La Loma Cemetery

La Loma Cemetery (also seen as La Loma Catholic Cemetery, historically Campo Santo de La Loma and sometimes referenced in older/local usage as Cementerio de Binondo) is a large Catholic cemetery opened in 1884. Multiple sources identify it as among the oldest major cemeteries in Manila and Metro Manila; the Manila Chinese Cemetery is explicitly described in sources as the second oldest after La Loma, supporting La Loma's precedence in the city's funerary history. The cemetery contains notable funerary architecture and individual tombs that attract cultural and historical interest, including coverage of the tomb of 19th-century Spanish painter Joaquín María Herrer y Rodríguez in a Philippine Daily Inquirer feature and travel/heritage blog descriptions of chapels, wrought-iron gates, and other aesthetic elements. The supplied source set frames La Loma as an active historic cemetery with continuing civic and religious relevance. Sources record church and environmental appeals to visitors (Ecowaste Coalition/Church appeals) and recent civic developments such as a planned shrine to victims of the drug war, indicating ongoing public and memorial uses. Administratively and geographically, the cemetery lies largely within Caloocan with a southern section in the City of Manila and sits near other historic burial grounds such as the Manila Chinese Cemetery and the North Cemetery, forming part of a larger funerary district in northern Manila. The provided materials do not document any paranormal reports, named spirits, or supernatural phenomena associated with the site. Descriptive and travel-writing sources use evocative language about atmosphere and heritage but do not claim apparitions, hauntings, or other paranormal occurrences. No investigative paranormal theories or contested supernatural claims are present in the supplied research notes; therefore the entry records no reported paranormal phenomena.