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The Hello and welcome to mini episode number 466 of real life ghost stories.

And I have two spooky stories for you today.

And the last story comes from the 25th of April 2025.

And story number one comes from Rinks. I've debated on and off about sending

you an email about my stories but I've simply continued to push it off to a later time until certain

things happened that made me think maybe the universe is trying to tell me something. I have quite a few

stories but I'll share a few

and later on share some events that led me to finally writing to you. I am Filipino, born and raised.

The Philippines is a country beautifully rich in folklore and spiritualism, so much so that even

though Catholics are often taught to not

believe in other things, somehow Filipinos have found a way to blend folk beliefs, Catholicism and

spiritualism from other countries and nobody bats an eyelid. But I digress. Let me start with a few

stories about my parents. My dad apparently has what's called

Anting Anting. Or a protective charm that he had gotten from a witch that lived in Mount

Arriott, a volcano famous for its beauty, folklore and legends. I could never confirm this, but aside from

that, he's told me that he's seen ghosts before. My mom, on the other hand, has strange

abilities. She told me a few times when I was younger that she often attracted good fortune to

businesses. Where she went, a once empty stall would find itself suddenly alive with

customers. So much so that in her youth, the local sellers at the open market would tell her to sit

next to them, giving her free produce, just so that she would sit there and attract people to their

stall. After she told me this, I was skeptical, of course,

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