Central Visayas
Horror Stories from Cebu
Cebu gives us subdivisions rather than provinces of farmland: gated streets, mixed-generation households, children who play outside until the streetlights come on. That domestic texture is why our Junjun series is set here.
The Visayas also carry the heaviest concentration of aswang belief in the country, which sits under the region's stories whether or not any given one names it.
The Visayan folklore backdrop
Aswang and manananggal belief is recorded across the Philippines but is most strongly associated with the Visayas — to the point where the island province of Capiz has spent decades being the punchline of a joke it never asked for. That reputation reflects how stories travel, not where anything lives.
Modern Visayan legends work the same seam. Maria Labo, the most disturbing recent addition, rebuilds the old aswang framework around present-day anxieties about overseas work and coming home changed.
What we cover here
Nothing in the published catalogue is set in Cebu yet. This page stands as the Visayan folklore background behind the entries that do draw on it — Maria Labo above all, which is told most strongly in the Western Visayas.