1 00:00:04,519 --> 00:00:08,679 Well you'll hear today is a series of stories about a family and a place 2 00:00:08,679 --> 00:00:13,359 that used to house migrant workers, directly from someone who lived there. Some 3 00:00:13,439 --> 00:00:17,120 of our previous stories I've touched on these places seem to be the home of 4 00:00:17,160 --> 00:00:22,920 a unique form of energy that manifests itself in eerie ways, reflecting pain, 5 00:00:23,640 --> 00:00:30,239 a sense of longing, and curses. My name is Edwin, and here 6 00:00:30,399 --> 00:00:43,439 is Norman's true scary story. My name is Norma ch Come and I was 7 00:00:43,479 --> 00:00:51,719 born in Delanno, California, where there was many migrant workers in our community. 8 00:00:53,479 --> 00:01:02,799 There was random killings and unmarked graves. When I was a child, 9 00:01:03,039 --> 00:01:11,000 about eleven years old, I would take care of my nieces and nephews. 10 00:01:11,200 --> 00:01:17,519 There was a tiny little house in back. You could hear hammering. It 11 00:01:17,640 --> 00:01:23,000 was just a very scary situation. I was afraid to stay in the house 12 00:01:25,640 --> 00:01:32,159 after dark because of the noises that I heard, pounding and doors opening and 13 00:01:32,200 --> 00:01:42,799 closing. We were left with my brother. He was watching myself and my 14 00:01:42,920 --> 00:01:49,359 siblings. We were sitting on the floor. He had fallen asleep on the 15 00:01:49,400 --> 00:01:53,640 couch. The door, which was right in front of us to the outside, 16 00:01:57,319 --> 00:02:02,920 started shaking like it was not then connected to the hinges. We got 17 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:09,840 so scared we woke up my brother. He seen it and said, immediately, 18 00:02:10,680 --> 00:02:21,639 do the Sign of the Cross. We did and finally stopped. When 19 00:02:21,680 --> 00:02:27,479 I was twelve years old, I went to my sister in law's mother's house 20 00:02:27,520 --> 00:02:34,319 with her. She actually did black magic. She would call the dead. 21 00:02:34,960 --> 00:02:38,879 People would go see her to do that. I got curious. Instead of 22 00:02:38,919 --> 00:02:43,960 a door, she had a curtain. I went in. I peeked in. 23 00:02:45,919 --> 00:02:53,439 I saw her slouch backwards and shaking. A man's voice was coming out 24 00:02:53,439 --> 00:03:05,280 of her. I just got so scared that I got away and never did 25 00:03:05,319 --> 00:03:16,240 that again. Her mom did channelings and helped cure people. When I was 26 00:03:16,520 --> 00:03:23,919 married, I had a little boy. I had taken him to the hospital 27 00:03:23,960 --> 00:03:29,080 because he had diarrhea really bad. His little eyes were rolling to the back 28 00:03:29,120 --> 00:03:34,159 of his head. He spent the night. They told me the next day 29 00:03:34,199 --> 00:03:38,840 that there was no cure for that. Because they couldn't figure out why he 30 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:44,680 was having diarrhea. There was nothing they could do for him. The only 31 00:03:44,759 --> 00:03:50,039 thing I could do was take him home. My mother said, we're going 32 00:03:50,159 --> 00:03:54,280 to take him to my sister in law to her mom. We go over 33 00:03:54,360 --> 00:04:03,560 there. She tells me that she's going to massauge him, that she could 34 00:04:03,639 --> 00:04:08,520 cure him. She said, I'm gonna pull his little skin in the bat 35 00:04:08,759 --> 00:04:12,319 three times. She showed me on his spine, she says, and it 36 00:04:12,599 --> 00:04:18,879 it pops. That means that he's in bachildo, which means I don't even 37 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:24,160 know how to explain that in English. Is like something a child gets when 38 00:04:24,199 --> 00:04:29,759 they eat something that they shouldn't. He was only like two months old. 39 00:04:30,040 --> 00:04:34,079 She did it. It popped, and then she turned them over. She 40 00:04:34,319 --> 00:04:41,439 gave him a spoon with a little bit of white powder in it. When 41 00:04:41,480 --> 00:04:54,360 we were leaning. He was instantly okay. At that time, I had 42 00:04:54,480 --> 00:05:00,079 left my husband. I had caught him with his ex girlfriend, and my 43 00:05:00,240 --> 00:05:05,040 mother had shared this information with her. When we were walking out the door, 44 00:05:05,279 --> 00:05:09,399 she has me a folded up little piece of paper and she tells me, 45 00:05:09,480 --> 00:05:15,480 I want you to say this three times a day until you're happy. 46 00:05:15,240 --> 00:05:21,160 I said, okay. I went to the car and I read it. 47 00:05:21,160 --> 00:05:31,879 It sa a saint something. Do not let Muriel eat, sleep or be 48 00:05:32,040 --> 00:05:40,519 with another woman until I say, I told my mother, and then she 49 00:05:40,600 --> 00:05:44,040 says, are you going to do it? I told her, first of 50 00:05:44,079 --> 00:05:47,759 all, I don't think there's a saint that you would pray to that would 51 00:05:47,759 --> 00:05:53,720 do harm on somebody. I ended up throwing that away. That's the sort 52 00:05:53,759 --> 00:06:01,680 of thing that she did. One time I was visiting my dad in the 53 00:06:01,680 --> 00:06:12,199 early sixties. We were playing in the backyard. He was digging something for 54 00:06:12,199 --> 00:06:20,040 whatever reason. He found a jar the size of the regular man is jar 55 00:06:21,160 --> 00:06:29,639 and in the jar was a little urdu doll made of plot. It had 56 00:06:29,800 --> 00:06:41,240 his picture glued to the face. My dad said, somebody put a hicks 57 00:06:41,319 --> 00:06:53,000 on me. He pulled the doll out and burnt it. My dad was 58 00:06:53,120 --> 00:07:00,319 a womanizer. He had this one woman that he offer and went to spend 59 00:07:00,360 --> 00:07:06,560 the night with. My mother went over there to pick him up. The 60 00:07:06,639 --> 00:07:14,759 woman tells her he's not going anywhere. He loves me. He tells her, 61 00:07:15,319 --> 00:07:20,439 I'm going home with my wife. He started laughing. She told him 62 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:27,120 you better laugh all you can, because after tonight you will never laugh again. 63 00:07:30,240 --> 00:07:36,040 He was never able to laugh again. He would pass out, which 64 00:07:36,240 --> 00:07:50,879 was scary and unexplainable. Another time, in the late fifties, my brother 65 00:07:53,519 --> 00:07:57,600 was walking home in the middle of the night. While he was walking, 66 00:07:57,759 --> 00:08:03,240 he heard a woman really loud. He turned around and looked there was this 67 00:08:03,319 --> 00:08:11,439 woman with a black cloak on. She's laughing and laughing, starts walking faster 68 00:08:11,560 --> 00:08:18,480 and starts chasing him. He's scared to death and ran all the way home 69 00:08:18,680 --> 00:08:26,399 and told my mom what had happened. He said, look at my back, 70 00:08:26,560 --> 00:08:31,879 because I think she pulled me by the T shirt when she lifted his 71 00:08:31,960 --> 00:08:39,480 T shirt that he had two big scratches from the woman on his back. 72 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:50,440 My sister, she was the princess of the house even though there was fourteen 73 00:08:50,600 --> 00:08:56,080 kids. She was laying on her bed and she's flipping through the magazine. 74 00:08:56,480 --> 00:09:03,200 Somebody grabs her by the wrist. She started cussing and jumped off the bed, 75 00:09:03,279 --> 00:09:07,279 thinking that it was one of us. She looked under the bed. 76 00:09:07,440 --> 00:09:18,519 There was nobody there. She went running to my mother. Everybody has experienced 77 00:09:20,240 --> 00:09:30,120 something something, that's experience something something. The same brother and my other two 78 00:09:30,200 --> 00:09:37,639 brothers were probably up to no good on the way home from Baker's Shield on 79 00:09:37,759 --> 00:09:41,840 the freeway. All of a sudden, they hear this woman laughing and laughing. 80 00:09:43,120 --> 00:09:50,360 The woman peeks through the windshield and her hair is flying everywhere. They 81 00:09:50,440 --> 00:09:56,960 drove straight to the church, ran in and told the father. The father 82 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:01,919 went out there to bless the car. When he did, an owl flew 83 00:10:01,960 --> 00:10:15,759 out of the car. One of my brothers he had the worst of the 84 00:10:16,159 --> 00:10:22,240 scary things happened to him. Everywhere he went, something would happen. He 85 00:10:22,320 --> 00:10:28,600 and his wife were at home. The phone starts ring. He tells her, 86 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:35,320 Yola, get the phone. She goes to get the phones it's not 87 00:10:35,480 --> 00:10:46,360 plugged in. The same brother in the same house went to bed one night. 88 00:10:48,360 --> 00:10:54,519 When they lifted the sheets, found an upsight non cross made of dirt 89 00:10:54,480 --> 00:11:07,120 on their bed. After I got married, I was living with my in 90 00:11:07,240 --> 00:11:18,759 laws in seventy one and I had my baby. He was three months old. 91 00:11:20,519 --> 00:11:26,639 I fell asleep. Back in the day, it was normal to prop 92 00:11:26,799 --> 00:11:31,559 the baby's bottle in their mouth when you put them down. That night, 93 00:11:33,159 --> 00:11:39,000 something woke me up. When I opened my eyes, I saw this leprechaun 94 00:11:39,159 --> 00:11:46,639 thing jumping on my stomach. I don't think he was wearing green, but 95 00:11:46,720 --> 00:11:52,000 he was wearing an at I couldn't feel him that I could see him. 96 00:11:52,320 --> 00:11:58,759 Then I heard my son choking. I ran to him picked him up because 97 00:11:58,799 --> 00:12:07,639 he was choking on his milk. Around the same time, my mother in 98 00:12:07,759 --> 00:12:16,000 law was sitting on her bed the master bathroom door was open, and the 99 00:12:16,039 --> 00:12:24,480 plunger just came out, bouncing from the bathroom all the way to where she 100 00:12:24,639 --> 00:12:33,120 was sitting by the bed. I got up in the morning and went to 101 00:12:33,360 --> 00:12:41,080 the bathroom. I seen a trail of blood from the bathroom to the kitchen, 102 00:12:43,600 --> 00:12:48,960 and I cleaned it up. Then I asked everybody if they had had 103 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:56,279 a bloody nose or something, and they said no, nobody had, so 104 00:12:56,360 --> 00:13:05,720 that blood just appeared out of nowhere. Eventually, when my husband came out 105 00:13:05,720 --> 00:13:13,559 of the military, he went back to McFarlane and got hired by this rancher 106 00:13:15,879 --> 00:13:24,279 to drive a tractor. I thought it was normal for her husband to get 107 00:13:24,320 --> 00:13:28,840 their check on Friday and leave and come back on Sunday night. I was 108 00:13:28,879 --> 00:13:35,519 a big chicken to begin with, and my baby at that time was probably 109 00:13:35,600 --> 00:13:39,679 around too. I was sitting in the corner of the living room just holding 110 00:13:39,759 --> 00:13:45,279 him, feeling like I had to protect him if anybody broke in, cause 111 00:13:45,320 --> 00:13:50,480 it was out in the country. I got so tired I had this great 112 00:13:50,519 --> 00:13:56,879 idea to go to my room, lay on my bed which was against the 113 00:13:56,919 --> 00:14:03,039 window, open the window, thinking if somebody comes in, I'll just jump 114 00:14:03,039 --> 00:14:11,080 out the window. I'm laying there not facing the window. I heard flapping. 115 00:14:11,879 --> 00:14:18,480 I looked. There was an owl perched on the tree. The owl 116 00:14:18,679 --> 00:14:26,279 started laughing like a woman, really loud. I saw it and I heard 117 00:14:26,320 --> 00:14:37,000 it into Spanish latusa. That's how a witch travels in the form of an 118 00:14:37,039 --> 00:14:45,759 owl. We ended up moving to the mountains. Things started happening there too. 119 00:14:46,360 --> 00:14:54,879 The doors would open and close when nobody was in the rooms. One 120 00:14:54,919 --> 00:15:01,799 time, me and my headron were in bed and somebody was trying to force 121 00:15:01,840 --> 00:15:07,200 the door open. He got really mad. He gets up to go yell 122 00:15:07,240 --> 00:15:11,080 at whoever it was that was up, and there was no one anywhere. 123 00:15:13,639 --> 00:15:16,399 Whenever we left to go somewhere, we would come back and there would be 124 00:15:16,559 --> 00:15:22,919 a puddle of water in the middle of the kitchen floor. I believe that 125 00:15:24,080 --> 00:15:30,600 a curse was put in our family. All of us experienced something, some 126 00:15:30,720 --> 00:15:35,879 of us worse than others, that we all did. Usually a curse is 127 00:15:35,960 --> 00:15:43,679 put on somebody because of jealousy. Somebody might have been jealous of my dad 128 00:15:45,639 --> 00:15:48,559 wanted to stay with him. He tells not to, so they did not 129 00:15:48,720 --> 00:15:54,840 to him like that lady. That made him not able to laugh again. 130 00:15:56,279 --> 00:16:07,279 My son passed away and twenty seventeen, my ex husband frequents his grave site. 131 00:16:07,080 --> 00:16:14,559 When he went to the gray site, he found an egg on his 132 00:16:14,679 --> 00:16:26,000 grave, which was really odd. It was just a regular egg. My 133 00:16:26,200 --> 00:16:33,759 son was forty six twenty passed away. We thought maybe somebody did something to 134 00:16:33,879 --> 00:16:37,519 him to hurt his dad, because I don't think he had any enemies that 135 00:16:37,600 --> 00:16:44,279 would do that sort of thing. We would wear across the aaron our eggs. 136 00:16:44,519 --> 00:16:48,159 My mom when she went with one of her friends to this one lady 137 00:16:48,240 --> 00:17:00,799 because they claim these gouranderos or witchcraft, people claim that I can cure you 138 00:17:00,200 --> 00:17:07,359 of that. After the man did what he did to her friend, he 139 00:17:07,400 --> 00:17:10,359 goes to her and he tells her, you know what, no one can 140 00:17:10,559 --> 00:17:15,880 ever put a curse on you because your veins over your heart are crossed. 141 00:17:18,200 --> 00:17:25,039 She didn't have, you know, experiences like the rest of us did that. 142 00:17:25,720 --> 00:17:33,960 I don't know so much that's unexplainable. I found a grave under where 143 00:17:33,960 --> 00:17:41,279 my dad lives. So my ball had rolled underneath that little house which was 144 00:17:41,839 --> 00:17:48,160 set on pillars that was open in the bottom. My wall went in there 145 00:17:48,200 --> 00:17:52,480 and when I reached trying to get it, I felt the square of cement. 146 00:17:52,799 --> 00:18:00,559 I called my dad. He told us that it was a grave knt 147 00:18:00,680 --> 00:18:03,720 it to you know what I mean? There was a lot of souls out 148 00:18:03,720 --> 00:18:18,920 there. 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