The Wildest Philippine Urban Legends of the '90s
Philippine urban legends are some of the weirdest in the world. Here are some of them.
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00:03 From a stronger Red Horse Beer to the multiplying "kisses" of your childhood,
00:07 the Philippines has its fair share of urban legends.
00:11 And the ’90s especially were filled with the wildest stories ever created.
00:15 Here are some of the legends you may have heard
00:18 from your aunts, uncles, cousins, or parents way back then.
00:25 The Happy Horse is a popular urban legend that revolves around Red Horse Beer.
00:31 According to legend, Red Horse Beer makes a stronger but secret variant of its famous booze
00:36 and bottles it with a label of a smiling horse,
00:39 which Filipinos call Happy Horse.
00:42 The story goes that every truckload of Red Horse Beer
00:44 contains one bottle of the Happy Horse.
00:47 You can still find bottles of Happy Horses
00:49 but it's quite rare.
00:56 This urban legend involved colorful aroma beads called "kisses."
01:00 According to the story,
01:02 the plastic beads give birth and multiply
01:04 when you place them in a wad of cotton soaked in alcohol overnight.
01:08 Many kids collected kisses and bragged about them in school,
01:12 showing off their colorful collections
01:14 allegedly birthed by parent beads that slept together.
01:22 The lost slippers urban legend says
01:24 if you leave your slippers outside your house,
01:27 a cult member will take them and kill you in your sleep.
01:31 Naturally, children who heard this rumor became terrified
01:33 of leaving flip-flops outdoors.
01:36 Versions of the legend go as far as saying
01:38 that the cult members are Satanists
01:41 who are always looking for people to sacrifice.
01:48 Bongbong Marcos is dead.
01:51 According to this ’90s urban legend,
01:53 this Bongbong,
01:54 this Bongbong,
01:55 this Bongbong,
01:57 and this Bongbong
01:58 are all fakes.
02:00 And the Bongbong who we see today is a body double
02:04 hired by Imelda Marcos to pretend to be her son
02:08 after he died in a car crash.
02:13 Of all the Philippine urban legends you've heard,
02:16 this one is the creepiest because it could be true.
02:19 According to legend,
02:21 bridges are made stronger if they are fortified with bodies of people.
02:25 Hence, bridge builders would accept "salvaged" bodies of people,
02:29 including children,
02:31 so they could be cemented into the bridge's foundations.
02:34 What makes this story scary
02:36 is that it is a good premise for covering up an actual crime.
02:40 Reports of disappearances from the ’70s through the ’90s only fuel this legend.