Is it possible for a fully grown fruit tree in one’s backyard and a hen in its cage to disappear without a trace? This is exactly what Ulderico P. Santiago of Toledo City, Cebu, told me in a recent text message.
Mr. Santiago said his lanzones tree in his backyard, which was 20-feet tall, disappeared without a trace in 2009. Less than a month later, his broodhen also disappeared from its cage.
But after more than three hours, the hen mysteriously reappeared inside its cage. This was after Santiago verbally pleaded to invisible forces or elements for the hen’s return.
“I swear, Mr. Licauco, that this is true,” said Santiago. His wife is the only other witness to this mystery, he added.
My reply to Santiago is that I absolutely believe his amazing story because I myself have personally experienced or witnessed material objects completely disappear from my office and elsewhere.
The disappearances of the lanzones tree and hen, I believe, are the work of elemental creatures or nature spirits. This theory is bolstered by Santiago’s confession that months before the tree disappeared, he thought of cutting it down because it was bearing no fruit.
Personal objects
Elementals may also be responsible for the disappearance of personal objects. The most recent case involved the cell phone of a visitor of mine, JP, a former student who is a financial analyst and investment counselor and who does not easily believe in these so-called “paranormal” incidents.
As I sat at the far end of the office, texting somebody, JP excused himself to go to the restroom at the other end of the room.
When he stepped out of the rest-room, he exclaimed, “Oh no! This can’t be!”
“Why, what happened?” I asked him. Instead of replying, he posed to me another question: “Did you come anywhere near here when I was in the toilet?”
“No, I did not move from where I was,” I said.
He asked me to come over quickly. “You see,” he began in a very excited voice, “before I went inside the restroom, I neatly and carefully placed all my three cell phones side by side on the desk outside. When I returned to get them, one was missing.”
Indeed, what I saw were only two cell phones.
“You didn’t get it, did you?” he asked. “Of course not,” I protested. “I never came near this place while you were inside.”
As he started looking for his missing cell phone—on the floor, under the desk, thinking it might have accidentally fallen, (although that was physically impossible, as the phones were not near the edge of the desk), he happened to look farther away.
Lo and behold! The phone was on the floor, about four feet away from the desk where he had placed it along with the other two phones.
JP’s logical and analytical mind was shattered. No way could the cell phone could have fallen that far. Visibly shaken by this experience, JP invited me over for dinner, and he hardly talked about anything else.
But the more scary and disturbing cases of disappearances are those involving living persons, which happened mostly in national parks in the United States. According to some reports, the most number of disappearances happened in Yosemite National Park in California. Over 40 cases of such disappearances have been reported so far.
Young children
Most of those who disappeared were very young children ages 2 to 13 years, and the elderly between 70 to 80 years old. Fifty percent of the children were found dead, but the rest disappeared completely without a trace despite all efforts to find them.
All the children disappeared while walking right behind their parents. A book reporting those unexplained disappearances was written by David Paulides without the help of either the Yosemite Park Administration or by the FBI, which refused to give him needed information.
I have been to the Yosemite National Park in the mid-’90s. It is a vast and beautiful forested park, of which only 10 percent has been explored. Anyone could be lost walking unguided into its interior, but this alone could not explain all the missing cases reported.
I remember that in one section of the park frequented by tourists (over a million people visit the park yearly), I distinctly sensed the presence of elementals or nature spirits, although I couldn’t see them.
I approached a park security man and told him if there have been reports of strange things happening in that very same spot, or people feeling something strange there. He said I was not the only one who had reported experiencing those things. Other visitors had told him the same thing.
No wonder he was not surprised when I spoke to him about it.
Strange disappearances of people have been reported in several countries, including the Philippines. While some of these could be due to natural causes, a lot of them could not be easily explained.
At this point there is not one single theory that could account for all those disappearances.
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