Another Horror Prompt

June 30, 2008, is the deadline for submissions to the Special Hallowen Issue. That's less than a month away. Here's another horror prompt for that issue.

In a cemetery at the boundary of Caloocan and Malabon is a tombstone depicting the famous scene of St. Michael slaying a demon or sending Lucifer to hell, but in reverse (the actual picture is above). The spear that the demon or Lucifer is holding is gone, and the entire tableau has been caged to prevent vandals from destroying it.

To add to the mystery, written on the left side of the enclosure is a conversation in Filipino between the angel and the devil/demon, but time has weathered away the words except for the last line supposedly uttered by the angel: “Tao, tulungan ninyo ako na labanan ang kasamaan at iwasan ang kasakiman sa salapi at kapangyarihan na pinagmulan ng ligalig (People help me battle evil and shun greed for money and power, the root of all trouble).”

Further, a witness claims that everytime she visits the cemetery to visit her deceased relatives at another tomb some meters away, the figures move. According to her, the archangel falls further down and the devil/demon stands nearer to the prone figure.

There is an Inquirer article about it over here.

And I picked up this story, along with others, on this thread about ghost stories at a forum I visit every so often.

Previous horror prompts here, here, and here.