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Mexico, no date
It was while I was living in Mexico from 2004-2007. In the town where
I was living, there's a lake in some hills where people go to BBQ and
hang out with family. But one of the things that caught my eye was the
white crosses that were all around the lake. I asked family and friends
on different occasions what where the crosses were for and they told me
it was for the people that have drowned there. I was stunned because it
was a lot of crosses, I thought that maybe they didn't know how to swim
there, or the majority of people got drunk and got into the lake.
But my cousins and friends told me stories that people were going out
for a swim and started drowning. Supposedly some of them yelled that
something was pulling them down. I thought maybe it was branches they
got caught on, but what was weirder to me was that when I asked my aunts
and uncles, they added more to those drownings telling me that not all
the bodies could be recovered. That was weird to me because the lake is
kind of big but not that big for people not to be found. Two rivers
connect to that lake. One that goes into the lake and the other one
where water can leave the lake but there's a border dividing it from the
lake, it's tall enough for water not to escape but people can go over it
with ease.
One of the stories was of a man who drowned and they were
able to recover his body, but he was purple by the time they found him
with slash marks across his chest and stomach area. That left me
intrigued if it was actually true or if people just trying to add on to
the lake incidents. Being a teenager, I couldn't go around asking
questions. And to be honest I haven't remembered to ask when I visit
now.
My Uncle's Story:
After knowing I was asking a lot of
questions about what was going on with the lake, he told me something
that happened to his friend when they were teenagers. He said that his
friend had invited him to go fishing at night because that's when fish
are easier to catch since they get close to the edge. He told him no
because my grandma had grounded him.
Later that night after midnight
my uncle heard banging on the door and the doors out there are made of
metal, so it shook them pretty bad. My grandma and uncle got up and my
uncle went up to the door and opened a little window on the door to see
who it was. It was his friend, wide wide-eyed and pale. My uncle asked
him if he was alright that it looked like he just saw a ghost and my
grandma told him to bring him inside. They sat him down and calmed him
and asked what had happened and where was he coming from. He told them
that he ended up going to the lake alone on his bike with his gear and
was camping out there hoping to get some fish. But after a couple hours,
he wasn't having luck, so he decided to leave. He was on the other side
of the lake, so he had to go around.
It was a bright night, so he was
able to see the dirt road. He was going around the lake when he saw
something coming out of the other side where he was going but he didn't
pay that much attention to it thinking it was a turtle or a big iguana
that roams around those parts. They grow like 3 feet long and are dark
instead of green. So, he was riding along looking over to see this thing
coming out on all fours and he saw how its wet skin was shining due to
the moonlight and saw how it had a reptilian tail but short. The best he
could describe it was as if it was a stump of a tail but it was pointy
and really wide, almost as wide as its body. He couldn't tell if it had
a neck, it just looked stocky from its upper body. He was just looking
at how this huge lizard just come out of the lake when all of a sudden
it stood upright on its rear legs. That's when he got really scared
because he was able to tell that it was big. He estimated it was 2
meters tall (6'7"). He made a noise and this thing turned around and
looked at him. It had big red eyes. To be able to tell they were red
from his distance he knew they were big he was like 20 meters away (65
feet).
He started pedaling hard with all his fear because to top it
all off this creature was downhill from the only road that led him out
of the lake and it was just staring at him following him with its stare.
As soon as he was parallel to the creature he gunned it down the road
and didn't look back at all until he got to my grandma's house which was
closer than his house just 5 minutes away from the lake on the bike. He
stayed over and left the next day still shocked.
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