The Adoration Convent of the Divine Mercy @ Baguio City, Mountain Province

After visiting a haunted place (the Laperal White House), we wouldn't want the evil ghosts following us back to Makati, right? So, we passed by the Convent of the Divine Mercy, just a jeepney ride and a walk from the White House.

We went inside toe chapel to pray for a lot of good things. :) It was deaf-silent in the building that you can literally hear a pin drop. That's why whenever I sit or stand and make a sound with the wooden pews, I somehow feel guilty.

The chapel was divided into two; the front for the nuns, and the part near the entrance for the outsiders. This is the first time I have seen nuns wearing a pink habit.....There is also another convent of the pink sisters in tagaytay, also under the patronage of the Divine Mercy. What makes the color pink and the Divine Mercy related?

You can also talk or pay a visit to the nuns (I think) IF ther are not in prayer. Anyways, you would know that they are praying if this red light bulb at the side of the convent itself is on or off. If it is on, DON'T MESS WITH THE NUNS.

We are leaving Baguio the next day (which is Sunday), so, we decided to attend an anticipated mass at Baguio Cathedral, which is our next stop in the bucket list. :)

The Laperal White House @ Baguio City, Mountain Province

Riding a jeepney from the Botanical Garden (a jeepney is a Pinoy vehicle made form the cars the Americans used from the war), we finally arrived in one of the most menacing houses along Leonard Wood Road; the Laperal White House.

I am proudly a horror fanatic by heart (yes, I can be wierd, don't judge me) so I was really excited to see the White House, not only because of its haunted reputation, but also its bloody past. Plus, you can go inside the house already for the cheap price of 50 pesos! :D

When we passed by the house on the way to Mines View Park, I was like "oh wow that house is so small can people fit in there how many rooms does it have wow wow wow." But every step I take towards the house, the larger and LARGER the house becomes. (This is not to creep you out :P have you heard of perspective?)

Now why is this d*mn house haunted?

I made a list of the deaths that happened in or by this house (based on a documentary by Jay Taruc of I-Witness
, especially when he interviewed the caretaker of the house). If I made a mistake, please comment. :)

1. The grandson of Don Roberto got run over on Leonard Wood Road, just in front of the house. The maid was talking to other neighbors at that time.
2. Two lovers committed suicide in the gate to the house when the boy shot the girl and then the boy shot himself. (The girl must have been murdered, but sometimes couples do that).
3. The maid committed suicide by jumping off the balcony of the 3rd floor attic.
4. During the Japanese Occupation, this place was used as refuge by nuns, local officials, etc. Most were killed when the Japanese barged into the building.
5. The rest of the Laperals (except for Don Roberto) were killed when the Japanese barged into the house (number 5)
6. Don Roberto slipped and  hit his head on the steep steps of the house. He did not die immediately, though, and he refused to go to the hospital, but insisted on being brought to Manila. Manila is where he died.

Creepy, right? Kinda like the Amityville Horror (that book is 99 percent fake anyway).

Lucio Tan (a businessman who currently ranks number 2 in the top ten richest in the Philippines) currently owns the house (hwaaaawh Lucio Tan). Before, no one was allowed to enter this house. But, this bamboo organization (which sells bamboo products) decided to make the first floor a museum.

Thanks to that organization, people can now go inside and explore the house for a cheap price of 50 pesos. :)

Remember this? >:D (clarification: Don Roberto slipped on the second flight)

I'm sorry for the pictures....it was really dark inside....

Curious thing.....While me and my companion were climbing the stairs, I heard running footsteps upstairs. (Once again, I know how to debunk. We were the only people in the house. If you think the footsteps are from outside, NO. The sound is the one that you hear when you step on wooden floorboards). Then, the sound started fading away. We searched every corridor and room but there was no one in any......wew.

But, you know what? This is one of the few well-preserved antique houses in the Philippines :) (I am not counting La Casas de Filipinas de Acuzar, since apparently, what the owner did whas to put all the good houses behind gates and charge people overpriced fees costing millions......godd*mn it!)
Also note that Victorian houses are not very common in the Philippines.

Unfortunately, the door here are all locked. (Do you think there are bodies in there? hehehe...)

The Balcony offered a great fiw of Baguio City (ehem...maid...ehem)

How many trees were cut down to make this house????

Of course, since it was our first time going inside the house, we were not very familiar with the house's layout. We were about to go down when we saw a screen door which leads to this...

Wow, talk about a big house in the inside.

Fortunately, the doors weren't locked, so we went inside the first.

Woahhh! A bedroom!

And then we went into another....

Another bedroom! With pink mattress! XD

In the I-Witness documentary, they set up these CCTV (security cameras) in every area of the house. These bedrooms had CCTV cameras each in them.

Now, I don't remember which one (since the bedrooms looked exactly alike) but in one bedroom, the CCTV camera fell from it's support (you cannot drive nails into the walls, so the staff used duct tape).
When it was fixed by one of the investigators, as he left the room, a whispering voice stated into the microphone, "Nandito na kami" (We're already here.)

Crap, which bedroom is it????

And then, the next room....

The master's bedroom :0

In I-Witness, the CCTV camera malfunctioned in this room, and started giving out static. While being destroyed (by what? :O) a distorted spectre of Dona Victorina is seen standing across the room, just before the bed. Crap, that was creepy.

Oh yah...another curious thing.....when I entered the room, I heard a woman sobbing (my companion is my dad, and my mom is outside the building). NOTE that, again, WE were the ONLY people in the entire house. hwaauwh

And then the next room....

Woaaaaah! Another bedroom! (I have a strong feeling that the bedroom of the "We're here now" incident is this one). Apparently, the owners have a taste for floral mattresses.


We went back downstairs and viewed the beautiful bamboo art which adorned every room of the first floor. Wow, the prices gave me a heart attack :o so we must be careful. XD As they say, "They're so great, nice to hold, but when you break it, CONSIDER IT SOLD!!!"

 Bamboo.....

 Bamboo....

 Bamboo....

 Bamboo

And a cute stool...partly made of bamboo :3











Next stop in our bucket list.....the convent of the Pink Sisters! :D (It's just a jeepney plus a walking distance, I think).

What about you? Do you think that the Mansion is really haunted?

The Botanical Gardens @ Baguio City

FUN FACT: Do you know that starting April, during the summer days, that it rains very hard in Baguio at noon? Because I didn't.

Oh well.....welcome to Baguio City's Botanical Gardens! :) :P

I just came from Wright Park (another fun fact: Do you know you can eat horses? Cause I didn't.) And I didn't see much (well it's my fault since I didn't meddle much on the park.....). All I saw are horses burdened by the weight of money, colors, and ridiculously obese sadists.

When we reached the Botanical Gardens (along Leonard Wood Road), it was raining hard. D*mn, this spoiled my moment with the plants, so we just tucked in beneath the roof of the comfort rooms (crap, even the smell from the stalls made me depressed). But then I thought, I had an umbrella, so why would the rain stop me? An that's how people saw me dancing in the rain singing "Let it Go"...

While walking like a man on LSD, of course, I snapped some photos with my cheap camera. And I thought, "wow, this place is literally a maze." So many turns, trails, and pathways leading to nowhere, it's a paradise for nature lovers and adventurers.

This is the amphitheater, where I almost slipped and hit my head on the pavement. (claps hands)

The Botanical gardens has an amphitheater where the garden usually holds some shows (I don't know if those shows are at night). Anyways, it's very large and spacious.

A replica of an "Ifugao" or "Igorot" village

And of course, souvenirs! :D Things to take home for your family :) (not friends, friends wouldn't really give a d*mn).....

There's this replica of a typical Chinese "place".......we had to pass through a very narrow pathway (beside a house of bottles) to get to this place......

Crossing that puddle which blocked the entire trail was a nightmare :P one tiny slip and I get splashed with tons of mud. :P

Of course, who would forget JAPAN?

There was also this DARK cave with many branching paths.......we would go in one path and pop out the least expected place :D

 There was also this part of the park dedicated to miners (?). Of course, inside, there are more twisting paths.

But of course, we had to leave (awwwwwww) since the Laperal White House is waiting for us.

There are these kind native Igorot women who would offer a chance to have a picture taken with them (for a fee, of course, which I do not understand). Anyways, it was a fun experience :)