I was with a bunch of pre-med students from california that were doing a free clinic down there, and a few of them had parents from the area, and spoke spanish.
We were on a bus tour back from tikal, driven by a couple of Mayan tour guides from Lake atitlan, and they started telling ghost stores in spanish while one of the pre-med students was translating for everyone else.
They told this story of a backpacker who had brought a ouija board with them to their town and how they had accidentally opened up some kind of portal and let spirits loose that cursed the town or something like that, and then eventually some old woman in the town discovered that it had been the ouija board that was the source of it, so the town all went to the backpacker's hostel and burned him.
Or at least that was how it was translated and then after everyone in the car was like "WHAAAA" they clarified that "lo" meant "it" and not "him" and that they had burned the ouija board-- gender in spanish can be a little confusing.
I was with a bunch of pre-med students from california that were doing a free clinic down there, and a few of them had parents from the area, and spoke spanish.
We were on a bus tour back from tikal, driven by a couple of Mayan tour guides from Lake atitlan, and they started telling ghost stores in spanish while one of the pre-med students was translating for everyone else.
They told this story of a backpacker who had brought a ouija board with them to their town and how they had accidentally opened up some kind of portal and let spirits loose that cursed the town or something like that, and then eventually some old woman in the town discovered that it had been the ouija board that was the source of it, so the town all went to the backpacker's hostel and burned him.
Or at least that was how it was translated and then after everyone in the car was like "WHAAAA" they clarified that "lo" meant "it" and not "him" and that they had burned the ouija board-- gender in spanish can be a little confusing.