Monte Baby
This story was toldto me one night when I was about 17 years old. I am now 27 andstill remember the story like it was told to me just yesterday.My family had all been together that weekend for our yearly"get together" and all the adults were telling oldstorys of storys they had heard and so forth. Well the later itgot the more we wanted to hear storys of superstition and ghosts.After several storys I asked my mother to tell us if she had everexperienced anything strange or out of the ordinary.
She hesititated at first but then told us about a time when herolder brothers had been coming home late one evening at about 11:00at night .The boys were taking a shortcut through a batch ofwoods that used to be near the house in Zavala county Tx. Well,the boys were walking along when they heard a baby crying in thedistance. When my uncle Jose wanted to look for the crying baby,my younger uncle John told him to keep walikng and ignore thecries. The further they kept walking the louder the cries got andeventually my two uncles came upon a baby wrapped up in a blanketin the middle of the "monte" or woods.
My uncle Joe insisted they help the child and when he opened theblanket to see the baby the thing inside the blanket was not ababy but according to my uncle , was a demon-like thing with redeyes that hissed at him when he opened the blanket. My otheruncle screamed and ran off as well as my other uncle they claimthat the baby chased them until the reached the end of the woods.When they got home everyone was outside and the boys werescreaming that something was chasing them and they were white asghosts themselves. this was back in 1957 and my uncles are mucholder and even till this date my uncles swear what happened istrue and are very frightened when asked to retell the story.