Anna Maria Manalo is a trained therapist. self-taught as a screenwriter, she placed in several competitions for her screenplays based on real cases.

She has traveled to more than 27 countries amassing witness encounters with the macabre, the unknown and with negative entities, including a Mothman-like demonic infestation in her own hometown of San Juan in the Philippines.

Highly rated for her graphic, atmospheric and suspenseful writing, Manalo specializes in both fiction and nonfiction novels and anthologies in the genre of supernatural and historical suspense. (Amazon)

Her first book, “Portal: A Lifetime of Paranormal Experiences,” focuses on the ghosts, entities and cryptids from around the world.

The book is written in two parts with the first focusing on a family in the Philippines that for 70 years, has been followed ...