Malacañan Palace Prowlers: Ghosts, elementals, and other phantasmagoric tales according to the Official Gazette.
A prominent photo spread in the definitive Malacañan Palace: The Official Illustrated Historyfeatures a panoramic view of the Palace’s State Entrance, with the accompanying balete tree [strangler fig]—and, it seems, the headless figure of one of the members of the Presidential Security Group. The image has sparked much speculation, feeding suspicions of the Palace being the ultimate haunted house—and prompting many of the book’s owners to splay its pages open to visitors. However, when asked if he had truly captured a specter on film, photographer Wig Tysmans offered a simple explanation: long exposure. The now-immortalized security personnel must have held his pose throughout the exposure, only to move his head before it ended.
a local soothsayer stopped at the Palace gates to tell the guards that a severe typhoon would destroy the Palace should any of them “wear a beard.” The tale was repeated to Mrs. Taft who, apparently to forestall the manghuhula or sorcerer, forbade the servants from growing beards—even scraggly mustaches that some of the muchachos had affected. The prohibition apparently worked, for the severe typhoons that rainy season failed to destroy the Palace.
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