‘Ghost house’ draws tourists in Camarines town
NAGA CITY: An abandoned stone house stipulosa) in Barangay San Felipe here continues to draw visitors despite stories of sightings of ghosts like the one told by a recent visitor to the place.
Rene Biando, an architect who once worked with Palafox and Associates, was accompanying his cousin who was TV network when he experienced a ghost encounter at the house.
house which he describes as an American modern in style.
A village resident, Nick Bongyad, said the house was built in the late 1940s by an American named Gordon Kier who later sold it to a military retiree from Bulacan province after he decided to go
Bongyad, son of one of the tenants of the 80-hectare coconut plantation where the house is located, said when the eventual and current owner of the house abandoned it, it became what it one of the walls covered with gnarled roots of Balete.
- ence seeing ghost in the house like Biando did even if their family once lived there for years.
“These stories, imagined or not, have This old stone house stands witness to several ghost sightings that catch the interest of local and foreign not deterred visitors from coming,” he said, adding that Nora Aunor herself shot some scenes in the house for her - maker, Kristian Cordero.
“There are even engaged couples who had their pre-nuptial photo shoot here,” he said.
now thinking of setting up tables and benches around the Balete where sweetened black rice cake for visitors coming on All Souls’ Day.