Legends of Terror: Spine-Chilling Stories from Mexico

The Devil’s Casino (State of Sonora)

In the city of Hermosillo, the New Year’s Eve dance took place on December 31, 1950. Linda, a 16-year-old girl, ran away from her house without permission to attend the dance that her parents had denied her.

Linda, looking for the love of her life among all the handsome young men who would attend, arrived at the casino dressed in splendor. She refused to dance with everyone until a handsome young man approached her. He was finely dressed, and his look mesmerized her.

That mysterious man attracted her with a penetrating gaze. When dancing, Linda felt the young man’s hand burning her dress. Linda was afraid. Something wasn’t right. She was sweating anxiously, and she felt like she was suffocating.

A chill took over her body, and she could see that the handsome young man had a crow’s foot and a cow’s hoof. Linda knew that she had been dancing with the devil all night.

The devil then burst out laughing, discovering his identity, and burning the casino with everyone inside. Many managed to escape, but others vanished in flames, including Linda, who knew she was paying for disobeying her parents.

Currently, you can visit the ruins of the Casino del Diablo. Young people gather to practice witchcraft and play Ouija. They say you can smell sulfur when the wind blows, and evil energies follow.

Moral: If you go without permission to a party, you may end up in the arms of the lord of eternal hell.

The Trucker of La Rumorosa (State Of Baja California)

Once upon a time, there was a trucker in the Sierra de la Rumorosa in Baja California, who lost his life on this dangerous road. The trucker was hurrying to his family in Mexicali because his child was about to be born. Due to his rush, he lost control of his truck, which overturned, falling onto the rocks. The man did not die instantly, he wandered the road for three days, but no one helped him, and he died.

Sometime later, a young man was stopped on the road by an injured man with torn clothes. He asked him for help to deliver money to his wife in Mexicali. He gave him an envelope with cash and a letter. When the young man went up, he lost track of the man. In Mexicali, the lady no longer lived at her home, and they gave her a new address upon arrival. Finally, the young man arrived at the new address and knocked on the door.

It opens, and a lady with a 5-year-old child is in her arms. The young man gives her the money and the letter and tells her it is from a man in La Rumorosa.

The lady faints, and when she wakes up, she tells the young man that her husband passed away five years ago.

Legend has it that truckers keep arriving with money for the lady, and everyone is shocked when they find out that it was the ghost of the trailer driver who sent them.

It is also said that all those who keep the money instead of looking for the woman will die tragically.

Moral: If they give you money to deliver, deliver it.

Pascualita (State of Chihuahua)

The Esparza family had a store called La Popular in the very center of the Chihuahua state capital. Pascualita was the daughter of the Esparza family.

Pascualita was a beautiful young woman with physical attributes that drove all the young men to fall in love with her followed. She was famous for her beauty in the city of Chihuahua.

Finally, one day she agrees to get married, and on the very day of the wedding, a scorpion stings her, and she dies. Mrs. Esparza, Pascualita’s mother, unable to bear losing her daughter, decides to fake the burial and embalm her daughter.

Not only that, but Mrs. Esparza decides to pass off the embalmed corpse as a mannequin which she places in the storefront’s window. She dresses her as a bride, and to everyone’s amazement, the resemblance of the mannequin to Pascualita is impressive.

They say that the mannequin has a lifelike look and looks like a real person—the details of her hands, nails, and fingers that even seem to have fingerprints impress everyone.

Others say they have seen her crying and even moving. Many fear her, but the women who are going to get married say that it brings them good luck if they wear the dress she is wearing, so the orders for said dress are very popular.

Today Pascualita can be seen in her showcase window, with her white dress and features so human that they cause chills to those in front of her. They say that at night she comes to life and that the store employees assure us that her material is not from a mannequin but something they cannot explain.

Moral: Do not embalm the bodies. Bury them so they can rest in peace.