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Yeah, where is Miss Thmilin? Between your gigantic throbbing brain and my unnatural height, our excessive masculinity must have spooked the dear child.
Shaddup about my cricket, Dammit! For your information, Cricket is a sport of kings. Short unathletic kings, but kings nevertheless. And Kimmi is the name of the unwashed vegetarian chick with the dirt around her collar bone, not Jerri. Jerri is the bony schemer, who is always sitting in puddles of stagnant water, criticizing the rice.
Since I'm working over-time in me office -- it is around 11ish in the
evening -- I shall amuse you with another true ghost story.
I travel a great deal around Asia; in fact, you might call this part of
the world my second home. Not so long ago, I was in the
Philippines, in a particularly poor and rural area of Cebu. One
night, a friend and I were walking home, a little soused from San
Miguel Beer, when we heard a baby crying. We looked around: the
nearest hut was hundreds of yards away and there was only
moonlight to illuminate the deserted road. There was no electricity.
The wailing persisted; indeed, it seemed quite close, scarcely a
few feet away. I started to enter the tall grass to search for the
child, when my friend pulled me back.
"Don't go in there," he said, sweating now. "It's not a real baby. It's
a tiyanak."
"What?" I said. "What's a tiyanak? What are you talking about?"
"It's a demon. A demon baby. It looks like a normal baby at first,
but it's not. Trust me. It's not human. It's from impiyerno. [hell]"
At that, the crying stopped. And then a few feet away, the long
grass began to move, as if a small animal were making its way
towards us. The hair stood up on the back of my neck; the
"animal" was also making weird snuffling noises, like a child with a
cold. If we had been slightly beer-befuddled, that feeling had now
utterly disappeared. My friend plucked frenziedly at my arm and he
began to sob with fear. "Let's go! Let's go! It's coming this way.
It's late, there are no babies out here in the middle of nowhere. IT'S
A TIYANAK, I TELL YOU!"
The snuffling noises became louder; whatever it was, it was only a
few feet away. We took off, running as fast as our beat-up old
Adidas could take us, and we did not stop running until we had
reached the tiny village church. I never did learn if that thing in the
grass was really a tiyanak. But my friend left the village soon after.
A True Story.