The Lady in the Raincoat

They say the most unsettling apparitions are not those that leap from the dark, but those that simply

wait, still and unbothered, as if they belong more to our world than we do.

Such is the story of the Lady in the Raincoat — an apparition whispered across Manila and beyond,

her image less a specter of shrieking terror than of quiet dread. The tale begins

in the 1990s, when stories surfaced of a mysterious woman spotted in malls,

universities, and city streets. Always the same: a pale figure dressed in a long raincoat,

though the skies were dry and the pavement warm. Witnesses described her as unnaturally

silent, her face either obscured by the hood or hidden beneath her long hair.