Mystery woman emerges from the deep

The Star

a day ago

Viral escape: The woman crawling out of a storm drain in Manila. — Photo taken from social media
A woman was seen crawling out of a storm drain on a busy street in Manila's main financial district in a scene straight out of a horror movie about a deep well-dwelling, spectral serial killer.
Images that have gone viral in the Philippines show a lithe, young woman pulling herself out of the drain at around 5pm on Monday at a street corner in Makati city.
Her dress and denim shorts were caked with grime, and her hair was long, unwashed and streaked with dirt and dried leaves.
As she made her way out of the drain, her head turned to the man taking her photos.
She smiled and, after crawling out of the hole, ran towards him as a motorist wearing a military-­style uniform chased her.
'She ran past me, the military guy in pursuit. Pedestrians, motorcyclists, and even the traffic enfor­cer, just stood there, stunned, confused, maybe even a little amused,' William, who posted the woman's photos on his Instagram account under the name iammrthirty, told online magazine Spot.ph.
His photos have been seen by close to two million viewers on YouTube and Facebook.
William, an amateur street photographer, said the hole the woman crawled out of was wider than the typically narrow storm drain.
'The catch area of the canal was relatively spacious (almost as big as some rooms for rent in the city) ... Even closer, you could see a pipe on the bottom of the catch, a pipe big enough for humans to crawl through,' he told Spot.ph.
He said he went back a day later and saw city officials and security guards repaving the street corner where the storm drain was.
He said they told him they did not know where the pipe where the woman hid in leads to. — The Straits Times/ANN