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title: "Teresita Basa: Ghost Detective"
description: "The bizarre true crime case of Teresita Basa, a Chicago woman whose murder was allegedly solved when her ghost possessed a fellow Filipina and named her killer to police."
url: https://decodingtheunknown.pub/article/teresita-basa-ghost-detective.md
canonical: https://decodingtheunknown.pub/article/teresita-basa-ghost-detective
datePublished: 2026-06-28
dateModified: 2026-06-28
author:
  - name: Simon Whistler
    url: https://decodingtheunknown.pub/author/simon-whistler
publisher: Decoding the Unknown
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type: Article
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summaryUrl: https://decodingtheunknown.pub/article/teresita-basa-ghost-detective.md.summary.md
---

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The bizarre true crime case of Teresita Basa, a Chicago woman whose murder was allegedly solved when her ghost possessed a fellow Filipina and named her killer to police.
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