Paranormal Sightings in State of Mexico
4 nightmarks documented
4 paranormal sightings in State of Mexico
Ghosts & Hauntings
La Castañeda — the phantom patients of Mexico's infamous asylum
Former site of La Castañeda Asylum, Mixcoac, Mexico City, Mexico·1960s
Mexico demolished its most shameful asylum but couldn't demolish what lives inside — phantom patients scream and wander from a hospital that was razed 50 years ago.
Ghosts & Hauntings
Tlanchana — the Aztec mermaid of the Lerma Marshes
Lerma Marshes, near San Miguel Almaya, State of Mexico, Mexico·Pre-Columbian
An Aztec mermaid with a serpent's body sings from the marshes and drags fishermen underwater — Tlanchana has guarded these Nahua wetlands since before the Spanish arrived.
Ghosts & Hauntings
Lake Texcoco — Ahuizotl's monster haunts the last remnant of the Aztec lake
Lake Texcoco remnants, State of Mexico, Mexico
The Ahuizotl — an Aztec water monster with a grasping hand on its tail — still cries like a baby from the remnants of the lake where Mexico City was founded.
Ghosts & Hauntings
Pilar Hacienda — the Conquest-era spirits of San Juan Teotihuacán
Pilar Hacienda, San Juan Teotihuacán, State of Mexico, Mexico·16th century
Spanish colonizers and Aztec priests haunt the same hacienda near Teotihuacán's pyramids — two civilizations' ghosts coexist in a building at the crossroads of Mexican history.