For people who like
to scare people
- Address:
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1026 Jose Aramberri Street
Monterrey
Mexico
- About:
- n spite of the fact tht the strangest rumors are being spread regarding supernatural apparitions, moans and strange events, dozens of Monterrey citizens turned the "haunted house" of the Barrio Antiguo (old part of time) into a new tourist attraction.
Given the publicity this house has received over the course of the week, when an unexplained scream was recorded, the house has been beseiged by adults and teenagers alike. As soon as the shadows of the night fall, the structure located at 1026 Jose Aramberri street, in the heart of Monterrey, is visited by sometimes not so silent "ghosts" -- mainly youngsters hoping to face a situation of a supernatural sort and hope to see the lost soul who wanders throughtout the house since 1933.
It was in that year that one of the most memorable crimes in Monterrey history took place; and the curse laid on the house made it to remain intact and unmodified to date, beyond the installation of cyclone fencing accross its front. Nonetheless, residents of the state of Nuevo Leon appear to have discovered a new nocturnal pastime, setting aside nightclubs and parties: making efforts to raise the ghosts of the dead, or at least have a good fright while doing so.
"We went in last nite and let me tell you, when we noticed one of the windows in the back, we saw a woman's face, a woman dressed in white, who appeared and disappeared," explains one of the nightly visitors.
Ricardo Zavala of the municipality fo Escobedo explained that when they learned about the haunted house, they decided to come regardless of the time or distance involved--a situation echoed by other curiosity seekers. However, last night was particularly eerie, since when a group of youngsters went in, one of the last windowpanes that remained whole shattered without any apparent cause.
Furthermore, groups of four to five people have entered the house at different times to pray for the rest of the wandering soul or else to invoke it and ask it to disclose the reason for its remaining in this world.
Some absences can be felt more strongly than presences, and 68 years after the cruel murder that took place here, the sprits of a housewife and her daughter remain in the house where they were killed.
Stealthily, as if studing the terrain to be stepped upon, the visitors stand before the ramshackle manse and look past the frail cyclone fencing before plucking up the courage to penetrate the dwelling built in the early 1900s. The transit from modernity to antiquity lasts less than a minute, and all that is necessary is to make a slight effort to raise the cyclone fence and move along the deteriorated stairway made of brick. Nor is it necessary to ring a bell to be admitted, since the doors are on the ground and do not keep thrill-seekers from satisfying their need for relief from boredom or morbid curiosity..
A pathway leads to the place where the family pet lived, and tied from a tree branch can be seen the trapeze from which the family parrot was perched. According to the old story, it was the parrot who gave away the assassins, since its raucous screams made it a witness used by the authorities, since the bird shrieked "Don't kill me, Gabriel, don't kill me!" -- a remark which damned the guilty party, who were subsequently aprpehended.
