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Kitzania is an indoor amusement park for
kids. They have locations into Dad,

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Mexico, Monterey, Guadalajara, even
in Dallas, Chicago, Santa Fe in

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the US. On July twenty nineteen, Kitzania went viral on Twitter. A

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user and a now deleted thread tweeted
a pretty creepy memory of Kitzania. I'm

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Christina and this is Espuki stories where
every story is based on real events.

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Listen Escuchia at your own risk.
A Twitter threat from a user in Mexico

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share that she used to go to
Kitzana and Monterey as a child. She

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and a group of friends were playing
in a ventilation tunnel when a clown scared

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them out of nowhere. When she
returned to Kitzania later, she asked an

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employee where the clown was, and
the employee told her that no clowns have

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worked there. Ever, she asked
if anyone else had weird experiences like this

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at Kitzana, and to her surprise, many replied that they had also been

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scared by a clown and the tunnels
is. There are similar replies way Viola

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vida, giostava, nos ductosa,
oolos falsos and avan busca demano contrava gostava

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sola i objo sino como also mesa
pan yolo lei rapido con meco meri condoolo

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como noos yo ma guerloa and faa
chingeingaon amiga lagrita ioaso con condo. Another

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user from Sudha, Mexico. You
still worked there, and he remembers running

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into a group of kids that were
terrified of the tunnel section. They kept

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hearing there was a clown there that
stole money. He thought it was a

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joke, but then more and more
kids began saying the same thing. They

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were all scared of this clown.
He thought maybe his co workers were messing

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with him, and he went to
them and asked, like, hey,

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who's telling kids this clown line?
And all the co workers swore up and

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down that they would never they have
never said this to any kid. He

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never saw anything himself, but he's
certain that all those kids were scared of

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something in those tunnels. And there
were hundreds of replies in this thread from

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people in Guadala, Harada, Mexico, all the locations sharing similar tales.

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So I don't know what do we
think mass hysteria. Was there an actual

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clown at every single Kidzania? I
don't know. The following story is based

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on these experiences. Indoor play places
are super popular, especially when it's raining

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or for birthday parties. As a
kid, Jenny knew only the coolest kids

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had their parties in these places.
Some of these were pretty basic compared to

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others. The best one back then
was Kitzania. Keitsania had it all.

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It was like a city just for
kids. There was a construction area with

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kids sized tools, another area with
a doctor's office, a veterinary clinic.

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It sounds weird, but it was
a lot of fun and they had the

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best pizza. Jenny grew up in
a bigger family compared to a lot of

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her friends. Her friends each had
maybe one or two siblings, but Jenny's

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family had eight family members, six
kids and her parents, so they didn't

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go to Kitzania very often, especially
not for every single birthday party. Somehow,

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most birthdays all fell in the last
four months of the year September through

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December, and all of the siblings
were one to two years apart. Instead

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of celebrating each birthday separately, they
were all celebrated in one big party late

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October. Some of her siblings cared
a little more about this, but it

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didn't bother Jenny, maybe because she
was the eldest and she understood why her

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parents did it. It was cheaper
to go to Kitsania once a year than

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six times a year. It was
her favorite place for birthday parties, at

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least until she turned twelve. And
no, it's not what you think.

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She didn't think she was too old
or too cool. It's because she'll never

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forget that day. It changed her
life. It made her realize that certain

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things just can't be explained like usual, if the family went to Kitsania and

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their friends met them there, there
was so much pizza, soda, ice

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cream, lots of kids running around, laughing and playing. They decided to

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play hide and seek all of them. They kept a hide and seek game

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in the construction area of Keitsania.
There was a big building, another one

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that was half done, and then
this open area with these giant ventilation tunnels.

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Those tunnels were pretty dark and further
away. No one liked staying in

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this area for too long, But
Jenny didn't know why. She never really

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paid attention to why no one liked
the tunnels. She thought that this would

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be the perfect hiding spot for the
hide and seek game. When it was

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her brother Arturos turned to be it. She went straight to the tunnels.

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She could hear him counting one,
two, three, four, five,

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and then further away six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven,

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until she couldn't hear him anymore.
She was going straight to the tunnels.

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There were three tunnels and then a
fence behind the tunnels. There was

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only one way into this area and
one way out. She went to the

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one on the left and hid.
She was sure no one had followed her

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and that it would take her brother
a while to find her. She was

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proud of her hiding spot until it
felt like she was waiting for too long.

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Maybe the spot had been too good. Just as she was about to

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get out and give herself up,
she heard thumping. It was a strange

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sound, as if someone was stomping
with one foot and then dragging the other.

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It made no sense. Why would
her brother walk like this they were

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playing high and seek. Why would
he even be walking down the tunnels instead

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of peeking quickly to find her.
The sound was getting closer than it stopped

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it was silent. She could only
hear her pounding heart. It felt like

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an eternity had passed. She thought
it was so odd if that was her

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brother. Was he hiding now too? Why did the thumping stop? She

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was getting very tired of hiding and
waiting. She got up and out of

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the tunnel. She walked over to
the tunnel next to hers and peeked in

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nothing. She walked over to the
next tunnel and peeked in nothing. At

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this point, she was starting to
feel afraid. Despite her fear, she

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went back to the tunnel she had
just gotten out of and looked inside nothing.

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Now she was freaking out. Jenny
was confused and scared. She decided

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to leave this area. She went
back into her tunnel, ran through it,

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and as she ran, she felt
a strange pressure in her chest.

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She thought someone was going to be
in the tunnels, but no one was

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there. She got out and stared
at the door to exit this part of

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the playground, and for a second
felt relief. She could see the door

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and she thought it was going to
be okay. As Jenny lifted one foot

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to start her walk to the door, she felt a hand on her shoulder.

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She screamed, No one was there. A second ago, who touched

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her shoulder. She turned around,
half expecting to see her brother, but

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when she looked, she saw a
half white, half black outfit with red

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buttons. Horrified, she continued to
look. She turned her head up.

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It was a clown. Jenny panicked. She thought maybe she heard laughter,

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maybe she imagined it. It was
all a blur. She ran. She

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bumped one of her sisters, who
pushed Jenny, but quickly noticed how scared

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Jenny was. The rest of her
siblings and friends surrounded Jenny, and she

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told them what she had seen.
She expected them all to laugh, but

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many of them started saying that they
have seen a clown too. They thought

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maybe the clown was an employee who
was just being mean and scaring them.

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The kids went to find another employee, and that present laughed. There's no

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clowns here. This isn't a circus. But it turns out this is a

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thing, the clown of Kitzania.
It wasn't just Jenny's local Kitzania either,

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It was everywhere. Jenny never went
back there. It's still there now,

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and she refuses to take her kids
there too. Spooky Stories is written edited

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and produced by me Christina. Tune
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