Hi everyone. This is Christina and this is m J. And this is
a Spooky Tells the podcast about curses and witches. That's what we're talking about
today. I'm so excited. Me too, me too. I'm also very
excited because our Listeners story was a voice memo, so I'm gonna play it.
MJA heard it already because I forgot to say don't listen to that's so
we were recording, but you know what you said. You forgot everything,
so it's fine. It's fine. Like I was like, oh, that's
scary, and then you're like you're like I was like, no, I
already forgot, so we're fine. Like my brain ghost poof like you guys,
I can't. I'm dying because at one time, I remember I started
reading a Listeners story and then I kept stopping because I was like, I'm
pretty sure I already read this. I got a couple of messages, more
than a couple, but on Instagram later that we're like, yeah, you
read read that one, so my gut was right. It was new to
me. Okay again yeah, or I couldn't read it on an episode.
You weren't on that too, and that's why it was new to you,
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story that you've heard for the first time ever? MJ Yes, I'm so
ready. Okay, actually, hold all right, let's hold on now.
It's just I just exited out. Oh my god, today today's day.
I'm sorry, give a second, dying you have? You have all my
seconds? I'm jaane, Okay, I need a few, well, you
have all of them? All right, all right, let's do this all
right, Let's press play in one to three? Okay or no? I
said that weird? After three? One two, three? Okay? Person
play. Growing up, my parents would send me and my brother too many
school for the summers with my mother Ka the family historian should look after us
and tell so many stories about our community. Brujas Double, the Double,
Don't Steals, Worn, the Revolution and a Molastemuchisme. I'm going to be
focusing on my favorite Brujas story for the submission, just because, like I've
been listening to Sailor five on YouTube. My parents are from the community one
close to the border of suny Lois, in the Seatra Corta. Some of
those communities where the road like aren't exactly developedpecially around the time where the stories
took place, there were like no roads, just trails. So to give
some context, it's about a thirty minute walk to see your closest neiper and
about thirty minutes and foot to a town. There's a lot of you know,
prough health being in the lights in the mountains that night, and then
it's a little disturbing for me when I was seeing it growing up, but
everyone's like not unusual for folks. It to be like every other day thing
for folks that lived out there. So I'm going to be focusing on my
cousin Basque and so he was at a party one of those three hour away
towns one night and was drinking. So I feel like the validarty is a
little bit questionable. But I think there's a lot of things that are questionable
to the age. But let's not talk about that. But you know,
the families pretty seriously because of how his body looked afterwards, And you know
why I was being told to me like twenty years later. He's one of
those like twenty year old cousins that are like twenty years older than me.
And he left the party on a donkey. He was tired, and it
was about halfway home when he saw a light in the mountain, But because
it was not unusual, he didn't give it too much thought and he just
kept chatting along. Sometimes had passed and he came across another one, and
then another one, and fuel posts like like it was just like a chill
that rushed over him. It was an airy feeling, and the donkey that
he was writing felt it too ten stop and it didn't want to move either
forward or backward. Then he realized that the lights were actually moving towards him.
The donkey jolted and it threw him off. And this is where like
things happened really fast and he doesn't feel clear about what had happened next or
the only thing that he remembers about this part is just being surrounded by laughter.
And it was like a laughter that he felt vibrate in his body,
and his body kind of just being tossed around and thrown to the ground and
like feeling blunt objects hitting him. Oh my god, and then those like
the weird cart was his neck being stuck. He remembers just like fighting for
his life and he couldn't tell us if he let him go or he managed
to escape because he was like so disoriented by what had happened. He was
just running. He wasn't going towards home or anything. He's just trying to
run away from the laughter and from the lights and to the morning. And
he managed to make it too a kamnitoa like ended up bleeding towards home.
When he got home, like they examined him and the bruce is all over
his nack like said wound, you know, the bato And like as a
kid, I remember being terrified, like hearing this, I would never fall
asleep with my neck exposed. Our blankets world were like my shirt around my
neck, just because that was part of the stories that the Brucas stuck your
neck as an adult. Now, I'm just like the sounds like the sounds
like you know, it was just like a teenager and be it was like
falling around with something. But that's my story. I hope can share it.
Also, I just post them spooks here, so oh yeah, I'll
show into doing what you're daring. That was insane. Wow, it like
it grows to me out like I don't know, whenever here kill us brujas,
uh, you know, whenever like like suck your blood. I feel
like it's such a violating thing to do, like obviously, but like it
I almost can like you how violating it is. Yeah, that's horrifying and
like you know how he said like growing up and he's like, oh,
it was probably just like what about the bruises. Yeah, yeah, that's
a horrifying story. It was perfect for this episode because we have Brujas stories.
So thank you so much for setting that in as a voice memo too.
It just I think it's more fun. I mean, we're both great,
but it just adds a little a little change, you know. Also,
thank you for buying some spooky here. Yes, thank you so much
again, and if you want to send it in, you can do it
as a voice memo. Okay, so I think we have like three stories.
We have so our first story is not a which story, but it
is a cursed land story, which also fun. Not fun for whoever's on
the land, but fun for us. Yeah. So this is Las Arenas
de la Paria or the Ruins. What's up? Isn't it like a parish?
I think it's a parish? Yeah, yeah, so the parish Ruins.
Let's see. Yeah, I don't know. It sounds better in Spanish.
I'm probably translated it wrong. We'll see if Dawn translated it better.
Probably she did, she did, Okay, probably I didn't read it because
you probably did. So this land is rumored to be cursed. It's in
Cartago, Costa Rica, and currently it's a public garden. It's popular with
tourists. But it was once home to several churches, and all these churches
suffered the same terrible fate. The location these churches used to stand on is
now known as Lazrenaz la Parochia or the Parish Ruins. No, I was
right, it is the parish Ruins. Anyway, let me keep it going,
I had to interrupt the story from Okay, So the land was first
home to a church that was constructed in fifteen seventy three, and it lasted
that is how long as time ago. Yeah, that is the time of
the colonizers. Yeah, was this the first church? I don't even know.
That's a long time ago. Yeah, Okay, this church lasted less
than a hundred years, and then it was severely damaged by an earthquake in
sixteen thirty and then it was fully demolished in sixteen fifty six. Then they
built another church the same spot in sixteen sixty two, and the same thing
happened. Earthquakes hit the area in seventeen eighteen and seventeen fifty six, and
the earthquakes heavily damaged the church. So then in eighteen forty one it was
completely destroyed the church that was there. And then I guess the locals didn't
learn their lesson, and in eighteen seventy they began to build another church on
the same spot, but this time they didn't make it far enough. They
didn't finish building it. It was put on holds for thirty years and then
resumed again. In nineteen o three. They don't stop. They really wanted
a church. Then in nineteen ten, another another earthquake hit the same area,
destroying the church again. This time they were like, no, this
land is cursed, and they gave up on trying to build the church.
One legend states that the land became cursed after a brutal murder occurred there.
Another legend in Colonial times says that there was two brothers who fell in love
with the same woman there. One of them killed the other for her.
The legend goes that one was popular around town and the other was a Catholic
priest preached at the church that was built on that land. The priest became
enraged when the woman chose his brother. I'm sorry, was he not a
priest? He couldn't even be with her anyway? Right exactly? So what
damn? Okay? Well, there's some priests who probably don't give two ups.
So true True. Unable to control his feelings of jealousy, he set
out to ruin his brother's reputation, and when that didn't work, he used
a knife to murder his brother inside the church during the night of New Year's
Mass. When the priest realized he had committed a crime, inside a sacred
place. He promised God he would build another church to make up for what
he had done, but it said that instead God cursed the land, and
that's why every church that has been built on this has been brought down by
earthquakes. And other version of the legend states that it was the priest who
was murdered by his brother, not him being the murderer. And this version
of the legend the brother was married to the woman and the priests began a
romantic affair with their brother's wife. When the priest Wow. When the priest's
brother found out, he was obviously mad. He was the I guess.
He was also the mayor of the town, and so he murdered his brother
and got away with it because the mayor the mayor priest. No, no,
no, and the other one was the mayor. Yeah. And the
mayor brother killed the priest brother, and he got away with it because he's
the mayor and he could do whatever he wanted. Yeah, And so he
murdered his priest's brother and then buried him under the church and used his political
power to hide the crime. No matter which version of the legend you believe,
it's still said that the priest haunts the land as well, and he
might even be headless. I don't know when he became headless or hound,
but he lost it somehow. Yeah, God took it after he died.
Yeah, I'm taking this mine. Yeah. You don't deserve it, you
can't clearly you're not using Yeah. Others also say that the location has a
different feeling at night, so it's like a sunny public guardian in the morning,
and then at night it's like the sinister, eerie, dark vibe.
So yeah, that was the church ruins of Cartago, Costa Rica. Oh
but then I like I at the same time, I'm like not scared enough
to be like I would never lose it. Yeah. My story is from
the podcast Extra Normal, and this story in particular is what turned me into
their show. Now it's a Spanish only show, so our Spanish challenge friends,
I will be translating the story. However, they have hundreds of stories
and if you speak Spanish, go check them out. They're they're pretty awesome.
It's a very good podcast. I've been listening. A thirty year old
woman from Lexkala wrote into the show and there's her story is pretty disturbing for
various reasons, but one that many women can relate to. In particular,
everything happened when her father died she was fifteen years old. A while later,
her mother began to date a coworker, and he began to frequently be
around, going over to their house often, until one day he moved in.
She noticed that when she was fifteen and sixteen, he would look at
her in a very strange way. Oh no, the kind of stairs that
make people very uncomfortable. I hate it gross. She tried to avoid at
him as much as possible, and as she gets older, her mother's boyfriend's
becomes very caring towards her. He would go in for a hug and say,
oh, my daughter, grab and hugger in a way that made her
very uncomfortable. She tells Faco, one of the co hosts, in her
letter, that her mom's boyfriend would repulse or his scent that he had would
just churn her stomach. She would tell her mother, I don't like him
living here. He looks weird. He looks at me weird. Her mother
would just dismiss her claims, didn't care to hear, and just didn't care
about her complaints. She turned twenty two and she started dating a guy.
Her stepdad became furious. He would treat her boyfriend like shit, and she
couldn't understand his behavior. Her boyfriend is a good guy, a good son,
a good student. He was jealousy and he was like he had a
promising future, and he was overall a good person. He checks all the
boxes right. However, her stepdad would say things like cut him out of
your life. I saw him doing this, that and the other. But
every day her stepdad would say the same thing, cut him off, break
up with him. It was daily. As time goes on, her relationship
with her boyfriend becomes more and more serious. When she was twenty six,
her boyfriend proposed to her. Her mother gathers the family and tells them she's
engaged, and everyone is, you know, ecsthetic, except her stepdad.
He must have forgotten he was around people because he was angry and was letting
it show. He threw a tantrum or something like. It's it's suggested he's
through like some kind of tantrum. The mother was somehow shocked, Pikachu face
like you didn't see this, and she begins to spend time with her boyfriend.
It's insinuated in all the ways, because apparently this is you know,
it comes back in the story out of Nowhere. She begins to have dreams
of her step dad, erotic dreams. She would have sexual relations with her
stepdad in these dreams, and she began to notice that when she was around
him, his scent didn't repulse her like it used to. She began to
like his scent. It was something she began to think about a lot.
It was intoxicating to her. She couldn't stop thinking about it. His hugs
no longer no longer made her feel uncomfortable. They no longer disgusted her.
She couldn't even tolerate being intimate with her boyfriend. She couldn't, you know,
she can't stand it anymore. Everything changed. She tells her friend what
is going on, and she doesn't understand. Logically, it makes no sense
that the smell this man gave off for years and years, you know,
it smells terrible to her, and all of a sudden it's intoxicating and she
can't get intimate with her partner and her friend's like, Amita, this sounds
like someone is doing witchcraft on you. Go to this woman and she will
help you. And this woman that they go to was part of a Christian
congregation who are known for removing curses. She goes on to say she didn't
believe in any of it, but was terrified at what she was experiencing.
And she goes and joins the congregation at one of their prayer sessions, and
she begins to have a terrible headache, to the point she had to leave
the group prayer because it was debilitating her friends. Her friend asked her why
did you leave? What happened? And she tells her my head began hurting
so terribly, so I had to go. So then they speak to someone
from the congregation and they make a date and time to visit her. She
made sure to do it when no one was home, so her mom and
stepdad would be gone. A few people from the congregation came over and they
sit down and tell her what we want to pray for you. And this
is crucial to the story. But she lives in a two story house.
They all gather in the living room and begin praying. Some of them begin
speaking in tongues again the same thing as the last prayer session happened. Her
head began to hurt. However, this is when the noise from the second
floor could be heard, some rattling and something being like hit. Oh that's
scary. Yeah. They tell her something's going on, so her and another
person go to investigate the noises coming from her room. Her vanity mirror was
violently moving. The person with her was like, let's take apart this mirror.
They take it apart, remove the frame, and inside the mirror was
a little sack. It was covered in a red liquid and it was moving.
This little thing was what was making the mirror move. Everyone else comes
up to see what's going on. She's sing with her own eyes this thing
moved, but her brain can't compute. She's into now because what she's sing
should be impossible. And they opened the sack and inside are two pictures,
one of him and one of her, along with dirt and ground bones.
She goes to say there was more borgia, which translates to filth, but
she doesn't go into detail of what it was. Oh, I don't even
probably something terrible. Yeah. The group poured alcohol on it and try to
light it, but it would extinguish. They couldn't get it to burn.
Then they put oil on it and prayed and prayed until they until finally it
caught fire and it was consumed. They told her that the curses lifted.
This guy did some work on you. She begins to feel normal. She
tells her mom what happened, and her mother is distraught, so much so
that both her and her mother wait for him to confront him. Here's the
weird part. He never returns. Somehow he knew everyone found out what he
did and that the curse is broken. She goes on to say that this
happened to her four or five years ago and it was something she has had
to live with and wants her story to be told so people will be careful.
And you know, I can't say whether witchcraft is real or not,
but what does exist is creepy as men and true that ladies be careful as
the men in your life and the men you let around your children. The
mother finally believing her like also makes it seem like she was in a trance
as well, and it was finally broken because all of a sudden, like
she was like, oh, like, I believe you. This dude was
predatory af and yeah, gross and the host of the podcast also begin to
have weird noises during their were telling of the story. No way, Yes,
so my mom sent me a link on Facebook. Link that's where you
know I heard that's what that was. Yes, that's what Okay, that's
the okay, that like story is just so gross because like predatory men being
it's just it's just gross being predatory, being a gross pedophile. Yeah,
man is already discussing, but add in using witchcraft too for his nefarious purposes
is even like worse grosser. Yeah, and like you hear this all the
time that people like try to make like love spells so another person can fall
in love. It's just so it's so nasty, like if they don't like
you, they don't like you, move on. Yeah. Yeah, but
like his case, it's like he was just fucking gross nasty. And the
mom makes me mad because if a man ever made my children uncomfortable, they're
gone. I don't care. I could love them, I don't give a
shit. You do not make my kids uncomfortable. Yeah. Yeah, I
was trying to find the episode that it was, but I also can't find.
Yeah, but I linked their Facebook linked to the specific story of their
retailing because sometimes they break up the episodes and just put up clips. So
the clip to this story is in my notes. But yeah, it's just
gross. Yeah, that's that's so much using which we have to be a
put files disgusting. Yes, I've also noticed that there's like whenever people say
they were cursed by a ba or brujo and later they talk about it,
then like things start happening. Yeah, so like they can't even talk about
it, and which is even more terrifying. But yeah, that's scary.
Thankfully, whatever she had, she was like, you know, she was
conscious enough to be like, listen, bitchelors, some shit going on.
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thank you for doing that. Yeah, so my story it's a little long.
It's from like four years ago from It's titled and tepitos like a neighborhood
in Sida, Mexico, because they're like it's broken up not I don't know
if neighborhood is the right word, but zones areas of Mexico are like broken
up into like yeah, like zones like like my my uli does it lomaze
something? You know, like each area has like its own name inside whatever
city. So this is Tepito. So I guess like from four years ago
from since Spanish as well, if you want to hear it told in a
better voice than mind and check that out. Also, I'm gonna run a
poll because I was telling Carmen that the guy from has a hot voice and
she was like, I don't know, and then she listened again and she
was like, no, you're right, but I have to run a poll
to see if anyone else agrees with me and Carmen now who also agrees with
me? Okay, So let me go on, let me go on,
Let me start the story. I haven't me the story of it. Okay.
So when Sadko was a young teen and his younger sister was around eight,
and this was like the early nineties, his family went through some rough
times. His dad lost his job, they lost their house, so they
moved to a vesting dad. I don't want to say they're like projects because
I don't know if that's right, but it's lower cost living and they're like
looked down upon. Yeah, yeah, like section eight. But but I
don't know if that's how they work. I just know that and novellas as
were all the poor people. That's true. So yeah, he had other
family in the vesting dad, so they were all going to move there,
and they were sad. Obviously they're like losing their house that I'd lost his
job, But he said he remembers his mom saying what at least whatever like
entity was haunting them in their house was they were going to leave it there,
right, So it was not all bad because for years since they were
living in the house, said HER's mom and his sister claimed to have and
la casa the ghost of a man. Yeah, it sounds scarier in Spanish
that when people say, yeah, it just sounds grosser. Yeah. Yeah,
then like a ghost and it's not the same thing. There's a dead
guy, there's a dead yea. Because it literally feels like when it's described
in Spanish, it's like there's no there's like really a dead guy. It's
like the same thing as sleep paralysis, the same. Yeah, it's worse,
it's so much worse. So yeah, they would say that there was
a ghost. They would see him in the shadows looking at them while they
tried to sleep. Sometimes I could see it walk in front of an open
room, like an open door. Said he never saw himself, just his
sister and his mom. His dad didn't see it either, at least not
in that house. So yeah, the foreshadowing obvious for shadowing or whatever.
So the family moved to Levising that in Tepitosa, Mexico. Said he always
heard bad things about these neighborhoods, these areas, but he was very happy.
He was close to his cousins. Everyone in the area was nice to
them. There were so many kids to play with. But they did notice
that while they were playing outside, there was a woman always watching them.
She was elderly, she had an amputated leg. She lived alone. Maybe
her late seventies is like what said. He was guessing, and he was
like, life looks like it's been rough for her, like hard seventies is
what he said. When her I'd be offended I'm excuse him. Although to
be fair, like seventy five, I'm like, yeah, you should look
old. I think at that age it'd still be a fan. I was
like, I don't care, don't call it rough, okay, like every
other seventy year old, it looked better than every other seventy year old sassy
hair web So said he watched his cousin's like greet the woman that was staring
at them from afar. Nobody got close to her and she only grunted back.
She didn't really say hi back, and at that moment said he's oldest
cousin. She told everyone to go back inside, like when when his cousin
saw the women. So they all went inside, and when they got in,
his aunt his tana was like, why are you guys back so early?
And his cousin was like, oh, the witch came out earlier than
usual, is what she said. And So said he was like what a
witch in a way, and he would ask his cousins for stories why they
thought that. He was like, this is kind of cool, like I'm
gonna have a witch story to tell until until that wasn't cool anymore. It's
so chaotic. Yeah, he was at his cousin's until ten pm, and
then it was like he was like, oh, it's getting late, I
should start heading out. So when he was about to head out, his
DA was like, oh, wait, I'm gonna give you some hot chocolate.
Just wait by the door. So because they lived like right by each
other, so she's like, here, let me give you this thing to
take home. And so while he was standing there waiting for her, his
DA to bring over the hot chocolate, another woman walked up to the door
like she was gonna say something, but she didn't. She just was standing
there and he was like, can I help you? Are you looking for
yeah? And she she was like no, Miko, I just want to
tell you, like, take good care of your sister. And then she
pointed to another house, and so I said, yo, looked at where
she was pointing, and that's when he saw his sister helping the quote unquote
bruka into her house, like she was pushing her wheelchair in, and so
he ran over there as fast as he could because he was like, oh
no, if she's a witch, like something's going to happen, right,
So he ran over there and he was ready to scold his sister like,
don't go into strangers homes. What are you doing? When he ran into
like the Brujas open door to stop, his sister La Bruca said to him
like, oh, she did nothing wrong. She's just helping an old lady
into her house. And he was like, you know what, you're right,
like she she's just helping you. There's nothing wrong here. And then
she was like all right, well, don't go telling your parents because you
know she did nothing wrong and said here. For some reason, felt compelled
to listen to her, and he just walked away with his sister and they
got back to his at Thea's house and the same woman was there waiting for
them, and she told him so in English because of that which the devil
shows up here every night, horrible, I'd be so scared. And then
she said they're going to take her too. Oh yeah. So immediately Sakio
was like, what's excuse me? Because Sakio his cousins had told him stories
of like oh people hear things here, or oh like things move on their
own, but nothing about a missing child, so he was like, what's
going on. He and his sister went home immediately after that, but they
didn't say anything about what happened to their thea, their cousins or their parents.
But after that night, Sadko's sister started acting strange. He would wake
up in the middle of the night and see her staring at the women's house
their window. Yeah. Gross. While they were playing outside, he would
see his sister go near the women's window and just stand there and stare.
Oh. Sometimes at night he could swear there was strange like chanting, like
a chanting song coming from La Bruca's house, and his sister would be staring
in the middle of the night. That is so creepy. Yeah, read
minds of what's it called? What is that paranormal activity? When the girl
would just like stand there, yes, yes, when she's at the at
the end of the bed, just standing there staring. Yeah. Yeah.
But still said he didn't tell their parents anything. They had other things to
worry about, other things to be scared of, because it seemed like Elmertov,
the entity from their old home, had followed them there into their new
house and leaves in that shortly after all they started happening with Lebruka. There
was one night that said he was mom. She felt she felt that she
actually paralysis. She always managed to shake it off, but that night,
when she was trying to like get out of this, she actually saw a
black shadow on top of her. Oh and like it was like a shadow
and all she could see was like its eyes. It just grassed me out
so bad. Yeah, And so I mean they all knew that, like
not all visions during sleep paralysis are real, like they could be just like
in your head. But Setio's dad woke up because he felt like a pressure
in his chest and when he woke up and looked, he saw the shadow.
Sayo's mom was screaming. His dad got up to turn the light on
and then the shadow was gone. He saw it, and he was not
having sleep paralysis. So I don't know, Yeah, more than one person
saw that. Yeah, that's when it makes it like more real and horrible.
After this, said, He's little sister also started having issues sleeping.
She said that every night she felt something calling her name from the window,
asking her to let it in. Oh no, horrible, and she started
sleeping in her parents' room after this, and I don't blieme her. So
then Sejo was alone in his room because they shared a room. Oh fuck,
that shit I'd be like, listen, mom, Dad, yeah,
makes him he scoot over. And though he never saw anything, he said
that every night he would hear the same noise, like someone was dragging something
back and forth right outside the window. What the fuck? And his cousins
told him, Oh, that's La Ruka. She turns into every night a
vulture, and she that's the sound she makes as she flies past the windows.
Horrible girls. And one night, said he woke up sweating hot despite
it being a cold night. He heard dishes in the kitchen and he was
like, oh, it's my dad. I'm just gonna wake up and go
talk to him because I can't sleep. And when he got to the kitchen
and looked at the sink, it wasn't his dad, it was what looked
like a man, but like burned burns everywhere. So he screamed, screams
all the way to his parents room. They all went to look in the
kitchen, but there was no one there. Then they heard a knock.
It was said he steel. He was asking if everyone was okay, because
said he's screamed woke everyone up in the neighborhood and everyone was like, no,
we're okay. He just thought he saw something, and he still asked
again, like, are you sure, because it smells like someone's hair got
burned in here, Like there's a burned smell in every single room. After
yeah, after this night, it got so bad neighbors were smelling it too,
from when they passed by their house. What the hell? Yeah,
horrible, and then said He's sister kept getting worse. She was only sleeping
two hours every single night. She was just not feeling well. She was
fatigued. They started noticing that she her demeanor was changing at school, so
they took her to a doctor, but then they were referred to like a
specialist. They couldn't afford it. Every time they returned from a doctor's visit,
Labruca was there at her door with her door open, just like looking
at them. Yeah. One day, Labruca asked how she's Like, OK,
how's the girl all doing? She's stick and Saidco's mom was like yeah.
So while Setiko's mom was answering, his sister like went inside the house,
ran inside, and then Labrua said twice and this freaked out Saidko's mom.
She was like, uh no, she will not be going in there
with you because she also heard all the stories and it just creeped her out.
And even if she didn't hear all those stories, don't let your kid
go into somebody's home so you don't know. Yeah, So she grabbed her
daughter ran home. When they got home and they opened the door to the
house, it sounded like someone was running inside, like someone ran to Saidco's
room specifically, and then they didn't hear anything else. They just heard the
footsteps head into his room. But no one else was home, so they
were like, what the hell, And they waited for the dad and said
he had to get home after that because they're like, we're not going in
here by ourselves. So when they all went inside, Saidiko's room was a
mess, like a tornado went through it. He didn't do it. It
wasn't like that, So he says, I don't know. He's a teen.
He's a teen boys, so yeah, but he claims that it was
not like that and it was only his room. So that night they all
slept in the same room. They made room for seco so and this night
everyone had a rough time, so Seiko didn't sleep until two. He kept
hearing like someone was scratching at the window, like trying to be let in.
Seiko's mom heard it too, the scratching. She thought she was dreaming,
and she thought that in her dream she beckoned like like not her head,
giving whatever this was permission to enter. Oh no, yes, And
she thought this was a dream. She thought she did this in her dream.
She didn't realize that she was she actually did it. She actually beckoned
for whatever was out there to come inside. Sadiko's dad he was leaping in
front of the door this night, so not on the bed. He's like,
nothing's getting past me. I'm in the door, which is such a
like like a dad thing to do. Didn't work. No, So around
three he accidentally fell asleep and in his dream. And he still doesn't know
this was in his dream or in real life, like everyone has tried to
convince him that it was a dream. But he was paralyzed. He could
not move, and he heard footsteps, the same footsteps they've been hearing this
whole time in the kitchen, the same ones that Setko had heard when he
got up and went to the kitchen and saw the burned man. Those were
like they're creepy, but they're familiar. But then he heard a second pair
of footsteps running after and these were different. These sounded like high heels.
Almost he heard a scream. Then he could move again. He got up,
he opened the door, went to the kitchen, and he saw that
same burned man that Setko had seen. But he was like sitting on the
ground, like you know when people put their hands up to cover them himselves,
like blocking hits. So he was doing that. That's what the burned
man looked like. And then in front of him there was like a woman
in a black dress and he could only see the back of her, and
he was like, what the fuck. He ran back to the room and
closed the door, and they put a chair in front of the door and
then started praying. He was like, I'm not going back out there.
They kept hearing screams and no one else saw this, only him. At
some point while he was praying, he fell asleep. He doesn't know like
what happened. But after that night, like when everyone woke up in the
morning, that smell, the burn smell, was gone. They never saw
the burned man again, said her sister gone better. And then like not
even shortly after that, after all this happened, his dad got his old
job not his old job back, but like the similar position and what he
was doing, like his profession. He was able to get a job again
and that same thing. So they were able to move out of leavesting that
because they were finally gonna go back to their old income or lifestyle. Right,
yeah and yeah, all this happened after that night, so they were
getting ready to move out. After this, Seto's mom was like walking by
and the Bruca's door was open, and the La Bruca was standing there like
staring at her as always, and for some reason, Setio's mom felt compelled
to go and thank her. She didn't know why, she just felt like
she needed to, and so she went. She asked the women La Bruca
if she could come in, and she was like, to get it if
you want. So she went and signed, but instantly she was horrified because
it looked like there was evil things everywhere, like I don't know, I
don't know, satanic looking things according to her. Right, so she was
like, no, never mind, I have to go. She turned around
to leave, and then La Bruca. As she turned around, La Bruca
said to her, also in English, some people use evil forces to kill
those that they hate, but there's always something more evil, and there are
things worse than death. Don't you think that's so gross? I don't like
it. So they moved away after that, but said Ko's cousins, whenever
they would visit, would tell him or all of them, I guess about
a They would hear a screaming man from La Bruca's house, and some people,
especially like on rainy dark nights, would see the figure of a burned
man in the window of La Bruca's house, and he looked like he was
trying to escape. That is I think she helped them though. I think
she helped them, but like it's so like, you know, because they're
so like essentially, this burnt man was haunting them and I was like,
oh, like curse them almost, and she like removed its weird, yeah,
and now it's in her home. But she's like, I can deal
with it because I'm powerful, and he's the one trying to escape. He's
like, oh shit, like fucked up. He's scared. Yeah, but
yeah, I heard this and I was like, oh my god, looks
such a good story. Yeah. Yeah again, if you want to hear
it in a much better way, listen to it's from like four years ago.
I will try to remember the link everything in the show notes, including
your stuff, but I always forget. I'm so bad at it. We
gave what's it called the credits, so yeah, if we're really bad at
linking, just just google the people we are giving credit to. If you
message me and say, what was that thing that you mentioned? I will
message back and send it, but I will now put it in the show
notes. For some reason, I have done this for people. They'll they'll
message the US and ask and I'm like, oh, yeah, here it
is. Yeah, like everything goes poof you guys like, yes, don't
remember forgot that. I don't remember to do it ever Sammy. Oh I
also, well, did you have anything else to say about the story?
You know, it was just a really good story. I really enjoyed it.
Yeah, it's I really liked it. So someone sent me a message
on Instagram, but I don't have my phone because I gave it to my
tail unfortunately, but they mentioned that the person because you know how I think
it was a couple of episodes again now, but we mentioned that there was
like a serial killer in Texas and he was targeting gay. Yes, yes,
he has been caught. The listener told me, yeah, oh,
thank goodness. Yeah, I don't know that. I know they we're trying
to catch well, I don't. I don't know if they caught the one
in Chicago, but I know that the police of a few months ago or
a few weeks ago, I want to say a few months ago. I
can't. I'm bad with time, guys, I'm sorry, but a few
now. I don't know if they were telling me about Chicago or Texas.
I know the Texas one was targeting woman, so yeah, yeah, I
don't. I don't know, but I remember the one on one of the
two was cotton, but the I remember the one from Texas. They had
the police had closed off and fenced off this whole entire section and nobody was
allowed in this like section of the city of a city, like you couldn't
get in, you couldn't get out. It was crazy because they were like
they were on this guy's tail and they were about it or girls. I
don't. I don't know what it was, who it was or whatever,
like the gender of the killer, but I mean it was probably man,
probably most likely. But yeah, I'm not excluding anybody because I don't know,
and they were like on this killer's tail, like they were about to
catch them. They were in the same like the police and the and the
killer were in the same area. So they fenced off this entire section with
literal fences, like oh damn, and then nobody could get in and nobody
could get out. Like so if you were trapped inside, you were going
to be like investigated or whatever. I don't know if they caught anybody,
but I know they were the one in Texas was targeting woman. Okay,
well, yeah, the yeah, the listener messaged me told me someone was
caught one of the two that we talked about, and I wish I had
my phone so I could say who it was, but I don't have it.
It's crazy. It was like crazy. I was like, you know,
like you you kind of feel like serial killers or from like the eighties
maybe nineties, but you had too active at the same time in two different
parts of the United States. Yeah, it's wanted to me how someone could
be a serial killer now, like we were talking about in the episode,
because like we're on a constant state of surveillance and like not even just by
the state, but people's selfies, people's videos. Oh yeah, like and
then and then like everybody has a camera now it has a ring camera.
Yeah, which is also what It's also wild to me is when how someone
could like pass away and not be found until like way later. Yeah,
some a track runner, Olympic track runner. Just she was pregnant, like
thirty something weeks pregnant and she passed away and she wasn't found until like a
week later. That's insane to me. Yeah, it's wild. It's also
so sad. Okay, Yeah, I guess this brings us to the end
of the episode because Sammy over here keeps crying, Well, do you have
any spooky recommendations? No? Actually no again, I'm just I'm still reading
The Haunting. So that's the only speaker recommendation that I have going on right
now. Okay, do I have? I saw that Renfield the Vampire movie
with Nicholas Cage and Nicholas Holt. I don't know if that's how you say
his last name. That's on Peacock now about it. I haven't seen it.
It's on Peacock and I want to watch it. And I saw that
it was on Peacock. I'll probably watch it. Today, Carmen said it
was good anyway, That's what I've been meaning to watch. Do you want
to close this out and tell everyone to stay spooky? Stays spooky and we'll
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