The Dark Side of CEU Manila

Almost all of the old universities here in the Philippines can be considered as a haunted university. Most of them were established during the Spanish and American regime. But let me take you to the dark side of our Centro Escolar University.

CEU is not that popular when it comes to ghosts stories unlike Ateneo and UST. Our university was founded by two women, Librada Avelino and Carmen De Luna in the year 1907, and it was originally called as Centro Escolar de Señoritas.

As my almost 2 years stay in CEU, I’d already heard about some spooky stories that there are ghosts prevailing inside the university and according to those stories the most haunted place in the university is the Bulwagang Maestra Osang or what we called as BMO.

BMO is the place where some events happen such as forums and contests. This is also the place for Performing Arts students.

Students say that the BMO was previously a mortuary or morgue.

University’s Performing Arts students usually witness some of the said ghosts that are haunting at the BMO.

Another scary story that is haunting the students is the rumor about the classrooms with crucifix. Those classrooms was said to have roaming spirits that’s why they put it especially in the CDL building. This is the oldest building that was constructed in the university. It is so obvious because only selected classrooms were fettered with roods. A dog barking that was said to be Librada Avelino’s pet is also a terror story in the university.

In addition to those stories, there is another creepy story of an old woman who was said to be roaming around the Librada Avelino Auditorium especially on the second floor of the hall. Not sure if it was one of the founders, Librada Avelino but it is surely an old woman.

Here’s a quick memoir of my classmates and I with that dog. We were staying at the CDL310 because it was break time and we’re really used to do that though it is violated. I have my multi-purpose mp3 player. It can also be a voice recorder and a flash drive. We were chaffing each other at that time. I am recording the sound of the CDL 310’s door creaking, and when I played it back I heard a sound of dog barking in the record clip. We’re very frightened at that time and we dashly left the room. It’s impossible that it is a dog outside the university because it is very unthinkable to see a dog near the university. Well, we still don’t have proofs for this but there’s no big loss if we will become careful of our actions.