Strange lights could really leave people more than just a bit puzzled. What are they, where do they come from?
Recently, I saw early in the evening to the east, one greenish bright light many, many times bigger than a shooting star and disappearing in seconds. But I figured that's just something they call fireball nowadays. Not unusual.
But then there are many more mysterious lights in our even more mysterious island that could be seen when least expected. Red, white, orange lights bouncing in the air and they seem intelligent. Our rural folks associate them with buried treasures for a reason.
In many places on this island there are many such stories, I even have my own, but theirs are often richer with details on how somebody downtrodden got rich all of a sudden.
Others end up losing their mind.
In the early years of Spanish colonization, even the Castilla could be heard talking about such a phenomenon in this island. Even this late, I've been told by a well-travelled German visitor about such an incredible experience that happened to him right here, made more baffling as it came with an apparently ghostly apparition.
That the Spaniards have written about such strange Marinduque lights is fact, would you believe?
Historia de Filipinas del P. Delgado,
"In the mountains near the town of Santa Cruz de Marinduque, the natives have often seen a stone that runs through one of the most precious of the orb, which is the carbuncle (a red precious stone), by the great natural light that diffuses in the darkness. They say those of that town, with whom I spoke passing through him, that usually see it in dark night and light those mountains as if it were a clear day. They believe that this stone is on their foreheads a great snake, very poisonous, accompanied by other minors attracted by its clarity.
"Passing by that island I learned that a powerful neighbor had sent people on purpose in case they could with some planning take it and remove the stone, while alive; because if they kill it, it loses, they say, its splendor and brilliance.
"At one end of the island of Manila, close to that of Santiago, they say that another light and similar snake is seen, which passes the sea and walks by the nearby islets, always picking up at that point, where it has its habitation; and it is so much light and clarity that diffuses at night, that sailors have called it the Galayo point of fire. By relation of an old minister of the town of Antipolo, I knew that in a mountain nearby, called Santa Rosa, there was another similar phenomenon.
"They report having also seen it in the mountains and cliffs removed from the Visayas island, their natives, who call this genus of snakes galosan, because they walk from one hundred to one hundred, accompanying the one who carries the stone, attracted by its beauty and clarity."
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En los montes cercanos al pueblo de santa Cruz de
Marinduque, cuentan los naturales haber visto muchas veces una piedra
que corre por una de las más preciosas del orbe...
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And it seems to me, judging by Facebook comments to a recent related story I posted, nothing much has really changed. After all those years such phenomena have not disappeared.
Also read:
Paranormal orbs at San Isidro Cave, Sta. Cruz, Marinduque
