Short Stories

Impostor ni Lola

We were in our grandparent's house.. it was dinner time and my mom asked me and my brother to call my lola to eat with us. I was 4 at that time and we ( me and my kuya) went to our lola's room. We saw her praying on the carpet, then we called for what seemed like 6 times but she just ignored us.

Then suddenly she turned to look at us, and that's when we realized that it wasn't our lola.. her face was totally pale and her eyes were bloody!! My kuya was at my side that time and I told him to run. But then he wondered why... So I ran first to call my ankong (lolo), my kuya followed me. Then my ankong led me to my room. To my surprise, I saw my true lola there ironing my clothes!! Then my kuya asked me what I saw and told me he didn't see anything!! I was totally frightened at that time..

From that time on, my lola told me that their house were built 77 years ago and were given to them by a spanish couple... lola told me that a lot of people have lived there before so maybe it was one of those people (who are already spirits) who lived there that i saw..