Miriam College in Quezon City — one of the Philippines' most respected all-women educational institutions, formerly known as Maryknoll College — has a resident supernatural figure that combines two of the most common elements in Filipino school hauntings: a ghost nun and a haunted restroom.
The spirit resides in the ladies' restroom on the second floor of the Caritas Building, and she manifests with enough regularity that students have developed informal protocols for using the facility. The nun appears as a figure in traditional religious habit — her order's distinct clothing recognizable even in the dim fluorescent lighting of the restroom — standing motionless near the mirrors or in the corner of the room. She is silent, watchful, and disappears when a student turns to face her directly, leaving only the sensation of having been observed by someone who is no longer there.
The identity of the spectral nun has not been established, though the college's history as a Maryknoll institution provides a broad pool of candidates. The Maryknoll Sisters operated the college from its founding in 1926, and generations of religious women served on the campus before the institution transitioned to lay governance. Some of those sisters may have died on or near the campus, their spiritual attachment to the institution outlasting their physical presence.
In the Philippine Catholic educational tradition, ghost nuns occupy an ambiguous position. They are not feared in the same way that white ladies or wartime ghosts are feared — they are understood as extensions of the religious authority that governs the institution, and their presence in restrooms is sometimes interpreted as supervisory rather than menacing. The nun of Caritas Building may be watching over the students who use the facility, continuing the duty of care that religious sisters have exercised at the college for nearly a century.