GHOST STORIES
All countries have urban legends and Spain is no exception. Legends can be funny or scary. Here we have some curious Spanish ghost stories for you. Are they true? Not true? Let's read.
- The girl on the curve (perhaps Spain’s most famous ghost story). A driver picks up a young woman who is hitchhiking late at night on a dark highway. The girl warns the driver to be careful going around the next curve, as it’s especially dangerous. The driver asks her how she knows this and she explains that she was killed on the curve. During her chilling response, the mysterious hitchhiker slowly vanishes into the air. They say that the legend originated in Illinois and later ended up reaching Spain in a time long before the internet existed.
- Verónica Jaja: this is the Spanish version of the legend of “Bloody Mary”. According to this legend, if you close yourself in a dark room and repeat the name “Verónica Jaja” three times in front of a mirror, Miss Jaja will appear and will take your life.
- Rocafort subway station (Barcelona): they say that this station is haunted because it's the station with the most suicides and its cameras have registered strange movements after the train’s operating hours. Do the people who’ve helped spread the rumour know that long after the subway closes for the night, security and cleaning staff continue moving around the station?
- Madrid’s subway rat: some say they’ve seen a rat in the subway lines of Spain’s capital that always chases the last train of the day. They say that this is the reincarnation of a passenger who fell on the tracks waiting for the same train. Clearly not a fun way to spend eternity.
- The ghost of the nun of the University of Castile-La Mancha: the office of the president of this university, located in Ciudad Real, was once a shelter run by nuns. Some people say they’ve seen strange figures walking through the building’s corridors It seems that doors also inexplicably open and close by themselves.
Of course there are many more ghostly urban legends. Now it’s time for you to get out and discover some on your own...
