Espooky Tales

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Latin American folklore, myths, legends, haunted places and espooky cuentos del rancho. Hear the stories you grew up with like La Llorona, as well as true stories from listeners and guests. Join twins, Cristina & Carmen (formerly MJ), every Friday as they share these tales and have a few laughs. Stay espooky!

3D AGO

The Beast of Metapan And Other Stories

Metapán, a city and municipality in the Santa Ana department of El Salvador. It borders Honduras and Guatemala, as it is located in the north of the country. It’s the second largest city, and in Nahuatl, it means, “river of the Maguey”. It's also a little espooky! In this episode, Cristina and Carmen share three stories from this town. If you have a spooky story to share, email Espookytales@gmail.com or leave us a voicemail at the Espooky Hot Line (360)836-4486. You can also submit it on Discord! Join the Espooky Tales Book Club for Busy People: https://substack.com/@espooky?utm_source=profile-page Listen to Carmen and Cristina's other podcast Historias Unknown The next book club read is the Possession of Alba Diaz by Isabel Cañas. If you want to purchase the book, check out our bookshop link https://bookshop.org/lists/espooky-book-club-list For more spooky stories, check out the Tiktok! https://www.tiktok.com/@espookytales Instagram https://www.instagram.com/espookytales/ Chat with us on Discord! https://discord.gg/cWk7CvVgaR Want to be a Patron? Get episodes AD-FREE, listen before they are released to anyone else, get bonus episodes, exclusive stickers, virtual hangouts, and more! Support Espooky Tales. Learn more by visiting https://www.patreon.com/Espookytales By joining, you can help Espooky Tales donate 20% funds to charity. This month's donation went to CLEAN, carwash worker center, an org that has been helping car wash workers who are unable to leave their homes due to increasing ICE raids in LA country, by providing groceries to over 200 car wash workers. Follow @carwasherxs on instagram Get Espooky Merch: https://www.bonfire.com/store/espooky-tales/ Find us on YouTube: https://youtube.com/@espookytales

35 min
12/25/2025 · BONUS

Espooky Xmas Movie Watchlist

No episode today (insert sad face), but here is a short list of some espooky Xmas movies instead! If you have a spooky story to share, email Espookytales@gmail.com or leave us a voicemail at the Espooky Hot Line (360)836-4486. You can also submit it on Discord! Join the Espooky Tales Book Club for Busy People: https://substack.com/@espooky?utm_source=profile-page Listen to Carmen and Cristina's other podcast Historias Unknown The next book club read is the Possession of Alba Diaz by Isabel Cañas. If you want to purchase the book, check out our bookshop link https://bookshop.org/lists/espooky-book-club-list For more spooky stories, check out the Tiktok! https://www.tiktok.com/@espookytales Instagram https://www.instagram.com/espookytales/ Chat with us on Discord! https://discord.gg/cWk7CvVgaR Want to be a Patron? Get episodes AD-FREE, listen before they are released to anyone else, get bonus episodes, exclusive stickers, virtual hangouts, and more! Support Espooky Tales. From now until 12/31/25, there is a discount on certain tiers!! Learn more by visiting https://www.patreon.com/Espookytales FROM NOW UNTIL 12/31/25 GET 30% OFF OUR ORALE SERIOUS ESPOOKY AND NO MAMES, SUPER SERIOUS ESPOOKY TIERS BY USING CODE 9B902 OVER ON PATREON By joining, you can help Espooky Tales donate 20% funds to charity. This month's donation went to CLEAN, carwash worker center, an org that has been helping car wash workers who are unable to leave their homes due to increasing ICE raids in LA country, by providing groceries to over 200 car wash workers. Follow @carwasherxs on instagram Get Espooky Merch: https://www.bonfire.com/store/espooky-tales/ Find us on YouTube: https://youtube.com/@espookytales

6 min
12/19/2025

The Black Palace and The San Juanic Explosion

Before it housed the General National Archive, Lecumberri was a prison. Due to it's dark past, the Black Palace is now said to be haunted with the ghost of Don Jacinto and more. Cristina shares the history of this haunted location in CDMX and Carmen shares the case of the San Juanic Explosion. If you have a spooky story to share, email Espookytales@gmail.com or leave us a voicemail at the Espooky Hot Line (360)836-4486. You can also submit it on Discord! Join the Espooky Tales Book Club for Busy People: https://substack.com/@espooky?utm_source=profile-page Listen to Carmen and Cristina's other podcast Historias Unknown The next book club read is the Possession of Alba Diaz by Isabel Cañas. If you want to purchase the book, check out our bookshop link https://bookshop.org/lists/espooky-book-club-list For more spooky stories, check out the Tiktok! https://www.tiktok.com/@espookytales Instagram https://www.instagram.com/espookytales/ Chat with us on Discord! https://discord.gg/cWk7CvVgaR Want to be a Patron? Get episodes AD-FREE, listen before they are released to anyone else, get bonus episodes, exclusive stickers, virtual hangouts, and more! Support Espooky Tales. From now until 12/31/25, there is a discount on certain tiers!! Learn more by visiting https://www.patreon.com/Espookytales FROM NOW UNTIL 12/31/25 GET 30% OFF OUR ORALE SERIOUS ESPOOKY AND NO MAMES, SUPER SERIOUS ESPOOKY TIERS BY USING CODE 9B902 OVER ON PATREON By joining, you can help Espooky Tales donate 20% funds to charity. This month's donation went to CLEAN, carwash worker center, an org that has been helping car wash workers who are unable to leave their homes due to increasing ICE raids in LA country, by providing groceries to over 200 car wash workers. Follow @carwasherxs on instagram Get Espooky Merch: https://www.bonfire.com/store/espooky-tales/ Find us on YouTube: https://youtube.com/@espookytales

1 hr
12/12/2025

The Bewitching- Book Club

The Bewitching follows three women, in three different timelines: Alba in 1900s Mexico, Beatrice during the great depression in Massachusetts, and Minerva in the 1990s, who’s connected to both women as she is Alba’s granddaughter and attends the same university as Beatrice, who is also the focus of Minerva’s thesis. All women are facing dark forces that are possibly connected. Today's episode is a book club! Carmen and Cristina recap the book, then go through discussion questions. If you have a spooky story to share, email Espookytales@gmail.com or leave us a voicemail at the Espooky Hot Line (360)836-4486. You can also submit it on Discord! Join the Espooky Tales Book Club for Busy People: https://substack.com/@espooky?utm_source=profile-page Listen to Carmen and Cristina's other podcast Historias Unknown The next book club read is the Possession of Alba Diaz by Isabel Cañas. If you want to purchase the book, check out our bookshop link https://bookshop.org/lists/espooky-book-club-list For more spooky stories, check out the Tiktok! https://www.tiktok.com/@espookytales Instagram https://www.instagram.com/espookytales/ Chat with us on Discord! https://discord.gg/cWk7CvVgaR Want to be a Patron? Get episodes AD-FREE, listen before they are released to anyone else, get bonus episodes, exclusive stickers, virtual hangouts, and more! Support Espooky Tales. Learn more by visiting https://www.patreon.com/Espookytales By joining, you can help Espooky Tales donate 20% funds to charity. This month's donation went to CLEAN, carwash worker center, an org that has been helping car wash workers who are unable to leave their homes due to increasing ICE raids in LA country, by providing groceries to over 200 car wash workers. Follow @carwasherxs on instagram Get Espooky Merch: https://www.bonfire.com/store/espooky-tales/ Find us on YouTube: https://youtube.com/@espookytales

1h 58m
11/28/2025

Ecuador's Youngest Serial Killer: El Niño del Terror

Juan Fernando Hermosa holds the record for being Ecuador’s youngest serial killer. At just 15 years old, he was arrested for murdering 22 people. Carmen and Cristina discuss this case, but first they read a listener story and end with spooky recs. Carmen's rec was the book Play Nice by Rachel Harrison and Cristina's was Guillermo Del Toro's debut film, Cronos. If you have a spooky story to share, email Espookytales@gmail.com or leave us a voicemail at the Espooky Hot Line (360)836-4486. You can also submit it on Discord! Join the Espooky Tales Book Club for Busy People: https://substack.com/@espooky?utm_source=profile-page Listen to Carmen and Cristina's other podcast Historias Unknown The next book club read is the Bewitching by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, if you want to purchase the book, check out our bookshop link https://bookshop.org/lists/espooky-book-club-list For more spooky stories, check out the Tiktok! https://www.tiktok.com/@espookytales Instagram https://www.instagram.com/espookytales/ Chat with us on Discord! https://discord.gg/cWk7CvVgaR Want to be a Patron? Get episodes AD-FREE, listen before they are released to anyone else, get bonus episodes, exclusive stickers, virtual hangouts, and more! Support Espooky Tales. Learn more by visiting https://www.patreon.com/Espookytales By joining, you can help Espooky Tales donate 20% funds to charity. This month's donation went to CLEAN, carwash worker center, an org that has been helping car wash workers who are unable to leave their homes due to increasing ICE raids in LA country, by providing groceries to over 200 car wash workers. Follow @carwasherxs on instagram Get Espooky Merch: https://www.bonfire.com/store/espooky-tales/ Find us on YouTube: https://youtube.com/@espookytales

46 min
11/21/2025

Scary Stories From El Metro

Mexico's metro system is one of the most used public transportation systems in North America, but it's also said to be super haunted! In this epiosde, Cristina tells Carmen 4 different stories from the metro system, two from CDMX and two from Guadalajara. But first, they read a listener story and end with spooky recs. Cristina talked about Vacaciones de Terror 1 y 2, el Espinazo del Diablo, Km 31 and Carmen recommended the book Starving Saints by Caitlin Starling. If you have a spooky story to share, email Espookytales@gmail.com or leave us a voicemail at the Espooky Hot Line (360)836-4486. You can also submit it on Discord! Join the Espooky Tales Book Club for Busy People: https://substack.com/@espooky?utm_source=profile-page Listen to Carmen and Cristina's other podcast Historias Unknown The next book club read is the Bewitching by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, if you want to purchase the book, check out our bookshop link https://bookshop.org/lists/espooky-book-club-list For more spooky stories, check out the Tiktok! https://www.tiktok.com/@espookytales Instagram https://www.instagram.com/espookytales/ Chat with us on Discord! https://discord.gg/cWk7CvVgaR Want to be a Patron? Get episodes AD-FREE, listen before they are released to anyone else, get bonus episodes, exclusive stickers, virtual hangouts, and more! Support Espooky Tales. Learn more by visiting https://www.patreon.com/Espookytales By joining, you can help Espooky Tales donate 20% funds to charity. This month's donation went to CLEAN, carwash worker center, an org that has been helping car wash workers who are unable to leave their homes due to increasing ICE raids in LA country, by providing groceries to over 200 car wash workers. Follow @carwasherxs on instagram Get Espooky Merch: https://www.bonfire.com/store/espooky-tales/ Find us on YouTube: https://youtube.com/@espookytales

40 min
11/14/2025 · BONUS

From The Vault: Weapons (2025) with Ayden/Susto Podcast

Carmen and Cristina are still playing catch up after spending a week together and doing a couple of live shows, so there's no new epsiode BUT enjoy this Weapons movie from the vault (the vault being patreon) with podcast bestie, Ayden (the host of Susto). Check out Susto: https://www.sustopodcast.com/ If you have a spooky story to share, email Espookytales@gmail.com or leave us a voicemail at the Espooky Hot Line (360)836-4486. You can also submit it on Discord! Join the Espooky Tales Book Club for Busy People: https://substack.com/@espooky?utm_source=profile-page Listen to Carmen and Cristina's other podcast Historias Unknown The next book club read is the Bewitching by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, if you want to purchase the book, check out our bookshop link https://bookshop.org/lists/espooky-book-club-list For more spooky stories, check out the Tiktok! https://www.tiktok.com/@espookytales Instagram https://www.instagram.com/espookytales/ Chat with us on Discord! https://discord.gg/cWk7CvVgaR Want to be a Patron? Get episodes AD-FREE, listen before they are released to anyone else, get bonus episodes, exclusive stickers, virtual hangouts, and more! Support Espooky Tales. Learn more by visiting https://www.patreon.com/Espookytales By joining, you can help Espooky Tales donate 20% funds to charity. This month's donation went to CLEAN, carwash worker center, an org that has been helping car wash workers who are unable to leave their homes due to increasing ICE raids in LA country, by providing groceries to over 200 car wash workers. Follow @carwasherxs on instagram Get Espooky Merch: https://www.bonfire.com/store/espooky-tales/ Find us on YouTube: https://youtube.com/@espookytales

1h 43m
11/07/2025

El Chupacabras en Chile (Español)

El Chupacabras es uno de los críptidos latinoamericanos más conocidos. Los primeros avistamientos datan de 1995 en Puerto Rico, pero algunos de los relatos más extraños provienen de Chile. En el año 2000, se produjo una serie de ataques atribuidos al Chupacabras, algunos de los cuales involucraron al ejército chileno y, supuestamente, a la NASA. Cristina le cuenta a Carmen un poco sobre la historia del Chupacabras. Terminan con recomendaciones que dan miedo, en este capitulo fueron Vacaciones de Terror 1 y 2, el Espinazo del Diablo y platicaron un poco sobre la nueva pelicula de Guillermo del Toro, Frankenstein. If you have a spooky story to share, email Espookytales@gmail.com or leave us a voicemail at the Espooky Hot Line (360)836-4486. You can also submit it on Discord! Join the Espooky Tales Book Club for Busy People: https://substack.com/@espooky?utm_source=profile-page Listen to Carmen and Cristina's other podcast Historias Unknown The next book club read is the Bewitching by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, if you want to purchase the book, check out our bookshop link https://bookshop.org/lists/espooky-book-club-list For more spooky stories, check out the Tiktok! https://www.tiktok.com/@espookytales Instagram https://www.instagram.com/espookytales/ Chat with us on Discord! https://discord.gg/cWk7CvVgaR Want to be a Patron? Get episodes AD-FREE, listen before they are released to anyone else, get bonus episodes, exclusive stickers, virtual hangouts, and more! Support Espooky Tales. Learn more by visiting https://www.patreon.com/Espookytales By joining, you can help Espooky Tales donate 20% funds to charity. This month's donation went to CLEAN, carwash worker center, an org that has been helping car wash workers who are unable to leave their homes due to increasing ICE raids in LA country, by providing groceries to over 200 car wash workers. Follow @carwasherxs on instagram Get Espooky Merch: https://www.bonfire.com/store/espooky-tales/ Find us on YouTube: https://youtube.com/@espookytales

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I love you both!

12/23/2025

Iris Marcela M.

Cristina and Carmen, you two are who I listen to while cleaning houses. I own a cleaning business. I catch myself laughing out loud. I don’t know if my clients hear me, I have my headphones in. I really don’t mind if they did hear me. I would tell them about your podcast. Keep doing what you’re doing. Your fan, Iris
Orale!

02/19/2024

Sabado Domingo

What up from Oakland! Man, I love this! I feel like I’m hanging out with my cousins! Hella good stories, creepy, funny and relatable!
the laughing

11/25/2025

isssabela

so cringe. they literally laugh at everything when nothing is funny. it’s irritating to be honest.
the laugh

02/17/2024

Stay Sanitary

i want to like the show but that laugh they have is disturbing