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Horror Stories (Kinda) for the Halloween

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  "I see dead people."                      --The Sixth Sense (1999)         I’ve been sick for almost a week now: my eyes hurt, I have a recurring fever, my head and my muscles ache and my sinuses inflamed and my wallet abandoned. My niece said I’m probably turning into a zombie and she’s probably right. Watching too much zombies will probably infect you. And because my eyes hurt, I’ve been staying away from my computer and other gadgets(tablet, laptop, game and watch, Nokia 3310,  etc) and the only time I’m sitting in front of my monitor is to work and even that is a drag.         Anyway, Halloween is near and I am somehow obliged to write a blog entry   during this season of the dead, so here it is, some Halloween tidbits I could remember:         1. When I was in high school, the father of one of my classmates died so off we went to to the wake which was being held in a funeral house in Recto, Manila. We arrived there, I think, at around