When I was young, my cousins and I were playing outside one night in our province. Suddenly the lights went out, and the place became very dark. My cousin whispered that a Tikbalang might be nearby, and we heard something moving in the bushes. We screamed and ran inside the house as fast as we could! Later we discovered it was just our neighbor’s goat eating leaves. It was funny afterwards, but at that moment we really believed a Tikbalang was there!