Enter that century-old arched gateway, from the middle of the ancient-looking iron and cemented fence with history-blemished grayish white irregularities, and find yourself inside a vast and beautiful garden, beckoning you more to come in and follow what looks like a beautiful primrose path... to the cemetery.
Scary? Definitely not, for this beautiful resting place for the departed is an interesting, to say the very least, place to visit. What with all its history and aesthetic, ancient wonder, this is one for the eyes, but more so for the tourist fancy, and even more so a test to stretch the senses and psyche. Once you reach the middle of the place you just can’t help but look around, and just feel the garden, look around and appreciate that long wall surrounding you. Not unmindful, of course, of what the walls actually contain.
Walk even further, for there is practically just one direction once you get in, towards the only door you’ll find. That’s the entrance to the underground. A nice lady would meet you inside, let you register in this large dusty book your name (I hope it doesn’t make you feel weird) and purpose of visit. Then, when asked, she’d oblige to give you a quick background of the history of the Nagcarlan Underground Cemetery. Press further for answers, she seems to know them. A small chapel is beyond that door, and another door presses its presence on you – the door downwards. She warns you not to take pictures with flashes, and with a slight voice she says “partly because many people see ‘things’ in their pictures.”
For ghost hunters and skeptics alike, this is a nice place to visit. Once down there you wouldn’t help but simply “feel” what the numerous stories about this place are talking about. Yes, there are lots of stories about this place. Who knows, once you get out you’d have a story of your own too…
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