Legends

Legend has it that said wealthy man, upon seeing himself afflicted with a serious illness, promised the parish priest and out loud before the altar, to finish building the church of the town of Mexicaltzingo, if he was granted health. When his request was miraculously granted, the man proceeded to make grand plans for his promised work, but he soon forgot them for the joy of being back in good health. As the years passed, the parish priest died and also the rich merchant,- and the work was never seen started. Legend has it that after the "novena" of the latter, the people of the town saw several times a ghostly heavy cart carrying rocks go to the church and disappear inside it. The people of the town interpreted this as the merchant's soul struggling to pay for what he had not done in life.

We are talking about one of the first clocks in the city, placed right on the façade of the Cabañas Hospice. This clock at the beginning was a novelty and caused admiration among the inhabitants. Soon after it was installed, the clock began to fail. With no apparent explanation, its hand stopped advancing and did not work again until after a while. But it stopped randomly, not every day or at the same time. Soon, however, the hospice nuns noticed a pattern: every time the clock stopped, one of the children died. The clock was baptized as the Clock of Death and caused so much fear that in 1952 they ended up taking it down and destroying it.

It all started when several dead animals appeared in Barranquitas and in the neighborhood of Carrizal; at first it was taken as something natural, but after analyzing the bodies they realized that they were "dry", without a drop of blood.

From being just a rumor it became a big problem, because in a short time corpses of children (mainly infants) without blood in their veins appeared; it was a fact, there was a vampire in Guadalajar.

Nobody, for any reason, went out at night, they locked themselves in their houses early in the morning and turned their rosaries round and round, asking for the end of such evil; the city lost that party and nightly merriment among its abilities, since the arrival of this being from beyond the grave.

It is well said that "there is no evil that lasts a hundred years, nor anyone who can stand it", because a group of people fed up with the attacks of this demonic creature, decided to trap and kill it. They were divided by different points stalking and looking for the opportunity to catch it; thing that after 2 nights, one of the groups managed to catch it with a net.

He was taken to the cemetery of Santa Paula and with a long and improvised stake, they pierced his heart, leaving the nocturnal monster lifeless. The following day, very early in the morning, a thick concrete slab was placed over him to prevent him from leaving the cemetery in case he ever lived again.

A few months later, to the astonished gaze of the people of Guadalajara, the stava began to grow little by little, breaking the slab and turning into an enormous tree; those who know about this say that if you prick or make a small incision in the trunk of the tree, blood comes out, which belongs to the vampire buried there.

They say that when the tree finishes breaking or crushing the whole tomb, the vampire will be free again to attack the night owls.