The legend of Candyman, La Llorona, and San Antonio's Ghost Tracks all seem to have something in common: they turned real, even though they started as just stories.
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You may have heard of the urban legend about the Candyman,
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right? If you say Candyman five times
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in front of the mirror, this evil vengeful spirits going to
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appear and kill you. If there's a bunch of variations
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on, they're going to keep hearing throughout everywhere,
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like everybody has their own account.
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Somebody who actually got had an encounter with Candyman.
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But what if I told you that I found actual stories where
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legends like this one, the Candyman and other ones like La
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Yorona and the haunted railroad tracks in Texas actually became
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real? And that's what I have for you
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today. We're going to get started right
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away. Actually ready.
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My name's Edwin, and this is Paranormal Club Spookies.
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Welcome back to another episode here of Paranormal Club.
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These stories that I'm going to tell you about today have three
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common things, right? One is that they're all urban
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legends and urban myths that somehow seem to become real in
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their own way. There's also the fact that all
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these stories happen to take place in Texas.
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So huge shout out to Texas. This is actually part of our
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hometown Urban Legends series thing.
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We'll see where it goes. But then the third, and this is
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more of a content warning, is that these stories contain
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details about harm to a child. It's not graphic, but it's
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there. And I feel it's important for
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you to know, just so that you have a heads up, you have little
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ones listening or watching. Just listen at your own
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discretion and please take care while you're listening.
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So it's Halloween night, October 31st, 1974.
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Ronald O'Brien and his two children, that's Timothy and
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Elizabeth are getting ready to go out trick or treating.
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Three other neighborhood kids tag along, right.
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And actually one of the other kids that was with him was a boy
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from the church where he would go to.
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Now Ronald was a respected member of the community, an
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optician, optician and a like a member of the church, like an
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important respected member of the church.
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And they were going out trick or treating like normal.
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They head out to this house, they knock, trick or treat.
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Nobody's answering. Ronald kind of disappears for a
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little bit, comes back and he's like, oh, the owner of the house
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wanted to have these. So he decides to give them the
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candy instead. The candy in question are 5
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Pixie sticks, goes on 2 with two children.
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The other three children walk away.
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Everything's good. Later on that night, once I get
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home, Timothy was 8 years old at the time, opens up the Pixie
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stick. By the way, a Pixie stick is
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just like a paper straw kind of thing.
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You RIP it and there's a sugary powder.
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You just, it fits all in your mouth candy.
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They're pretty good, right? But he eats the candy, and he
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starts saying, like, oh, this is really bitter.
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So Ronald, the dad's like, oh, like, here, have some kool-aid.
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So it gives him a glass of, like, something to drink to kind
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of wash it down. But Timothy starts vomiting and
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convulsing. Happened so fast that he didn't
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even make it to the hospital. He died like almost right away.
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This is a super tragic story of what happened.
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But The thing is, the person who had given him the Pixie sticks
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was his own dad. Timothy was the only one that
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ate it. They happened to find one of the
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other children that had gotten one of these Pixie sticks.
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He had fallen asleep with it, like in his hand.
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He had to try to open it but couldn't open it.
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And he just kind of fell asleep. So he didn't eat it.
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But all of those were laced with cyanide, potassium cyanide,
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which later on turned out to be super, super suspicious because
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back then, obviously there's no like Google, they don't like see
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your Google history or your web browse history, right?
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They end up finding out like, oh, yeah, they talked, He talked
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to me about this and he said this or they start questioning
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everybody. You know, turns out he had
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questioned a lot of people about the lethal dose of cyanide,
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which by the way, the stuff that he gave to his child was more
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than enough to kill multiple adults.
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So a little 8 year old had no chance to survive this.
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It's very, I mean, the whole story is sick.
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Like it's just this, it's disgusting.
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Now, the proof of it, aside from him going to, you know, buy all
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these things, they had records of him going to a chemical
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supply store to gather this stuff.
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He had asked questions in class about this too.
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It was that he had taken out an insurance policy.
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He had taken out insurance on the death of his children.
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And Ronald was supposedly in like like around $100 in
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debt and he was going to get like a few, no like 10, a couple
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$10 with from the death of his, his child.
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So he did it for the insurance money.
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He goes to trial about 8 months later.
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This is 1975, we're in June now. And he it takes some, what, 46
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minutes to get through the trial that he gets convicted in
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another 71 minutes and he gets sentenced to the lethal
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injection. So they're going to it's
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execution. It takes a while, right?
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It takes a while for him to actually get through it.
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They do appeals a whole legal process.
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And there's a fight, you know, with the whole anti death
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penalty protesters and all these lawyers that are trying to say
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like, hey, this is not right. Like, yeah, he killed somebody.
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But what what gives us the right to take someone else's life
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away? He became known as the candy
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man, the man who killed Halloween or the Pixie Styx
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killer. It was terrible, terrible time.
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Very sad time for Texans, of course, with a protest in the
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counter protest. They say that when he was going
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to get executed. This has happened in 1984.
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Finally, they the the counter protesters, remember the
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protesters are the ones that are the ones that are and against
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the death penalty and the counter protesters are the ones
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that are saying like, no, he deserves it.
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But they were throwing candy at these protesters saying trick or
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treat, trick or treat. I found that kind of that point
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kind of strange, right? Because it's like, I mean, you
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could be pro that you could be against that.
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It doesn't stop it. You know what what happened
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sadly that the child still you know, he's not coming back.
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Now the interesting part about all this too is that that panic
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about searching through your kids candy during Halloween
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because it might be laced with poison or maybe it might have.
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I don't know, blades in the apples.
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I don't think I've ever gotten apples in as as a trick or
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treater ever. How could you even fit those in
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without noticing? I guess you.
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I guess it happened at one point, but anyway, it really
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pushed that panic even more, right where there's poison in
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here, but the whole idea of the candy man, a person who poisons
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your candy to kill your children, just spun off into its
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own urban legend. You have one more Bloody Mary
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ish. Hey, say this in front of the
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mirror and then this thing is going to appear and try to kill
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you, which I don't know why anybody would want to summon a
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spirit that's going to kill you, but I mean, we can all do
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whatever you want. I guess that turned into the
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story of this guy who killed this child.
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But I made me think like, what other legends are there that
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bring this stuff up? And I found this book actually
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that had some research, actual scholarly articles written about
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this idea of legends becoming real.
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And when I see something scholarly mentioning legends and
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ghost stories that are real, that was all in.
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And this is how I found these kind of related to each other.
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Another one, for example, this was a little bit shorter, but
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this is the actual story of somebody in Houston and they
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ended up calling the real life La Yorona.
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Now the legend of La Yorona is it actually did a survey,
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imagine this, right? Did a survey nationwide about
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who knows what La Yorona is, who knows, like whatever.
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They found that one out of four people knew 25%.
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They knew what we were talking about when they say, oh, what do
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you know about La Yorona? They could explain it, but in
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Houston, 100% of Mexican American families knew.
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Somebody mentions La Yorona. You know exactly what we're
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talking about here. And this is what makes this an
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interesting thing, right? There's another sad story La
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Yorona's story is actually based on.
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It means the weeping woman, and it's based on the original.
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Legend says that there's this, there was this woman who was
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pretty upset at her husband and she took her children out to the
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river, threw them in there and they drowned.
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And then now she goes around the river, like walking along the
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shore or the river side. What do you call that?
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The river, river's edge. And she just cries.
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And she does this cry that's very like, it's creepy.
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It just has like me see Hawks like Oh my children, you know,
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and this is like this like sad what they call a Lamento like
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this sad scream of like my kids are gone and it's sad right in
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general, why a woman will become the real life Yorona in Houston
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was a a tragic story. This woman went out to A to a
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bridge and her name was Juana Leja.
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And in April 1986, I actually have the story right here.
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She got she had seven children and she gathered all of them,
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took them on a bus to downtown Houston.
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She walked to the bridge, the one that's Buffalo Bayou, the
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the one that spans that right, right around there too.
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I found that there was a police station which was in in plain
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sight, but it didn't matter to her.
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She picked them up 1 by 1 is her throwing them in the river and
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there's passerby's and stuff, right?
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So they're trying to stop her, but before they could stop her,
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she had already thrown in six of her children into that body of
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water. So unfortunately, two of them
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drowned. The other four were able to be
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saved, and the other one that was remaining there obviously is
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still alive. After that, like this, the
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people in Houston were calling her the real life Yorona because
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why would you throw your children in the river?
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Now some people say, I mean, I'm not obviously not a psychologist
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or anything, but they say that there is some type of depression
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that women go through after having children, postpartum
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depression, and that there's all these other things.
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I'm not saying that this is what it was, but there's all these
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theories about how mothers, there's records of mothers
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killing their own children. And when it comes out to
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explaining why it's, I mean, it's it's just kind of this rage
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this I just don't want them or rejection or whatever.
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You've seen this, right? And like animals do that kind of
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thing, but that's animals made me, I don't know, made me wonder
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because there's this other case that I read about.
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If anybody that's watching knows what I'm talking about here,
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please link me to an article or something.
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Because there was this case where this woman killed, I think
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it was a 3 1/2 week old kid did horrible things as in like I'm
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saying kind of old type of stuff.
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And they they blamed it on that, on some type of I don't want
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this kid and and that was that. But that's a whole other, that's
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a whole other thing. But back to this Liorona thing.
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Now that that turned real, right?
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They start saying that women that do this might become that.
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Now, I heard a different kind of story with Liorona and I really
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like this, this idea that, you know, that goes along with it
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because it's it's not so gruesome, I guess.
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But they say that in Mexico at the time of the conquistadores,
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when they were actually being colonized, Mexico itself, I
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guess the new generation of Mexicans basically being lost to
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time and to the times, I guess, that were happening because of
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the colonization. So in a way, Mexico was losing
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its children. And they say that La Yarona
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symbolizes that a woman who's losing her children in the same
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way that Mexico was losing its generations.
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So there's a whole study that goes into it and how it ties in
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together and this kind of what we're our efforts here, right?
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Like what what this article that I found is going through, which
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is how urban ledge has become a real thing.
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The main thing here, by the way, this article, the information
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comes from Carl Lindell's the the article is called Ostensive
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Healing Pilgrimage to the San Antonio Ghost Tracks.
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And that's right, this is what we're talking about here, an
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actual scholarly article on this.
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And ostention, by the way, what they call it is when you live
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out the legends and they become real that way.
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So in this case, Ayorona is this woman who drowns her kids.
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Now it's real. You lived it out and it's real
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now. But in this case, with the ghost
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railroad tracks, they start talking more about, let me tell
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you first what it is, right? Because I feel like I'm kind of,
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I'm going to lose you if I don't.
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So here's what happens, right? I'm going to read to you exactly
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what I wrote out just so that I could describe it.
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Down on the South side of San Antonio, near the corner of
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Villa Main and Shane Rd., there's a set of railroad tracks
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that for years have been the center of one of Texas.
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Strangest legends that if you drive up to these tracks, stop
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your car and you put it in neutral, something eerie starts
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to happen. Without you touching the gas or
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anything, the car will slowly start to move forward as if
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hands were pushing the car from behind you and getting you out
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of the way of the train tracks. And for decades, people were
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actually going out there and testing it out.
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They would families would gather around, keep, hop in a car
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parked like put the car in neutral and it would just kind
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of go. I remember the segment from none
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other than Pretty Many Impacto doing this investigation going
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in the car. I think it was Pretty Many
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Impacto or some type of channel, maybe Telemundo or something.
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They were going in there to see what happens.
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They get in the car and the car slowly starts to move across the
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tracks. Then they check behind the car
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and the baby power that they put back there shows little
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handprints that are pushing the car.
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Really creepy. Now the the the tale behind it
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goes that a long time ago this bus full of children and the bus
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driver were crossing the railroad tracks and they got hit
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by a train. They all died.
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So now the children try to save anybody who goes in there and
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staying in the railroad tracks. At least that's the that's the
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idea. Now, the story, when I try
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looking it up, I couldn't find an actual account of it
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happening. But that doesn't mean that the
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legend isn't real because people were living after story,
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sometimes driving like 200 miles just to go see it and try it out
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and get in there. Some knew the legend, right?
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Like they knew. Oh yeah, like they say that kids
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here died and they're trying to save us.
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Others just went because they wanted to have a good time and
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that's the reason why. But still doesn't make it like
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less important, right? They're still travelling a long
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ways to go and experience this thing which makes the legend
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real. I think that's what makes we
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need to find urban legend. I mean, I don't want to go all
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Webster here, but that's kind of what it is.
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They say that's actually how it starts.
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They say that here, blah, blah, blah happened and this is what
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the story of the railroad tracks was all about.
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By the way, historians, police researchers, the archives, none
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of them showed anything about this actually happening.
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There was one case that happened somewhere in another part of the
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United States where a bus was hit by a train, but it somehow
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adapted there to the to this part of San Antonio, which, hey,
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it's now there, you know, But why did the cars actually roll?
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Now? They call this like a gravity
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hill where it looks like you're going uphill, but really it's
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inclined down, but it looks like when you look at it, it looks
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like you're going up strippy. I can kind of imagine it being
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more like, ever been to San Francisco or something where
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like the streets are weird. I imagine it looked kind of like
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that, except this kind of backwards or like those museums
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are like upside down houses. It looks like you're going down,
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but really you're going up. It's kind of like that, like an
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optical and illusion, but not optical, more like gravitational
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illusion. However, try to tell this to
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somebody who has experienced it, or I seen the handprints and
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they're going to be like, no, this is real, this happened.
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And The thing is, here's where we start tying it into something
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a little more. I would say it's stronger
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because when we think of children, at least with Hispanic
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families, there's a lot of thought about like purity, a lot
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of thought about like taking care of them with a whole maloho
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thing, which is like somebody they say, I mean, I had to look
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this up before because it's so I've only heard it being
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mentioned. Never even try to look this up.
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But what it is, is like if somebody looks at a baby and has
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this strong kind of eye, like it could be just this passionate,
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just like you love the baby or like you have this like strong
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eye. It's hard to describe.
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They say that if you don't touch the baby or you don't pick them
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up or whatever. They end up getting these, I
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don't know, it can be as simple as diarrhea to getting sick to
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the baby end up ends up having this thing.
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And they say that there's ways to cure the child of these
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things using an egg cleanse, using other types of little
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rituals here and there. It's a very interesting little
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fact. But when children are involved
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in such a like an intense accident and then having them
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try to save you, the story itself starts to mean something.
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Children are trying to protect you and they're pure beings,
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right? Like angels, kind of.
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And it becomes this very important thing that takes it.
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It takes like its own shape. And this is what this whole
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article was about. I'm saying article, but it was
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really pages and pages of this material where they actually end
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up interviewing somebody who talks about her own experiences.
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She was a student at one of the universities there and she talks
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about her experiences going there and what they did and like
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how her family ended up with a very interesting story to share
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for years and years after going to that.
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The haunted railroad tracks, you know, so it it became real for
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her and there's some quotes intertwined with all this stuff,
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right. Her name is Lydia, by the way,
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and she mentioned this thing about the large handprint
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because you see little handprints of the children, but
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then you also see a large one sometimes.
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So Lydia believes that these larger prints that are sometimes
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found in the car. When you check that for like the
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dusty part of the back car or maybe you put baby powder on
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there to see, they say that it shows that it's from the adult
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driver who was, you know, drive like taking care of the
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children. But they're also trying to
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protect the visitors that go there from the incoming train.
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So this also acts as a warning against don't leave your car
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here. Like don't let this happen to
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you as well. And this piece is also, it was
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mentioning a lot of like Mexican American kind of folklore along
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with it, but also for non Hispanics.
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Like the site is, I mean, it's known as gravity hill.
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This is how what it's known and or at least a phenomenon known
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as a gravity hill. And they have no idea of the
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tragic legends. People might just go to
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experience these ghostly events. Now, it is different for Mexican
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American families because of the children and also because of the
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pilgrimage that takes place with it.
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Now, I was very hesitant in calling it a pilgrimage because
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it's not really a pilgrimage, but you do travel to your
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experience something. But the person who wrote it has
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like little knowledge to, it's kind of researching and
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interviewing people about it. So this, this investigator, this
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person who wrote the article said that like I mentioned a
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little bit earlier, due to their innocence, are more attuned to
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the spirit world and can sense or see ghosts that adults
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cannot. Parents often bring their own
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children to the tracks, asking them to try and sense the
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ghosts. And this is something I feel
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like my family would do. Like my dad would probably go
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like, Oh yeah, let's go, let's go.
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It's it's common. This is what I mean by like
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there's very little stigma when it comes to believe believing
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ghost in general, at least among like my family.
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And this this author also said that it's a semi sacred
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pilgrimage. I'm not sure I would go that
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far, but it it makes sense, you know, to see it that way.
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And they call that extensive healing for the children's
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ghosts, allowing the spirits to fulfill their need to do good,
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which in turn helps them, the pilgrims, save themselves.
00:23:47
That's a significant sound. Now, I mentioned Lydia, right,
00:23:51
Lydia Z from the this article. And she says this, right?
00:23:56
What I've always believed is that if a child dies young, or
00:23:59
even if an adult dies at a young age, that they go to be like a
00:24:02
guardian Angel or something. And I think it makes people feel
00:24:06
safe that the kids are just so innocent and they don't know any
00:24:10
kind of wrong. And all they want to do is, you
00:24:13
know, when something like that happens, they become a guardian
00:24:16
for somebody. They just want to protect and
00:24:18
make sure that the person is OK. This encapsulates the the
00:24:24
original thought here. It is exactly what what it's
00:24:27
like, you know, when you think of children passing away, it's
00:24:30
like, oh, they're going to take care of you.
00:24:33
She also says, I've always heard about the small hat handprints.
00:24:37
And then over the years I've heard about the larger
00:24:39
handprints. And I've always just thought it
00:24:40
out as the adults that died with them.
00:24:43
The bus driver is protecting them.
00:24:45
They couldn't protect the kids and when it happened, but maybe
00:24:48
that's their own way of protecting the children from
00:24:50
being exposed to too much. A little bit is OK, and everyone
00:24:54
wants to experience a supernatural thing.
00:24:56
But if you push it and you make fun of it, it's like, OK, well,
00:25:01
fine. You don't believe it, Just go
00:25:03
away. You don't need to be here.
00:25:05
So basically a saying, if you go and you just want to make fun of
00:25:09
these ghosts because like, Oh yeah, it's funny little little
00:25:12
kids, you have this larger handprint that's kind of
00:25:15
protecting them in the afterlife.
00:25:18
Like when we take ghost stuff seriously, this is what I mean,
00:25:21
like we get pretty serious with all this stuff.
00:25:23
So I mentioned the thing about maloho, right?
00:25:26
And The thing is that what they directly, I guess what you would
00:25:31
translate as is evil eye. But here's a breakdown, right?
00:25:35
So just get a little more information about it.
00:25:37
So it's typically caused by inadvertently when or caused
00:25:41
inadvertently when individuals with strong vision admire or
00:25:45
envy somebody and can cause harm to the admired person or object.
00:25:50
The harm can be adverted if the person causing the OH touches
00:25:54
the victim before the illness sets in and the symptoms that
00:25:57
happen it's interesting here include irritability, fever,
00:26:02
headaches, vomiting, and drooping eyes.
00:26:05
Now Lydia from this article said that her daughter Danielle would
00:26:09
cry or feel unwell when affected.
00:26:12
Turns out that her daughter would actually request like to
00:26:14
have the egg cleanse because she would feel better.
00:26:17
People are like how is that even going to work?
00:26:19
The whole cleanse with an egg? Like how does that even work?
00:26:23
Like why is that a thing? Lydia doesn't care if you don't
00:26:28
believe it, because when she does it to herself or to help
00:26:32
other people, it works even with people that are not Hispanic,
00:26:35
not Mexican Americans, not Central South American.
00:26:38
She just knows that it works. And she has seen other people
00:26:43
who don't believe in this stuff try it and they're like, yeah,
00:26:46
it worked. So you might say it's placebo
00:26:49
effect, but you just don't know. There's also it gets as detailed
00:26:53
as like once you crack the egg or or you, you do the egg
00:26:56
cleanse, you set the egg so it takes the moonlight crack it.
00:27:00
You can actually read things about it, see if you're healed
00:27:03
or if it took out negative energies from you.
00:27:07
If you're good to go. You can know based off of
00:27:09
reading it by putting it in a glass of water and seeing where
00:27:12
the egg goes. It's interesting, interesting
00:27:14
little thing. It's not necessarily like
00:27:17
witchcraft because it's not doing anything.
00:27:20
It's a cleanse. So it, it's, I think it's pretty
00:27:24
cool to, to think of it that way because I've seen I've been like
00:27:27
markets where like they're beating people with like leaves,
00:27:31
like branches or, you know, things like I see people
00:27:35
getting, they spit at them. Like, OK, you're good.
00:27:38
Like, like drink a thing and spit it and like keep beating
00:27:41
you with a thing. Not like people pay for this.
00:27:43
And there's like long lines, long lines of people waiting to
00:27:47
get this done. So must do something, must do
00:27:51
something. If you ever done that or if you
00:27:54
know how to do that stuff, that won't tell me.
00:27:56
Tell me more about it because I'm very intrigued, very
00:27:59
intrigued about all that stuff. I've seen it happen, obviously,
00:28:01
like I've seen it. I never had it done to myself.
00:28:03
Actually, I might have without me knowing me when I was a kid.
00:28:05
I don't know, but interesting nonetheless.
00:28:10
All right, so from the comments section this time on Spotify
00:28:14
again, I guess from Spotify from our episode subliminal or
00:28:17
Supernatural, the power of hidden messages.
00:28:21
It says this one comes from Ghost girl.
00:28:25
It says I loved your episode like like always.
00:28:28
You're awesome. I know that if I ever talk to
00:28:30
you, we'll be talking for hours. I have a few stories for you.
00:28:33
Continue the great work and please don't stop writing.
00:28:35
Your stories are amazing. Thanks a lot, ghost girl, but
00:28:38
please send in your stories. I need these stories or you
00:28:41
already sent them in. Thank you.
00:28:43
I appreciate that. Thank you so much, Codfather.
00:28:47
Cool name. Hey Edwin, I just started
00:28:50
listening to your podcast. So far I'm loving it.
00:28:52
Keep it up. I was also wondering if you can
00:28:54
do a story on the Flamingo Club in Stockton, CA.
00:28:57
It's called Dancing with the Devil.
00:29:00
Oh, I think I've heard of the Flamingo Club.
00:29:03
I have to look it up. But thanks a lot for the
00:29:04
suggestion. That's I'm gonna, I'm gonna look
00:29:07
that up. This other comment from Danny
00:29:09
Moon says hello Edwin. First time commenting, but I
00:29:11
love to listen to your podcast from the true scary stories to
00:29:14
Horror Story and now to this. Love to listen to it at work at
00:29:17
12:30 at night when I'm all by myself in the dark.
00:29:21
Watch out, watch out Danny Moon. Just kidding, but yeah, that's
00:29:25
awesome. Thanks a lot.
00:29:26
Thanks a lot for the comment and for listening.
00:29:28
That's brave to listen that late.
00:29:30
Trippy says the whole do you know what your kids are thing
00:29:33
started after the Atlanta murder started Crazy story, more true
00:29:37
crime, but interesting theories for sure.
00:29:40
I'm going to look this up for sure because the do you know
00:29:44
where your kids are? It was was really, really, I
00:29:50
mean, it's the regular warning, but it just has this really
00:29:53
eerie feel to it, like what's going to happen to me?
00:29:56
Daddy Fern says. I'm new to the podcast and I've
00:29:59
been hooked listening to the listener listener's personal
00:30:02
experiences with the paranormal and reopened many memories of my
00:30:05
own experiences with the paranormal.
00:30:07
Like when I was a child and being face to face with a
00:30:10
Luende, going on on a camping trip with my family and family
00:30:14
friends, and discovering that my Theo's friends were plotting A
00:30:19
satanic ritual against him. I've experienced many things
00:30:26
from my childhood that I would love to share with you and the
00:30:29
whole Spooky's family. Please send it in
00:30:32
paranormalclub.com or send me an e-mail edwin@scarystory.com.
00:30:37
Creepy. Let me see.
00:30:39
Chiquita. 2O8 says I would watch Sabado Gigante.
00:30:41
I hated that guy. They even told my parents he's a
00:30:44
perv. I would leave the room or yell
00:30:46
how dumb he was. Just found your show.
00:30:49
I'm a newbie. Yeah, I guess.
00:30:53
Yeah, he was a yeah. I mean, there was some
00:30:58
questionable things that he didn't.
00:30:59
I mean TV that in that era, not to excuse this because it's not
00:31:05
right, but I used to see so much creepy stuff like that guy who
00:31:08
would kiss people in the mouth like like the guy did like like
00:31:12
Don Francisco used to do that. I don't know if it was something
00:31:15
from people from that age or I don't know, I don't know.
00:31:17
TV host there were something odd.
00:31:21
My Lady Owls has very good episode.
00:31:23
If y'all have ever have the time and don't mind going down the
00:31:25
rabbit hole of sorts, y'all might be interested in to read
00:31:29
or listen about the Montauk Project or MK Ultra as they all
00:31:33
inevitably tie together with a satanic panic which then created
00:31:37
the rise of Christian nationalism.
00:31:39
There's a lot of thoughts about Christian Christianity and the
00:31:43
whole thing about what it's really doing.
00:31:46
But I do know some of the effects that these religious
00:31:49
groups have done. Some of the also the some of the
00:31:53
scams, also some of the influence that they have over
00:31:58
our politics. Some of the things that don't
00:32:01
make sense. I mean, we could talk all about
00:32:04
like abortion and all these thoughts about like what's
00:32:08
right, what's wrong, marriage, what's, you know, same sex
00:32:12
marriage. Talk about all these other
00:32:15
things that, you know, we obviously are tied to religious
00:32:18
beliefs. We're still going through it
00:32:20
even though it's supposed to not be influenced by religion.
00:32:23
It's still is. And there's a lot of thoughts, a
00:32:26
lot of thoughts that I have about this, all this stuff,
00:32:28
Christianity and stuff, but also Catholics, for example, there's
00:32:33
this, there's this really strong belief in spirits and forces.
00:32:38
So imagine a whole, they have a whole dedicated study for
00:32:42
exorcisms and stuff. Do they know something that we
00:32:44
don't? Who knows?
00:32:47
French Fries says, I believe we all fall into the subliminal,
00:32:49
into subliminal messages throughout life.
00:32:52
I just think it's through TV shows or movies and famous
00:32:55
people we are taught what to like and dislike.
00:32:58
Only a few can see and ignore the messages.
00:33:01
I also believe the colours. I also believe colours have an
00:33:04
impact on people's decisions. But that's just my thoughts.
00:33:06
Great episode by the way. Listen to you at work every
00:33:08
Monday. Thanks a lot French fries.
00:33:12
And this is true. I actually replied to this
00:33:15
comments when I first saw it. Because it's true.
00:33:17
I believe it. Like there's something about
00:33:22
repetition. You can see it once you see it
00:33:24
the first time. You can't Unsee it.
00:33:26
Like the whole when politicians repeat the same word over and
00:33:33
over and over and over. They're trying to make you
00:33:36
believe something. They use the same phrasing.
00:33:40
Even news anchors start using the same phrasing, same words,
00:33:45
same exact way. And we believe that once we see
00:33:50
like there's lots of things probably that at one point were
00:33:54
probably super extreme to you, and then you keep hearing them
00:33:57
over and over and over and now they're normal.
00:34:02
I mean, I know this is not even a an example that's even close
00:34:05
to it, but I always think of like how much I hated sushi when
00:34:08
I first tried it. It just felt so weird.
00:34:10
I was like, I'm eating raw fish with white rice.
00:34:13
Like my family never eats white rice like ever.
00:34:18
And wasabi. I was like what is this?
00:34:20
Was this supposed to be guac? Like is this guacamole?
00:34:23
Is this a guacate? Like is what is this?
00:34:26
It was so weird and I tried the second time and I was just like
00:34:30
like what is this? The texture was weird.
00:34:32
It was cold, not what I'm used to and now I crave it sometimes
00:34:37
I'm just like cool. Same with garlic.
00:34:40
I'm sorry. I mean, now I have proof I'm not
00:34:42
a vampire. I can eat a bunch of garlic like
00:34:45
raw and I'm like how in the with Korean BBQ, you guys, if you
00:34:48
haven't had it. It was funny because during our
00:34:52
live, our live stream, we ended up talking about food for like
00:34:56
an hour and 20 minutes. We were just talking about like
00:34:58
it was supposed to be just like a hangout, whatever.
00:35:00
And then we just started talking about food and Mexican food and
00:35:05
all this other food and favourites and what we recommend
00:35:09
and everything. I was like, I'm so hungry
00:35:11
because right now I'm actually in Vietnam recording this.
00:35:15
I'm far away from all that food, but hopefully I find something
00:35:18
similar. This is why you hear all that
00:35:19
honking. But anyway, see, it's that kind
00:35:21
of thing where like it just felt so extreme that once you repeat
00:35:24
it and you have it in your head over and over and over, it's
00:35:28
just normal. Now.
00:35:29
That's actually how they get through all these really rough
00:35:31
messages. It's actually why it's so
00:35:33
dangerous. Messaging is super, super
00:35:35
dangerous when it's hidden like that because they can get you
00:35:38
believing whatever they want. Will they being the people who
00:35:41
are distributing. So eventually we start believing
00:35:44
in so many things, so many things out there, but just watch
00:35:48
out for all the messaging there. That was a fun episode to me.
00:35:50
It was really creepy though. Listen having to sort through
00:35:52
like reverse versions of like classic rock music or The
00:36:00
Beatles backwards. You start hear, they start
00:36:02
feeling really weird, like you start feeling like what is not
00:36:05
natural. But I did find some additional
00:36:07
words on there for a catalog of hidden messages and songs.
00:36:11
So if you listen to that episode, the subliminal messages
00:36:14
one, go check it out if you haven't yet.
00:36:15
So that's all for today actually for the urban legends.
00:36:19
Now, what other areas should we visit next with our hometown
00:36:24
urban legends story? I am coming up with an episode,
00:36:28
a special episode for Hispanic Heritage Month.
00:36:32
And in this episode, I'm going to be including stories our
00:36:37
parents told us. So what that means is like if
00:36:40
they ever told you anything, for example, this about Maloho, if
00:36:43
they tell you about the cuckoo and what that meant, if they
00:36:47
ever told you something that happened where they're from and
00:36:52
maybe to a grandparent, an aunt and uncle, something like that,
00:36:56
send it in please. I need it for next week.
00:37:00
So if you're listening to this past September 8th, we have
00:37:03
probably we're going to be like at the edge of it.
00:37:06
So like type them all out. If I need more information out
00:37:09
of them, I'll, I'll reply and I'll ask for more.
00:37:12
Let me know if you want it to be anonymous.
00:37:14
If you have only want your first name to be mentioned, usually
00:37:16
it's just first names that I mentioned, but send them in.
00:37:19
The best way is through the contact form at
00:37:21
paranormalclub.com. Second best way or equally the
00:37:25
best way is edwin@scarystory.com.
00:37:28
That's my e-mail. You can also always, always find
00:37:32
any of our contact forms. We can get a hold of it.
00:37:34
So that way we get, we don't miss these stories because I'm
00:37:36
going to be publishing them in this this episode and it's going
00:37:40
to go big. It's going to be a big, heavily
00:37:42
promoted episode. So I'm very excited about it.
00:37:45
I'm also very excited about celebrating Hispanic heritage.
00:37:47
So can we post it on that? Please, please, please, as soon
00:37:51
as you can and we'll get to it. That's all for now.
00:37:54
Thank you so much for sticking around, for listening, for
00:37:57
watching. Keep it scary everyone, see you
00:38:00
soon.