WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.880 --> 00:00:07.280 Welcome to Scary Story Podcast. Our story today involves a town that experiences supernatural 2 00:00:07.280 --> 00:00:19.399 events. My name is Edwin and here's a scary story. It was during 3 00:00:19.399 --> 00:00:22.640 a trip to visit my grandparents when they took me to visit one of their 4 00:00:22.719 --> 00:00:26.600 friends who lived in nearby town. I think at the time they thought that 5 00:00:26.640 --> 00:00:30.399 I would be far too young to be able to remember anything, or at 6 00:00:30.480 --> 00:00:34.759 least be too young to be aware of what was happening. But those long 7 00:00:34.880 --> 00:00:40.280 nights with the townspeople and the visits to the cemetery the first dead body I 8 00:00:40.320 --> 00:00:45.399 had ever seen in my life, they had an impact on me. The 9 00:00:45.439 --> 00:00:50.439 existence of ghosts and the supernatural has never been a question for me. I 10 00:00:50.520 --> 00:00:54.560 had gotten dropped off at the bus station early in the morning. The phone 11 00:00:54.560 --> 00:00:58.640 call had already been made that I would be arriving sometime in the afternoon to 12 00:00:58.679 --> 00:01:02.840 the pueblo known as Youth. Yeah. Now, remember this was back before 13 00:01:02.880 --> 00:01:07.000 cell phones and all that. I remember them having a small discussion about me 14 00:01:07.079 --> 00:01:10.680 going for those days. My parents needed to head out of town for a 15 00:01:10.760 --> 00:01:12.879 visit to the hospital and would not be able to take care of me during 16 00:01:12.920 --> 00:01:18.400 that week. They talked about how I would not bother anyone, and that 17 00:01:18.480 --> 00:01:22.519 I could go with them to where they needed to go. For a moment, 18 00:01:22.640 --> 00:01:26.319 the idea of my grandparents not wanting me there crossed my mind, but 19 00:01:26.840 --> 00:01:29.879 that was all he raised. As soon as I saw them, I got 20 00:01:29.879 --> 00:01:33.439 off the bus to an enormous hug for my grandparents and my uncle, who 21 00:01:33.480 --> 00:01:37.599 was going to be driving us. My grandma had made sweet bread and chocolate 22 00:01:37.640 --> 00:01:41.719 milk, just the way that I liked it. My Grandpa took me to 23 00:01:41.760 --> 00:01:45.920 see the animals that same day. They also said that some of my cousins 24 00:01:45.920 --> 00:01:49.200 were going to be coming over to play, and that one of them had 25 00:01:49.280 --> 00:01:53.319 just made some kites for us to take up to the hill. This is 26 00:01:53.319 --> 00:01:57.599 what my life was with my family. There, simple days out in the 27 00:01:57.640 --> 00:02:01.000 hilly mountains, the sounds of bells from the necks of horses and cows passing 28 00:02:01.040 --> 00:02:06.239 by, and the cool wind we would feel fishing by the river at sunset. 29 00:02:07.280 --> 00:02:14.599 It was what that visit was supposed to be. Everywhere, from when 30 00:02:14.599 --> 00:02:16.919 we went to the corner shop for the fruits and snacks, and even when 31 00:02:16.919 --> 00:02:20.599 we were passing by the neighbor who was sitting in front of his house on 32 00:02:20.639 --> 00:02:23.919 the sidewalk who would stop to talk about the sounds that kept a nearby town 33 00:02:24.000 --> 00:02:30.159 awake. Historians, they said, were coming for that weekend to get to 34 00:02:30.199 --> 00:02:34.840 the bottom of everything. I asked my grandma what a historian was, and 35 00:02:34.919 --> 00:02:38.680 she said that it was someone who read and told stories from the past. 36 00:02:38.840 --> 00:02:43.560 Looking back now, I thought that the town where my grandparents were from was 37 00:02:43.599 --> 00:02:46.719 one of those places where nothing much ever went on, even though to me 38 00:02:46.840 --> 00:02:52.639 it was such a fascinating place. People looked for stories to tell or ways 39 00:02:52.680 --> 00:02:55.919 to get involved in what was going on, and in this case, the 40 00:02:57.000 --> 00:03:00.680 talk of the town was actually about the settlement in the next in a place 41 00:03:00.759 --> 00:03:07.560 known ass Ubisco. I was about seven years old when all of this was 42 00:03:07.599 --> 00:03:10.360 happening. I was woken up by the lights in the house, and since 43 00:03:10.360 --> 00:03:14.879 the room where I was sleeping was only separated by a curtain, I could 44 00:03:14.879 --> 00:03:19.159 hear my grandparents getting ready to go somewhere. They came into my room to 45 00:03:19.159 --> 00:03:22.280 pick me up and put me in their truck, assuming that I would be 46 00:03:22.319 --> 00:03:25.080 asleep, But when they saw that I was awake, they said that we 47 00:03:25.120 --> 00:03:30.159 were going to be going to Ubisco to visit one of their friends, and 48 00:03:30.199 --> 00:03:31.800 they asked me to put on my jacket and shoes to go with them. 49 00:03:32.879 --> 00:03:37.520 There was no rush, as you would expect a conversation to go right before 50 00:03:37.639 --> 00:03:46.800 leaving late at night, but rather calm and slow, carefully planned out the 51 00:03:46.919 --> 00:03:50.639 drive. There was dark and quiet, with only the bums of the dirt 52 00:03:50.759 --> 00:03:53.639 road and the headlights letting us know that we were still on the road. 53 00:03:54.199 --> 00:03:58.719 There was a crowd gathered around the center of the town where we parked the 54 00:03:58.759 --> 00:04:02.319 car. There and a group of other churchgoers praying with their heads down. 55 00:04:03.560 --> 00:04:09.759 Entire families were out there, but I remember, even back then knowing that 56 00:04:09.800 --> 00:04:14.960 this was not a celebration. I had seen many of those before. People 57 00:04:15.039 --> 00:04:18.319 dancing and drinking laid in the main squares, along with music and laughter, 58 00:04:19.680 --> 00:04:25.240 but not this time. I followed my grandparents into the crowd of people, 59 00:04:25.800 --> 00:04:29.399 introduced to a man about my grandpa's age, who said that if we waited 60 00:04:29.439 --> 00:04:33.720 only a little bit longer, he would be able to hear it for ourselves. 61 00:04:34.920 --> 00:04:41.399 He said that the historians were already in town. It happened extremely quickly. 62 00:04:42.000 --> 00:04:46.160 The crowd gasped, and suddenly everything went quiet, and off into the 63 00:04:46.199 --> 00:04:53.120 distance from the dark hills, you could all hear the loud wails and cries 64 00:04:53.199 --> 00:04:57.759 of a woman. The murmurs of the priests and the rest of the people 65 00:04:57.759 --> 00:05:03.040 from the church got louder, before slowly growing into unison. The same prayer 66 00:05:03.120 --> 00:05:10.120 repeated over and over. The cries in the meantime were getting closer, and 67 00:05:10.199 --> 00:05:15.639 yet nobody seemed to want to go towards them. Everyone instead huddled together. 68 00:05:15.720 --> 00:05:20.600 As the prayers rose over the strange silence of the crowd, louder and louder, 69 00:05:20.600 --> 00:05:26.800 the people chanted, and louder and louder. The crist got another gas 70 00:05:26.839 --> 00:05:30.839 from the crowd signaled everyone to look down toward one of the dark streets. 71 00:05:31.480 --> 00:05:39.879 Suddenly, almost like watching a shiny reflection on water, a woman slowly passed 72 00:05:39.879 --> 00:05:46.360 by the streets, her head down and her hands against it. My grandma 73 00:05:46.399 --> 00:05:50.720 covered my eyes and pressed me tightly against her. There was a photographer there, 74 00:05:51.279 --> 00:05:55.240 you could tell by the setup, like what they had shown on television. 75 00:05:56.079 --> 00:05:59.720 A man was taking notes standing next to him with the tape recorder strapped 76 00:05:59.720 --> 00:06:05.839 to a sh shoulder. Both were amazed by what they were witnessing. Ernestovaskiz 77 00:06:05.959 --> 00:06:10.519 was the name of one of the historians, although I learned of him many 78 00:06:10.560 --> 00:06:15.160 many years later. I indeed was too young to ask the questions that I 79 00:06:15.199 --> 00:06:17.600 would want to know later, and I didn't know what to look for back 80 00:06:17.639 --> 00:06:25.399 then. Everyone stayed there for several hours. Some of them were praying and 81 00:06:25.480 --> 00:06:33.199 some were just talking amongst themselves as the cry slowly faded away. The next 82 00:06:33.240 --> 00:06:38.319 morning, we all woke up at the house of my grandparents' friend, ready 83 00:06:38.319 --> 00:06:42.319 to have some bread and milk and head over to the town's courthouse in the 84 00:06:42.360 --> 00:06:47.360 same square where everyone had gathered earlier that night. When I asked what everyone 85 00:06:47.480 --> 00:06:51.360 was doing there and why, my grandpa said that they were fixing a problem 86 00:06:51.399 --> 00:06:56.879 that the leaders of the town had made, that sometimes it takes the common 87 00:06:56.879 --> 00:07:00.560 ones to take charge and fix things. All I remember from that day was 88 00:07:00.600 --> 00:07:05.279 a yelling toward the man in the hat. The hate I saw aimed toward 89 00:07:05.360 --> 00:07:11.360 that one single person was beyond what I had ever seen and still is. 90 00:07:13.240 --> 00:07:15.800 When the man in the hat and others went into the offices, the crowd 91 00:07:15.839 --> 00:07:21.079 got silent for a while, some talking openly about the damage he had done 92 00:07:21.160 --> 00:07:28.000 to the town. I remember my grandparents' friends talk about the man as a 93 00:07:28.040 --> 00:07:32.920 thief, as a liar, and a murderer. It did not take long 94 00:07:32.959 --> 00:07:36.360 for them to come back out, but when they did, the crowd began 95 00:07:36.439 --> 00:07:40.519 to cheer as a man in the hat ran away, and another came out 96 00:07:40.560 --> 00:07:45.639 with a document in hand, yelling loudly that it had been signed. The 97 00:07:45.680 --> 00:07:53.160 document had been signed. Several small groups that formed went over to the house 98 00:07:53.199 --> 00:07:57.120 of a man with an excavator, and almost like a parade, everyone went 99 00:07:57.160 --> 00:08:01.519 toward the cemetery following it. Both my grandparents were talking to the others with 100 00:08:01.560 --> 00:08:07.000 a sudden change and energy in the crowd relief. I thought the anchor was 101 00:08:07.040 --> 00:08:16.079 gone. When we arrived at the cemetery in its large cement blocks of stones 102 00:08:16.120 --> 00:08:22.279 of different bright colors, adorned with flowers and everything. We walked around to 103 00:08:22.319 --> 00:08:28.279 the area where the headstones were smaller, some graves with dried flowers and others 104 00:08:28.319 --> 00:08:33.080 with just dried dirt, and everyone knew where it was located because a crowd 105 00:08:33.120 --> 00:08:37.919 had gotten there before us. They had all gathered in a circle around this 106 00:08:39.120 --> 00:08:43.960 grave as a machine dug up a solid wooden box, and then with hammers 107 00:08:43.960 --> 00:08:50.399 and wedges they opened it up to reveal the inside. The feeling in my 108 00:08:50.440 --> 00:08:54.399 stomach was unlike any other wondering if that's how everyone looks when they die. 109 00:08:56.240 --> 00:09:01.360 Shriveled up, revealing that it's our skin that makes a smile and not our 110 00:09:01.399 --> 00:09:07.200 teeth. The yellow stains on the white dress of this woman, her dark 111 00:09:07.279 --> 00:09:13.799 hair beside her neck and torso then screams could be heard in the commotion, 112 00:09:15.000 --> 00:09:18.799 but eventually the crowd went quiet as they resealed her coughing. They put her 113 00:09:18.840 --> 00:09:30.559 on the back of a truck and drove her away. Part two of Wrong 114 00:09:30.679 --> 00:09:35.679 Place It's coming up right after this. A huge thank you to our sponsors 115 00:09:35.679 --> 00:09:39.480 for supporting me and the rest of the team at Scary FM. Stay with 116 00:09:39.600 --> 00:09:48.679 me. We left. Later that night, the whole town seemed to be 117 00:09:48.720 --> 00:09:52.600 celebrating with food and music. In the Center Square, groups would gather to 118 00:09:52.679 --> 00:09:58.279 talk with beer in their hands, laughing and casually mentioning the events of earlier 119 00:09:58.320 --> 00:10:03.720 that day, their faces growing concerned and then happy again, patterns I had 120 00:10:03.799 --> 00:10:09.960 never seen. I remember talking to my mom on the phone at the booths 121 00:10:09.039 --> 00:10:13.240 about a block away from the square, as my grandma stood next to me. 122 00:10:13.399 --> 00:10:18.720 Everything was okay, I told her, just a little weird. I 123 00:10:18.759 --> 00:10:22.600 remember thinking of the story I would have for my friends at school. I 124 00:10:22.639 --> 00:10:28.960 had seen a dead person and that was the end of it. For years, 125 00:10:28.960 --> 00:10:31.639 that story that had circled in my mind went from a thing that I 126 00:10:31.759 --> 00:10:37.480 thought had simply been a dream to then very real memories of the smell of 127 00:10:37.559 --> 00:10:41.759 dirt in the air. From that day, nobody and my family ever talked 128 00:10:41.759 --> 00:10:46.600 about it. Everyone had thought it was just a simple visit to my grandparents. 129 00:10:46.679 --> 00:10:50.919 But by this time we had computers and phones to help us look up 130 00:10:50.960 --> 00:10:54.080 things on the internet, and with that I ended up finding the work by 131 00:10:54.240 --> 00:11:00.679 Ernestovskis, the historian that had been there that day. He had published a 132 00:11:00.720 --> 00:11:05.159 book with photographs and peculiar Places, but after going through it, I stumbled 133 00:11:05.200 --> 00:11:13.960 upon a title Woman in the wrong place, and everything came to life in 134 00:11:13.000 --> 00:11:18.879 an instant through those photographs, the town square, the protest, and the 135 00:11:18.960 --> 00:11:24.240 casket. One of the images, my grandma can be seen holding my hand 136 00:11:24.759 --> 00:11:30.200 and I'm just out of frame. But it was his writings the one that 137 00:11:30.279 --> 00:11:37.039 told the story that I was never told. The town of Ubisco had been 138 00:11:37.080 --> 00:11:41.720 experiencing events that disturbed the townspeople. Most nights started with one of the women 139 00:11:41.799 --> 00:11:46.519 that lived at the edge of town who ran to a policeman's home late one 140 00:11:46.600 --> 00:11:50.639 night to report that screams had been heard coming from one of the houses by 141 00:11:50.639 --> 00:11:56.039 the river. Once the policeman arrived on foot along with a woman, he 142 00:11:56.120 --> 00:12:01.159 noticed that the place she was pointing to was the mayor's house. He was 143 00:12:01.240 --> 00:12:05.159 left with the decision of pursuing the matter and possibly losing his job just moving 144 00:12:05.200 --> 00:12:13.679 on. The mayor was a rude, large man and completely unpredictable. There 145 00:12:13.759 --> 00:12:16.840 was something about him that people found charismatic, but to those who knew him, 146 00:12:18.600 --> 00:12:22.960 it was only out for himself. No woman had ever wanted to marry 147 00:12:22.039 --> 00:12:26.559 him, and he was known to make them uncomfortable by being too forward with 148 00:12:26.639 --> 00:12:31.600 him. And so the policeman and the woman walked away from the property and 149 00:12:31.320 --> 00:12:37.600 just forgot about the incident. A few days after that, a selected few 150 00:12:37.639 --> 00:12:41.200 went to a small funeral held by the mayor for his daughter. Daughter nobody 151 00:12:41.279 --> 00:12:46.600 knew about, but because it was such a sensitive topic, nobody questioned it. 152 00:12:48.240 --> 00:12:52.600 It only took a week for the events to begin. People from the 153 00:12:52.679 --> 00:12:56.519 edge of town would hear the cries of a woman coming from the hills. 154 00:12:56.480 --> 00:13:03.200 They described it as shrieks of sadness and pain. Stories of witches of lagorona 155 00:13:03.399 --> 00:13:07.840 of curses, and wild animals started surrounding the town. The sounds weren't just 156 00:13:07.879 --> 00:13:15.679 described by one or two people, but many of the neighbors. People from 157 00:13:15.720 --> 00:13:20.679 the center of town would soon begin experiencing the sounds themselves late at night. 158 00:13:22.519 --> 00:13:26.360 One terrifying account by Lucia, one of the oldest residents in town and owner 159 00:13:26.440 --> 00:13:31.799 of the bakery in the main square. She told er Nestor, the historian, 160 00:13:31.639 --> 00:13:37.000 the first documented sighting of the woman in the wrong place. She would 161 00:13:37.000 --> 00:13:41.519 wake up early to begin working at the bakery, and she would walk two 162 00:13:41.559 --> 00:13:46.639 blocks to the bakery every single morning. It was three thirty am and a 163 00:13:46.720 --> 00:13:52.159 cold one, she said. Fog from the hills had come down and covered 164 00:13:52.200 --> 00:13:54.679 the town in a cloud that morning as she made her way down the dirt 165 00:13:54.759 --> 00:14:03.080 road. She had just left the house when suddenly she heard the cries coming 166 00:14:03.120 --> 00:14:09.679 from high up in the hills, like wolves and unison. The christ surrounded 167 00:14:09.720 --> 00:14:15.840 the town until she noticed they were getting closer, louder and angrier the Christ 168 00:14:15.879 --> 00:14:18.320 got. As she picked up the pace to get to the bakery. She 169 00:14:18.360 --> 00:14:22.960 had one more block to go when she crossed the street, and that's when 170 00:14:22.000 --> 00:14:26.519 she decided to turn to look toward the street that led to the base of 171 00:14:26.559 --> 00:14:31.480 one of the hills, way off in the distance. That's when she saw 172 00:14:31.519 --> 00:14:37.840 her, a glowing figure, wavy. She said, I was crossing the 173 00:14:37.879 --> 00:14:41.879 street very slowly, walking at a rhythm that didn't match how fast she was 174 00:14:41.960 --> 00:14:50.600 moving or floating on the road. Lucia was stunned by the sight and froze 175 00:14:50.639 --> 00:14:58.279 completely as the crist faded in the exact same way they had arrived. People 176 00:14:58.279 --> 00:15:01.039 from the houses around her turned off the lights and open their windows, some 177 00:15:01.159 --> 00:15:05.399 even coming out their doors to ask if Lucia was all right. That's when 178 00:15:05.440 --> 00:15:11.000 she had to explain over and over that the cries had not been coming from 179 00:15:11.000 --> 00:15:16.639 her. The sightings continued for weeks. The town would hear these cries at 180 00:15:16.759 --> 00:15:20.360 night so much that they started having meetings to discuss what they could do about 181 00:15:20.360 --> 00:15:26.919 it. It was then when at Nenstovaskie's was called in. Such an event 182 00:15:26.120 --> 00:15:30.679 was just what he would look for in small towns. Although his work had 183 00:15:30.679 --> 00:15:35.440 been primarily of the pursuit of rights for the common person, it also gathered 184 00:15:35.480 --> 00:15:39.080 news of corruption, so of course it was not welcome by the mayor of 185 00:15:39.120 --> 00:15:45.519 the town. Eventually, the historian himself got to witness the ghosts of the 186 00:15:45.559 --> 00:15:50.559 woman himself as he was out taking photographs with one of his research partners. 187 00:15:50.360 --> 00:15:54.080 The photograph showed a glowing light at the end of one of the streets. 188 00:15:54.399 --> 00:16:00.000 Although he mentioned that we must always question evidence, even his own, until 189 00:16:00.000 --> 00:16:07.480 we see it for ourselves or one hundred percent convinced. Ernesta was there for 190 00:16:07.519 --> 00:16:11.919 a couple of weeks, sometimes venturing off into the neighboring towns and settlements on 191 00:16:11.000 --> 00:16:15.759 the hills. So he discovered the story of Rosa, a woman who had 192 00:16:15.799 --> 00:16:21.759 gone missing and had been frequently visited by the mayor of the town, same 193 00:16:21.799 --> 00:16:26.080 one he was investigating. The parents suspected that he had simply taken her one 194 00:16:26.159 --> 00:16:32.759 day, a strange but not uncommon thing that would sometimes happen when couples want 195 00:16:32.840 --> 00:16:37.799 to start their lives together without their parents. Blessing. The mayor all this 196 00:16:37.960 --> 00:16:41.799 time had started to raise suspicions for trying to get rid of the historian and 197 00:16:41.840 --> 00:16:48.240 his team, calling him a wannabe detective, spreading nasty rumors, and even 198 00:16:48.279 --> 00:16:52.039 blaming him for the ghostly events of the town. This would not save the 199 00:16:52.080 --> 00:16:57.840 mayor, though he was questioned about his decisions, the sudden burial for his 200 00:16:59.000 --> 00:17:04.119 daughter and of the screen coming from his house. The story spread of the 201 00:17:04.160 --> 00:17:10.039 mayor being involved with the events that were disturbing the town at night, and 202 00:17:10.119 --> 00:17:17.440 the suspicions were right. Once the regional police got involved. The investigation revealed 203 00:17:17.480 --> 00:17:21.960 that the mayor was the main suspect for the disappearance of Rosa, the young 204 00:17:22.000 --> 00:17:26.200 woman from the other town who had gone missing. It was also later revealed 205 00:17:26.240 --> 00:17:33.079 that he had no daughter. If he didn't have a daughter who was buried 206 00:17:33.119 --> 00:17:41.559 in that grave, everything prosa. The townspeople were obviously angered at this and 207 00:17:41.759 --> 00:17:47.319 had gathered around his house an office to force him to sign his resignation or 208 00:17:47.359 --> 00:17:52.920 face the people for himself, people who had already been armed with their tools 209 00:17:52.920 --> 00:18:00.079 and fury. He was forced to leave the town that very same day. 210 00:18:00.960 --> 00:18:06.079 Drossa's parents had been there that day at the cemetery when I was there with 211 00:18:06.119 --> 00:18:11.799 my grandparents. When the casket was open, they got near it and lifted 212 00:18:11.799 --> 00:18:15.079 the sleeve from the body's arm. They both got on their knees and let 213 00:18:15.119 --> 00:18:19.599 out scream so with the sky as they saw the bracelet, the one that 214 00:18:19.640 --> 00:18:26.240 belonged to their daughter, Drossa. She was taken and reburied in her hometown 215 00:18:26.519 --> 00:18:32.880 just up and over the hill, and from that day on the knights around 216 00:18:32.880 --> 00:18:47.000 the town were calm once again. Up next, check out horror Story, 217 00:18:47.440 --> 00:18:52.160 the podcast with the Yellow Letters to hear true tales of dark history and mysteries. 218 00:18:52.839 --> 00:18:56.039 Her newest episode is about the time when radio and television signals were hijacked 219 00:18:56.039 --> 00:19:00.680 to share terrifying messages. 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