The Office of the Ombudsman of the Philippines has been haunted at not one but two of its locations — first in its former office in Arroceros, Manila, and then at its current premises in Diliman, Quezon City. The institution tasked with investigating government corruption has found itself unable to investigate the supernatural occurrences that follow it from building to building.
At the Arroceros office, the primary haunting involved the ghost of an elderly street vendor who was killed in an elevator accident within the building. Employees working late described encountering an old woman in the elevator who would vanish between floors, sometimes accompanied by the phantom smell of the food she had been selling at the time of her death. White lady apparitions were also reported in the corridors, particularly near the elevator shaft where the accident occurred.
When the Ombudsman relocated to its current office in Agham Road, Diliman, the staff hoped to leave the hauntings behind. Instead, they encountered new ones. The Quezon City site, before the government building was constructed, was an undeveloped empty lot that locals claim was used as a dumping ground for the remains of aborted fetuses. Whether or not this grim history is verifiable, employees at the new office report hearing the sound of crying babies and wailing women, particularly in the basement parking areas and the ground floor corridors during the late evening hours.
The sounds are most commonly reported during the quiet hours after most staff have gone home, when the building's ambient noise drops low enough for the crying to become audible. Security guards have described the experience as deeply disturbing — not the kind of generic ghostly moan often described in haunted locations, but the specific, heartbreaking cry of an infant in distress, coming from walls and floors with no physical source.