Pumunta kami sa lugar ng kabarkada ko sa probinsya sa Quezon noong 2001. Nasa kabukiran ang kanilang bahay at simple lang at hindi mayaman ang bahay nila, pero sementado rin naman at di naman maliit ang kanilang bahay. Pagpupunta ka sa kubeta, dadaanan mo ang kusina sa likod.
Naginuman kami minsan hanggang ala una ng madaling araw at nakatulog na mga kabarkada at kasamahan namin. Bago matulog, pumunta ako sa kusina para uminum ng tubig pagkatapos pumunta ako sa katabing kubeta para umihi. Pagbukas ko ng pinto ng kubeta may nakita akong dwende na dumaan lang sa harapan ko at tumakbo papunta kusina. Sinundan ko ito ng tingin at nakita ko na lumusot ito sa may butas sa may pader na kahoy palabas. Hindi siya dwende na maliit na tao, kundi kasing liit lang ng aking kamay. Mukang matanda na siya at mahaba at puti ang kayang buhok sa ulo. May balbas din siya na mahaba at puti rin. Kahit lasing ako noon, hindi maaaring magkamali ako dahil hindi naman ako dati talaga naniniwala sa mga multo at dwende.
Should we believe in ghosts?
Cultures all around the world believe in spirits that survive death to live in another realm. In fact, ghosts are among the most widely believed of paranormal phenomena. Recent surveys have shown that a significant portion of the population believes in ghosts. Since most of us prefer to believe that we will continue to exist in some capacity after death, the idea that we might invent something like ghosts seems a reasonable one.
The idea that the dead remain with us in spirit is an ancient one, and one that offers many people comfort; who doesn't want to believe that our beloved but deceased family members aren't looking out for us, or with us in our times of need? But it’s also true that if you already believe in ghosts, or are told a place is haunted, you are more likely to interpret events as paranormal. Some paranormal experiences are easily explainable, based on faulty activity in the brain.
It is not surprising that despite the efforts of thousands of ghost hunters on television and the Internet for years, not one single thing of hard evidence of ghosts has been found. Psychologists studying religion have long suspected that a belief in the paranormal can be a kind of shield from the even harsher truths of the world. We tend to think that we are more in control than we really are, we think the chance that any event is due to luck is much lower than it really is, we would not want to think any succession occurrences could be merely random. The idea is that when something unexpected happens – a death, natural disaster, or failure – the brain searches around for answers, looking for meaning in the confusion. The fact that brain injuries, alcohol, drugs, mirrors and even suggestion – can affect our thinking, memory, and perception in unexplainable ways is convincing proof that what we think of as “supernatural” may probably exist only in our own minds.
