Buried in the Backyard (Part 1)

Scary stories get used as cautionary tales often it's part of our history as humans.
But today we'll hear one of them, a true story about someone who
used tools supernatural ones for bad reasons. My name is Edwin and here is
Lil's true scary story. Hey everyone, my name is Lil's. I live
in California in a small little town called Pataluma, born and raised on a
milk dairy ranch five hundred acres. Some of the most beautiful memories I have
growing up as they're waking up, feeding the cows, the horses, just
a beautiful place. It wasn't until about fifth grade when one of the workers
got fired and my dad was looking for another foreman to help tend the cows.
The house next door to us was a big two story house, four
bedroom, I believe, and this family moved in and I was super excited
because they had kids around my age. For the first time, I didn't
have to play alone. Everything was fine. We would played together like our
families, became friends with their family, and I didn't know at the time
that my dad was having an affair with the lady next door. My mom
was learning how to drive, she came to pick me up from my elementary
school, which was about two blocks away, not far at all. I
remember us leaving school and it was a really big uphill with houses all around.
The fire department was to the right, and then you had to take
a sharp turn to the right, and there was a ditch there. But
we were turning and I remember seeing a weird black figure with green eyes,
and We're learning about animals and like all that stuff. So I'm like,
okay, like whatever. It creeped me out. My mom saw it too,
but when we got in the accident and went into the ditch, we
were all fine. I didn't know that was done by someone wanting to cause
it. My mom always told me, as there is good in people,
there is bad in people, and that is the same thing for anything,
paranormal ghosts, like anything, it's always good and it's always bad. I
saw my mom and dad arguing and fighting a lot. I never really paid
much attention because they would always do it when I was in the room and
they were in the living room, in the kitchen. I did hear little
things like that, yes you are, he'd say, no, I'm not,
I'm not. I remember this day, so vividly. I think this
is really when it got badden and when it actually started. My mom and
dad picked me up from school and we were at a stoplight. There was
a car in front of us. We were the second car. There was
like a truck suv behind us, and then one or two other cars.
A car was going like fifty miles an hour in a zone that's twenty five
point thirty and ended up hitting all the cars and they ended up piling up
really bad. I me and my dad were okay. My mom the impact.
She ended up going to the hospital and the ambulance. My dad went
with her. I remember going back to the ranch. This little old lady
that used to be the owner, she was the caretaker because her son took
over. She came to pick me up and I went to the neighbor's house
and I'm crying and I'm super upset. There with a couple of the girls,
and I remember the mom. I remember the mom on the phone in
the kitchen saying otra Vez. She was saying that what you didn't work?
Once again, it didn't work. And you know this other girl that I
was like, did you hear your mom say that? And she was like,
yeah, what is that? Because she her and her mom weren't that
big of a fan of each other, so I trusted her a little bit
more about these kind of situations. She mentioned that my mom was in the
hospital and she didn't know anything else, and she said, is there anything
that we could do? Well, my mom was in the hospital, and
they said no. I guess that's what was said on the phone. I
don't know. That stuck with me, and my mom came home from the
hospital. She ended up messing up her back really bad, to the point
where like she can't drive from that accident anymore at all, Like she just
can't drive. My mom about two weeks later, put me, sat me
down in my room and told me that my mom was gonna leave my dad
because he was cheating on her with the lady next door. And I was
so upset and I was so distraught. I just I didn't really know how
to think her, how to react. Then a couple of days later,
she told me that my dad was gonna cut it off with the lady.
My mom wanted to make it work because I was still in school and she
just she wanted to make it work. So my dad told a lady who
lives right next door, mind you, but it's not gonna work. I'm
not gonna end my marriage. This is it. And that's when things started
really ramping up. I lived in a double wide trailer. My mom started
getting really sick and she started saying that she would see some stuff. I
remember starting to hear the three knocks on my window outside and I'm in the
middle of nowhere, like there no one can run up, knock on my
window, run away, and I'd look and there'd be nothing, and I'd
be like okay, And then I would hear it on the actual trailer and
I started getting really freaked out. I remember opening up the back door and
I don't know how I got the balls I did. I remember going out
the back door around the corner and just seeing like a shadow just take off.
In a sense, we have jack rabbits, foxes, animals, stray
cats. So I was like, what the hell? And I remember telling
my mom and my mom said, no, La, boskis you know,
I've just la. Don't go looking for it. You never open the door,
because three knocks is the Holy Trinity. Knock. Three knocks is bad,
whether it's a window, a door, anything. Anytime you hear that,
you never open it. And I won't ever forget that. When my
mom told me that, that's when she started telling me that me and my
friends couldn't play board games. No cards, no Monopoly, no sorry,
literally nothing like no cards, because there's a certain time at night that you
can bring something up if it's already started within the house. So, in
other words, if you already have paranormal stuff going in your house and you
start playing a board game, something bad can come from it, not just
that we have. And it was at this moment when our audio recording equipment
went faulty. It would be the first of several incidents during the recording.
I thought, no, I like, I heard a static, a little
like you look, and I was like, hello, okay, so we
had and then it went weird. We ha like Little's mentioned he's a Spanish
pronunciation of Wuiji, as in, we're gonna note that if you notice,
right as she mentions it, our connection receives interference. It's not the first
time that this happens during our recording. We then made our adjustments and continued.
So. Yeah, so there was a long dirt driveway, like a
block long and then the first house on the right was the owner's house.
You kept driving cattle guard, and then it was his mom's house. Drive
a little bit more and it's it was my house, their house, and
then two other houses. So it was like a big backwards candy cane like
where all the houses were, and then the barns and everything were on the
left hand side, wrapping all the way around and just open property. My
mom has always said that anytime past nine, especially, I don't know why
after nine o'clock is a number, but for me, it's any time after
it gets dark. I would assume not to do any pir normal or anything,
but she would say that if you're already having a paranormal activity in your
house and you played with a deck of cards, dominoes, or any board
game, whether it was sorry Monopoly, that you were giving an option for
spirits to use that to come into And to this day about it, I
started noticing it more once I started rating cards and doing all that to be
really careful by doing it. The only really rare thing that happened was I
remember having a bored and my friend spent the night. Oh my god,
and it's the one that pops so you can hear it immediately. And I
remember it popping on its own a couple times in my room once after me
and my friend had played it. Nothing happened when we were playing it,
but it happened after we played it, and I was like, Okay,
I think my mom's kind of right. I shouldn't do that anymore. I
just I shouldn't do that. My mom started getting really sick. We found
out that my mom had cancer ovarian cancer around that timeframe as well. I
legitimately think it's because of all la ruhedia that has been done to her that
till this day. She's sick because she went to specialist all California everywhere,
Yes I'm Mehkuo, to try to find out what was wrong with her.
You knew. They put camera all over her and then finally it took two
and a half years to realize that she had ovarian cancer. And I feel
like it was all the black magic that was done to her that led up
to that point, like her body just couldn't take it anymore. We tried
seeing a brujo, a guy that does magic. He wasn't a good witch.
I don't know why my mom went to him. I won't ever forget
him. One thing I remember clearly to this day is I can't say his
name. My mom said he passed away a while ago, but I can't
say his name. All I know is that he's Cuban. And the way
that he would read cards that wasn't cards, It was rocks, which was
such a trip. It was black rocks, red rocks. I'm sure there
were crystals, but they for me at that time, were just rocks.
The rocks were really odd shaped. He would throw them, and I remember
my mom's can't be around for this, going to your room. But I
opened the door and I was listening as freaked out as I was, and
you know, him telling my mom that, oh he cheated on you,
and you know you're gonna get sick. He has another mistress like hearing all
this stuff. And then he said that we were me and her were bounded
by the belly button. They said that we were bounded by them biblical cord
still, which I guess in a sense means that anything that happens to me,
she feels, and anything that happens to her I feel, or if
it's something's gonna happen or her, it happens to me and vice versa.
And I think that also ties into why now, like I can read cards
and I do predict things and everything. Maybe that's why. But I remember
the guy saying that they had to cut the umbilical cord and they had to
do this crazy seance at the trailer. I was so scared because they were
telling me they were I had a fall asleep. They had a tinfoil like
where you put a turkey on the ground, You put rosemary in there,
rubbing alcohol, holy water, clove, cinnamon, cedar bark, cedar tree,
yeah, in it, and you burn it and then you start putting
that all over the person as they're laying down in Me and my mom were
holding hands. They were video taped it, and God, maybe I don't
want to see it, but I am curious because I remember sitting there and
in my head I started feeling like I was gonna fall asleep. I remember
holding my mom's hand and I remember just like praying and praying and praying and
just being like, Okay, if this is gonna work for my mom,
like just have it worked for my mom. But I didn't end up fooling.
Being in a full chance of sleep. So I don't think that's why
it worked. But I remember them putting a really hot cup of water,
like a clear glass of water. I'm assuming it's a clear glass, because
what you're that's what you're supposed to do when you do the egg cleansing on
my stomach, and they cracked the egg in there and they did it to
my mom, and I remember him going grab the smoke. You need to
grab this, you need to do that, and then like the kubano,
like a duba like type of Oh God, and one of the curtains catching
on fire. How I don't know, but that's how it all ended up
stopping. Was that currin catching on fire. My mom wouldn't wake up.
They couldn't get her to wake up from it for five minutes, and they
started putting holy water on her. They told me I needed to put my
i left hand on her forehead and my right hand behind her head and hold
it there and start saying the Lord's prayer. And I did that, and
I kept doing it and doing it, and then she ended up waking up.
She didn't remember anything. She didn't remember falling asleep. She didn't remember.
She's like, why is that why is the curtain like saying you did
a catch on fire. Sobly that was to have helped to remove everything.
About two months ago, before the end of the year, in December,
I took my mom to a reiki to actually clean her chakras and remove it.
She said that it was one of the most tense experiences she's ever done
that to someone, like removing the energy and everything. She said it was
like if two people were pulling on a rubber band, like trying to do
a tuggle war. And she said that her little room, which was a
beautiful room, if you walked into the felt like you were on clouds.
She said, it was a black mass all over my mom. And she
said at the moment she was praying and it finally broke. She said it
snapped so hard back that it pushed her back. She said that Lily,
I don't know what happened to her when you around two thousand and two,
She goes, but I took some stuff off of her from then, and
she doesn't know me. I just paid for a session and I was like,
oh my god. Because of that happening, my mom's third eye opened
and she's more susceptible to things now, but that's a different story. But
it's crazy to see the connection of something so long ago reflect now and that's
twenty years ago, like if not longer. It's just it's crazy. After
the cleansing with the Cuban gentleman got better for a quick second, but then
it's like everything started vamping up again. You would hear a car pull in,
the engine, shut off one door. Sometimes it was two doors,
but you would hear a door lightly shut. And then I had five steps
going up to the house, and you would hear the but no one was
there. And you would hear two car doors and people running up the steps
and there was no one there. And I had friends that were so skeptical
that I made them like live some really bad fears. When they would come
visit me at that house, like they'd be like, oh, he's here,
let's go, and no one's here, Yeah, there are Did you
hear the car? Yeah, I heard it, but there's no one here.
They'd go check and there was no one there. I would have covered
doors open that were completely locked. The knocking never stopped like ever. I
would hear growling a lot before I got my dog. The growling would happen
underneath the house in my parents' bedroom, which was really weird. I remember
my mom telling the cuban about it and he said, are you sure you're
not buried? Buried? And my mom going what Then he'd be like,
they might have buried you, And that's how the search started. I was
captain suspense for a bit because Lil's and I had to schedule a call for
a later time. I have that for you up next. Stay with us.
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my dad broke down from that guy that came over at Kubano where to dig
in the backyard. So the trailer was backwards, I guess in a sense
because the front part of it when you pulled the up, would be like
a big nice porch and it was a signing. Last door was like the
front door, and then the backyard door was just like a little tiny porch
with an actual like door. So they just obviously didn't do the settlement right.
So you would go downstairs and then it would be a big backyard,
and then it was a chaining sense. And then on the other side was
that neighbor's were was the lady that was the one that was dooming the competiot
of my mom. My mom gave me some really crazy information that I'm gonna
disclose this well, because before she orders that my dad and a gentleman.
I'm just gonna call him Jay to not relise his name. Were outside and
they were digging to find a jar because they said that there was going to
be a jar with my mom in it. It could have been we didn't
know at that point. It could have been a voodoo doll. Couldn't have
been a picture wrapped in cloth. They could have it could have been a
lot of different You can do a lot of different things. But in culture,
for like anyone doing black magic ruhidia, if they put you in a
jar and bury you, that means they like want to kill you or they
want to keep you contained, depending on the items that are in the jar
that they're getting buried with. Sounds crazy, but I remember seeing them from
my dad's bedroom window because I wasn't outside at that point. Just I'm digging
and dgging, and I didn't know what for at that point, like nothing,
like, I had no idea they were. They try to keep me
very secluded from it. But I think also then my senses of like my
sixth sense or my witchiness. I guess you could say that now I'm playing
more into it wasn't It was there, but I hadn't tapped into it.
But my intimation was like, you need to look at this. Don't stay
in your room, don't get on AIM, don't go on AOL, don't
watch MTV, like, go and watch this. And I remember looking and
peeping through the curtains and watching them dig and dig in the backyard, and
after two hours of them danging, they finally found something. I go outside
and it's probably around like seven point thirty eight o'clock at night, I can't
tell you, Like the timeframe was dark, so they had flashlights on and
my dad put a big spotlight up and stuff to dig in that area.
When I went outside and I just looked over the port, little tiny porch
was an upside down cross and they had no idea where they were digging.
They were just digging to where the pattern that gentleman, the Cuban guy was
telling him where to dig. I remember saying to my dad, like,
do you see what you're digging? When you stop? And he's finely,
I go, but this isn't good. Look what you dug up. And
they both came up. Him and the gentleman Jay came up and we both
looked over and my dad was like, holy sh crap, and we're talking
about a man that is a non believer, Like he could see something flow
in front of him and he would say that was the wind. Someone left
the window open, like anything that happened that was weird, paranormal, like
anything, always a reason, always a reason. There was always a reason
to disclute it always, and he never believed in it. And this is
one of the few times where he was like so mortified that we had to
call the Cuban guy. When I asked my mom about it, she says
she doesn't remember that, like she remembers them digging. She doesn't remember that
it's an upside down crowd. So I feel like her mind blocked it off
because right before we got on this phone call, half an hour before,
I was outside with my mom and she said, what are you going to
talk about? And I told her when we had left off and we were
talking and everything, and I said, what I remember is a jar JR
Bones in it. I don't know what kind of phones. This is explicit
and I'm sorry for hopefully there's no young listeners, but female bloody tampon a
picture of my mom, Hey, Hello, what are you saying? By
this point, We're getting a little bit nervous with the interruptions, but we
keep it going. Did you hear that a picture of my mom wrapped in
black ribbon and just like a it was a regular Mason jar, just like
a regular Mason jar. The only thing that I know and is that he
told my dad and the guy j And my dad had it written down like
where they dig, but they had no idea that when they were finished digging
and found the jar it was an upside out cross because my mom said that,
and I didn't know this. My dad told her when they found the
jar, and I remember seeing it. I remember gay, yeah, though
stave and everything's fine. Not everything's fine, everything's good. But he never
told her it was found or not until I told her, I go,
what are you talking about? Igo? There was Jr. There was a
tamphone that it was your picture was wrapped in a ribbon And she's what And
I'm looking at her like what, like literally, I'm like shocked, And
she shocked and then she started not feeling well, and I was like,
Okay, we're not going to talk about this anymore. And then she's yeah,
like I'm I don't want to talk about it anymore, and I stopped
recording. And I think that's why my mom got so sick and went through
cancer. I really do, I really genuinely do. And it's crazy because
after we found out about the jar, and I don't know what the cubing
guy did with it, my mom told me early, not that long ago
before we got on the call, that she had a son. The lady
at this time wasn't living next door anymore. She and the gentleman had gone
into separation or whatnot, and her son had left and went to South Carolina
to live with her, and someone ran him over. Made rest in peace.
But I don't think it's a coincidence that my mom's jar was found and
then the next day her son down. You always pay for what you do
to other people. Sometimes it's not yourself, it's your family, and it's
your loved ones, So you always have to think about what you do.
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