-found-in-Malacaang-toilet
And here's something that was reported four years ago:
FETUS FOUND INSIDE CUBAO CHURCH
http://www.newsflash.org/2004/02/ht/ht004574.htm
CUBAO, QUEZON CITY, August 3, 2004 (STAR) By Katherine Adraneda - It was an quiet Monday morning at the parish of running priest Fr. Robert Reyes in Cubao, Quezon City until some 20 parishioners started gathering around a paper bag abandoned near the altar. Inside was a six-month-old male fetus, apparently left behind just a few minutes before the start of the Mass at the Lady of Miraculous Medal Parish.
Monday, October 13, 2008
2 severed heads, dead baby found in QC villages
2 severed heads, dead baby found in QC villages
By Marlon Ramos, Philippine Daily Inquirer, 03/27/2008
MANILA, Philippines -- Two villages in Quezon City were jolted Thursday morning with the discovery of two human heads and a mutilated dead baby.
Superintendent Franklin Moises Mabanag, chief of Quezon City Police District’s Criminal Investigation and Detection Unit (QCPD-CIDU), said the two heads were found by scavengers floating along a creek in Sitio (sub-village) West Riverside, Barangay (village) San Antonio at around 9:30 a.m.
Quoting witnesses, Mabanag said the heads were already bloated and in the early stages of decomposition.
He said they believe the heads belonged to members of a drug syndicate who may have been killed by their gangmates.
At about the same time, the body of a baby boy was discovered at a tricycle terminal on H. Francisco Street corner Morato Road, Barangay Damayan.
Driver Hermilando Balalad Jr. said he found a plastic bag inside a tricycle as he was parking his vehicle at the terminal.
Curious about its contents, he said he opened the bag and was shocked to see the dead baby estimated to be about seven months old.
Balalad said the baby had a long open wound on his chest.
“It was likely that the baby boy’s chest was cut open. But we’re not sure if his internal organs were gone,” said village chairman Gualberto Casaje.
READ THE FULL REPORT AT:
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/metro/view_article.php?article_id=126747
By Marlon Ramos, Philippine Daily Inquirer, 03/27/2008
MANILA, Philippines -- Two villages in Quezon City were jolted Thursday morning with the discovery of two human heads and a mutilated dead baby.
Superintendent Franklin Moises Mabanag, chief of Quezon City Police District’s Criminal Investigation and Detection Unit (QCPD-CIDU), said the two heads were found by scavengers floating along a creek in Sitio (sub-village) West Riverside, Barangay (village) San Antonio at around 9:30 a.m.
Quoting witnesses, Mabanag said the heads were already bloated and in the early stages of decomposition.
He said they believe the heads belonged to members of a drug syndicate who may have been killed by their gangmates.
At about the same time, the body of a baby boy was discovered at a tricycle terminal on H. Francisco Street corner Morato Road, Barangay Damayan.
Driver Hermilando Balalad Jr. said he found a plastic bag inside a tricycle as he was parking his vehicle at the terminal.
Curious about its contents, he said he opened the bag and was shocked to see the dead baby estimated to be about seven months old.
Balalad said the baby had a long open wound on his chest.
“It was likely that the baby boy’s chest was cut open. But we’re not sure if his internal organs were gone,” said village chairman Gualberto Casaje.
READ THE FULL REPORT AT:
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/metro/view_article.php?article_id=126747
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