There is a pretty interesting article about Japanese ghosts in the Filipino magazine People’s Tonight.  The article reports that on the island of Corregidor there are numerous sightings of ghostly orbs inside old tunnels where Japanese soldiers committed suicide during the island’s fall to American forces in World War II.

The tourist spot which showcases dramatic events of WW II through a light and sound show now serves as a house of spirits that never go away, said the psychic who examined the eerie pictures.

The ghouls, asserted the psychic named Stargazer, are apparently those of Japanese soldiers who were said to have committed suicide by blowing themselves up prior to the recapture of Corregidor by the American forces during the war.

Captured in a photo are two blurred figures of men. One of them looks like a soldier wearing a uniform and a hat with a small cloth attached to it. He is half-kneeling, with his back to the camera.

The other man seems to be a patient sitting on the lower portion of a double-decked bed.

“These spirits manifest themselves as orbs. They are energies of spirits or ghosts who have existed physically. The spirits manifest themselves either in human form or as a small orb,” the 42-year-old psychic said.

These orbs normally manifest in compressed areas like a tunnel where static energy is high.

Spirits or orbs are sensitive to high-end gadgets such as cameras. But technology experts usually debunk similar images as merely deflection (curving downwards or backwards) of lights.

Want to find out more about haunted places in the Phillipines? Check out these links:

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Haunted locations in the Phillipines
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