The Legend of the girl of the pantheon | A terrifying Mexican story

Mexico has extraordinary legends as we saw in the post Spooky Mexican legends and some of them are related to cemeteries. In Supercurioso we have approached the The vampire tree and this time we want to know more about one of the most popular: the Legend of the girl of the pantheon, a terrifying Mexican story.

The cemeteries usually cause restlessness in the people who visit them. Staying alone among the silent tombs seems to alter our senses in such a way that any everyday phenomenon seeks and needs an explanation that, if not evident, refers us to parapsychological phenomena. If we add this to the fact that in many cultures the cemetery is considered a liminal place, ie the threshold between the world of the living and the dead, it is natural that legends and stories about possible ghosts or spirits emerge.

The Legend of the girl of the pantheon

It is important to inform previously that the legend of the girl of the pantheon It does not have a single version. Like many legends it has been adapted to similar phenomena that have been reported in the cemeteries of various places. We have collected the three most popular versions.

Legend of the girl from the pantheon of Guadalajara, Jalisco

The legend of the girl of the pantheon which is explained in Guadalajara He tells us about a family that went to the cemetery to the burial of a relative. Next to the father and the mother was a seven-year-old girl who was very interested in everything that happened around her with the unconsciousness of the age regarding the sad events that were taking place. Among the greetings and condolences to the relatives, the family separated and when they arrived home, the father and the mother separately, realized that the girl had not returned with either of them. The little one was looked for among the other relatives but nobody knew anything. The police were notified that he returned to the cemetery without success. The girl had disappeared.

The Legend of the girl of the pantheon

Years later the wife of the family member buried that fateful day died and they went to bury her in the same grave as her husband. When the cemetery workers went to adapt the space, they found some creature bones and scraps of cloth. So they discovered what happened. Apparently the girl had come to see the grave and fell inside dying of a blow to the head. The coffin was placed on it and the pantheon was sealed. Since then there is talk of a girl walking around the cemetery who invites those who meet her to play with her and soon fades away. It is the girl who died in the pantheon. They say that if toys are left in the cemetery they disappear and the happy laughs of the girl are heard.

The legend of the girl of the Pantheon of Monterrey

The legend of the girl of the pantheon which is explained in Monterrey differs somewhat from that of Guadalajara. In this case it was a family composed of the father, the mother and two daughters who sold flowers in the vicinity of the cemetery. One day back home missing one of the girls and the mother returned to the cemetery to look for her, questioned what she was doing alone in that place explained that he was playing with another girl inside a pantheon. The mother did not give credit since the pantheon in question had been closed and abandoned for years. At home, she realized that she was missing her favorite doll and the father, because he did not hear her cry, went to look for her at the cemetery, finding her near the aforementioned pantheon.

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Back home, when he went to hand over the doll, the family realized that the girl, who thought she had fallen asleep, was dead. Desconsolados, they buried him and since then the laughter of two girls playing in the cemetery near the abandoned pantheon can sometimes be heard.

The legend of the girl of the Pantheon of Orizaba

The Orizaba Pantheon in Veracruz is the most important and visited civil cemetery of the population. In it is the Giant's Stone, a historical document carved in a stone dating from the 14th century, and the famous well-known tomb as "the angel's girl" . It is the tomb of a two-year-old girl named Ana María Dolores Segura y Couto who died on July 6, 1908. She died when her dress caught fire when the girl passed by a candle. The parents, disconsolate, buried her and commissioned a sculpture in which the girl was represented and an angel that protects her.

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Legend has it that at night in the pantheon you can hear the laughter of the girl who leaves her stone bed and plays on the paths of the cemetery until the angel picks her up and brings her back to her frozen bed.

Had you heard about this appearance? Do you know other versions of the legend of the girl of the Pateón or other stories related to dark cemeteries ? Share them with us and we can expand the article with more curiosities of cemeteries and terrifying legends. If you want to know more information about famous cemeteries, we invite you to read:

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