1 00:00:00,600 --> 00:00:03,000 Speaker 1: Legends have a way of surviving longer than the people 2 00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:06,080 who tell them, and tonight the listener shares a terrifying 3 00:00:06,160 --> 00:00:09,800 moment when an old curse or something even darker seemed 4 00:00:09,839 --> 00:00:13,119 to reveal itself beneath the full desert moon. My name 5 00:00:13,160 --> 00:00:17,760 is Edwin and here is taw wishes true scary story. 6 00:00:26,559 --> 00:00:31,039 Speaker 2: Growing up, we were exposed to a lot of religion. 7 00:00:31,120 --> 00:00:33,359 And we I mean me and my brother and my family. 8 00:00:34,079 --> 00:00:39,320 We were raised Catholic through my grandma. She immigrated from 9 00:00:39,359 --> 00:00:43,200 Mexico from dra Ango, and there's a lot of speculation 10 00:00:44,039 --> 00:00:47,960 and a lot of gossip in our family that we have. 11 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:52,200 I guess you can call like a little generational curse. 12 00:00:52,520 --> 00:00:56,719 And it's nothing that I've really paid much attention to. 13 00:00:57,600 --> 00:01:00,359 Even when I was little, we believed in go ghosts. 14 00:01:00,479 --> 00:01:04,200 Me and my brother would watch ghost hunters and ghost 15 00:01:04,280 --> 00:01:07,719 adventures literally every week. Whenever any chance that we could, 16 00:01:07,799 --> 00:01:11,640 we would get on YouTube and watch ghost videos. So 17 00:01:11,719 --> 00:01:14,480 I feel like we kind of manifested a lot of 18 00:01:14,519 --> 00:01:18,480 that stuff up for us. So we had a very 19 00:01:18,560 --> 00:01:22,079 strong interest in the paranormal growing up, and we didn't 20 00:01:22,120 --> 00:01:26,680 really experience too much. But I noticed a lot of 21 00:01:26,719 --> 00:01:30,599 this started after my grandma died in two thousand and five. 22 00:01:33,239 --> 00:01:36,760 After she passed, it was pretty hard for my family 23 00:01:36,840 --> 00:01:39,719 for my grandpa, He and my grandma moved from Texas, 24 00:01:40,040 --> 00:01:44,000 and the majority of the stories that happened are at 25 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:48,640 my grandpa's property. They lived with a family who owned 26 00:01:48,640 --> 00:01:52,000 a church in a little area on the outskirts of 27 00:01:52,079 --> 00:01:59,319 Las Cruces. So imagine desolate desert, tumbleweeds, not even a highway, 28 00:01:59,560 --> 00:02:02,879 just come fleet, barren desert, and this desert was a 29 00:02:02,920 --> 00:02:07,439 small family church that they offered up a room for 30 00:02:07,560 --> 00:02:10,479 my grandpa and for his family to live in. They 31 00:02:10,560 --> 00:02:13,719 traded work for a piece of land that my grandpa 32 00:02:13,719 --> 00:02:16,680 can build his house eventually on, and he did build it. 33 00:02:16,680 --> 00:02:19,120 It was a beautiful two story house that he built 34 00:02:19,759 --> 00:02:24,319 with my grandma's help, with his son's help and my 35 00:02:24,439 --> 00:02:29,039 auntie's help, who were of age at the time. So anyways, 36 00:02:29,080 --> 00:02:34,039 fast forward into the present. After my grandma had unfortunately 37 00:02:34,080 --> 00:02:36,599 passed away in the house, that's when we realized a 38 00:02:36,719 --> 00:02:42,520 lot of spiritual energy was still heavily connected. My grandpa 39 00:02:43,360 --> 00:02:48,240 went into a very very dark, deep depression and it 40 00:02:48,280 --> 00:02:50,960 was really hard to get him out of it. So 41 00:02:51,479 --> 00:02:54,439 we would my brother and I would constantly go visit 42 00:02:54,520 --> 00:02:57,879 him in the summers, on our fall breaks, on our 43 00:02:57,919 --> 00:03:00,240 spring breaks, anytime that we had a break. You know, 44 00:03:00,280 --> 00:03:02,639 we were always there. There was a lot of division 45 00:03:03,199 --> 00:03:08,240 in the family because he did remarry maybe three years 46 00:03:08,280 --> 00:03:11,199 after my grandma had passed. I felt like after that 47 00:03:11,199 --> 00:03:17,520 that's when the uptick in spiritual I don't know, manifestations 48 00:03:17,560 --> 00:03:21,960 started happening. There was an instance where I was staying 49 00:03:22,120 --> 00:03:25,919 over one summer at my grandpa's house and he was 50 00:03:25,960 --> 00:03:29,479 gone for the day. He was out in town, and 51 00:03:29,520 --> 00:03:31,680 so was his wife. So I was the only one 52 00:03:31,719 --> 00:03:36,439 in a humongous two story house. In his main living room, 53 00:03:36,520 --> 00:03:39,520 it's it's huge, it takes up the majority of the house. 54 00:03:40,280 --> 00:03:45,159 I could hear what sounded like my grandpa arguing with 55 00:03:45,240 --> 00:03:49,000 somebody in Spanish. I could hear it through the walls 56 00:03:49,159 --> 00:03:52,919 where his bedroom was. His bedroom was connected to the 57 00:03:52,919 --> 00:03:57,560 living room. I walked up to the door of his 58 00:03:57,599 --> 00:04:00,360 bedroom and I put my ear against it to make 59 00:04:00,400 --> 00:04:02,680 sure I heard what I had thought. You know, I 60 00:04:02,719 --> 00:04:05,759 was hearing was a loud argument in Spanish. When I 61 00:04:05,800 --> 00:04:08,800 went up to the door, I didn't hear anything behind it, 62 00:04:09,319 --> 00:04:12,159 so I jiggled the handle. I knocked just to make 63 00:04:12,159 --> 00:04:16,079 sure my grandpa wasn't in there, And when I opened 64 00:04:16,079 --> 00:04:21,040 the door, it was completely empty. I looked inside his closet, 65 00:04:21,759 --> 00:04:24,279 there was nobody in there. I also looked inside his 66 00:04:24,399 --> 00:04:28,800 bathroom because it's connected to the main kitchen. They kind 67 00:04:28,800 --> 00:04:32,079 of share like a Romeo and Juliet style doors where 68 00:04:32,199 --> 00:04:34,519 someone can enter through the kitchen and exit out through 69 00:04:34,519 --> 00:04:39,319 the bathroom. And all those doors were closed. So I 70 00:04:39,439 --> 00:04:42,800 go about my business. I shut the door, leave the room, 71 00:04:43,040 --> 00:04:47,560 and I'm in the kitchen. So like I said, like 72 00:04:47,600 --> 00:04:50,759 I said, the you can have easy access to my 73 00:04:50,800 --> 00:04:54,000 grandpa's room from the kitchen or from the hallway. So 74 00:04:54,839 --> 00:04:58,399 while I was in the kitchen making myself something to eat, 75 00:04:59,439 --> 00:05:06,879 I heard furniture moving upstairs. Now this wouldn't have been 76 00:05:07,040 --> 00:05:10,600 an issue if there was some people moving the furniture. 77 00:05:10,680 --> 00:05:15,240 The furniture that was being moved around was heavy cherrywood 78 00:05:15,279 --> 00:05:19,199 furniture from like the fifties, like really thick industrial stuff. 79 00:05:19,279 --> 00:05:21,399 It would take like a five man army to move 80 00:05:21,439 --> 00:05:25,399 around this bedroom set. It was heavy. So as I'm 81 00:05:25,439 --> 00:05:31,439 making my food, I'm listening to the shelves moving around, 82 00:05:31,639 --> 00:05:36,160 to the bedframe moving around like you can hear something 83 00:05:36,319 --> 00:05:41,160 dragging pieces of furniture above me, and above me was 84 00:05:41,279 --> 00:05:46,160 actually my mom's old room. Whenever my grandpa constructed the house, 85 00:05:46,240 --> 00:05:49,839 he set bedrooms aside for my auntie, for my uncle, 86 00:05:49,879 --> 00:05:52,920 and for my mom. So above the kitchen was my 87 00:05:52,959 --> 00:05:58,920 mom's bedroom. After my mom had moved out, my grandpa 88 00:05:59,319 --> 00:06:02,319 took over that room himself, and he's still sleeping in 89 00:06:02,360 --> 00:06:04,839 that room. Mind you, he has this whole bedroom like 90 00:06:05,639 --> 00:06:08,279 seven bedroom house to himself, and he only chooses to 91 00:06:08,319 --> 00:06:10,639 sleep in my mom's room. He doesn't want to sleep 92 00:06:10,639 --> 00:06:14,000 in the master bedroom anymore or any of the auxiliary 93 00:06:14,120 --> 00:06:16,639 bedrooms that he has. He'd rather sleep in my mom's bedroom. 94 00:06:17,279 --> 00:06:22,600 So he is a little bit older and he does 95 00:06:22,720 --> 00:06:25,680 have caretakers that take care of him well. One of 96 00:06:25,680 --> 00:06:31,600 his caretakers was fixing the bed and as she was 97 00:06:31,920 --> 00:06:36,000 adding the fitted sheet to the mattress, she put her 98 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:39,600 fingers underneath the mattress to kind of spread it the 99 00:06:39,639 --> 00:06:43,920 fitted sheet underneath it, and she felt a bag as 100 00:06:43,920 --> 00:06:46,360 she stuck her hand underneath the mattress a little bit more. 101 00:06:46,480 --> 00:06:49,879 She took out a ziploc bag that was filled with 102 00:06:50,079 --> 00:06:55,480 human teeth. And this isn't the first time anybody has 103 00:06:55,519 --> 00:06:58,839 found something like that in my grandpa's home. A lot 104 00:06:58,879 --> 00:07:05,519 of common with human hair, with human teeth is associated 105 00:07:05,800 --> 00:07:11,680 a lot with gorandaria or bruchheria. Sometimes it's not all 106 00:07:11,879 --> 00:07:15,879 good luck and happy charm. Sometimes it's very awful things 107 00:07:15,879 --> 00:07:24,199 that happen because of that. After his caretaker found that 108 00:07:24,240 --> 00:07:28,040 bag of teeth, she showed it to my grandpa right away. 109 00:07:28,279 --> 00:07:33,319 My grandpa has been one to like dismiss supernatural things 110 00:07:33,439 --> 00:07:37,839 unless it happens to him, so her finding a bag 111 00:07:37,879 --> 00:07:42,759 of teeth underneath his mattress didn't face him at all. 112 00:07:43,720 --> 00:07:48,279 And this man is a veteran of the Vietnam War, 113 00:07:48,439 --> 00:07:51,879 so seeing that, I kind of figured it wouldn't face 114 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:56,480 him as much. It's usually the unexplainable that really gets 115 00:07:56,480 --> 00:08:04,199 his gears going. During the summer of twenty twenty four, 116 00:08:06,199 --> 00:08:12,680 I feel is when a lot of my faith was tested, 117 00:08:12,800 --> 00:08:17,759 my family's faith was tested, and in general it really 118 00:08:17,800 --> 00:08:20,920 put us in a rock and a hard place. Unfortunately, 119 00:08:22,199 --> 00:08:27,079 in that summer, I lost my stepdad. He had a 120 00:08:27,120 --> 00:08:30,920 heart attack in his sleep, and that really shook the 121 00:08:30,920 --> 00:08:35,559 family to its core. It was very strange and unusual. 122 00:08:35,960 --> 00:08:38,399 While he was he did have a lot of health 123 00:08:38,480 --> 00:08:42,720 issues prior to his last and final heart attack. He 124 00:08:42,879 --> 00:08:47,360 was hospitalized for about two months, and he and my 125 00:08:47,440 --> 00:08:51,679 mom made the choice to move back to Las Crusis 126 00:08:52,679 --> 00:08:56,200 because it was cheaper. Honestly, it was a very hard summer. 127 00:08:56,279 --> 00:09:00,000 It was a death that really took us by surprise, 128 00:09:00,279 --> 00:09:07,240 and it was heartbreaking because the night prior, my grandpa 129 00:09:07,919 --> 00:09:11,559 told me that he just heard my mom and my 130 00:09:11,639 --> 00:09:15,320 stepdad laughing and laughing like they were just little children, 131 00:09:15,480 --> 00:09:19,440 just giggling and laughing at anything, till two in the morning, 132 00:09:20,200 --> 00:09:24,919 and that morning my mom said that he just didn't 133 00:09:24,960 --> 00:09:28,799 wake up. We had lost him. Unbeknownst to my brother 134 00:09:28,879 --> 00:09:32,960 and I, our biological father was actually not doing well 135 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:38,919 for himself either. That year, we also lost my biological 136 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:48,080 dad in December. It was during the funeral of my 137 00:09:48,159 --> 00:09:54,320 biological father that I feel like it was I don't 138 00:09:54,320 --> 00:09:57,039 know how to put into words. It was a revelation 139 00:09:57,200 --> 00:10:02,320 to me of how close death is for all of us. 140 00:10:03,039 --> 00:10:06,840 It's not on the doorstep like everybody's thinking about, or 141 00:10:07,919 --> 00:10:12,679 it's not somebody that can walk over the grave. It's 142 00:10:13,200 --> 00:10:16,600 like a whisper, something that you'll hear in the wind, 143 00:10:16,759 --> 00:10:20,360 but you'll only hear the clarity once it's close to 144 00:10:20,399 --> 00:10:29,000 your ear. Behind my grandpa's house, there's a hill. And 145 00:10:29,039 --> 00:10:33,200 I'm not sure how significant this hill is to the 146 00:10:33,240 --> 00:10:37,600 community or to the little town that my grandpa lives in, 147 00:10:38,519 --> 00:10:42,559 but growing up, my mom would always tell me that 148 00:10:42,879 --> 00:10:45,480 it was like a party hill. A lot of teenagers 149 00:10:45,519 --> 00:10:49,279 would go and drink and smoke up there, and it 150 00:10:49,320 --> 00:10:53,000 was easy to access. It wasn't a hill that was 151 00:10:53,120 --> 00:10:56,600 too crazy with too many trails. It was just a 152 00:10:56,639 --> 00:11:00,120 small hill and when you get on the top, but 153 00:11:00,159 --> 00:11:04,679 it you could probably see maybe fifty to sixty miles 154 00:11:04,679 --> 00:11:10,279 into nothing but farming community and dairies and the highway. 155 00:11:10,919 --> 00:11:12,759 It's all you can see from the top. I don't 156 00:11:12,759 --> 00:11:16,000 know the history of the hill too much. My grandpa 157 00:11:16,240 --> 00:11:19,559 did tell me at one point that the hill was 158 00:11:19,639 --> 00:11:25,639 so ancient and it had so much spiritual meaning towards 159 00:11:26,360 --> 00:11:29,960 the Apaches or the indigenous folk that did live in 160 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:35,039 that area before the Concises colonized. And he had said 161 00:11:35,039 --> 00:11:41,720 that there was a band of renegade Indians who would 162 00:11:41,799 --> 00:11:44,799 use that mountain to do their rituals and to do 163 00:11:44,879 --> 00:11:49,679 their dances, and they cursed the land and whoever lives 164 00:11:49,720 --> 00:11:53,080 on it something like that, just old ghost stories basically, 165 00:11:53,159 --> 00:11:59,799 And eventually the hill got built into a small community 166 00:11:59,799 --> 00:12:06,320 guard garden that the little village of Mesquito del the 167 00:12:06,360 --> 00:12:09,559 little area that my grandpa lives in. They all got 168 00:12:09,600 --> 00:12:13,559 together and just made the cutest little garden, you know, 169 00:12:13,759 --> 00:12:19,600 just out of recyclables, tires, palettes, built right into the hillside. 170 00:12:19,759 --> 00:12:23,080 So this night, my husband and I decided to take 171 00:12:23,200 --> 00:12:28,399 a walk to this little community garden, and as we're walking, 172 00:12:28,919 --> 00:12:33,440 the full moon is illuminating the desert landscape. When you 173 00:12:33,519 --> 00:12:36,799 have the full moon and the desert, nothing is invisible. 174 00:12:37,159 --> 00:12:42,440 It's like the sun is out again. Things aren't visible 175 00:12:42,480 --> 00:12:46,039 too much into detail, but just enough where you can 176 00:12:46,080 --> 00:12:49,159 tell where something, you can make out the shape of something. 177 00:12:50,399 --> 00:12:54,240 So as my husband and I are walking to this 178 00:12:54,320 --> 00:12:59,000 community garden, and the closer that we get to it, 179 00:12:59,600 --> 00:13:05,519 are realize that it's getting darker. The light of the 180 00:13:05,600 --> 00:13:11,720 moon is it's casting a shadow rather than light. And 181 00:13:11,759 --> 00:13:17,480 as we're getting closer to the community garden, I feel 182 00:13:18,639 --> 00:13:23,559 what I can only describe as spider webs or in 183 00:13:23,600 --> 00:13:27,480 my eyes. And no matter how much how hard I 184 00:13:27,600 --> 00:13:31,679 rubbed or how much I scratched out my eyes, it 185 00:13:31,720 --> 00:13:34,879 felt like I couldn't get the spider webs out, And 186 00:13:37,240 --> 00:13:42,840 as we were getting closer, my husband was reaching at 187 00:13:42,840 --> 00:13:45,120 his face and he said, oh, I think I ran 188 00:13:45,159 --> 00:13:48,120 into a spider web or something. There's something in my eyes. 189 00:13:48,240 --> 00:13:52,279 I can't see all that well. Now. While he's experiencing this, 190 00:13:52,519 --> 00:13:55,480 I'm dead silent because I'm struggling on my own. You know, 191 00:13:55,559 --> 00:13:58,320 it's hard to walk in the desert with only the 192 00:13:58,320 --> 00:14:02,960 moon as your guide. Me also being severely blind, it's 193 00:14:03,120 --> 00:14:07,120 very difficult for me to watch where I'm walking, managing 194 00:14:07,159 --> 00:14:10,799 my eyesight and trying to listen to him. So in 195 00:14:10,919 --> 00:14:14,000 doing so, I lost my footing a little bit in 196 00:14:14,080 --> 00:14:18,039 the loose sand, and I had bumped into a porta 197 00:14:18,080 --> 00:14:21,519 potty that they have sat in front of the community garden. 198 00:14:21,600 --> 00:14:25,399 And as I realized I had bumped into it, I 199 00:14:25,480 --> 00:14:28,679 look at my husband and I tell him, you know what, 200 00:14:29,279 --> 00:14:33,120 it's getting really hard for me to see. And he's 201 00:14:33,159 --> 00:14:36,159 like me too, Do you think we should just go back? 202 00:14:36,399 --> 00:14:39,080 And I told him no, we're already here. We may 203 00:14:39,120 --> 00:14:42,840 as well just continue on and the picnic tables aren't 204 00:14:42,840 --> 00:14:45,000 too far from us, so we can continue just a 205 00:14:45,080 --> 00:14:49,519 little bit more. And we should have turned back when 206 00:14:49,559 --> 00:14:52,600 I said that. As we were walking closer to the 207 00:14:52,720 --> 00:14:58,200 picnic tables, it felt like we were walking through a 208 00:14:58,320 --> 00:15:04,960 haze or a fog. Everything started feeling so heavy. I 209 00:15:05,600 --> 00:15:08,840 was having a hard time breathing, but I didn't want 210 00:15:08,879 --> 00:15:11,360 to mention anything to my husband because we were already 211 00:15:11,600 --> 00:15:16,840 so close to the picnic tables. As we're getting closer, 212 00:15:18,360 --> 00:15:24,080 I'm noticing in my peripheral vision, I'm seeing shapes manifest 213 00:15:24,200 --> 00:15:33,879 themselves into people, like puddles of ink were just in 214 00:15:34,480 --> 00:15:39,320 contrasting the desert nighttime sky versus the moon, and the 215 00:15:39,360 --> 00:15:44,559 only thing I could see were just odd figures just 216 00:15:46,200 --> 00:15:49,559 existing and then not existing at all, if that makes 217 00:15:49,559 --> 00:15:53,039 any sense. Like they would manifest and then they would 218 00:15:53,080 --> 00:15:57,600 just disappear, and it felt like they were and hiding 219 00:15:57,679 --> 00:16:02,399 behind the foliage of the desert. So there's a lot 220 00:16:02,399 --> 00:16:08,879 of heavy trees and a lot of thick thorn bushes 221 00:16:10,240 --> 00:16:16,759 that are basically encapsulating this community garden. While I'm noticing 222 00:16:16,879 --> 00:16:20,559 these shapes taken place, my husband says out loud, I 223 00:16:20,639 --> 00:16:25,720 see people at the picnic table. I turn around and 224 00:16:25,799 --> 00:16:29,799 look at the picnic tables, and I reply back to 225 00:16:29,879 --> 00:16:32,200 him like, yeah, I see them too. I see a 226 00:16:32,240 --> 00:16:37,559 few people sitting around, so my husband asks me to 227 00:16:37,639 --> 00:16:39,879 call out to them to see if we can join them, 228 00:16:39,960 --> 00:16:42,840 or if we can join their area. My family and 229 00:16:42,840 --> 00:16:45,879 I are pretty local to this area, so it wouldn't 230 00:16:45,919 --> 00:16:48,960 be too crazy for me to ask, can we hang 231 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:51,799 out there? Is it okay if we join you? It's 232 00:16:51,799 --> 00:16:54,159 a very small community and a lot of people know 233 00:16:54,279 --> 00:16:59,799 my grandpa. As I'm calling out to the darkness, I 234 00:17:00,559 --> 00:17:04,839 ask in English, Hello, Hi, can we join you? And 235 00:17:04,920 --> 00:17:09,920 we didn't receive a response, so I shouted back in Spanish, 236 00:17:10,039 --> 00:17:12,079 you know, can we visit with you? Is it okay 237 00:17:12,079 --> 00:17:15,720 if we join your area? And there wasn't a reply. 238 00:17:16,920 --> 00:17:22,200 But at the picnic table, you can see humanoid figures 239 00:17:22,240 --> 00:17:28,480 staring back at my husband and I like they're understanding, 240 00:17:29,519 --> 00:17:35,680 but they're not responding to my question or responding back 241 00:17:35,759 --> 00:17:40,599 if I can sit with them. At this moment, I 242 00:17:40,680 --> 00:17:44,079 realized that my husband and I are screaming at nothing 243 00:17:45,279 --> 00:17:51,480 because nothing is replying back to us. As I turned 244 00:17:51,480 --> 00:17:56,279 my body away from the picnic tables to look at 245 00:17:56,279 --> 00:18:02,400 the highway, I notice that it's very dark, like somebody 246 00:18:02,440 --> 00:18:05,519 had snuffed out the moon. And mind you, the moon 247 00:18:05,640 --> 00:18:09,680 was very full this night, and it was illuminating everything 248 00:18:09,680 --> 00:18:13,240 I could see. But when I turned around, it felt 249 00:18:13,240 --> 00:18:17,920 like somebody had cloaked us in a thick, dark veil. 250 00:18:18,480 --> 00:18:22,200 It was hard to breathe still. I could feel all 251 00:18:22,240 --> 00:18:26,920 the hairs on my arms just stand on end. And 252 00:18:28,440 --> 00:18:31,079 I heard next to the picnic tables that sounded like 253 00:18:31,319 --> 00:18:36,400 a stick or something was being crunched underneath a foot. 254 00:18:36,839 --> 00:18:43,599 And as I turn around, I see a white face 255 00:18:45,039 --> 00:18:50,359 that's contrasting between the hillside, the picnic table, and the 256 00:18:50,440 --> 00:18:55,000 community garden. Everything was pitch black except this face. Now, 257 00:18:55,039 --> 00:18:57,839 the face wasn't looking straight at me at the turn. 258 00:18:58,640 --> 00:19:02,039 It was turned to itsile, as if it was watching 259 00:19:02,079 --> 00:19:07,319 something in the desert. And after I saw the face, 260 00:19:07,960 --> 00:19:10,480 my husband was standing next to me, and I grabbed 261 00:19:10,480 --> 00:19:14,599 his arm in a panic, and I just made a sound. 262 00:19:14,640 --> 00:19:20,799 I just gasped. As I gasped, what felt like something 263 00:19:20,839 --> 00:19:25,599 out of a movie. This face was looking out into 264 00:19:25,640 --> 00:19:29,279 the desert, and it felt like it had phased out 265 00:19:29,279 --> 00:19:33,160 of reality, if that makes any sense. It was looking 266 00:19:33,200 --> 00:19:36,759 at the desert, and I could have sworn I heard 267 00:19:36,880 --> 00:19:41,640 like a thick snap of the neck where it shuddered itself. Can't, 268 00:19:41,680 --> 00:19:45,160 I can't even explain it not restraining the movement of 269 00:19:45,279 --> 00:19:48,920 snapping its neck towards us to get like if a 270 00:19:49,039 --> 00:19:52,680 predator was in the woods and its prey had snapped 271 00:19:52,680 --> 00:19:56,200 a twig next to it, how it snapped its head 272 00:19:56,279 --> 00:19:59,799 towards the sound. That's what it did. It snapped its 273 00:19:59,880 --> 00:20:03,440 head towards the sound that my husband and I had made. 274 00:20:04,720 --> 00:20:07,799 I hear this all the time from ghost shows and 275 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:13,160 paranormal movies, that people's blood runs cold, and I had 276 00:20:13,200 --> 00:20:17,039 never experienced that until this night. I felt like my 277 00:20:17,160 --> 00:20:21,079 blood had turned into ice, and it was so hard 278 00:20:21,119 --> 00:20:23,839 for me to breathe. I felt like the world stopped. 279 00:20:24,039 --> 00:20:28,240 Everything stopped. There was no noise, there was no light, 280 00:20:28,400 --> 00:20:33,960 there was no heartbeat in my chest. I stood there 281 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:37,880 frozen looking at this face, and it was staring back 282 00:20:37,920 --> 00:20:41,039 at me. Now, it wasn't a face that looked like 283 00:20:41,079 --> 00:20:48,680 a human face. It had pitched black eyes that seemed 284 00:20:50,319 --> 00:20:55,279 not to have an ending. They were hollow. It was 285 00:20:55,359 --> 00:20:59,319 hollow black eyes, and it didn't smile. It didn't have 286 00:20:59,359 --> 00:21:02,920 a grin. But you can tell where the mouth was 287 00:21:03,079 --> 00:21:10,079 because it looked like a mask with a simple like 288 00:21:10,240 --> 00:21:12,839 covering of the mouth. I'm not sure how to explain it. 289 00:21:13,119 --> 00:21:15,839 The best I can say is like the roar shark 290 00:21:15,960 --> 00:21:21,440 mask from that Superhero movie. I forgot what it's called, 291 00:21:21,839 --> 00:21:25,799 but it was pretty much like that. The black masses 292 00:21:25,839 --> 00:21:30,640 on its face were moving around, taking different shapes, not 293 00:21:30,880 --> 00:21:36,160 different eye shapes, but different sized hollowness of the eyes. 294 00:21:37,200 --> 00:21:42,160 And at that moment, I grabbed my husband's arms and 295 00:21:42,359 --> 00:21:44,519 I looked at him and I said, we need to go. 296 00:21:45,960 --> 00:21:48,880 He didn't ask me why, He didn't ask me what happened. 297 00:21:49,319 --> 00:21:54,279 He also turned himself around and was on my heels 298 00:21:54,920 --> 00:21:57,920 running basically back to my grandpa's house. And I made 299 00:21:57,920 --> 00:22:01,680 it a point not to share what I had seen 300 00:22:02,640 --> 00:22:06,440 because I know he was experiencing something. At the same time, 301 00:22:07,079 --> 00:22:09,920 he was also very silent. Now, my husband is a 302 00:22:09,960 --> 00:22:14,480 dibber dribber. He loves to talk except whenever something important's happening, 303 00:22:15,039 --> 00:22:18,279 and this was one of those times, and he was 304 00:22:18,359 --> 00:22:22,440 dead silent. He followed me all the way to my 305 00:22:22,440 --> 00:22:26,160 grandpa's house, and I was full horse running. I am 306 00:22:26,160 --> 00:22:30,480 not a runner, except for this time. I ran like 307 00:22:30,559 --> 00:22:33,880 my life depended on it, because I felt like it did. 308 00:22:35,200 --> 00:22:38,319 As we make our way back to my grandpa's house, 309 00:22:39,799 --> 00:22:42,400 we come in through the kitchen. Un this is pretty important. 310 00:22:42,400 --> 00:22:44,720 I know it's random, but it is important detail. We 311 00:22:44,839 --> 00:22:49,440 come in through the kitchen and we turn into the 312 00:22:49,480 --> 00:22:53,440 hallway which leads into some extra bedrooms and my grandpa's 313 00:22:53,480 --> 00:22:58,279 master bedroom. As we go in and try to settle in, 314 00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:02,920 me aside and he looks at me, and my husband 315 00:23:02,960 --> 00:23:07,640 asks me, I know you saw something. What did you see? 316 00:23:07,799 --> 00:23:13,160 And I told him about how it felt like I 317 00:23:13,200 --> 00:23:16,400 couldn't see as we were walking through the community garden, 318 00:23:16,519 --> 00:23:22,680 how it felt like there was a thick fog that 319 00:23:22,759 --> 00:23:25,799 we were walking into that was preventing me from breathing. 320 00:23:25,960 --> 00:23:30,920 And he confirmed that he felt like that too, like 321 00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:34,640 he was walking through a fog of humidity. It was 322 00:23:34,799 --> 00:23:38,319 just hard for him to breathe as well. I told 323 00:23:38,359 --> 00:23:44,119 him about the face I saw, and he told me 324 00:23:44,160 --> 00:23:48,680 to stop what I was talking about because he saw 325 00:23:48,720 --> 00:23:53,480 it too. I was having my experience. He was witnessing 326 00:23:53,519 --> 00:23:58,160 the exact same thing I was witnessing. After he told 327 00:23:58,160 --> 00:24:01,160 me to stop telling him the story, not is because 328 00:24:01,240 --> 00:24:05,880 he was scared, but because he wanted to finish off 329 00:24:06,359 --> 00:24:12,440 what he had seen, and he told me the exact 330 00:24:12,440 --> 00:24:15,680 same things that I was watching. He saw it all 331 00:24:15,759 --> 00:24:22,440 unfold at his very feet as well. So we're trying 332 00:24:22,480 --> 00:24:26,480 to make an idea of what we thought it was, 333 00:24:26,799 --> 00:24:30,400 or at least if it could be explained by science, 334 00:24:30,640 --> 00:24:36,359 and it couldn't. It's something that really marked us and 335 00:24:37,759 --> 00:24:49,759 it wasn't done with us. So while my husband and 336 00:24:49,799 --> 00:24:54,039 I are trying to get into bed, the bathroom light 337 00:24:55,000 --> 00:25:00,039 in the master bathroom turns on. Now, this wouldn't be 338 00:25:00,279 --> 00:25:08,200 too crazy if the light switches we're connected normally. So 339 00:25:09,759 --> 00:25:11,920 there's a set of light switches that you can control 340 00:25:11,960 --> 00:25:14,839 the bathroom on in the bedroom that we're staying in, 341 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:18,559 and there's also a set on the outside of the 342 00:25:18,599 --> 00:25:22,480 bathroom towards the kitchen. Now it's important to know this 343 00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:26,559 because the outside bathroom lights they control one part of 344 00:25:26,559 --> 00:25:32,759 the bathroom. It's connected to a vanity. Whereas the lights 345 00:25:32,799 --> 00:25:36,079 that can be controlled in the bedroom, those are the 346 00:25:36,200 --> 00:25:43,480 overhead lights and both lights both switches. They don't control 347 00:25:43,640 --> 00:25:47,640 both lights, if that makes any sense. So while we're 348 00:25:47,640 --> 00:25:51,920 getting ready for bed, the bathroom lights turn on. I 349 00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:55,759 thought originally it was my brother that had come into 350 00:25:55,799 --> 00:25:59,200 the bathroom and forgot to turn them off. But we 351 00:25:59,240 --> 00:26:05,519 waited about an hour and a half and we realized 352 00:26:05,519 --> 00:26:11,119 that the bathroom lights weren't turning off, so I opened 353 00:26:11,119 --> 00:26:16,440 the bathroom to check nobody's there, and that's when I 354 00:26:16,559 --> 00:26:20,000 figured out that it wasn't the vanity lights that were 355 00:26:20,079 --> 00:26:23,880 on as if somebody was coming from the outside in. 356 00:26:24,920 --> 00:26:29,039 It was from our bedroom, like the lights were turned 357 00:26:29,039 --> 00:26:33,400 on in there, but which was impossible. My husband was 358 00:26:33,440 --> 00:26:37,880 already asleep and I was watching TV in bed, so 359 00:26:40,119 --> 00:26:42,720 I turned off the lights. Tried not to make a 360 00:26:42,720 --> 00:26:46,720 big deal out of it, but then we heard a 361 00:26:46,839 --> 00:26:51,839 cat meowing in the hallway. My grandpa doesn't own a cat. 362 00:26:52,039 --> 00:26:55,240 It was loud enough to wake up my husband and 363 00:26:55,279 --> 00:26:58,440 he asked me, did you hear that? I asked him, 364 00:26:58,519 --> 00:27:00,759 was it a meow? He's like, yeah, I thought I 365 00:27:00,880 --> 00:27:03,039 just heard a freaking cat, and I told him, you did. 366 00:27:03,640 --> 00:27:07,240 It's in the hallway. So we waited a little bit 367 00:27:07,319 --> 00:27:11,000 longer to see if we could hear nowing again, and 368 00:27:12,559 --> 00:27:16,160 we did hear meowing, except it was coming from the 369 00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:20,960 bathroom that was right next to our bedroom. That had 370 00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:24,599 gone to check to see if somebody had left the 371 00:27:24,680 --> 00:27:28,920 lights on outside of the bathroom, and nobody did, and 372 00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:31,400 I made sure I closed that door while I was 373 00:27:31,440 --> 00:27:35,799 coming back into the bedroom. So I don't know how 374 00:27:35,839 --> 00:27:40,640 the cat got inside that bathroom, but it felt like 375 00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:42,960 it was trying to come into our bedroom, you know. 376 00:27:43,079 --> 00:27:47,319 It was scratching out the door, and I pointed my 377 00:27:47,440 --> 00:27:50,960 flashlight on my phone towards the bottom of the doorframe, 378 00:27:51,079 --> 00:27:57,240 and you could see a little paw trying to come in. 379 00:27:57,720 --> 00:28:01,680 So while I've tried to scare this cat, I asked 380 00:28:01,759 --> 00:28:05,559 my husband run around to the opposite side where the 381 00:28:05,640 --> 00:28:09,759 kitchen is. I'm gonna scare the cat from inside the bedroom. 382 00:28:10,319 --> 00:28:13,359 You open up the door so that way it can 383 00:28:13,480 --> 00:28:18,839 run out. So I go to the bathroom door trying 384 00:28:18,839 --> 00:28:22,160 to scare this cat. And when he opened up the 385 00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:27,400 door to let it run outside the opposite way, there 386 00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:30,079 was no cat at all, and there's no way for 387 00:28:30,160 --> 00:28:34,839 it to escape other than through the kitchen door or 388 00:28:35,079 --> 00:28:40,599 the bedroom door. As for that night, my husband and 389 00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:43,680 I we called it. We said good night. Whatever is 390 00:28:43,720 --> 00:28:47,519 gonna happen is gonna happen while we were asleep. So 391 00:28:47,640 --> 00:28:51,839 we went to bed. The next morning, we felt drained, 392 00:28:53,319 --> 00:28:58,359 as if something came through the night and just sucked 393 00:28:58,359 --> 00:29:03,440 out all the moisture, all the energy, all of sense 394 00:29:03,480 --> 00:29:07,960 of life out of my husband's eye, even to the 395 00:29:08,039 --> 00:29:11,480 point where we joined my grandpa for breakfast in the 396 00:29:11,559 --> 00:29:14,279 kitchen and he looked at us both and said, what 397 00:29:14,319 --> 00:29:17,960 did you guys do last night? Because you look tired? 398 00:29:19,440 --> 00:29:22,279 And my husband and I looked at each other reluctantly 399 00:29:22,400 --> 00:29:25,720 trying to figure out, like you know, nonverbal communication, if 400 00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:29,559 we should tell my grandpa what we saw the night prior. 401 00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:33,160 I felt like it was pretty important to tell him. 402 00:29:33,240 --> 00:29:37,119 You know, he's very in tune with a lot of 403 00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:42,640 spiritual things. He understands more than I feel like other 404 00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:47,000 people do about the paranormal, about the supernatural. So we 405 00:29:47,680 --> 00:29:52,599 told him about our experience in the desert that night, 406 00:29:52,799 --> 00:29:59,160 and he said that he had a dream. And too 407 00:29:59,160 --> 00:30:03,839 many indigenous and Mexican cultures, dreams are very important to us. 408 00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:09,279 We believe that's how we get communication through the supernatural, 409 00:30:09,480 --> 00:30:15,799 how we can use our dreams to discern what's happening 410 00:30:15,839 --> 00:30:21,480 in our life. In his dream, he said that he 411 00:30:21,839 --> 00:30:27,640 was outside of his house in his backyard, and in 412 00:30:27,680 --> 00:30:32,119 his backyard is there's another hiking trail, if you will, 413 00:30:32,200 --> 00:30:35,640 that goes up that hill. While he was standing in 414 00:30:35,680 --> 00:30:40,799 the backyard, he has one street light that illuminates the 415 00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:51,920 entire back, so it's completely orange. He said that the dream, 416 00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:56,279 he could see himself very small, standing in front of 417 00:30:56,359 --> 00:31:01,160 the hill. I'm coming up from behind. The hill was 418 00:31:03,119 --> 00:31:07,359 something out of a horror movie. He said that it 419 00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:11,960 was a giant winged being that stretched its arms out 420 00:31:12,079 --> 00:31:18,160 and like a shadow. Whatever body part that this being 421 00:31:18,359 --> 00:31:23,279 touched was covered in darkness. As it continued to stretch 422 00:31:23,279 --> 00:31:28,440 out its limbs all over the desert. It covered everything 423 00:31:29,240 --> 00:31:35,119 in like a dark veil, and included was my grandpa's house, 424 00:31:35,599 --> 00:31:40,720 the hill, and the rest of the desert. And in 425 00:31:40,759 --> 00:31:47,519 his dream, he said that this dark figure was gently 426 00:31:47,640 --> 00:31:51,559 chuckling to itself like it had won again, and that's 427 00:31:51,559 --> 00:31:56,839 where the dream ended. He gave us a blessing basically afterwards, 428 00:31:56,920 --> 00:32:01,039 and he noticed that we weren't the same, if you will, 429 00:32:01,119 --> 00:32:05,160 we were very quiet the rest of the day. Usually 430 00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:07,519 my husband and I were always joking. We're always laughing, 431 00:32:07,519 --> 00:32:10,559 we're always talking. We were just tired. We felt like 432 00:32:10,599 --> 00:32:27,799 we were dead to the world. 433 00:32:31,359 --> 00:32:34,039 Speaker 1: Tae Wish, thank you so much for sharing your experiences 434 00:32:34,079 --> 00:32:35,960 with the rest of us here at the True Scary 435 00:32:35,960 --> 00:32:39,480 Story community, and for everyone else here listening. Tau Wish 436 00:32:39,519 --> 00:32:42,839 and I actually spoke. We have a lot more to 437 00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:45,920 the story here from ta Wish, and we're going to 438 00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:49,039 publish these in an upcoming episode here at the podcast. 439 00:32:49,440 --> 00:32:52,759 But it's interesting how in the very beginning, you know, 440 00:32:52,839 --> 00:32:55,640 we talk about a curse, a potential curse, something that 441 00:32:55,880 --> 00:32:59,759 might have been happening here to the topic we've talked 442 00:32:59,799 --> 00:33:04,480 to a couple of times actually around here, where I ask, 443 00:33:04,920 --> 00:33:08,759 can fear be passed down from generation generation? And in 444 00:33:08,799 --> 00:33:13,240 that same way, can certain senses, like a certain sensitivity 445 00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:17,079 to the spiritual world also be passed down? Because I 446 00:33:17,119 --> 00:33:19,519 hear a lot of this, we mentioned it actually two 447 00:33:19,519 --> 00:33:23,440 episodes ago or three episodes ago. How when we hear 448 00:33:23,480 --> 00:33:25,920 a lot of women actually that, oh, my grandma used 449 00:33:25,960 --> 00:33:27,519 to practice this or my mom used to do to 450 00:33:27,559 --> 00:33:29,799 sense this. Now I can and now feel like my 451 00:33:29,880 --> 00:33:33,079 daughter can as well. Like these kinds of things they happen, 452 00:33:33,480 --> 00:33:36,160 it makes us wonder can these things be passed down 453 00:33:36,440 --> 00:33:39,240 in that same way? Can something that's not as positive 454 00:33:39,480 --> 00:33:42,079 be also passed down? I also wanted to bring up 455 00:33:42,079 --> 00:33:46,799 this point during the recording here actually for this section, specifically, 456 00:33:47,440 --> 00:33:52,440 when tah Wish was explaining the darkness, how it felt unnatural, 457 00:33:52,519 --> 00:33:55,920 almost like it was a veil over the landscape, covering 458 00:33:55,960 --> 00:33:59,119 the whole area. Now, all these things that we hear, 459 00:33:59,279 --> 00:34:01,839 You know, when you're watching a paranormal show, I don't know, 460 00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:04,880 a ghost hunting show, and they say the air just 461 00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:07,240 feels thick, or like you can't breathe, or you feel 462 00:34:07,279 --> 00:34:11,360 like there's sudden tightness in the chest, or like when 463 00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:15,440 there's finally relief when something's gone and you can breathe again, 464 00:34:15,519 --> 00:34:18,320 you feel a little bit different. Is there something to that? 465 00:34:19,639 --> 00:34:23,639 Also when you're you know, in the cool desert breeze, 466 00:34:23,960 --> 00:34:27,440 you know, and then suddenly you feel this like oppressive 467 00:34:27,559 --> 00:34:31,039 like tightness, like this something's just not right. How do 468 00:34:31,079 --> 00:34:34,719 you explain that? Along with that the thing in their eyes? 469 00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:38,119 Was it a coincidence that both of them felt that 470 00:34:38,239 --> 00:34:41,599 same thing as some of you may know. My family's 471 00:34:41,599 --> 00:34:46,000 from the desert in Sonora in Mexico, and there are 472 00:34:46,039 --> 00:34:49,960 a lot of stories actually from those regions. Things that 473 00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:54,559 you feel out in the in the night, sudden fireballs, 474 00:34:55,320 --> 00:34:57,800 stones being thrown, like I covered in an episode of 475 00:34:57,800 --> 00:35:01,960 Horror Story. There's also sightings of little creatures that are 476 00:35:01,960 --> 00:35:04,800 out there, but never quite like this one, like the 477 00:35:04,800 --> 00:35:07,360 one we got to hear today with a pale phase 478 00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:09,199 that turned around. I don't know about you, but I 479 00:35:09,199 --> 00:35:11,199 felt chills when I heard that. Actually, when I heard 480 00:35:11,239 --> 00:35:14,199 it live, I know it's wish. Can can you know 481 00:35:14,239 --> 00:35:17,400 confirm this? Because when she was explaining this, I was 482 00:35:17,400 --> 00:35:20,360 like WHOA Like I was. It's eerie to think that 483 00:35:20,519 --> 00:35:22,960 you make a sound, this thing turns and looks toward you, 484 00:35:23,360 --> 00:35:25,960 and you know, obviously I would have done the same 485 00:35:25,960 --> 00:35:28,199 thing here just kind of run away. I'm not sticking 486 00:35:28,199 --> 00:35:31,800 around for that, but it's bizarre, like what could have been. 487 00:35:31,960 --> 00:35:34,199 There's a lot of things out there that we don't 488 00:35:34,280 --> 00:35:38,599 know about the desert, about areas where there's not a 489 00:35:38,599 --> 00:35:42,280 lot of people, maybe just small communities. What was it? 490 00:35:43,360 --> 00:35:45,840 So I'm gonna leave you with this. Have you ever 491 00:35:45,920 --> 00:35:49,599 visited a place where the atmosphere, like the environment just 492 00:35:49,719 --> 00:35:52,920 changes from one second to the next, that it just 493 00:35:53,480 --> 00:35:55,840 every instinct tells you to get out of there, to 494 00:35:56,000 --> 00:36:00,599 just leave before you even saw anything unusual. Let me 495 00:36:00,639 --> 00:36:03,679 know if that has ever happened to you. This episode 496 00:36:03,679 --> 00:36:06,440 of True Scary Story was edited and sound designed by 497 00:36:06,440 --> 00:36:09,480 me Edwin Coward Rubiez, with additional production by the Scary 498 00:36:09,679 --> 00:36:11,800 FM team. If you have one. To submit your story, 499 00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:15,360 head on over to true scarystory dot com. Always listening 500 00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:18,159 in for upcoming stories. I'm always like on the lookout 501 00:36:18,199 --> 00:36:21,159 for more. If you have any stories in Spanish, please 502 00:36:21,199 --> 00:36:23,360 reach out to me. You can email me, you can 503 00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:26,599 also DM me. I have my contact information in the 504 00:36:26,639 --> 00:36:29,480 description of every single episode, so please get in touch. 505 00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:32,519 So that's all I got. Thank you very much for listening. 506 00:36:33,360 --> 00:36:35,920 Keep it scary everyone, See you soon.