I interviewed JJ on her haunted house in Mexico.

J’s Grandma has a house in Mexico. In their family, they say the upstairs bedroom is haunted, and nobody stays in it. One summer her cousin went to stay at their Grandma’s house for the summer. She was forced to share the room with her two brothers, and was sleeping next to Emilio. She was on her phone at night while they lay in bed to sleep, and she felt a tapping on her shoulder. She initially ignored the tapping, believing it was her brother, Emilio. Subsequently after, she decides to see what it was and she sees that it’s a hand, and that her brother is sleeping. She feels the hand grab her and pin her down. Ever since then she has refused to sleep in that room again.

This is a taboo space that seemed to have a physical manifestation of a ghost with the hand-grabbing. The origin of where it came from is unknown to her, meaning that it has been passed on through oral tradition. Even her parents have known of the room as being haunted, and she believes they link it to the revolution in Mexico. She couldn’t provide further context, but my guess is that the room possibly holds unresolved trauma. Perhaps stemming from the revolution and one of their family members was the subject of an early demise in that room.