EXCLUSIVE: Unpublished Testimonies of Judel Ann, Clarissa and Romela Pamaluan.

Residents swear, none of such kind has occurred, speculated or talked-about in the community’s
living memory.

It was on a full moon early evening of September 22, 2010, when

Judel Ann and Clarissa encountered at close range, some
“unknown” beings on the beach of Barangay Lawigan, San
Joaquin, Iloilo. This was the maiden event preceding the
encounters involving a pregnant woman (twice visited), Jo Ed
Alvareza and a few others who claimed to have also seen some
strange elements. However, at the time of my investigation, the
pregnant woman was no longer available for interview. She
quickly moved out to an undisclosed location after an alleged second visitation on September 26.

The Inaugural Encounter – September 22, 2010.

There were two key witnesses to this incident – Judel Ann, a grade school
pupil and Clarissa, a high school student. Both encountered these beings
at close range on two unique circumstances. Judel Ann was nearby a hut
and a “talisay” tree when these “men” descended and dashed forth.
Mostly went up the rocky ridge (North). A few others moved south and
took a short bend (East), meeting Clarissa who was approaching the same
corner.

Judel Ann revealed that she was a few steps away from a small “talisay”
tree when a “man” garbed in white gown descended to the ground. From
the second down to the last, she could no longer recount the numbers.
“They were many. All of them hastily jumped off the “talisay” tree and hopped their way up to the
main street. I didn’t notice any light or odd looking object suspended above,” she added.

Though all men looked identical, she recalled seeing one of them
clenching a walking stick at his right shoulder and was the last man to
descend. She also noticed that this man has a stature greater than the rest.

Many of them headed up the ridge, while a few took the opposite
direction where Judel Ann reckoned her siblings were at, playing. So she
immediately ran to seek help from relatives.

18 year-old Paul John Pamaluan (uncle of Judel Ann), went out of the
house and caught a glimpse of the bald headed men. He also saw how the
man with a stick leaped and reached the top of the ridge at incredible
speed. He lost sight of them as rapidly as they came. (Please note that Judel Ann and Paul John both
describe these elements as men).
 Meanwhile, Clarissa was behind a concrete perimeter fence
tending her younger sister who was playing with other small
children. And just as Judel Ann feared, Clarissa saw seven (7)
strange beings emerging from the corner, skipping speedily
towards them.

So she picked-up and carried her sister on her back. She tried to
step back and retreat but couldn’t move, even as she sees them
approaching head on. And as short as a little more than a meter
apart, the seven beings sidestepped to avoid contact and managed to pass everyone by. Right
afterwards, Clarissa felt something tapped her collar and nearly fell back. But she was not sure
whether there was any clawing hand that did it to her. And from that instance, she regained mobility.

She added, “As soon as I was able to turn back, I saw one of
them entered the surroundings where our pig pen is. There was
nothing inside because my father sold that morning the only pig
we have. But my uncle saw a pig in the pen shortly after the
incident and thought it was the same one we had. So we checked
the pen and found nothing. From what my uncle saw, we suspect
the creature transformed to a pig to avoid detection before it
leaped across the bamboo fence and gone somewhere.”

Clarissa also reaffirmed the description she earlier gave to the media and further stressed, “They
don’t look like human beings.” When asked if she saw one of them wielding a walking stick, she
replied, “No sir.”

Recalling What Their Daughters Saw.

According to Janet Pamaluan she saw her daughter Judel Ann

running from the beach-floor towards their house nestled in an
elevated area where she was fixing dinner. She hurriedly came
down and met Judel Ann who was crying and terribly frightened.
With an anxious tone she asked, “What happened?” Judel Ann
sobbingly replied, “There are strange men in white priestly
garments hopping and limping so oddly on the sandy surface
below” [like she’d never seen before].

Judel Ann was terrified by their looks, though the beings looked
to her like ordinary men moving in strange ways. From where
she stood, she saw several men (unsure of the number) with
seemingly identical faces. Some were seen striding, while
others were hobbling like doing the hop-scotch. She had the
impression that those men came to snatch children. It was an
idea she got from unverified folk stories concerning an occult
group abducting children in a nearby island (not in Iloilo) for human sacrifices and returning them
sprawled dead [innards out] after several days, to the same spot where they were taken.

So when she saw them approaching near the spot where she believed her siblings were playing, she
quickly cried for help. Her mother accompanied by relatives came down to check.

Now that they and the rest of their neighbors were alarmed, all rushed to the scene and saw Clarissa
with all the other kids horrified. No one was hurt and neither was anyone missing or abducted. But
the folks viewed this incident as an attack.

Comparing vistas, Clarissa obviously got a better look at the creatures than had it been for Judel Ann.
The closest contact she had was about 1.5 but not more than 2
meters between the spot she stood and the point where the
seven creatures veered in avoidance.

As she described on TV, the beings had bulgy red eyes and
lumpy foreheads. She would repeatedly tell her mother Romela
saying that the eyes of those beings were like that of a cat –
greenish in the dark but turn blazing red when it encounters
light.

Romela also told me that Clarissa was sure about the number. There were seven of them all wearing
white garments at floor-length and have identical features – bald, crinkled foreheads, cat-eyed (as
described above), pointy chins and ears, bushy eyebrows and bearded.

Differing from the caricature presentation, Clarissa may not actually have been pulled back at the tip
of her collar by some extending arms with grabbing hands. Romela confirmed that her daughter
nearly lost balance when she got dragged back. But Clarissa never mentioned to her about noticing
some extending mechanism, much so seeing an arm or a hand
chasing her.

For the fact she got away unscathed – as there was no scratch
mark, no stain or strain done to the collar suggesting physical
contact, there is now a string of doubt whether the use of the
term ‘attack’ was appropriate since there was no aggression
shown by the ‘visitors’ to anyone on any of those three
encounters.

Buoying Craft and a Falling Star: Unpublished Witness Account.

Talks circulated saying, hours after the incident; a woman saw an unlit craft buoying at sea. Some
folks suspected that it was used as an escape vessel. But mostly weren’t sure if there was one or two.
Reports reaching them were sketchy.

Moreover, stories gathered from other places overlap and distort some accounts that took place in
Lawigan. Many of those I asked during my first visit would not know the source of that information.
When I visited Lawigan the third time to speak with Judel Ann and Clarissa, Romela Pamaluan (the
latter’s mother) confided that she was the source of the news. Only, she feared she might get
ridiculed. And for that, she refrained telling more about it openly.

According to Romela, the whole neighborhood remained watchful and nobody, except children,
seems needing sleep. At around 11:45 pm, she noticed an unlit vessel buoying from some distance.
The water was calm, the moon was up and thus, she could clearly discern what she’s seeing. But she
could not tell if there were occupants onboard.

And while attentively observing this ‘dark’ vessel, it split in two. One headed west and the other to
the east. The objects traveled smoothly and silently opposite each other. But it was not long until
Romela lost sight of the two boats. So she asked her relative – who was with her and whom Romela
thought might have seen the object also, but her companion replied, “No.” So she shoved the matter
aside and didn’t insist having seen something unusual.

Still awake and alert, at between 2:00 and 3:00 am (September

23), her companion all of the sudden exclaimed: “falling star!”
as supposedly referring to a shooting star (meteor) falling in the
western horizon. So she looked and both of them saw a reddish
object slowly falling and burst into a white glaring light upon the
sea.

She stressed, “I’m no ignorant. I was the class valedictorian in

high school and I would know the difference between a falling
meteor and the one we saw. Although my companion could be wrong in describing it as a falling
star, it still made sense because the object we saw looked very much like a star, except its glow and
color.”

When asked what color it was, she said: “red. It looked like a red flare thrown upwards when a ship
is distressed. But its light turned glowing white before it disappeared and there was no news about
any distressed ship.”

Acknowledgment: RGMA Iloilo - RATSADA News Team; Noy Pedrosa; Rev. Fr. Rex Jiloca,
Pamaluan and Alvareza families; and the people of Brgy. Lawigan.