It stands impossibly tall—steel, concrete, ambition. But what if the true foundation of that skyscraper, bridge, or convention center wasn’t crushed stone at all, but a human life? In this bonus episode, Paul confronts the chilling Filipino legend of the tao-sa-haligi and the siyokoy-sacrifice: workers buried in fresh concrete, homeless men who vanish before pilings set, and a grieving ghost bound to a building’s columns. We trace this story from whispered construction-site rumors to the notorious Manila Film Center tragedy, examine why modernity and corruption gave the legend its teeth, and hear eyewitness accounts of cries, cold spots, and a smell of wet cement that never fades. Equal parts folklore, moral outrage, and cultural analysis, this episode asks: what is the hidden cost of progress—and who pays it?
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