headless priest

                                                             Headless Priest

This is one of the most popular myths among our Antioquia's  farmers  many people were with this terribly fright, because he missing the head giving him a burial and evil look.

The locals tell that in the dark, deserted and isolated town which has been described as a ghost town located in the Antioquia province known actually as to Medellin.Every night a man with clothes of priest walk by cuadrapicha to scare to entonados and urgidos men, the people tell that he doesn't have head, they only see a hood floating, somebody tells that he carries a blue light and in his hands he has a rosary and his own head, also the locals tell that he scares to the children which haven`t been baptized.

Elders say that was a priest in some small church, one day the priest was evangelizing the camps to the Indians, and they killed him for stealing the sacred vessels that the sacraments were made, then he used to the weekend rumba to which the nuns attended, acolytes and some followers of the priest. It was on a Christmas night while celebrating midnight Mass, as the main pastor, taking the presence of the new priest took a argued,he said he had a confession in the camp, but it was only a ruse to visit a rich young woman newly arrived the parish.

Gossips say that the superior priest, spent the night with this woman, because it  the sacred vessels were stolen, therefore headless priest who is not at fault of sacrilege, if not the act of lust . Since then he wanders the streets demanding justice and calling for him to be returned their sacred ornaments and custodians.

Medellin today is a tourist city full of history and fun, many people have seen ghost in any occasions at cuadrapicha always around looking for adulterers men, because in this place it is very common to see men and women entonados looking for low fun, lust and adulteration, although the encounters of people with this ghost are now few frequent Somebody claim that they have paralyzed and they have  stayed mute for hours.