Whispers in the Trailer: Growing Up Haunted in the Rio Grande Valley

I teach her, clearly passed by, but she looks white. She looks grayish, like you know, it doesn't look like she has. Color in her. And she just passes by. My heart sank because I knew right away that wasn't my sister. Their childhoods were filled with unexplainable experiences. Join me as we heard the stories from two siblings living through the paranormal and the seemingly impossible. My name is Edwin, and here is Alan's and we sent this true scary story. Hi, my name is Alan and my name is Vicente, and we're for the real Grande Valley. This is our scary story. My story actually starts when I was very young. I was three years old, four years old. My mom was pregnant with my brother. We're living in Mexico in a two story home. One night, we're asleep, right, my mom and I will wake up to some noises. You basically hear the door creaking, like every other story right in Mexico. Yes, the doors are really heavy and they make a lot of noise, so you hear the creaking, but there's no wind. It shouldn't be creaking. I wake up and my mom's already up, and I asked. Her ma as well, just as song, did you hear that? She's like, hey, like, go back to sleep. And I'm just like why, you know. What I mean, Like, why go back to sleep? And clearly someone's moving the door, so it starts to move. When it shuts. My mom, she says, oh, my god, like she gets me. She runs downstairs. Our house in Mexico, it's a two story home, but it's kind of like split. The top portion has like its own entrance on the side, and the bottom portion also has its own entrance. My grandfather built it. My dad did that modification so his sister can live downstairs and he can live upstairs. So Mom went downstairs and she crossed the gate pregnant with my brother. She says, she has no idea how she did it. And she went to go look for my father to let him know, Hey, something's in the house. My dad he's like, nah, it's nothing, and it's nothing. So he literally brought her back to the house. We had to go back to sleeve, you know what I mean. We eventually moved from Mexico to the United States, right, and we started renting some apartments. I would say, I'm five years old. One day, my mom's waiting for me outside the apartment. She's already in the car. I don't know what I was doing, maybe putting my shoes on or whatever. I'm running out of my room and I stopped because I see a shadow to my right. So I turn around. There I see a shadow of what looks like a detective. I run out of the apartment, closed the door, and I. Tell my mom, Mom, I just saw someone inside, and she's like, what do you mean you saw someone inside? So I started explaining, like a man inside and he was wearing a detective hat, kind of like a fedora and a trench coat. And I still remember that shadow. It was really weird. My mom she. Knows things like this have happened to us in the past. She believes me. That's the only thing that I thought that apartment. The other scarier things that happened is that they broke into our apartment twice. And that's actually why we moved into the mobile home. And this mobile home is where most of. The stuff happens. It all starts with. One night, my brother and I were watching TV in the master bedroom. It's a mobile home, so the master bedrooms in the end of the home, right, so there's only like one little hallway and then the kitchens at the other end of the mobile home, which is like the front. And I hear the stereo last, but you hear like stantatic and like the music. A lot of music. The stereo shut off. After that, it was just for that one second. The TV goes into commercial and I'm like, let me go see what, Like, why did mom. Turn on the radio? She never turns on the radio. So I walked on the hall and I see my mom standing in front of the sync stun and this is like a thirty seconds for a minute later, right, she's standing there and. She turns to the left, and she asked me. To do I was like the radio. She's like, yes, did you turn on the radio? I was like, no, Mommy, it wasn't me. When I checked it, the radio was unplugged. She's like, oh my god. She's like, ba mon no. I grabbed the landline and you can hear the loud D D D where there's like no service. My mom's face turns pale, like she looks sick to her stomach. She like grabs me by the hand. My little brother was right behind me, like we run out of the house. Basically, so she's saying while we're driving to my tas house because. She's so afraid. I was about to take my medicine. She had crushed up a pail and she can't swallow the pills, so she was gonna take it with a spoon. She put like the pill on the spoon, and as she was going to swallow the powder, someone hit the spoon out of her hand. It flew out of her hand and the radio turned on full blast. That's the reason why she was like, she had a pale face. And then that's when I understood the situation. My mom's a scaredy cat. She's scared of everything. She's scared of high she's scared of the pool, whatever, spiders, snakes. So we went to go pick up my idea that isn't scared of anything. I mean, she watches the exercise for fun. She brought her back to the house and the house was normal, but after that the house wasn't the same. We were scared. We're scared of everything. My dad, like I said, he's skeptical. He'll brush it off. I don't know if it's you know what I mean, he's a man of the house, so he has to be the strongest one. One night, maybe a couple of days later after that, we have one of our theats. This thea she sells like the rosaries and the crosses at our local mall right. Her son has been selling that for years and years, maybe like twenty years or more. She came over to our house and my mom and my dad and her are sitting in the living room and they're talking about the story. Right. My Dad's like, nah, like the radio thing is just like a coincidence. It's maybe Vicente kicked it, or he turned it on, or he jumped and it turned on or whatever. I mean. We are in the mobile home, right, and I'm like, no, Dad, it wasn't me. It wasn't me. And he's like, okay, jump. I'm like, okay, how jump? So I jump as high as I can. When I land, that radio turns on full blast. Everybody in the room stood still. All our eyes were wide open, and nobody said a word. My heart was beating, and I told my dad. I told so. Nobody touched it. I jumped and it turned on, but I didn't jump previously because we're all was in the room. So he's like, all right, jump again. I jump again. Didn't turn on. I jump again, didn't turn on. I kept on jumping. It wouldn't turn on. It was just when he asked me to. After that, when knew like something's wrong with this house. Little by little, other things started happening. I don't want to say I was a bad kid, but I was mischievous. I'm a joke, sure. I like to mess around. One thing my mom hated for me to do. I would tap or make beats on the washer, the washer and dryer. They're made out of metal, so you know when you hit them, they make a noise, right, So what I would do is that I would get a pencil, and you know how kids make beats in school on their desks, make the beats on the wash and dryer because it's so loud, you know what I mean. I thought it was cool. I'm making music, right. My mom hated that it was her head peep. She would yell at us at the top of her lungs. And for some reason, when I was younger, I would slap my mom's butt. I would slap her butt, slap her legs, and I would run away and. She hated it. So one time, my brother and I were watching or watching TV in the master bedroom. My mom's in the restroom, which is the room right next to it. She's getting ready because because we're gonna go somewhere, someone just slammed the wash. And dryer's silence. My Mom's like, vent, I'm in the room next to her, and I told her, Ma, no for you. She runs to the room, which is, like I said, right next to and she's like what. I was like, Mom, that was not me. At this point, so much has happened in this house that what do we do. We're not gonna run out of the house because we heard the three noises right, the infamous three knocks thes We're not gonna run out of the house. It is what it is. We live there. We don't pay attention to it. We ignore it. A couple of days later, we're in school. My mom's home alone again, she's getting ready, she's doing her hair in front of the mirror in the restroom. Someone slaps her butt. She turns around and she's like, she realizes there's nobody at home and we're at school. She said that she was so scared, but what do you do? You just ignore it, right, Hopefully you ignore it, it goes away. At this point, we're pretty immune to it. My mom, she would go to the tarrets or the people that read the cards. I'm not too sure what you call them, right, They would say, you know, from the apartments, something followed you, guys, the whole situation with the radio and with the spoon flying out of her hand. A lady said that the apartments that we lived at when we were younger used to be a burial ground. Then they build that community of apartments, right, and according to her, something followed us. I believe it. I mean, what else could it be? And even if maybe that's not true, all those things like being touched, being hit, things turning on without them being plugged in, that's too much, that's too crazy. I'm going to introduce my brother that we can tell his part. It's around two thousand and nine. I'm like nine years old. It was a morning and I had slept on the couch. When I woke up, I was looking around the house because usually everybody's up in the morning and nobody was home. So I hop on the xbox turn it on. I vividly remember everything I'm playing Halo three and I'm just on the party, just talking on the headset. It's like ten minutes that I'm into gaming and. I hear Ice in a glass dingling around. I'm sitting there and I'm like, that's inside the house, you know, it's not coming from the headset. So that's when I take off my headset and then I looked at the left left, and that's when I see a man. He's sitting on the couch that I was sleeping in. He's wearing a suit with a goatee, black hair slipped to the. Side, skinny man. With his arm rested on the arm rest, his left foot is on top of. His right knee, and he's just watching me play. It was like thirty seconds to a minute where I was just frozen and I was just staring at the couch. The thing is, I saw everything, like all the outlines of the whole suit, his face, everything, but it was it was like see through and I saw it for like a second and then he vanished, disappeared right in front of my face. That's when I hop on the on the headset after like the minute, and I'm just saying, my friend. And yo, I just saw ghosts. I just saw a ghost, and I kept looking to my left. I kept looking to my left because I'm trying to see maybe I see something else. Three four years later, I was talking to that same friend and had been a while. He's like, hey, man, I still remember that story he told me about the ghost. Was that real? I tell him, like, yeah, it was real, dude, and I described the same thing that happened. He's like, oh, that's crazy. I still remember that story. The thing about my house is that it was like a desk with the Xbox and the TV right there in the front. When you look to the left, it's. The couch, but on the right side it's a long hallway going to the master bedroom. That hallway would always freak me out at night. It's a dark Halloway. Don't put in perspective. It's a pretty dark halloway. It's super dark. I was always scared of it. So whenever my family would go out to a barbecue, I want to just be gaming. I would stay there by myself and just laugh at my friends whatever. But every light in that house had to be on. That's the only way I was going to stay home alone because I'm not staying in the dark. Me and my brother slept in the same bed, our whole lives, pretty much, our whole lives. I was always scared of our closet because I didn't like it at all. That door always had to be closed. To this day, I don't remember anything that we had in that closet because that door was never opened. When my mom would tell me, hey, go put this in the closet, yeah right, you're gonna go do it. Even if I did when I started getting a little bit older, like I would open it and just toss it in there. I'm not gonna hang it. I'm not looking for a hanger. I'm not doing anything. I'm throwing that in there, and wherever it lands, it lands, and I'm out. There will be nights where me and my brother are sleeping, we were here just hear footsteps, and then we'll hear something in the kitchen, somebody grabbing, like a dish or something, and I'll tell my brother and be like hente and he's knocked out. But I'm so scared that I'm gonna wake him up because I don't want to be awake by myself and be scared. You know, there was one night where I got brave enough and I was like, I need to see I need to go and look. I hear footsteps and I hear like slinging on the on the dishes. I get up and I opened the door and nobody's there. I was scared, you know, So I just close the door. I get into bed. I'm tapping tente and I'm like, wake up, wake up. And sometimes he wouldn't wake up. He was like, no, I'm not waking up. Like He'll stay asleep, and I would just hide under my blanket, you know, and I'll be so scared. And then sometimes he. Would wake up and just stay up with me a little bit and then we'll both go to sleep together. That house and that closet especially was just like something I'll never forget. My brother's a scaredy cat. I'm scared. I'm the bigger brother, so it's kind of like it's I guess it's my job to be brave. Since we're kids. It would make me so mad that I had to sleep with the night light because he wanted to sleep with the night light. I hated it. I will get up in the middle of the night sometimes to turn it off because I hate it. Team light. Yeah, that's one thing to this day, my trauma. You know, I can't sleep in the dark. I will never sleep in the dark. I can with my wife and like when my son, I feel safe, you know, because I have somebody there. But if I'm sleeping alone, to this day, there has to be a little light there. If there isn't, I can't sleep. I get paranoid, you know. So when we were little, I want to say it's between two thousand and six to two thousand and eight, we were in the outskirts of the city at one of my cousin's house. We were all there just having fun. There's seven of us, we're all playing. My cousin has a trampoline. We all just we're on that trampoline doing wrestling moves, playing because you know, we like wwe so we're all doing that. And then afterwards, we all lay down in a circle looking up in the sky. The moon was out, but it was like the sun was about to set, and we're just there talking and we're just kids. That's when we see. A witch in a broom passed by us kind of fast. I saw her vividly. She passed by us all of us saw it. We all got up and everybody just jumped off that trampoline started running. I was the scary cat, right, So I jumped off and I'm trying to put on my shoes and I can't put on my shoes. I'm like, don't leave you, don't leave it, and she's just like, hurry up, and so we put on the shoes and we all run inside the house. To this day, none of my cousins. Have brought it up. Maybe they forgot or. Me and my cousin were together and we're just hanging out and I brought it up to him. I was like, hey, do you remember and he stops me right away and he says the witch. And I was like, dude, yes, do you remember the witch? And he's like, bro, He's like, I tell my girlfriend that story and she doesn't believe me. And the thing is, I ever told my wife that story because it's a crazy story to believe, like a witch on a room. That's probably where the cliche came from, because people actually saw it. You know, a story that happens in our mobile home, right. It involves those cousins that were with at the trampoline, Those three cousins, theraw boys, and they had a sister, so there was four cousins. Right. They came over to my house, that same mobile home that we used to live at. We're just playing. Their mom calls my mom and tells them something crazy just happened at a McDonald's. My tea, my aunt. She took her daughter to this McDonald's, and she said it was an empty McDonald's. There's only one other family there with one kid, and he was playing on. The downstairs part. I know McDonald doesn't have the playgrounds anymore, but they used to be huge, right, there are huge playgrounds. My cousin she's playing with the tubes and the tunnels or whatever it is, and at the very top, she starts yelling. She starts yelling, hectically, yelling, calling off for her mom, like yeah, my aunt. She's like like what's going on? Like why is she climb? Nobody's hurting her because we're the only was here and the other family's kid is playing like right in front of me. She's calling her to get down, and she never does, and she's still yelling and yelling. So she figures out a way to go all the way to the top. And bring her down. So when she brings her down, she tells her like, hey, what happened my little cousin saying, e Nina Lino the little boy and she's like, what little boy. She's like going downstairs like the one here. She said, no, no, a Lina fail. The ugly boy. The ugly boy was telling me to go up. He was pointing up and he wanted me to go up. He wanted to take me up. She was like, she was confused. So they left the playground and she went to a tear it or yeah, the ladies that see the future and they could tell you and what she says, that little boy was at the weddy. She told Madia, if your daughter would have gone up with him, she was going to be gone. You would have lost her. She was going to disappear forever. I want to believe that she's right. That's a little bit too crazy for someone to just disappear, But what happens later makes me believe it. Like you know what, she probably is right. She told her, hey, go and get her like some protection. You're gonna go get her this specific necklace with the saints, and this is going to protect your daughter and do not leave your daughter alone. She cannot stay alone. Someone has to be with her at all times. So she immediately goes over there to the ma and you know, my Otherthia gives her the specific necklace they put the holy water and all that stuff. She comes to my house, the mobile home, to pick up her three other kids. Right. So when they get there, my mom's like, hey, they're here. They're here. And at this point, my mom had told us all the story, so we're like, holy krab like, let's go check on our little cousin. Right, So we all run outside. We're all like asking her question what happened, Like what did you see? YadA yadaa you know what I mean, Like, like what's going on? Like tell us everything. So we all go inside, my mom and my dr talking about it. Right, We all go to the master bedroom, including my DA and my mom. They tell us stay here, don't leave your cousin alone. Six of us. We're not, like, she's fine, it's a mobile home. It's not a big house, you know what I mean. We're there and then my oldest cousin walks out of the room. So I'm the second oldest and like he's one of my favorite cousins. So I'm like, I'm gonna go with him. So we go to the kitchen. I see his second oldest brother walk behind us, so that's three. And then we just see my little brother and their little brother walk down the hall together, and my mom and Mitya look at us. They're like, la the girl, Lizzy, I told you not to leave her. We're about to start running down the hall and we see her walk towards us. She was also following us, but she wasn't wearing the necklace. At this point, my alm was like, where's the necklace? I remember my cousin looking down. She looks up and she says, I don't know. We just saw her with the necklace and now she's not wearing it. We all run to the master bedroom. We turned the room upside down, looking through the pillows, looking through the covers, the bed sheets, underneath the side furniture or whatever. Right, no necklace. So my mom's like, I just hear her open the her closet door. Would you believe me if I told you that the necklace was still clasped together inside the closet. How is that even possible? There's no way she would have been able to take it off herself, you know, and then put it back together. And then you know, she was too little for that. When my mom brought the necklace out, we were also afraid. I'm not gonna lie. I told my mom, tell them to leave, tell them to leave the house. We've already experienced so much stuff like we don't need, we don't need extra problems. That story stuck to me and it's just crazy, like how like they said, don't leave her alone, and we did, And like I said, I brushed it off, and I do that often. I don't take things too seriously. She was literally only by herself for thirty seconds to a minute. She was following us as well. And that happened. So that made me believe whatever the tarot said about the ugly boy thede, that made me believe it. After a while, all that stuff happens, and my mom didn't tell us, but she cleansed the house. So we got back from school. My brother got out an hour later, so I had got home. I remember I sat on that same chair where I saw the ghost. I'm turning on the Xbox right ready to play, and then my mom tells me Alan starts. You know to cleanse the house. So I said, okay, Mom, and then she says. Hello, everything was good, and then we went. To your room Kuando the closer to amosnim Piano. We opened the doors in the closet where they're. Cleaning, and that that's when she got three scratches on her left arm and she shows me and I couldn't believe it. Three long scratches on her left arm, and I was like, Amy closed it and she's like yes, And I couldn't believe it because that, to me confirmed everything about that closet. Since we're little, I'm around twelve eleven ish at this time, we're always scared of that clauses, you know, So when the winter go cleanse it, she. Got three scratches. After that, nothing really happened, but partly because we decided to move out within like the next. Year, my parents buy a bigger home right next to it. Right we're like, finally we get to leave all of this behind us. So we move out, my parents start renting at home. Nothing never happens in the mobile home again, but something does happen in our new home next door. What happens actually happens to my brother. I'm about sixteen seventeen now, and I was just laying on the couch in this room. There's two glass doors and when you open them, you go into the kitchen. So we had like two living rooms essentially, and I was in one of them. I was there, sitting on the couch. I see in the corner of my eye a lady in a dress, all white, white. Dressed passed by through those glass doors. One of them was open, so I clearly saw something pass by. I quickly joked my head over to see what was that. You know, maybe I was just my mind's playing tricks on me. And when I love, I'm like, I just see a ghost. I turned back to my phone, and then when I turned back again, it was like this white myth cholting fast. It comes fast at. Me and then it disappears run in front of my face. So I'm on FaceTime and I told my friend. I was like, dude, I just saw like this steam. That was that. A couple of months later, I'm sitting in that same couch. You know, the door's opened. That door's always open, and it's just me and my sister. All the lights were off, the sun it's shining bright so, but it's stark in the kitchen. I'm just there, probably paying Xbox. That's when I see my sister passed by. She was wearing a tank top with yellow shorts, and you know, she always wears like stuff like that just to be company around the house. I see her clearly passed by, but she looks white. She looks grayish, like, you know, it doesn't look like she has color in her and she just passes by. My heart sank because I knew right away that wasn't my sister, because my sister usually comes into that room. She always sees hire or whatever. But this time she didn't. She just walked past the kitchen going to the other living room. I was frozen for like ten seconds, and I call it to my sister. I like that, I like that and nothing. I was like, you know what, I'm just gonna run to her room. I'm gonna run to her room. When I go, I see her sleeping. She's the seat and I wake up. And I was like, Alexa, did you just pass by the living room. She's like, why no, I'm asleep. I already know she's asleep, and I just wanted to, you know, like confirm later on that night, my sister and my girlfriend at that time, my girlfriend now wife, they're sitting in that living room and they're watching TV whatever, right, They're talking and they're facing each other, and that's when they see the lady in the white dress passed by again. And they both said that they saw in the coront of their eyes. They both looked right away and they saw her, and that they both just looked at each other. My mom had cleansed that house again the next day. That's the only thing that really happened in that house. When I was dating my girl, my wife, they bought a new home because her stepdad passed away. She was in the military. She passed away, and expectedly they move into into a brand new home. It's like a long hallway. The hallway connects the kitchen and one section of the house that has three rooms all standing at the end of the hallway where the rooms are at. Walking towards the. Kitchen, and at the end, I see a lady in a white dress, long black hair. Make a left. I see the white dress wrap around the left corner of the doorway or the entryway, and her black hair kind of like hit the wall. So I run and I go check and there's nothing there. And I thought it was my girlfriend's mom because she has long black hair. I realized she was in her room behind me, so it couldn't be her. Later on, they have two living rooms. I walk into the second living room. And they had like a section where all her steps belongings were. They had his military flag, they had all his metals. When I walk into that room, the first thing that you see when you walk into the room. Is his beret. When I opened the door, I was stunned and my heart sank to my stomach because I saw a face through the beret. Berets are made out of felt, and it's a tough material, but I saw a face through it. If you were to put like a light blanket or a T shirt over your face, you would see the nose, maybe the holes where your eyes go, maybe your chin right And it's easy to do it with a T shirt or something thin, but with that it's pretty hard. And I saw a face through it that made my heart think. I felt weak at. My knees and I explained my girlfriend's name. I went together from the kitchen I brought her and I'm like, look at that and she says, Oh, don't be scared, that's just Stephen, her stepdad. And I'm like, holy crap. Maybe it was, maybe it wasn't. I have no idea, but she decided to take the positive way out of the situation. I was like, you know what. I guess you're right, but deep down I was still scared. One more thing happens involving him. There's an app. It's a game. This game you get to play with your friends and everybody will play at school, and you create your own profile. You have your own picture, and you have a user name. Right, we're going to play that game. And for some reason, my profile picture is a picture of him, is one of his military portraits. The picture of him, and the username is changed to I love you. And mind you. I did not have any pictures of him in my phone. How did that picture. Land in my phone? And my user you couldn't explain it. We looked at each other and we're like, we can't believe it, but we're also excited. I told her, Look, that message was in for me. It's on my phone, but that message was for it was for her. That was probably the last thing that I ever experienced that's unexplainable. To this day, I do have nightmares. The only thing that happens to me now is sleep paralysis. I'm not gonna say it happens often, but it has happened. Sometimes I get those nightmares where I can't move and I've caught myself hmm hmmm, humming trying to scream in my sleep. I'm older now. I built my own house. It's a brand new house. Whenever I hear a noise, it's still in the back of my mind. I'm not scared, but I also think it could it be And I'm like, nah, it's not, like, don't be scared, it's not it. I don't know if it's sleep paralysis or just a dream. But when I was little, when living in the first mobile home, right, but I was sleeping and this little boy was right in front of me when I opened my eyes, and he had no eyes. His hair was slicked to the side, and he was wearing like not a suit, but like like a black coat or something. And he got on top of me and I'm looking up at him and I can't talk or nothing. He starts saying like Lana, la la la, and I'm super scared. I don't know what happened after that. I don't know if I woke up and I was dripping in sweat. I don't know. Those superatises are just a crazy dream, but I still remember it to this day. My parents have rental properties that mobile home will used to live when we were younger is one of them. So now it's me and my wife and my son, and we live in a mobile home now. And I cleansed that before we moved in Holy Water. Everywhere we got a stage I can sit. I was, you know, all over that. You know, we put new floors, we painted the walls. When we paint the walls, there was no air conditioning because we put out the electricity or whatever, and we would have the windows open so it could the air out, the air out and the wind can get in there, you know, enjoy out the pane. I forgot to close the window. Soone am was like, go go over there. Right. There's no power, so I can't turn on the light. The only light I have is from my phone. I was like, Mom, can you go with me? She's like, I land, you have a sun already and everything like just go. So I was like, you know, what you're right to the gold stopping a baby. I went, and I'm closing on the windows and then I'll turn back real quick with my. Flashlight to see if I anything's behind me. You know, I'm paranoid right now. I get to my room and I was like, oh my god, it's dark. Only the moon is shining through the window, but it's still dark. I'm just so scared of that room. I'm like closing the window, but I'm my head is back looking back at me. Well, I'm looking back just to see if anything. But I'm so scared, and. I close real quick and I just get my phone and I run out that house. I'm not gonna be there by myself in the dark, but I'm scared of you know, we've been in. There for almost two years now. My son's two years old, going to three, and he's scared of his room, which was my old room. We try to like lay him down there. He's like, no, scared, scared, so he sleeps with us. And I was like, Helen, like you want to go sleep in the room. No, Dad scared scared. I hope my son doesn't experience what I did in that house. Little things that have like happened to us, but the other was getting it started to go away. My fears starting going away. But I believe it. I'm gonna believe in Alan. I'm gonna believe in it, which is I'm gonna believe in all that because I've seen it. It's just something that never goes away. Thank you Ellen and Dicenta for sharing your stories. And you can tell me about your story over on true scarystory dot com for us to have it featured here on the podcast and to stay up to date. To get our free newsletter. The link is in our website and in the description. This episode of True Scary Story was edited and sound designed by Sarah Voorhez, Window a View, sound scheduling by Bianca Chavez, additional production by me Edwin Karrubias and the Scary FM team. If you're following the show, I'll be back next week with another story. Thank you very much for listening. Keep it scary everyone, See you soon. E