Meeting People Who Live in a Cemetery (Seriously)
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In this video, I explore the fascinating and little-known world of a community living in a cemetery in Manila, the capital city of the Philippines. Despite its unconventional location, this community has made a life for themselves among the graves and mausoleums, and I give you a firsthand look at their unique way of living.
We start by meeting some of the residents, who tell us about their daily routines and how they manage to make ends meet. We see how they have adapted to their surroundings, from setting up makeshift homes in between the graves to using the cemetery's water source for their daily needs.
We also learn about the challenges they face, including the stigma and discrimination that comes with living in a cemetery, as well as the risks of being evicted by the government. Despite these obstacles, the community remains resilient and determined to keep their way of life.
As we explore the cemetery, we see the beauty and history of the place, including the ornate tombs and sculptures that surround the residents' homes. We also witness the strong sense of community that exists among the residents, who support each other through good times and bad.
Thanks for watching, and I'd love to hear your thoughts, comments and opinions in the comment section down below.
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i dont know why but i have a feeling that kid named Gilbert, who watches Drew's vlogs --will go far in life. I can sense he is really a smart kid.
true .. that kid can understand english pretty well for his age!
I totally agree!
I agre !!!
true! he can speak english well
he’s smart as he talk to Drew it makes sense😊
It’s hard for some people to believe that there are people residing within the cemetery. Some would think it’s weird and crazy, but it ‘s not. They chose to live there instead of being homeless out on the street. They’re happy, safe and the whole family living together and that’s the only thing that matters to them.
Drew, hope you enjoyed your visit to the South Cemetery alive and dead residence.😎😔
Yes I think its amazing. Imagine being able to look back at your dead body and you see your family still staying with you and caring for you even when you’re in a coffin. True family right there.
I wonder what the Government did after seeing this video! Heartbreaking!
My first ever day in the Philippines, I came here because I thought it was a nice park for a jog. Wow, I was shocked! But the people are nice!
you mean at the cemetery? that would be fun jogging at the cemetery
So nice !
@@roverlights6113 yes :)
@@TomJamesOfficial .
@@MoreTravelsWithDrewBinsky hi drew how about historic ww2 places in the Philippines like corregidor island and bataan shrine.
How kind of you to post the little boy's channel. Love this video. Always doing great work, Drew! ❤
I love how he got so excited when he found out the kids were playing pogs.
So the Manila South Cemetery is apparently NOT in Makati, but rather it's SURROUNDED by it as it's within an exclave of the San Andres district of Manila. The exclave exists simply because of the cemetery, which I find fascinating. It reminds of the time I lived in NJ and how Hoboken is so small that they don't have space for burials of their locals so they created a cemetery in North Bergen (simply called the Hoboken Cemetery) for them. Weehawken did the same. So a chunk of North Bergen is just cemeteries.
And under former Mayor Isko Moreno, Manila passed an ordinance for 26,000 square feet for an Islamic cemetery within Manila South in 2020. It was inaugurated in June 2021. Your interaction with the kids playing pogs and the fan was so wholesome! While we may view this lifestyle as creepy, they see it as simply a way of life and they make the most of living there. From the people who live on tiny Migingo in Lake Victoria to this community who live in a cemetery in a dense city, these are examples that life always finds a way and that anything can be possible. As they say, when life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
"Im a big fan". So cute that kid Gabriel! Interesting content.
i never thought there will be different kind of foreigner vlogger in the Philippines because most of them are about food travel but you are definitely a different flavor from all them. Salute brother.
I can see we people would live there. It looks very clean and organised, nobody's gonna disrespect the cemetary.
This video showing how lucky we are living in the descent house and others living in cemetery.. Salute my fellow Filipino despite of struggle and difficulties in thier life they still able to smile...Nice content Bro..!
Considering Filipinos believe those who died return in the form of a moth, I don't blame them for wanting to maintain their cemetery well so the spirits approve. We have our own horse-like mythical creature too called the Chollima. It has wings and is said to be too swift and elegant to be mounted by any mortal man as it can travel one thousand li (over 310 miles) in a single day. To us, it symbolizes the constant fighting spirit of the Korean people, and the innovations and advance so quickly. We've used the Chollima's name for the Chollima Movement program to promote fast economic development after the war as US raids severely destroyed the country. There's a big statue of the Chollima in Pyongyang that was built in 1961.
I thought YT is banned in NK? Don't get caught man, good luck!
@@roalf yeah, same thought here😁.. but be safe @kim jong-un ☺
Drew I love your vlogs you’re a natural story teller and showing us different part of the world 👍❤️specially Philippines 🇵🇭
i love all your videos Drew but the ones about PH are my fav. im Swiss but i have so much love for Pinoy People and the Country wil go back soon. Mabuhay
The weird thing is that part is owned and is part of Manila City despite everything around it is Makati City. The cemetery is actually run by the Manila government. You should see Manila North Cemetery with more people.
This video was absolutely amazing to watch*
Yay starting with Mother Mary 😊🙌✝️ holy Mary, full of grace, pray for us ❤️🙏
Great content. Why not stay overnight and investigate or see if you will experience the same.
Next time !
Hi Drew! I love watching your videos!
Drew, the best story teller, i bet
I'm watching over her in Montreal quebec Canada .I loved my hometown land but.i got lucky caused we have our own home.not leaving in cemetery .this is so sad and scary ..
Now that is what speak of just normal beautiful life
I like Chiu not only a food Vlogger but also a Cemetery tourist guide! 😁👍
🤗Hugs, 💕 Love, and 🦋 Butterfly Blessings sent to those in Manila South Cemetery. For Drew, his crew, and his guides, too.🤗💕🦋
It’s actually common in the Philippines. You can live and build a small temporary house anywhere including cemetery.
"...house anywhere..."
Tried in front of Malacanang. Got arrested.
@@BrokenNoah ok. Maybe not anywhere like malacanang. Lol
In BGc or Alabang your tiny house will be demolish by a bulldozer.
@@bayareatanders given. Not your property ofcourse they will demolish that.
I heard he said sabuni in my language is soap. Nyumba in my language a house
Incredible video! Thanks for helping to inspire my travel vlogging journey, Drew!
Glad to hear that! Thanks for watching 😀
Interesting fact is that Manila South Cemetery is an enclave, surrounded by Makati yet it's jurisdiction is under Manila.
Wonderful man of superb thoughts. An international agent . Beautiful man descended from Shem son of Noah .
New Sub here! Been binge watching your content the past few days and really loving it! What a great thing promoting that little boys channel, sadly I couldn't find it but I'll keep trying! Thanks to you he may be the next Drew Binsky, imagine a Jewish Filipino 😄😉 keep up the great work!
My mom and other members of my family were laid to rest in Manila South Cemetery.
It may be located in Makati city but the cemetery itself is owned by Manila city. This location was used to be part of Manila city (long long time ago, most likely the parents of your tour guide hasn't been born).
During the peak of covid all deceased will be cremated IMMEDIATELY and all deceased will under go covid test even now. So it is hard to believe that there will covid + deceased person be buried. Our supulterero (person buries the dead and gravekeeper) told me they were not allowed to leave the premises.
Most likely they were not infected by covid because all cemeteries were closed and no one were permitted to visit our loved ones for a year.
thank you bro for bringing such rare videos of truths. i like it
Omg what I'm Shocked never seen 28 years old me.. 😮 God will protect all who lives in there 😇
I just subscribed to the kid Gilbert bro. Stay safe and God bless. I won't be commenting about the extraordinary stuff but Paps Chui is correct, their real!
You should see laloma cemetery and North cemetery.
Great work Drew.
This is a story of real people
I admire those people. Even though they lived near a cemetery, they could adapt and persevere.
Man love your videos from Afghanistan , Come to Afghanistan again and lets explore the eastern Afghanistan this time , you will love it
That kid so pure 🥰 Hi Gilbert!
This is another first from a foreign vlogger in that country, which is a very rare occurrence. This video has no dramas and certainly didn't give me poverty p*rn feels (unlike some other RUclipsrs out there 😏)
God bless you Drew! 🙏🏻
love.video.thank.you.more.please.
Thank you for coverage the living people's in that area.God bless you.
I was so impressed with the kid cooking, he is very smart and speaks decent english!!!!
Amazing to learn about other cultures
I'm curious how language works when you travel? I understand that many languages can be spoken in a country, how do you know what languages the people you are around know? Is it based on area? It sounded to me like you were speaking some Spanish? I am very curious how this works and ao amazed by how many languages people can speak.
Wahhahaha i just subscribed to his channel..hope that will help his family..❤😎🌞🇵🇭
Hey bro I like ur channel! I'm from Thailand n living in the usa for over 40 yrs... keep up the good work.. living in the cemetery is hella scary.. I don't kno how those do it, but I give them lots of props!
Oops! Ppl
I think this maybe the safest place ever in the world. No one will go break into their house , you know in cemetery. Actually, we can't even imagine there're ppl literally living there with numerous graves next door. However, the residents are kind of happy and even enjoy their lives there. I still remember what the old man said " Dead ppl not scary but alive body", can't agree more with it.
What up binsky cheers from Toronto Canada
Hey that is near our place..and i like riding my bike inside. There are paths there that there are no one insight. Trails there are great in an eerie silent way.
Great video they have the same in Egypt as well take care and thank you for sharing much love from the UK 🇬🇧
*The fact this is the second time you got there,the last time was 3 yrs ago*
*R.I.P To all of them*
*oof I thought this was a second part of the vid*
Wild way to live. Incredible video!
Thank you!
Hi Drew! Don't have anything better to comment
Hate to be that guy but I'm early :D
Hello Drew that’s awsome. Wow amazing. Love ur content
That's awesome. I'll definitely go there and add it to my cemetery tour videos
Hi watching from New Zealand nice that keep it clean 😊😊
As a Filipino, I can confirmed that I always see in the news about people living in the cemetery...
If I may, I like to correct the filipino blogger companion of Drew. The Tikbalang eventhough they may look like an "extraordinary creature" to those people that has a third eyes can see it, but they are actually supernatural entities or elementals. What the other guy Noknok saw is what they call "Shadow People" in the states.
very interesting. I hear the language and recognize Spanish in it.
it's because the Philippines was colonized by spanish for more than 300 years. Some raped the filipino women, some fell in love with them. all the bad and good stories about them.
Manila south cemetery is 25 hectares by land area establish in 1925 and owned by Manila Govt., and have an estimated of 750,000 plus graves,800 families living inside the cemetery.notable person burried in south cemetery was former Manila Mayor Ramon Bagatsing and Leon Guinto.
Very common in the Philippines 🇵🇭 😢
It's scary 😮
Legendary vlogger drew binsky
is there nothing better on RUclips than to post about cemeteries?
You see, Pinoys can make a living out of cemetery livable, they're so resilient, make the best of what they have.
still waiting for in cameroon
Huhu I hope I saw u when u were here in the Philippines. When are you going to go back here? I’m a huge fan since 2019!
That kid casually speak English quite lit⚡🇵🇭😍🤩🔥
here in malaysia, especially in sabah we also say tabi-tabi (for the spirit) 😅
I love this video but maybe could I in the future WARN US WHEN YOU PUT SCARY MOVIES CLIPS IN. I was watching with my kid and it SCARED HIM BAD. BUT I REALLY LOVE THIS VIDEO OTHERWISE ❤
For some people, it's scarier to buy a decent house and pay for taxes and expensive monthly bills than to see ghosts. As they say, ghosts won't kill you. I'm just glad that they voluntary clean the place as exchange for their free stay.
Nice vlog
This cemetery settlers story is not new. It's been there way before social media saw it. Which means lack of affordable housing in Manila still exist up to this day and it sad that for how many years the problem in housing, even the government is aware of there situation, doesn't solve and will still continue.
I saw you here Drew as I was going home! I would've showed you the muslim cemetery at the far end but I wasn't sure if it was you haha
Nice ce vlogg sir
Drew, may i suggest you do a story of Pag pag...
Gilbert when he is older if he films what it’s like to live in a cemetery he will become famous
I would love to meet Drew
you should visit the north cemetery i can tour you around
Sad but as lease they not on the streets with kids bless you all ❤❤❤😊
I don't know why but it's annoying to hear the term "extraordinary creatures."
Ohhhhhh ! I just laid down for a nap but absolutely watching this in my free time later tonight!
Love your videos so much, you do great work!!😊😊
I subscribed to Gilbert's channel
The belief in tikbalang, nuno (dwarves),* etc. are pre-colonial and animist in origin. Before the Spanish, Filipinos believed in an "otherworld", a spirit world superimposed over the material world. The spirit world is inhabited by both the spirits of dead humans and non-human nature spirits (a belief shared by almost all pre-religion ancient peoples worldwide, including Japanese Shinto and European fairies and elves).
"Tabi tabi po" or "Tabi apo" literally means "Please make way, elder", roughly equivalent to "Pardon our passing, elder" or "Excuse us, elder". It's meant to convey respect to the invisible spirits so they understand you are not just barging into their territory. When insulted, these spirits have the ability to curse people with strange ailments (or even abduct them altogether), which is why special care is taken when you're in an area believed to be inhabited by such spirits (usually tree groves, old trees, strange rock formations, waterfalls, deep forests, etc., anything which feels eerie or otherworldly).
*The tikbalang was NOT originally a half-man half-horse monsters (horses are not natives to the islands). And the nuno were not originally dwarves. They acquired those descriptions during the Spanish era, via comparison with Spanish mythology (notably the duende). Both the tikbalang and the nuno were originally nature spirits.
Tikbalang, as recorded in early Spanish books in the Philippines, were tree spirits who live in fig trees (balete), who sometimes cause unreasoning panic for travelers who pass under the fig tree's branches at night. While nuno is a more general term for spirits (it literally means "ancestor") and depending on the ethnic group, it can refer to tree spirits, spirits of rocks, anthills, or even animals like old crocodiles. Like all nature spirits, they are shapeshifters (the original meaning of "baliw", which in modern tagalog means "crazy") who are normally invisible but at times can take the appearance of a helpless person (like an old man or a child), an animal (usually birds), a tiny human (cf. brownies/fairies/dwarves), or a monstrous creature.
Fig trees (balete) were of special importance to Filipino animism not only because they are huge and imposing, but because most of them are hollow. Fig trees (i.e. strangler figs) start out as vines that climb over a tree and then slowly kill it. Replacing it as it grows into a tree. The dead tree inside rots away, leaving a hollow interior. This hollow is believed to be a direct gateway to the spirit world (especially at twilight), which is why they were treated with both fear and veneration (remember that animism doesn't have "gods" per se). As a gateway to the spirit world, they were figuratively the trees of death. They are avoided by common people, but sometimes communicated with by pre-colonial shamanesses (the baylan, ancient Filipino shamans were almost always women or feminized men).
Most of these beliefs didn't die out. Instead they got coopted and warped by the introduction of Christianity. Resulting in the superstitions still almost universally shared by Filipinos today.
The boy who watches your videos seems like a smart kid. He can conversate in complete English sentences.
I am trying really to understand how those people can live in that most depressing place especially at night. They are sleeping on the top of tomb just unbelievable. Normal person can't do that i wouldn't . I am truly sorry for those people if i am in their shoes i would rather go to some forest or somewhere but not to cemetery it is just crazy. Spirits are there as he said no doubts about it that must to be an awesome night to sleep like that i can tell you.
I think he meant to say Supernatural creatures.
Hi you all , and Gilbert❤😅
I used to have a classmate in my high-school year who lives within a cemetery. We used to do "shots" in his house during his birthday, i remember hopping between graves before we reach their house😂..There's also a Jail within that cemetery.. Pretty weird right 😅
Interesting
Hi Drew are you still in the Philippines
First view 🙏
Which country is this?
These people should be relocated to housing programs. Cemeteries should be cleared also and security guard installed
Oh wow 🤩
*totoo Ang tikbalang nakakita na ako nyan nung grade 6 ako*
Gilbert is so cute
I know in New Orleans we have street names for our cemetery
It's more fun in the cemetery here in the Philippines 🇵🇭