The street was named so because of the gargantuan Balete trees that used to line the premises, alongside the huge Spanish houses (such as the 200-year-old “Bahay Sentenaryo”) and ancestral mansions.

In the heart of New Manila in Quezon City is a strip called Balete Drive, a road that connects main thoroughfares such as E. Related link: Click here to try the POP! Halloween AR filters!īalete Drive and its shroud of creepy mystery Photo by Nikko Gonzales for POP!

The reason why the white lady is quite spooky because people consider her a “revenger ghost” who was once alive until she was murdered and now she does not only scare people but also look for victims she could share her suffering with. But perhaps the creepiest of all is the White Lady, a ghost that is considered by many as a harbinger of death. There were also stories shared about sigbin (local to Bohol and other Visayan regions, this creature is said to look like a kangaroo with a whip-like tail and has the uncanny ability to backwards), manananggal(a variety of the local witch that is able to fly with half their torso on the ground), mangkukulam (sorcerer), tikbalang (a bony and tall creature with a head of a human and the body of a horse),and kapre (a dark giant creatures lurking under big trees, smoking a big pipe).

Urban legends have been part of Filipino folklore ever since, when our ancestors would huddle together using only a single gas lamp and tell stories of mythical creatures such as ghosts, aswang (local witch), fairies, and elves.

Murder on balete drive