Haunted Statues in Latin America

Hi, everyone, This is Christina and Krmen. Yes, there's no empty today. She is recovering from a cold, not COVID. She checked a bunch of times. Yeah that would suck. I mean a cold. Still it still sucks. Yeah yeah, but it's still better than COVID, I think. Yeah. Yeah. So Krmen's here today and we are talking about well, I'm going to be telling you, Carmen about some hauntage statues. Yeah yeah, one in Mexico, one in Argentina, and then I threw in a little bonus one in California. All right, yeah, but before that, I have a listener story and I won't let you get through it zero interruptions. Oh, we'll see about that. Are you drinking water? Yeah, it's because I had a cup of coffee earlier in the morning. I didn't finish it all though, and then you know, I traded myself to Smoky's, this restaurant I like only Monday through Friday. Today is a Friday. I have off magically because I quested it off, magically requested it on. So yeah, I treated myself to Smokies and I got of anol latte there. Oh lovely. It was probably like a sixteen ounce ish and so I felt it was too soon for more coffee and I just finished that like an hour ago. Okay, I can see that. And also I not drink any water all day. Yeah, you had a tough test to get through, and you can't be through through the test. Yeah I did once the time the clock was running. It didn't stop for me to be but I had to wow, and you're still passed. Okay, that's all clap for Carmen. So yes, a listeners story before I get to the story. If you have a story that you want to send into the podcast, you can email Espuitos at gmail dot com, sendit it on our discorn. You can give us a call. I'll leave it in a voicemail. We just got one. I, however, did have it ready to play or I would have played it here, but I have it. We'll probably listen to a next episode, So thank you so much for the person who did that. I already listened to it and I forgot so it's like it's gonna be like new for me. That's an option. You can email a voicemail in Some people have done that, and yeah, we'll play it in the episode. So I always love receiving everything, but those I think are like extra extra, extra fun. And this wasn't in via email, so I would just read the whole thing. Hello Christina and MJ. There's no MG today, and Carmen, I'm gonna replace it. Hello Christina and Carmen. You guys are the best and I enjoy listening to all your back and forth and storytelling. I am currently writing this from the most haunted room of the Alex Johnson Hotel in South Dakota. Wow. My job allows me to travel, and when I travel, I try to stay in haunted places. I love that. I wouldn't do the same. Maybe said you wouldn't do the same. I would, but you wouldn't even go upstairs in our grandma's house. Shut the fuck up, fucking at You're right, You're right. No, I called you out. I didn't attack you. Well, it wasn't attack for me, even though you are calling me out, I feel attacked. Yeah, No, you're right, I won't even go upstairs because I'm scared. I won't either. I'm just saying like I also wouldn't stay in haunt and placed it on purpose. I think if I was already there, I wouldn't leave, but yeah, I wouldn't go. I wouldn't leave. Seek it out, you wouldn't leave. Yeah, I wouldn't leave. I am too broke to like go and find any hotels. I could sing it for that, you would sing it. Okay, let me continue now. Before I get to my listeners story, I wanted to give you a little background on the room I'm staying in. Supposedly people encounter of women in white. She was a young bride who died by suicide by jumping out of the window of this room, Room one hundred and twelve. There are different accounts, and reportedly she likes to open the window in the middle of the night, so I might wake up to that. You know what, by the time we're reading this, let us know. If you did wake up to that, let me know. I need to know. The hotel even keeps a log at the front desk where people can write out their experiences in the room. Wow. Wow. If I do end up experiencing anything, I will be sure to update you. Okay, So maybe maybe she didn't. Anyway, onto my actual listener story that takes place in Mexico. These are experiences from my parents when they lived in Quahuila, Mexico. The house they lived in was in front of a little creek. My parents would experience a lot of things in the house. For example, my dad really liked reading those novellas with this sleazy cover, and he would leave the stacks of them on their dresser. One night, my mom and dad were sleeping when they woke up to the sound of the novellas smacking against each other and were having sex. I guess da wow. They both said that they were too scared to move, but when they finally did, they could see the stacks of novellas had been moved to the floor. It was as if the novellas that sat on top of the stack on the dresser were being stacked perfectly on the ground, one by one. Oh that makes more sense. Okay, yeah, I just thought they were like sitting. We're so fucking dumb. Oh my god. The fact that we thought the same thing just cements how dupe. I was gonna say, how we're like twins, but that's how we're done twins. Oh my god. Okay. When my mom would be cooking, she would have multiple pots on the stove, one for beans, one for rice, one day, she left the food on the stove to cook and she went out to sweep the stoop, so she spent a few minutes outside. When she came back inside, she saw that the burners that she had put the pods on were off and that the pots had been moved to completely different burners. This would happened multiple times. Lastly, there was one time my dad woke up in the middle of the night and had to go to the bathroom. As he was walking down the hallway, he felt someone blowing on the back of his neck. That's the worst one yet, Oh my god. Being the middle of the night, my mom was sleeping and nobody else was in the house. He wiped his neck, turned around and saw that there was nobody there. There were always rumors that children had drowned in the creek that ran behind the house, and even though the occurrences scared them, they never really felt malicious. They felt malicious to me. No, those were like playful. I think. The only one that felt malicious to me was the neck touching thing blowing on the That's what it was. Yeah, Oh I don't like it. So those are our stories. Again. Huge fan of the podcast, Keep up the great work, Janey, Thank you Janey for sending that in. And wow, yeah, sorry we got confused with the magazine story. I think only we could have done that. I think everyone else would have been like, oh they're being moved any were like someone's clapping, the magazine is together. Oh my god. Our would says, she would call us at us, which is short. Yeah, that's how much she's she calls us. Yeah, yeah, that she shortened it to at us. And now she's saying, as long as we're anymore, just at that now yeah, so now yeah, she'll like still message like yeah, because sometimes we'll have moments like this. You know who doesn't, right, right, yeah, right right? You know the first thing, the first story she said, a sort of story she said about the hotels and the bride jumping off. It reminds me of every hotel story that M tells on and that's why we drink. Oh yeah, yeah. If a hotel doesn't have a story of a woman jumping out of the window, is it even a hotel? That's my question. Yeah, and she has to have a white dress or a red dress on. Yeah, although there is somewhere I don't remember if it's California or somewhere else. There's a train station with a lady in a green dress. Oh wow, green dress. That's different. Yeah, I want to know where the ghosts are, where the girlies are with like the big T shirts and hoop ear rings and jeans and like Nike. Where are those ghosts? You know what? I never hear haunted stories about, like you know, the hood. I feel like that's where they would be. And that's the kind of ghost that I would want to be haunted by because I would be like, you know, you probably grew up next to me, and I wouldn't be afraid of you. You're not like some races from the eighteen hundreds exactly. You're not gonna blow out my neck in the middle of the night because you get it. You get it. You're gonna move my pots around maybe, but like that, Yeah, if anything, you're gonna watch out for me and that sense you're more of an angel than a ghost. And that's what the song Angel Baby was truly about. A ghost. I love that song. You start singing it, but I can't do that. They're not seeing it's terrible. So my first story, well, first, before I get into the hunted statue stories that I have written down carpet and I first we grew up in Oakland, and then we moved to Modesto, California. But in Oakland on I don't know if it's still there either, But on thirty fourth Street, I think, is that where our cousins lived. It was, I don't think. So we were on thirty fifth. We would walk over to their house. But on the way to their house we passed a big house that had these like lions sages. Oh okay, yeah, that wasn't thirty fourth Stree. That was a different stree. They were further away and thirty fourth next to thirty five. Yeah, they lived like We had to pass the library. And if you're from Oakland, you know exactly what we're talking about, because is there more than one library. I don't know. There might be the big citywn yeah, city Ivan. No one will know what we're talking about because they have a horrible sense of navigation, which is even worse as children. So this is true. This is true. So anyway, there was a big house and I know what house you're talking about. Yeah, you know what house. No one else knows what house I'm talking about. Anyway, this bed. Yeah, this doesn't matter. The point is. The point is we walked by a house with lions statues, and I imagined that those statues came to life. And then when our mom told us the story of Las even more so, I was like, oh my god, those lions are gonna attack me. But we never walked in the middle of the night there or so we were safe. And then in Modesto, okay, people will know this. Probably when you're leaving Deep and you're going into the downtown area of Modesto or the rest of Medesto, you have to go through that little bridge, Lion Bridge. Lion Bridge, okay, and there has lion statues as well. It still did they take them all? Are they gone? I drive there often and I don't remember. I just haven't been trying to avoid that bridge because somebody told me it was like socially unsound. NIU fall at any moment? What the buck? Yeah, somebo told me, like, oh business forever. I guess every day. I know, That's what I told them. I'm like, I used to drive every day to fucking school. And they're like, yeah, no, I don't drive that way. They're like, I go the opposite way. If you kept going a couple streets down on Age, you could get on the freeway and skip the bridge like you didn't have to take the bridge. Can keep going down and take the freeway instead of the bridge. Wow, well we could have died. Get to know. Point is of that is that I also thought those statues were haunted. Anytime I see a statue, IM like this as a person, the ghost is trapped inside and at night they come out. I mean I used to not anymore. Yeah, right, we have outgrown those beliefs. Yeah, yeah, And but today I have some actual allegedly haunted statues, not my imagine, our imagination, because we both thought this. The first one Islen Woo the Devil in the Garden of the Garden one of those. I think both work. I don't know English second language. So many years ago, there was once a man who lived on a farm that was located on La Avenida, Argentina. I like that name, he was going to say that. Yah. Yeah. He was a greedy man who called upon the devil to grant him a wish. The man told the devil that if he helped him win the biggest lottery in the region, he would give him his soul and build a statue in his honor so that everyone could see it and worship him. The devil agreed, and soon the man's wish came true, and he won the lottery and returned. The man made good on his promise, and he began to build the statue. He worked tirelessly to finish it, but just before it was completed, several neighbors heard loud, agonizing screams coming from the man's farm. When the townspeople went to check on the man, they found him paralyzed and in a similar pose as the statue. WHOA, that's good. Quickly no one could explain what happened to the farmer, but the townspeople began to believe that the man's soul became trapped in the statue. Is that not? What I said? Is exactly? Wow? Did you did you know the story? I guess, I guess deep down did and deep down in your soul that you still have because you didn't sell it to the devil? Exactly exactly Yeah, yet not yet. The statue itself was terrifying, with many who claimed to have seen it saying it was the color white and the same height as an adult it had a pointy goatee, large horns, and a diabolical grin with a stair that struck fear in you yiankes terrible. Some also claimed that the statue was kneeling on its left leg while its right hand was over its bent right leg. I'm sorry what yah? So it was it was kneeling because left leg was touching the ground, the right leg was up, and it was resting its hands on the right leg. Oh I see, I see. Yeah. So the leg that was up was the right one, and that's the one that the hands were on. Yeah, so like you how you this doesn't work? But you see I can like, okay, yes, yeah, I didn't think you were gonna acted out, so I needed to want to see Carmen acting individualize it. Okay, that makes sense. Yeah, that's why I did that. I didn't know. No, oh my god. Additional claims also say that the statue's left hand held a flute, and others say was holding onto its beard. It's terrifying that people remember a different things. Yeah. I don't like it. No, Like it's changing knows you're reading it or saying it and then changing itself, yes to reflect whatever, whatever. A flute means I don't know. I don't know. Musicians are diabolical though, so they always sell their soul. Yeah. And if a guy, if a man, is a musicians, he's gonna break your heart. So that's why they learned the guitar. Guitar. Yeah. And if he can sing, oh my god, it's over. Don't even go there, no hurt. The same about dancers, and if they can sing and dance, you're fucking dud. Don't even unless you're looking to get your heartbroken. That's time. Some people want that, you know, to feel alive. I don't know either way. The frightening statue became an eyesore in the town, so the townspeople tried to get rid of it by throwing it down the river, but somehow it always should back up guiji board uh huh yeah, And yeah it showed back up just fine, like like nothing that ever happened to it. Uh huh yeah, like new wow. For the next following years, several people in the town reported having an eerie feeling whenever they passed by the statue, but no one dared to try and move it again. They feared they would meet the same tragic fate as the farmer who built it. In nineteen sixty five, though a man bought the farmer's property and opened a restaurant called The Restaurant became popular, and even though the restaurant owner claimed that the statue was not haunted, many people from across the country still visited the restaurant to have a chance to stare into the statue's eyes and possibly catch a glimpse of the farmer's soul who was supposedly trapped in it. Well, I'd do that. I do that because there's no risk there. I think if you're just going looking at a statue and leaving, I mean, nothing's going to happen, right if you look at the n eyes so far or no, I don't think so, other than it didn't say it was going to still their soul or anything like that. So eventually the restaurant's owner sold their property, and with the restaurant, the statue also disappeared. What it was just gone one day. No one knows what happened to the statue, and photos of it do not exist, but many claim that the new owners threw it away and replaced it with the Holy Water Fountain, hoping that it'll keep evil energy away. Honestly, I'm not a fan of that. I wish they would have kept it. Me too, me too. Like they said of themselves that it wasn't haunted. Why don't I just leave it there? Yeah, nothing was happening, you know. Yeah, like if you want to be somewhere where there's holy water, just go to church. Yeah, but leave the statue, like, don't bring the holy water to the restaurant. Although it was in a restaurant anymore, I guess. So, yeah, I don't know. I don't know what it was after the Yeah, let to see if it's in here, Okay, I don't know if it became anything. Even though the city of Parana has changed a lot since the devil statue was there, some people like the architect Marcello Almost, who lived there years and it's the director of the Museum of Drossa Galisteo, swears the statue was real. Yeah, I guess. Yeah. There's people that still remember it and people that have no idea. I never saw it, and it's just gone like it's nowhere now, it's nowhere. So Marcello almost says that the statue was a fun and not a devil, but other people swear it was a devil. Yeah, like a goat, but it had legs. It's like a centaur. But I'm imagining, Okay, that's exactly what I was picturing, you know, like the guy from Hercules. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, where he's like a half goat, half person. Yeah, that's what I was picturing also, but also like the centaurs from Harry Potter. Okay, they have four legs and he only has two legs. Yeah, okay, well that's still pretty creepy even if it wasn't. I mean, I could use that for the devil for sure, Like yeah, but even that has warns, you know. Yeah, yeah, that's not a fun that's the devil. Nowadays, the farm and the statue no longer stand and instead it's a commercial building. That's what it is now. Thanks Don. I was wondering what it was now, so glad she answered that. Wor us. Why is there no pictures of it? Did it say in the years? So the restaurant opened in nineteen sixty five, and matter how long the restaurant was opened before it closed down, I mean, yeah, there would could be pictures of it then. Yeah, I wish that would have been cool. Yeah, welcome to our little Hunted break. We want to give a shadow to the spooky supporting us on Patreon. 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Okay, this next one I have talked about on TikTok, but you know, like very briefly because it's a one minute video. Actually, I think this is like forty five seconds what I uploaded it to TikTok. But this is the legend of in Chihuahua. Interesting. I'm hooked already. Yeah, I mean, you know, you just hear that and you're like what, You're like intriguing, and like if you pass by this statue or monument, I think you pass by and you're like, what the fuck? Because it is the so I mean, hence the name the Seven Little Heads. It's a big, like rectangular monument. It's it's big, and then in the middle there's like bronze seven bronze heads, seven bronze heads, yeah, yeah, of little boys. And then underneath each head there's a name of each boy. And then there's a bigger plaque that I cannot find a clear picture of it, and I don't know what it says, yeah, but I think it just is talking about maybe what happened on that day, which I'm going to tell you what happened on that day. So on kilometer twenty one of the Catererica. This is a road in Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Chihawa. So the city of Chihuahua in the state of Chihuahua in Mexico, just passed a road known as La sometimes also called Laura Perico. Either way, it's a dangerous curve. Well I prefer the parrot name, yeah, right, parrot curve or death curve, Yeah, exactly. So just past that curve there's a monument depicting the seven heads of young boys and a plaque like I just described. This monument was put up after a tragic accident. So on August first, nineteen thirty nine, twenty five boys, all age ten to fourteen. They were all part of the Young Men's Christian Association of Chihuahua, so the YMCA. I just never knew what the letters were I heard before then, like I forget those every time I hear it, it's like a shock, Like what really that's what it's called. I don't know. It was a religious organization either. Anyway, they were traveling on and this is a truck, like a cargo truck. And if you've seen old like even pictures from like the labor union strikes, like farmers, farmers, Oh my god, what are they called? Farm workers. There's these trucks and on the back they have like wood panels. Are okay, yeah, and we're talking that is that is the truck. So these type of trucks are they're not made anymore because they're not really safe. Uh yeah, yeah. And you know back then they were used to carry people in the back and so you know, this was very normal, very common, and so the some of the boys, I want to say most of the boys were sitting in the back of the truck on boxes and they were headed to a national park, all also in Chihuahua, and they were going to camp there for a week. And this was a normal ride, you know, as young boys are going to do in the back of a truck. They're laughing, they're singing, apparently they were yelling at house, you know whatever boy things. And then it was five pm that afternoon when another vehicle they were heading to that curve that I just mentioned. So they were they were going and this doesn't make sense if you're on audio, but they were going that way on the curve like the car north. Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, so they were Yeah, they were going like north. They were going to take the turn, and then coming down the curve was another car. Yikes. And again, like I said, it was a dangerous curve. They didn't see the truck. And then later the driver of that vehicle said that his brakes weren't working, but that he did see the truck. So it was like a conflicting story either way. He came straight down the curve. They were turning at a slower velocity. Then that truck driver was coming down, so they crashed. They my head on, yes, and these boys were on the back of the truck. So seven of the boys died. Four of them died like sorry. Three of them died on the spot after the crash. Four of them died in the hospital. However, if you hear versions of the legend, some will say that they were decapitated during the crash, which is not true. It's just part of the legend. They were not decapitated. It's more ominous though, if you think that the seven boys were decapitated and then there's a monument with their heads, yeah, I would fall from that, or I would believe the legend because of the seven Little Hints, and it's probably why that version exists. There's also versions of the legend that say it's a bus and not a cargo truck, and that the kids were sticking their head out of the windows, oh man, when another bigger truck passed by, and then that's how they were decapitated. That was like a popular like urban myth. Yeah, I was deadly, deadly, frankly yeah yeah, stick in my hand out, Oh yeah, that I was gonna say. Yeah, I thought a car was gonna clutch us my head. Yeah yeah, I wouldn't never and every time I saw dogs and this is kid me, not me now, But I also thought that it was like your head back in Yeah, like I know you like it, but please you're in danger, legit or for those dogs, Yeah, reminds me our poor dog. We had a little dog named Peewee, and my art art dad, for some reason, was driving a truck and instead of bringing our little tiny dog in front with him, he put him in the bag on the freeway. And then he was driving and from from his mirror, his yeah, the side of his mirror, he just saw our dog dangling. Another car honked at him and I thought the car was being like crazy trying to pass or being like you know that kind of driver, like trying to pass him up or just honking for no reason. And then like finally flung him down and was pointed in the bag. My dog's like what and he looks in the rear view mirror or the mirror and then he sees our fucking dog dangling from his leash. Hey, you know, for dear life, that poor dog. Were not listened to him for like a month after or longer. I don't even remember. Pee wee was a survivor, he survived that. I could not believe it. So, you know, after hearing that, I was like, Okay, dogs sticking their head out of the window. They're safe because our dogs survived dangling for the side of a truck on the freeway. Like yeah, anyway, So yeah, these boys were not sticking their head out of the window, as the popular legend will depict. No, they were sitting in the back on boxes and that's very dangerous to do, obviously, but again, this is what's normal at the time. So one of the survivors, Alberto Contreras, he said that all of their things after the accident everything was all over the road. It was a horrible site. Clothes, food, blankets, the boxes that the boys were using as seats, and blood, blood everywhere. Plus you know, their friends that had passed away. And yeah, like I said, part of the legend, will you know say that all boys died at the same time, like they're on the SPA, but three of them did. Four passed away in the hospital later. It was a tragic accident. The whole state of Chihuahua was mourning the death of the boys because I mean, it's like it's seven kids. They were so young too. Yeah, they were so young. And I will say, I mean, I think every country but Mexico like loves kids. And like when you go to Helisco, there's these signs everywhere that's say or when you mean well, and it doesn't make sense to me because none of it is really the sidewalk is dangerous. Yeah, no, it's true, it is. It doesn't it's not child friendly, but there's signs everywhere. The city's structure is not child friendly. But okay, yeah, people love kids. Like I've said this before on the podcast, but when I traveled to Mexico compared to traveling to within the States. Yeah, people are so nice in Mexico. They're like they'll help you hold your child with like, oh you need help here, let me grab them and whatever's it's it's very nice anyway. So yeah, people they were very sad. They were mourning the loss of these seven children, and so they put up a monument on the twenty sixth of May and nineteen forty and this was built to forever remember the young boys who died on that tragic day. Well also to warn other drivers of the dangerous curve. Like they thought maybe they'll see this and like, hey, these kids died here, like this curve slowed down. It's dangerous. Yeah. The boys who died it was a fourteen year old Venacio Gabriel and Jorge Yokoman. They were all fourteen. No I messed up something here. They were thirteen or fourteen, okay, oh, no, I got it. Venacio and Armando were fourteen, Jorge Yokoman was thirteen. Luise Diaz Garcia and Theodoro Faulkner they were eleven. Interesting last name, that's so young. Yeah, and then Alberto Menespenya and Racio Brundo were ten. Oh my god. Even younger, even younger. Yeah, some of these names. I just love their like old timing names. Vinacio, yeah, though it was making a comeback in English at least. I don't know about Spanish. Really, I didn't know that. Yeah, Theodore. There's a lot of Theos. Although I will say twenty eighteen children that are some type of Latino. Latino, that kid's gonna be named Matteo. When I'm at the park with my Matteo. There's a ton of fun there. Weren't the only one that chose that name that year, No, I was not. It's a very popular name. And you know what, I don't even care because he's going to experience. There's like a bunch of Christina's in the classroom. It's so funny because in every grade there's maybe one other Carmen or no other Carmens in our grade in high school and there were like three other Christinas and every one of my classes. Yeah yeah, and so I have a complex about it. And when I started working where I am now, there was so there's three units within my like uh huh, actual unit, and there was a Carmen in one of the other units, and they were like Carmon whatever initial it wasn't Carmon H. And I was so not used to it. And then she changed units, and then people sometimes we were still writing Carmon H. And I was like, no, no, no, no, there's no Carmon shere anymore. I'm just Carmen. And then I made them reprint the because they have the list. I'm a monster. They have a they said, not always pronown a list of phone numbers for everybody, and then what's the birthdays? And then somebody had ran Carmon H. And I was like, no, no, no, no, there's no more Carmon H. Let's reprint this to just take Carmen please. Oh they just roll their eyes at me. So, yeah, he's gonna have the same experience. There's gonna be like Mattel H, Mattel L, Mattel whatever. It's gonna be funny. I'm curious to see about Sammy. And like I said earlier, I can't find clear pictures of what the plaque said. I imagine it says something about the tragic day and probably on this day, like on this dangerous road, like these boys lost their lives, like be careful when you're dry, or something like yeah, that's what I imagine if anyone is in the area, let me know, I want to see like a clear, clearer thing of this plague. But yeah, you can go see the moneyming yourself. It's it's there. Sadly, it is a little tagged up as things become, you know, over the years. Yeah yeah. Drivers that passed by at night claim to see a couple of boys running across the streets. Oh my god, and when they like break they disappear in front of them before their eyes. And you know this is right by the monument. Man is the drivers that are going too fast and the boys are like, you better calm your tits. I wonder you know what there is. There was a comment in one of the sources that I used that said, like, many believe they're being warned to slow down by the boys who don't want other people to relive. That makes sense, to suffer the s Yeah. Others that have gone during the day even claim to see the boys crying. Oh the faces and the statues of the statues like crying scary but sad. At the same time, others claim to hear screams of children in the area. That's scary. Yes, yeah, I think I'd rather see the crying statues. Me too, Me too. I wouldn't want to see the running across the street. Oh no, no, no, no no. Others say that the boys who died that day are condemned to repeat the accident for eternity. Why picture that. It's not even that they're physically they're repeating it, but it's like a okay, like a warning, like not a warning, but like you know, sometimes things happen in the house and it's like a type of hunting that is like talking about Yeah, yeah, but I don't there's a word for it. There is, Yeah, like a residual Yeah, yeah, you remember wow a for me? Yeah, but yeah, I almost think that it's a residual hunting that people are seeing it, yeah, but that the boys are not. They're off living their lives in heaven and they're happy afterlife wherever you know, we go afterwards. Yeah, that's what I hope at least. Yeah, But many people like will hear the sounds of a crash when there's no other cars around. It sounds like a residual haunting whatever it's called, and then hear those screams. So that's what I think. But people that experienced that haven't actually seen it happening, they just hear it. Yeah, and then and then obviously the what I guess kind of contradicts that it's a residual haunting though the running is there people that have seen the boys running across, so I don't know, very creepy. Every year, on the day of the accident, there's an homage to the seven Boys, so people gather and they're still at least a couple of years ago I found an article. No I think it's like it was like five years old now, there was a one or two of the survivors, you know, standing up there talking about the boys, and there's cameras. I'll find the picture because there is. Yeah, they're still have this every year, and they partly do this, at least they say, and hopes that the boys find peace and move on, but probably also just to commemorate them, especially because the last article I found there was still a couple of survivors alive and present. So yeah, that was. And I'll post pictures because it's it's a strange monuments to look at. I can't wait to see because I'm a little ominous. It sounds scary like given this monument itself. Yeah, it's just like seven heads there. It's I don't like it. I don't like it or no, you'll see it's a it's like a like a okay okay, oh yeah, I described it a little bit. The heads are sticking out. They're not like, well, I guess a little amount Rushmore style now like maybe a little bit okay. And then I have one more just bonus statue that I wasn't going to include, but I found a last minute because I was like, you know what, we have a lot of listeners in California. Let me just see if there's a haunted statue story in California. And there is. So in Bakersfield, there's only one roundabout on all the Bakersfield Yeah, Shadow Bakery. Weren't you just there? I just drove by their exactly the way two and back from lah Yeah, yes, I was there. Yeah. Yeah. But in Bakersfield there's one roundabout. It's known as the circle or like I don't know how to pronounce this either car seas circle, I don't know. It's apparently just known as a circle because there's the only roundabout in Bakersfield. So if you're in Bakersfield or you've driven through it, it's the only one you would have seen it. And also there's a big statue. This roundabout was built in nineteen thirty two and it was part of Highway ninety nine's construction. And since its construction there's been talk of paranormal activity there because in the middle of the roundabout there's a big statue of a Franciscan missionary. Oh, it must be Garsis, because these missionaries are all Spanish. Spanish, yeah, probably, yeah, so that makes sense. So was added to the center of the circle in nineteen thirty nine, and after that that's when the stories began. So drivers report seeing the statue wave its arm yaikes, very yaike. Get into a car accident after that? Right, well, apparently some wreck victims reported that they heard the statue utter a prayer right before the car crash. Are you freaking serious? Oh my god? Yeah, like a warning? Processing that insurance claim? Right, well, I heard it pray and do the excuse me? Denied? Claim denied? You were clearly your AFT fault. Yeah, So people think that the waving or hearing it prey is it's warning you that you're going to get in a car accident or it's causing it honestly, look yeah, yeah, because wow, I would crash if I heard that. Yeah, because I would be startled, because anything startles me. I could be sitting here really into whatever I'm doing, and then like someone's like I can't my husband, it's like Christina, I'm like, oh yeah, yeah no. But the other day I was driving my car and I continuing like this squeaky noise, and now I think it's like how I was. I don't know if it's my wheel or what. I was like, what if there's a mouse in my car? But how would that even happen? Like I've never even did a mouse here? Oh my god? And so I almost crashed. Yeah, if there's drying in my car that I just I can't drive. I need to part because I will crash. Don't even get sorry. I one time there was a sucking b in my car. Wow, I would die. And I hadn't gone and I saw it before. This is ridiculous, okay, because me and my husband we were going inside my car and then we saw the bee and then both of us refusing to go inside the car, and he wouldn't go and get the bee. And I was like, are you serious? You know that I'm afraid of bees. I have a phobia of bees, and he's just regularly scared of bees. It's not a phobia. It's not a phobia. So it's like, Okay, if you don't have a phobia, then you have to be the brave, winning you'll get to be. Yeah. And then some guy that was outside the store, you know the cardboard sign, he used that, and I like him because I was like, well, I'm not gonna do it, and neither is Paul. So he went inside of my car and he got to be out. This is hilarious. Wow you tell me this. Oh yeah, So I'm not surprised by Any's like, thank you sir. Wow. But imagine if I heard that while I was driving, I wouldn't be here today. Yeah, yeah, I would probably be. Yeah. This is why I don't drive to Bakersfield. There's a lot of not because I'm in another state. No, it's because also the father, right. I just remember that. I was like, the bees, the bees. I know they're dying, but I'm afraid of them. I will I will help them from afar. I will hold them by keeping my distance. Yeah, because if you get near when you're gonna like swing at it, No, I'll run for my life. No, you will, you will. We might as well tell the story already. When we were kids and we were in the Oakland Zoo, Carmen and Louise have like ice cream or popsicles or something. I don't remember. I just remember it melting in my hands as I was frozen in fear. Yeah, and then they were surrounded by honestly and four bees. Yeah. But in my little kid head, which is how I remember it now, it was a swarm of bees and you were screaming. You're screaming, and I think away, Yes, yeah, I ran away. I was going to save myself and me and Louise we froze, Yeah, Carmen and our brother, and we were screaming, frozen from these swarm of bees. I were in reality probably four bees, yeah, screaming for our parents. And ever since then, Carmen has been very, very afraid of bees. Remember as teens, we went to I don't know what lake, and I didn't get out of the car because there was bees. Yes, I remember, I just left me in my in the fucking car and they went to enjoy whatever time with you guys, and I was just there in the car we left. Yeah. Yeah, well this and this just shows that it's a real fear of beace. It's not like a normal fear. Yeah, but yeah, those have been the hunted statues, you know, a little bonus when in California. But the other one in a Chiawa, Mexico. And there's more a hunter statues that we've already shared throughout the podcast. There's one in Well, no, this isn't a statue. It's more like a tombstone. I think it kind of counts as a statue. But there's one in Halisco. It's not it's another town in Jalisco. I forgot the name of it. But this grave, like this is a very homophobic legend, I think. But you've already shared it. I don't remember. I don't remember if I shared it on TikTok or on the podcast, but I was just a very short version of it. And I want to say, it's say Jalisco, and none of this sounds familiar. I don't think you shared it on the podcast. Ah, there we go. It's even turned into a movie. In a movie from the nineteen eighties with Antonio hi, lad. But according to a legend, the there's this statue and well, this cemetery is haunted, right, and they would say that if you went around a certain time, this statue would tell you where the treasure was, but you had to do it a favor, and it was a sexual favor and the man. So a man was like tricked by his friend to go to the cemetery because he owned the money, and he's like, you need to get this treasure because like you owe me money. He needs to give me my money, and so he goes and then it's like midnight or whatever, and he's like, all right, well, my friend told me that I had to come here at midnight and talk to you because it's like a statue of a ghost. And then the man's spirit is said to also manifest where the statue is at, and so then he tells this statue that he's here for the treasure, and then the ghost is like, oh, yes, it's right over there, but first you have to like, I don't know, I'll tickle my butt or something like. It doesn't actually say tickle my butt, but it's like a sexual favor. And then and then ever the guy runs out of the cemetery and then never since. Then he holds his hands behind his butt because he's like anyone anything in my butt. I'm feel scared, Like, oh my god, it's a ridiculous legend, Like that's that's the legend. Are you serious? Yeah, that's a very short version of it. It's it's I'm like, why does this even exist? Wow? Yeah, I'm and not shocked weirded out by that story. Yeah, it's strange. Yeah, that's weird. Anyway, this brings us to the end of the episode. Do you have any spooky recommendations? I think the only one I have is and you said it. I think lots episode that there's a spooky ish episode of this fool that was funny. And I just finished this season earlier today. Oh you did? Yeah? Did you like it? I did? I did. It was pretty funny. I was. I was talking to her brother about it and he was like, I liked it. I loved it. But I hate Julio. Oh my god. Well, I don't think he's supposed to be likable. I think he's supposed to be like, like a nice guy. Yeah, but he's terrible really yeah, yeah, and they really and it's like how we talked about before how we like shows where everyone's horrible to each other. Yeah, and he's those truly, Yeah, he really is. And we both Louise and me both agree that Louise is our favorite character. Yeah, he's my favorite. Yeah, not to that minister Pain. He's also horrible, Yeah he is. Everyone is equally horrible. Yeah, they're all. I feel like Louise is the least horrible. Actually, actually I do. He's he may be the convicted felon, but he is the least horrible. And that's a real lesson of the show. I was gonna say that has to be like the purpose. Yeah, I'm sure, I'm sure. Yeah. You know he's called funny though he like goes on and on, like like when he was recording the video, Wait did you finish it? Yes, I've watched the whole thing, and I like a day oh where he was recording the video to propose to Ruby, and then he's like, oh, then we might dine in a plane crash and our our grandkids will be like and would be like, it's okay, we're in heaven. It's tied up here, but we missed you guys. That's like, why would you go on that. Yeah, like rambling, it's hilarious. My favorite, though, is from last season when he dressed up as that dinosaur in the group and everyone's like, you need to be serious, and they realized that the metaphor of Austin Powers was actually serious. Yeah, yeah, that was funny. It's a good show. If anyone has not watched it, like, what are you doing? Yeah, I've been working left and right to everybody. Me too, me too. I've already mentioned it, like you said, yeah, like two episodes ago, and yeah, I don't think I've watched anything else. I've been watching Mergers in the Building and it's spooky in the sense of crime. Yeah, and which we also enjoy here. Yeah, I'm enjoyed the wrong word. But yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, but no, yeah, I haven't really watched anything spooky or okay, yeah, well, since you brought up a crime, there is a documentary on a loose del Mundo, which you me and you did an episode on here, so it's I think, God, I don't remember if it's a one full documentary, if it has episodes. I'm pretty sure it's like four or six episode thing. I could be wrong. It's on HBO it's on Max. My bad, it's not HBO Max anymore. But I've watched a couple episodes of it. Horrible, horrible stuff, but very informative. Damn, you still need to share your password with me, by the way, Oh my god, I thought I already did that. You did by lost it somewhere like it's too far back in the messages to scroll. Oh my god. Okay, Welson, it's cool, thank you. Yeah. I think that's the only thing I've been watching. I have been meaning to check this podcast out for so long, and I finally did it, but I don't. So I listened to It's Snap Judge, Snap presents Spooked or something held on It's oh no, I can't, my phone's over there. This is just my case. Wow, let me see Spooked by Snap Judgment. I think it's very popular. People go on and tell their their own scary stories. There's a host that is like presenting a story, right, and so I listened to one called Las Muniekas, because it's a guy, you know, telling his story in Spanish. However, I do not like when someone is telling their story in Spanish, and so they start their story and then like fades out and then there's a voice actor that comes in and says it in English. But then they get that guy in accent. Oh, And I'm like, I get it. I don't know. I just like I know it's I know why it's done. I get it. It's it's an English audience. But if you're translating already, like we know the accent is forced, right, we know it's you can or do you think it's not? Maybe it's not, but it feels like it. But I could be wrong. I could be wrong. It sounds just to me. When I was reading for a studies unknown, I was reading that Coca Cola book, and whenever the author would read quotes that were said by the union workers, which of course were either Colombian or was the other place the stories took place, they were Central America. Yeah, he would use an accent, but I knew the author, the voice author or whatever they're called, voice actor narrator spoke English normally, and then he would put on this accent, and I'm like, okay, you don't have to put on this accent, Like I don't like this. Yeah, I found that I very much prefer Like there's a podcast called True scary story, which I do story editing for, and then someone else comes in and does a sound design that's by Edwyn on Scary FM. That's and so it's people telling their own scary story. And then he has a Spanish version of it called just Realist or something like that, and it's just someone just telling their full story in Spanish. And I'm like, I prefer that because there's no one coming in and speaking over them, where you can hear the Spanish very very very quietly in the background and someone speaking over them. I think I just would rather hear the full story in that person's language if I can. Yeah, but it's not. It's not always possible, you know, no exactly, Like I get it that podcast Spooked has a like main mainly English speaking audience, but because I know Spanish, I can hear the background, and I think it's just distracting to me because when that processing both want yeah, because you know both languages. Yeah, documentaries do it all the time too, they do, yeah, and it is still distracting. I'm just like, so, so, yeah, but the episode is good. I mean, people, it's people telling their own scary stories. It's always good. Another one I've been meaning to check out is Jim Harold's Campfire Stories. Oh, I always hear them talk about it on and that's why we drink, but I've never checked it out. Yeah, I think it's the same vibe. But I think people call in to tell us stories. I don't think they're prerecorded and then like edited into it. I think people are just calling in telling it. So I want to check that out. I've been meaning to if I mean, if anyone has like a really good episode that are like, if you're gonna listen to it, listen to this episode, let me know, let me know. But yeah, I guess that's to the end of the episode. Now officially, before we go, do you have anything to plug Carmen, You know I do, yes, So, Christina and I have two other podcasts. If you are into Latin American history, then you can check out Estonia's Unknown And if you are into novelas and talking shit, cheose me out whatever you know, then check out Yes, that's it. You can also check both of us out with MGI on the book Club episodes. The next book Club book is Silver Nitrate by Sylvia Moreno Garcia. I'm winning on my copy to arrive, need to buy it? Oh, so o, hey, use our link okay, okay, use my bookshop links. So I get some coins, okay, thank you. And yeah I wanted on the kindle. Oh you want it on the kindle? Never mind, then maybe i'll see Oh I wanted to do the actual copy this time, or you're not gonna do the audiobook? No, we'll see how it goes with an actual book. I have meds now, I think I can read finally anyway, before I go out on and on about that. Yes, so check that out if you haven't, because it's our next read. Stay a Spooky, and if you hear a statue speak while you're driving, just you know, like keep driving, don't get in a car accident like we would, Stay a Spooky. We'll catch everyone next time. Bye bye