Buried in the Backyard (Part 1)

Scary stories get used as cautionary tales often it's part of our history as humans. But today we'll hear one of them, a true story about someone who used tools supernatural ones for bad reasons. My name is Edwin and here is Lil's true scary story. Hey everyone, my name is Lil's. I live in California in a small little town called Pataluma, born and raised on a milk dairy ranch five hundred acres. Some of the most beautiful memories I have growing up as they're waking up, feeding the cows, the horses, just a beautiful place. It wasn't until about fifth grade when one of the workers got fired and my dad was looking for another foreman to help tend the cows. The house next door to us was a big two story house, four bedroom, I believe, and this family moved in and I was super excited because they had kids around my age. For the first time, I didn't have to play alone. Everything was fine. We would played together like our families, became friends with their family, and I didn't know at the time that my dad was having an affair with the lady next door. My mom was learning how to drive, she came to pick me up from my elementary school, which was about two blocks away, not far at all. I remember us leaving school and it was a really big uphill with houses all around. The fire department was to the right, and then you had to take a sharp turn to the right, and there was a ditch there. But we were turning and I remember seeing a weird black figure with green eyes, and We're learning about animals and like all that stuff. So I'm like, okay, like whatever. It creeped me out. My mom saw it too, but when we got in the accident and went into the ditch, we were all fine. I didn't know that was done by someone wanting to cause it. My mom always told me, as there is good in people, there is bad in people, and that is the same thing for anything, paranormal ghosts, like anything, it's always good and it's always bad. I saw my mom and dad arguing and fighting a lot. I never really paid much attention because they would always do it when I was in the room and they were in the living room, in the kitchen. I did hear little things like that, yes you are, he'd say, no, I'm not, I'm not. I remember this day, so vividly. I think this is really when it got badden and when it actually started. My mom and dad picked me up from school and we were at a stoplight. There was a car in front of us. We were the second car. There was like a truck suv behind us, and then one or two other cars. A car was going like fifty miles an hour in a zone that's twenty five point thirty and ended up hitting all the cars and they ended up piling up really bad. I me and my dad were okay. My mom the impact. She ended up going to the hospital and the ambulance. My dad went with her. I remember going back to the ranch. This little old lady that used to be the owner, she was the caretaker because her son took over. She came to pick me up and I went to the neighbor's house and I'm crying and I'm super upset. There with a couple of the girls, and I remember the mom. I remember the mom on the phone in the kitchen saying otra Vez. She was saying that what you didn't work? Once again, it didn't work. And you know this other girl that I was like, did you hear your mom say that? And she was like, yeah, what is that? Because she her and her mom weren't that big of a fan of each other, so I trusted her a little bit more about these kind of situations. She mentioned that my mom was in the hospital and she didn't know anything else, and she said, is there anything that we could do? Well, my mom was in the hospital, and they said no. I guess that's what was said on the phone. I don't know. That stuck with me, and my mom came home from the hospital. She ended up messing up her back really bad, to the point where like she can't drive from that accident anymore at all, Like she just can't drive. My mom about two weeks later, put me, sat me down in my room and told me that my mom was gonna leave my dad because he was cheating on her with the lady next door. And I was so upset and I was so distraught. I just I didn't really know how to think her, how to react. Then a couple of days later, she told me that my dad was gonna cut it off with the lady. My mom wanted to make it work because I was still in school and she just she wanted to make it work. So my dad told a lady who lives right next door, mind you, but it's not gonna work. I'm not gonna end my marriage. This is it. And that's when things started really ramping up. I lived in a double wide trailer. My mom started getting really sick and she started saying that she would see some stuff. I remember starting to hear the three knocks on my window outside and I'm in the middle of nowhere, like there no one can run up, knock on my window, run away, and I'd look and there'd be nothing, and I'd be like okay, And then I would hear it on the actual trailer and I started getting really freaked out. I remember opening up the back door and I don't know how I got the balls I did. I remember going out the back door around the corner and just seeing like a shadow just take off. In a sense, we have jack rabbits, foxes, animals, stray cats. So I was like, what the hell? And I remember telling my mom and my mom said, no, La, boskis you know, I've just la. Don't go looking for it. You never open the door, because three knocks is the Holy Trinity. Knock. Three knocks is bad, whether it's a window, a door, anything. Anytime you hear that, you never open it. And I won't ever forget that. When my mom told me that, that's when she started telling me that me and my friends couldn't play board games. No cards, no Monopoly, no sorry, literally nothing like no cards, because there's a certain time at night that you can bring something up if it's already started within the house. So, in other words, if you already have paranormal stuff going in your house and you start playing a board game, something bad can come from it, not just that we have. And it was at this moment when our audio recording equipment went faulty. It would be the first of several incidents during the recording. I thought, no, I like, I heard a static, a little like you look, and I was like, hello, okay, so we had and then it went weird. We ha like Little's mentioned he's a Spanish pronunciation of Wuiji, as in, we're gonna note that if you notice, right as she mentions it, our connection receives interference. It's not the first time that this happens during our recording. We then made our adjustments and continued. So. Yeah, so there was a long dirt driveway, like a block long and then the first house on the right was the owner's house. You kept driving cattle guard, and then it was his mom's house. Drive a little bit more and it's it was my house, their house, and then two other houses. So it was like a big backwards candy cane like where all the houses were, and then the barns and everything were on the left hand side, wrapping all the way around and just open property. My mom has always said that anytime past nine, especially, I don't know why after nine o'clock is a number, but for me, it's any time after it gets dark. I would assume not to do any pir normal or anything, but she would say that if you're already having a paranormal activity in your house and you played with a deck of cards, dominoes, or any board game, whether it was sorry Monopoly, that you were giving an option for spirits to use that to come into And to this day about it, I started noticing it more once I started rating cards and doing all that to be really careful by doing it. The only really rare thing that happened was I remember having a bored and my friend spent the night. Oh my god, and it's the one that pops so you can hear it immediately. And I remember it popping on its own a couple times in my room once after me and my friend had played it. Nothing happened when we were playing it, but it happened after we played it, and I was like, Okay, I think my mom's kind of right. I shouldn't do that anymore. I just I shouldn't do that. My mom started getting really sick. We found out that my mom had cancer ovarian cancer around that timeframe as well. I legitimately think it's because of all la ruhedia that has been done to her that till this day. She's sick because she went to specialist all California everywhere, Yes I'm Mehkuo, to try to find out what was wrong with her. You knew. They put camera all over her and then finally it took two and a half years to realize that she had ovarian cancer. And I feel like it was all the black magic that was done to her that led up to that point, like her body just couldn't take it anymore. We tried seeing a brujo, a guy that does magic. He wasn't a good witch. I don't know why my mom went to him. I won't ever forget him. One thing I remember clearly to this day is I can't say his name. My mom said he passed away a while ago, but I can't say his name. All I know is that he's Cuban. And the way that he would read cards that wasn't cards, It was rocks, which was such a trip. It was black rocks, red rocks. I'm sure there were crystals, but they for me at that time, were just rocks. The rocks were really odd shaped. He would throw them, and I remember my mom's can't be around for this, going to your room. But I opened the door and I was listening as freaked out as I was, and you know, him telling my mom that, oh he cheated on you, and you know you're gonna get sick. He has another mistress like hearing all this stuff. And then he said that we were me and her were bounded by the belly button. They said that we were bounded by them biblical cord still, which I guess in a sense means that anything that happens to me, she feels, and anything that happens to her I feel, or if it's something's gonna happen or her, it happens to me and vice versa. And I think that also ties into why now, like I can read cards and I do predict things and everything. Maybe that's why. But I remember the guy saying that they had to cut the umbilical cord and they had to do this crazy seance at the trailer. I was so scared because they were telling me they were I had a fall asleep. They had a tinfoil like where you put a turkey on the ground, You put rosemary in there, rubbing alcohol, holy water, clove, cinnamon, cedar bark, cedar tree, yeah, in it, and you burn it and then you start putting that all over the person as they're laying down in Me and my mom were holding hands. They were video taped it, and God, maybe I don't want to see it, but I am curious because I remember sitting there and in my head I started feeling like I was gonna fall asleep. I remember holding my mom's hand and I remember just like praying and praying and praying and just being like, Okay, if this is gonna work for my mom, like just have it worked for my mom. But I didn't end up fooling. Being in a full chance of sleep. So I don't think that's why it worked. But I remember them putting a really hot cup of water, like a clear glass of water. I'm assuming it's a clear glass, because what you're that's what you're supposed to do when you do the egg cleansing on my stomach, and they cracked the egg in there and they did it to my mom, and I remember him going grab the smoke. You need to grab this, you need to do that, and then like the kubano, like a duba like type of Oh God, and one of the curtains catching on fire. How I don't know, but that's how it all ended up stopping. Was that currin catching on fire. My mom wouldn't wake up. They couldn't get her to wake up from it for five minutes, and they started putting holy water on her. They told me I needed to put my i left hand on her forehead and my right hand behind her head and hold it there and start saying the Lord's prayer. And I did that, and I kept doing it and doing it, and then she ended up waking up. She didn't remember anything. She didn't remember falling asleep. She didn't remember. She's like, why is that why is the curtain like saying you did a catch on fire. Sobly that was to have helped to remove everything. About two months ago, before the end of the year, in December, I took my mom to a reiki to actually clean her chakras and remove it. She said that it was one of the most tense experiences she's ever done that to someone, like removing the energy and everything. She said it was like if two people were pulling on a rubber band, like trying to do a tuggle war. And she said that her little room, which was a beautiful room, if you walked into the felt like you were on clouds. She said, it was a black mass all over my mom. And she said at the moment she was praying and it finally broke. She said it snapped so hard back that it pushed her back. She said that Lily, I don't know what happened to her when you around two thousand and two, She goes, but I took some stuff off of her from then, and she doesn't know me. I just paid for a session and I was like, oh my god. Because of that happening, my mom's third eye opened and she's more susceptible to things now, but that's a different story. But it's crazy to see the connection of something so long ago reflect now and that's twenty years ago, like if not longer. It's just it's crazy. After the cleansing with the Cuban gentleman got better for a quick second, but then it's like everything started vamping up again. You would hear a car pull in, the engine, shut off one door. Sometimes it was two doors, but you would hear a door lightly shut. And then I had five steps going up to the house, and you would hear the but no one was there. And you would hear two car doors and people running up the steps and there was no one there. And I had friends that were so skeptical that I made them like live some really bad fears. When they would come visit me at that house, like they'd be like, oh, he's here, let's go, and no one's here, Yeah, there are Did you hear the car? Yeah, I heard it, but there's no one here. They'd go check and there was no one there. I would have covered doors open that were completely locked. The knocking never stopped like ever. I would hear growling a lot before I got my dog. The growling would happen underneath the house in my parents' bedroom, which was really weird. I remember my mom telling the cuban about it and he said, are you sure you're not buried? Buried? And my mom going what Then he'd be like, they might have buried you, And that's how the search started. I was captain suspense for a bit because Lil's and I had to schedule a call for a later time. I have that for you up next. Stay with us. This episode is brought to you by Betterhelp. Trying to figure out why I would suddenly feel tired in certain places? Was strange? Was it what I ate? Was it the temperature a haunting? No, it was actually anxiety. You see, we're always growing and changing and we have to figure these things out. Life is full of surprises, and most are good. 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Last door was like the front door, and then the backyard door was just like a little tiny porch with an actual like door. So they just obviously didn't do the settlement right. So you would go downstairs and then it would be a big backyard, and then it was a chaining sense. And then on the other side was that neighbor's were was the lady that was the one that was dooming the competiot of my mom. My mom gave me some really crazy information that I'm gonna disclose this well, because before she orders that my dad and a gentleman. I'm just gonna call him Jay to not relise his name. Were outside and they were digging to find a jar because they said that there was going to be a jar with my mom in it. It could have been we didn't know at that point. It could have been a voodoo doll. Couldn't have been a picture wrapped in cloth. They could have it could have been a lot of different You can do a lot of different things. But in culture, for like anyone doing black magic ruhidia, if they put you in a jar and bury you, that means they like want to kill you or they want to keep you contained, depending on the items that are in the jar that they're getting buried with. Sounds crazy, but I remember seeing them from my dad's bedroom window because I wasn't outside at that point. Just I'm digging and dgging, and I didn't know what for at that point, like nothing, like, I had no idea they were. They try to keep me very secluded from it. But I think also then my senses of like my sixth sense or my witchiness. I guess you could say that now I'm playing more into it wasn't It was there, but I hadn't tapped into it. But my intimation was like, you need to look at this. Don't stay in your room, don't get on AIM, don't go on AOL, don't watch MTV, like, go and watch this. And I remember looking and peeping through the curtains and watching them dig and dig in the backyard, and after two hours of them danging, they finally found something. I go outside and it's probably around like seven point thirty eight o'clock at night, I can't tell you, Like the timeframe was dark, so they had flashlights on and my dad put a big spotlight up and stuff to dig in that area. When I went outside and I just looked over the port, little tiny porch was an upside down cross and they had no idea where they were digging. They were just digging to where the pattern that gentleman, the Cuban guy was telling him where to dig. I remember saying to my dad, like, do you see what you're digging? When you stop? And he's finely, I go, but this isn't good. Look what you dug up. And they both came up. Him and the gentleman Jay came up and we both looked over and my dad was like, holy sh crap, and we're talking about a man that is a non believer, Like he could see something flow in front of him and he would say that was the wind. Someone left the window open, like anything that happened that was weird, paranormal, like anything, always a reason, always a reason. There was always a reason to disclute it always, and he never believed in it. And this is one of the few times where he was like so mortified that we had to call the Cuban guy. When I asked my mom about it, she says she doesn't remember that, like she remembers them digging. She doesn't remember that it's an upside down crowd. So I feel like her mind blocked it off because right before we got on this phone call, half an hour before, I was outside with my mom and she said, what are you going to talk about? And I told her when we had left off and we were talking and everything, and I said, what I remember is a jar JR Bones in it. I don't know what kind of phones. This is explicit and I'm sorry for hopefully there's no young listeners, but female bloody tampon a picture of my mom, Hey, Hello, what are you saying? By this point, We're getting a little bit nervous with the interruptions, but we keep it going. Did you hear that a picture of my mom wrapped in black ribbon and just like a it was a regular Mason jar, just like a regular Mason jar. The only thing that I know and is that he told my dad and the guy j And my dad had it written down like where they dig, but they had no idea that when they were finished digging and found the jar it was an upside out cross because my mom said that, and I didn't know this. My dad told her when they found the jar, and I remember seeing it. I remember gay, yeah, though stave and everything's fine. Not everything's fine, everything's good. But he never told her it was found or not until I told her, I go, what are you talking about? Igo? There was Jr. There was a tamphone that it was your picture was wrapped in a ribbon And she's what And I'm looking at her like what, like literally, I'm like shocked, And she shocked and then she started not feeling well, and I was like, Okay, we're not going to talk about this anymore. And then she's yeah, like I'm I don't want to talk about it anymore, and I stopped recording. And I think that's why my mom got so sick and went through cancer. I really do, I really genuinely do. And it's crazy because after we found out about the jar, and I don't know what the cubing guy did with it, my mom told me early, not that long ago before we got on the call, that she had a son. The lady at this time wasn't living next door anymore. She and the gentleman had gone into separation or whatnot, and her son had left and went to South Carolina to live with her, and someone ran him over. Made rest in peace. But I don't think it's a coincidence that my mom's jar was found and then the next day her son down. You always pay for what you do to other people. Sometimes it's not yourself, it's your family, and it's your loved ones, So you always have to think about what you do. You scheer your story by going to true scarystory dot com or by sending us an email. I'll leave the information in the description of this episode for my fellow Spanish speakers out there. We have our other version with new stories over at de roestoriasrealis we're looking for stories to keep the show alive. Use the same info to reach me in case you have one to share up Next, check out Dark Memory, my other show about true scary mysteries. To keep getting these episodes, please make sure that you're following the show. If you're on Spotify, they're letting me ask you questions on there, so keep a lookout for ad free listening and additional content. Make sure to go to scaryplus dot com to help us out. 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