Diplomat Hotel (Baguio)

The Diplomat Hotel, often called the Baguio Diplomat Hotel, occupies a hilltop property historically associated with the Dominican Order and later converted into a hotel. Multiple secondary sources describe the complex as originally a seminary built in the early 20th century, later converted to a hotel, and long reported as abandoned. The site has attracted urban explorers, tour groups, bloggers, and film crews—most notably serving as a shooting location for the 2015 film Halik sa Hangin. In popular accounts and tourism-oriented write-ups the hotel is repeatedly characterized as "haunted" and one of the Philippines' better-known haunted landmarks. A recurring explanatory tradition in those sources ties the haunting to wartime violence during World War II, asserting that priests and nuns connected to the seminary were killed by Japanese occupying forces; the supplied sources present this narrative as widely repeated oral/popular tradition but do not supply primary documentary evidence for the wartime-killings claim. Various bloggers, urban-exploration sites, and haunted-locations lists describe the building as "creepy" and "haunted," though the provided excerpts do not catalogue specific, independently documented paranormal incidents, named spirits, or verified physical phenomena. Recent local-government material cited in secondary sources indicates rehabilitation efforts began in April 2022 and that the wider property has been renamed the Dominican Heritage Hill and Nature Park, suggesting official stewardship and preservation activity alongside continuing visitor interest.