Immersive 'fright tour' in Baguio City serves bone-chilling entertainment

Heads up, horror fans!

You might want to include this immersive "fright tour" in your next Baguio City itinerary.

The Pine City Fright Tours takes visitors on interactive tours around haunted places in Baguio City, such as the Japanese Tunnel built in World War 2, Diplomat Hotel, and Laperal House.

The tours feature a mix of bone-chilling entertainment as well as some historical background on the haunted sites.

Featured in an iJuander report on Saturday, the fright tours piqued the curiosity of visitors and frightened them as well.

"Nakaka-excite nung una kasi parang, nakaka-curious yung itsura [ng haunted site]," said a fright tour goer.

"Nagpupunta po ako nung horror house. Pero interesting din po pala na mag-tour sa isang place na hindi ka familiar. And then, on the spot na malaman mo yung history. Nakaka-cringe po. Parang chilling to the bones pa rin," another guest said.

The tours are led by Anton Abrille, or better known as Mr. Fright when he's wearing a skeleton mask and black robes.

Abrille started doing fright tours in 2015, a year after he left his video editing job in Manila.

"I noticed that there was a sheer lack of this type of tour in the Philippines so I picked Baguio City as the perfect place to do it, because of the history of Baguio City itself. It has a lot of ghost stories," Abrille said.

His passion for ghost stories and haunted places stemmed from his childhood, during which he claimed to have developed his sixth sense.

Even if they were laden with historical facts, Abrille's fright tours are purely "for entertainment."

"That is basically just for entertainment purposes. It's not really meant to be taken literally or seriously. Obviously, it's not to be taken heavily," he said.

In 2014, Baguio City was listed by National Geographic as one of the World's 10 Most Haunted Cities, because it housed the abandoned Diplomat Hotel.

The hotel was said to have harbored noisy spirits of nuns and priests who were supposedly beheaded during World War 2.

—Angelica Y. Yang/JCB, GMA News