THE MARIALUISA STORY

By RICHARD J O'HANLON JR.

THIS SEGMENT TAKEN FROM MY LATEST STORY ENTITLED "HER FINAL DAYS" IS THE CHILLING SAGA OF WHAT HAD OCCURED TO MY FILIPINO DAUGHTER ON THAT HORRIBLE NIGHT OF OCTOBER 30 IN 1998. I AM GOING TO START BY GIVING YOU THE ACCOUNT OF WHAT HAD HAPPENED FROM THE PREVIOUS NIGHT ON OCTOBER 29TH AND RELIVE EVERY EVENT OF THE FOLLOWING DAY AND CONTINUING INTO AND THROUGHOUT THE FOLLOWING NIGHT..HERE IS THE STORY FROM 9:00 PM THURSDAY NIGHT ON...I MET LUISA IN OSMENA PARK IN QUEZON CITY LIKE WE HAD DONE THE PREVIOUS NIGHT. SHE & I WERE NOW BECOMING VERY CLOSE TO EACH OTHER NOT JUST AS A "FATHER/DAUGHTER" BUT IT WAS LOOKING MORE LIKE A BOYFRIEND/GIRLFRIEND RELATIONSHIP. LUISA AND I WENT TO A RESTAURANT WHICH PLAYED ALL THE POP MUSIC FROM THE 1980'S. IT WAS HERE AFTER A COUPLE OF HOURS THAT SHE MET ONE OF HER CO-WORKERS FROM HER MODELING STUDIO, WHERE LUISA HAD BEEN RECENTLY HIRED TO WORK AS ONE OF THE "COVER MODELS." TERESITA ALONG WITH HER BOYFRIEND THEN INFORMED LUISA THAT SHE HAD NO! TICED THAT SOMEONE WAS WATCHING US. TESSIE RECOGNIZED HIM AS A FRIEND OF LUISA'S MOTHER AND AUNT. HE HAD BEEN HIRED BY THEM TO KEEP A WATCH ON MY MOVEMENTS AS I WAS NOT ALLOWED TO HAVE ANY CONTACT WITH MY FILIPINO DAUGHTER NOW THAT HER MOTHER & I WERE DIVORCED AND AFTER THE SCENE WHICH TOOK PLACE AT THE HARRISON PLAZA SHOPPING MALL BETWEEN LUISA, HER SISTER JUVITA LOTA FEDERESSO, AND HER MOTHER WHEN I GAVE BOTH GIRLS SOME MONEY SO THEY COULD BUY SOME JEWELRY WHICH THEY BOTH WANTED. LUISA THEN BECAME VERY WORRIED WHEN TESSIE INFORMED HER OF THIS AND SHE WANTED ME TO WALK WITH HER BACK HOME TO HER APARTMENT, LOCATED A SHORT DISTANCE AWAY IN QUEZON CITY. LUISA AND I THEN MADE PLANS TO MEET EACH OTHER AT ONE OF THE VICTORY LINER BUS TERMINALS IN MANILA THE NEXT DAY AS SHE WANTED ME TO ACCOMPANY HER UP TO HER SISTER'S HOME LOCATED IN THE PROVINCE OF PAMPANGA.( ABOUT 50 MILES NORTH OF METRO MANILA.) SHE & I PROMISED EACH OTHER THAT WE'D MEET AT THE BUS DEPOT BY NO LATER THAN 5:45 PM THE NEXT DAY( FRIDAY OCT.30TH.) WITH A HUG AND A GOOD-NIGHT KISS WE PARTED UNBEKNOWNING TO ME THAT THIS WOULD BE THE LAST TIME I WOULD EVER TALK TO HER AGAIN. THE NEXT MORNING, I ALONG WITH MARIAMELDA'S BROTHER, NAMED ROGELIO & HIS WIFE, LORNA WERE INVITED TO ENCARNACION MATUBA'S HOME LOCATED IN ANOTHER SECTION OF METRO MANILA KNOWN AS PACO. MARIAMELDA, MY NOW EX-WIFE & LUISA'S MOTHER WAS ALSO STAYING AT HER HOME. WE ARRIVED THERE BY NOON AND FOR AWHILE ALL SEEMED TO BE GOING NORMAL. AT ABOUT 3:00 PM, MARIAMELDA,ALONG WITH HER AUNT ENCARNACION, AND ROGELIO'S WIFE, LORNA LEFT FOR WHAT THEY TOLD US, WAS TO DO SOME GROCERY SHOPPING AND THAT THEY WOULD BE BACK IN A COUPLE OF HOURS. ( THIS IS WHERE ROGELIO FIRST NOTICED THAT SOMETHING SUSPICIOUS WAS OCCURING.) A FEW MINUTES AFTER THEY LEFT, ROGELIO INFORMED ME THAT HE HAD NOTICED THAT MARIA WAS CARRYING A BROWN BUSINESS SIZED ENVELOPE WITH HER. HE ALSO MENTIONED THAT HE THOUGHT THAT HE'D SEEN HER STUFFING SOMETHING WHICH LOOKED LIKE CLIPPINGS FROM A MAGAZINE INTO IT BUT HE DID NOT WANT TO SAY ANY MORE SINCE HE WAS NOT SURE OF WHAT IT REALLY WAS THAT SHE( MARIA) WAS DOING IN THE KITCHEN. OUR SUSPICION BECAME DEEPER AN HOUR LATER WHEN LORNA RETURNED HOME. SHE WAS ALONE! BOTH ROGELIO & I WERE NOW VERY CURIOUS AS TO WHY LORNA RETURNED ALONE! THIS WAS THE BEGINNING OF WHAT WOULD BECOME A HORRIBLE NIGHT!) LORNA INFORMED US THAT SHE WAS WITH THE OTHER TWO WAITING IN THE CHECK OUT LINE WHEN SHE DISCOVERED THAT SHE HAD FORGOTTEN SOME SOY SAUCE. SHE WENT BACK AND GOT A BOTTLE AND HAD GOTTEN BACK IN LINE. SHE HAD NOT BEEN GONE MORE THAN TEN MINUTES WHEN SHE THEN NOTICED THAT MARIA & ENCAR WERE GONE! AFTER GOING THROUGH THE CHECK OUT LINE AND PAYING FOR THE SOY SAUCE, SHE WAITED AROUND TO SEE IF THE OTHER TWO WOULD SHOW UP BUT THEY DID NOT. SHE EXPLAINED THAT SHE BEGAN TO LOOK FOR THEM BUT THEY WERE NO WHERE TO BE SEEN. WE THEN ASKED LORNA IF MARIA WAS CARRYING A BUSINESS-SIZED ENVELOPE WHEN SHE HAD LAST SEEN HER. SHE SAID YES SHE WAS BUT SHE WAS VERY SECRETIVE AS TO WHAT WAS INSIDE THE ENVELOPE. WHEN S! HE COULD NOT FIND THE OTHER TWO, LORNA DECIDED TO CATCH A TAXI BACK HERE TO ENCAR'S HOME. ANOTHER HOUR WENT BY,I NOW HAD TO FIND SOME EXCUSE TO BRAKE AWAY AND GET OVER TO THE BUS STATION WHERE LUISA & I PROMISED TO MEET EACH OTHER BY 5:45 PM. THEN CAME THE BRAKE I NEEDED. ROGELIO WANTED TO GO TO THE OFF TRACK BETTING PARLOR ON MALOLOS ST. AND DO SOME BETTING ON A HORSE RACE. THE PARLOR WAS LOCATED RIGHT ACROSS THE STREET FROM THE VICTORY LINER BUS TERMINAL WHERE LUISA TOLD ME TO MEET HER.THERE WAS A RESTAURANT LOCATED THERE ALSO AND SO WE THOUGHT THAT WE'D HAVE DINNER THERE WHILE ROGELIO WENT TO DO SOME BETTING (AND I WOULD WAIT FOR MY FILIPINO DAUGHTER OR HAVE HER JOIN IN WITH US IF SHE WAS ALREADY THERE.) AFTER A HASTY 40 MINUTE TAXI RIDE THROUGH THE BUSY MANILA RUSH HOUR TRAFFIC, WE ARRIVED AT THE MALOLOS STREET OFF TRACK BETTING PARLOR. THE BUS STATION,LOCATED RIGHT ACROSS THE STREET WAS VERY CROWDED AS IT USUALLY IS ON A FRIDAY AFTERNOON RUSH HOUR. AS USUAL I WAS HERE BEFORE LUISA BUT AS OF YET, I WAS NOT CONCERNED SINCE LUISA HAD THIS HABIT OF SHOWING UP RIGHT AT THE LAST MINUTE! THE TIME WAS NOW 5:35 PM. LUISA SPECIFICALLY MENTIONED THAT SHE WANTED TO ARRIVE AT JUVITA'S HOUSE BEFORE IT GOT TOO LATE. LOOKING AT THE BUS DEPARTURE SCHEDULES TO ANGELES CITY, PAMPANGA THERE WAS A BUS LEAVING AT 6:10 PM AND ANOTHER LEAVING THREE HOURS LATER..AT 9 PM (WHICH WAS THE LAST ONE UNTIL EARLY THE NEXT MORNING.) I BEGAN TO LOOK AROUND JUST TO SEE IF LUISA HAD ARRIVED HERE BUT THERE WAS NO SIGN OF HER ANYWHERE IN THE CROWD. BY 6:00 PM THE BUS FOR ANGELES CITY WAS BOARDING AND GETTING READY TO LEAVE.I HAD PURCHASED OUR TICKETS BUT LUISA WAS STILL NOT HERE. SHE WAS NOW OVER 20 MINUTES LATE! AGAIN, I LOOKED AROUND TO SEE IF I COULD SEE HER IN THE CROWD( LUISA WAS A VERY PRETTY(MORE LIKE BEAUTIFUL) FILIPINO GIRL.SHE STOOD OUT IN A CROWD WITH HER LONG, BLACK HAIR, POLYNESIAN FACIAL COMPLEXION, AND BIG, BROWN EYES.!) BUT SHE WAS NO WHERE TO BE SEEN. AT 6:15 PM THE BUS LEFT. WHERE WAS LUISA? I BEGAN TO GET CONCERNED ALON! G WITH ROGELIO & LORNA. "WELL SHE MAY HAVE HAD SOMETHING COME UP ON HER JOB." ROGELIO EXPLAINED, 'LET'S JUST WAIT AROUND FOR AWHILE AND SEE IF SHE'LL EVENTUALLY SHOW UP." ALTHOUGH WE WERE NOT YET TERRIBLY CONCERNED AT THIS MOMENT, I THEN EXPLAINED TO ROGELIO & LORNA THAT LUISA WAS ALWAYS VERY GOOD ABOUT KEEPING APPOINTMENTS WHEN SHE MADE THEM IN THE PAST. IF SHE COULD NOT MAKE IT..THERE WOULD BE A TELEGRAM OR SOME OTHER TYPE OF URGENT MESSAGE THAT SHE COULD NOT MAKE IT..BUT AS OF NOW THERE WAS NOTHING! AN HOUR WENT BY, STILL NO SIGN OF HER! WE BEGAN TO GET MORE CONCERNED AS THE HOURS WENT ON. "DO YOU THINK THAT LUISA MAY HAVE GOTTEN INTO SOME KIND OF TROUBLE BETWEEN HERE AND WHERE SHE LIVES IN QUEZON CITY?" I ASKED ROGELIO. "HINDE KO ALAM." ( I DON'T KNOW) WAS HIS REPLY LORNA THEN SAID, "LET'S NOT GET TOO WORRIED JUST YET. IF SHE IS NOT HERE BY THE TIME THE LAST BUS LEAVES FOR ANGELES CITY AT NINE O'CLOCK, WE WILL GO BACK TO ENCAR'S HOUSE IN PACO AND TELL THEM THAT WE GOT INVOLVED IN THE HORSE RACES. WE! 'LL THEN TRY TO GET AHOLD OF THE LANDLADY OF THE APARTMENTS WHERE SHE(LUISA)LIVES AND FIND OUT IF SHE IS HOME IN HER APARTMENT. NINE O'CLOCK CAME, THE LAST BUS LEFT FOR PAMPANGA, THERE WAS STILL NO SIGN OR MESSAGE FROM LUISA! WE TOOK A TAXI BACK TO PACO AND ARRIVED AT ENCAR'S HOME BY A LITTLE BEFORE 10 PM. MARIA & ENCAR WERE CURIOUS AS TO WHAT HAD HAPPENED TO US BUT THEY JUST LAUGHED WHEN WE SAID THAT WE WERE BETTING ALL EVENING. MARIA& ENCAR THEN WENT UPSTAIRS TO THERE BEDROOMS BY 10:40 PM. SUDDENLY THE TELEPHONE RANG...IT WAS CHRIS DELEON (LUISA'S FIANCE AND MOVIE CELEBRITY.) HE HAD JUST RETURNED FROM HIS WEEK-LONG MOVIE SHOOT ON ONE OF THE OTHER ISLANDS AND WAS CURIOUS TO KNOW WHY LUISA WAS NOT AT HOME IN HER QUEZON CITY APARTMENT LIKE SHE WOULD NORMALLY BE AT THIS LATE HOUR OF THE NIGHT. NOW ALL THREE OF US WERE VERY CONCERNED...LUISA WAS NOT IN HER APARTMENT! CHRIS THEN ASKED TO SPEAK TO ME...MARIA THEN HANED THE PHONE TO ME AND I SPOKE TO CHRIS..HIS FIRST QUESTION HE ASKED ME WAS WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME THAT I HAD SEEN LUISA...I HAD TO EXPLAIN TO HIM THAT I HAD LAST SEEN HER ON THE PREVIOUS NIGHT. AFTER TELLING HIM THAT SHE WANTED ME TO MEET HER IN OSMENA PARK BECAUSE SHE WAS WORRIED THAT SOMEONE WAS WATCHING & FOLLOWING HER AROUND, CHRIS THEN ASKED ME TO MEET HIM AT OSMENA PARK. ROGELIO THEN OFFERED TO COME JOIN US TO HELP SEARCH FOR LUISA. BY 11:30 PM, ROGELIO AND I MET CHRIS DELEON ALONG WITH A CLOSE FRIEND OF HIS WHOSE NAME WAS MANOY. FROM OSMENA PARK, WE ALL WALKED OVER TO LUISA'S APARTMENT. IT WAS NOT MORE THAN A FIFTEEN MINUTE WALK. WHEN WE KNOCKED ON THE DOOR..HER ROOMMATE, NAMED JOSIE ANSWERED THE DOOR AND INVITED US IN. JOSIE'S STORY WAS THE BEGINNING OF THE HORROR..."A LAS CINCO ETC..(ENGLISH: AT ABOUT FIVE O'CLOCK I ARRIVED HOME FROM WORK. I NOTICED THAT THE DOOR WAS OPENED A LITTLE. WHEN I WALKED IN I SAW AN OPEN BOTTLE OF PILLS LYING ON THE FLOOR. IT WAS HALF- EMPTY! SOMEONE HAD SWALLOWED OVER HALF OF THEM....WELL JOSIE HAD ONLY ONE ROOMMATE..LUISA! JOSIE THEN WENT ON TO EXPLAIN.." WHEN I WALKED INTO THE LIVING ROOM, I JUST HAPPENED TO LOOK INTO LUISA'S ROOM. ALL F HER CLOTHES WERE A MESS ALL OVER HER BED AND ON THE FLOOR. HER LIP-STICK CASE ALONG WITH HER EYESHADOW KIT WERE LYING THERE, HER JEWELRY BOX WAS OPENED AND SOME OF HER BRACELETS, NECKLACES, AND OTHER JEWELRY WERE MISSING AND THE OTHERS WERE JUST LYING ON THE FLOOR. HER ROOM WAS A TOTAL MESS.. THEN I NOTICED THAT HER MARIACLARA GOWN WAS GONE. JOSIE THEN WENT ON TO EXPLAIN THAT FROM WHAT SHE COULD SEE...LUISA WAS "FIXING HERSELF" AS IF SHE WAS GOING TO SOMEWHERE FORMAL! THIS WAS NOT ONLY CONFUSING BUT FRIGHTENING...WHERE IN THE HELL WOULD SHE BE GOING TO INSTEAD OF TO THE BUS DEPOT?" I ASKED MYSELF. JOSIE WAS AFRAID NOW AND HESITATED TO SAY ANYTHING MORE. SHE THEN TOLD US TO GET A HOLD OF THE LANDLADY OF THESE APARTMENTS AND ASK HER. WHEN WE DID, THE LANDLADY KNEW NOTHING BUT SHE THEN IN TURN TOLD US TO IMMEDIATELY GET IN CONTACT WITH ADELIA PUGANAN WHO WAS THE HOUSEMAID OF THIS APARTMENT COMPLEX SINCE SHE HAD BEEN HERE WORKING ALL DAY & EVENING. AFTER SOME RUNING AROUND, WE FOUND ADELIA'S APARTMENT AND KNOCKED ON HER DOOR. ADELIA WAS HOME AND INVITED US IN....ADELIA'S STORY PUT THE PIECES OF THE HORROR JIG-SAW PUZZLE TOGETHER..HERE WERE HER WORDS(TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH: "SIGUE..AT EIGHT O'CLOCK THIS EVENING I WENT OUT TO WATER THE FLOWERS IN THE BACKYARD. I SAW HER(LUISA)SITTING ON THE GROUND WITH HER HEAD BURIED IN HER ARMS & RESTING ON A BENCH...SHE WAS DRESSED UP IN HER WHITE MARIACLARA GOWN AND SHE LOOKED SO BEAUTIFUL! BUT SHE WAS CRYING OUT LOUD!I THEN WENT OVER TO SEE IF I COULD HELP HER I ASKED HER WHAT WAS WRONG BUT SHE DID NOT SAY ANYTHING AND JUST KEPT CRYING. "SOMEHOW MARIA & ENCAR WERE INVOLVED IN THIS." IS WHAT NOW FLASHED ACROSS MY MIND. ADELIA WENT ON...." TWO HOURS LATER I WAS GETTING READY TO GO HOME WHEN I SAW LUISA COMING DOWN THE STAIRS FROM HER APARTMENT. SHE WAS DRESSED UP SO BEAUTIFUL IN HER GOWN, SHE HAD A DIAMOND STUDDED CAMEO NECKLACE AROUND HER NECK AND A BOUQUET OF FLOWERS IN HER HAIR....I WAS CURIOUS AS TO WHERE SHE WAS GOING TO AT THIS LATE HOUR...I ASKED HER...SHE DID NOT SAY MUCH EXCEPT SHE SAID IN A SOFT & SHAKEY VOICE.."PAALAM KO MOM" WHICH MEANS "GOOD-BYE" FOREVER TO YOU. WHEN I ASKED HER WHERE SHE WS GOING AT THIS HOUR OF THE NIGHT, CHOKING BACK TEARS, SHE SAID THAT SHE WAS GOING OFF TO SACRIFICE VALLEY! ... WHEN WE HEARD THIS, OUR HEARTS LITERALLY STOPPED BEATING!!! CHRIS, ROGELIO, MANOY, AND MYSELF WERE BEYOND HORROR STRUCK!!!RECALLING THAT LUISA WAS FRIGHTENED AT THE VERY MENTION OF THE NAME "SACRIFICE VALLEY" THIS WAS NOW EVIDENT OF SOME KIND OF DEMON SUMMONING! SACRIFICE VALLEY, LOCATED IN THE MOUNTAINS OF BATAAN PROVINCE NORTHWEST OF METRO MANILA, WAS KNOWN AS A RELIGIOUS AREA WHERE MANY PEOPLE WENT TO PRAY AND ASK FOR FORGIVENESS FROM THE LORD.. MIRACLES WERE KNOWN TO HAVE OCCURED THERE ...BUT AT NIGHT IT BECAME A DWELLING PLACE OF THE DEVIL! STRANGE APPEARANCES WERE KNOWN TO HAVE OCCURED THERE INCLUDING A VISION OF WHAT THE FILIPINOS REFER TO AS THE "KAMATAYAN" OR UGLY FACE OF SATAN ACTU! ALLY APPEARING IN THE LATE NIGHT SHADOWS...PEOPLE WHO VENTURED THERE AT NIGHT WERE NEVER SEEN AGAIN.. ADELLIA ASKED WHY SHE WAS GOING THERE.. LUISA THEN SAID THAT HE WAS BEING CALLED!!! "WHO WAS CALLING YOU?" ADELLIA ASKED...LUISA ANSWERED, "IT IS SOME KIND OF A VOICE" ADELLIA THEN SAID THAT LUISA LEFT WELL OVER AN HOUR AGO.. ADELLIA THEN WXPLAINED TO US THAT THE ONLY WAY LUISA WAS GOING TO SACRIFICE VALLEY TONIGHT WAS BY TRICYCLE.. WAISTING NO MORE TIME, WE ALL RAN OUT TO CATCH A JEEPNEY TO THE NEAREST TRICYCLE STATION IN THE HOPES OF FOLLOWING LUISA UP TO SACRIFICE VALLEY AND GET THERE IN TIME TO RESCUE HER FROM WHAT IT WAS THAT WAS CALLING HER. THE JEEPNEY DRIVER TOLD US THAT HE HAD SEEN ANOTHER JEEPNEY EARLIER THAT EVENING RIGHT IN FRONT OF HIM WITH A GIRL DRESSED IN WHITE. HIS DESCRIPTION OF HER CLEARLY MATCHED THAT OF LUISA. HE TOOK US RIGHT TO THE TRICYCLE STATION WHERE HE HAD SEEN THE OTHER JEEPNEY DROP HER OFF.. HE SAW HER THEN GET INTO A TRICYCLE AND SPEED OFF INTO THE DARKNESS...IT APPEARED TO BE HEADED IN THE DIRECTION OF BATAAN..WE ALL CAUGHT TWO TRICYCLES AND FOLLOWED WHAT WE HOPED WS THE SAME ROUTE THAT THE TRICYCLE CARRYING LUISA HAD TAKEN EARLIER...THE ROADS IN AND AROUND MERO MANILA WERE SMOOTH, WELL LIT UP, AND EASILY MANUVERIBLE BUT WHEN WE GOT CLOSER TO BATAAN'S MOUNTAIN AREA (WHERE SACRIFICE VALLEY WAS) THEY GOT VERY ROUGH AND WINDING AND AT TIMES IT WAS TOTALLY DARK EXCEPT FOR A HALF- MOON. A SHORT DISTANCE BEFORE WE GOT TO THE ENTRANCE TO SACRIFICE VALLEY, WE THOUGHT THAT WE COULD SEE ANOTHER TRICYCLE WELL OUT AHEAD OF US....THIS HAD TO BE THE ONE CARRYING LUISA..THEN SUDDENLY WE HAD TO STOP WHEN A PIG WAS SEEN RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD...AFTER "SHEWING HIM OFF THE ROAD, WE CONTINUED ON BUT BY NOW THE OTHER TRICYCLE AHEAD OF US WAS LONG GONE. ARRIVING AT THE ENTRANCE TO SACRIFICE VALLEY, WE ALL GOT OUT PAID THE DRIVER, AND BRIEFLY LOOKED AROUND TO GET OUR BEARINGS HERE SINCE IT WAS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT AND TOTALLY DARK..AND LOOKING VERY MYSTERIOUS! THE TROPICAL HALF-MOO! N WAS OF SOME HELP BUT IT WAS OCCASIONALLY BEING HIDDEN BY TOWERING CUMULOUS CLOUDS AS A LINE OF TROPICAL THUNDERSTORMS WAS APPROACHING FROM THE EAST. IN THE DISTANCE OFF TO THE EAST, AN OCCASIONAL FLICKER OF DISTANT LIGHTNING WAS SEEN. WE ALL GOT READY TO BEGIN OUR SEARCH FOR LUISA..AS WE WALKED AROUND ROGELIO TRIPPED OVER SOMETHING ON THE GROUND..LOOKING DOWN HE SAW THAT IT WAS A LADY'S SHOE! LUISA WAS DEFINATELY HERE SOMEWHERE! A FEW MINUTES LATER WE FOUND THE OTHER SHOE A FEW FEET AWAY...SHE HAD TAKEN THEM OFF AND WAS WALKING BAREFOOT DOWN INTO SACRIFICE VALLEY. THIS WAS NOW GETTING EVEN MORE MYSTERIOUS...A YOUNG GIRL WALKING ALONE BAREFOOT IN THRE DARKNESS IN THIS MYSTERIOUS PLACE. AFTER CHECKING TO SEE IF HIS FLASHLIGHT WORKED WE DECIDED THAT DUE TO THE DANGERS OF WALKING DOWN THE NARROW AND STEEP ROCKY PATHWAY LEADING INTO THE VALLEY THAT TWO OF US WOULD GO THERE AND THE OTHER TWO HAD BETTER STAY UP AT THE BEGINNING OF THE PATH.. CHRIS & I DECIDED TO GO WHILE ROGELIO & MANOY REMAINED. STARTING DO! WN THE PATHWAY, WE HAD TO BE ESPECIALLY CAREFUL THAT WE DID NOT TRIP AND FALL BECAUSE A FALL HERE COULD EASILY MEAN A BROKEN LEG. WE KEPT CALLING OUT HER NAME..THERE WAS NO REPLY. WE KEPT WALKING ON THEN CHRIS SUDDENLY SAW WHAT APPEARED TO BE SOMEONE WELL OUT AHEAD OF US. SHE WAS DRESSED IN WHITE AND WALKING SLOWLY...MY GOD IT WAS LUISA! WE YELLED OUT HER NAME AS LOUD AS WE COULD AND TRIED TO WALK FASTER BUT THE STEEPNESS OF THE PATH MADE IT TOO DANGEROUS. LUISA SEEMED TO BE WALKING TOWARDS SOMETHING BUT AS OF YET WE COULD NOT SEE ANYTHING MORE THAN JUST TREES AND BUSHES...AT THAT MOMENT, THE MOON CAME OUT ILLUMINATING THE JUNGLE...IN THE DISTANCE WE BOTH SAW WHAT APPEARED TO BE THE SHADOW OF A GIANT STATUE. "WHAT WAS THIS NOW?" WE BOTH ASKED EACH OTHER. WE COULD NOT EASILY MAKE OUT WHAT IT WAS BUT IT APPEARED TO RESEMBLE A GIANT "TIKI" ( A STATUE OF A GOD WHICH WAS BUILT BY THE ANCIENT ABORIGINAL PEOPLE WHO INHABITED THIS AREA ABOUT 20,000 YEARS AGO.) A FEW MINUTES LATER, LUISA STOOD AT THE BOTTOM OF THE HILL. SHE WAS NOW RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE "TIKI" SHE STOOD MOTIONLESS FOR A MINUTE AND LOOKED UP AT IT. THEN CHRIS & I SAW HER RAISE HER ARMS ABOVE HER HEAD AS IF SHE WAS OFFERING HERSELF TO IT!! WE WERE BOTH TOTALLY CONFUSED BY WHAT WE WERE SEEING. WHAT WAS THIS ALL ABOUT? LUISA THEN LAY DOWN ON THE GROUND WITH HER FACE DOWN IN FRONT OF THE TIKI. WE COULD HEAR HER CRYING. THEN SHE GOT UP AND BEGAN TO REMOVE HER CLOTHES! AGAIN CHRIS & I WERE CONFUSED AS WELL AS HORROR STRUCK..LUISA THEN REMOVED ALL OF HER CLOTHING AND STOOD IN FRONT OF THE TIKI TOTALLY NUDE. THEN SHE BEGAN TO CLIMB UP ONTO THE STATUE AND THEN UPON REACHING WHAT APPEARED TO BE ITS ARMS..SHE LAY DOWN IN ITS ARMS ON HER BACK.. HER LONG BLACK HAIR WAS NOW HANGING DOWN THE SIDE OF THE TIKI'S ARMS.. LIGHTNING AND THUNDER WERE NOW NEARBY AS WE TRIED TO APPRACH THE TIKI STATUE IN THE HOPES OF SOMEHOW REACHING UP AND GRABBING LUISA BUT SHE WAS JUST UP THERE TOO HIGH. AT THAT MOMENT, THE RAIN BEGAN TO FALL VERY HARD AS THE STORM WAS NOW OVER US. CHRI! S & I RAN AS FAST AS WE COULD TOWARDS THE STATUE WITH LUISA UP IN ITS ARMS..THEN SUDDENLY IT HIT! IT HIT VERY HARD WITH A LOUD AND DEAFENING EXPLOSION! A HUGE BOLT OF LIGHTNING HIT THE HEAD OF THE TIKI STATUE BLOWING OFF ITS HEAD! CHRIS & I WERE BOTH KNOCKED OFF OUR FEET AS WEL AS BLINDED! WHEN WE WERE ABLE TO SEE AGAIN.. WE LOOKED UP AT WHERE LUISA WAS LYING.......SHE WAS NOT THERE!..SHE HAD VANISHED RIGHT BEFORE OUR HORRIFIED EYES... LUISA WAS GONE!!! ONLY THECLOTHES WHICH SHE HAD TAKEN OFF BEFORE SHE CLIMBED UP ONTO THE STATUE WAS STILL THERE LYING ON THE GROUND.. SCREAMING & CRYING WE BOTH RAN AS FAST AS WE COULD TO GET OUT OF HERE AND BACK TO WHERE THE OTHER TWO WERE WAITING FOR US. IN HE FOLLOWING DAYS, A THOROUGH POLICE INVESTIGATION WAS LAUNCHED INTO THIS STRANGE OCCURANCE..FOR AWHILE WE WERE ALL SUSPECTED OF FOUL PLAY BUT AS THE INSUING INVESTIGATION CONTINUED IT WAS TURNING UP NOTHING THAT PROVED ANY FOUL PLAY...RATHER IT WAS LOOKING MORE AND MORE LIKE AN UNSOLVABLE MYSTERY! IT WAS CLOSED UP A FEW ! MONTHS LATER AS UNSOLVABLE.!
.AND ORDERED NEVER TO BE OPENED AGAIN...IN THE FOLLOWING MONTHS SOME PEOPLE REPORTING SEEING A GIRL DRESSED IN WHITE ANG GLOWING...AND IN AUGUST OF THAT YEAR A SPIRITUAL MEDIUM CONTACT LUISA'S SPIRIT...THE MYSTERY WAS NEVER SOLVED..