The Headless Priest

 urban legend told in the Philippines is the ‘Headless Priest’.

It’s a story about the ghosts of the priests whose heads were severed by colonizers—Spanish in some versions and Japanese in another. Beware for this story might make your head roll. (You have been warned)

The story starts with a student and her best friend wandering the campus at night. Their campus was a religious school owned by priests during the colonization period. As the girls were walking and laughing, they saw a figure come out from afar—barely recognizable but there. At first, they thought nothing of it but as the figure slowly walked in a slow patterned haze towards them, they realized that there was something off about the person coming towards them with a priest’s clothes, they just couldn’t tell what it was. That was until her best friend screamed and pointed at the figure—it had no head! 

The girls stood, paralyzed, as they also realized that the headless priest was holding something on its right hand—it was his head. He walked closer and closer until they couldn’t take it anymore and ran away. After they were at a safe distance, they looked back and saw no one there.