MAGICAL ECUADOR THROUGH LEGENDS

Hello, again! Have you ever been at Santo Domingo’s church or neighborhood? It is located in Quito’s downtown, and this week I want to tell you about a mysterious legend there. T he story said that once for a long period of time, a lady walked through the streets at that place between midnight until 3 AM in the morning. A woman said that one night after her work, she wanted to know the hour because, she forgot her watch, and saw far away in one corner of the street, there was a lady with an elegant black dress and a big coat so, she went straight to ask the hour to that woman. Thus, she realized that lady did not have face because, she was only a skeleton. The woman run away with a lot of screams, she only wanted to come back to her house, and to not die before she did it. After some time, one man saw the same lady, when he was walked at midnight in Santo Domingo’s neighborhood. For that reason, this mysterious lady was called “The widow of Santo Domingo”, after her constant pu...

  Hi again! Hope that you are enjoying these legends! In this time, I was looked up some interesting legends for you, and I found a good one. It happens in a really known neighborhood in the downtown of Quito. This place is “La Loma Grande” in an amazing and interesting house, look at it… Have you ever seen it? Many years ago, there was a beautiful lady, who drove men crazy with her physical appearance. According to some neighbors of that place, her grandparents said that the lady went out on Friday nights to have fun in the bars of the downtown. Everyone called her “the countess” because of her beautiful appearance. However, the terrifying thing about the story is that each man who began to hang out with the lady, mysteriously disappeared. The legend said that the men went to her home and were killed by her. Suddenly, the woman left that neighborhood and the new residents of the “Villa Encantada”, which is the name that people put to the enormous house, found several b...

  Hi, everyone! This week, I have to tell you an unbelievable legend. Recently, I was talking with my uncles and some of them are taxi drivers. They told me a story that happens at the north of the city, and most of them confirmed that the legend is real. I don’t know if I have to believe in what they told me so, please after read this post tell me, what do you think? T hey say that around 10 years ago in Quito, a famous call at midnight was happening to many taxi drivers. A beautiful lady calls a taxi driver in the historic center towards “El Batán” cemetery. The taxi driver agrees and follows her route normally until reaching her destination. Once at the place, the taxi driver asks for his payment but the lady does not listen him and gets out of the car. The driver follows her, but she continues walking towards the cemetery walls. Finally, the taxi driver reaches the lady and tries to grab her arm however, she begins to rise and crosses the walls towards the cemetery. I’ve ne...