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Dr. Albert Einstein died on April 18, 1955 at Princeton Hospital in Trenton, New Jersey. In accordance with his wishes, he was cremated without ceremony on the same day, and his ashes scattered at an undisclosed location. But the body that arrived at the cremation oven was not quite complete… it was lacking its brain.
That’s because Einstein’s brain was sitting in a jar of formaldehyde in Dr. Thomas Harvey’s office. Dr. Harvey was the pathologist who performed Einstein’s autopsy, and while doing so, he removed and kept the brain for his own study. Some say that Einstein volunteered his brain for research, but the executor of his estate denies this, saying that it was Einstein’s son Hans who made the decision to have it preserved. But the press soon learned that Einstein’s brain had been set aside for study, and antagonized Einstein’s family with unwanted attention.
Dr. Harvey became very protective of the brain, and divided it into 240 sections, which he kept in jars at his house. Despite being in possession of the organ for years, he never published any findings, saying that he was unable to find anything unusual about it. But over the years he gave away samples of the brain to various researchers, and one such recipient, Dr. Marian Diamond from UC Berkeley, studied the brain and discovered some interesting features.
A brain’s network of neurons are fed and nourished by cells called glial cells. Dr. Diamond compared the percentage of glial cells in Einstein’s brain to that of other men who died at the age he did, and found that his contained about 73% more than the average. This indicated that Einstein’s neurons probably had a greater metabolic need; they needed and used more energy.
For years, Dr. Harvey toted the rest of the brain with him every time he relocated, until in 1996 when he moved back to New Jersey. There, Dr. Harvey surrendered the remaining pieces of Einstein’s brain to Dr. Elliot Krauss, the chief pathologist at Princeton Hospital. Soon the brain was subjected to some serious scientific scrutiny. Scientists from McMaster University were given access to it, and they discovered that Einstein’s brain was remarkable in several other ways.
The researchers found that Einstein’s brain was 15% wider than average, due to the fact that the inferior parietal regions on both hemispheres were much more developed than most. This would have given Einstein some powerful visualization skills, given that these regions of the brain are largely responsible for visuospatial cognition, mathematical thought, and imagery of movement. They also found that Einstein’s brain lacked the groove which usually runs through part of this area, which suggests that the neurons might have been able to work together more easily given their proximity.
During his life, Einstein was quick to downplay his own intellect, being heard to remark, “The contrast between the popular assessment of my powers … and the reality is simply grotesque.” On another occasion, he said, “I have no special talents, I am only passionately curious.” But his achievements during his life and the examination of his brain after his death have indicated that he possessed a mind capable of great leaps of insight and visualization.
These days, Einstein’s brain spends most of its time sitting in jars of formaldehyde at Princeton Hospital, no doubt waiting to unlock even more insight into the mysterious construction of a genius mind. “The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious,” Albert Einstein once said. “It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.”
Smart lad.
The excitement of discovery is infectious. One new enticing finding leads continuously on and on and on. What discovery led me to study the ratio of glial cells to neurons in Einstein’s brain back in the early 1980s? The answer is not found in a single, simple statement but is based on decades of work on how the environment affects the anatomy of the brain.
Reconstructing the series of events that led up to the final cell counts was a challenge, but roughly here is the sequence: (1) a comment by a friendly professor 25 years previously, (2) the results showing that brains from rats living in enriched conditions possessed more glial cells per neuron than brains from rats living in impoverished conditions, (3) a photograph from the journal Science showing a cardboard box sitting beside a desk with a caption stating that Einstein’s brain was in that box, (4) a quiet afternoon during which everyone appeared to be busy but me so I had time to think, and (5) superb technical and statistical assistance.
In general, one could now say simply that 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 = the difference in the glial/neuron ratio in Einstein’s brain compared with the average glial/neuron ratio in a sample of other human male brains. Let me now expand upon each part of the equation.
One day in my teaching laboratory, a world renowned professor of neuroanatomy, Professor Gerhardt von Bonin, mentioned that he thought the inferior parietal cortex was more highly evolved than the prefrontal cortex. This idea was contrary to what is normally accepted. Since the number of glial cells per neuron increases as one ascends the phylogenetic tree, I reasoned that the more highly evolved area in the human brain should have more glial cells per neuron. From 11 human, male, preserved brains, I removed a sugar cube-size piece from right and left prefrontal and inferior parietal cortex, giving 44 samples. Thus, we had a data base of human cortical glial/neuron ratios. We learned the frontal cortex did have more glial cells/neuron than the parietal cortex.
By now you must be wondering just what are nerve cells and glial cells. Only these two kinds of cells are responsible for all of the human behavior generated by the brain.
What then is a nerve cell? A nerve cell is the major signally unit of the nervous system. A stimulus comes to the body, stimulates a nerve cells which sends the message to other nerve cells. There are 100 billion nerve cells in the brain, as many as stars in our galaxy.
Each of these nerve cells can contact as many as 10,000 other nerve cells. Though a great variety of sizes and shapes exists, all share four common features: dendrites and a cell body, an axon hillock, an axon and axon terminal. The dendrites and the cell body are the receptive component; the axon hillock is the integrative component, the axon is the conductile component and the axon terminal is the output or secretory component. Through the wiring setup during development, and modified by learning, these nerve cells can generate complex behavior.
What then are glial cells? Glial cells are the metabolic and structural support cells for the nerve cells. In general the nerve cells do not divide after birth, for example, in the outer layers of your brain you do not get new nerve cells after you are born.
You must live your full one hundred years with the same nerve cells, but the glial cells do divide. Glial cells are more numerous than nerve cells. The glial/neuron ratio steadily increases with phylogeny with the preponderance of glia over neurons reaching its peak in humans. Don’t ever sell glial cells short. What are some of their important functions ?
They play an active role in establishing and maintaining the fundamental patterns of neuron circuits.
They produce growth and trophic factors, playing a key role in regeneration and plasticity.
Some play an active role in the formation of myelin which speeds impulse conduction. Myelinated fibers conduct more rapidly than unmyelinated fibers.
Some glial cells respond to rapid repair of myelin in demyelinating diseases such as MS and ALS.
Glial cells play a crucial role in immunological responses to various infections and toxic agents.
Glial cells increase in number when nerve cells grow with enrichment.
With these definitions you can now appreciate how important glial cells are to serve the nerve cells.
- Back to our story. In the early 1960s, the laboratories both of Joseph Altman at Purdue and ours had found that the cerebral cortex from rats living in enriched environments had more glial cells per neuron than the cortex from rats living in impoverished environments. Active cortical neurons needed more support cells.
- The graduate students had clipped a photo of the box with Einstein’s brain from Science magazine and attached it to the laboratory wall. The caption mentioned that the brain was in Kansas. A daily exposure to its message was available for all who entered the laboratory.
- I was sitting by myself in my husband’s office at UCLA one day with nothing to do but think. I wondered if I could obtain only four pieces of Einstein’s brain comparable to the ones already studied. I picked up the phone and called the University of Kansas Department of Anatomy and learned that a Dr. Thomas Harvey, Missouri, had Einstein’s brain. Why he took the brain to Missouri I do not know. Who was Thomas Harvey? He was the pathologist at Princeton at the time of Einstein’s death. He had had the keen foresight so that when Einstein died, Harvey fixed his brain rapidly in formaldehyde to preserve the nerve cells before they disintegrated. Twenty-five years later I began negotiating by calling Thomas Harvey in Weston Missouri every six months for about three years before I received the four precious blocks of tissue in my mail box in the Life Sciences Building. When the package first arrived, the only person in the office was the office manager. I said rather breathlessly, ” Guess what I have here in this box, Jerry? ” He sort of gave me half of his attention and when I said “parts of Einstein’s brain,” he replied, “Oh, come on Marian.” Believe me, after that when I asked him what I had received in the mail on another day, he certainly gave me his full attention.
- In a mayonnaise jar filled with fluid, here were my four sugarcube-size pieces of Einstein’s brain. Evidently, Harvey had cut up the brain and embedded the pieces in a substance called celloidin which harden almost like plastic. Having the brain in this condition was ideal for my purposes because we wanted to count cells under the microscope. To do this it was necessary to make thin slices, 6 micra in thickness (a micron is one thousandth of a millimeter). In order to cut at this precise level of thickness the tissue had to be processed in celloidin. Preserving the brain in this manner does not allow for some other methods of examination such as refined chemical analysis. We were extremely fortunate to have the tissue preserved in a way that proved ideal for us. We had our 44 pieces of brain from the 11 normal males. We could now compare the glial neuron ratios in the 4 pieces from Einstein’s brain with the 44 pieces from the normal males. With the help of an excellent technician and statistician (a scientist rarely works alone), we learned that in all four areas, Einstein had more glial cells per neuron than the average man, but in only the left inferior parietal area did he have statistically significantly more.
What is the function of this inferior parietal area? We studied both the inferior parietal and prefrontal association areas of Einstein’s brain because such regions are known to be concerned with “higher” mental functions. These regions do not directly receive primary sensory information but rather, as their name implies, they “associate” or analyze inputs from other brain regions. The association cortices are the last domains of the cortex to myelinate, indicating their comparatively late development. Lesions in the inferior parietal regions result in gross impairment in writing, spelling and calculation. One mathematician with a lesion in the inferior parietal area found it difficult to draw or write formulae and could not use a slide rule. Another lost the versatility of imagery and the capability for complex thinking.
It is not possible at present to identify with a high degree of specificity the independent functions of these zones. Undoubtedly with higher resolution obtained from modern technology, such as more advanced MRI and PET scans than presently available, greater specificity will be localized in the future.
In our study, the differences in glial/neuron ratios were unusually large, but we only had one Einstein to compare with 11 males. The findings would be more valid if we had 11 Einsteins, but at least the study was a first step that no one had taken previously.
Copyright © 1999 Marian Diamond
Posted with permission of the author in 1999 by New Horizons for Learning
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1. Coca-Cola was originally green.
2. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
3.The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they
start with.
4. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
5. There are two credit cards for every person in the United States .
6. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters
only on one row of the keyboard.
7. Women blink nearly twice as much as men!
8. You can’t kill yourself by holding your breath..
9. It is impossible to lick your elbow.
10. People say “Bless you” when you sneeze because when you sneeze,your
heart stops for a millisecond.
11. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
12. The “sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick” is said to be the
toughest tongue twister in the English language.
13. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to
suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
14. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from
history.
Spades - King David
Clubs - Alexander the Great,
Hearts - Charlemagne
Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
15. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
16. If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs
in the air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in
the air,the person died as a result of wounds received inbattle.If the horse
has a all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
17. What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and
laser printers all have in common?
Ans. - All invented by women.
18. Question - This is the only food that doesn’t spoil. What is this?
Ans. - Honey
19. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
20. A snail can sleep for three years.
21. All polar bears are left handed.
22. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive
from each salad served in first-class.
23. Butterflies taste with their feet.
24.Elephants are the only animals that can’t jump.
25.In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
26. On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
27. Shakespeare invented the word ‘assassination’ and ‘bump’.
28. Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
29. The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
30. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
31. The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to
the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
32. Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have
over million descendants.
33. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria
in your ear by 700 times.
34. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
35. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
36. Like fingerprints, everyone’s tongue print is different
37. And finally 99% of people who read this will try to lick their
elbow.
Why?
Do hummingbirds hum because they don’t know the words?
Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery?
Do witches run spell checkers?
How come wrong numbers are never busy?
How do they get the “Keep off the Grass” sign on the grass?
How do you throw away a garbage can?
How do you write zero in Roman numerals?
If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?
If Barbie’s so popular, why do you have to buy all her friends?
If blind people wear dark glasses, why don’t deaf people wear earmuffs?
If nothing ever sticks to TEFLON, how do they make TEFLON stick to the pan?
If you can’t drink and drive, why do bars have parking lots?
If you take an Oriental person and spin him around several times, does he become disoriented?
If you’re in a vehicle going the speed of light, what happens when you turn on the headlights?
What hair color do they put on the driver’s license of a bald man?
What happens if you get scared half to death,…twice?
What is the speed of dark?
When they first invented the clock, how did they know what time it was to set it to?
Why are cigarettes sold in gas stations when smoking is prohibited there?
Why do they make cars go so fast its illegal?
Why do they make scented toilet paper?
Why do you need a driver’s license to buy liquor when you can’t drink and drive?
Why doesn’t glue stick to the inside of the bottle?
Why is a person who plays the piano called a pianist, but a person who drives a race car not called a racist?
Why is it considered necessary to nail down the lid of a coffin?
Why is it that to stop Windows XP, you have to click on “Start”?
Why is it you must wait until night to call it a day?
Why is the word dictionary in the dictionary?
Why isn’t there mouse-flavored cat food?
Everyone keeps going on about how bad video games are for you but they are blind to the fact video games actually have positive health effects that’s right positive as in good! I’m going to explain five amazing positive effects of video games to you right now! If you can’t hack the fact video games might actually be good for you then stop reading now.
1. “Video games damage your eyesight”. Well I’m sorry but they actually improve your eyesight! Playing video games and watching the screen; trying to find the guy who’s trying to snipe you improves your eyesight. This is because your eyes react to the fact they are being worked hard and become more efficient so that next time they won’t have to work as hard to perform the same task!
2. Video games can improve your logic and ability to solve problems. This is because most games involve some sort of strategy that you need to find out and improve as the game progresses; this is effectively training your brain’s logic and strategic abilities thus making it more efficient and effective.
3. Your hand eye coordination is greatly improved playing video games. Nearly all video games require continual fast, accurate and precise hand, finger and thumb movements. This strengthens the muscles in your hands and greatly improves your hand eye co-ordination.
4. Reaction speeds increase hugely from playing video games! In nearly all video games you often need to react fast. Obviously if you do something a lot then you are going to get better at it and it is for this reason that video games improve your reflexes and reaction speeds.
5. Last but not least video games improve your concentration span. Because in most games you need to concentrate for extended periods of time; the slightest lapse in concentration will be punished in nearly all games. If you concentrate lots then your concentration span will increase!
Video games are good for you! However I am not saying that playing 5 hours of video games a day is good for you because it is not; you will become unfit, tired and lazy all of which are detrimental to your health. But in moderation video games can be good for you!
Fruits should be taken
in an empty stomach?
not as dessert after the meal
as is often done.
If you eat fruit like that, it will also serve
a major role to detoxify your system, supplying you with a great deal of energy
for weight loss and other life activities.
Fruit is the Most Important Food
Let’s say you eat two slices of bread
and then a slice of fruit.
As fruit digests faster than bread,
the slice of fruit digests quickly
and is ready to go straight through
the stomach into the intestines,
but its passage is blocked by the bread which takes longer to digest?
In the meantime the whole meal ferments and turns to acid.
Consequently, when the fruit comes
into contact with the food
in the stomach and digestive juices,
the entire mass of food begins
to spoil.
So it is better to eat your fruits in an empty stomach or
before your meals !
You have heard people complaining ?
every time I eat water-melon I burp,
when I eat durian my stomach bloats up,
when I eat banana
I feel like running to the toilet etc ?
actually all this will not arise if you eat
the fruit in an empty stomach.
The fruit mixes with the putrefying other food and produces gas and hence you will bloat !
Graying hair, balding, nervous outburst,
dark circles under the eyes
all these will not happen if
you take fruits in an empty stomach.
It is incorrectly presumed that some fruits
like orange and lemon are acidic and will enhance acidity in the stomach.
Research however shows
that all fruits become alkaline
in our body.
When you need to drink fruit juice ?
drink only fresh fruit juice,
NOT from the cans.
Don’t drink juice that has been heated up.
Don’t eat cooked fruits because
you don’t get the nutrients at all.
You only get to taste.
So stop making ‘durian porridge’
if you want nutrients.
Cooking fruit destroys all the vitamins.
Eating the pulp or whole fruit
is far better than drinking the juice
as the fibre is good for you.
If you should drink the juice,
drink it mouthful by mouthful slowly,
because you must let it mix
with your saliva before swallowing it.
A 3-day “fruit fast” is
a very simple and effective way
to cleanse and de-toxify your body.
Just eat fruits and drink fruit juice throughout the 3 days and
you will be surprised when your friends
tell you how radiant you look !
During the “fruit fast” you can eat different fruits at different times, although occasionally mixed fruit salad would
also be permissible and more interesting.
If you have mastered
the correct way of eating fruits,
you have the secret of beauty,
longevity, health, energy,
happiness and normal weight.
So eat fresh fruits and always keep smiling
From E-mail.
Description: Folk medicine
Circulating since: March 2007 (email version)
Status: Claims are anecdotal / Scientifically unproven
It works 100 percent of the time, although the scientists at the Canada Research Council (who discovered it) aren’t sure why. To stop night-time coughing in a child (or an adult, as we found out personally), put Vicks Vaporub generously on the bottom of the feet at bedtime and then cover with socks.
Even persistent, heavy, deep coughing will stop in about five minutes, and stay stopped for many, many hours of relief. This works 100 percent of the time and is more effective in children than even very strong prescription cough medicines. In addition, it is extremely soothing and comforting and they will sleep soundly. I heard the head of The Canada Research Council describe these findings by their scientists when they were investigating the effectiveness and usage of prescription cough medicines in children as compared to alternative therapies like acupressure. I just happened to tune in to a.m. Radio and picked up this guy talking about why cough medicines in kids often do more harm than good due to the chemical make-up of these strong drugs, so I listened. It was found to be more effective than prescribed medicines for children at bedtime and in addition to have a soothing and calming effect on sick children who then went on to sleep soundly.
To stop night-time coughing in a child (or an adult), put Vicks Vaporub generously on the bottom of the feet at bedtime and then cover with socks.
Even persistent, heavy, deep coughing will stop in about five minutes, and stay stopped for many, many hours of relief. This works 100 percent of the time and is more effective in children than even very strong prescription cough medicines. In addition, it is extremely soothing and comforting and they will sleep soundly. Some found it to be more effective than prescribed medicines for children at bedtime and in addition to have a soothing and calming effect on sick children who then went on to sleep soundly.
Comments: Though I cannot prove them false, the above claims have neither been scientifically tested nor proven, nor is there a generally accepted medical explanation for how putting Vicks VapoRub on the soles of one’s feet could relieve a coughing fit. Some people who have tried it insist the treatment really works, but a smattering of anecdotal reports does not amount to proof.
“From the standpoint of traditional medicine,” observes pediatrician Vincent Iannelli, MD, “there is no good reason that rubbing Vicks VapoRub on a child’s feet should help a cough. In fact, many studies show that over-the-counter cough medicines don’t even help when you use them as they are intended.
“Why might it work?” he continues. “It could be that your child can still breathe the vapors, even if you put it on their feet. Or maybe the active ingredient, menthol, acts to dilate the blood vessels in the feet, and this triggers some reflex that quiets the cough. There are other reflexes that cause coughs, like we often see when we clean wax out of children’s ears, so it is not unthinkable that there are others.”
from e-mail.
Baguio City - Diplomat Hotel - This was a Seminary during the early 1900, world war 2 came and several priest and nuns were killed some of them beheaded by japanese occupying forces. This was converted into a hotel after the war. In it self it was pretty eerie, big rooms with to king size beds bibles at the side tables and the rooms are dimly lit. Clerks, bell hops, and hotel guest, complain of wailing even during day time, and when night comes, apparitions of headless priest roam the corridors, some even say that they see ghost carrying their heads on a platter. Haunting s are not limited inside the hotel for when you stroll outside the compound you would see neighboring houses with crosses painted on their doors and windows, and are kept shut when darkness falls.
Baguio City - Philippine Military Academy - Several ghosts haunt this place. Sometimes late at night a platoon can be heard marching in the parade grounds. A ghost of a cadet dressed in parade uniform and left in one of the lockers still appears. A ghost of a priest who was beheaded during the Japanese occupation period appears here as well as the ghost of a white lady.
Baguio City - Teacher’s Camp - It is believed that this was once a battlefield of the native citizens there. Ghosts of native warriors, as well as spirits that are still restless, are reportedly seen there.
Corregidor - Hospital Ruins, and bunkers - Sounds of activities can be heard within the area of the hospital ruins, which were destroyed during WW2, sounds such as footsteps, and rumblings of normal hospital activities. Around the bunker area, sounds of ghostly moans can be heard, assorted noises as well.
Corregidor - Malinta Tunnel - Witnesses report eerie sounds and seeing a spirit near by.
Davao City - Juna Subdivision - Champaca Street - ghosts caught on video and seen by the naked eye.
Diliman Teacher’s Village - Claret School qc - Many stories were spread since 97 the first was the high school student who jumped from the 5th floor to the ground that appears when the area is silent and the 2nd is the headless priest. That school is said to be an old cemetery.
Espana - Manila - University of Santo Tomas - Ghosts and wailing voices are heard from the 3rd and 2nd floars of UST Main Building. Since this is the oldest building in the oldest Catholic university in the Philippines, it is undoubted that some Spanish friars and Filipino souls were tormented and killed in this place.
Iloilo City - Central Philippine University (CPU) - This school was founded by American Missionaries and during WW2 many of the missionaries were executed by the Japanese.
Iloilo City - Central Philippine University (CPU) - Football Field - A female ghost is said to be seen jogging on the tracks early in the morning. She is said to join you while you are jogging and strikes up a conversation and will disappear after she passes a certain spot. Several students, teachers, and the school president have reported jogging with her.
Iloilo City - Central Philippine University (CPU) - Ruby Hall - A school janitor as well as students and teachers have reported that wile passing by the building at night after it is locked down, one classrooms lights would always be turned on while everything else is shut off. They have reported strange imp like creatures running around the classroom. This is one of the most haunted halls in the university. This is a medical hall and it houses several cadavers for the use of the med. students. From cold spots and moving furniture, to sometimes being pushed or tripped while walking.
Iloilo City - Central Philippine University (CPU) - Valentine Hall - The ghost of a dead female student haunts the women’s restroom, several female students since the early 70’s have reported seeing her. The ghost is usually seen during noon. Classes have been interrupted because of screams from the girls. According to the students she appears behind them while they are looking in the mirror while doing their make up or fixing their hair. The ghost of Rev. Valentine who was beheaded can be seen on certain nights standing at the entrance of the hall dedicated to him. The ghost is reported to be headless.
Katipunan - Quezon City - Balete Drive - Balete Drive is a residential area famous for the apparition of a white lady. It is told that there was a teenage girl who was raped by a cab driver in the 50s in that area. It is possible that the lady of Balete is seeking revenge. Never walk alone at night in eerie Balete Drive.
Katipunan - Quezon City - Miriam College - the land where the school sits on now used stand a hospital and a market which burned down before becoming a school. Students have told me that you can see a nun walking in front of the mausoleum where it is said that the nuns who ran the school during its beginning are buried.
Katipunan - Quezon City - Miriam College - 1st Floor Cafeteria - There has been sightings of a bodiless (only head and feet) woman appearing in the stall of women’s bathroom the 1st floor cafeteria in the grade school building.
Katipunan - Quezon City - Miriam College - Caritas Building - on the 2nd floor ladies comfort room of the caritas building a nun haunts the bathroom and is said to peak over the stall while girls are using the bathroom. A face can be seen when you look above the door, but there are no feet when you look below the door
Katipunan - Quezon City - Miriam College - CSC - there was also this “manananggal” that lives there. It used to be a student that was hit by a car inside the campus. Rumors are that every school fair, someone faints.
Katipunan - Quezon City - Miriam College - High School AV Room - There There has also been sightings of an evil entity in the AV room in the high school building…a student was said to be getting ready in that room for an evening performance when she saw, in the mirror, a face with an evil look smiling at her.
Katipunan - Quezon City - Miriam College - Immaculate Heart Of Mary Hall - One witness claims that when they where in Grade 3 encountered that a spirit scratched her ankle when they were doing the 99 steps. And then, when she came back to the corridor, she was crying. And then she told us all to cover our nametags and never shout our name until class time.
Katipunan - Quezon City - Miriam College - Miriam Of Nazareth Hall - in the Grade 2 bathroom, there was this girl who was washing her hands, and there was a demon that came out of the toilet bowl. The girl prayed hard but nothing happened.
Katipunan - Quezon City - University of the Philippines Diliman - Ghosts sightings at the College of Education, College of Science Library, Palma Hall, College of Mass Communication, UP Main Library.
Makati City - Asian Institute of Management - A Professor died of a heart attack a few years ago in one of lecture rooms on the third floor of the main building. There are voices; shadows and cold spots can be felt in that specific room where the professor died. His car remains in the faculty parking area even until now.
Makati City - International School Manila (Former Campus) - Fine Arts Theatre - One year, one of the high school students was acting as the stage manager for the Community Play. The theatre was already uncomfortable for her when it was dark, but one night, on her way out, she was leaving through the front doors of the auditorium, something she couldn’t see followed her up the aisle. Very aggressive, very menacing and very scary. She ran out the door just in time as they slammed shut behind her. Suffice it to say, she never stayed in the theater alone again.
Manila - Arellano high school - there are spirits mostly seen by the students and teachers because when a building in front of the school collapsed by an earthquake many years ago, the remains were placed in the said school. so the spirits were staying in that place.
Manila - De La Salle University - A chapel located on the 2nd floor of the De La Salle University -main Building is haunted by several ghosts said to be the victims of a mass killing during World War II. They start haunting the place when evening has crept in and the area is already silent. Sightings of headless monks and screams of people are being heard there during rainy nights.
Manila - Film Center - When the construction of Film Center at the Cultural Center of the Philippines complex was rushed in the early 1980s for a film fest, the ceiling scaffolding collapsed killing several workmen who fell to the orchestra below. Rather than halt construction to rescue survivors and retrieve the bodies of dead workmen, cement was poured into the orchestra, entombing the fallen workmen. Some of them were buried alive in the orchestra. Various ghostly activities were reported on the site including mysterious sounds, voices and poltergeist activity. In the late 1990s a group called the Spirit Questors began to make visits to the film center in an attempt to contact and appease the souls of the workmen who were killed in the building. Some of these spirits claimed to have moved on but a few allegedly remain.
Manila - Ozone Disco - Once there was a disco there and it caught on fire people tried to get out but people were pushing and panicking so no one got out. Some people hear disco music in their houses at night and see faint people dancing and no one can explain how.
Manila - Rizal Park area - Near the Rizal Park in Manila has the angry spirits of dead Japanese soldiers in the ruins of a building outside of the park. many Japanese soldiers died in the building when it was blasted. Reports of a cold presence and menacing feelings.
Muntinlupa - San Jose Village - An overgrown black bird with powerful wings can be heard circling the village whenever there’s a pregnant woman. It’s wings are so powerful that you’ll sometimes feel like its windy but only on the place where you’re standing at.
Muntinlupa - San Jose Village - St. Bernadette St. - From 12 midnight onwards, a lot of tricycle drivers have already encountered the white lady who loves to get a free ride. More often, this lady would be sitting beside the driver. Other times, a red lady is said to roam around the area following people who dread to walk this haunted street at night.
Muntinlupa - San Jose Village - St. Clemence Street - Another white lady haunts St. Clemence Street where her hair stands up and appears to be very angry.
Muntinlupa - San Jose Village - St. George Street - At St. George Street you can sometimes hear someone calling you but the voice is hidden in the tall grasses beside the street.
Muntinlupa - San Jose Village - St. Joseph - a mysterious headless priest is said to haunt the playground and the hill beside it.
Muntinlupa - San Jose Village - St. Peter’s Street - Ghostly apparitions of people partying near an old cave at St. Peter’s Street can be seen during unholy hours from 12mn to 3am.
San Juan Greenhills - Resalest educational center - A principal who haunts the students and stole money from them, people said that the haunted principal is a greedy ghost who lives in that school.
The brand new pastor and his wife, newly assigned to their first ministry, to reopen a church in suburban Brooklyn, arrived in early October excited about their opportunities. When they saw their church, it was very run down and needed much work. They set a goal to have everything done in time to have their first service on Christmas Eve.
They worked hard, repairing pews, plastering walls, painting, etc. and on Dec 18 were ahead of schedule and just about finished. On Dec 19 a terrible tempest - a driving rainstorm - hit the area and lasted for two days. On the 21st, the pastor went over to the church. His heart sank when he saw that the roof had leaked, causing a large area of plaster about 20 feet by 8 feet to fall off the front wall of the sanctuary just behind the pulpit, beginning about head high.
The pastor cleaned up the mess on the floor, and not knowing what else to do but postpone the Christmas Eve service, headed home. On the way he noticed that a local business was having a flea market type sale for charity so he stopped in. One of the items was a beautiful, handmade,
ivory colored, crocheted tablecloth with exquisite work, fine colors and a Cross embroidered right in the center. It was just the right size to cover up the hole in the front wall. He bought it and headed back to the church. By this time it had started to snow.
An older woman running from the opposite direction was trying to catch the bus. She missed it. The pastor invited her to wait in the warm church for the next bus 45 minutes later. She sat in a pew and paid no attention to the pastor while he got a ladder, hangers, etc., to put up the tablecloth as a wall tapestry. The pastor could hardly believe how beautiful it looked and it covered up the entire problem area. Then he noticed the woman walking down the center aisle. Her face was like a sheet.
“Pastor,” she asked, “where did you get that tablecloth?” The pastor explained. The woman asked him to check the lower right corner to see if the initials, EBG were crocheted into it there. They were. These were the initials of the woman, and she had made this tablecloth 35 years before, in Austria. The woman could hardly believe it as the pastor told how he had just gotten the Tablecloth.
The woman explained that before the war she and her husband were well-to-do people in Austria. When the Nazis came, she was forced to leave. Her husband was going to follow her the next week. She was captured, sent to prison and never saw her husband or her home again.
The pastor wanted to give her the tablecloth; but she made the pastor keep it for the church. The pastor insisted on driving her home, that was the least he could do. She lived on the other side of Staten Island and was only in Brooklyn for the day for a housecleaning job.
What a wonderful service they had on Christmas Eve. The church was almost full. The music and the spirit were great. At the end of the service, the pastor and his wife greeted everyone at the door and many said that they would return.
One older man, whom the pastor recognized from the neighborhood, continued to sit in one of the pews and stare, and the pastor wondered why he wasn’t leaving. The man asked him where he got the tablecloth on the front wall because it was identical to one that his wife had made years ago when they lived in Austria before the war and how could there be two tablecloths so much alike? He told the pastor how the Nazis came, how he forced his wife to flee for her safety, and he was supposed to follow her, but he was arrested and put in a prison. He never saw his wife or his home again all the 35 years in between.
The pastor asked him if he would allow him to take him for a little ride. They drove to Staten Island and to the same house where the pastor had taken the woman three days earlier. He helped the man climb the three flights of stairs to the woman’s apartment, knocked on the door and he saw the greatest Christmas reunion he could ever imagine.
This is a true Story
