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| Midway of Iligan-Cagayan Corridor with its long stretched forest |
We've heard of stories about roads inhabited by different creatures from the underworld. We often see them in movies. This story has been passed on to generations and a few years ago, an acquaintance of mine actually experienced this one of a kind phenomenon.
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| Inside Midway National Park |
This person has been a Medical Representative in one of the top Medical Companies here in the Philippines. Her job as a Med-Rep is to cover portions of the archipelago to promote the medical brands they carry. This friend was given a service vehicle to help her go to and from the different hospitals in Northern Mindanao. She had been travelling along different highways to go to different cities. The road connecting the cities of Iligan and Cagayan de Oro is popularly known as the Cagayan-Iligan Corridor. It is a picturesque road where you can see the sea and on the other is the vast fields of different crops, houses, and an occasional mountain or two. In one portion particularly in what we fondly call the Midway, since it is located halfway to either city, you will pass a forested area. This area has been a National Park for several years now and well-kept for the preservation of different species of plants and animals. This is the part of the highway which is haunted by ghosts, white ladies, and old undead people.
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| Some of the centennial trees preserved inside Midway National Park |
She had been passing this corridor for years now. But she always went home to Cagayan de Oro during daytime or in the afternoon. It was a very busy day and she had a late dinner with a few clients and physicians in Iligan. She waited until the last physician had left when she decided to hit the road and drive home to Cagayan. It was late, that was her mistake. It was already 12:30 A.M. when she left Iligan and reached Midway at approximately 1:45 A.M. She was speeding at 80 km/hour when a woman ran across the road and it was all too sudden that Mia, the Med-Rep, was not able to hit the brakes. She struck the woman head-on. It was so hard that she felt the car slammed on the woman and knocked her over and now the woman was under the car.
She quickly went out of the vehicle and peered under the car to help the woman under it. She was in the middle of the road and so she had to act fast lest she would be hit by other vehicles travelling at such late hour. She bent over and even went down on her knees just to see better where the woman could be. But when she got her flashlight out, she could not see anybody under the car. This part of the highway was poorly lit a few years back, that was why there were a number of reported cases where vehicles would crash into trees and even into other vehicles because the drivers steer away from people crossing the street at night. Mia even walked a few feet back for fear that the woman was thrown over on the other side of the road but nobody was there. It was also dark and not a single vehicle was in sight for no one would like to travel at that late an hour. She decided to get in the car, she could feel goosebumps on her arms as the cool air from the air conditioner inside the car hit her face and neck. She was sure that she hit someone. She was used to staying up and driving late in the evening and she was not sleepy either. She was sure she was not hallucinating. She was positive it was a woman because she had long hair and she was wearing a white dress. She was afraid she had killed someone on the road. She pulled over to the side to check again. This time she looked over the hood of her car. No dents whatsoever. How could you hit a person so hard at high speed and yet not make any dents at all? Even dogs make dents. She went back to the site and this time there was a truck coming up the road and so she frantically searched for the woman because the truck might hit her again if she was lying somewhere on the road. But nobody was there. No trace, no blood, no pieces of clothing torn, no sandals thrown. Zilch.
The truck pulled up and the driver asked her what was wrong. She told him what happened and to her amazement, the driver just shook his head. "Giti-aw ka ma'am. Maayo pa ma'am mopadayon nalang ka ug uli kay layo layo pa ang Cagayan. Wala gayud kay makita diha ma'am." (You were being joked ma'am. It is better ma'am that you go on driving home because Cagayan is still very far. You would not really see anything there ma'am). With those words, the truck left. Puzzled and a bit nervous now, she went back inside the car for the second time and started it. She was signalling to the left to get back to the highway when she peered at the rear view mirror. Then the woman began to wail. It was an eerie sound like it was coming from outside like in a cave, echoing. It was so loud and Mia was snapped. There she was, the woman was already sitting at the backseat of the car. Mia was frozen, her eyes wide with fear. She could not move, she was staring at the blood-red eyes of the woman sitting behind her. It was as if the woman was glowing transparent and translucent but she could not make out the face. It was the eyes that held her gaze. Unseeing eyes but very intense. Mia could not will herself to turn and look at the creature face to face so she was just out of her trance as she was blinded by light coming her way, they were actually headlights from another truck. She veered hard to the right, she didn't know she was driving and moving again and that she almost ran into a semi coming from the other direction. When she looked at the backseat, the woman was gone. She was already out of the wooded area and she pulled over to collect herself. It was like a dream . No, nightmare. Was it all true? Did the woman dressed in bloodied clothes really sat behind her in the car? It was all a fiction of her imagination or so she thought until she looked back at the roadside near the single street lamp at the edge of the long stretch of the forest. A long figure stood there waving at her. It was she.
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