Mexican Rancho Hauntings: Ghostly Footsteps & Phantom Horses

[00:00:00] So imagine you're visiting your grandma in Mexico and it's really late at night. You hear a TV, really low, but it's there like in some other room in the house. You hear dogs barking in the distance and you're about to doze off. Suddenly you hear a sound and it's not just any sound. Somebody's calling your name. In this case, it would be my name, the Spanish version of it, right? Like...

[00:00:26] You really open your eyes and you look around and you kind of see, you know, the bluish light coming in from the windows. Because that sound that you heard, that name was being said in your grandma's voice. But you're 100% sure that your grandma's asleep. You start remembering something else right here, right? And it's as your grandma told you, hey, if you hear your name being called in the middle of the night, don't answer. Good thing you didn't because you're still alive.

[00:00:56] Now, these kinds of stories are the ones that still, still bother me now as an adult. Even when you experience them as a kid, they're really sticky. And if I want to scare people with a story, I'm going to go with one of these rancho stories. So that's what we're going to be talking about today. You ready? My name is Edwin. This is Paranormal Club.

[00:01:25] A lot of these stories are told to us as warnings, right? This is why they're so scary. They're not just like, oh, tell me a bedtime story and you hear Caperosita Roja or whatever. No, they're going to hear one of these like really, really eerie stories. Of course, younger children, they will cry and we will laugh when little kids cry. Right. Sometimes, at least the mom's around, right? Because there's always a little cousin somewhere that you just like to scare. Sometimes you're that little cousin, right? Fortunately, I'm one of the older cousins in the family.

[00:01:52] So I don't have to worry about that. But there is that one person, right? And now thinking back on it, you're like, dang, these things are really, really scary. Especially when you consider some of these stories that they tell you about their parents or their grandparents who came from smallish towns, right? Somewhere in Mexico, somewhere in Latin America in general. You hear them and they tell you these stories like they are 100% true.

[00:02:19] Now, you're going to believe them because we always believe them. But they get pretty freaky. And sometimes you're going to be like, there is no way that happened. But then you hear somebody say, hey, yeah, I was there. And 100% sure. And they'll even do like the whole I swear. I swear like on. And they'll like bring up whatever, like on my mom, on my grandpa. They'll swear it like this actually happened. And you have no choice but to believe them.

[00:02:43] So today I have a collection of these stories, actually. Some of them were submitted from the comment section here on the platform. And others were sent in through the podcast because, you know, I have Scary FM, which is a collection of audio podcasts. And I take calls and I do a lot of research and also write some fiction, too. So this is all I do, right? All the scary, scary, scary stuff. So you're going to get to hear them. I have my notes right here. So you're going to see me looking down on them.

[00:03:11] Here it is. So we're going to start off with some of the stories. The first ones are the ones that are within my family. Right now, my uncle, my uncle Jaime, my Tio Jaime, he has a small property out in the desert in Sonora. There, you know, he kind of turned into a little rancho. We all call it the rancho. And we show up. We like that's where we have our gatherings. He rents it out on the weekends for people to go and hang out. He has a little pool there, some dogs. And in general, it's a cool little area, especially when the sun is setting.

[00:03:41] It's just it's really cool. I really love the desert. Obviously, that's where my family's from. There was something strange that was happening with one of the neighbors. And that guy, whenever he would be around, this is according to my uncle, whenever that guy was around, stones would keep falling on the roof of my uncle's property and of the neighbor's property. It's really strange. But he says that it might have something to do with that guy and not so much with like general haunting of the area.

[00:04:08] Because that guy has also talked about some strange things around there. One time they were fixing something in the, you know, in his property. And the people that were helping him, they got so scared after seeing somebody like a cowboy kind of guy who showed up from behind the property where there was a tall fence. There's no way you could get in and disappear just the way that he did. And so the people that were working there, they're like, heck no, we're out of here. They left, never came back, didn't finish the job. They were like, nope. And they left.

[00:04:38] Other strange things too around there were that that guy had found this mask with horns on it. And since my uncle likes to do woodwork and everything like that, he was like, hey, like build a frame kind of thing so I could put this on the wall. My uncle was like, heck no, I'm not even getting close to that. All right. Because I don't know. It's just strange. Now, when my uncle tells me these stories, he's like, hey, you know what? I was working and I heard the stones right there. They were about to hit me.

[00:05:07] And he says that even when they bounce off the roof and they fall, there's something odd about them. Even the neighbor has said that there's something really strange about those rocks that they seem to float. I have a whole video on this idea, on the stories behind this. And I'll link to it. I'll put it in the description so you can check it out. It's really interesting. Also, really, really creepy. Now, this other story is the ghost who wanted a Coca-Cola. A Coca, as they call it, right?

[00:05:37] This one actually happened in my family. And it's a well-known story right here. My family is from Guaymas in Sonora. So, it's like that town is in Mexico and it's all desert. There is like hills, like mountains, cerros, the town, and the ocean. And that's it. Like, there's not a lot of stuff to do that. But anyway, back then it used to be like a dirt street. You have to be real careful as you're walking down because there's rocks, right?

[00:06:05] If you go like two blocks, you can't go further than that because it's like the canyon wall right there. So, anyway, there is this electricity worker or like a water company worker. And he is in the street like trying to, you know, help some, like fix something in the property, like in one of the houses. Because they're all small houses next to each other. And suddenly he goes down to the shop, just down the street to the tienda, a little shop, just a block down, short block.

[00:06:33] And he tells a guy like, hey, there is this, can you give me a Coke? There's this, you know, Don Tito, Don Tito is like this guy, this older man. He wants a Coca-Cola, but he wants it in a glass bottle. It does taste different in a glass bottle. We have to admit that. So then the guy's like, Don Tito? He's like, yeah, like the guy, he's like sitting out there. He said he wants a Coke, but he wants it in a glass bottle, please. The shop owner's name is Miguel, right?

[00:07:04] He's like, are you sure? He's like, yeah. Yeah, Don Tito died already. It's been, you know, a couple years. The guy was so scared, like that Miguel, whenever he recounts the story, he says he went pale. He's like, there is no way. I just saw him. He asked me for a Coke in a glass bottle. He goes up, tries to find him. Can't find him anymore. How did he know about the, you know, the whole glass bottle?

[00:07:32] The thing is that Don Tito was known to ask specifically for a glass bottle whenever he wanted Coke. How do you explain that? These kinds of stories, when you hear them and then you're outside on the porch and it's late and they tell you, hey, you know, this is where they saw Don Tito. Of course, you're going to get freaked out, right? It's just, it's different. The stories are just different. Here's an interesting story here that I title like the family ranch.

[00:08:02] Cherry Berry told me this in one of the comments, in the comment section. Here it is. Hi, Edwin. I love listening to your podcast, True Scary Story, and I recently started following you on YouTube. My father would often, thank you, by the way. My father would often tell us stories of his father's haunted ranch, which he grew up on in Jalisco in the 1940s. It originally belonged to his grandfather, who was born in the 1840s.

[00:08:27] Anyways, I grew up on his retelling of these ghost stories, and this is what originally started my love for ghost stories. Counter number one, the rocks from nowhere. His grandmother would tell stories of rocks being thrown at people during the daytime, when there would be no one around. They lived on a 200-acre ranch, and the nearest neighbors were miles and miles away, so they were pretty desolate with no buildings or anything nearby to hide, just wide open plains. Now, what's more is that they noticed that these rocks that were thrown were smooth,

[00:08:56] like the ones that come from riverbeds, and there wasn't a river nearby for miles. One time, when my great-grandmother was outside doing chores, a rock was thrown at her. It hit her arm with such force that it broke her skin, and she started bleeding. And count her two. Three knocks under the bed. Now, my dad has many other stories of growing up on that ranch, like when he would hear knocking under his wooden cot at night.

[00:09:21] He shared a room with a couple of brothers, but they would be asleep when he would hear three knocks under his cot. Now, the cot being made out of wood would make the knocks pretty distinct. He would stick out his hand under the cot and feel a round underneath it, but there would be nothing there. Now, that's brave. I would never stick my hand under my bed at night, or anything even dangling out of bed. Anyway, he would often walk home at night on a pathway by himself.

[00:09:49] Now, this was in the ranchos in Mexico in the 1950s, so there wasn't much around, and there were no streetlights, just dirt and gravel paths. He said he could hear footsteps right behind him. He would turn around, but there would be no one there. He would stop the footsteps. Well, when he would stop, the footsteps would stop. When he would continue walking, the footsteps would start back up. He says he would hear the footsteps until he would reach the gate of his property, and then that's when they would finally stop. So they couldn't go in there?

[00:10:19] Cool. At least it's kind of a safe place there. Here's another one. I think his spookiest encounter was when he was young, maybe around 12 years old. He told me he had just finished having supper with his family when he decided to go lie down and rest in one of the rooms. Now, if you're familiar with how some of the older homes are in Mexico, the rooms are not connected with each other. Now, this was a separate room made of thick clay, adobe walls, and only one entrance. A very, very heavy, thick door.

[00:10:47] He said he entered the room, closed the door, and was in there by himself. He lied down on the floor and closed his eyes. After a while, he said that he felt a furry paw touch his cheek. He opened his eyes and sat up, but there was no one. Not a thing there. He was alone, and the door was closed, and yet he didn't have any dogs. So, he would have heard the door open had someone come in. Now, he brushed it aside, and a couple of weeks passed by. Again, on another evening, he walked into the same room by himself.

[00:11:16] He lied down on the floor to rest. He closed his eyes, and after a while, he felt a furry paw touch his cheek again. This time, he kept his eyes closed, and he reached out with a quickness and grabbed it. He said that what he grabbed felt like a dog's paw. He could even feel the fur under his hand, but only for a second. Whatever he grabbed dissipated in his hand. He had his eyes closed the whole time and never got to see exactly what that paw was attached to. Of course, when he sat up, he was alone with the door closed.

[00:11:46] Now, to me, this doesn't feel like it was a ghost dog. It feels like it was an intelligent entity, and it was intentionally antagonizing my dad. Like I said, my dad's haunted ranch stories made me love the paranormal, and I've collected stories from family members along with my own creepy experience. I'd love to share them sometime. Again, love your stories and podcasts. Thanks for having started them. Goodness. See, this is what I'm talking about. These stories just really, really get under your skin.

[00:12:14] They're just like, what is this? And these are the kinds of rancho stories that you grew up with, and actually might have triggered my own interest in the paranormal. This other comment, Jose Herrera. It goes like this, right? Super short. I see a lechuza while in Mexico. I was a kid, but I remember it well. It just looks like an owl, but taller. It attacked my grandfather's truck while we were on the way to his house. It was a lot of us, too. A couple of aunts and uncles and my three cousins. My grandparents, like everybody in the car.

[00:12:43] Like, hey, it's how we do it. No seatbelts either, dude. Just like people on your lap and stuff. Anyway, my grandparents lived deep in the mountains. No roads, no electricity, no running water, only outhouses, etc. And on the way there, an owl that was way too big started attacking the truck. It was freaky. That is freaky. And you know what?

[00:13:08] Owls attacking cars and chasing cars is a common thing. You know, there's a story that went really, really viral on Primer Impacto, like a TV show, a long time ago. And it was about La Bruja de Monterrey, the Witch of Monterrey, which was this figure that was caught flying. Like, you know, you can see the video camera. It's flying across this park. And it's just like, it looks like a humanoid figure flying on a broom, just right across the screen, like in the sky. Now, you would think that the story ended there,

[00:13:38] but there was other reports there, witness accounts of police officers encountering strange things there. Now, actual police officers, right? One time they were doing a patrol. They were circling around. Actually, it was one guy, one police officer. He was circling around. Kind of hears a strange sound. Parks the car. About to get out. Suddenly, he sees this tall bird, like owl kind of thing, like a creature making this strange sound.

[00:14:05] And it starts scratching, like trying to get into the car. Of course, he's freaking out. He's like, and he talked about it in an interview. Really, really creepy encounter. So these things chasing, like chasing cars, chasing you in the middle of the night, happens. It also happened with this guy who shared a story during Sapphire Sandalo, which is this, she's a YouTuber, podcaster, Stories with Sapphire is a podcast that she does. She was hosting this event, and we were sharing stories.

[00:14:34] And this guy started talking about this experience at Turnbull Canyon. Now, I, in Southern California, don't live far from Turnbull Canyon in Whittier, between city of, like around City of Industry, Whittier area. And there was a lot of stories that are around there. But one of them, the one that he shared is that one time they were going around in the car, and he started spotting these figures that were kind of peeking out of the bushes. He got really scared. He got in the car, started driving away.

[00:15:00] But when they turned back, started seeing owls chasing the car. Now, he associated owls with aliens. And, you know, therefore, the small creatures might have been aliens. However, when I hear a story like that, I automatically stick it with brujas. These are witches, dude. Like, good thing you got out. But anyway, thinking of all that, because, you know, witches really creep me out. Here is the next story. This is from Aesthetic Sun.

[00:15:27] It says, there's something about unfinished or abandoned houses in El Pueblo that just makes you feel a certain way, especially in El Rancho. Before my grandma passed away, there was a two-story abandoned house right next to her house. And I remember one time she told me the story of why that house had been abandoned for so long. Apparently, six doll-like figures inside the house began moving on their own. When the story first spread, almost nobody in El Rancho believed it.

[00:15:56] Eventually, word got around so much that near the entire Rancho came together one day to witness what was described as an exorcism of the dolls. Now, I still don't know who the original owners of the house were or exactly what happened there, but I'm sure some of the older locals or my grandma knew the full story. That's what makes abandoned houses out there feel so different to me. There's always a story behind them. Sometimes the stories are never fully explained, especially when there's a small community where everybody knows everybody.

[00:16:27] Now, that was creepy. And when you hear them, you hear them like warnings, like, don't go in there. This is what happened. And then you have a neighbor confirming the same thing. Actually, my aunt's house and my grandpa's house in their street, they are next to abandoned houses. And we would go in and just hang out there. Actually, one of them is abandoned now, like another one's abandoned. And we go in and it's really, it is creepy, you know, to think that so much stuff happened there, you know,

[00:16:55] so much activity, meetings, gatherings, and now they're just empty. It's pretty sad too, you know, to think of. There's some type of nostalgia, melancholy, like it is strange, you know. But when you hear stories like these, now for sure, you know, try not to visit here. All right, so we also have this story. This one's called Three Visitors. And it's Aldo who told me the story. It's really eerie, a little bit longer. Let's get into it. He says, My mom is from a small little ranch in the middle of nowhere.

[00:17:24] The only thing that surrounds this village is mountains. Just tons and tons and tons of mountains. Now, the one thing I remember her telling me about when she was a kid growing up was that one common thing they would hear at night when they were sleeping was horses. A bunch of horses, almost like an army of horses running and dragging in chains. Later on, she told me that a war had happened in her village. A war had happened between the people there and another group of individuals. And they were fighting for gold that was buried there in the area.

[00:17:54] To this day, they still suspect that the gold is buried there. She would tell me these stories, of course, me being captivated and wanting to know more. I remember she told me a story when she was little that she would sometimes have to go get water from a well that was up in her village. One time it was super late and they needed water for the next day. So she went up. She began to hear the horses again and them dragging the chains. She said she could feel like it was coming from behind her. She had to walk down a hill still.

[00:18:20] And she was carrying these wooden barrels of water with the big wooden stick that people would put overhead. With two barrels on each side. And I remember that she said that she heard the horses just running full force. And she could hear the chains. She could even feel the ground shaking like thunder. And as it got closed, she was so scared that she collapsed. Like a kid, she got into the fetal position and just felt the force of whatever was running past her.

[00:18:43] The funny thing is, when it passed, she looked up and expected to see all this dirt being risen from whatever had just passed. But there was nothing there. She told me a lot of stories. A lot of them probably got lost as I got older. Dang. The ghost horses. Now, when my family, when my mom and dad actually, before I was born, before I was even in the books here, planned out. Actually, that's right. I wasn't planned.

[00:19:13] Dang it. Anyway, they used to live up in Arizona. Actually, not in Arizona. Like, across the border. In Sonora. Right across. It's called Nogales, the city. And when my mom tells me about these stories, she tells them with such, like, good memories. Like, recuerdos. Like how she says. It's like, she's like, lindos recuerdos. Because it's when they were first getting started with their lives. Like, as a couple. And they used to live in a small little house.

[00:19:37] And they would hear these, like, a creature walking in the middle of the night. And they started asking around. They found out that they would call the creature La Puerca Encillada. Which is like the, what do you call it? Like a horse seat? Like the seat that you put on a horse? Except on a pig. And it would roam around the streets. Super creepy. All right. So this next story comes from Kay.

[00:20:07] And it's about her family's hauntings in Jalisco. In Mexico. Here we go. My name is Kay. I grew up in California. I was born and raised in the Monterey Bay area. Now, my family is Mexican-American. We grew up going back and forth between the U.S. and Mexico pretty frequently. Especially when I was a child. We were pretty close with our extended family back then. So we would frequently go and convene at our house. It was a small pueblo close to Guadalajara. It was one of these summers that we went to go visit my extended family in Jalisco. And so we were staying at my aunt's house.

[00:20:37] My aunt has this big three-story house with a flat rooftop. It's close to the edge of town. So there's a bunch of fields beyond it. I always thought that it was a beautiful house. But, you know, there's something about Mexico where the second the sun goes down, there's a little bit of energy shift. And it just feels a little spookier. I was about six or seven years old at the time. So this was in the early 2000s. I was in the big master room on the second floor, sleeping in the same room with all my cousins. So it was a big family gathering. And we were all kind of together there.

[00:21:07] As one of the eldest of the younger cousins, I got to sleep on the actual bed. So I was really excited because there was a TV in that room. And growing up, my parents didn't let us watch much TV at home. I knew that they had Disney Channel. And I was really excited to get to watch a movie or something once everyone fell asleep. But knowing me, my mom decided that she was going to kind of sneak the remote away. And she actually tucked it under her own pillow in the room that was adjacent to ours. So I just kind of waited until it was nice and dark. Everyone went to bed.

[00:21:35] And I snuck out of bed and went over to my mom's room real quietly. And I managed to somehow sneak the remote from under her pillow. And, you know, me being a sneaky seven-year-old, I was pretty content with myself as I walked back to the master room. So I got into bed, turned on the TV, turned it to the Disney Channel, and made sure that the volume was real low so no one would wake up. And I remember being so excited. And I wasn't scared at all. I wasn't thinking about anything spooky that was about to happen. So I finished the movie.

[00:22:04] And I was like, alright, time to go to bed. So I put the remote back under my mom's pillow so she wouldn't suspect a thing in the morning. And I came back to the room. And I explicitly remember closing the door and locking it. I walked over to the bed. And I was on the side of the bed that was closest to the door. There's no ACs. The fan was on. And I was just trying to get some breeze. It was kind of warm in there. There's a lot of bodies there. A lot of cousins. I remember just thinking about how much fun I had watching the movie. All of a sudden, the door slowly creaks open.

[00:22:35] The thing is, I don't really hear it open. But I just kind of see the darkness of the hallway start to appear. That's when it catches my peripheral vision. I was pretty confused because I thought that I had locked that door. So I get up. Close it. Lock it. And I make sure that it's locked and close tight. That it's not going to open again because that hallway is pretty spooky. It's pretty dark in here. There's a skylight that goes up to the roof of the house. Which is another kind of spooky place at night. So I get back in bed. A few seconds later,

[00:23:04] the door just starts to open again. Now I'm at this point starting to get a little scared. No one else is awake. I'm the only one up. I look at the fan and I'm like, it has to be the fan. I'm trying to rationalize this so I don't scare myself too much. It has to be the fan that blew the door open, even though I knew that I had locked it. So I kind of have the, I get the courage to get out of bed this time. And I force myself. I get there. I run over to the door. I close it. I lock it. I run over to the bed.

[00:23:33] And I was sharing the bed with my sister. And I was like, you know what? She's asleep. She's not going to be scared just sitting closer to the door. So I pushed her to the side of the bed that was closer to the door. And I laid down on the opposite side. I threw my blanket over my head and just turned over and closed my eyes. And eventually, I fell asleep. The next day, I talked about this with my aunt. We were in the kitchen. We were cooking. And she just kind of giggles a little bit. And she goes, oh yeah,

[00:24:01] that stuff happens in this house all the time. And she told me a little bit about how sometimes they would hear different dishes clattering downstairs. Or like someone was making a meal in the middle of the night. There was nothing going on there. That was kind of my first priming of like, oh yeah, sometimes things are a little scary. Sometimes things are a little weird. We can, we can't really explain it. So later that week, we're all sitting outside of my grandma's house, which is a town over. It's about a 10 minute drive between the town. So it's very close.

[00:24:31] And it's a row of houses. They're all connected. Sometimes there's kind of a big corral between some of the sections of the houses. It's a little bit difficult to explain, but we were sitting right outside of my grandma's house. We're sitting on these nice leather chairs that my grandpa had woven earlier on in his ears. A lot of people just like to sit on the street and talk in the evenings. It's kind of how Mexico is. It kind of comes alive in the evenings. Everyone's eating. Everyone's socializing, chatting. So it was my family, my grandparents, my uncle, and a bunch of my aunts and cousins.

[00:25:00] We're just sitting in a circle around the bonfire in front of my grandma's door. My aunt mentioned that they scared your daughter at my house, or she experienced something scary. And so everyone kind of started laughing because, you know, we joke about it to make it a little bit less threatening. So that kind of broke out into, oh yeah, your mother's experienced a lot of stuff. Now that was the first time hearing about my mom's experiences in my grandma's house. She used to experience quite a few things when she was younger. When she was in her early teens,

[00:25:26] she shared one of the rooms towards the front of the house that faces the street that shares a wall with the neighbor. Now in this house, it's tile floors, cement walls. It's not people moving furniture and stuff around. It can echo a lot and it can be kind of loud. My mom said that like clockwork, sometimes the neighbors at specific hour of the night would just start dragging furniture, like a crib or something heavy, like a piece of furniture that was pretty heavy. And it would wake her up. And one day she got so upset because she was trying to sleep. She had school the next day. She went over and asked the neighbor,

[00:25:57] Hey, why are you guys doing so much work in the middle of the night? The neighbors looked at her weird and they're like, what are you talking about? She goes, I hear people moving heavy furniture around at night and I can't sleep. I need to sleep so I can do good in school. And the neighbor said, no, why would we be moving furniture at night? At that point, my mom got real quiet and she just like, Oh, well, I must've been dreaming. And she went back to my grandma's house, but it happened so many times that she was like, it can't be a dream.

[00:26:26] I'm waking up and I'm hearing these things. And so that kind of spooked her. She talked to my grandma and she kind of just bugged my grandma until she let her switch rooms. And the way my grandma's house is formatted is, you know, there's two rooms towards the front of the house. Then there's a big central courtyard. That's open space. There's trees and plants growing there. And then around one of the sides of the courtyard, there's another bedroom. So my mom switched over to that bedroom. And at this point, she was actually a young mom. So she had my brother when she was 16. Almost 17 years old.

[00:26:56] He was a baby. So it kind of made sense for her to finally get that room anyway, since she needed a little bit more space for the crib and stuff. So her and my brother were sleeping in that room. And one night, my mom woke up again because she could hear a parade. What she thinks is like horses or donkeys or some big animal. She could hear hooves and just a lot of hooves galloping for a second. So she woke up. She thought she was still in her previous bedroom that faces the street. She looks out the window. And then she remembers, Oh no, so it's rooms.

[00:27:25] It's the window that faces the courtyard. There's nothing out there. There's no horses, no donkeys, nothing. And her blood ran cold because it was like, it's not one thing. You're hearing furniture being dragged about. It's a different room now where I'm hearing a parade of ghost animals that aren't there. Now she had already begged for this bedroom. So it wasn't, she wasn't going to complain about it. So she decided that she was just going to turn on the radio and put it as high volume as she could without waking up my older brother. She would just turn over and pretend that she wasn't hearing the house.

[00:27:55] But this was a consistent thing that would happen regularly. And no one else would hear these things. Now as my brother got a little bit older, my mom decided that she was going to move to Guadalajara to a proper, like the actual city. She moved out to this Victorian house. She was renting a room and her younger brother, my uncle decided to move there with her. She would sleep in one room with my older brother. And then my uncle had his own room. Now this was an older Victorian style kind of town home where there's a lot of rooms in Mexico. They're flat,

[00:28:21] but they're typically like fenced in so that you can kind of divide the roofs with different neighbors. And people will typically hang their laundry there. My mom said that this, at this place she would go to sleep. She would get in bed, do her routine. And as soon as she would close her eyes, she said that she would get, it would get real quiet. And then she would hear like a dog running around on the roof. Goodness. Now she kept seeing, it says my uncle checked the entire perimeter of the fence to make sure that there were no holes. Nothing was going to allow a dog to get up there and run. But it was at this point where my mom,

[00:28:51] I think started to become a little more religious. She was like, I need to find a way to keep these experiences away. I don't like this. So it kind of worked for her for a while. So here we have a story of somebody in that. Rancho that moves to the city and still experiences, you know, these kinds of things and these kinds of encounters. So are these entities, are these beings, are these spirits, these ghosts, these paranormal happenings,

[00:29:17] are they not tied to the whole Rancho thing in the geography, the location? Are they tied to the people? How can we explain that? You know, there's just a lot, a lot of stuff that goes on there. Here's another story, a short one. This one is actually from the United States, but it does mention some of these topics that we're hitting. So here we go. It says, my mom would tell me stories about people who practiced witchcraft when she lived in a rancho in Mexico. In Navajo traditions,

[00:29:47] there are stories about skinwalkers, but in Mexican culture, they call this kind of thing, Nahuales. They're people who can shapeshift into different forms, use different voices, or even turn into animals. I remember my mom telling me that there were people on the rancho who practiced this. She would always warn me that if I ever heard a wolf howling at night, I need to make sure that all the doors were locked, because according to her, that was them. Now, these were some really,

[00:30:17] really creepy stories about ranchos in Mexico. But again, there are a lot of places out there with rural, like stories that are very rural. I can't say that word. Let me see if I could try it again. Hold on. Now, these were stories that came from, you know, Mexico and the ranchos in Mexico, but there's a lot of stories out there, and I want you to send them in, please. There's a lot of like rural stories, like out in Latin America, out in, you know, we have people who have watched the videos here that are overseas, somewhere really, really far away. And by the way,

[00:30:47] thank you for checking us out. And it's really cool how you're learning about our culture too here. And I get to learn from you, like about yours through the comment section and through the emails that you've been sending in. But I know that there's a lot of stories out there. Actually, we've gotten some stories from Colombia. The story by Gabby, who talks about her experiences growing up in the house that turned out to have a very dark history.

[00:31:15] And she was only a kid when she's explaining all these stories. And actually, the story is out already. Memories from a rural house in Colombia is what it's called. So you can check it out too. But all these stories, by the way, they creep me out so much because they are in a setting that was completely different than how I grew up. Right? I grew up in Southern California, in Los Angeles County. California. So my stories, like my childhood was first part, like stage one was like in the apartment and all you're the neighbors and all this, you know,

[00:31:45] walking to school and all that stuff. Later into a house and then, you know, moving up a little bit more around California and everything. But that was my setting, right? That's how I grew up, got used to it. This is what kind of creeped me out. So all these stories about, you know, the forest or the woods or the typical, you know, Connecticut stories from Stephen King or whatever. Like, yeah, they were scary, but like they weren't like relatable. These, however, are something else. So if you have any stories that you want to share, please, please,

[00:32:14] please send them into the comments. You can drop in the comments. You can send them in through email. All my contact info is always in the description. So you can find me, send it in and we'll, we'll get creeped out here. Right. And, and we get to read them for everybody here to listen to. So thank you very much for listening. Keep it scary, everyone. See you soon. Goodness. So these,

[00:32:44] these stories, you know, when I think about them in, in terms of like Mexico only, I find it really hard because it's, it's not, it's not just like, it's not only in Mexico, right? Like I've heard stories from Columbia, rural homes in Columbia, rural homes in, you know, places in Europe. And they all have this, this really strange feel to it. It's strange in, in the sense of like, it's so weird to me to think.

[00:33:14] It's easy for me to visualize them, but I know I visualize them in a very different way than, you know, what actually happened. But man, they just, they really creep me out. I imagine darkness actually being dark, no streetlights. I think of if you need help for something, an ambulance, something it's so far that you feel, like you need to be self-reliant. And that means also protecting yourself against not just like thieves or animals and stuff, but also the supernatural, you know, paranormal things, ghosts,

[00:33:45] things that happen, especially considering that, you know, people that, you know, the lands, they build homes in these lands, like out of stone and brick and the really strong home. So they last forever. And then that means that other families or people from past generations live there. And also passed away around there or there. Right. So thinking of all the history that it has, it's really cool.

[00:34:12] And actually one of my dreams is to, to own a home like that, like, like have just a big old plot of land and own a home. That's, that's there as built or build my own, but it's, I want it to last a while. Cause I really liked that setting. And, and I don't want to like, you know, romanticize it. How do you say it? Like make it look better than it actually is. But I don't know. It just, it sounds such like such a cool, cool thing to do.

[00:34:42] So, uh, but yeah, this is a really interesting episode, by the way, like all these stories that I get to, to read, uh, and if you're sticking around all the way to the, to the very, very end. Thank you. Thanks a lot for checking out the channel, for, uh, subscribing on whatever platform you're listening on. And, Holy, we had to keep it going, right? We have our Halloween theme or Halloween season stuff. And, um, really getting into the mood for spooky season. So anyway, thanks again.

[00:35:11] I'll see y'all later.