I Saw Something Case 3 - Dark Corners of U.P. Diliman

I Saw Something

Case 3 - Dark Corners of U.P. Diliman

(01-14-14)

When you see something, how can you be so sure that your senses were not playing tricks with you? Do you believe in ghost? I believe that ghost stories were just rumors used either to protect or to scare. And if the stories aren’t real, would you still believe it?

I’m Snow de Montesquieu, adventurer and an amateur blogger.  My goal is to track down rumors of ghost stories here in metro-Manila and prove if the stories were real are not.

My adventure brought me to U.P. Diliman. A famous school here in Metro-Manila with 493 hectares. A student here must ride a jeepney called UP IKOT to attend his next lesson.

Like other campuses here in the Philippines, U.P. Diliman has a wide range of tree lines beside, mostly in the parks which makes the place look scary even at day. Many students here believe that their school is haunted. I say, it’s just a rumour. During weekends, families from different places gather here at U.P. Campus to have fun with their love ones.

Among all the rumors, the most famous is the U.P. IKOT jeepney.

“A girl was on her way to her dorm and found herself alone in the ikot jeep. She was nearing her dorm and asked the driver to stop so she could walk but the driver kept driving and refuse to look at her at the rear view mirror. The driver took a different route and dropped her off directly in front of her dorm. Frazzled, she hurriedly left the jeep. The driver called after her and told her to burn her clothes when she gets home."

The girl looked at him and asked why. The driver answered: “When I saw you in the rear-view mirror earlier, you were headless.”

Reports said nobody knows who the girl was, who’s the driver, when did it happen and the plate number of the ikot jeep. So, I decided to look for another rumor about this haunted campus. 2 stories caught my attention - The Phantom Musicians of Abelardo Hall and The Creatures of Lagoon. 

Phantom Musicians. "Like any other college on campus, the College of Music has a set curfew when students are no longer allowed to stay. Security guards roam the college to check the grounds and see if there are still students in the building. Recently, some hear someone vocalizing, or playing the piano. They check the rooms to reprimand the students but find no one there. 

If you find yourself passing by the college at night, you might want to pause and listen. Who knows? You just might be lucky enough to hear a song or two."

Creature of U.P. Lagoon. "2 students were walking in the middle of the dark trees of Lagoon when the 1^st girl heard multiple laughs on the tree line. The other girl thought it was just their classmates pulling pranks to them until they saw 2 bright eyes moving up and down as if it was jumping and hides behind the creepy trees. Alarmed, they run as fast as they could towards their dorm." 

Among these stories; the ghost of Abelardo Hall or the College of Music is one of U.P. Diliman's most resonant ghost story. I don't believe in these stories of course. So I assemble a team and head towards U.P. Diliman campus to prove if these two rumors were true.

13:41. we arrived at U.P. Diliman entrance and decided to prepare for hours of truth hunting. The U.P. Diliman main entrance has 2  giant sculptures. As big as 3 bus combined together, these two sculptures is called Tribute to Higher Education of U.P. Diliman is an artwork of Napoleon Abueva.

My best friend Fyro (right) and a fellow blogger Elise agreed to accompany me for this adventure since the three of us is currently living in Quezon City -the largest city here in Metro Manila and the location of U.P. Diliman. After a quick review of our objectives, we immediately head to College of Music.

I came in front of the building and heard some melodious sounds of viola and piano. I talked to the security guard whose in service guarding Abelardo Hall's gate for 3 months. He asked me not to put his name in my finding but he promised to give me information that could help me. The security guard told me that the building will still be open as long as the offices are still functional. After the faculties and all the personnel leave the building, the guards will then check the rooms and courteously ask the students to go home. He also told me that he heard the rumor about Abelardo Hall haunted by ghosts but never experienced ot nor heard anything strange.

Feeling unsatisfied on what I've heard, my team decided to visit the next hot spot and return to Abelardo Hall at night.

15:47. When we arrived at U.P. Lagoon just across the road from College of Music. Like what I read in the articles, the lagoon is a large grass land with different kinds of trees. We walked towards the trees and noticed some white creepy looking trees lined up from the side walk to the center area of the lagoon. I think this is the "creepy trees" that the articles are talking about.

The U.P. Diliman Lagoon is the only body of water found on campus. The lagoon divides a wide expanse of land where several glades can be found. The area serves as a botanical reserve planted withe Bamboo, and trees like Narra, Banaba, Kapok, Mahogany, Royal, rubber, Acacia and Mango trees.

We stayed at  U.P. Lagoon to summarize our findings. While analyzing the fragments of information we gathered, I can't keep on thinking; If the article about the Abelardo Hall happened recently (let's just say it happened a month ago) and posted November 1, 2013 and the guard I talked to in in duty for 3 months, why did he told me that he didn't experienced it? The fact that he's working there for 3 months, he should be there when it happened and before the rumor starts. Does this mean I talked to the wrong security guard? Or he just simply doesn't believe in ghost.

Some of the articles in the internet about the College of Music came from experience of a security guard. Some came from the experience of the people passing by the college. Something's missing in this puzzle and I have to find it.

18:01. and its getting dark, my team and I agreed to do a thorough sweep around U.P. Lagoon and the College of Music to take pictures and record sounds. Fyro and Elise chose to roam the dark areas of lagoon while I go to College of Music.

Both is very different at night. lesser lights, lesser visibility. Without our flash lights we will surely bump every tree. This is the lagoon at night:

and this is the College of Music at night:

While I was taking pictures of College of Music, I heard drumming sounds on the upper level of Abelardo Hall. The drums bang without beat like it was played by a kid. I immediately run inside the Abelardo Hall. At the entrance, the security guard allowed me to the hall but I have to leave the camera. Fearing that the sound will be gone, I left my camera and rushed towards the stairs to the upper level of the Hall. Luckily I cought who's making the noise. But, it wasn't a ghost. It was a janitor, cleaning maybe 30 drums.

I approached the janitor to ask some question if there are instruments playing at night. Let's just call him "kuya Mike". kuya Mike told me that he's working as a janitor in College of Music for almost half a year. He said if I happen to pass by and heard banging sound of drums, it is surely him cleaning the it. And as for vocalization or some instruments playing, it was either the faculty or students practicing at night.

The sounds heard from College of Music at night  matched the information from the articles that came from people passing by near the college.

My theory is someone aspread the rumor that the College of Music is haunted. And the person pasiing by hearing noises supports the rumor. To prove if my theory is correct, I looked for another security guard near the College of Music to ask. I found a second security guard on his post at U.P. theater near Abelardo Hall. I asked the security guard, "aside from telling the students to go home, what are the other things that a guard will do?" I put a smile on my face so that he would think that I was asking for a not too serious answer. He smiled back and said, "tinatakot namin yung mga estudyante para umuwi." (we would scare the students to go home.)

My thery is right. It all makes sense now. I suddenly realized the framework of the rumor why the story is very strong. There are two types of people involved in this case; the guards and the people passing by. The guards create the rumor to scare the students to go home and the people passing by will support the rumor by telling stories that they heard noises inside the College of Music even at night, which is originally created by the people inside the building either while practicing or cleaning the instruments because the college have no definite time to close.

18:47. with case finally solved, I walked back to see the other team I left at U.P. Lagoon. I texted Elise and ask their exact location. After receiving her reply, I immediately pushed towards the dark areas of U.P. Lagoon. I saw them waiting beside a tree. When I approach them, they reported 3 facts they’ve observed about U.P. Lagoon at night:

• There are lots of people staying in the dark areas of lagoon whatever the reason they may have.

• There are always a group of kids passing by. and

• Its very dark, only concrete paths have lights.

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•        Fyro and Elise Heartnet

•        To the Security Guards of U.P. Theatre and College of Music

•       “Kuya Mike”

With the information they gave me, I formed a theory about the creature of U.P. Lagoon;

I recall the article I read on the internet, a creature that laughs with multiple voices and has 2 bright eyes moving up and down as if it was jumping and hides behind the trees. My theory is that those laughs were from kids walking in the lagoon. The moving shadows that look like someone is hiding behind a tree are people staying at night. What confuse me is the eyes. What are the things that look like bright eyes and moves up and down?

I looked at the pictures to see if they caught something with the camera. One picture gave me an idea.

This picture has multiple lines created by light of the road and camera capture while walking. But I need a source of light that moves up and down. Street lights don’t move. A light from a car moves but in a horizontal motion.

 I asked Fyro how they knew that those kids are coming. Fyro said, “They’re laughing. And the phones they’re holding are very bright and moving.”

That’s it. The creature in U.P. Lagoon is actually people spending the night in there. They’re having fun and usually walk in group. The 2 bright eyes that look like jumping are actually lights came from the screens on their phones that moves up and down synchronically when they walk. That solves the mystery of the creature in U.P. Lagoon.

Its funny how people often mistake something or someone as a threat when they’re scared. The ghosts in their heads become stronger each time they fed it with rumors. Fear comes from your thoughts. Ghosts come out when they sense fear. No fear, No ghost. This is the Stray Russian Blue. When you saw something, always think that your mind is quicker than your eyes.

I Saw Something Case 3

Special Thanks to:

Gadgets and gears by Asilianna de Montesquieu

Story and photos by Snow de Montesquieu (The Stray Russian Blue)

I Saw Something Case 2 - The Curses of Balete Drive

I Saw Something

Case 2 – The Curses of Balete Drive

(09-21-13)

“One afternoon around 4pm, my mother and my sister came from the house of a friend who lives in the mid-part of Balete Drive. There’re no public transport passing that time may be because of taxi drivers are avoiding the said road and because the road is poorly lit so they decided to walk to get to the nearest high way where there’re vehicles to ride. When they got to the end of Balete Drive which is E. Rodriguez high way and about to cross to the other side, they saw an old lady coming out of a jeepney wearing black with hood covering her face holding a big black candle like she’s attending for a procession. As the lady in black stand beside them waiting for a chance to walk across, my mom and sister suddenly felt an eerie feeling. Out of curiosity, they peek on the lady’s face and shocked as they saw a skull like face. The lady walked across E. Rodriguez high way going to Balete Drive.”

Mrs. Sandra told me yesterday.

 This is the Russian Blue. I love listening to ghost stories. However, I choose which story I believe in. It would take standards and justifications before I could say which part of the story is true to believe and which is too good to be true. But I’m no ghost hunter. I just believe sometimes a ghost story is just a product of fear and superstitions.  And to prove the truth, I will go there where everything happened and try to experience what they experienced. And if the story is untrue, would you still believe it?

Balete Drive. One of the most haunted place in the Philippines. Almost every driver knows this haunted road and they’re trying to avoid it. Internet is flooding by its’ haunted stories. Without any specific time frame; most of its victims are Taxi drivers.

11:32. 21^st of September. I leave the house and bike from Cubao to SM North to get my gears for my next destination.

There’re lots of stories about Balete Drive. Whether its origin or the haunting effects, Balete Drive can almost full a book of ghost stories. So many I already made a list:

Origin:

• A young woman raped by a taxi driver and threw beside a Balete tree after killed. May be this is the reason why the lady in white always haunts the taxi drivers, hoping to see the driver who raped her.
• A girl failed to escape from her family and killed. She was said to ride on taxis still trying to escape even in the afterlife.

Haunting:

• The lady in white that rides on taxi’s and suddenly vanishes
• The floating lady in white on Balete trees
• Balete Drive’s road that doesn't end
• The headless lady
• Old lady in black
• The haunted big abandoned house
• The spirit of couple that rides on taxis and disappears
• The three laughing witches
• Walking dead shackled dog

I’ve studied each story that I’ve gathered and planned how to prove each story. A family friend –Mrs. Sandra Soulcross told me some stories about Balete Drive. She mentioned four of the stories in my list: the headless lady, the old lady in black, the three laughing witches and the old abandoned house. I listened carefully on her stories but none of them is her experience. All of the stories she told me was actually her mother’s experience and night guards’ experience. The famous story on my list is the lady in white who ride on taxis and suddenly disappears based on my research. On Mrs. Sandra’s story, the taxi driver died after he saw the headless lady and hit the concrete electric post. She only heard that story from a night guard who saw the incident.

12:16 at SM North, I took a heavy lunch while reviewing the stories and rumours that I’ve got since last week. After I packed my gears and satisfy myself; I immediately grabbed Tatang and pushed on to Balete Drive.

It’s already 13:45 when I reached Balete Drive. The weather is not too hot or too cold. I can feel the strong wind passing through my shirt and destroying my hairstyle. Surprisingly, Balete Drive is not as I expected it from the stories I’ve heard. At first, I confirmed it to some locals there if it is the Balete Drive. I got the positive answer. It is really the Balete Drive I’m looking for.

No abandoned house, no creepy looking people, no Balete trees and no ghosts. It’s as lively as any other streets in Quezon City. There’re taxis everywhere, under construction buildings, establishments are earning, street lights in every corner, and if there’s something present in every house; that would be their high wall fences.

It’s as high as their house. They stand in different designs and colours. These concrete wall-fences made the Balete Drive looked like a giant Mouse Maze; An outstanding proof of Wealthy and safety behind those walls.

There are also trees here. Acacia tree, but no Balete tree. Acacia trees grow abundantly in this road. I think it outnumbered the houses there. In the stories I’ve heard, Balete Drive is called that because of those Balete trees lined up beside the road. Balete trees are giant trees with tentacle like roots hanging all over it making them look very scary and often used as an element of horror in Filipino urban myths.

 I’m not a taxi driver and the fact that Tatang has no back seat; the rumour about a lady in white sitting on the passenger seat will not take effect on me (Although I consider it more like hitch-hiking because that lady in white is not paying the fare at all). Asking taxi drivers is the only way if that story were true. For now, the rumour that I will prove is the playfulness of Balete Drive where they say that the road goes infinite. Not a disadvantage for me. Only horror movies make the car hard to start or drain its gas in escape attempt. Bikes are convenient in this investigation.

My starting line would be N. Domingo Avenue corner Balete Drive. And my finish line (if I could get to the other end) is E. Rodriguez Avenue corner Balete Drive. As I looked at it, I should reach the other end of Balete Drive within ten minutes. If after ten minutes E. Rodriguez is still nowhere to be found, the curse of Balete drive affected me and I would really have to wear my shirt inside out.

Exactly 13:50 when I started to drive and dare the playful habit of Balete Drive. While driving, I keep on noticing the street sign Slow down accident prone area sign maybe every a hundred of meters from each other even the road has no sharp curve, no falling rocks, no bulky road or crossing children. Maybe Manila traffic authorities also believe in the curse of Balete Drive.

Within ten minutes, I reached N. Domingo – Balete Drive. I did a smooth ride and everything looks normal. It seems that the curse of the endless road is untrue or maybe it doesn’t affect bikes at all. The playful habit of Balete Drive that gives drivers free hours tour might only be a product of fear and imagination of a driver. Like a student waiting for the bell to ring, Scared drivers already wanted to reach the other end of Balete Drive even though they’ve just driving there for less than a minute. If you’re scared, ten seconds feels like ten minutes.

I sat beside an acacia tree beside Balete Drive to take a rest. The Side walk is surprisingly clean. Street sweepers must’ve been doing their best to erase the scary face of Balete Drive. While analyzing the other stories I’ve heard, I decided to find the old big and classic house in Mrs. Sandra’s story.

After a fifteen-minute break, I packed up my gears to search the old abandoned house. Back when I was driving I’m sure there’s no old and big abandoned house so I tried to find it on some streets connected to Balete Drive. On my search, I saw two old houses. One is located at Campanilla Street and the other is in Mangga Street. The old house at Campanilla Street is old and its high fence is covered with flowery bushes. It’s hard to see what’s inside. It is very old and full of trees at the yard but not abandoned. I saw someone goes out of the gate to throw the garbage outside and talked to neighbours. She doesn’t look like a ghost either so I guess this is not the house that Mrs. Sandra is talking about.

The 2^nd old house on Mangga Street is also the 2^nd most suspicious house in Balete Drive. It is built with wood and classic steel bars for window. But like the other house, it is also not abandoned. It is air-conditioned and there’s door bell on the gate. Although I don’t know if that door bell is functional. I suppose all of the houses there have door bells. Maybe the old abandoned house in Mrs. Sandra’s story has been brought down or maybe it really never existed.

As I stroll at the side walk in the same road, I stumbled in front of a Centenary house. It is an old classic Filipino style house with statues of angels above its door preserved and guarded.

I continue walking and found a security guard taking a break on a bakery. His name is Rowell Bautista. He’s in service for three years and working there for five months. I asked him if he heard some stories about Balete Drive. He explained everything to the best he could. As I understand, the real point of what he said was; “there’re no ghosts here”. He also mentioned that he’s also biking to get home at E. Rodriguez Avenue every night and there’s nothing strange happening.

In an instant, all of the ghost apparitions I’ve heard including the shackled dog and endless road turned unreal. If I’m a ghost hunter, I’ll just go home not to avoid wasting another minute. But I’m not a ghost hunter, I’m looking for an answer why these fear and superstitions lived only outside but not in Balete Drive itself.

17:09. I’m still not satisfied with my findings so looked for a taxi driver willing to entertain my hungry mind.  As I turned right to Campanilla Street, I saw a taxi driver preparing to take a good nap inside his car. I rushed beside his taxi and knocked his window. I apologized for disturbing him and asked if he could share an experience in Balete Drive. He smiled and agreed but he requested not to put his name on my investigation. He goes out and sat on the front of his car. The Taxi driver started to talk,

“The story of Balete Drive is a type of successful urban folklore made by the seniors who lived here years ago to prevent their children from playing late outside and leaving at night. It’s a huge success because those poor children really believed on that story until they finally grew up. They told it to their kids and those kids to other kids and so on. Then those kids will grow and rides to us taxi drivers. And the story telling continues. That’s somehow the story reached me.”

Like me, that taxi driver is a bit picky in listening to ghost stories. Sometimes, he’s just listening to them so avoid boredom in driving. “pakulo lang ng mga matatanda yan para matakot tayo” he added. After listening to his story, there are only five words in my mind; “my work here is done”.

That’s it. This place is not haunted or whatsoever. What are haunted are the minds of the people who pass this road. The ghosts in their heads that manifest on their eyes each time they strongly believe in it because of fear and results to accidents. The long road of Balete Drive which is only minutes to drive becomes hourly because they already want to reach the end of the road. The shackled dog that could be a pet of someone living here, escaped from his owner and the darkness of the poorly lit Balete Drive gives its scary appearance that which made them look like a zombie dog to a scared person’s eyes. The old lady who has been judged by her appearance is not actually a ghost but might be someone who came from a cathedral to praise. The headless lady in white that disappears might be a product of lights of other vehicles and reflection from the mirror.

It’s already 18:11. Tatang has neither headlights nor backlight. I don’t want to get hit by a scared driver. This Street must rather be called “Road of Imaginations” than “Haunted Road”. Maybe that’s the reason why I didn’t see any paranormal thing; simply because my parents didn’t talk about Balete Drive when I was a kid. I didn’t believe in Balete Drives curse like the ones who lived and drive there.

I Saw Something Case 2

Special Thanks to:

• Mr. Rowell Bautista
• Mrs. Sandra Soulcross
• to the Taxi Driver

Gadgets and gears by Asilianna de Montesquieu

Photos taken and story written by Snow de Montesquieu (The Stray Russian Blue)

I Saw Something Case 1 - The little girl in a college campus

I Saw Something Case 1

The little girl in a college campus

(09-14-13)

14:57. “I saw a girl, sitting on the back of the class room IIA-301a” -Jhie

An Entrepreneurship student reported that she saw a little girl in an empty class room at the 3rd floor of the University's main building on August 31, around 6 in the evening.

Hi. I’m the Stray Russian Blue. Today is 14^th of September in the year 2013. Today is September 14, 2013. The rain will never seem to quit from giving me a headache. Not to mention the cold wind that makes my toothache worst. Despite of the angry weather condition and wet road, I pushed myself to the School where terrified students claim that they saw something. After 30 minutes of biking, I have arrived at the school. Damn it. It’s still raining.

I've been inside the classroom where students said “haunted” by a playful spirit of a child –the room IIA-301a. Is there really something strange going on in this room whenever a class period ends?

The management of the school doesn't want me to say the name of the school neither the students nor school personnel involved in this case.

This university is located somewhere in Quezon City. It is right behind a famous mall in the Philippines. Easy to identify where your students might be when they’re gone missing.  It is also standing inside a high school campus where you have to walk through upon entering the college grounds. I arrived at seven in the morning to find a parking lot. There’re few high school students because today is Saturday. After requesting permission and data gathering, I finally had my right to tour around the school. The college grounds were actually small compared to the high school ground which is 9-times bigger. They only have one building with 3 floors some rooms of a high school building beside. Some class rooms are often vacant specially Saturdays. No wonder why these “sightings” were only present during weekends.

After a quick tour and interviews with some students, I learned that the room 301a has many ghostly stories even before. An I.T. graduate student Miriam says, “The room is already haunted, even when I was a fresh man. I can’t remember the first time that I experienced something paranormal on that room. It was near evening, when our last period of the day has finally ended. One of my class-mate who’s already outside first left his denim jacket on the back row of the room. I was still inside the room together with a few classmates. When he returned to get his jacket, we’re shocked to see a blurred; dark-figure of a man wearing the denim jacket. In our panic, we screamed while the others ran outside. In a snap, the jacket suddenly fell off and the dark figure vanished like a smoke. I will never forget that experience.”  Miriam also told me that the lights on the back part of the room are turned off when the apparition happened.

After hearing those from Miriam, I asked Jhie to accompany me to the class room.

Jhie and I went to the class room at the 3^rd floor of the building. When we got to the class room, there was a dead silence despite of the heavy falling rain. When I entered the room, I kept looking on the middle alley of the room. I felt an eerie feeling that someone is watching me from the empty seats. Jhie also points the exact place where she saw the child was sitting politely. It actually caught my attention right after I entered the room because all of the seats are made of hard plastic mono block chairs aside from one wooden chair on the back of the room. Just staring on the freaking wooden chair makes me feel nervous. As an adventurer, I expect the worst like a ghost might puffs out on the chair like the ones in the movies. I guess horror films don’t do anything good for me.

Nothing came out on the chair. The chair doesn't transform into something horrifying either, but when we’re about to go out of the room, a strong lightning struck maybe on the top of the building. Even I got shocked by the sound. It made Jhie scream on her might. After taking pictures of the room at 16:30, Jhie left me because she has a class to attend. But before she left me, she said that she’s not the only person who saw the child. If you heard a story from a person, it might be a made-up story. I you heard another story with different experience; it is now called a rumor. But if almost everybody claims that they saw or experience the same thing, it is now a fact or rather a routine. There’s a person known as Chie that also saw the same girl. This Chie told Jhie that he also saw the child but that moment, the child was running in the corridor of 3^rd floor around 7:00 in the evening. Bad news for me though, this Chie doesn't want to talk about it.

17:25. I went down to the lobby and asked the guards if there’s a child who entered the school that day. One of the guards said that there’s a little girl playing around the college grounds at day time when the cafeteria is still open. “Our cafeteria vendor here has a daughter around 5 years old who always plays around the building. But, at 5 pm the cafeteria is already closed and the vendor who has a child is probably in their house at 6.” Said the guard “and I remember that day, I did my patrol period at 6 pm, there’s no child in the building. We would have seen her if she passes the lobby”. Based on what I've observed, the guard is telling the truth that the lobby is the only way to enter the college grounds. They strongly assure that there’s no child that night.

How come those only students can experience these ghostly encounters? Does this prove that if you believe that something is in there, what you think will manifest on what you see?

At last, the rain minimized its anger; I took a little walk outside around the building. I noticed 2 high school buildings stood near the college building. There’s a long building with yellow colour paint named Dao. It is somehow the closest high school building. So close, that a college and high school student can have a conversation about how boring their professors could be. In the other hand, the 2^nd nearest building that belongs to high school looks like a prison camp. I don’t know, maybe the director of the school wants a building for naughty students or something. I immediately imagined horrifying things happening inside that building if the students didn’t make their home works. If I would be a student of this school, I don’t want to spend my life in prison. In Dao, I found a high school student who’s studying in this school for 3 years. I asked her if she had a paranormal experience while she’s inside Dao. She said she’s just having a feeling that she’s not alone whenever she’s by herself. She’s just also hearing rumours about Dao that was haunted. With a coffee in my hand and the sky starting to get dark, I head back to the college building’s 3^rd floor to experience the presence of this playful girl.

18:26. I was planning to stay in the room until 8pm. Sad to say, there’s an on-going class until 9pm in the class room. By that moment, I have no choice but to leave the school. Feeling unsatisfied, I studied the pictures that I got to see if there’s any apparition. Unfortunately these pictures are just pictures. Maybe these encounters only happen only when it’s getting dark. There may be a ghost or not, what matters is how you believe what you saw, for the school’s “little girl” might only be a manifestation of what you think. Every person has their own ways to tell, whether we’re talking about the same experience, whether we saw the same mystery.

This is the Stray Russian Blue. When you see something and finally, you prove it’s not only you who saw it, will you still believe it?

Special thanks to:

• Ms. Jhie
• Ms. Miriam
• to school guards
• to all the staff of this University
• the cafeteria for coffee

Gadgets and Gears by Asilianna de Montesquieu

Photos taken and story written by Snow de Montesquieu (The Stray Russian Blue)