Ghost stories
Intramuros, Manila · The Last Night Inside the ...
Intramuros is the walled city built by the Spanish. It was almost entirely destroyed in the battle for Manila in 1945 — churches, monasteries and houses turned together into rubble,...
Intramuros, Manila · The Last Night Inside the ...
Intramuros is the walled city built by the Spanish. It was almost entirely destroyed in the battle for Manila in 1945 — churches, monasteries and houses turned together into rubble,...
The Bataan Peninsula · Those Who Walked This Land
In 1942, after the American and Filipino forces surrendered to the Japanese at Bataan, prisoners of war were forced to march more than a hundred kilometres to a camp. Those...
The Bataan Peninsula · Those Who Walked This Land
In 1942, after the American and Filipino forces surrendered to the Japanese at Bataan, prisoners of war were forced to march more than a hundred kilometres to a camp. Those...
Corregidor Island · The Underground Hospital Is...
Corregidor Island guards the entrance to Manila Bay. It was bombed again and again in the Second World War, and the last garrison held out in the tunnel hospital until...
Corregidor Island · The Underground Hospital Is...
Corregidor Island guards the entrance to Manila Bay. It was bombed again and again in the Second World War, and the last garrison held out in the tunnel hospital until...
Mount Makiling · The Flowers You Cannot Take Away
Mount Makiling in Laguna is seen by local people as the shape of a woman lying down. There is a tradition that the goddess Maria Makiling lives in it, and...
Mount Makiling · The Flowers You Cannot Take Away
Mount Makiling in Laguna is seen by local people as the shape of a woman lying down. There is a tradition that the goddess Maria Makiling lives in it, and...
The Aswang · By Day, Your Neighbour
In the towns of the central Philippines the aswang is a thing that changes its lower half and flies off at night; by day it looks no different from a...
The Aswang · By Day, Your Neighbour
In the towns of the central Philippines the aswang is a thing that changes its lower half and flies off at night; by day it looks no different from a...
Siquijor, the Island of Witches · The Little Bo...
Siquijor is called the island of witches in the Philippines. Its healers, the mananambal, are in a serious trade: curing illness, driving out evil, and, some say, work of a...
Siquijor, the Island of Witches · The Little Bo...
Siquijor is called the island of witches in the Philippines. Its healers, the mananambal, are in a serious trade: curing illness, driving out evil, and, some say, work of a...
Balete Drive · The Woman in White on the Back Seat
Balete Drive in Quezon City runs between old houses and balete trees whose shade darkens the whole road. It is the best known “ghost road” in the Philippines. In the...
Balete Drive · The Woman in White on the Back Seat
Balete Drive in Quezon City runs between old houses and balete trees whose shade darkens the whole road. It is the best known “ghost road” in the Philippines. In the...
The Manila Film Centre · A Monument Built on a ...
The Manila Film Centre was put up in a rush for an international film festival. During the work a scaffold collapsed and workers fell into wet concrete; it is claimed...
The Manila Film Centre · A Monument Built on a ...
The Manila Film Centre was put up in a rush for an international film festival. During the work a scaffold collapsed and workers fell into wet concrete; it is claimed...
The Diplomat Hotel, Baguio · The Keys Are Still...
The Diplomat Hotel in Baguio began as a Dominican monastery. In the Second World War it became a Japanese post and a place of execution, and after the war it...
The Diplomat Hotel, Baguio · The Keys Are Still...
The Diplomat Hotel in Baguio began as a Dominican monastery. In the Second World War it became a Japanese post and a place of execution, and after the war it...
The Sapa Terraces in the Fog · The Second Footstep
Sapa stands on a mountain ridge in northern Vietnam, its terraces coiling up into the clouds. In the wet season the fog can wipe out the road fifty metres ahead....
The Sapa Terraces in the Fog · The Second Footstep
Sapa stands on a mountain ridge in northern Vietnam, its terraces coiling up into the clouds. In the wet season the fog can wipe out the road fifty metres ahead....
The Cao Dai Holy See · The Nine-Tiered Platform...
The Cao Dai Holy See at Tay Ninh folds Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism and Catholicism into one doctrine, and its object of worship is the Divine Eye — an eye painted...
The Cao Dai Holy See · The Nine-Tiered Platform...
The Cao Dai Holy See at Tay Ninh folds Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism and Catholicism into one doctrine, and its object of worship is the Divine Eye — an eye painted...
The Cu Chi Tunnels · The Third Level Underground
The Cu Chi tunnels run more than two hundred kilometres and are in three levels, the deepest eight metres down. Inside were kitchens, a hospital and meeting rooms, and the...
The Cu Chi Tunnels · The Third Level Underground
The Cu Chi tunnels run more than two hundred kilometres and are in three levels, the deepest eight metres down. Inside were kitchens, a hospital and meeting rooms, and the...
Phong Nha Cave · Big Enough to Hold a Whole Street
The cave system of Phong Nha–Ke Bang is one of the longest in the world, and its largest chamber is tall enough to hold a passenger aircraft. The cave has...
Phong Nha Cave · Big Enough to Hold a Whole Street
The cave system of Phong Nha–Ke Bang is one of the longest in the world, and its largest chamber is tall enough to hold a passenger aircraft. The cave has...
My Son Sanctuary · The Towers Swallowed by the ...
My Son was the religious centre of the Champa kingdom. Its brick towers have stood in the jungle for more than a thousand years; many have collapsed by half, and...
My Son Sanctuary · The Towers Swallowed by the ...
My Son was the religious centre of the Champa kingdom. Its brick towers have stood in the jungle for more than a thousand years; many have collapsed by half, and...
Ha Long Bay · Where the Dragon Came Down
More than a thousand limestone islands stand in the sea at Ha Long Bay, and the name means “the place where the dragon descended”. The legend is that in old...
Ha Long Bay · Where the Dragon Came Down
More than a thousand limestone islands stand in the sea at Ha Long Bay, and the name means “the place where the dragon descended”. The legend is that in old...
The Japanese Covered Bridge, Hoi An · The Creat...
The Japanese Covered Bridge at Hoi An was built by Japanese merchants at the end of the sixteenth century. It carries a tiled roof, and statues of a monkey and...
The Japanese Covered Bridge, Hoi An · The Creat...
The Japanese Covered Bridge at Hoi An was built by Japanese merchants at the end of the sixteenth century. It carries a tiled roof, and statues of a monkey and...
The Tomb of Khai Dinh · The Sarcophagus Carved ...
The tomb of Khai Dinh is the most elaborate of the tombs of the last Nguyen emperors, its concrete inlaid with porcelain and glass, nine dragons on the walls. It...
The Tomb of Khai Dinh · The Sarcophagus Carved ...
The tomb of Khai Dinh is the most elaborate of the tombs of the last Nguyen emperors, its concrete inlaid with porcelain and glass, nine dragons on the walls. It...
The Imperial City of Hue · The Guard in the Emp...
The Imperial City of Hue was the palace compound of the Nguyen dynasty. In the Vietnam War it was beaten into broken walls under shellfire, and of many halls only...
The Imperial City of Hue · The Guard in the Emp...
The Imperial City of Hue was the palace compound of the Nguyen dynasty. In the Vietnam War it was beaten into broken walls under shellfire, and of many halls only...
Hoa Lo Prison, Hanoi · The Names Left Behind
Hoa Lo Prison in the centre of Hanoi was built by the French colonial authorities in 1896. It held political prisoners, and later American pilots taken during the Vietnam War....
Hoa Lo Prison, Hanoi · The Names Left Behind
Hoa Lo Prison in the centre of Hanoi was built by the French colonial authorities in 1896. It held political prisoners, and later American pilots taken during the Vietnam War....
Sukhothai Historical Park · The Buddha That Walks
Sukhothai was the capital of the first Thai kingdom, and the walking Buddha figures in the city are a pose particular to that period: one leg stepping forward, the hem...
Sukhothai Historical Park · The Buddha That Walks
Sukhothai was the capital of the first Thai kingdom, and the walking Buddha figures in the city are a pose particular to that period: one leg stepping forward, the hem...
Wat Umong, Chiang Mai · The Tunnels Dug for the...
Wat Umong in Chiang Mai is known for a curving brick tunnel, with small openings for light in its walls, where the scriptures of the Lanna kingdom were kept. The...
Wat Umong, Chiang Mai · The Tunnels Dug for the...
Wat Umong in Chiang Mai is known for a curving brick tunnel, with small openings for light in its walls, where the scriptures of the Lanna kingdom were kept. The...
The Krasue · The Head That Flies Off at Night
What the Thai countryside fears is not ghosts but the krasue: the belief that a woman who looks ordinary by day flies out at night, her head and entrails leaving...
The Krasue · The Head That Flies Off at Night
What the Thai countryside fears is not ghosts but the krasue: the belief that a woman who looks ordinary by day flies out at night, her head and entrails leaving...
Nine Emperor Gods Festival, Phuket · The Nine D...
The Nine Emperor Gods Festival on Phuket runs for nine days. Worshippers in white shirts and trousers keep the fast, and in the processions the spirit mediums pierce their own...
Nine Emperor Gods Festival, Phuket · The Nine D...
The Nine Emperor Gods Festival on Phuket runs for nine days. Worshippers in white shirts and trousers keep the fast, and in the processions the spirit mediums pierce their own...
The Phi Ta Khon Festival, Loei · The Day the Ma...
In Dan Sai, in the Loei province of north-eastern Thailand, the ghost mask festival is held at the start of the rainy season each year. Men put on painted masks...
The Phi Ta Khon Festival, Loei · The Day the Ma...
In Dan Sai, in the Loei province of north-eastern Thailand, the ghost mask festival is held at the start of the rainy season each year. Men put on painted masks...