Case # GKJM1899
Case witness is Regina Visco, age 41. She claims to have seen two men at the junction of Igbalo-go brook dismember and kill a man. In her statement she said she saw the two men turn the victim upside down and then proceeded to cut the victim into two. The two halves of the body were disposed of in the river.
A unit was dispatched to find the body for examination, but no body was found in the area that the witness described.
She could not identify the two perpetrators and the case remains unsolved, a follow up interview conducted a year after gives more details of the case.
The witness says that she saw the victim transform from a black pig into a man. She also noted that the victim was strangling one of the two perpetrators before they fought back and dismembered him.
She also says that she waited until the two perpetrators were gone before checking the body herself. She was surprised to find that the legs were moving on their own. She ran away but noticed that the other half of the body that was thrown in the river resurfaced and was slowly moving towards its other half.
The witness cried during the interview and begged the police not to look for the perpetrators. She said they were only defending themselves from an aswang attack. She said that if she had salt she would have scattered it on the body so that it would not reattach.
The witness declined another interview and the case is still unsolved to this day.
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Written by Karl Gaverza
Copyright © Karl Gaverza
Adapted from Aswang as a Black Pig in Philippine Folk Literature: The Legends. Eugenio. 2002.
Aswang (Antique) Illustration by Ysa Peñas
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