5 of the Spookiest Buildings in the Philippines

The Laperal house served as a former summer getaway for its namesake family. Built in the 20s, it is located in Baguio where it now stands among the most infamous of structures. Locals speak of a curse on the family that was brought on due to the fact that their house was seized by the Japanese and converted for a time as a temporary garrison. In this period, torture, sexual abuse, and executions are rumoured to have taken place within those walls. Another urban legend has it that one of the Laperals' young children, a three-year-old girl, was killed by an oncoming car just outside their home. Her spirit has since roamed the property. The young child's nanny was also said to have taken her own life in the Laperal house due to grief and guilt over the accident. Now, visitors to the Laperal house speak of seeing apparitions of a child, and a woman in white. Some have also reported ghosts of Japanese soldiers and war victims.

The abandoned Quonset huts in Subic served as former barracks for visiting the US military. These uniquely shaped structures, which resemble a barrel cut length-wise, have survived numerous calamities including major typhoons and even the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo in 1991. Though there are relatively few urban legends that surround these structures, a few of the huts have been left to the mercy of nature and are now overrun with weeds and are rusted over from old age, lending them a creepy almost unearthly air. 

Along the highway on the way to Bulacan stands the Bahay na Pula (Red House). Considering the area is an idyllic plane field, this red coloured house stands out like a sore thumb. It looks like a house straight out of a horror movie, with an eerie and disquieting undercurrent that serves to send a shiver down your spine. A former hacienda of the Ilusorio family, the Bahay na Pula was also used by the Japanese military as barracks during the war. Sadly, it also served another, more sinister purpose: it was where the foreign army kept their comfort women, holding them against their will to "work". Visitors and caretakers have reported hearing sounds of crying women and seeing ghostly apparitions of women around the home. 

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A hospital is creepy enough, but an abandoned one at that? The Clark Air Base hospital in Pampanga was a promising development that first started in the 60s. It was meant to serve as a medical facility to treat injured American soldiers during the Vietnam war. What sets the Clark Air Base hospital as different from many of the other buildings on the list is that there aren't just ghostly apparitions or sounds here—there are poltergeists. Visitors and ghost hunters have reported being thrown stones at or have heard loud screams. One of the guards of the area claims to have seen a child running, beckoning him to follow. Many speculate that this is due to the many foreign visitors who have undergone trauma due to war and have had to die in an unknown land far from home. 

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