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Woman Crawls Out of Storm Drain in Macabre Manila Street Scene
The Straits Times
|May 29, 2025
A woman was seen crawling out of a storm drain on a busy street in Manila's main financial district in a scene straight out of a horror movie about a deep well-dwelling, spectral serial killer.
Images that have gone viral in the Philippines show a lithe young woman pulling herself out of the drain at around 5pm on May 26 at a street corner in Makati city.
Her dress and denim shorts were caked with grime, and her hair was long, unwashed and streaked with dirt and dried leaves.
As she made her way out of the drain, her head turned to the man taking her photos.
She smiled and, after crawling out of the hole, ran towards him as a motorist wearing a military-style uniform chased her.
This story is from the May 29, 2025 edition of The Straits Times.
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