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Paranormal record / 1953

The Possession of Clarita Villanueva: "The Thing" in Manila City Jail (1953)

May 1953 · Manila City Jail (Old Bilibid Prison), Oroquieta Road, Santa Cruz, Manila, Philippines
34Partially documented Paranormal Being / humanoid 19 sources 1 videos

Manila. May 1953. A young woman sat in the city jail, booked for vagrancy. Then something began to bite her. Clarita Villanueva screamed that two beings were attacking her. One was a very big, dark man, hairy all over. The other had an angelic face and a big moustache. No one else could see them. But they could see the marks. Bites appeared on her finger and her neck in front of doctors, reporters and the Mayor of Manila himself. Wire services carried the story to the United States and Australia. For about two weeks, the press had a name for her tormentor. "The Thing." Then an American pastor arrived to pray over her.

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Context

May 1953. Manila City Jail, popularly called the Old Bilibid Prison, on Oroquieta Road in Santa Cruz. A young woman named Clarita Villanueva had just been booked for vagrancy. She had propositioned a plainclothes police officer.

Sources (19, most influential first)

  1. Possession of Clarita Villanueva · Wikipedia · Wiki, blog, podcast · wiki
  2. 'The Thing' · Philippine Daily Inquirer (Ambeth R. Ocampo)· 2021-09-03 · Academic / paper of record · news
  3. 'Ghost' That Bites Girl To Be Exorcised · The Advertiser (Adelaide), via Trove· 1953-05-20 · Academic / paper of record · news
  4. Clarita Villanueva: Her Strange Story · The New Way · Wiki, blog, podcast · blog
  5. Bitten by Devils · Lester Sumrall (davidsumrall.com) · Press, book, documentary · book