Doc says I have to take a break for a while. Don’t fret; I’ll be back.
History. Spirit. Place.
Join your host, Adrianne Montoya, and explore the darker side of the folklore and history of the American Southwest.
History. Spirit. Place.
Join your host, Adrianne Montoya, and explore the darker side of the folklore and history of the American Southwest.
Doc says I have to take a break for a while. Don’t fret; I’ll be back.
Jesus Malverde, the Angel of the Poor, the Generous Bandit, was hanged from a mesquite tree in May 1909 and left to rot. The Mexican Revolution broke out in 1910, and Malverde might well have been forgotten in chaos, if it hadn’t been for the miracles.
If a divine image can be removed from an altar and punished, what hope is there for naughty little children who’ve been stealing from the altar?
You can’t judge someone until you’ve walked a mile in their shoes. Or in Jean Baptiste’s case, walked around in the suit he stole off a corpse.
Death is impartial, Death is fair. And so La Santa Muerte is the patron saint of those no other saint wants to patronize.
Julia had a better chance than most to escape her circumstances, and so she allowed herself a luxury that was both life-sustaining, and deadly dangerous for a lady of negotiable affections. Julia allowed herself to hope.
Despite the availability of genuine historical evidence and documents, Packer is a local tall tale and boogeyman, a bit of a joke, a gruesome celebrity. He fascinates us, and he freaks us out. But strip away the anthropophagy and this cabin-in-the-woods lite horror story becomes downright terrifying. What’s scarier than that?
Cathartic dread and terror are precisely the emotional experiences that send gothic stories circulating back into the black and bloodied heart of romanticism. . .[but] who needs a castle when you’ve got cliff palaces?
Are cautions always necessary? Are they always good? Is night swimming really always a bad idea? What new adventure awaits at the end of that unpaved, unlit, deeply wooded road?
Mountain men were tough, but is anyone tougher than a bear? Bill Stewart and Margarito Chavez tested their grit one one hard winter in the wilderness on San Luis Peak.
