Haunted Prisons in Latin America

Hi everyone, This is Christina and this is MJA. Why was it about about to like I was thinking and this is MJ, because you were about to say it, and then I almost said it and I was like, when am I doing it? Oh my god? Wow. Yes, it's going to be that kind of recording, just so everyone knows the vibes. And this is Spooky Tales, the episode for All Things as Spooky, and today we are talking about haunted jails, prisons, places where you're trapped and you can't leave because you committed a crime. That is it really a crime? I don't know. It depends, yes, what we're talking about. All right, So before we get to the stories that we found that I have to do with haunted prisons, I do have a listeners story to share. And if you have a story that you want to send us to the podcast, you can email at Spooky Toes at gmail dot com. You can DMA on any of the socials. You can submit it on Discord. You can send us a voice note and then attach that to an email. Actually we have one that we haven't listened to. I just didn't have it ready for today. Yeah, there's a lot of options to send us your stories. Send them. We love receiving them. This one was sent to via email. Hello a spooky. I was listening to the Kwahuila UFO episode just now and had to stop and reach out once I heard the part describing the white transparent being and to tell you my eyes wide and so big. So as you know, the meteor shower had just occurred on the night of Saturday, August twelve, and I had to and I had wanted to catch some of it, so me and my guy had decided to hang out in the backyard for a bit and see if we were able to catch a glimpse. After a few minutes, the first shooting starter was right and moving fast. Excited, I told my guy, but by the time he looked in that direction, he missed it. Another one passed and it was more faint, barely visible in another direction, and again he was too busy talking and missed that one too. Oh my god, if you're stargazing, you got a star gaze. Okay, it's not time to chat and like she's mad, it's time to just stare at the start. Whenever a stargaze, I feel like I'm falling, though, Does anybody else get that? Sensation. I will be honest, I physically can't do it. I sit there and start falling asleep if I'm just staring up at the sky, So I would be the one to miss everything because I would be busy talking. I was determined to keep him focused and hoping he'd see another star. A few minutes later, we had both caught a glimpse of quick flashes out of the corners of our eyes moments apart, but in different areas of the sky. I had one of my earbuds and mentioned that I was getting interference slightly and told him maybe because of the shower. I don't know. I'm not a scientist, L O L. By this time, mosquitoes were feasting on her flesh, and we were debating whether to head inside or stayed longer. I had casually asked him if he ever just talks to the universe. He asked, like, what talked to God? And I said, no, like out into the world, just asking it to do something like a wind to blow, or trees to move, that kind of thing. He laughed, and we just kept talking. Eventually decided to head back inside the house. We turned towards the gate and had stopped because we seen something in the sky flying floating above us. To me, it looked like a very bright white bird type figure slightly transparent. To him, it looked more like a white, transparent jellyfish figure. Keep in mind, it was very dark outside after midnight. Birds aren't normally active for that late at night, and the ones in our areas do not look like anything like what we had seen. What was clear is that the bright color was a contrast against the dark sky, and it appeared out of nowhere, flew over us, and then just faded out like it was saying hey bit, like it was saying, hey bish, you wanted to fuck around and find out moment here you go. Universe answered, we weren't scared, but more in awe and to be honest, tripping the fuck out trying to make sense as to what it was. All we knew is that it wasn't normal, and just the combo the meteor shower occurring the timing of me asking Universe questions, I don't know, I've kind of fallen into a rabbit hole these past two days. And hearing that part of your podcast mentioning the entity being white and transparent was just another dot for me to connect. I listened to it this morning and immediately started writing this. First of all, I love this energy like I haven't done now. I love that just letting me know what we experienced. I've had other things happen different from this little occurrence, but at least he also seen it. Although we can't agree on what we saw since it looked very different to each of us, we're still in agreement that it was something. Sorry from the ramble, It's just how my brain works. Hopefully you were able to follow along. Love you guys and your content. Giggles said question everything. I'm here for it all five stars all day. Fuck that one star rating. I'll be in contact with more experiences which are more detailed. This one was just short enough to quickly share. Have an amazing day, Yoli. That story was so funny though the way there was written. I loved it. I last I was. I was like in trance, like what was that glowing thing? Like wow? And there's so many like uh like stories like that too. Yeah. A lot of people say, like these weird, like translucent things in the sky that almost looked like something like animals. I don't know if you hurt that really yes, they're like they're like people describe them like flying jellyfish. Oh my god, well he saw a jellyfish and she saw like a what is it like a person? Almost Now I have to yeah, but do you hear that too? But it's like, hold on, now, I have to find it. Let me, let me, let me search for it. Yeah. People see like these like almost like atmospheric creatures in the sky or what is described as it, And I'm trying to find it because I hear about it all the time, like with UFO sightings. But it's like a jellyfish or something akin to a sea creature that looks like a jellyfish, but instead of in the water, it's in the sky flying. Wow. Uh there's a few sightings like that. Damn okay, And that's why people are like their theories that there's actually animals in our atmosphere that we don't know about for sure. Wow. The is yeah. I'd be dripped off though too. Same same Now why is Kobe barking a what a mess today? I also thought we had eggs so I could just make spam rice and eggs because that takes like fifteen minutes. But no, I don't have any good. It is delicious. It's my favorite thing to make when I'm in a rush and I'm like, add some seed it, yes, I oh seaweed. Yeah, it's amazing. I love it so much, like spam is SUBI. Yeah, I'd love spam SUBI. I don't understand the hate hatred toward spam by something either. I'm like, spam is beautiful, spam is life. Like, Yes, it's so good. I don't have it very often because like it costs like an arm and a leg. Well it's a spam. I could cook it here, but I'm too lazy. I order it from the Hawaiian restaurant. Yes, yes, And I don't have spam musubi often either. But I do have spam because but I'm not gonna make spamous myself. Yeah. No, I'm like, I don't have a bam boo roll up thing or the little boxes for it. It's but I order it and when I it's like kind of pricey tube and I'm like, m it's a treat, but now I want them. Yeah, oh it's so good. I love it. I forgot I haven't gone grocery shopping, but you know what the past like four days I've been eating so good. I'm proud of myself. It's hard to stay on like clean, yeah it is. I totally ate bad during my daughter's birthday. It's like it's just you know, and they don't count. They don't the calories don't count. No. Uh potato tacos, Oh my god, I love Was it like like potato or was it like no? It was like beautiful? I love it. And then and then with with the the well, we had a boyo first, but then we switched to let us because boy always hurts my stomach. And then we eat like drown them in salsa. Anyway, I don't know how we started talking about this, but yeah, let's haunted prisons. That's what we're talking about today. I think we each have like a couple prisons, right, yes, I have now yeah okay, oh, hey, me too, and they're short. My mine as short. Okay. Let you want to do like one in one just little switch us back and forth. Good, Okay, So my first one is one of the most haunted prisons in Equavaud, probably not all of Latin America, because I think every country has a haunted prison, maybe every state. I don't know. There's a lot of Probably. I feel like prisons are one of those places where you're going to find like a lot of happens because like inmates, I mean they they go after staff and they go after other inmates. It's never one like fully safe. Yeah exactly. It's like I think it's hospitals or like old sanatoriums that were super fucked up, like the same kind of energy where they're just yeah, they're gonna be hunted for sure. So this is a expal. This is a former prison turned museum in Quito, Ecuador, and it's very old. The prison was inaugurated in eighteen seventy five and then closed in twenty fourteen, so there were still prisoners there in twenty fourteen, which to me is like recent. I feel like two years ago. Yeah, it was like, oh my god, yeah it was like nine years ago. Yeah, almost threw up a little bit. That's that's age. It feels like it's not long ago, but you look at the number and you're like, oh my god, what the fuck it's almost ten years. Yeah, Because I'm like I was thinking, like I was looking back at my kids pictures and I was like, it's twenty and eighteen. I was like that was like two years ago. And then I entered the math and I was like, no, it wasn't. Yeah, I'm the same way. I'm like, oh, two eighteen wasn't that long ago? And then I look at my town and he's like, oh shit, he's like not a toddler, he's a kid now, he's almost five. So yeah, obviously it's been more than two years. Sammy's too, like there's no way. But man, having no sense of time, no time perception either, I think it's like last year. And then you're like, wait, it's like six years ago. What wait, it's been ten years to wait my high school was thirteen years ago? What wait? No, my high graduation That's what I meant. You guys already had your reunion. Nobody went to hours. They made a Facebook group to planet. So I graduated in twoy ten. So you add ten years and you're at twenty twenty, like the mid pandemic. Nobody went. There was no way, and I graduated two thousand and nine. I think it was like obviously the year before years, but nobody fucking went. I'm like, what I see everybody outside of like, uh the high school now, like and you see everybody's updates like on Facebook or socials, so it's like, why am I going to see you? Yeah, especially if you're still like local in the area, like there's people you still see anyway. I don't. But I was like, I'm not gonna go all the way just for this anyway. But then it was a pandemic and I was like, I'm not gonna go anyway. And then the two of you, that's yeah, right, I'm going paying like one hundred dollars to Yeah, I'd rather go to like a restaurant I like and see the two friends. Yeah. So yeah, close to the twenty fourteen way too reason. And this is what is known as a pen optical prison. And when I first saw the word and I was like, what is this. I've never seen this word. Yes, what is that? I don't know this. So it's a circular prison. Oh what sells arranged around a central well from which prisoners could at all times be observed. And then when I looked at the word again, I was like, oh, yeah, that makes sense because pan, like you can pan when you kind a picture, you move it, you know, from in all directions. And then optical like yeah, you know, I was like, I guess I could have used my context whatever. But yeah, so they made it's like the walls are around so that they could look down on their prisoners basically, and apparently some of the worst prisoners in Ecuadorian history have stayed here. So yeah. And the prison was named after the former president Gabriel Garcia, and he was president at the time. He's the one who ordered the construction of the prison. He was inspired by La Sente prison in Paris. I can't say, I can't see French words and not do a fake French. Actually, it's like a mandatory. It's pretty sure it's sacrilege if you don't do it. Yeah, yeah, And that's one of the most famous prisons in Paris, apart from like the Bastille or I don't know, I don't know how to say that ANYWAYSTI the Bastille. No, I'll stop. So, and this isn't the first time that we hear of, you know, presidents in Latin America wanting to base their buildings on European buildings, just like the other place we talked about. That place was fucked up, the La Casta, the Castagne. I don't remember, but yeah, I know it's something like that. Yeah, say, the same thing. They were inspired by Europe here inspired by the most stupid things. Yeah. And it's rumored that he wanted the doors, the cells, the walls, everything black so that the prisoners went and see any type of lights, any type of bright color, anything that could make them happy, which is messed up. Each cell is almost twenty two squared feet and they were made to hold two people per cell, but of course that didn't happen. Each cell had fifteen to twenty prisoners living inside of it, which is a lot. The prison is sectioned in two five, and I think that's like because the scent. Yeah, the sanatorium had the same thing where it said it was sectioned into But I'm like, I've never heard that in English. But I mean our places being sectioned into pavilions. I always yeah, I always thought of put a pavilion like a I don't even know. Let me see what comes to mind when I hear the word pavilion. Oh my god, hold on, I can't die and I can't spell. Apparently, pavelion in the summer house or other decorative building used as a shelter in a park or a large garden you. Okay, this makes sense. I was gonna say, I think of like when you go to the park, when you have a party at the park and there's a thing covering, That's what I think of. Yeah, so that's that's pretty much what it is. But I'm I'm guessing like when they mean pavilions, it's sorted into like these little rooms or like house like rooms. Oh yeah, yeah, or like a maybe like a tower, Tom could Yeah, it could be a guard. It's just tower. It's like a little place where they work at. Yeah. That is also a the little the guard pavilion is shown as being like a tower to overwatch. This makes sense. Yeah, so yeah, I mean there's just the different different areas I guess. So each pavilion had different types of criminals. So Pavilion A that's where you would find the nantes, the politicians, the bankers, important people that committed crimes or high profile people, but that didn't like murder anyone, Okay, it was like side Yeah, Pavilion C, D and E held the minor crimes, so like drug possessions, whatnots, things like that. Pavilion B that was the most dangerous one. This is where the violent criminals were held people imprisoned for murder, rape, other violent crimes, and Pavilion B contained one hundred and fourteen cells. Each cell had fifteen to twenty men per cell. And so some of the people that were in Pavilion B. Have you heard of a monstro Los Angeles, the Monster of the Andes? I have not. What is that? Oh? So this is a serial killer, perhaps one of the most prolific ones in La in America. His name was Pedro Alonso Lopez. Actually, I don't know if he's stole a live because I don't care about him. And he raped and murdered at least three hundred girls in Colombia, Peru, Oh my god, Yeah, and Ecuador a lot. I believe. I believe Lenanias has an episode on them, if anyone wants to listen to it. I don't know that I'll ever cover anything like that heavy crimes. Another one is Daniel Camargo. He's another serial killer that was in Pavilion B. He raped and killed at least seventy women in Ecuador. Wow. And he was actually killed by another prisoner when he was in Pavilion by Hiovanni ar Cecio no Guerra Haramo. Oh my god, name very long. Yes, he he decapitated Daniel Camargo, That's how he killed him. And then he cut off Daniel Camargo's ear and then wore it as a trophy for a year. Was so out of like left field. Yeah, that's took, that's a turn. Another famous criminal and Pavilion B was Dante Crino and he was a scammer. Apparently at some point he sold a whole street in Gai and it was not his street to sell, Like, how the hell do you sell a street to someone? And then he escaped prison three times, oh my god, one time dressed as a nun. So maybe a good case to cover in the future if we want to, you know, to dip our toes back into a true crime. And it's just so like random, yeah, as a nun. The mention of the prison escape reminds me of the guy that just recently escaped and he was just caught. Just see that video. Oh yeah, and I heard that there was another one another. Oh god, it's shipped together from the same prison. Yeah, I don't know, from the same prisons from the same state though, Oh damn. Yeah. The way that guy escaped was wild. He like literally just climbed Wait he did such a heinous crime? Did he? I didn't look at it? Murdered his girlfriend in front of her children. Wow, While I'm glad he got And then the whole his whole community was trying to like help him cover it up. I guess what, like the like you know, like the peoples and his people in his life. Yeah, the people in his life, and then like also I think people from like his area where he lives in. Oh, but how he escaped was fucking wild. Yeah, this is this is the one that just like climbed up like Spider Man. Yeah, yeah, wild, absolutely wild. Welcome to our little Hunted break. We want to give a shadow to the spooky supporting us on Patreon. Thank you so much too, Mickey, Brianna Herzon, Alejandro, Jessica Laney, Valerie Ken Chatta, Christina, Eric and Vivey I'm Mere on Fears Street, Mattie, Desiree, Diana Ruben, Sonja, Liliana, Isaac Natcho, Mama Nellie, Alexandastriel, Malia, Gina, Dianna Ashes and Janey, Michelle, Monica Modesto, Cynthia Purla, Jessenia Dahlia Martin, Rene Eaties, Ghost Train, and matt Town Charity. 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Prisoners that were released later stated that apparently people used to perform satanic rituals in that cell. At some point, prisoners used whigiboards there, like I don't know if they had like makeshift whigeboards that they made themselves or what. On a separate occasion, five prisoners were found all all shaking on the floor with foam coming out of their mouths. Those same five prisoners later claimed that they saw the Devil himself inside the cell, which I mean, yeah, I would immediately start throwing up. Its terrifying. The prison is now a museum and so there's no areas that are really restricted to visitors. They can go wherever, but still people avoid the Devil's cell and people are trying to make it up there get sick on the No one makes it to the cell. Apparently, people get nauseous, start feeling sick, and a lot of people have like started to uncontrollably vomit on their way to the cell, like they can't just can't enter the cell. That's so weird, very creepy. And of course the cell is not the only thing that's haunted. The whole prison gives off bad vibes. People that visit claim to that it feels like time just stops once they enter. Others have said that it feels like they're entering purgatory, like, oh, this is literally hell, and everything is still in tact from when it was a prison. Like they moved nothing. So I could imagine that even if you are like closed off to the paranormal, you would go in there and still feel like, oh, this is weird because you're like stepping back into time. Basically, they moved nothing, Like it looks the same. They're just like they're just gonna keep it. Yeah, Okay. Then there's been paranormal investigators that visit the prison, and a lot have claimed to see like shadows at the out of the corner of their eyes, cell doors that open and close on their own, and disembodied screams m hm. And I was I started to watch a whole video of like you know, the Urban Explorers, like the but the ones in Spanish. There's a couple that have been to the prison, and I started to watch videos and then I forgot to finish them. So I don't know if they have good stories from the prison. I don't know how people do that, Like even if it's I'd feel like I always I'll be in danger because like a lot of them have like so much stuff like asbestos and all that crap. Like, listen, even if it's not haunted, that asbestos is terrifying enough, Yeah for sure, all right, So this next jail is from our prison is from Mexico, and it's Mexico's Black Palace, which I don't think we've covered. I hope not, because then would no we have it. I looked at your notes to it. Okay. It's also known as Palacio LUCUMBERI. Opened in the year nineteen hundred as a prison. This prison had the reputation of being one of the harshest environments at the time in the America's trigger warning for dark themes. So corruption was rampant at the time and those who ran the building had no problem in prisoning innocent people and having political prisoners. The next seventy six years, this Black Palace saw many dark things. People died here from illness, murder, and suicide. All the dark history of this prison is believed to be the reason why it's so haunted. One of the most common report is screams that are described as people in pain or being tortured. While this is terrifying, there is an inmate who still appears Doncinto is seen at night walking the cell blocks of the Black Palace. He is said to repeat the same phrase over and over again again oddly oddly enough, it starts with again, Amilia didn't come. Legend says that Hacintho was in love with a woman named Amelia. Amelia, however, betrayed him. She cheated on him, and then framed him for murder. He didn't do even through all the betrayal, he loved her, and he loved her so much he still searched for her in the afterlife. Oh that's so sad. And another version of the story, don Jacinto is not an inmate but a janitor. And just like the first story, don Jacinto still waits for a million. And that is the prison and it's in Mexico City, I believe. Oh okay, it's no longer in service, but people can go there and people inside. Yeah, is it a museum. I don't think it is, but let me tell check, because I feel like sometimes it's like one of those places that you could just be like, what's up. Oh it is it is a museum, but the entry is free. Oh that's cool. Yeah, so it is a museum, like you don't got to pay anything. You just go there. And it looks pretty like well kept. I think I sent you the link. But looks pretty well kept, looks very clean, very pretty. Oh. So my next one is last. This is a prison in Argentina. So it's it's called La cah Okay. It opened in nineteen o four and was located in Usai woo oo sai wo Argentina us Why, I'm sorry, I can't pronounce it. The jail was also called last. I said it was isolated from the rest of the country because it's stood on an island on the most southern part of Argentina. Apparently now to resort town. Oh, people go to high glaciers ski walk with penguins. Yeah, this sounds this sounds like it's an Antarctica, North South America, the North Pole, that's where they're going. I think they have one of the few non Arctic penguins. I could be wrong, though. Oh, but I'm not entirely sure, because where's the Argentina. Yeah, it says it's pretty cold over there, but not I don't think answered, But I don't know. I'm not entirely sure South American penguins. Let's see South American penguin. Oh, there are several penguins, Humble penguin, King penguin, Southern rock copper. Oh my god, this one's so cute. Just has like a little bushy a bushy hair on top. And here, let me send you the picture so you can see this this little cutie. Look at this little penguin. Oh my god, that's so adorable. So yeah, apparently you can walk with penguin's here now, but not when it was a prison. What's that? Poor prisoners? So yeah, right, they didn't get to do this. So at one point there was like no touristy town obviously, and this prison was built by the prisoners, and it's The prison itself was mostly used as a high security prison where officials would house repeat offenders, high level criminals, and political detainees. The climbing on the island is considered to be subpolar oceanic. Okay, this makes sense now, which means that rain and snow are common and temperatures range from the low thirties to upper forties. That's cold all the time, year round. Apparently, very often, the cold temperatures actually helped keep the prison secure, since many prisoners who tried to escape would realize that the odds were against them and they were better off going back to the prison than freezing to death. The climbing on the island was so harsh that many called it the Argentine Siberia or the cursed Land. I can see this now, I can see why prisoners usually arrived on the island by boat with shackles around their ankles, and their experience did not get any better from there. Their new home consisted of five main blocks, with two floors in each block. The cell has stone walls and floors that were about four square meters. Not much sun made it through the cell walls, and it was worse because the sun was only up for a few hours a day during the winter, and it's made for long and cold nights, and especially because the windows didn't close. Oh that's terrible. That is torture, literal torture. Oh my god. Yeah, I feel like that's like, I understand they're in prison, but that's like inhumane to do that exactly, regardless of their crimes. Like, yeah, seriously, and if you were one of the unlucky ones that was sent to this prison and it was over capacity, you had to share that tiny, tiny sail with two other inmates, which is terrible. Or you had to sleep in horse stables that were turned into make sure shift stills, so outside what the fuck? Yeah, or people, oh my god, it's horrible. Prisoners were put to work here and then a very like carpentry, mechanics, printing, shoemaking, But prisoners also took public works for the city and were responsible for building the city streets, bridges, and first train systems. Prisoners were also in charge of cutting wood for the city for the residents to use, and they didn't get to use it themselves. Ever, it's terrible. Yeah, this prison was the driving force behind the city's economy. And they're still like that. You can't have wood, sorry, we can't make fire, and you don't get you don't get to be warm ever, warmth, forget it. It doesn't exist for you anymore. But the hard labor was not the toughest part of the day, apparently, because prisoners were also tortured and beaten by cards. So there was two hundred fit the guards that worked there and patrolling the grounds and they just when they were bored. Their fun was like torturing the prisoners yeah. But during the governments of Josef feliks Uriburu and Augustine Pedro Justo, the prison director was Adolfo set Navas, and he had been accused of torturing inmates on several occasions. But I don't know if anything was done, probably not, Yeah, I doubt it. And it said that residents of the city also hurt, screams and cries for help from the prison when it was still open, and the jail closed on March twenty first, nineteen forty seven because of humanitarian reasons. But when people go to the prison now because it's a museum, all these prisons are museums now apparently, I guess, yeah. Wow, So people feel like a dark present and yeah, I mean a lot of horrible should happened there. Yes, it's terrible though, I mean, I feel so bad for those people. Aside from the prison's dark past, there's still other paranormal happenings apparently. So one of the spirits that said to roam the prison to this day is lanco Oh. I like her name, Lea Dama, not like Blanco, the Lady in White or the damon White. I guess yes, yeah, fancy name. Yeah. Supposedly this is the mother of a former prisoner who went there one day in hopes of visiting her son. When she got to the prison, she asked the guards if she could see her son, and the guards told her that her son had been misbehavior, he was in solitary confinement and could not accept visitors. But the woman was determined to see her son, and she stood in the fridge city and planned to try again. During another attempt to see her son, guards told the woman that her son had died of tuberculosis. Desperate to see her son, the woman somehow got past them and wandered the prison, and then she was found frozen to death. Oh my god, that's so sad. Yeah, till this day it set that the woman and her son roamed the prison looking for each other. So sad. I feel like his death was suspicious because they were like, oh no, And then every death inside of her prison is suspicious to me. This woman was first spotted in nineteen seventy eight and then again in nineteen eighty two by guards or soldiers who lived on the island's naval base and would help patrol the museum. According to eyewitnesses, she has red eyes, which is kind of creepy. Sounds a little more sinister than a ghost of a mom to me because of the red eyes. No, honestly, I would try to like reak havoc if anything happened to my kid, and I would have red eyes too, And so red eyes, long blonde hair. And she is crying and uncontrollably when she's seen. And apparently her spirit is so fryeny that guards tried to shoot at it when wants to shoot at her when they saw her. And these bullet holes are still on the prison walls because they'll see them. Wow. Wild. Another spirit seen in the prison is the spirit of at Cantina's first serial killer and most notable psychopath, Gaetano Santos Godino, and he is said to still roam the prison. He was responsible for the death of four children, but he also had seven other attempted murders and he tried to burn seven buildings. What Yeah, His stays were spent in prison alone, and he died without confessing to any of his crims. He was a target in prison, probably for killing a kid, killing kids, multiple kids, I mean, and so he was mistreated in prison, beaten by other prisoners, and sexually assaulted by other prisoners. It's not really known how he died, but former prisoners say that he was beaten to beaten to death by other inmates after he killed a cat that they considered a pet. In twenty nineteen, the paranormal research group Tierra del Fuego claimed they captured his voice using a spirit box that was so creepy, and people who visit the prison feel nauseous when they enter the main block and they can hear whistling. I don't like it. Just something about whistling is la. It's like it's like it's like the stories that whenever you hear whistling at night, it's just the ominous sign. But like I don't know if this happens during the day too, but it's just like not good. Yeah, and many people believe that the spirits or the whistling that people here, it's still the spirits of the prisoners whistling to each other like they used to when the prison was so active. Wow. Okay, so my next story is again pretty sure, but it's this next hunted prison is from Costa Rica and it's San Lucas Prison and it was a maximum security prison on an island. It was open from eighteen seventy three to nineteen ninety one. Nineteen ninety one, that's all. That's too long, that's too recent, even though it's not really that recent. Yeah, and it was like it was. It has over a hundred years of a dark history, and being sent here was a death sentence for many. The living conditions were terrible and prisoners were It was built to hold the most dangerous prisoners and it was built off of the coast on an island to make sure these prisoners stayed away from the community. It had a notorious reputation as being the most dangerous penitentiary in the country of bost Arrica. It's compared to Alcatraz here in the state. It was abandoned in the nineties and is now a decrepit place. There is graffiti on the wall that is rumored to have been created with blood. Since prisoners didn't have supplies, they used what they had. There were many murders during its history, both of staff and inmates, and there was a lot of suicides and illnesses, so a lot of death, which is said to add to the dark energy here. There is said, Yeah, there is said to be a ghost a nurse that still haunts the prison. According to legend, the nurse was assaulted and murdered by inmates, and she remains trapped in this prison. Many reports seeing her as well as hearing her whisper to them. There's also said to be a ghost of a priest. He's also believed to have been murdered by inmates. People hear disembodied voices begging for mercy, they hear screams, and they see shadow people from like the thing has everything from current pictures I've seen, this place should be condemned because it looks like there's like a lot of black mold. Now it could be paint, but it looks like black mold to me. I think it's a little bit hazardous, so like it's haunted and dangerous for the living. But before I end this, this is I got both stories from Amy's crypt and it's gonna be I'm gonna do it, or least book recommendation. But she does spooky travel, so she travels around the world for her Oh yeah, I've seen some a lot of her pictures, and yeah, that was the story that I don't know. This prison just looks I'm pretty sure it's black mold and like it's a hundred prison. But I ain't going in there. Yeah, I am not breathing that stuff. And I'm pretty sure it is. I sent you the pictures. Oh yeah, let me look at them. Looks like black mold to me. Oh that does look like black hole because it doesn't look like paint. That does not know, But that's also like a lot of mold. No, I feel like it is. It could be like a very damp area. But oh, if you guys go there, we're like a like a respirator, like a paint respirator. That that stuff isn't good. Yeah, that I wouldn't want to break that in for sure. Wow. Well yeah, and this brings us to the end of the episode. I believe. Yes, okay, do you have any spooky recommendations? Just to you guys, check check out amy script dot com. I get a lot of like haunted stories from her, and we mostly cover Latin America, but there's some really good ones from around the world. So yes, spooky recommendation. I have a couple of things. So one, I did actually start listening to the podcast that I mentioned two, The Exorcist Files, because and when I mentioned it. I wasn't sure if it was an audio drama or if it was like real. So I have now learned that all these episodes come from a vault of a Catholic priest who was an exorcist for the church in I forgot where, and he has a whole like vault with files of exorcisms he did himself, and that's where all the episodes are coming from. That is terrifying. And let me tell you obviously, so it's a Catholic priest. It's very heavily Catholic. They talk about like the first episode is I guess spoiler alert if you haven't listened to it, forward like a minute or so. So the first episode is a woman who wants to get pregnant so bad she starts dwelling into like the occult, you could say, and you know, one of the sins one of the most worst things you can do is dwell into the occult in the Catholic Church. So you're not supposed to go to mediums. You're not supposed to do all this kind of stuff. Which is funny though, because when you look at Mexico, the mediumship, spirituality, it's very intertwined, right, and it's also very weird because historically Christianity and Catholicism is a very I don't want to say magic based, but a little bit magic based religion. You had a mixture of like to the point where when I studied Renaissance art in college, you could see that people at the time, even priests, really believed in zodiacs and like premonitions and ships. I don't know when it changed, Yeah, it like changed, I want to say, like in the last like maybe one hundred and two hundred years. But it was a very religion that was very mystic and it has changed a lot. And if you go to like Mexico today, no one bats an eye if you say you went too or you went to something else, a healer of some story that was not the Catholic Church, even the church itself, They're not going to tell you anything because it's so common. But that's not a thing everywhere. So this woman went to a medium, and this the father himself is on these episodes talking about what happened in the case. So he's like, and that's what she did wrong. She invited like evil spirits when she did that, and she was like desperate to become a mother, that it became an obsession and she wasn't like happy with she wasn't okay with what like God was giving her at the moment, and that made invited evil spirits in. So it's a little preachy to me obviously, because but again it like if you listen to it, know that it's going to get preachy because the father himself is talking on the episodes and it's it's like catholic, you know, but it's so creepy. Yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna listen to that. So there's parts where he's talking about the case, but every episode starts out with like what led up to it? Right, so people are acting out the things he wrote about, and then he chimes in, the father himself chimes in, and then you get to the part where the actual extracism is happening, or when it's revealed that there's like a demon inside this person and that those parts are so scary to me. Oh, it's so good. It is really good, So I do recommend it. It's crazy. I'm listening to that while I cook today, Yes, do it? Do it? Yeah? Those those parts are so creepy. And then my other thing is I'm so sad I didn't get to watch it Satanic Hispanics. It's out on theaters now. I saw that. Yeah, but I was sick last week and that's when the only showings that were near me in Portland were happening. And now there's no showings near me. Apparently. It seems to be a lot of showings in California that I because I looked at the website, so like, as of this week, I only see showings in California specifically, like southern California. Oh yeah, it's always over there. Yeah, so there's nothing over here, and it's not available to stream yet or rent or anything. But yeah, so that's another thing. If if you, if you can catch a showing near you, definitely check it out. I really want to watch it. One more recommendation before we say goodbye. A million miles Away on Amazon Prime. It's such a good movie. Oh, I do want to see that. It's good. I just hate that he's a scientologist. Oh, Michael Benya the main actor. I didn't even know everybody's a scientologist. Now it's the worst. So yeah, that brings us to the end of the episode. 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