URBAN LEGENDS IN THE PHILIPPINES

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1. SNAKE MAN

The belief of a snake twin is very old, way back 17th century, when Fray Ignacio,
Fransisco Alzina's 1668 "History of Bisayan Islands" mentioned about it
Remember Amaya- the main character in a TV series "Amaya".

Robinson Malls is one of the largest shopping malls and retail operators in PH
owned by a Chinese-Filipino. So here the story goes:

In the early 90s, popular actress in the Philippines Alice Dixon went on national
news saying that she was attacked by a half-man, half-snake while in the
dressing room of Robinsons Mall. The floor supposedly opened up, depositing
her into a room where the snake-man waited, ready to devour its victim.
According to the story, the snakeman had access to the mall’s CCTV cameras,
and would spy on women in the dressing rooms. If he saw a woman he liked, he
would flip a switch and the woman would drop through a hole in the floor, straight
into his arms. Dixon managed to escape, depending on which version you read,
either by hanging onto the edge of the trap door and hauling herself up or by
making the creature fall in love with her. The actress claimed that the snake man
was the son of the mall owner, the deformed twin brother of his eldest daughter.

The urban legend faded into obscurity, but not before the mall chain suffered a
huge loss. We weren’t allowed to shop in those malls for years, just in case the
trap doors in the dressing rooms were real. The story resurfaced last 2009, when
someone claimed to have taken a photo of the snake-man and put it on the
internet. The very suspicious-looking photo was still making the rounds of the
web as late as 2012.