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Before the turn of the 20th Century in Colonial Philippines, when the grasp of Spain started to weaken, a small town was disturbed by the disappearance of a young boy believed to be abducted by the Maranhig, a resurrected corpse seeking vengeance. This incident caused a nightmare to resurface which the townsmen thought they have long forgotten as the same incident happened years ago.
      But underneath the disappearance of the young boy was a much darker conflict slowly being revealed as the simple rural town get caught in a crossfire between the pious and pagan practitioners with their conflicting interests while the rest of the country struggled to obtain absolute freedom against the inquisition.

The House of the Unholy

"I am certain of what I saw," Ana Rosa trembled as she reaches for a glass of water offered to her by her husband


     "Stray animals sometimes find themselves roaming the front lawn," Teniente Leon answers with a concern look


     Ana Rosa stubbornly shakes her head in disagreement. Her delicate hands now clutching the glass of water;


       "It was not an animal, that I am sure of," she pauses, "unless, burned animals can still live and run away when disturbed in this province"


    Lieutenant Leon shrugs off his shoulder as he sits at the edge of her bed holding the jar of water. At the door there stands Ditas and another maid exchanging looks of disbelief


    Outside the door there stands Teo with his ears against the wooden walls.


At the Asotea