Haunted Baguio: Spirit Quest at Nevada Square Revisited, Part 3

Here is the final part of the story on the events that occurred on 26-27 October 2002, involving Tony Perez and the Spirit Questors in an activity intended to communicate with the 1990 Baguio earthquake victims who perished at Hotel Nevada.

In case your missed the first two parts, here they are:

• Haunted Baguio: Spirit Quest at Nevada Square Revisited
• Haunted Baguio: Spirit Quest at Nevada Square Revisited, Part 2

The Oracle Fest.

After the debriefing on the subject of the different occurrences in the seances held during the day, The Spirit Questors were asked by Tony Perez, individually, which tools they were going to use to read the fortunes of all the visitors at the Oracle Fest. The Oracle Fest was to be held later on in the evening, and which was, by the way, little publicized but for the benefit of all organic traffic and customers who happened to pass by  Nevada Square.

That night, each Questor positioned himself in small tables all around Nevada Square and told the fortunes of any visitor for free. I would say it was a very unusual evening because the same way the place was empty for lunch, was the same way it was overflowing with people at night!

The usually well-oiled Baguio rumor mill was spinning pretty slowly that Halloween weekend. Either that or the Baguio folk thought that the Spirit Quest would be held in the evening, a logical assumption, since the one at Hyatt Terraces, participated in by my sister Rosanne (who also begged our mom to sponsor a pre-event dinner at Halfway House in Camp John Hay, which we were operating at that time).

Oh, the Hyatt Spirit Quest was a more “high profile” occurrence (to match Fidel Ramos’ high profile rescue during the earthquake in 1990) that I was planning to watch from Halfway House, which I thought was a safe distance until Tony Perez told me it was more dangerous to do so because some  spirits could cross over to where I was and I would be alone and unprotected.

That was in 1997, if my memory serves me right. I was then with my best friends from UP Law, Anne Marie Logarta and Marites Rana (now Bernales). and we made plans to meet up with Rosanne at 456 Restaurant because they were instructed not to head straight home lest they be followed by the spirits.

The funny thing is, EVERYONE headed there after the Quest, probably because it was the only 24-hour eatery in Baguio City at that time (and with cheap and filling Lomi, too), and I remember thinking, “Woe to 456 Restaurant, they may have led all the spirits here!”

Before that, as I parked my car on South Drive, I recalled vividly how it used to be in the late 1980s when, during the summer months, the parked cars would stretch out all the way to the old Camp John Hay Main Gate, and we would all walk in the cold dark night, in high heels, heading towards that shining beacon of entertainment, Hyatt Terraces Baguio, during its halcyon days.

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