The Phantom

City of the
Lost People
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 BIRINGAN
“a place to look for missing people”

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Waypoints are said to exist in the following cities:

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Engkantos
Biringan is said to be inhabited by the elemental beings,
called ‘engkantos,’ that are believed to be as old as the
mountains and rivers. They have the ability to change
their form in different creatures that they prefer. Further,
rumor tells that there are two types of ‘engkantos’ in
Biringan: the good and the evil.

Good ‘engkantos’ are said to reside within the city while

the evil ‘engkantos’ roam outside the vicinity. The good
ones are believed to walk among humans to learn the
ways of life of humans or to find a suitable partner to
 Stories about
Biringan
According to folklore stories, in year 1983, Jenny, a lady from Leyte
was studying at Manila. She has a classmate named Carolina. She
said Carolina is smart, rich and a she’s a very beautiful lady. It was
almost end of the semester when Carolina invited her classmates to
visit their place for the fiesta. She even insisted to pay for their
transportation fees back and forth. When one of her classmates ask
where her place is, Carolina responded it is in Biringan City. Three
of their classmates went with Carolina. Jenny wanted to join but she
was not permitted to go with them.

It was reported that Carolina’s three classmates never came back to

Manila and they were no longer seen. Jenny together with the
family of her three classmates tried to searched for them in Samar
but they were all unfortunately gone after they have learned 5that
 Stories about
Biringan

After a few years, one of the siblings of the missing ladies dreamed
of her sister. She wanted to let them know that she will never come
back home to Manila and even told her not to worry about her
because she is already happy living in Biringan City with her own
family, Carolina and some new friends.

Months passed, Jenny’s other classmate who went missing sent a

letter to her family saying that she also has her own family where
she was married with the richest enchanted man of Biringan City. She
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claims that Biringan is an enormous city and all the people living
 Stories about Biringan
It is rumored that there are Biringan strange-folks that buy
stuff from Manila, Cebu, and even in other countries.
Purchases include high-end appliances or furnitures, sack of
cements, and cars, all fully paid for in cold cash, with delivery
addresses in Biringan. It is said that the deliveries lead to
dead ends after finding out that the persons who ordered the
deliveries are dead. However, the purchases still get
delivered to the address and the vehicles vanish after 2-3
days, and the dealer knows for sure that the cars go where
they where intended to be used: picked up surreptitiously by
Biringan strange-folk themselves
(Bagalan & Burce, 2017).

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 Stories about Biringan
It is rumored that there are Biringan strange-folks that buy stuff from Manila,
Cebu, and even in other countries. Purchases include high-end appliances or
furnitures, sack of cements, and cars, all fully paid for in cold cash, with
delivery addresses in Biringan. It is said that the deliveries lead to dead ends
after finding out that the persons who ordered the deliveries are dead.
However, the purchases still get delivered to the address and the vehicles
vanish after 2-3 days, and the dealer knows for sure that the cars go where they
where intended to be used: picked up surreptitiously by Biringan strange-folk
themselves.

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 Stories about Biringan
In the 60s or so, a big delivery of construction equipment,
bulldozers, cement mixers, was dropped off at Tacloban port,
fully paid for again in cash, but got stuck because the final
drop off was in Biringan City- the shipment was sent back to
Manila, but the ship never returned and was believed to have
delivered the goods to Biringan port during a late evening
trip.  Some of these big-ticket deliveries are specifically
scheduled at night to time the moment when a passage into
the city is supernaturally available (Reach Unlimited, 2017).

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 Stories about
Biringan
Another story is with the Silver Star bus that was hired
out (pakyaw) by a group of people from Manila for a
Biringan field trip. Since the bus was driving around
strange dirts roads until late at night and they were
getting lost, they spent the night on an unknown roadside
—come morning all the people disappeared and the bus
driver found his bus in the middle of a mountain with no
tracks showing how it got there, and having to call his
home office to get special tow trucks to get it out of the
mountain
(Reach Unlimited, 2017).

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