Torre ni David — originally known as Casa Alegre — sits along Sayre Highway in Barangay Cabangahan, Malaybalay, Bukidnon, a house whose architecture tells the story of its builder's expanding family and whose supernatural population has grown alongside it. The Valmorida patriarch added a new section to the house for every child he fathered, creating a structure of incongruous baroque segments that sprawls in directions that architectural logic would not suggest.
The result is a house that feels inherently wrong — its rooms connect at unexpected angles, its corridors change width and height without warning, and its overall layout defies the coherent floor plan that most residential structures follow. The architectural disorientation is compounded by the supernatural activity that inhabitants and passersby have reported for years: unexplained noises from the house's many additions, kapre sightings in the trees on the property, and a white lady who appears in the windows.
The house remains inhabited by members of the Valmorida family, who have lived with both the eccentric architecture and the supernatural activity as facts of their domestic life. Their coexistence with the spirits has not diminished the fear felt by those outside the family — motorists passing the property on Sayre Highway honk their horns as they go by, a practice rooted in the Visayan and Mindanaoan tradition of using noise to ward off supernatural attention.
Torre ni David's haunting may be a function of its architecture as much as its history. The house's constant expansion, with each new section potentially incorporating materials from different sources and creating new spaces that disrupt the building's spiritual geometry, may have generated the conditions that attract or produce supernatural phenomena. In Filipino folk belief, houses that grow without a clear plan — adding rooms, corridors, and levels in response to immediate need rather than design — develop "dead spaces" where energy stagnates and spirits accumulate.