A hush falls over tonight’s episode. We walk into a world of shadows, half-truths, and the slow, soul-scrambling dread of being led in circles. From a moonlit mango grove to isolated classrooms and quiet compounds, these stories track one of the Philippines’ most unsettling spirits: the Tikbalang — the horse-headed trickster who bends journeys, minds, and sometimes lives.
Listen as survivors and witnesses describe:
- The patient, immobile silhouette beneath an ancient tree that watches and confuses.
- Hoofprints on staircases, metallic scuffing in the night, and the smell that precedes a presence.
- Folk remedies that work: turning a shirt inside out, dyeing hair back to “safe” colors, burning specific incense, and rituals from the magtatawas and albularyo.
- The Tikbalang as more than monster: a historical and political metaphor for cultural erasure, mass deception, and the national feeling of walking the same path to nowhere.
- Accounts of possession, obsession, and the deep psychological trauma that follows encounters with this elemental being.
Trigger warning: this episode contains intense descriptions of fear, possession, and psychological distress. Listener discretion is essential.
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