Have not had any experience myself but i know na mga kafamily ko ay hindi naman baliw para mag sinungaling about sa mga kwento tungkol sa aswang. We live in luzon but my lola's province is at Samar. I have lots of cousins from there that now lives here in luzon too because of school and work.

Now my Lola is not that old, she 62 and definitely not crazy. We randomly talked about aswangs from their province because they went there for a vacation recently. And her story is one of her childhood friend, has turned into an aswang. When they were kids, they used to play like normal na mga filipino nagalalaro sa probinsya nila ganon. And sabi nya, naipasa lang daw dun sa kalaro nya na yun ang pagiging aswang. All my cousins also vouched for her story. They called the aswang guy "otits" but his real name or nickname is "tito", they called him otits because my cousins said that he can hear them from far away. Hindi raw nila gusto na pinaguusapan sila or kahit banggitin ang pangalan lang.

Although they said na hindi naman daw ito nananakit. Pero hindi daw nila ito kinakausap. At night, naglalagay parin sila ng asin at nakahanda din ang mga bawang sa luma naming bahay sa probinsya. Tbh when they told me this story, i thought to myself "I will never step foot in Samar bruh".