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Every December twelfth, thousands of Catholics
in Mexico, the Philippines, the US

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and all over the world head to
church, many in pilgrimages that walk for

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miles to honor our Lady of Guadalupe
and pray for miracles. But what about

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when the beloved Mother is a subject
of legends and tales of terror? I'm

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Christina and this is espooky stories,
where every legend and story is either real,

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based on a true story, or
both. Listen Escucca if you dare

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where the town of Doctor Arroyo in
Novo Leon, Mexico sits today, there

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used to be an acienda called Alberconez. Acienda Alberconez was a large assenda,

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even for back then. It spanned
through the town of Doctor Arroyo to parts

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of Tamaulipas and San Luis Potossi.
The acienda was built on the land of

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the Wachichil people, and settlers tried
to convert the indigenous population to Catholicism.

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This was difficult for the settlers.
The Wachichi did not want to convert or

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change their beliefs. Most aciennas had
their own chapel, and Albergones was no

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exception, the chapel in Albergonees was
consecrated to Labittien de la Concepcion. A

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portrait of her image had been brought
all the way from Spain. According to

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legend, Ascienda Albertgonees was not only
surrounded by the Wachichin, who refused to

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convert, but also by brucas,
which is one day Ascienda workers entered the

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chapel to pray and found the virgin
of their beloved portrait was missing. From

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that day on, the acienda began
to fall apart, and no one knew

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why. They believed Lavitiin was angry
and fed up with the disrespectful Ascienda and

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the surrounding witches. They were not
devoted enough to her. Legend says her

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portrait reappeared in the town of Doctor
Royo, and when that happened, the

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town began to prosper. They were
protected by her, while the ascienda continued

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to fall apart, and today there
are only ruins of the chapel left the

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laughing Virgin Mary. This story is
from Parral, Chihuahua, Mexico. This

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happened many years ago. It was
told to me by my father. It

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happened so long ago, but the
people the story pertains too would remember my

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family, so I want to remain
anonymous. Years ago, in Parral,

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on my father's block, there was
an older lady that everyone talked about,

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not for gossipy reasons, but because
they were scared. She was said to

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be Abruca, a bad one who
cursed people and did the work of the

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devil. One day, she got
really sick. People stopped seeing her around.

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Her family hired a nurse to treat
her and help her at home.

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While the nurse was there, the
lady's family gathered at her house to keep

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her company and to pray for her. Sometimes friends and neighbors joined. During

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one of these afternoons, my dad
happened to be there. The woman was

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asleep resting. She had been getting
worse and spend most of the time sleeping.

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They expected she was going to go
soon, and everyone was there to

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pray for her. Suddenly she sat
up, She cried and yelled, she's

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laughing at me, lawitka, mariey
is laughing at me. She said,

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it's my time to go, and
she's laughing. She fell back on the

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bed and was in seconds. She
was asleep as if she hadn't been screaming

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her lungs off just seconds ago.
No one knew what to do. They

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kept praying. A few nights after
this strange occurrence, my dad saw a

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figure walking on the road at night. It wore a black dress, and

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as they walked underneath the street lights, they stopped working. One by one,

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he saw walking and then it vanished. The lady passed away the morning

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after my dad saw the figure in
the black dress. The strangest thing was

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that she wasn't the only one.
Another five elderly people on that Seae Sames

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Street also passed away over the next
two weeks. No one knew why.

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The image of the laughing Virgin Mary
stuck with my father so much so that

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he told us a story all the
time. Can you picture her laughing,

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mocking and telling you you're going to
die? Leavicha the Negro, the Virgin

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in black. This story was submitted
six years ago to Irilatos Lenoce. The

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town that I'm originally from is now
a ghost town. It feels like even

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my memories from my former home are
fitting away. I can hardly remember which

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building was a schoolhouse. I can
barely recall where all my friends lived,

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let alone my house or what's left
of it. It was a beautiful town.

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The weather didn't matter. It was
beautiful and full of people. Then

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it changed. One November night,
my brother and I saw everyone running to

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the town center. We ran too. We found Don Diego, the town

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drug in the middle of the center, in the middle of everyone crying.

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It was a desperate cry. At
first I thought something bad happened to him.

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But as I pushed my way past
every one and got closer, I

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looked again. These were happy tears. He cried and said, I saw

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her. I saw Lyavitrea de Guadalupe
on the hill. I couldn't believe it

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was it real. If it was
real, it meant something good was finally

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happening to our little town. The
Mexican government did nothing for our pueblo.

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We had been forgotten by everyone except
by her labkin. Don Diego became the

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talk of the town after that.
Everyone invited him for dinner that week,

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But soon the excitement vanished. People
began thinking he had made up the whole

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thing. He kept looking for her, though he was obsessed. It was

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all he cared about. We would
see him heading for the hill, looking

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for her, for a sign,
for anything, but nothing happened. He

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started drinking again more than before.
Then we just stopped seeing him. No

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one really missed him. After Don
Diego went missing, a priest from a

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neighboring town came by. We didn't
even have anyone to run our own abandoned

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local church, that's how forgotten we
were. So they sent that priest to

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investigate these claims about the apparition of
the Holy Mother, really to calm us

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down. His attitude was terrible.
He thought we were lying, but we

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were not liars. Someone told him
about what Don Diego saw Obitkan floating in

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the hills. No lights nearby,
but she was glowing. She looked just

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like Laviyrka de Gallalupe, but dressed
in black. After hearing this account,

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the priest's behavior changed. He wasn't
smug anymore. He was afraid. He

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gathered his things quickly and told us
you'll never have a church here again.

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You don't deserve it, and he
left. Not long after the father left,

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maybe one month after Don Diego had
seen Labyrkan, people were gathering in

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the town center again. I forced
my way through the crowd and that's when

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I saw it. It was Don
Diego, but he was dead. There

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was a hole in his chest where
his heart should have been. We only

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had one police officer, and he
had to borrow someone's truck to take Don

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Diego to the nearby morgue. People
began talking again about her, only this

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time not in awe or amazement,
but in fear. People said that they

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saw her, but everyone was scared. I will never forget when I saw

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her. We were walking down the
hill. We heard a voice and turned

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around. There she was just like
they said, like Lavitkin, only dressed

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in black. She had her arms
open like an angel. It was the

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most horrifying thing I had ever seen. We ran all the way home.

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We didn't tell anyone about what we
had seen. Later, my brother said

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he saw her by our house after
that, floating in the street. I

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also saw her again, at least
I think I did. We were leaving

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our Pueblo for good. As our
truck was driving away, I was staring

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out the back, taking it all
in. I looked at the hill and

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I saw a black figure up top. She was floating, but far away.

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I could have sworn she followed us
like the sun seems to follow you

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when you're driving. I closed my
eyes. I didn't want to see her

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again. I didn't open them until
we were hours away. I thought if

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I didn't open them, she would
be gone forever. I never saw her

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again, and our pueblo has long
been abandoned. I don't know if anyone

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else remembers her. That's what I
remember. Spooky Stories is written, edited

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and produced by me Christina. Tune
in on Fridays for our regular episodes where

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I and m Jay share scary stories, myths and legends, sometimes with the

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guests, sometimes without stay a Spooky