Ghost stories from Mexico: Page 1

The Time I Saw My Grandma's Spirit by Wandering24fox

I was visiting family in a country for the first time 3 years after my grandma passed. We made it to my grandma's house and there were 6 family members waiting for us at the house. I saw a lady that looked like my grandma peeking around the kitchen door smiling and waving like she was happy to se...

A Nightmare And A Farewell by lady-glow

SV became part of my extended family after marrying my second cousin RM. I was in my awkward early teenage years and didn't care for him, specially since my relatives closer to him described SV as a snobbish and uppish person. For these reasons, my interactions with him were reduced to the most basi...

Glowing Red Eyes In The Backyard by stewieguy

My second story takes me back to Mexico at my grandpas house. I am about 8 years old visiting my grandpa and his housekeeper in the slums of Mexico. My grandpa has a cement and brick house with a road directly in front, and a large backyard about 30' by 60' with a large 8' tall solid brick wall ar...

He Turned Into Light by lady-glow

I met JR - not Ewing - in December 1991 at the Christmas party of the company we both were working for. Since he lived and worked in northern Mexico our interactions were limited to a few times a year in which the employees from the central office in Mexico City and the ones from the satellite provi...

Demonic Possession Or Witch Craft? by Haven

This happened when I was around 12 years old. My mom took my siblings and I to visit her mom in her home town in Mexico during our summer break. As soon as we got there we were told not to wander close to the neighbor's house; strange things seemed to be happening there. Apparently, the 16 year th...

The Mexican Shining by Filmbuff1234

I come from the UK but this story was when I was on holiday in Cancun, Mexico. This encounter was actually why I came across this site because I was looking into Mexican spirits. I have previously done stories about a haunted house I live in and a haunted school. I decided I was going to write a...

Something In That Part Of The House by Haven

My parents moved into their house in Mexico about 20 years ago. My mother made the move by herself, my father stayed behind in Seattle tying some loose ends. I agreed to help my mom move and stay with her until my dad joined her which was to happen in a span of about 2 to 3 months. My mom and I go...

Wall Crawler by Haven

About five years ago I was at my parent's house waiting for my kids to come home from a birthday party. I was sitting in the dining room facing the window, reading from my Kindle, when I caught movement in front of me. I looked up and saw this guy in the yard jump up and climb a 15' (guessing on the...

Chased Us Out by Haven

In my previous story I told you about being helped by an entity when I was living alone with my newborn daughter. Now I will tell you about being tormented by "someone" or "something" in the same apartment. I would like your opinion on whether this was the same entity or not. My daughter was abo...

His Mom Came To Help by Haven

A few months before my father passed away, he told my mother that his dead mom had come to visit him. He explained to my mom that she looked so real that for a few minutes he forgot that she was gone and asked what she was doing there and how she got there. He said my grandma told him that she was t...

The Weeping Woman by JoeEspinoza

Before I tell you the story, I will tell you who the weeping woman is. In Mexico it's very common to hear about this person. This woman killed her kids many years ago, she drowned them because of depression due to the fact that her husband cheated on her. Since then she has been heard throughout Mex...

Incubus? My Mother's Tormentor by lady-glow

I supposed every mother is her children's hero and her teachings will influence many of the decisions they'll take through their lives. I grew up in a family that accepts the existence of ghosts. I remember listening to stories about dead love ones coming back to visit family members during thei...

The Gangster And The Voice by lady-glow

"Better cross to the other side of the street" "Don't let your son play with that kid" "Better wear runners today"... For as long as I can remember every so often some ideas pop up in my head for no apparent motive and without any personal effort. They are almost like a voice speaking nonsense ...

My Story As A Skeptic by willfer

So first of all I want to say that I am still a skeptic. I am not someone that believes in ghosts or the paranormal without evidence. However, I need to say that there is something in my past that left me wondering if what we experienced was indeed something paranormal. I don't know, that is the tru...

Relatives by chapulin1234

I posted couple of stories before as Cholulteca but can't figure out my password, Anyway, English is not my first language so please excuse any grammar mistake. I was reading a story about a child that sees her relatives and that brought memories of my own experiences with family "encounters", so...

Attacked By The Dead by beautifulSoul

This happened to me a while back. For as long as I can remember I've always had feelings if something bad is going to happen I would have this strange feeling or if I meet someone and get a bad feeling I can easily pick up on why. I don't know why. I'm just like that. But this experience I never und...

The Little Boy? by Ivantheone

So I went to Mexico this past summer. I stayed at my uncle's house for 3 days only. The first day I got there they gave me a heads up that some have sworn to see a little boy walking down the stairs. Now this scared me. The room I slept in was on the side of the stairs. The first night there I w...

My Odd Uncle by lady-glow

My maternal grandmother, Bueli, was a very sweet and loving woman, she was the only girl in a family of six children that lived in Mexico City during the early 1900's and through the difficult times of the "Revolucion" war (civil war). Her family was one of those old fashion families in which chi...

Montage Of Weird Occurrences by Angel87

I don't know if my friend Hugo was a magnet for the paranormal or it was just bad luck haha. But in this piece I'll provide you a montage, if you will, of weird stuff that happened to my friend and another experience that I had in a house that he was living in. So my friend Hugo, moved to a ho...

Carrying Evil Spirit by Saheed10

This is a story that happened years ago to my mom. She is psychic, although she did not develop it and closed her mind after what I'm about to tell you. When we arrived to Tijuana (yes! That Tijuana) she opened a little business. She was doing well for some years but then, one year in 2006 her sa...

My Grandma's House by tflores13

I had never gone to my grandmother's house until I was about 17. It was my first time in Mexico and I was already spooked by the countless rows of crosses on my way to Culiacan Sinaloa. My grandmother's house was originally a big 7 bedroom 1 bathroom house (they had 8 children) but was renovated abo...

Little Girl In The Bathroom Dressed In White by Mari

I was about five years old and living in Mexico. My mom used to work at a bridal shop. The shop was next to a candy store that my mom's friend owned. One day I wanted to use the bathroom and my mom took me to the candy store because our store didn't have a bathroom. Her friend's wife let us use ...

Weird Ground by JaimeMGJ

The majority of my experiences happened in Mexico, just as my first story. This experience happened months after the shadow in my brother's room. We had a couple of horses in the back part of my house, we have a small stable for them. One night there was this loud noise and then I heard horses r...

Laughing Shadow by JaimeMGJ

I just started on this site and even though I have had many things happen to me, I'll start with the one that has scared me the most. First, just a little history. I was in Mexico, living in a town that was founded 102 years ago, and before that was only forest. I also found out that it was a rou...

Visit From Dead Soldier by Jpsych

I'm new to this site and after reading some of the stories here I decided that I wanted to share my experience. This happened when I was 4 and lasted until after I turned 5 years old. I was living in Mexico City at the time my encounter happened. (I currently reside in the US). When I was four, I...

Returning The Batteries by NellyPerks

This story took place when I was 15 years old in 1996. One Saturday morning my little brother (lets call him John) came into my room and woke me up. He was 14 years old and on that day he was having a trip with the Boy Scouts that would last the whole day. John NEVER gets into my room. He and my...

Moving Out by NellyPerks

Everything started when I was a teenage girl. My parents decided I needed my own room so I moved to a room in the house that used to be a storage room. I didn't really like it because I was used to sleeping with my brothers and that room was spooky. I felt alone in that room, but I didn't want to...

Pink Guitar by RedMoon

I don't want to categorize this as my first experience because I don't remember much of it but this is the first paranormal thing that happened to me when I was a 2 year old. Before I was born, my mom lived in Dallas with her oldest brother and his wife. They had two boys and two daughters at that t...

Do Not Take My Blood by lady-glow

I came across this site after the passing of my cat and his subsequent visits to my family. After his first visit I thought I was "losing my marbles" but after reading many of the stories in YGS came to the realization that I wasn't the only one having this kind of experience and, in the process, I ...

Ghost Girl In Grandma's House by Roxanne090

Because the setting in which the story takes place is new to you, I shall explain the house's structure. Upon entering, there is a small living room, with a hallway at the right. At the end of the hall is the door to the master bedroom. To the right side of the hall are a pair of doors with small wi...

Uncle's Frightening Encounter by rosy722

This experience was told to my grandmother Leonor by my oldest uncle Theodoro. This story takes place in San Francisco Del Rincon, Guanajuato. This place called "San Pancho" by it residents has many myths surrounding parts of the town, specifically the oldest parts. One night, my uncle Lolo as w...

Alice And My Late Night Frights by lexhia

I've read hundreds of similar stories., most of them relating to creepy houses, late night frights, sleep paralysis, etc... I can't tell you that this is a different story. I grew up in a new house., located in what used to be cotton plantations. The only odd thing about it is one of my neighbor...

Cabrahombre by Roxanne090

I was staying for five days at my grandpa's house in Mexico. Everything was great; we all LOVED to sit around a good old camp fire and listed to one of our grandpa's collection of great ghost stories. The third day of my stay, grandpa told us kids one about a horrible beast with fangs, goat horns,...

Apparitions In My Grandparents Apartment by SoliK

My family is originally from Mexico. This all happened in my paternal grandparents apartment in the early to mid 1970's. When I was about 1 or 2 my parents moved in with my grandparents temporarily. They had put my crib in my grandparent's bedroom and my parents stayed in a smaller room. While I don...

Dealing With Death by El_Riky

This happened in Reynosa, Mexico, two years ago (summer, 2008). As a background, my family and I have always experienced ghost sightings, among other things. Sometimes they want to communicate or are in need of help. Sometimes... Sometimes they just want to have fun. I am my family's defense or barr...

Someone Whispered In My Ear by AlexandLainey

It was a summer's day and we were at an uncle's house, we had a BBQ and spent the night at their home, after talking and laughing we finally went to bed around three in the morning. Our now five year old daughter who was about three back then (this happened two years ago), was sleeping at our feet, ...

Dark Shadow On The Door by eva

This experience happened a few months ago. Some colleagues and I were doing a medical community service in a little town 3 hours ride from Mexico City. We rented a house where the 4 of us lived for the long-year required social service. All four of us became close and cared for each other. One day, ...

Was It My Grandfather by Miguel_17

Last summer, My Dad, Sister, and I, went to spend our vacation down in Durango, Mexico. We drove there all the way from Los Angeles, CA. We stayed at my grandma's house. My dad's afraid of the room we stayed in. He said that when he was around thirteen years old he always saw two men sitting at the ...

Fracisco Go To Sleep by Tuto69r

About 4 summers ago I was with the family on vacation in Culiacan, Sinaloa.Mx. That Part of Mexico when its summer is very hot but it also rains. In the house we stayed in they left the doors open every time it rained but it was fresh and we slept in the middle room. That night I slept on the fl...

Cats, Cars And Shadows by kashloggi

I never thought I'd be doing this, but right now I really want to find out what's going on. I was brought up in a lively Mexican household along with three other children and five cats. We all slept in the same room. One night, the cat that slept on my bed (Ziggy) started hissing and yowling at t...

Creepy Happenings In Our Office by Hawkgirl

This story is happening in the city of Tijuana. I work for a company that provides mental and behavioral health services, and most of our clients are children with autism. The first strange thing happened when one morning my workmate and I were turning our computers and the A/C on. She was in th...

Praying Nun by diaz94

Three years ago when I went to Mexico to visit my grand parents, I went to the plaza to hang out with my cousins. We were just chilling throwing fire crackers at the stray dogs that passed. It was getting late so I started heading of home to my grandparent's house. It was 2a. M and I was walking on ...

All This Time It Was Him by JamesAlexander

It all began back when I was seven years old. My uncle that lived next door passed away, and I was his favorite nephew. Here in México, we have this belief that after a funeral, people gather to pray for the late person. It was in the afternoon like I've said, I was seven, and I was with a cousin w...

Burning Tragedy by Hawkgirl

This story takes place in the city of Tijuana, Mexico. The tragedy happened on December 22, 1951. There was a big Christmas party for children living in poverty and they were to receive gifts, food and everything that a Christmas party implies. This was taking place at a multi-purpose room located ...

La Bruja by Jasmin314

This is two stories in one. This story takes place in the beautiful country of Mexico. I was about 10 years old. My family planned to vacation to my mother's home town in Mexico. We live in Missouri and decided to drive there, so we had about a two-day commute. Everything was just fine until ...

Apparition in Buenavista, Colima by WithNoRegrets

My parents were born and raised in a small town called Buenavista, Colima. They got married and moved to the States. When I was about 16 years old I went to visit the town and stayed with my aunt. On my first night there I had planned to unpack but didn't get to it as my aunt was going to give m...

Mexican Woman Ghost in my Bed by jojo06

My story takes place in puerto penasco aka rocky point in mexico. Me and my friends decided to take a trip to rocky point for spring break in 08. It was just kind of a spur of the moment kind of thing, so we didn't set no reservations at any hotels. Well when we got there, we decided to stay in a sm...

Dead Relative Among Us by Hawkgirl

When I was about three or four years old, my grandfather died in our house. He had a heart attack in his sleep and nobody found out until the next morning. He actually was my grandmother's second husband, and this is to be taken in consideration because not being my mom's father, they did not look a...

I Saw my Grandmother's Shadow by PrincessOfPunk94

When I was a little girl, me and my family would always travel to Mexico for Christmas and New Years. It would be me, my mom, my sister, my aunts and uncles, and a few cousins. We would travel by bus or by car and drive to Mexico. We would stay with my aunt and grandfather at their house. While ...

Grandpa Was Concerned About the Land by alan

This happened in durango mexico, I live near dallas texas. My grandfather came to visit us last year around this time of year and left at new years, he was a little ill at the time but he was old so it was kind of expected. A few months after he got back to mexico he had a stroke and became unrespon...