The Cannibal Girl and Ghosts of the Mexico City Metro

Let me get some some w I should really stop buying these plastic bottles. But there's no BPA in it. I don't know what it is. Well that's good, I mean, so you won't get one type of cancer. Welcome to Scary Mystery Surprise, where we talk about scary things that surprised us around the inter half. I'm Edwin and I'm Michelle. So just recently, because of the holidays and everything, we just passed by that date that's becoming super popular, which is kind of a good thing. Day of the Dead happened not so long ago. Last year. I was in Mexico City for this and I missed the parades. I was doing some other work stuff. While I was there, I was asking around for all these stories. Plus people are into creepy things and you know, wanting to talk about all this stuff. And I remember asking about just scary stories that people have, and some of these are super creepy. Actually got a book last month actually when I was there, and it's about the stories of Mexico City when it was first being developed and all the creepy things that go around with it before it was an actual city. Yeah, it's super super cool. The original story of Lajorona, like what it is and how people would close their doors after a certain time, and there's so many things, but to get into like a modern thing. Mexico City is super creepy because it has obviously it's a city is built on top of what was another city. Layers and layers of civilizations. Yeah, it's the oldest city in North America. Really, it's pretty cool. You're literally walking on history, like stuff that happened a long time ago. But if we were to go actually underground, we find some pretty bizarre stories. And this is some of the metro lines that are there. They say that are haunted, not just like by ghosts and like, oh we see this thing, but like the thing is. I will preface this and ruin the story right off the bat. It hasn't been like this actually happened, but I'm going to share it anyway. The crowds were large. There was this huge celebration when the country was it declared its independence that people celebrate it and Mexico City is being so huge. What year are we in? I mean, this happens now, people celebrating stuff now, But the actual story happened in early seventies Okay, September seventh, nineteen seventy two, people were doing this, you know, the celebration and stuff. Two of the people that were walking in that crowd were heading towards the underground metro tunnels, and there was an eight year old girl, her name was Rosarito Sanchez Sierra and her mother. They were walking down. They were just kind of zooming past everybody, you know, to get to line one of the public transportation system, and they were going to head toward Harden Balbuena, the neighborhood, and that's where Rosarito's mother worked as a helper in a kitchen. They knew what to expect well down there at the Takubaya station. Basically it's another stop at this place. Like when I took it, it was from one extreme to the other. The Tacubaya station is one of the extremes, so like it's one of the end. But this place has like a history to it, right, so they say that, oh, there's this ghost that appears there, there's this thing that appears there. As they were zooming paths to get into this station, people were bumping into each other. People are yelling like, oh, you know, see this is why I like that. Now, on the subway in Mexico City, they have female and children only cars, which I am like all about. Yeah, you'll never go in one so exclusive. Yeah you get those after a lot of harassment and femicide. But that's terrible. But yeah, I remember seeing the pink markers on the train. Yeah, they're actually a good amount of people in there, a good amount of Yeah. So I mean obviously you women in Mexico also like they get stuff done, Like they go to work, they come back, they go get the kids, they go get the groceries like they're like on it, you know. So I and like protesting for them, right and getting things like they're on it. Oh, they are on it. But yeah, like back then, this wasn't a thing. Oh. I can imagine the mother just kind of dragging her kid around like come yeah, come on. Eventually she kind of lets go of her hand and she looks back to see where she is, and she doesn't see her anymore. She tries not to panic, scans the place again, this girl's not around, so she's searching. She's now she's panicking. She's running up and down the platform, kind of yelling at her name. Brosaro. All she hears is crowds. They're just zooming fast. And she asked somebody like she grabs a lady. She shakes her. It's like hey, help me find her please. This is what she looks like. It's like I don't, I gotta go or whatever. She's by herself again, like kinda, I lost my kid. They didn't make get to the train obviously had already left, and only people that were waiting for the next train were staring at this mad woman that was searching frantically for something. They didn't know what was wrong with her. She's just yelling out of sarito, like what is that? Sorry? I think of there's a brand of beans here? What wait? What about beans? There's this brand that's like a canned goods brand. Oh yeah yeah, like a refried bean. Yeah yeah yeah. And I was thinking, like what is but really that's her name, that's a comment name over there. She can't find her beans, lost my can? No, my cat? My cat? Or maybe they think she's selling beans or something or refs. Oh. So finally she's trying to get help and people are trying to help. They tell her just call the police to help you. Find her like whatever, So she makes a police report. It's terrible right, no parents should ever have to do that for a missing child, but she does it. She was obviously devastated. Her friend's family, everybody was searching and they were fearing that she had been kidnapped, but they were hoping still to be able to find her. Just scared somewhere around there and then what are the platforms around there? Just kind of crawl out again and be fine because she knew the way home. Like little kids there are built that way. They just they can find their way home or ask around and do that. That's what she was hoping for. But there was no news, no updates, nothing. On September seventh, nineteen seventy two, the newspaper called Capital there was a report that grabbed the attention of the people that lived there, and in its official statement I'm translating this from the original Spanish, it says, discovering what was behind the cases of mutilated bodies was difficult. We never imagined that it was about a little girl. At first. We all thought that they had been dogs. Based on the type of injuries on three victims that were found during those two weeks filled with terror. If they wouldn't have brought along three witnesses that a little girl had killed the homeless man to later eat part of his guts and leg, we would have never believed the story way what. In a later publication of that same newspaper, there was more details in it, so this might answer questions them might be serfacing. Here again translated from the original Spanish, the victim reported by the judicial police showed signs of mutilation and complete dismemberment of their left ankle, consistent with a young girl. Brosardio Sanchez Sierra that calmly explained what had happened. She was trapped on the inside of the metro and after several hours she found herself hiding on the inside of one of the tunnels. And then it explains, upon finding a homeless man who I'd liked gone into one of the tunnels to spend the night, she noticed that he was injured and likely dead from a fall. She saw rats eating part of his body, and with her growing hunger, she saw a foot that was barely attached to his body and started eating it. What she just went cannibal like within twenty minutes of being she was like I'm hungry. That was so fast studied hunting. She was captured in the morning of September twenty second, captured, not rescued. Captured not far from the entrance of the Takubaya station. She was spotted after she was hitting the body of another homeless person with the rock, desperately trying to rip apart his leg. Was he dead or alive? I mean, I don't know here. What was she like? Eight? Yeah, she was young, she was Yeah. When she was captured, she was taken into jail, but I ended up spending time in the Mexican Institute of Psychiatric Investigation, where she showed good bees behavior, although she was suspected at one point to have killed one of the nurses, but no proof was ever discovered. Something unleashed in those tunnels, man, being in the darkybe did she get so lost in the tunnels she had to become a cannibal? I mean, that's just I mean, I guess it just starts at home, right, Like, did anybody check in on the parents here? Their parents are cannibals, So she learned the cannibal ways. Jo Sarito died in the hospital bed in twenty ten and the case was completely forgotten by the citizens of Mexico City. Convenient. Now this story was first published. It's called Insolente Rivista. And despite the level of detail that goes into the story, nobody like I got helped trying to research this and try to find and cases is real. We couldn't find verification that this story was real. There is a record, supposedly something that was registered in the public Records Office. The number of the case supposedly is zero seven dash two zero seven nine zero In case anybody out there listening is curious and some Internet detective and you want to find out about it. But still it could be an urban legend or not. Still freaky, It's still pretty freaky. The idea of a little girl who's been lost in the subway tunnels for like forty five minutes deciding to eat a foot off a dead guy. Also, with all of our cannibalism experience, it's bad to eat people that have been dead a while, Like you want to eat fresh subway I'd rather eat a foot than subway sandwich, I get it. Yeah, there's a lot more stories with underground stuff in Mexico City with a metro and everything there's this YouTube channel called Plumas atomicas they interviewed this guy. His name was Ricardo jeev Fed or Yei Fed, who has a lot of family that has worked in the Metro and he tells his story. Now this is not about the cannibal one, because there's a We could go on for hours talking about stuff that goes down in the Metro, including like stories of huge, huge rats and body This guy, though it can be verified, he was there and was interviewed around nineteen eighty five on Line three UH, the one that goes Universidad to Indio Verddes on the station called Portrero. He was an engineer with the last name Platanov, and he was working doing routine maintenance, but he didn't tell other people that he was going to be going on the track, like stepping onto the track in order to do this. So a train was arriving, the engineer was unable to escape. He was run over. His body was just completely mutilated and according to the story that this person was telling, the engineer was lost for several hours until they were able to find his remains and his id oh Man. After his death, several new employees have spoken with him. I didn't mess up. This is not a typho. According to Ricardo, who was interviewed, new employees who were just lost in their new jobs have encountered the engineer's entity as he gives them advice on what to do. Once he leaves and they're approached by other employees and get asked who they were talking to, they explained it. They're like, oh, I was talking to this engineer, making you know, a description of who he was, and he was like, yeah, I was just asking for help. He's showing me what to do. He's like, oh yeah. Once they're told that they're the only ones in the station at that time, they say that people have gone into full on like panic attacks. Oh I bet imagine, Like there in that setting is just like the perfect setting for us, especially if you're conditioned to not believe something and then you deal with, oh, someone interacted with you that's not physically there. Yeah, and you were like, oh, I couldn't tell. That would shake your mind, that would shake your world a little bit, you know, like when I told my story on your podcast, tell Me a ghost story, by the way, guys, go find it. When I saw somebody that wasn't there, that might have been. It could have turned into like a panic attack or something, because I know that. All I felt was like I got dizzy, I got nasches, and I was lost. I was like, what did I just see? Like when you lose touch of reality like that, ah geez. And I didn't interact with this thing that I saw. I just saw. So imagine having a conversation. Imagine people who are even more like really close minded, and then having something happen, you go into full on panic whatever. I can understand them. They can be tough engineers all they want, work in the train, do whatever. But when it comes to this, it's okay to cry, guys, It's okay to cry. Just cry in the emotion. It's scary. What you just went through is scary, so you could cry, and you could be confused about it. Yeah, we're here for you. It's scary, mystery surprise. Some of them have actually required therapy to overcome the trauma of an encounter like that and then they can go back to their jobs. There's actually this one metro inspector. His name was Maudi Nadis, and he has told the story for one of the publications in the city. He was just starting out at the position at the Metro back in nineteen ninety one, and back then people used to talk a lot about this engineer who had been killed in the train tracks, which according to Maudi, it actually did happen, and he did work in line three. Like I said, obviously, we don't need more confirmation of it that it happened. But like he's like, yeah, he did work in line three, Like it wasn't like he just worked in the Metro, but he worked specifically on that line. So but anyway, that day he had been assigned to work at the Potreto station to wait for or a train and take it in for repairs, which is when he disappeared. He was supposed to announce that he would be in the tracks, but the guy like just he didn't and he just disappeared. So that's what happened. They thought he was just gone, and then that's when they found his remains. And that's what Mali's money said about it. But he said that it was then when the occurrences started, like all the weird things. Train conductors were calling in to report that they would see a person walking between the tracks. Shit. Yeah, they would frantically call for the operators to cut off the power to help with a braking system, because like their brakes are not worthy to like just cut off the power, like we need to stop. There somebody on the tracks, So obviously that's a cause for concern, right, because that's a problem. Yeah, that's a big problem. A new repair man had been hired by this time and once again was assigned to go to the potato station, and it didn't take long for him to encounter another man on the tracks. Upon seeing him, he realized that he was also wearing a unit, so they started talking to each other, and then the stranger introduced himself as Platanov. And when he heard this, of course, the employee was already familiar with the story because this word spreads. Instead of being creeped out, he was like, that's messed up, man, somebody died here. Like he was actually kind of angry. He's like, don't joke like that, right, And then he abruptly said bye, and he started walking back to the maintenance area. This is the other guy, like the ghost guy. He was like bye. Once he explained his encounter to his boss, the boss was like, where was he? That's impossible because no one else was supposed to be down there with you, so he wanted to figure out who it was. The way he described Plato was spot on, and still the boss needed to make sure, you know the procedures here, right, so he needed to take necessary precautions and double check that there was no other person there, that in fact, nobody had been walking around there, but nobody was there. When the guy who saw Platanov there heard that, the boss is like, yeah, in fact, there was nobody there. Nobody else is working there at this time, the guy passed out on the spot and had to be hospitalized. Oh my god, I mean I get it. Like normally I would be like, ah, you passed out? What? But I get it. I'm telling you. When when I saw something it was that, it was like, it's like this weird reality. It's odd. It's odd. Yeah, but yeah, they say that the sudden and explained apparitions of the engineer calmed down after his death was honored with flowers along the station. Oh that's nice they did that. Yeah. Some people might still mention, oh yeah I saw somebody there, but they're not as common and they're not as creepy. I can imagine seeing something down there in the middle of the night. Imagine that they close out midnight. But let's just say eleven. I mean, it's gonna be dark down there no matter what, so it doesn't matter what time. So imagine just you see. I don't want to see anything in the tunnel. I don't want to see a rat. I don't want to see a person. I don't want to see garbage. I don't want to see anything move in that tunnel. I want nothing happening in that tunnel except that subway going to and fro. You've taken the Metro in La Michelle like that, Yes, I have under like downtown area, the like when you go deep like two levels down. Yeah, I'm sure I have. I mean I've been on the Metro. You know that weird breeze you get before the train comes in the tunnel, Like one time I was there. It was me and like a couple of other people on the other side, Like there were not that many people there, and you know, because you can see just the darkness of like the little lights outs they're fading into the tunnel. I remember thinking, like what if somebody just starts crawling out. I remember a freaked out side I hate to admit this, but I walk closer to the other people that were there because I was like, I don't want to be this close to the tunnel by myself, no way. Yeah, and then I started feeling that breeze and I'm like it was just chills all around, but it was just a train and I made it home safely, thank you. It's just always goes back to unpredictable people where I'm like, I don't like to stand next to the train tracks because it's like and there's cases of people that push you. Yeah, it's because we have a mental health problem in America. But that freaks me out because there's no coming back from that. You're just minding your own business. And I always think like I need to be able to get fit enough to jump back on because like I did it just push me now, just flopping around like ah, I don't think I could pull myself up, But I do think everyone would jump into action and help you up immediately if I think it lifts me up, because what if it's like some small man or woman and please help my two hundred pounds of like I need to want to live myself like I have her laid down so you can just use her body as like a ladder to climb up. You know, did you ever learn that swim class that you're supposed to lay on the ground and extend your arm so they can't drag you in. Yeah, you're not supposed to squat. You're supposed to lay down with your like stomach on the ground, so then someone could use you to pull themselves up, oh without pulling you in. Okay, that was what we learned to swim class. So subway etiquette, lay fully on the ground so that person can't pull you in. I know you'll have to put your skin on the subway ground, which will be repulsive on so many levels, but you won't have to watch somebody die, which would also be pretty repulsive. So yeah, oh man, it's funny because you think of like ways to rescue, and I'm just thinking of waste to like, I don't know, like superhumanly escape, like the sprint faster than the train toward the other end, or lay down in between the tracks so they'll just go over you. Yeah. I hope you don't get it. I don't know if that works either. I think it would just probably skin like your nose off yourself just at the right time, so you jump on the windshield and grab onto the wipers right, and you know, stuff like that, like a wiley coyote or something. There's a lot of stories there. Like I said, we had go on for hours talking about underground. I think like anything, caves, anything tunnels has its own set of stories. And oh yeah, I found so many that I'm like, maybe I don't want to live in a cave. I used to think like I wanted to, But when you realize that there's stuff down there, stuff that you just don't quite want to activate, just don't do it. Like also, you know about those civilizations that they say that live underground and all that, Oh yeah, them just want to mind their own business. But I always think, like, what if there is the lizard people, or what if Mark Zuckerberg comes out of there like he is the king of the lizard people. I mean, he can't even hide it anymore. He just looks like one, yeah, he just owns it. It's fine. I wouldn't say it's a fashion forward statement of being a lizard person, but you know, he goes for it. I'm curious to know if anybody that's listening has any stories within their like hometown area, or they know of something like a haunted spot or something that has a history, because I think we should dive in and look up stuff like that, Like, hey, we heard a this story and you don't want to show them because they sound too outrageous to share them. Because that's what I want, Like I want those stories that are like, didn't really happen, let's find out. And plus we just love hearing those stories anyway. Yeah, so send them in through Instagram. We're at Scary Mystery Surprise. We read everything right, like everything, Yeah, we do. We read everything and we share with each other. Yeah, and Spotify, Q and A. We always have those things. We always go through them. Oh yeah, we love that too, waiting for them literally like we're just like we got a comment. Yeah, it's like a comment. Oh what are we going to talk about next week? Michelle, I don't know, but it'll be a surprise, all right. Well I'm leaving, all right, Michelle. Scary Mystery Surprise is hosted by Michelle Newman and Edwin Komarubias. This podcast was edited and sound designed by Sarah Vorhez Wendel, a VW Sound