Welcome to Streetprint Manila

Streetprint Manila is a research project that is part of a larger research endeavour called “Six Continents and Between”. Initiated by Prof. Gary Kelly of the University of Alberta, 6CAB seeks to investigate popular print culture across various geographical, sociocultural, and ethnolinguistic contexts. More specifically, it aims to look at reading patterns and preferences of the Filipino Everyman, or those whom we would largely consider members of the “masa” class.

Send Me A Story: Literature From The Masses

Interestingly, there are hardly any means to verify the veracity of such stories. Many of these narratives, especially the “true” ghost stories, exist as some version or other of known and preexisting urban legends, such as the dead White Lady that haunts balete trees or appears in the backseat of vehicles, or the ghost of a student who died in and haunts a school, or evil, poltergeist-like spirits that terrorize houses, and so forth.