3 Casos REALES de Posesión Demoníaca que Aterraron a Quienes los Vivieron | Ep. 243

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Father Aurelio kneels before the motionless girl and realizes what's looking back at him isn't her.

1. Hablemos de Terror, hosted by Efraín Sosa, presents three testimonies of alleged demonic possession in Mexico, framed as first-person accounts from a priest, a psychologist, and a layperson. 2. The narrator is Efraín Sosa, sole host; the three cases are recounted in his voice using testimony attributed to Father Aurelio Mendoza, Dr. Rodrigo Fuentes, and Valeria Ríos respectively. 3. The episode's framing thesis is that possession is rare, difficult to discuss, and documented in contexts — religious, psychiatric, and domestic — that span several decades and social strata. 4. In October 2009, Fortino, a catechist from San Isidro La Chivisa in Oaxaca's Sierra Juárez, walked four hours to reach Father Mendoza and reported that 11-year-old Remedios Vázquez, daughter of farmer Celestino Vázquez, had stopped eating, begun speaking in an unknown language, and told her mother 'she's not here' in a voice not her own. 5. Father Mendoza found Remedios seated cross-legged on the floor, unblinking, in a room that was abnormally cold and smelled of wet earth and something organic he could not identify. 6. On the second day, the entity speaking through Remedios addressed Father Mendoza directly in a deep voice with an unidentifiable regional accent, named his brother Gerardo — who died in a 1998 road accident — and offered to tell Mendoza where Gerardo now was. 7. After three days including a crisis in which Remedios stood on the bed speaking in a combination a linguist later identified as archaic Latin and an unclassified language, she collapsed to the floor and asked in her own Zapotec-accented voice: 'Father, I'm very cold.' 8. A more experienced priest sent by the bishop performed the formal Rite of Major Exorcism; over the following 40 days at his own parish 120 kilometers away, Father Mendoza experienced recurring rhythmic knocking, two parishioners who spoke private information not known to anyone at the parish, and sudden drops in room temperature. 9. Remedios, today 27 years old and reportedly married with children, recovered fully; Father Mendoza says the experience changed his understanding of evil from an abstract theological concept to 'a concrete, intelligent, and patient presence.' 10. In 1966, Dr. Rodrigo Fuentes was the youngest psychologist at La Castañeda — the Manicomio General de La Castañeda — in Mexico City, two years before the hospital's closure, when a male patient with no complete file was transferred from a Hidalgo hospital with a note citing 'staff safety.' 11. The patient of Room 14, estimated between 40 and 50 years old, spent hours motionless in the center of his room, did not sleep in his bed, and told Dr. Fuentes in their third session that his father had died at age 61 — information Fuentes had never disclosed to anyone at the hospital. 12. The patient subsequently disclosed to other staff members: a nurse's stillborn child's name, a doctor's childhood home in Veracruz including the color of a door, and the exact date a guard's wife had been unfaithful. 13. A UNAM linguistics professor reviewed three nights of reel-to-reel recordings of the patient's nocturnal speech and identified fragments of medieval ecclesiastical Latin, possible ancient Aramaic, and a third unclassifiable language; the Latin fragments were inverted liturgical texts — reversed psalms. 14. On October 23, the patient stood with arms extended and head back, eyes completely white, speaking continuously, while his lip movements lagged half a second behind the sounds produced; room temperature was measurably lower than the corridor. 15. A medical team administered three escalating sedative doses — the third at the limit of safety — without achieving any sedation; the patient blinked once slowly and smiled; the head physician left the room and told Fuentes he saw 'something in his eyes that was not a human expression.' 16. On November 14, 1966, the patient grabbed a celador's arm, looked him in the eyes, and the celador lost consciousness for four hours without a blow being struck; the celador developed permanent claustrophobia afterward. 17. Valeria Ríos, a resident of Tlalpan, Mexico City, describes her husband Daniel — a civil engineer who rejected religious superstition — purchasing an 80-peso dark clay figure with a red thread tied at its base from a stall in the back corridor of Mercado de Sonora in August 2018. 18. Over three weeks Daniel woke nightly between 2 and 3 a.m. to stand motionless before the figure; a secret phone recording at 3:17 a.m. on September 14, 2018 captured him conducting a 40-minute conversation in a voice and cadence not his own, naming Valeria's deceased mother by her full name Esperanza Ríos de Gutiérrez and saying 'she says her daughter should not have opened the door.' 19. A parish priest and an unnamed older man performed a three-hour ceremony in the apartment; the older man emerged with his shirt soaked in sweat and said 'it's gone, but it didn't leave happy'; minor manifestations — odors, wall sounds — continued for four months before stopping. 20. Listeners interested in first-person supernatural testimonies from Catholic, psychiatric, and secular Mexican settings across six decades will find this episode substantive; listeners who require physical evidence or institutional verification will find all three accounts unsatisfying.

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