Speaker 1: Hi, this is Christina and Mortsha just kidding at Carmen. Oh, sorry,
this is Gomez. Actually, actually she's gun Tim Flass. I'm
supposed to be Comez. If you're on YouTube watching it,
and I'm for you to post pictures too, I will
post pictures. But we are doing We're trying to do
every episode in October in a different costume. So this episode,
I'm supposed to be Gomez. I do look more like
kantin Flas she does. Carmenis Mortitia, yes, and she's pulling
it off me. I I'm giving country class and not comiss. Yeah,
which is fitting because today we're talking about Gantim Flass. Actually,
so that's exciting. You haven't even said we're Spooky Tales
because I cut you off. I'm sorry. Oh whoops, I'm
so sorry. Spooky Tells the podcast for all things as Spooky,
And yeah, today we're talking about kantin Flas and Mermaids.
Someone request said it a little bit ago and we
met to do it sooner, but things just kept coming up,
as in like things we already had recorded. Then Karma
got sick and now she's better, and now we're recording
very late for this week's episode. So that's why today
there's only our paranormal topic, which is again Gantin Plus
and Mermaids and no true crime case. But before we
get to Kantinplas, we do have a listener story and
if you have a story that you want to send
to the podcast, you can email Espakitosa at gmail dot com.
You can DM us on any of our socials, you
can submit it on Discord. There's a lot of ways
to get it to us. So yeah, we love receiving them,
we love reading them. Are we ready to hear this one? Yeah,
let's get into it. So this is from Isabella. Isabella says, Hi, First,
I want to say that I love y'all's podcast. I
literally have been binge listening to it NonStop for a
while now, and I'm close to being all caught up,
probably caught up by the time we're reading this. Uh,
probably held on. Let me see you what and it
was Actually I don't think we're that behind on emails.
It's from August Okay, never mind. Also, I want to
thank y'all so much for always including Puerto Rico, our
Caribbean neighbors, in your research and stories. I was born
and raised there. Yet I always feel like I barely
hear any of our folk tales being told. We try,
and we try. I have a ton of spooky story
slash encounters, both for myself and from my family members.
And I was really young, I mainly would only have
encounters with my ancestors, like I've met my great aunts
and uncles and my great great grandpa and things like that.
That's super cool, right, I've always been very sensitive to
things like that, But when I turned fourteen, it got
worse because then I was experiencing way more than before.
It wasn't only family at that point, oh, Like it
was as if the doors just flew open and anyone
could come through. I've had a lot of dealings with
shadow people, some poultry geists, too many encounters of semes
the worst I know. I've seen the outline of what
was on top of me, and I have heard it
speak to me like chica, real terrifying, real quick. I
could always I could literally talk for hours of everything
I've seen. Future guests. Hey, but my wife and I
moved into our current house about three years ago, and
it's been one of the houses with most activity I've
lived at in a while. My wife recently asked me
if I think our house is haunted because one of
her coworkers told her about her experience staying at a
friend's house and how she was scratched by a ghost.
And my wife knows that I've had a lot of
experience with this stuff. She often jokes that I made
her a little stitious, like Michael in the office. I
told her no, because she has horrible anxiety, and I
know she wouldn't be able to handle knowing some shit
goes down in our house. That is so thoughtful. Hopefully
she doesn't listen, though, because then she'll hear it. Ooh,
she can never listen. I'm so sorry for us. I'm
so scenari Isabella's wife. You can't listen. My guess that
there are three or four entities minimum. One of them
gives me a sense of being a young girl. I
can't pinpoint exactly how old they might be, but their figures.
Shadow typically presents itself going up to my shoulders and
I'm five four, like it's the height of her shoulders,
not it's calling that her shoulder. It's okay, because I
could interpret it that way. If you're not paying close attention,
you know, yes, I always see her wearing a light
blue dress and has shoulder lenked hair. I've never seen
full details of her, mainly little glimpses out of the
corner of my eye, and it always looks like how
you would see someone who's standing in the shadows in
a dim room or something. So I can make out
the basics of her characteristics, but never really focus on her.
Like I said, she usually lurks in the background corners
and shadows. I will typically see her lurking by my
bathroom door when I'm doing my hair or makeup, and
there's a feeling of almost longing, like she wishes she
could be doing her makeup or hair, which is why
I'm leaning towards this entity. Being a young girl, like
maybe tweens or early teens, her presence doesn't always unsettle me.
It's usually just like a younger sister being annoying and
watching you. But every so often the emotions around her
will feel harsher, like she's trying to intimidate. I usually
try to ignore her when she's lurking, but in those
moments I'll speak up and say, I know it's you.
Stop trying to scare me. I know you're there and
it'll stop and go away. But that's also very little
sister like I mean, I wouldn't know because we only
had each other. We didn't have a little sister. But
from everything I've seen from like you know, friends and whatever, movies,
another thing I've noticed, and I'm not sure if it's
a separate entity or if it's the same feminine one
I mentioned above, But at nighttime, I will feel the
sensation of my cats getting into bed with us in
the middle of the night, and I'll either reach out
to pet them like I normally do and they're not there,
or they will both already be in bed with us
in their usual position, and I'll feel the way to
the best shift as if something else lays down literally
nightmare and dou scene. Yes, yeah, in those moments, I
usually just freeze and pretend to not notice and just
hope it goes away. I'm not sure if this is
a different entity or maybe the girl just looking for comfort,
but yeah, scary. The other thing I know for sure
we have and I really don't like acknowledging it or
talking about it is a mimic. Oh the worst, Oh
my god. We hate those. We hate those. Yeah, I've
never seen it present itself in a visual way, and
this is in no way invitation for it to do so, Universe,
please don't do it. Yeah, hey, but I'll often hear
my wife's voice calling to me from upstairs when I
know she's not home. Or I'll hear my cats and meowing,
even if they're sitting right next to me. This doesn't
happen often, thank God, but it's happened enough for me
to notice. Or my wife will think she heard me
calling upstairs to her, but I've trained her well enough
to know that if you cannot see someone, do not
respond to their voice, because that's something my grandpa droll
in to us as kids, especially since he lived in
the Campo. Important lessons. Lastly, and the one I hate
the most. Sorry, there's something worse than immeg worse. Well,
there's some presents in our bedroom's closet. Oh no, not
the closet. I don't always feel it, but when I do,
it's horrible. It feels very menacing and threatening. Since I
was a teen, I always closed all of my doors,
covered any exposed mirrors in my room, et cetera. Because
of my experiences when I was young, and sometimes the
entities following me would still open my doors or knock
down the blankets over my mirrors. But even at our house,
I always closed our doors. And one night my wife,
who's usually a sound sleeper, just sat up in bed,
shook my shoulders and said, you need to close the
closet door. And I was like what, and she goes,
you need to close the closet door. Now scary. I
bolted out of bed to close it, and did it
feel a little resistant when I tried pulling the handle, closed,
ran back the fuck to bed, and left my flashlight
on for the rest of the night. When I got
back in bed, my wife was already laying back down.
It's throwing away like she did not just scare the
life out of me. Wow behavior, not after hearing something now. No.
The next morning, I asked her if she remembered waking
me up the night before and talked to me. She
said no, that she did not remember that, and she
was just dreaming the entire time, like uninterrupted dreaming and
her dream Also, I had nothing to do with our
closet or door being open. Oh my god, that's this
is worse. Yeah, it's worse. Yeah, that shit still terrifies
me today, and that happened almost two years ago now
to this day, I sort of know if I forgot
to close the door before going to bed partesies unlikely, Yes,
very unlikely. Not Yeah, Or if whatever it was opened
it and was trying to get out question mark question
mark question marketing. Oh my god, I was scary. I
don't know, and I hate thinking about it still. Anyway,
That's been my most recent experiences, but like I said,
I have so many more that I love to share.
It was a struggle even sharing just these, though, because
every time I tried something what happened to stop me.
I tried leaving voice notes telling these experiences, but when
I listened back to it, it would be cut out.
For the closet part. I try leaving a voicemail and
it would constantly hang up on me before I could
get halfway through. My computer died once when I tried
typing it out on the email, even though it was
fully charged. Crazy Like I'm legit scared, but I can't
take myself seriously with my seat A little message I
made a scared perce and I immediately was gonna laugh
oh this is my love. Even now my computer is
plugged in and saying that it has less than fifty
percent charge, and I feel dizzy and thirsty, even though
we literally had a good dinner and epictricking water. It's
like something doesn't want me to tell others it's here.
We'll see what happens. I guess. Oh my god, Isabella,
please tell us that you're okay. First of all, Isabella,
we would love your stories, but we don't need them.
It's okay, we appreciate these, we really loved it. But
if it's going to be dangerous for you to tell
us more stories, don't do it. Don't do it. Don't
we don't need them. It's okay. Yeah, self care. Wow
that was wild? Yeah, all right, well Kantin plus yeah
you you know kantim Plas, don't be all yeah, who
doesn't an iconic actor. I will say I've never seen anything.
I only know who he is, but I've never watched
I feel like I've seen little clips here and there,
but never like a full blown movie of his. I
never watched. Same. Yeah, iconic though, iconic for sure. Oh yeah, yeah,
this is why the Mexicans say you're not actually a Mexican.
I'm not Mexican enough for the Mexicans. I'm not. Yeah,
first of all, I'm half story and they hate that. Again.
I'm done. I'm done anyway, Plaz. Did you know that
he was obsessed with mermaids? Yes, I did, because MG
told us to say, no, it's pretty that rewind his No.
Really I didn't know, yes, yeah, yeah, And they say
that if you watch his movies, there's like little hints
here and there about his obsession. I wouldn't know because
I was just gonna say, you know why, we don't
know it because we've never seen these movies exactly. Yeah,
so my bad, But that's what they say. That's what
they say. And yeah, so he was obsessed. And the
stay of Guerrero itself, where he has a home in Acapulco,
is full of mermaid legends. We've already shared some. I'm
going to share a couple legends before talking about cantin
Flas and what it has to do with Guerretro and
mermaids other than he was obsessed. The state of Guerrero
is full of legends of mermaids. And I know, like
in Spanish you just use the word siedena. It's all
the same. In English, there's like, oh, there's not a mermaid,
it's a siren. Oh, they're only in the ocean. That
doesn't matter in Mexico. In Mexico and there in the lakes,
they're in the rivers, they're in the ocean, they're everywhere
as long as it's a body of water, like it
doesn't matter in Mexico. And usually people just say CNAs
And I'm just gonna use either sedan or a mermaid.
So I'm going to be sharing some legends from Guerrero
because that's where cantin Flanz has a house in Acapulco, Guerrero.
He made his house specifically to attract Cidnass And we're
gonna get into that after I show these legends. Also
because I love I just there's some of my favorite stories,
like mermaids and stuff. I don't remember them, so I
haven't shared these before. These. According to legend, Acidna lives
in the Laguna of Wamustitlan, a pueblo in the mountains
of Guerrero. She starts to sit on a rock at
the edge of the lake after midnight, and then just
before the sun rises, she goes back into the lake
and she just sits there brushing her hair, hanging out
on this rock. You uh lorie. Men to their death
even cuter, even cuter a cedanas tend to do so.
The lake can be seen from the road, and it
said that if a driver sees her chilling after midnight
on this rock, they get so distracted. There's accidents because
of her. Even if you're that far away where the
road is. If you hear her, she will hypnotize you.
And so you have to go to the lake and
follow the sound of her voice, and then you know
you see her. You keep following her into the lake.
You know, you go into the lake and then you
don't come back out. You just you drown. Because that's
what she wants. People have abandoned their cars on the
side of the road to follow her in. Oh wow. Yeah,
once you hear her, you're done. And you know, the
things I read all set people, but these stories it's
usually man. So men follow her and will swim across
the water to reach her. When she dives in, they follow,
drowning to death. People in ms Titlan avoid the area
once it's dark because no one wants to run into her.
I watched the video of this guy. He's in front
of the lake during the day, of course, and he
walks by. He's like, and this legend you can find
it on Google whatever, but it's like the people believe it.
And he runs into some random women and he's like,
you hang out here and I She's like, no, La
Siena lives here, like come in here. So yeah, that
was last Sitrena the christ tlam Yes thinky well Moo's
did and it's hard to say. Yeah. And that's just
one of many Mermaid legends, like I said, a bunch
of times already. We've shared several already in the past,
you know, past episodes. It has been a while though.
There's even a famous traditional Mexican song called have you
heard it? I don't think so. Yeah, it's one of
those very traditional songs singing in wasteco, like a very
gary Why did I send it to you? What's wrong
with me? Yeah? Oh I guess it's what bangoing, not
what you said.
Speaker 2: Whatever I said, I can hear it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you got the idea that wor it was just
it was gonna take forever. Okay, just fast forward it
fast forwarded to the words. Okay, I like it. Yeah,
here La sirena something something, So I have them written down.
I'm just gonna share. I'm gonna share the words. So yeah,
it's it's sung in that style, and it's about a sierna,
a woman who turns into a siena. And so you know.
Here the lyrics in Spanish, some of them Lamera Maria,
the la prime Maria, pro Corea Gonelagua Coorea and Corea
yevando Arena jevando Arena Connela Corea Asia and el Marna.
And this is a rough translation made by me. So
was born of the first Maria, of the first Maria.
She was born, but the sea current took her the
sea cret she fell in love with with the water
that ran, taking foam and sand, foem and sand with
the sea current that ran. That's how the mermaid was
born in the sea. And the legend that the song
is about is that there was a beautiful young woman
with black hair, brown skin and big brown eyes. Cute. Yeah.
Her name was I Savedra Gonzalez. Her father, Abundio, had
passed away, and her mother was now a widow who
dedicated herself to the church. She was very religious, always
making sure to follow the Catholic doctrine, including not working
on holy days and so on. A Juez santo Ide
decided to go gather lenyas in firewood, and her mother
was against it because she shouldn't be working. It was
a holy day, Holy Thursday. She should be resting. Yeah,
she should be resting, and so irene ridaa and whatever.
She didn't listen. When she returned, she told her mom
that she is going to go wash up in the
river because now her hands were all dirty from the
hard work she had just done. And her mom was like,
it's wrong to bathe yourself, dreamed Samana Santa all week,
you're not supposed to shower, apparently. I don't know why
I know that, or she came from the Spaniards, obviously,
I thought, you know what I'm saying, how religious? Say?
I am showering. I need to shower to feel clean
when I go to sleep. Yeah, and then sometimes I
just want to shower again in the morning. I'm wasting
a lot of water. I don't care. Oh, you know,
because sometimes I sweat at night. Yeah, everyone does, right,
It's not just me. No, No, of course, anyway, didn't listen.
She's like, you know what, I'll just wash my face
then and she went to the river. Sometime later that
Massia Iden's mom heard screaming. It was her daughter yelling
for help. That Massia ran to the lake and she
saw her daughter inside of the water, only now she
was half fish half woman. And then out of nowhere,
a giant wave swallowed. When the water was calm again,
Ena was nowhere to be seen. That Massia ran to
the town center and gathered everyone. They returned to the
lake where they saw a mermaid. And then the mermaid
began to yell ak betn ak, which means to spin
in the nek like indigenous language of this area. Oh
As she yelled the words, the creatures of the lake
began to spin around her. They formed a whirlpool that
spun and spun until the mermaid was underwater. And her
name Latra comes from the words that the people of
the town heard her say. But then ak and now
it said that fishermen who hear her singing are hypnotized
by her beauty. Then she flips their boats not good, no, no,
causing waves until they drown and join her forever in
this little lake. And that's from Vera Cruz, but there's
a very similar version in Grero that has its own song.
They're almost the same. The only difference is that in
Guerrero she's not collecting wood. She's doing her laundry, which
is more work. Man, I don't know. They both sound
like we're hard work. Actually, I feel like because she
was collecting nanyella, right, yeah, we're I feel like that's
harder than doing laundry, right, you're right. Sorry, I just
hate laundry. Yeah. And so in the ghetto Vergion, she's
doing laundry, but she's so persistent on doing it on
this day because her boyfriend, her secret boyfriend, is also
out the river doing laundry and they're supposed to meet.
So really, this is a don't have secret boyfriends warning,
and listen to your mother. Be a good Catholic. Don't
get me started on having to hide your boyfriend from
your mom's the trunk. We can't go there, traumatic, I can,
oh god. But also kind of funny now no, I
don't know, sort of will are you finished before I
get into my stuff? Sorry? Okay. And in Guerrero, Laa
is said to live in a lake in a pueblo
of the Costa Chica of Guerrero and Vera Cruz. She
lives in the pueblo of Francho Nuevo in Laguna Dammi
dam yaha, dam yah wa. I'm not sure what I'm saying. Sorry,
I just laughing. No, you can't take anything I'm saying
seriously with my no mustache here, Okay, I can't either, Okay, Okay,
you know. And so yeah, those are the mermaids stories
from Guerrero that I wanted to share before talking about
the very famous Mexican actor Cantine Flas who was obsessed
with mermaids, so obsessed that he built a whole house
in a Capulco to attract them. But before that, wasn't
hey scared of being drowned by them? No, he just
he loved them. Okay, Before that, what were you going
to talk about? Scle boyfriends and moms. I was just
gonna say that, Okay, our mom was horrible and that aspect. Mom,
if you're listening, you know she knows, right. But now okay,
I told her. Okay, so we of course, like everyone does,
we had boyfriends that we had from her, right, And
then I don't remember how she Oh, we remember that
note Okay, we had our notebook. I'm sure it was
the comment passed around. Yeah, we passed around to all
of our friends like we would like put it in
each other's lockers or like you know, hand it to
each other every class road or whatever, and we would
write notes to each other, Yeah about the day, catch up, cheese, myths.
We didn't have phones, so this is what we had
to do. Yeah, because you know, now you can just text,
but back then that was the group chat. I was
gonna say phones worthing. But we were broke bitches, all
of us, so none of us had phones. I think
we all got phones like senior year, except us. But
I think back then too, texting was like ten cents
a text. Yeah, I feel like most people weren't texting.
I don't know about the rich white kids, but we
weren't texting, let alone had our own phones. You know. So, yeah,
we had this notebook and we passed around. It was
like today's group chat. And of course we were talking
about our boyfriends and our mom. First of all, she
wouldn't have been getting into our ship, you know, like moms,
there's no privacy. Probably all that thing. I was not
just Mexican moms digging in our ship, read our fucking notebooks,
and was like, what the fuck? Yelled for hours all
the other moms. Yeah, yep, ever, you got in trouble
and it was our fall. Yeah, I'm surprised they talked
to us after that. I would have shunned us. I
would have. I would have, yeah, hand down, that's how
it was shunning easy And anyway, she was like going
on and off for hours about how we were like disrespecting,
blah blah, and then she made she made us like
Neil in front of our I died the year round.
I thought of our I forgot about this, Yeah, of
our great grandfather to beg for forgiveness. And I told
you that. She's like, I don't remember doing that, and
I was like, what the fuck you don't fucking rap?
Oh no, not the classic. No, I think I would
have remembered if I made you do that. Like, She's like,
my bad, if I did that, that's an exaggeration, and
I'm like, yes, it doesn't bit much, and yeah, that's what. Uh,
that's what happened. Should have should have just turned into
a mermaid, right, Yeah, I was like, I don't blame
her for choosing the mermaid life. No, but there's no
closed body of water here, so we didn't have that off.
But also she didn't choose it. It was a curse for
all the right here. Mom. Yeah, yeah, although honestly sometimes
it sounds a little better. No mortgage, no bills around
the sea levels are rising, So mermaids are gaining capital.
That's true. That's very true. So are many industryed. Yeah,
there's no like win win here.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Okay, well we're all screwed. Yeah we are. We'll take
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we are. I don't know what's going on, so yeah,
those are some legends, Mermaid legends from Verac, nave Cruz,
from Guerrero and yeah, like I said, I wanted to
talk about all this because of cantin Flas having a
house to attract mermaids. You know, he's probably the most
famous Mexican comedian. He was born August twelfth. Leo oh
oh leo. Okay, fam haven't seen his movie, but I
am a fan. So his movie is plural. He's one movie.
I haven't seen it. And then sadly he passed away
on the twenty of April nineteen eighty three from I
want to say. It was lung cancer. And he was
a I mean hundreds and hundreds of movies. He was
called the Charlie Chaplin of Mexico. Charlie Chaplin himself said
Kantin Plantz was the best comedian alive. Wow. And he
even had parts in Hollywood. He has a star in Hollywood.
I haven't seen it, but it's there. I actually haven't
seen any downtown street, but I don't remember carriers to
look down like who was there? Yeah, I don't know
what's wrong with us today anyway. So you can see
him in the og around the world in eighty days,
like he won an award for that movie. Oh, I
didn't know that. Yeah, And when you think of the
golden era of Mexican cinema, Cantin Plants is like, oh yeah,
the first person that comes to my mind. And then
maybe like I don't know Bee, which they were the
best buddies, so that makes sense? Y, yeah, whose monstache
is better? Come on? Yeah, you see the Kanti massage.
So when he passed away, it was a very very
sad thing for everyone in Mexico declared three days of mourning,
national mourning, and there was national homoges for him, and
even the US Congress had a minute of silence. Oh wow,
that's the way. Yeah, which I didn't know. I mean,
you could easily say he had it all, not mermaids. Yeah, exactly,
he wasn't happy he needed mermaids. And yeah, apparently if
you look back on his movies you can see the science.
But again I wouldn't know. Maybe we should watch a
Kantiinflas movie. We should. So it said that one night
at a bar in Mexico City, Kantiinflanz was there drinking
when he was approached by a man named Carlos Lorenzo Ernandez,
and soon the pair of men began chatting, drinking, having
those deep conversations that you have with strangers at a bar. Yeah, well,
not with strangers, but with my drunk friends, yes, exactly. Yeah,
doesn't talk to strangers drunk conversations. I don't talk. I'm
not an extrovert. That's why I don't have friends. During this,
Kantimflas told him told the man that fame and fortune,
it just it wasn't enough. And he had this deep,
deep desire to marry a mermaid. I mean, they're hot.
I would want to to. Yeah, so I don't. I
don't blame him, so he thought. I thought the man
was going to laugh at him, like that's so silly,
what do you mean mary a mermaid? But no, the
man didn't laugh. Instead, he told him this was possible,
and he told him he could make this happen for him.
So they wouldn't be easy. He had to follow his
exact instructions, and so he handed kantin Plants a small
quartz and then he told him, you have to build
a mansion on the edge of the sea. That mansion
has to have a giant statue of yourself facing the sea.
I love this. Yeah, I don't know. Kantivlas has statues
of him all over Mexico like that. He built himself,
Like I don't. I would too if I was at
I mean Leo. He's a Leo like. Yeah, of course,
So I'm going to actually commission a statue of us. No,
oh my god, Okay, I have a stout one in
front of my house that I hate. What if I
tear down that fountain? What the statue was? Yeah, So
the mansion had to have a giant statue of him
facing the sea. And then he needed to build a
pool that connected to the sea, so like a seawater pool.
Oh my god, sounds luxurious, very yeah, and that way
mermaids can enter. Once all this was done, he had
to stand in front of his statue facing the ocean
with that small quartz in his hand. At exactly two am.
Solas did exactly what the man said. When his mansion
was finally built, he walked out to the statue of himself.
The giant statue of himself stood in front of it,
facing the sea. Suddenly the man reappeared. What how, I
don't know. If he just knew the house was done,
looking up the progress of the house he was walking
by every day. Yeah, something, I'm not sure. So the
man reappeared and told him, see, I told you I
would be back. Now move closer. To the water, and
then both men stood at the edge of the pier
with the courts holding the quartz stone. And they didn't
just see one mermaid. They saw a bunch of mermaids.
And I'm not sure one of them agreed to American
timplass then and there, like maybe it took some time.
I don't know. I mean, I feel like you still
have the woo, you know, like you can't you can't
just have a mermaid. Yeah, although it didn't take much
for what's his name in The Little Mermaid Prince Eric,
she was kind of desperate things. You're right, she was, Yeah,
I'm not gonna we can't hold all mermaids to mermaids
aerials like standard or whatever. Yeah. Yeah. So after that moment,
Kantis would throw these amazing parties where the special guests
of these parties were mermaids. What allegedly other famous people
saw the mermaids at his house. Okay, I want to
know what drugs they were on. I need names. What drugs? Yeah,
that too, and I also names. And he had a
pool that had a various openings that went out into
the sea. That's so cool, though, I want to see
the house. Unfortunately, it has received quite a bit of
damage from like hurricanes, because again it isn't a couple
of pool and it's been abandoned for a while. So
can you buy this house? How much is a cousin?
You probably could, but it's just going to keep getting
damaged from more hurricanes. They're geing worse they are, so yeah,
you could tell though that the house was beautiful once,
like when you're looking at images of people there, and
that the pools were beautiful, and yeah, it said that
mermaids entered this pool and they were amazing parties. And
if mermaids were really there, I mean, you know what,
I believe it? Who am I? Who am I to
not believe them?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 1: Like yeah, yeah, it's even said that he made a
pact with these mermaids where he would live forever. I mean,
obviously he passed away, but it said that the pack
came true because his soul is trapped in the giant
statue of him in front of his house. They say
that the statue comes to life at two am. Oh
my god, like people have seen it move. It's said
to take the form of a human and then lounch
itself into the sea. Others say that if you stand
in front of the statue at two am, you can
feel a hand touch your shoulder trying to lure you
into the sea. I don't like that. No, I don't
like that either. Some versions of the story say that
the man Kantivlas met at the bar in Mexico City
wasn't actually a man, It was a mermaid. It was
a devil of course. Yeah, of course, and he annoyingly
sold this soul to him. Precisely, that's exactly it. The
devil tricked him into this deal, and that's why his
soul is trapped in that statue. Yeah, and he can
only be set free if someone stands in front of
the statue at two am and gets pulled into the water,
like all the way where they drown. They then take
the place, but there still takes the place of Gantivlas's soul.
I'm sorry, Cantilas, I wouldn't do that for you. I wouldn't,
I wouldn't know. This is like a chatro negro. But
then you can't even like travel around you're trapped in
the statue. Yeah, that's no fun. I mean, you get
to leave every day at two am and go into
the ocean. Oh true, Now is that better? No? What's worse?
Is that better than being alive? Right now? I things
to contemplate and sadly today the house is in ruins,
but it's still there. The statue is still there. It's gigantic.
Like I watched the video of these two couple that
goes there. The guys he looks like a tall guy.
Maybe he was like not even to the statues, like me, like,
it's a big statue. Wow. And yeah, you can go
and see the statue. It's still there. People that live
nearby say that you can hear mermaids at that same time,
always two am in this instance, but you can hear
them visit the abandoned mansion, still looking for the man
that loved them so much. Oh, I mean that's sweet.
I think it's sweet. No, I agree. So if that's
not weird enough, that's not the only mysterious things surrounding
kantin Flass. Really, I guess the mermaids that's probably the strangest,
most like mysterious thing there. But you know him and
pether Infante I said earlier, there were BFFs. Yeah, okay,
and bether infante. He didn't die super young, but he
didn't die like he didn't live to be you know
old either. He died in a plane crash, and there's
a conspiracy theory that he didn't actually die in that
plane crash. Kantin Flass like he faked his death and
Kanti Flas kept him hidden in one of his properties.
Oh wow, because he just wanted a normal life. He
didn't want to be famous anymore. He just wanted to chill.
If he did that for him, that would be really nice. Yeah,
and there's people out there who claim to have run
into bether Infante like later as an elderly man, and
you know he like since passed away, but he got
to live a normal life hiding out in Kantinflans's house,
one of his many houses. So yeah, that was a
little odd and I just wanted to mention it as well.
But yeah, like I said, a lot of those houses
have Kanti Flast statues too. There's one I want to say,
Mexico City and like the Roma neighborhood. Maybe Oh really,
Oh I wish I would have known that you can
rotate it. Oh wow. Yeah, if you only had known,
you could have fun to see counting from us I
want to go see the statue in a caprico. I'm
not going to be there Atoyin though, I'm too scared.
Maybe we'll see a mermaid right them. Yeah, like I said,
the mension is what's further destroyed with the last hurricane.
That's hurricanes right now that have done serious damage to
a Capuco also here, also here. Yeah, it's a terrible time. Yeah,
so you know what, Yeah, I put some things for
like some community funds so we can help out, and
I'll also help out a little bit. But yeah, it's
it got damaged and the statue hopefully it's still. Like
it's such a beautiful house and like if only natural
disasters didn't happen and the house could be restored, like
imagine that. Yeah, that would be amazing. That would be amazing,
and then we could just hang out there and we
could buy it. No, I'm not rich enough, but yeah
that is Kantivlas and mermaids. What a cool story. Yeah,
at first, I'm like, man, that's like a little silly,
but you know what, good for him for having a
dream and obsession and trying to make it happen, like
just going for it, you know. Yeah, I don't hate it.
I like it. I support it. Yeah yeah, I like it.
And I hope that he did marry a mermaid. Yeah,
me too. Or they just had this like relationship with
a bunch of mermaids, like a consensual one, you know,
where they were just like they all just did what
they wanted. Maybe they wanted that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm
going to send you some clips of the house. Oh wow,
it is big. It's a giant statue that to look
really nice, that house, like in its prime, it would
have been really beautiful, beautiful, right, And these people that
went there, I'll put this link in the show notes
in case anyone understands Spanish and wants to see like
the house and people like walking around it. I'll put
that in the show notes. But they were there waiting
to see if they sign anything around to Am and
they didn't. But when they went back to their hotel
or something which was very close to this house, and
they were outside in like the little balcony area or
something like that, they one of the friends they were
with like in the distance saw and it could have
been like any like secreature, which they acknowledge in the video,
Like yeah, it could have been a secreature. But it
was like we were talking about how we were waiting
didn't see anything, and then we heard like a splashing
of distance. I mean, what a coincidence? Right? Yeah? And
they say, like we know, like what a coincidence. So
we can't say for sure if it was or not
a mermaid, but like so weird. So I don't know,
I don't know, but I mean, like so many people,
so many cultures have like so like you know, mermaid stories.
I mean it's certainly, you know, a fascinating tale as
I you're like fascinating my musasion eyebrowser can't handle it.
I have to stop talking to them. O, my god,
watch this all. But yeah, yeah, that was that was
today's stories. I mean, let us know, it's just it's
just fairy tales to everyone. You I wouldn't like discount
the possibility of when confusing a creature in the ocean
for mermaid, right, like like a certain colonizer did. Yeah exactly,
And there's so much unknown about the ocean. Yeah, so
I certainly wouldn't discount like seeing something that you like,
there has to be something weird out there for sure. Yeah.
So and I mean again it'd be super cool. I
would have loved to become memor maid. Well, Discovery taught
me that mermaids are real. Remember that that documentary from
Discovery about the Mermaids. No, oh, it was a moment
for a little bit, probably like ten years ago. I
don't remember how long ago years ago. Maybe I'm not sure.
I don't remember. I feel like somebody out there will
know what I'm talking about. Probably I don't remember. Somebody
will interesting. Okay, So, yeah, we have reached the end
of this episode. I like, I love talking about them though.
It was a really fun episode. Yeah, whether I believe
it or not, I love reading about them. And I
really hope that Canting Flaz did get to marry one
me too. And so yeah, we'll take a little out
of break here. Then welcome back for speaky recommendations, and
we're back. Well, do you have speaky recommendations? I do. Okay,
let me go to story graph because all my recommendations.
I have been watching Supernatural because I love I love
Dean who doesn't right. I know it's very cheesy, but
that's what I've been watching. And you've been sick. So yeah, okay,
So I finished a few audiobooks. One of them was
Hot Sweet Home and it was very short, so like
I think that I don't know if anyone's looking for
like a quick audio book. It was only three hours
and forty one minutes, okay, and it was really cool
because well, let me read the description so that people
can hear. I actually don't know how to pronounce this
word on the set of a kits Chi kit Chi.
Do you know that word? No, I feel like you've
probably heard it. It's spelled ki tshy. Now it means
like cheesy, I think on the set of Kitchi reality
TV that sounds wrong. Reality TV show stage scares transformed
into unnerving reality in the Spooky Ghost Story for multiple
Yogo and Nebula award winning authors or a pink sir,
so then it does. When aimless twenty something Mara lands
a job as a night shift production assistant on her
cousin's ghost honeying slash homemakeover reality TV show Haunt Sweet Home,
she quickly determines her new role will require a healthy
attitude toward duplicity line. But as she hides fog machines
in the woods and improvises scares to spook new homeowners,
A series of unnerving incidents on set, and a creepy
new coworker forced Mara to confront whether the person she's
truly been deceiving and hiding from all along is herself
Erie an empathetic haunt suet home as a multifaceted toupur
natural exploration of finding your own way into adulthood, into yourself.
And so it's like setting this reality TV show that
her cousin does, and they're pretending to scare the residents,
and so then they'll have clips of like the reality
TV show of her cousin be like, well here we
are back on the scene, and it was like different points.
It's fun, it sounds fun. It sounds fun short listen.
The only reason I didn't give it like higher rating
is because I feel like the ending was a little underwhelming,
like I would have wanted, I don't know, something more exciting,
but you know, not everything is is wrapped up that way.
That's just me. I do think it's a fun listen though,
so I do still recommend it, even though I didn't
like how it ended. And then I also I listened
to Tenders of Flesh. I won't get too much into
it because I know it's one of our books. It's
going to be one of our books. And I can't
believe you listened to that before finishing. It was so
good it was, but oh my god. Anyway, I guess
I'll save my thoughts. I read it five stars, but
it's so disturbing, like I would read it again. I've
heard other people say they wouldn't read it again. I would,
but I feel like it hits you and your core,
you know, like questioning, like life. I don't know everything. Wow,
I can't wait to read it. They told you that.
I was like, I might become a vegetarian. I don't know.
You did tell me that. Yeah, it was intense. It
was intense, and I don't know. There's just so no
good noo. I will get more into it. Also, after
I finished listening to Tenors of Flesh, I went back
to Susto's episode of Tender as a Flesh and I
listened to that, so I also recommend that. And then okay,
the last one I read, I who have never known men,
And it's not horror per se. It's more like sci
fi I think, but it's very interesting, weird. I was
gonna say you don't read sci fi. Yeah, I mean, well,
it's like dystopian, which I like dystopian, So I guess
that's not really sci fi. So I mischaracterized it. It's
more dystopian than not, so let me read that description.
A young woman is kept in a cage underground with
thirty nine other females, guarded by armed men who never
speak her crimes un remembered, if indeed there were crimes.
The youngest of forty, a child with no name and
no past. She survives for some purpose long forgotten in
a world ravaged and wasted. In this reality where intimacy
is forbidden, in the unrelenting sameness of the artificial days
and nights, she knows nothing of books and time, of
needs and feelings. Then everything changes, and nothing changes. A
young woman who has never known men, a child who
knows of no history before the bars and restraints, must
now reinvent herself, piece by piece, in a place she
has never been, and in the face of the most
challenging and terrifying unknowns. Freedom fascinating. Okay, it was like
unlike any other book I've ever read, and I feel
like it's it's very character driven, like plot wise, like
not much happens, like pretty much what I read is
what happens. But still it's so interesting interesting, Okay, I
read it it five out of five. I feel like
it also kind of makes you question, like so much. Okay,
I don't know, and yes, I don't know. It has
like themes of like feminism, freedom, it's just super super interesting.
I was like, don't ask me to describe a book.
Have you seen that video? That real? And it's like
when you sent it to me, Oh yeah I did,
Yeah you did. Yeah, I forget what happens in the
real something about like when someone asked you to just
write a book, you just it's like read from current mines.
He's like yeah, yeah, and it's about But then he's
like halflight and he's like, I forgot and he told
me something I will never forget. He said, shit, I
forgot what he said, but he basically what he was
getting at was the same. I need to be reading notes.
I have made it to like chapter twenty something of Pinata.
It's gotten so good. I can't wait to finish it.
I got distracted because I had a lot of work
to finish. So whenever I work, I just play New
Girl in the background, and that's what I've been doing.
I've been watching New Girl and non stop. Basically, first,
I'm rewatching it. I hadn't rewatched it. I can't believe it.
I've rewatched it like so many times already and I
never finished it. So oh yeah, yeah, the last season
I really like. Yeah, I'm I feel like I just
should finish it. Yeah. So yeah, I don't have speaking recommendations,
except I did discover a podcast called Lemos They look
can No Exist. It in Spanish. It's also on YouTube. Ooh,
let me add that to my rotation. Yeah, and it's
just he's like this guy. He has guests and they're
just telling scary stories and they're scarier because it's in
Spanish and he's serious. Oh yeah, people don't like it
retail scart, No, some people don't, some people do. We're
not everyone's jam. They're very serious. So you know, sometimes
I just need a serious scary listen. And uh, this
is a good one. So obviously I've already talked about
the other ones that I love. And if you want
a little something to also laugh while like being scared,
Moras Malitas is my other favorite. Yes, I've said it before,
but yeah, ablemos, sorry blemos, look Noxiste. It's really good
and Letty loves you. Former guests. Former guest on It
spooktails her TikTok. She usually will translate things from Abiste
for TikTok videos, so you know, if you don't know
Spanish and you want to see what they talk about
the stories they share, there's some very creepy ones she
talks about. I'm on TikTok. That reminds me I really
need to get back to doing tiktoks. But man's so yeah,
that's my speaking recommendation, just that that podcast. And I'm
almost done with the book Club. I'm in chapter ten, Wow,
fucking loser. And I just got a hold that came through.
Stop stop requesting other books. It's my last hold. That's
not an audiobook. It's called Omecito. Have you heard of it? No,
it sounds cute. Yeah, it's supposed to be really good.
I'll send it to you later. Okay. Also, so behind
on my podcast too, because I have like, hello audiobooks
checked out right now. You need to calm down, you know,
And you know what happens because I have stuff on
hold and then it comes through and then I'll get notified.
That's something I like requested to be notified whenever the
library gets it. Like, I'll get a notification immediately because
I can't wait. I have no chill. I'm like, yes,
check it out. And I think you have like five
audiobooks right now. This is why the booklip is taken longer. No, no,
it's not because when I listen to audiobooks that's different
than reading. No, I meant because of your other books.
Yes that, I will admit that. Yeah one, yes, yeah,
you're right, you're right.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Oh, I guess some other things. We're trying to have
a different costume on for every episode this month of October,
our holy month of Halloween. Praise be Halleluijah. Yes, so
that's just something fun. I thought you were done. That
was my last one. Okay, that's just something fun we're
doing for October, trying to do. We also have a
fun episode plan with some of our fames, which you'll
find out whenknocks out. We did an episode with week
Ago that will be out later in October. Oh, I'm
looking forward to that. Yeah. They're so funny. They are hilarious.
I love them and I wish I could talk Spanish
that cool. Yeah we can't. We're trying. I complained to
my husband all the time, and I'm like, can you
understand that my mom she was like a fressa and
she didn't let us speak slaying spanishling nothing. So now
now I don't know, like it's too late. Now I
don't sound cool in Spanish, right, I can't. I can't
say the thing words. But I also don't sound fressa.
I just just sound what are you? What? Even are you?
Dumb bitch? And They're like if you're American writing? And
I'm like, I guess.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So that is our internal struggles I will always have.
But yeah, we did an episode with them. I think
mid October is when that is coming out. That was
a lot of fun and yeah, just you know, I
wish we had more time to plan more things for Halloween,
but we don't. Like I wish we could do a
movie night. I just have no time. I wish I
could have gone to visit you, but yeah, that would
have been the best. We will have a Patron episode
at some point this month as well, where we're just
gonna read scary stories to each other. Carmen it's gonna
have a murder Mystery party. Are you still doing that? Yeah,
I am, and I've tried. So. I've been building a
coffin out of styrofoam. I think they're called the phone boards.
It's like insulation, like big boards that you I supposed
to inslat your house whatever. I've been trying to record
a little bit of my process. I'm really bad at recording.
I would do my best because I do want to
put together well, I want Christina to help me put
together put together a video for a Patreon of my
vampire theme murder Mystery party. Yes, so that is a plan,
but I have no promises there and I don't know.
I have to figure out how to do a like
movie night, where to stream it, And went on to
promise and really want to. I did, but it wasn't
working and I was very mad, and I haven't done
one since that didn't work last two years ago. It
was like two years ago, No, it really was. Yeah,
I though I don't know, no promises because I also
volunteered to do a fun run with my child, although
that one's this Friday, so that's gonna take a lot
of time. I did, however, volunteer to be one of
the trunk retreat cars for the school's trunk retreat. Oh,
we better clean out your car. Well, yeah, obviously. So
that's why I said my month is going to be
very busy because I have to clean my van. Halloween
spooky season is a busy time because there's so much
spooky activities. But yeah, there's so many spooky season activities.
It's probably the best month ever. It really is. There's
so much to do. But yeah, I'm thinking of Scooby
Doo theme for my trunk retreat van. Ooh, and yet
it's a van that's perfect. I will post pictures, but
I'm hoping to find enough cardboard to paint the mystery machine.
I have thoughts. I have thoughts. I will post pictures.
Will it be executed, We'll see, We'll find out. We'll see,
because again, a bitch has adhd and I have grand
plans and only like half of them. I feel you,
but I want to. I want to. The thought is there?
The thought is the thought is there? Stop it looks
funnier because I'm mussage. I'm just gonna kind of click
on that. It's gonna be a new gift okay, that
can be the edit episode and we shared our story,
our speaky recommendations. Now we're just being silly. Yeah yeah,
we're done. We're done. We're done. We're done. Thanks everyone
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unless you want to die. Unless you're gonna marry them
or become a mermaid or marry them. That's not fine.
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