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Warning: This episode contains dark, unsettling scenes and themes. Sensitive listeners should exercise caution.

July 2005: Typhoon Feria (Haitang) falls on the Philippines with a biblical fury—roads turned to rivers, villages swallowed, and a sky so bruised midday becomes night. In the deluge’s wake, ordinary floods give way to something older: whispered warnings, drowned memories, and water-spirits awakened by abuse and neglect. In this episode I weave firsthand survivor accounts and local legends—rescues in waist-deep currents, disembodied heads in muddy living rooms, restless child spirits that follow rebuilt homes, and fishermen cursed by strikes against sea creatures—into a tapestry where natural catastrophe and folklore collide.

We meet:

Fan ni Suga, who felt an unseen coil at his knees and saved a boy from being claimed by the current.
Kiffie, whose town kept a corpse under layers of mud and whose household now knows a small, mischievous boy who won’t leave.
Locals who interpret sirens, tails, and green flashes in the water as the Sirena and Siyokoy returning to collect what was taken.
A fisherman left with a glassed-over eye after wounding a creature tied to a Sirena’s wrath.
The midwife who received a golden strand from a Sirena and used it to save countless births—proof that the sea’s spirits can be both wrathful and strangely merciful.

These stories trace how typhoons don’t only destroy infrastructure; they unmoor the spiritual landscape. When the heavens open, what rises from the depths may be grief, vengeance, or a warning. Listen if you dare, and ask yourself: when the next storm comes, will we look to the sky—or to the water?

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