My Halloween memories, aside from memories of playing with candle wax at the cemetery, are usually comprised of watching scary movies (Night of the Living Dead series and more) and the perennial Magandang Gabi Bayan specials.

And MGB never failed to scare me. Every year, they had something new to offer. Name it: floating coffins, the ever famous White lady at Balete drive; black ladies at classrooms (my favorite…katakot talaga); decapitated men in barong tagalog. Sh*t. They just wouldn’t let me sleep. haha.

In my Metro Manila years (we moved to Bicol when I was 10), we had no relatives to visit at the cemetery so we watched MGB specials instead. My cousins and I would huddle while watching MGB. Then I’d feel really terrible, I’d watch the show half-eye open. haha. After watching the show, I couldn’t even get off my seat out of fear some creature would pull my feet. hehe

I watched several Halloween specials this weekend and none of them actually made the effect MGB had on me over a decade ago. Is it because I’m way older now or is it because programs nowadays have such too obvious special effects?

Hmm. I’m sure of something though; I don’t need to see a ghost to believe. Because I really do not intend to see one…