The Manila Film Center is a national building located at the southwest end of the Cultural Center of the Philippines Complex in Pasay. It is served as the main theater for the First Manila International Film Festival. The building has also been the subject of controversies due to an accident that happened on November 17, 1981.
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Many say that ghost of those who died to roam the area looking for the live bodies to possess and take over as their own.
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The accident occurred around 3:00 AM on November 17, 1981, during the construction of the Manila Film Center. The scaffolding collapsed, and at least 169 workers fell and were buried alive under quick drying wet cement. A blanket of security was immediately imposed by the Marcos administration, and neither rescuers nor ambulances were permitted on the site until an official statement had been prepared. The rescuers were eventually permitted to go inside the incident site 9 hours after the collapse.
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There was a speculation that Imelda Marcos, the First Lady and the main financier of the project, was believed to have ordered cement to be poured into the orchestra, entombing the fallen workmen. It is because of the rescuing the people after 9 hours of collapse.
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Various ghostly activities were reported on the site including mysterious sounds, voices and poltergeist activity. In the late '90s, a group called Spirit Questors began to make a visit to the film center in an attempt to contact and appease the souls of the workmen who were killed in the building. Some of the spirits claimed to have moved on, but a few allegedly remain.
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They made a movie for this accident entitled "Tragic Theater" and they used the location of Manila Film Center; according to some of the artists and the rest of the staff, they experienced ghost apparition, sounds, and voices from the building.
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The Manila Film Center is said to be haunted as well as cursed due to the accident that took place in the construction of the structure. Furthermore, all the bodies were retrieved and were given a proper burial though many believe this is all an outright lie to put fears and stories of ghosts to rest and outright haunted conspiracy.
