Saved By A Ghost | Mexico's La Planchada "The Ironed Lady" (Ep 270)

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very spooky somebody was like get these girls some uh microphone stands oh yeah we're mobile girls we can't bring our stands everywhere and these microphones are so freaking heavy most of the stands don't even hold them up that's the other problem and I also feel like I had to get a new mic because my other one broke and this like for some reason doesn't fit onto the microphone stand it's the same mic that's strange but typical problem for us because this is two girls one ghost two girls one ghost and we are your ghostesses that's Karen hello hello

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and I'm Sabrina I feel like we should start today by pulling an oracle card because okay I need to know what what's up with my future yes you should do that the other day when I was when my parents were here we were just walking around I had them stop with me in this one bookstore that I had purchased the next two uh acatar books from because I needed to go pick them up so I was like we're detouring for a little bit so we went over to that bookstore and at the register they had one of those like you know like the old toy or candy machines that you would see at the grocery store almost like a gumball machine or like a slot like enter four quarters and push it in and you'll get like a card or whatever they had that for oracle cards so I did it well my I had to borrow money from my parents I had a B quar I didn't have any change but out popped uh the Queen of Pentacles and my parents were like what does it mean and I was like I wish Sabrina was here because if between the two of us if there was one of us who would know anything it would be you cuz you at least

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practice it more and see these things more but that's tarot and I'm not good at tarot I'm I'm not even good at Oracle actually stay tuned there will be an episode in the near future of Oracle versus tarot and the origins of both so that we all can get a little bit more educated because right who doesn't love getting smarter This is Our Deck what is it what's it called ancient Oracle the

Oracle card reading

Southern Gothic Oracle and I can't and I'm really sorry if you gave this to us please will you let me know one of our listeners gave it to us okay I'm going to put my mic down as I shuffle them okay and then I'll lay them out feel like I'm in Vegas there's a new game around town when you're waiting to get a spot at the blackjack table you can go over to sprin his Oracle table you put all the cards out and then everyone's like oh what does it mean and you're like hold on let me read the booklet let me do exactly what you could do at home I'm going to do a two card spread which is past and present first card I'm pulling for for the past is the Blessed

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child Purity and loss of Innocence so that's past we'll read what it means in a second present the Mocking Bird prophecies and communication I feel like we've pulled that one before I do feel like we have yeah I feel like I've pulled both of these to be honest and this is how I learn about it actually what I've been doing is every morning after I pull them I then Journal about it and I write what the card is and what they mean so that like slowly it's getting more in my head it's getting ingrained I basically have a mocking Mocking Bird on my cup my my gosh is that from New Hampshire it's from Maine main Bay Pottery when we were in Portland back in April of 2023 for a live show it's so pretty just black birds on there whatever kind you want Crows The Blessed child ped the southern religious tradition is grounded in the concept of redemption in Pentecostal and missionary baptist churches among so many others you'll find a highly performative religion of sin and

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salvation with the focus on being spiritually cleansed through the spirit washed white as snow and Born Again In This portrayal of a Cemetary cherub a haunting image of a child turned Angel greets us in prayer this image hits hard for many of us as it represents the ultimate in grief and tragedy a lost child look at it as a symbol of innocence and Purity this card is not meant to be taken literally as a bad omen or looming death instead it is a symbol of loss of innocence in your own life's journey past or present when do you feel your innocence was lost what loss did you experience that has formed who you are today consider how your survival Instinct can be a source of strength and courage okay now the Mocking Bird mocking birds get their name because they famously use their melodious voices to mimic the sounds of other birds and even calls of insects and amphibians mocking birds traditionally symbolize innocence hence the meaning behind the famous Southern novel title to Kill a Mocking Bird is to destroy innocence when the Mocking Bird speaks to you it

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is asking you to be accepting and open to Communications that you may urgently need right now the card is about prophecies prepare for an important message to be delivered to you that will Aid in your quest the sign may come in form of bird song dreams or visions meditate with an open mind be trusting because a deeper level of understanding is unfolding for you it may be a time to expand your awareness and look at the choices Available to You H when you pulled those were you thinking of your were you thinking of just like a general reading I was thinking about myself pull some for me then I want to know what I am okay think of yourself okay let me Shuffle again we're all learning today is this the first time you pulled for yourself today so you'll Journal about these ones after okay MH I know you can't see the cards but do you want to tell me when to stop okay actually I feel one for you right know wow that one is calling me okay for the past Live Oak longevity and

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reliability okay it's beautiful I've never seen this card I know the actual card is beautiful the artwork on it blackberries for your present or future agency and Independence I like how it was very nature-based the artwork it is I've never seen either of these cards

Grounding and nature

Karen what do they me let's look at the Oak first okay there are enormous live oak trees in America many of which are designated landmarks in their cities and considered Bonafide tourist attractions some are estimated to date back from multiple Centuries with trunks that measure more than 30 ft in diameter there's one in South Carolina called the Angel Oak the Live Oak card is a symbol of longevity Perhaps it is telling you that the journey you are on now will be long prosperous and full of Adventures because your actions and intentions have been strong and reliable others see you as solid with deep roots that are unquestionably strong like an ancient tree you INSP fire awe and common people

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who seek shelter under your branches I also it's impossible to trip me I've got the lowest center of gravity and carry most of my weight in my legs so I I do have a solid trunk a solid trunk another thing the card urges us to consider is the reliability of others if someone is being insincere providing inconsistent shelter when the storms come it may be time for you to rent elsewhere okay blackberries blackberry bushes grow wild throughout the South and are highly nutritious and and delicious in times of great Strife blackberries provided not only sustenance but a valuable product that could be sold for cash which you love cash money money money come to me blackberries thrive on neglect springing up in places no one cares about and on seemingly Barren patches of Earth this card reminds you to be solid and grounded in your connection to the Earth beneath you the Earth provides for you offering Perfect Solutions for some of the most dire challenges in life when such resources are found and used well they can give the autonomy to live independently

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it is time to move forward with something you have been hesitant about it is also a favorable time for travel maybe not though for you no to I'm pregnancy sick this card marks the abundance of something that is ready to nourish you richly giving you the agency to pursue big goals that fulfill your own ideas huh I feel like this feels very spoton I think while you plan to journal and do some meditation after your card pulling I think after we finish this episode This Is Telling Me Maybe I should go touch grass yeah do a little grounding with my feet in the cold cold Frozen Earth that does feel it feels so good to do that I know just get one with your with your backyard with the nature I actually last night went to go watch the sunset I was like so ready I brought my book I was bundled in a sweatshirt I was ready to go I got out there and it was a freaking Tundra of wind I lasted maybe 2 minutes and I was like I can't do this that's

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the worst oh when you're so ready to be especially like one of my favorite times to read outside is in the fall or even like in the spring when the air is crisp there's like a crispness but you can dress warm enough that like you feel cozy and it feels like fresh and fulfilling and it's like giving you life as you're entering another person's life in the book and pretending to not actually exist I love that and it's the worst when you go outside and you have all these plans and you've like packed everything up and you're in your little sweatshirtt outfit and it gets sabotaged by planet Earth well yeah and it was like it was a beautiful day yesterday I was like sweating the rest of the day and then all of a sudden when I wanted to go be in nature it was like hm actually we're going to make it very difficult this is not for you not not today but okay you know what is for us

Cinco de Mayo history

today ghost stories yeah yeah I also hope that maybe those cards spoke to someone else who's listening because often times messages that we think are for us are actually for other people like our listeners so right we love you

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all I hope you can take time today to ground yourself what I've been doing actually okay so this I learned this in trauma treatment when you are feeling anxious or if you are feeling really strong emotion you can't like reground yourself you take three really deep breaths with your eyes closed and then when you open your eyes you can this is one of the tactics you can look around the room and find three things that are blue and like then find three things that are square and then find three things that are like pretty and just different and just distracting your brain like that helps Oher you yeah yeah that's good that's like the I think Elena had told us about this a couple years ago when we were at breakfast with her the blowing out the candles like the just to like take the breaths and calm yourself down yeah it's like that that's a good one too it's a good trick I'm going to use it on myself and that one also kind of makes you laugh a little bit the kind of like Ridiculousness of it Pretend This is the cat oh great for kids or adults who want

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to feel a little silly and not as serious in the moment and that's how you get yourself to reground exactly we did lead you a little astray in the beginning of this episode because we forgot to say something happy Cinco de Mayo America's favorite holiday America's favorite holiday to completely destroy and throw out some stereotypes and just like mislead everything I'm going to real quick do a little bit of history about Cinco Deo so that we feel like we are educating ourselves before we just say happy Z good Mayo because I think perfect I think we should be informed yeah while talking about it's not just about eating Mexican food right it's not about just eating tacos and beer and spicy Margaritas we're going to help you celebrate with a good oldfashioned ghost story that will leave you a tingle on your tongue like some habanero spicy salsa oh yum oh oh no now I'm craving black mull enchilada does

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oh or like a bar taco yeah I'm going to have to order Mexican food the beauty of the internet is we can order that and it can be ready for you by the time you're done recording okay so Sinco Deo is a holiday

Mexican paranormal beliefs

celebrated both in Mexico and was adopted in the United States in honor of a military victory in 1862 over the French forces of Napoleon thei so the enthusiasm that we in the United States have for the holiday actually came when there was a linked promotion of Mexican beverages so basically they were trying to like promote selling Mexican beverages in the US and they did it with the celebration of Cinco de Mayo which worked really well so we adopted this holiday because they offered us a coupon basically yes correct okay and then I'm going to say this quote which is from the britanica unfortunately ever since then Americans have embraced and celebrated the holiday while perpetuating negative stereotypes in promoting excessive drinking which are

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two big problems in the US so take off that Sombrero hat and have like five less drinks exactly and learn the history and maybe instead of drinking let's share a ghostly tale that comes from Mexico perfect it is the legend of La plada a spirit as commonly seen as laurona but the question is is she as terrifying okay so well I'm scared because I feel like probably if it's coming from Mexico and it's paranormal then my full belief is that it's just going to be a horrifying tale and if it's coming from me yeah true that too the combo so we've discussed a lot of times on this podcast about how there are so many different varying beliefs in the Paranormal and the afterlife and Mexican culture specifically has such an extensive often times frightening Supernatural beliefs that have culminated from centuries of varying infuences there's the Mayans the

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Aztecs the peka Catholics so on so there's just so many different influences on what we now know and understand is like the supernatural paranormal beliefs that come from Mexico they of course have evolved over time but we can say with confidence that they believe and have utter respect of the dead and today there are many legends that have been passed down through time we've heard of some of them laurona that weeping woman who seeks to kidnap wandering children and lure them into bodies of water she inhabits hello come here do you have something to say come here okay so we've heard of laurona but have you heard of La plar the ironed lady the ironed lady mhm so like she's a warrior she is in some way okay as with many Legends in lore the origin story of La plada varies but there's one that is very very specific or like more commonly believed so that's the one I will shared today and Karen I'm going to shock you

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really quick like I'm going to give you a maybe the biggest shock of your life okay I'm nervous despite my

Introduction to La Planchada

personal preference of picking horrifying terrifying unsettling Tales yeah I'm not doing that today you're right this is the biggest shock of my life nothing could have prepared me for this I know I would have bet money against this happening well throwing a curveball this week everyone and today instead of absolutely terrifying you I'm actually going to entrance you with a pleasant tale I am going to share with you a spirit that saves lives and has been noted as the nicest ghost you may ever encounter this is so uplifting the nicest ghost yeah and they're from Mexico uhhuh where our listeners consistently send us emails about like the exorcism at my aunt's house my terrifying haunted encounter with Lona this is Pleasant wow this is a pleasant

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haunting and this is I mean in a lot of the articles that I read she is as commonly believed in and like encountered as Laona so it's like I just feel like we hear more about Laona because she's scary right makes me think that they're sisters and they just went totally different tracks with their paranormal lives I feel like I'm going to get like in trouble with saying this but I feel like this is like laon's the older sister and La Plata's like middle sister and then like we haven't met the younger sister yet but she's like a wild child or Laona could be the youngest too okay she's definitely not the middle who Lona yeah yeah no there's too much action being taken for the middle child but normally like the first child is a a little bit more like orderly and tries to keep people in line whereas like the last child just kind of is a loose cannon which is Laona so maybe that's it yeah I think I'm I'm using my family as like an example like my sister was more of the

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wild child at first and now of course she's a wonderful lovely mother and sister and daughter but my brother is like the like rule follower doesn't do like he just like is way more pure yeah they should have been switched their birth orders or maybe your parents got stricter with you guys because of what your sister did when she was younger all that she got away with they were my sister definitely got away with stuff but my brother was just like way more chill and like didn't need to be punished as much yeah my mom got way more Chiller just as we got older but okay it's not about me this is about l so despite sometimes appearing horrifyingly she is a very good spirit and you would be honored to see her because most of the time if you are seeing her it is because you are ill and in need of medical assistance and when this ghost appears to you it's a very good sign because she might say save your life La ponchada is said to be the

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spirit of a female nurse who pays special attention to the appearance of her clothing so despite her physical appearance her clothing will always be very perfectly ironed which is why she's now The Iron Lady it is not because she's been like flattened like an iron it's not it's not like she's I was picturing her like in a full iron suit like ready to go to battle basically that's like wow a warrior

Ulia's tragic love story

she's a Superhero she's a warrior in in a ironed nurses dress she's got her together the creases only exist where a crease should be exactly so the origin story of La plada is very classic graze Anatomy soap so get ready for this wow the drama so the story tells of a young nurse whose name was ulia she worked apparently at hospital Warz located in Mexico City in the 19 1930s and we have a photo of the

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hospital that we will put in our YouTube video that you can see in very classic cze Anatomy fashion or maybe a little bit more Waverly Hills fashion cuz it's a darker kind of sad more tragic ending ulia fell in love with a doctor named Dr Wen but it wasn't instant it was a love that grew over time ulia was a hard worker she cared about her patients she was diligent about her time at the hospital she was kind she was empathetic and she was very serious so she when she showed up for work she was very much like head down do my tasks attend to the patients that was kind of her Mo everyone you know she was friendly with the other nurses but she wasn't one to gossip she wasn't one to go chitchat she wasn't one to go out for drinks and socialize yeah I mean her ironed nursing outfit too makes me think she's very like orderly and precise very and she has her routine and her schedule and everything is just exactly that every day exactly and so she would leave work every day and go home to her family and

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she was working to help bring in finances for her family she had a mom a dad and two younger brothers and she actually didn't have romance on her mind at all she was very content with her life she would go home she would make dinner with her family she would sit with them they would do a lot of family events and she would read books and she was just very you know reserved and kept to herself MH an introvert after my own heart but she did have some friends at the hospital and after working there for some time there was one day they were all sitting at lunch and I guess there was some Hospital Goss that started to go around she heard rumors of a new Doctor Who was coming to work at the hospital his name was Dr Wen apparently all the other nurses was like he's intelligent and he's handsome and he's tall and he comes from a good family so according to the story the director of the hospital called all the nurses who were available to come meet this new doctor Dr Wen and UL Leia at at the time was with a patient so she did not go M

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so she had not met him but her friends come back and fill her in and you know they're like we'll tell you all the Goss you Lilia you know you never ask but we'll tell you anyway those are her friends they had to tell someone because they were all together they had already experienced it so they're like who hasn't that we can go tell oh my God he's so hot wait till you meet the new doctor yeah it kind of reminds me of um shoot what's that movie shape of water with the woman who's mute and so like her friend just talks to her the whole time I've actually never seen shape of water I know I reference it a lot I just know that you never seen it no that there's like this amphibian Beast that has sex with the nurse or something yeah I just watched it for the first time I could have sworn you you've brought it up so many times I could have sworn I really thought I knew what it was about based on just the trailer enough that I brought it up a bunch but now I've never seen it is basically what you just said it is but it reminds me of that so she's mute in the movie and I

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feel like she ends up taking up in everyone else's gossip because she can't stop them okay so these girls they all come to ulah and they fill her in they're like he was so hot but also like he for sure has a chip on his shoulder and like seems super arrogant and like just I'm picturing Mindy King in the office talking about him right now honestly we could all do so much better than him but like if he like looked at me I would just literally die and he kind of had Ryan attitude where he was like arrogant and apparently when they all met him he was like okay like I'm not going to waste my time with the nurses like kind of energy that's that was the rumor ulia had not met him I'm getting pissed like I don't even know if this is is this part real or is this Legend is this whole thing this is all part of the legend well Wen I'm pissed at you whether you're real or fake just wait okay so ulia doesn't really care she's just like okay like well I have no desire really meet him doesn't matter sucks that he sucks but

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like yeah she doesn't bother with a bunch of people anyway so like what's another person that doesn't want to bother with her right but not too long after a patient is rushed in with a gunshot wound to the leg and they have to be rushed into an emergency surgery which Dr Wen ends up being the surgeon in charge of this and UIA ends up happening to be the nurse on duty so these two who had never been introduced really to each other had heard you know she had heard of him who knows if he had heard of her there's no time for introductions they have to extract the bullet they're rushing this patient into surgery and they are working together so seamlessly it is like they're working side by side hand me the scalpel I'm this is my gra Anatomy like brain imagining it and they take one second to maybe lock eyes but they're in the midst of like pulling out the bullet and they're working together so seamlessly and there's nothing sexier than just pulling bullets out of people bloody injured legs nothing sexier than locking

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eyes over a bleeding leg and they saved this man this is what ulia trained for she wanted to save lives like she's very hyperfocused in this moment and she actually like I think she really admires that this doctor also was hyperfocused and didn't stop to be like let me chat to this nurse who's cute no like he was very much like I'm here for the job as well and yeah like I said that was Ula Leah's you know whole thing they were very professional they saved a life together and it wasn't until after the successful surgery that Dr Wen introduced himself and he was not at all what the other nurses had told her he wasn't arrogant he seemed kind and he was dedicated to the job you liked that he was focused on the surgery it was something that she do and did it was attractive to her and after that UAH fell hard oh my go and I don't know that this photo that I'm about to show is actually a photo of ulaa but it's like in multiple articles about her it's like the same photo of so I'm putting it here with the caveat that

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I don't know that it's actually her it's just a picture of a nurse so the two were absolutely smitten they started dating he was courting her and they

La Planchada's healing

would eat lunch together and everyone in the hospital knew like they could see how in love that they were falling with one another and ulia seemed very very happy but there were a little there again these nurses do be gossiping and they're like I don't know I still don't like Dr Wen there's something off about him and he's also still flirting with with other people like he was a flirty guy so people had a little bit of a concern but ulia did not and then Dr Wen proposed to her and she of course said yes the two were to be wed but then before they could ever plann their wedding drct Wen is like I must be going for a short period of time and he told her that he had a seminar in another city that he had to speak at as a doctor and he would be gone for like two weeks and ulia is like oh my gosh no worries I

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know I'm like totally putting this into today's language this is just how my brain works so she's like that's okay like go take your trip I'm not worried we'll continue planning the wedding when you get back M Dr ween leav and ulah fully expected him to be gone for two weeks but she also expected him to like have some type of contact with her right she doesn't hear from him and then like she starts to get a weird sinking feeling like something is wrong and another approaches her and it's very sad to inform Yulia that Dr Wen is not at another seminar he's actually on his honeymoon with his new bride this is the biggest surprise in all of reality television that I've ever experienced I'm shocked I thought you know maybe he was on like a vacation with his mistress or whatever but like literally already married planning multiple weddings at the same time on his honey he's on his honeymoon like why propose to her you know like what's that

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what does that do yeah what does it do this is like something was wrong literally so those nurses were correct that he had a chip on his shoulder he was arrogant and a dick ulia was absolutely devastated as you can imagine she was blindsided and completely heartbroken and I'm not really sure what happened confrontation wise like none of the Articles really spoke about this but Dr Wen and UIA ended their relationship I don't know necessarily how they communicated after that I don't know if do Wen like returned to the hospital but basically Julia was absolutely heartbroken and betrayed and could hardly focus on taking care of herself let alone the patience at work right I am glad though that she ended things too despite what like again we don't know what happened but like she ended things and quite possibly still had to assist him in surgeries can you imagine how difficult that would be that would be absolutely awful yeah according to Legend she ended up this is a I don't

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really believe this I don't know if it's true I think people try to it's one of those things where when you hear what her spirit does I think people try to like after fact be like oh she does this because she has guilt or remorse but it might just be because she cares about the patience but there was one piece of information in the legend when she was so heartbroken and gutted and hardly able to take care of herself apparently she had neglected a patient or two or like some patients had gotten sicker on her Duty because of her where she was mentally but to be fair she's not the only nurse working at this hospital she's also not the attending doctor so I'm not going to give her any blame yeah it's tough and knowing all the gossip that existed within this group of Staff you would think that people would maybe be a little bit I know that being a nurse can be incredibly difficult and like often times they're underst staffed and have too many patients to even think about any else anyway but you would

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think that they'd be like holy she just went through this terrible terrible breakup perhaps we should not assign her many people yeah you know like give give her a little bit of time to like readjust right very sadly though UL Leah never readjusted because as weeks went by she slipped further and further into depression that led to a lot of illnesses and eventually to her death ulia left this realm heartbroken but instead of seeking revenge or allowing her anger to consume her in spirit form ulia came back to serve a greater purpose she came back to heal because shortly after her death ulia's Spirit began to appear in the hospital always dressed impeccably her clothing perfectly ironed and patients would tell their nurses and doctors about the nurse who came in earlier or over the night and helped them which was quite confusing to people who were on shift because they were like there were no

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doctors or nurses in your room right over time the visits became more and more frequent and more common that the spirit earned the name llanada because her dress was ironed everyone said like despite what her appearance looked like it was like so notable how neatly and perfectly clean ironed her clothing was yeah yeah some people say she emits a glow some say she floats others say she walk completely normally but most patients will awake to find her standing by their bedside and though she may appear in different ways her dress is always ironed which is the common theme and another common theme is that after llanada visits these patients many of them are miraculously healed wow oh my God that's I love her wanada is not trying to steal your children or hurt you she's trying to save you her Devotion to caring for the ill has transcended her lifetime and has made it her afterlife to help those in need she goes out of her way to visit patients who need extra help or she basically

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will like see when the hospital's under staffed she will go to the patients who have perhaps been neglected because of that she will help deliver medicine she will fix loose IVs she'll often catch mistakes that would otherwise go unnoticed whoa I wonder how she does that is she telling someone something or she just fixing it how does she alert people to those mistakes there's various ways sometimes she'll just fix it herself other times s she like basically will inform the patient oh to be like oh this is wrong and then they'll repeat it to the next person mhm wow what a great way to spend her afterlife I know and I'm going to share some stories from people who have personally encountered llanada there are patients who check in feeling very ill and doctors are not able to diagnose their problems and the next morning they miraculously feel better when asked why they feel better patients respond a nurse came in and healed me but no one

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in the hospital staff had gone in to see that patient the night prior there is another iteration of L Plata's origin story that doesn't have to do with this like crazy and AD romance turn tragedy but there was like one story where this nurse had contracted a disease and died in the hospital and she helps people staying in that room but llanada isn't

Listener encounters

just at hospital Warz in Mexico City she has been seen in other hospitals too she has seen walking halls in other hospitals and checking on patients and doing the same thing so I don't know if it's like specifically this one Spirit or if other people who have since passed away have taken on the same type of role and really inspired by what Plata does that they now do it as well but yeah or like is this geographically how far apart are these hospitals had she ever worked there before just been there to train were these hospitals she considered being a nurse at like is there a connection to these specific

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hospitals and I don't think there is a connection cuz I think they're all pretty far apart and there's like even one story where someone appeared when like they called a doctor like someone came to the house so I mean we have no idea how the Paranormal realm works also with Laona like she can travel through bodies of water can lachata do that too I don't know but this one story takes place at Warz Hospital which is where the origin story comes from the story goes there was a nurse named Maria who was working a late shift one night and she was absolutely exhausted she worked the night shifts and she would usually sleep during the day but this day her kids both had gotten sick and stayed home from school and so she had to take care of them all day and then go to work a night shift to the hospital she had not gotten any sleep so she was tired she was happy to do it obviously she was like I'm going to take care of my kids but she was exhausted when she arrived at work and when she like came on to duty there was like the other nurse who basically there was like shift switch where they go over everything and so

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this nurse reviews everything with Maria and she tells her that there's this one patient that needs his next dose of medicine at 1:00 a.m. and apparently it was very important that he gets it at 1:00 a.m. Maria agreed she understood but then she had to sit alone at the nurses station very sleeply and the much needed sleep started to sink its teeth into Maria and she fell asleep for just a little bit but she woke up at 1:30 a.m. with a fright she was panicked she realized the time and she rushed to the patient's room profusely apologizing but the patient was like no no no no worries your colleague administered the shot already and Maria was like what colleague I'm alone here right now I literally have chills too because like the actual action it's more than just going and pressing a button or being like is everything okay like maybe you should turn to your side she's physically doing things and administering medicine into someone's body wow powerful so this patient looks at

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Maria and is's like the blonde nurse she gave me the injection and she left so that's one story and now I have a couple other stories that I found on Reddit and so 5 years ago a user called slaying Immortal shared their dad's encounter with LA planchada they wrote I don't remember exact details but before my dad passed away he would tell us about the time he was saved by La Plata saved by her before my dad met my mom back in Mexico it was around the 70s or ' 80s my dad got incredibly sick to the point where he was hospitalized with an intense fever that had been there for days at the time he lived in fero which was not anywhere close to a hospital so they held off taking him until he was literally at death stores when he was in the hospital doctors did the thing and eventually retired for the night it was a general hospital so he was in a room where it was separated using just curtains to create the pseudo room sort of emergency CS in the US but no walls he had his curtain open all the way since there weren't any patients in the room room or Hall he was in he told us

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he specifically remembered feeling like he was going to die he literally was at the point where he was calling out for nurses because he thought he was passing out my gosh that's so scary no one answered his calls which was sadly not uncommon in Mexican hospitals at the time at this point it's very much into what my dad felt he told us he remembers getting a distinct feeling as if his skin was slowly drifting off of him a nurse finally came by wearing all white her clothes were perfect without a single fold in them the nurse tended to my dad and even gave him some medicine the next day he woke up a lot better he was still sick but he was no longer passing out and his fever finally rescinded a bit he talked to the doctor that came in the morning and asked if he could thank the nurse who came in and worked to the night shift because he believed that she saved him the doctor informed him that there were only a handful of nurses in the building and no one was working in that Wing that night my dad took it as strange but didn't further investigate with the doctor and decided he'll ask the next nurse who comes the nurse said the same thing and

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when my dad described what the nurse looked like the nurse told him that no one who worked there fit that description after he left the hospital he was as good as new but he always remembered that some lady saved his life he told his story to his dad and his dad

La Planchada stories

told him about the legend of LA planchada and how she saves people who are in need in her hospitals being Mexican and superstitious he left it at that I always believed he was telling the truth but I didn't really look into into it until my mom remembered about the incident a few days ago like I said my dad is no longer with us and from time to time we talk about stories of his life and his experiences and I Googled it and was so surprised at how this is not an isolated incident there's such an interesting background to the nurse and she's sort of like the Mexican Guardian Angel then 11 months ago Ginger Snaps cat posted the following story on Reddit it was captioned Ghost nurse healed me when I was a child and the context was I'm chronic Al ill immunosuppressed and get sick very easily and especially frequently

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throughout my childhood when I was 10 or 12 I caught a really bad flu fevers around 104 vomiting couldn't stand the whole shebang of course as a young kid you definitely think you're going to die in these situations I remember laying on an ear mattress in my parents room alone feeling absolutely miserable all of a sudden a very pretty young woman dressed in early 1900s old timey nurse clothing appeared above me she bent down and told me everything would be okay she touched my forehead as if to test my temperature smiled at me and disappeared I instantly felt cured of whatever flu I had I could never explain how I went from one foot in the grave to completely fine but this woman made me feel safe loved and taken care of she was beautiful and I've never seen her since then but I wish I could in order to thank her oh I love this because it sounds like the experiences of this woman in her astral paranormal form has with adults is so much more

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different than how she spends time with kids like she's as a nurse adults ask more questions right so like she's prepared to actually administer medicine or like maybe she's faking it the whole time because it sounds like she can just literally touch someone and yeah and cure them it does feel like she's doing a placebo with other things where she's like I'm going to pretend to do this thing cuz this is what you're expecting to happen but really I'm just curing You by touch your energy wow so there's two other stories that are shorter so trippy Beth shared my dad had a similar experience while in the hospital with complicated hip replacement he said an old timey nurse came in and brought him a milkshake in a wax paper cup from the ' 50s he asked about this nurse the next morning and no one knew who he was talking about I want that to happen to me cheese and crackers 84 wrote I've had a couple very similar experiences in hospitals I was in and out of hospitals since childhood with lung disease and the most intense one was a few years ago I was really unwell and in the ICU and I

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saw a nurse all in white standing at the end of my bed which was weird because everyone else at that hospital was wearing blue scrubs and this nurse was an all-white wearing an old-fashioned cap immediately I felt a sense of peace and knew I was going to be okay to this day I cannot explain it at all wow so that is the story of LA plada and if you are ever in the hospital I hope you see her wow wow so far only hospitals in Mexico she's not coming up to New England to help me when I have my baby but that one kid story was a house call so true true yeah maybe wow what an incredible and honestly the fact that you said that there are these other hospitals that are experiencing similar things now it does feel like she's kind of whether she's inspired others or like just her power I feel like she's being like rewarded they're basically like splitting her into multiple she's like

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becoming this Angelic being of healing and it's just like she can be everywhere now she doesn't just have to be at one spot yeah I mean whether it's her everywhere or she's inspired people to come back in the same way it's amazing and incredible and CU I spent hours researching for this episode and I was like okay Mexico has so many creepy places like I started doing research on this one house that was horrific like so many tragedies happened there and it was definitely a spooky story but I was like yeah yikes this doesn't feel good just depressing yeah so I went I went positive today okay well in a few weeks I have a story coming up that uh is also from Mexico and at the very end there is this kind of weird healing piece of it so maybe something's going on there and when you reach the afterlife or even in life in Mexico it's just like it does seem like because of we say this with the Philippines too there's some sort of energy going on there where it really

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does feel like people have so much you can harness so much power so much energy I think it's because they have so much belief and respect in it I don't know I think there's so much respect and so much regard for it that I feel like in the same way when we were talking to Greg and Dana about how they created The Ghost and then we will in a couple of weeks talk about Philip the ghost that was created I do think when you harness this energy and so focus it you can create a haunting and you can create something and you're right it's like in America we are like the Melting Pot so there's so many different religions and cultures and even just geographically how different different parts of America are so it I think you're right there's something to just like a country who has like a really large population that has very similar beliefs all kind of channeling their energy into something and also a lot of fear of something like I feel like fear of Laona and like even talking about you know some creatures

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which I won't say their names but like speaking about them gives them more power which is why even the one story that I read where the girl's dad who has since passed away heard about lachata after he had this like encounter with the nurse he was just like all right I accept it I you know it's one of those things where it's if you believe in superstitions you're just going to accept it for what it is and not ask questions right and sometimes when you're so sick like that it's like just to accept the miracle just be like thank

Red-eyed Petra story

you Universe for whatever reason that I was given to have this opportunity thank you I'll leave it at that don't ask too many questions or maybe it won't happen again exactly exactly oh man whoa I love this woman she's my favorite I love her so much me too not what I was expecting from you Sabrina so the listener email that I'm going to read is a little bit more spooky and it was sent from a listener in Mexico people people get a little bit of both yes okay this is from Adam hello ladies

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you ghostesses I'm still listening to the earlier episodes I got to catch up but I just have to say that you guys keep me awake while I drive in the middle of the night better to be terrified than falling asleep behind the wheel again uhoh uhoh especially scared of your first haunted roads episode and then they like reenact what happened it was like Karen close your eyes and imagine for a moment me I can't I'm driving Kar imagine you are driving me I am driving Karen it's late at night and you're surrounded by Woods me it's midnight and I am driving through Woods K there are no lights no street lights Moonlight nothing your only light source is your headlights me a little scared there are no lights where is Karen taking me in this land of imagination Karen and when you look through your rearview mirror you see a silhouette of a nun in your back seat me immediately turns to the backseat to yell at the nun that I'm not an Uber or lift but nothing

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was there I faced the road again and Gunn it to reach civilization before I spot the nun's companion the lady in white they say terrifying I know sorry Adam or maybe not because then Adam says although when I got home I immediately fell asleep but thank you for terrifying me on the road and I'm being sincere I can't drink coffee caffeine makes me violently ill so I really do need to find alternatives to keep me awake on those dark roads fear fear nothing fear forget caffeine life now to my cousin's story yeah it's my cousin's story I noticed that I haven't experienced anything scary or ghostly but wait there are two things that did happen to me but they seem minor in comparison to what happened to my sisters and my cousins before my cousins were even a thought my aunt Tia ofilia and my uncle Tia GMO recently got married and as a gift for his bride Tio GMO bought some land and was going to build a house this was in Mexico back in the 1970s by the way Tia opilia was

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living with her dad and that horrid woman that makes the devil look like a saint I mean her stepmother while tiao built the house not sure what made him and his brothers and cousins think you know building a house is cool and all but let's communicate with a dead to space things up a bit because that is what they chose to do one of them whipped out a weija board to play on the foundation of Tio gmo's unfinished home you know sometimes you need a a little bit of a break from building a house yeah classic lunch break isn't that what everyone does yeah Ouija board and lunch sandwiches not sure what happened my mom was the one who told us the story and she heard it from my dad but she didn't give many details since his sister my Aunt didn't go into details either but after playing the Ouija board who knows how many times they did eventually finish building the house well after my cousins came to this lovely world crazy began to happen strangely only the Upper Floor has the most activity I remember when my family visits them my cousins would always tell us to never go

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upstairs alone as an 8-year-old I didn't really think anything of it I didn't want to go upstairs on my own anyways the people were are on the ground floor now as my 31-year-old self and several ghost stories later I still didn't want to go up to their second floor alone my peeps are on the ground floor so F that I know a lot of things happened in the house but I only remember these three events the first is when my older sisters Olivia and Vanessa were eight and six I was about a year old at the time and I was really sick everyone suspected at the time that my dad's horrible stepmother had cursed me so my parents were desperate to find a cure for me my gosh I was practically scratching myself to death Tia ofilia decided that my sisters would spend the weekend with them so my sisters were losing sleep because of my constant crying so they would at least get some sleep at my aunt and uncle's house wait can I clarify this real quick this is Adam who they believe was hexed yes Adam was like a one-year-old being cursed by the evil stepmother I'm sorry Adam you

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said that nothing scary has happened to you and this is horrifying I know like it sounds like something's going to happen to your cousins but something terrifying has happened to you yeah maybe consciously nothing has happened to Adam he doesn't remember it he's too young yeah came into this world cursed I guess jeez okay my sisters were losing sleep because of the constant crying so they thought that they would at least get some sleep at my aunt and uncle's house who knew how wrong they were about 2: a.m. that night Tio GMO had to bring my sisters back to our house my parents were awake thanks to my crying so they saw them approaching and my sisters were terrified they were shaking violently and they said that they saw redyed Petra under Petra's bed my cousins herina Petra and Helena said the same thing even though Petra was on her bed they described the spirit as looking like a much older version of Petra with glowing red eyes Jesus the second event occurred

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when armina Petra and Helena were teenagers Arma was studying for finals while Petra and Helena were fast asleep the three girls ended up sharing a room after way too many events cuz strength and numbers arm was already on edge from all the studying when both Petra and Helena began to scream arm told her sisters to shut up when they both ran to her pointing under Petra's bed well armina was done with all this spooky so she threw her shoe under the bed and challenged the spirit I've got finals if I fail my wrath will be worse than yours she yelled the spirit began to crawl out from under the bed no its shadowy fingers reaching out to them Petra and Helena tried to escape but their bedroom doors wouldn't open they began to scream for their parents and pound against the door arm well she grabbed a pair of scissors and was trying to stab the spirit she was not happy that it interrupted her studies Tio GMO and tia

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ofilia woke to their daughters screaming and they ran to go check on them but they couldn't get into the girl's bedroom door finally with one hard push Tio guo got the door to open and barged inside Petra and Helena ran into their father's arms sobbing while herina was still stabbing the spirit yelling at it even cursing at it it took both of the parents to drag her out of the room because she quote wasn't done with it could they I'm so curious if they could see the spirit still or if she wasn't like what could they see yeah if it was like only the girls or if their parents could also see jeez strangely after that night the spirit would only show up when ARA was out of the house if she's home the spirit is quiet when she's gone for a few days the activity will start again until she returns oh my gosh so the spirit's afraid of her now that's so wild the last event occurred when I was 13 and my baby sister Mera was three we were all in Mexico for winter break which we did every winter and my parents

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own a house there so we always stay there when we go down to Mexico I can't remember where us older kids were but I do know that my baby sister and my mom were at home when Tia ofilia and Helena visited Mera wanted to go with Helena to her house to play Helena agreed to look after mea for a bit and soon took my little sister back to her house with her after some time us older kids Olivia Vanessa Alie and I we returned from who knows where and that is when my mom made us turn around and told us to go pick up Mera I remember we were tired but we made the truck back to town to go pick up mea from Helena's house and when we got there we spotted Helena and mea playing on the bed of Tio gmo's pickup truck in the driveway when Helena saw us she looked relieved I'm so glad you guys are here she called out to us apparently red-eyed Petra had returned Helena told us that she and Mera were in her bedroom playing with dolls when Mera shushed Ela and pointed to the closet the closet didn't even have a door but a curtain

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that covers it Petra is watching us my sister told her 3 years old remember 3 years old Petra isn't here she's in Clin Helena explained but mea shook her head she's in there mea whispered pointing at the closet what is she doing Helena asked Petra's angry she's angrily watching us she wants to get out mea whispered now looking more scared Helena looked over at the closet when she noticed the curtain was being pushed aside Helena grabbed mea closed the bedroom door and they both hurried down to the living room Helena decided to put on a movie to shake off the nerves but she kept an eye on the stairs after the movie Helena asked mea if she enjoyed the movie and mea nodded and then got all serious and told her Petra isn't happy you slam the door on her face oh from the second story she heard the door rattling so Helena then picked up mea and carried her out of the house towards her dad's truck where we found them Olivia and Vanessa were trying to explain it away when mea shushed us all

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Petra is watching us she whispered pointing to the second floor window well we all decided to book it I remember running as fast as I could adrenaline pumping I look over my shoulder and I saw that Olivia was running back towards the house and my thoughts raced as I watched her Sprint back why was Olivia running back did she want to see the ghost or something was she going to pull an armina and challenge the spirit was she oh we left Mera behind she ran back because yeah we left our baby sister behind we ran to the church where my mom and Helena's mom were at just chatting and my mom saw us running and asked why we were running we wanted to see Jesus was what Elena told them and we all ran into the church years later Vanessa told my mom what happened that day and that is when my mom told us the story about Tio guo playing with the Ouija board Olivia and Vanessa's sleepover which Vanessa didn't even remember and Other Stories that now I don't really remember but that is my

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story of red-eyed Petra I hope you enjoyed it see you on the other side Adam what the actual heck what is going on with Petra it's because it's obviously not Petra but why is it choosing pet to show up as Petra and why was it always under under Petra's bed and it's so weird that it didn't ever come out from under the bed until they like physically interacted with it yeah it is so strange why show up as Petra consistently too because it's like years passed right and red-eyed Petra came back and it's not like it's a present day Petra either it's an older Petra right this is making me think of Haunting of Hill House too where I'm like I know me too something will we find out why this happen it's definitely it's it's definitely something is like dark in that house and I also just like what's happened since then do they still own that house what's going on and how far away does arm live because I feel like she needs to permanently live in there to start any activity since she put her foot down in the spirit was like oh God okay M that

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one girl yeah yeah it's crazy too that she that this spirit is like scared of Arma or like doesn't make moves to like do any paranormal sort of activity while she's there because you would think that she that this spirit I keep calling the spirit a she but like the red-eyed Petra that is appearing to be an older version of one of these cousins of Adam's cousins this group of sisters it seems like she does mean to cause like fear and harm especially when Mera was like she doesn't like that you slam the door she's staring at us she's angry she's watching us yeah she's not happy these are all these warnings so why is she scared of armina because she came out her with scissors yeah maybe I guess armina's unpredictable now and redey Petra is like man humans can be scary too I like that it dark red-eyed creature is like terrified of it human like that that is a fun twist fear me oh my God Adam I'm also curious

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about your curse and what ever happened about that like I know how'd that go away yeah and why did you think that you were cursed like what was it about that person that made you think your family believe you were cuz that also if his family was cursed could this redey Petra be related to that at all oh that's interesting what if Petra there was an attempt at cursing Petra too and it just like didn't work to Petra as a young kid but like the curse kind of manifested and created its own sort of energy like you were just talking about before where it's like you can create a haunting and this being is Petra but it's like the curse and the Darkness and like the disgust That was supposed to happen to Baby Petra that just she was Harry Potter it was like you can't get me the girl who lived the girl who lived come to die yeah I don't know well that's terrifying I almost forgot that this whole episode was more pleasant until I know well and also cuz this was so scary it was was hard to choose an email because we have so many emails from

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listeners from Mexico well we could do a whole encounters we should this shit's haunted and if you are haunted or if you have any encounters whether it's from Mexico from anywhere in the world from your own backyard from your neighbor or whatever it may be please email it to us at two girl wodcast gmail.com if you would like to get episodes one week early and add free plus bonus episodes every month plus plus campfire stories every Tuesday night live with us go check out and join us on patreon become our most haunted friend you get everything that we just talked about and more for $5 a month shout out to Jamie Ryan who edits and produces our audio and video so that this podcast can come out multiple times a week thank you Jamie we could not do it without you seriously we love you all thank you for joining and we will see you on the other side very spooky