The Hunting The Haunting

I am very excited to announce that I am finally visiting local haunted places again! I genuinely missed visiting hotspots, and the thrill of meeting other people who are into spirituality. 

On April 14th 2022 (the 12th anni. of my dad's passing):
I visited Panteon de Belen! I'll share photos at the bottom. It was nice to return home, and the beautiful night welcomed home, as well did the wild bats. Yes Panteon De Belen has bats, they are adorable. I was able to walk alone through the dark halls of the cemetery, and I got to visit my favorite legend: The Vampire Tree! And then I got to visit the kind scottish couple who are buried together. 

The Vampire Legend:The legend of the vampire tree took root in the mid-1800s in the Barranquitas neighborhood of El Carrizal, Guadalajara. Citizens recounted an ongoing string of deaths occurring only at night and happening to small animals in the region. Initially, it appeared that the deaths were from natural causes. As weeks wore on, the phenomenon persisted. An investigation ensued and, upon closer inspection, it was learned that the body of each animal corpse was marked by two closely positioned punctures. Furthermore, that not a drop of blood remained inside the corpse.

Shortly thereafter, this same tragedy began to happen to children, mostly newborns. Mothers were finding their babies in their cribs, dead, similarly marked and drained of blood.  Townsfolk were soon driven to remain indoors after dark. Locals, heralded for being great nighttime revelers, instead rushed home each evening to pray, seeking to summon holy powers to eradicate this supernatural being and vanish it from the city. One evening an ardent group, weary of the ongoing attacks, ventured out to track down and eliminate the force, by this time deemed to be a vampire.

Here is where the legend branches off into three limbs. One storyline states that the mob rounded up suspects, singling out a ghostly-looking man,  being pale white and most resembling a vampire. They drove a stake through his heart to kill him. The day will come when this gnarl will break the barrier slab covering the vampire, allowing him to escape and seek revenge on Guadalajara. In a site marked by death, this tree is now protected with a fenced enclosure to preserve its life.

The tree stands within the historic walls of the Panteón de Santa Paula (Santa Paula Cemetery) in a northern barrio of Guadalajara’s historic center.


On April 15th:
I met a kind man named Panfilo! He is part of this native American Tribe. He doesn't believe in reincarnation, nor in past lives. He believes that past life regression, is in fact just us being able to see what our ancestors went through. What an interesting POV.