WEBVTT
1
00:00:24.199 --> 00:00:28.719
Gay girl friends. It's me Adrian or Aiden. Either way,
2
00:00:28.800 --> 00:00:31.760
I am still your host and you are still listening
3
00:00:31.879 --> 00:00:36.079
to Sustill, the podcast of ooky, spooky scary stories centered
4
00:00:36.119 --> 00:00:39.920
on paranormal folklore from Latin American and Hispanic cultures. Welcome back.
5
00:00:40.039 --> 00:00:43.479
Thank you for reanimating and joining me once again. And
6
00:00:43.640 --> 00:00:46.320
if you are new here, welcome. We are so glad
7
00:00:46.399 --> 00:00:49.159
to finally have our human sacrifice, I mean our new
8
00:00:49.200 --> 00:00:51.640
friends here with us. Thank you so much for being here.
9
00:00:51.799 --> 00:00:54.280
All right, very quick updates, not a lot, I will say.
10
00:00:54.320 --> 00:00:56.520
If you did not have a chance to catch the
11
00:00:56.560 --> 00:01:00.359
anamicon live stream at anamicon dot com, you can still
12
00:01:00.479 --> 00:01:04.719
visit their YouTube, and they uploaded my presentation on there.
13
00:01:04.760 --> 00:01:06.959
I will also be sharing that, so make sure you
14
00:01:07.000 --> 00:01:08.879
go check it out. It was so much fun. I had,
15
00:01:09.079 --> 00:01:11.319
of course a lot of fun producing that, and the
16
00:01:11.359 --> 00:01:13.599
audience was so great. I was in that chat, you know,
17
00:01:13.799 --> 00:01:17.000
just going off having fun. All of you who watched
18
00:01:17.040 --> 00:01:19.079
and who were in the chat and who started listening
19
00:01:19.079 --> 00:01:21.719
to Sustal, thank you so much for your support. I'm
20
00:01:21.799 --> 00:01:24.000
so happy to have connected with you all again. If
21
00:01:24.000 --> 00:01:25.920
you miss that, you can go visit the somewhere in
22
00:01:25.959 --> 00:01:28.879
the Sky's YouTube channel and watch it there. Again, you
23
00:01:28.879 --> 00:01:31.719
can also visit anamicon dot com and the links will
24
00:01:31.760 --> 00:01:34.480
be there to the YouTube channel. Once more, I think
25
00:01:34.519 --> 00:01:36.200
I mentioned this in the last episode. I have a
26
00:01:36.200 --> 00:01:39.120
couple of events coming up, but again you can follow
27
00:01:39.200 --> 00:01:43.120
any in all updates, including live event schedules, by following
28
00:01:43.200 --> 00:01:47.799
the social media pages that's at Sustal Podcast across every
29
00:01:47.799 --> 00:01:51.400
social media platform. I'm putting together a little graphic of
30
00:01:51.879 --> 00:01:54.200
upcoming events so that you can see them all in
31
00:01:54.200 --> 00:01:56.480
one spot versus they're kind of scattered, and if anything
32
00:01:56.480 --> 00:01:58.920
gets updated, I will update it and repost it. So again,
33
00:01:59.079 --> 00:02:01.799
follow social media for all of that good stuff that
34
00:02:01.879 --> 00:02:04.159
seems to be it. I will just reiterate follow the
35
00:02:04.159 --> 00:02:06.920
social media pages. Spooky Season is here, so I am
36
00:02:07.159 --> 00:02:10.719
currently organizing giveaways that will be coming up, and again
37
00:02:10.759 --> 00:02:13.479
those will be on social media, so just keep your
38
00:02:13.479 --> 00:02:15.879
eyes on that if you want to win some free goodies.
39
00:02:16.039 --> 00:02:18.520
I have some ideas for this year, so we'll just
40
00:02:18.560 --> 00:02:21.560
we'll see what happens, you know, and as always, stay tuned.
41
00:02:21.879 --> 00:02:24.439
If you would like to share a scary story to
42
00:02:24.479 --> 00:02:28.360
be featured on a Letters from the Beyond episode, you
43
00:02:28.360 --> 00:02:30.840
can do so by sending me an email to susta
44
00:02:30.879 --> 00:02:33.280
podcast at gmail dot com, a DM on any social
45
00:02:33.319 --> 00:02:37.560
media platform, by leading a five star review on Apple podcasts,
46
00:02:37.599 --> 00:02:40.280
by leaving a comment on Spotify, by visiting my website
47
00:02:40.319 --> 00:02:43.639
sustalpodcast dot com and hitting the contact button, or you
48
00:02:43.680 --> 00:02:45.960
can leave a voice message by hitting that little thing
49
00:02:46.080 --> 00:02:48.000
on the right side of the page. And if you
50
00:02:48.120 --> 00:02:50.319
drop a two dollars bill in a well and you
51
00:02:50.400 --> 00:02:52.840
yell my name five times, I will appear and you
52
00:02:52.840 --> 00:02:54.479
can just tell me your story. Also, it doesn't have
53
00:02:54.520 --> 00:02:57.039
to be a story. You can send in a photo, video,
54
00:02:57.159 --> 00:02:59.680
audio recording. Anything you think that I should share, either
55
00:02:59.759 --> 00:03:02.800
on the show or on social media, send it into me.
56
00:03:03.199 --> 00:03:06.439
All of those ways, you have every opportunity. With all
57
00:03:06.479 --> 00:03:08.919
of that said and done, let's go ahead and get
58
00:03:08.960 --> 00:03:35.599
into today's story, which is the legend of the Sisi Mete.
59
00:03:36.599 --> 00:03:40.280
Things had been very different since Valentina returned from the forest.
60
00:03:40.919 --> 00:03:43.680
It had been only a few weeks since she returned
61
00:03:43.840 --> 00:03:47.639
running into the streets of San Ignacio screaming about a giant,
62
00:03:47.840 --> 00:03:51.520
hairy monster with backwards feet. She had gone missing years ago.
63
00:03:51.879 --> 00:03:54.400
Her family gave up on searching for her because the
64
00:03:54.479 --> 00:03:57.280
Hunduran mountains can be a dangerous place for those who
65
00:03:57.360 --> 00:04:00.879
take a wrong turn or get injured. When she finally
66
00:04:00.919 --> 00:04:04.719
did return, everyone was shocked. First they thought they saw
67
00:04:04.759 --> 00:04:09.039
a ghost, Then, after hearing her frantic ramblings, they believed
68
00:04:09.120 --> 00:04:14.120
Valentina lost her mind after spending so long lost and alone.
69
00:04:14.680 --> 00:04:17.560
Although she was back home, she spent her days wandering
70
00:04:17.600 --> 00:04:23.160
the streets muttering about this monster, about mutant children. Everyone
71
00:04:23.199 --> 00:04:26.000
would gather and try to piece together the bits and
72
00:04:26.120 --> 00:04:29.759
pieces they could understand. Soon the story was that she
73
00:04:29.839 --> 00:04:33.040
was abducted by an ape like creature. They called it
74
00:04:33.279 --> 00:04:37.519
the Sisimete. She was forced to carry the Cisimetha's children,
75
00:04:37.920 --> 00:04:41.160
two of them, and when she finally did escape, he
76
00:04:41.319 --> 00:04:46.519
tossed their unnatural offspring into a river. Again, her neighbors
77
00:04:46.519 --> 00:04:50.600
took pity on Valentina and simply tried to keep her calm.
78
00:04:51.319 --> 00:04:55.399
Then the baby started disappearing. The first one, a six
79
00:04:55.480 --> 00:05:00.079
month old from the Mehia family, vanished overnight. The community
80
00:05:00.120 --> 00:05:03.120
did what they could to be more vigilant. All doors
81
00:05:03.120 --> 00:05:07.399
were locked and windows remained shut. But it happened again,
82
00:05:08.120 --> 00:05:11.120
this time to the Bignellas. Their eight month old was
83
00:05:11.160 --> 00:05:13.600
outside in the middle of the day with a group
84
00:05:13.680 --> 00:05:17.160
of children being watched by the eldest cousin. The kids
85
00:05:17.160 --> 00:05:19.560
were caught up in their games and baby Binneeda had
86
00:05:19.639 --> 00:05:22.399
just figured out how to crawl. Before they knew it,
87
00:05:22.680 --> 00:05:26.199
the baby was gone. At this point, the town was
88
00:05:26.199 --> 00:05:29.399
in a full on panic. The children were no longer
89
00:05:29.480 --> 00:05:33.079
to play outside, at least until everyone figured out who
90
00:05:33.319 --> 00:05:37.439
or what was taking their kids. But it still wasn't enough.
91
00:05:38.000 --> 00:05:42.680
Senora Zuniga ran into the streets screaming for help. Her baby,
92
00:05:42.920 --> 00:05:46.120
a newborn, was sleeping in a hammock in the hallway
93
00:05:46.160 --> 00:05:48.720
of the house while she cooked. When she walked by
94
00:05:48.839 --> 00:05:52.680
to check on him, the hammock was empty. No longer
95
00:05:52.800 --> 00:05:55.800
safe in their own homes, the people of San Ignacio
96
00:05:56.000 --> 00:05:59.319
knew they had to take action, but they were distraught
97
00:05:59.360 --> 00:06:04.279
and unable to think clearly. So the abductions continued until
98
00:06:04.319 --> 00:06:08.360
almost all the babies of San Ignacio were gone. This
99
00:06:08.519 --> 00:06:12.759
already small community was shrinking, one child at a time.
100
00:06:13.680 --> 00:06:17.480
Valentina silently watched the town become engulfed in a sense
101
00:06:17.560 --> 00:06:21.319
of dismay and trepidation. She knew who was responsible for
102
00:06:21.360 --> 00:06:24.079
the abductions, and she knew how to get his attention.
103
00:06:24.839 --> 00:06:28.199
Valentina took some of her clothes, a needle and thread,
104
00:06:28.439 --> 00:06:30.879
and made a doll. She made it the size of
105
00:06:30.920 --> 00:06:34.560
an infant, filled it with sand, and punctured a small
106
00:06:34.600 --> 00:06:38.199
hole in one of the doll's feet. She unlocked the doors,
107
00:06:38.600 --> 00:06:41.399
cracked open the windows, and spent the night at a
108
00:06:41.439 --> 00:06:46.120
relative's house. The next morning, Valentina returned home to find
109
00:06:46.199 --> 00:06:49.879
the doll missing. She grinned for the first time in
110
00:06:50.000 --> 00:06:53.040
years and ran out to gather whoever she could get
111
00:06:53.160 --> 00:06:57.519
to follow her back. At first, they were confused, convinced
112
00:06:57.639 --> 00:07:00.000
this was more of her typical ranting, until she met
113
00:07:00.439 --> 00:07:05.480
the sand. Look, it's a trail, it's hymn. The townspeople's
114
00:07:05.519 --> 00:07:10.199
eyes widened as they finally understood Valentina had set a trap,
115
00:07:10.720 --> 00:07:15.120
and it worked. A group of townspeople, including Valentina, ventured
116
00:07:15.199 --> 00:07:19.439
into the forest following the trail of sand. They came
117
00:07:19.560 --> 00:07:22.600
upon a clearing. When she halted them, she put a
118
00:07:22.600 --> 00:07:26.199
finger to her mouth, signaling them to remain quiet, and
119
00:07:26.279 --> 00:07:30.560
pointed to a cave. Although it felt like hours, it
120
00:07:30.680 --> 00:07:35.040
wasn't long before clattering and grunting reverberated from the cave's mouth.
121
00:07:35.680 --> 00:07:38.680
The group was at full attention. The hair on the
122
00:07:38.720 --> 00:07:42.480
back of their necks stood and chills covered their bodies
123
00:07:42.680 --> 00:07:47.399
as he came into view. The sisimthe exactly as Valentina
124
00:07:47.480 --> 00:07:51.600
had described him all those months ago, Towering over six
125
00:07:51.639 --> 00:07:56.519
feet tall, thin covered in long, dark fur, and backwards
126
00:07:56.560 --> 00:08:00.600
facing feet. The group devised a plant to kill the Sissima.
127
00:08:01.079 --> 00:08:03.160
They were going to start a fire at the cave's
128
00:08:03.279 --> 00:08:07.120
entrance and burn him alive. As the noise from the
129
00:08:07.160 --> 00:08:11.839
cave retreated deeper, they inched closer and closer, staying as
130
00:08:11.839 --> 00:08:17.000
silent as possible. Finally, at the opening of the Sisimetha's layer,
131
00:08:17.480 --> 00:08:21.600
they started a blaze and moved back. Very soon after,
132
00:08:21.839 --> 00:08:25.519
they could hear the agitated grunts and howls of the Sisimita.
133
00:08:26.160 --> 00:08:29.720
Their plan was working. While they cheered and held each other,
134
00:08:30.040 --> 00:08:32.960
but Indiina kept her eyes on the cave. She could
135
00:08:32.960 --> 00:08:36.480
feel that something was wrong. She saw a plume of
136
00:08:36.559 --> 00:08:39.720
smoke rise into the air. A couple yards north of
137
00:08:39.759 --> 00:08:43.879
where they celebrated. The cave had a second opening. She
138
00:08:44.000 --> 00:08:48.240
screamed and pointed. Horror melted the smiles off of their
139
00:08:48.240 --> 00:08:51.279
faces as the Sisimita rose from the other side of
140
00:08:51.320 --> 00:08:55.120
the cave, and ran into the forest. In a sense,
141
00:08:55.519 --> 00:08:59.440
their plan did work. San Ignacio saw no more abductions
142
00:08:59.639 --> 00:09:04.399
and the community finally new piece again. Townspeople regularly visit
143
00:09:04.519 --> 00:09:07.080
the cave and set a fire at its mouth as
144
00:09:07.120 --> 00:09:10.919
a warning to the cci Meta, and for now he
145
00:09:11.080 --> 00:09:28.919
keeps his distance. Welcome back, gl friends, once again, this
146
00:09:29.159 --> 00:09:33.399
was a Susto original. Applause, applause, Nobel Prizes, thank you.
147
00:09:33.480 --> 00:09:36.120
I'm kidding, but Suso original. I wrote this story with
148
00:09:36.440 --> 00:09:40.120
the help of Jeffrey. Thank you so much. We love you, Jeffrey,
149
00:09:40.240 --> 00:09:42.559
and I'm gonna go ahead and read through the notes
150
00:09:42.559 --> 00:09:45.480
that jeff has here before we go through all the
151
00:09:45.519 --> 00:09:47.600
links that both of us put together. You can find
152
00:09:47.679 --> 00:09:50.279
the direct links to these Google docs on Patreon dot
153
00:09:50.320 --> 00:09:52.639
com slash Sustra podcast. So let's go ahead and go
154
00:09:52.720 --> 00:09:54.720
through it. So we know that the cci meta is
155
00:09:54.759 --> 00:09:58.360
from Hodudas and actually the cave that is mentioned in
156
00:09:58.399 --> 00:10:01.559
the story, it is a real cave. It's the Ccimeta's
157
00:10:01.600 --> 00:10:04.279
cave or La cueva del Scimeta, I think is what
158
00:10:04.320 --> 00:10:06.559
they called it, and the notes heresay. The ccimeta is
159
00:10:06.600 --> 00:10:10.200
a tall ape slash human type creature. It is covered
160
00:10:10.240 --> 00:10:13.679
in long hair, it's feeder on backwards, which if you
161
00:10:13.759 --> 00:10:15.519
all have been listening for a while or if you
162
00:10:15.600 --> 00:10:18.440
remember a long time ago in I have it right here.
163
00:10:18.480 --> 00:10:22.039
In January of twenty twenty one, I did an episode
164
00:10:22.080 --> 00:10:26.320
on Lasiwappa, who is one of Susto's cryptid fems, and
165
00:10:26.399 --> 00:10:29.080
she also has backwards facing feet. I think the story
166
00:10:29.080 --> 00:10:31.679
with her is that if you hear her footsteps again
167
00:10:31.840 --> 00:10:35.759
all of these kinds of noises el Si Lechusa's there
168
00:10:35.799 --> 00:10:38.519
have been several featured on Susto that when you hear
169
00:10:38.919 --> 00:10:43.799
their noise, whatever it is, whether it's footsteps, whistling, crying, hooting, whatever,
170
00:10:43.919 --> 00:10:46.879
if you hear them further away, that means they're closer,
171
00:10:46.919 --> 00:10:48.639
And if you hear them closer, that means that they're
172
00:10:48.639 --> 00:10:51.080
further away. And so I think that also applied to
173
00:10:51.159 --> 00:10:54.559
La Siwappa. So just a cool connection right there. I
174
00:10:54.559 --> 00:10:56.919
think that might be something that deserves its own episode
175
00:10:56.919 --> 00:10:59.360
after how many times we've seen it on here. So
176
00:10:59.639 --> 00:11:01.320
let me know that's something y'all are interested in and
177
00:11:01.360 --> 00:11:03.720
I can try and put it together. This continues. It
178
00:11:03.879 --> 00:11:06.279
likes to kidnap, it being the cisimeat that likes to
179
00:11:06.320 --> 00:11:09.600
kidnap women and babies. In some legends, it will force
180
00:11:09.639 --> 00:11:12.480
the women to carry its children. This has some crossovers
181
00:11:12.480 --> 00:11:14.960
with of course lod or not because the women will flee,
182
00:11:15.200 --> 00:11:18.440
but instead of taking her children like Lyodorna did, the
183
00:11:18.440 --> 00:11:21.360
cisi meat that will drown the children to spite her
184
00:11:21.480 --> 00:11:24.279
for not taking them. So talk about a dead bee, dad, right.
185
00:11:24.440 --> 00:11:26.000
But also it's going to come up again in a
186
00:11:26.000 --> 00:11:27.879
bit and then we'll that'll kind of explain a little
187
00:11:27.879 --> 00:11:30.559
bit more. I guess the motive behind that, if there's any.
188
00:11:30.720 --> 00:11:33.679
The notes continue. In other variations, there are both male
189
00:11:33.759 --> 00:11:37.279
and female cisimeta who will kidnap babies cisi meat that
190
00:11:37.320 --> 00:11:41.559
are also associated with rain, slash thunder deities such as Chok,
191
00:11:41.720 --> 00:11:44.600
the Mayan god of rain, thunder, and lightning, sent to
192
00:11:44.639 --> 00:11:48.919
protect nature from over harvesting, also associated with Sutaka, a
193
00:11:49.000 --> 00:11:52.000
Mayan group of deities who have both rain and earth features.
194
00:11:52.159 --> 00:11:56.000
The Sutaka protect farmers and agricultural workers from wild animals,
195
00:11:56.039 --> 00:11:58.279
so they are reported to have pushed the ccimeat that
196
00:11:58.360 --> 00:12:01.519
to only exist in dense forests so that harmless humans
197
00:12:01.519 --> 00:12:03.960
are not damaged. It seems like the cci meta is
198
00:12:04.000 --> 00:12:07.159
meant to represent a balance with nature, whereas it only
199
00:12:07.200 --> 00:12:10.000
goes after people and their kind if the people start
200
00:12:10.080 --> 00:12:13.039
to encroach on the boundaries of nature. So kind of
201
00:12:13.080 --> 00:12:14.879
like an interesting take there, I do want to read
202
00:12:14.919 --> 00:12:19.559
about this. The Mayan deity chalk at Chaac. This says
203
00:12:19.600 --> 00:12:22.480
that Chalk is the name of the Maya god of rain, thunder,
204
00:12:22.519 --> 00:12:25.960
and lightning. With his lightning acts, Chock strikes the clouds,
205
00:12:26.039 --> 00:12:29.480
causing them to produce thunder and rain. Chok corresponds to
206
00:12:29.639 --> 00:12:32.639
Laroque among the Aztecs. And this is a Wikipedia entry.
207
00:12:32.679 --> 00:12:34.480
I'm not sure if I mentioned that. In the mythology
208
00:12:34.519 --> 00:12:36.720
section of this, it says the rain deity is a
209
00:12:36.759 --> 00:12:39.799
patron of agriculture. A well known myth in which the
210
00:12:39.919 --> 00:12:43.440
Chalks or related rain lightning deities have an important role
211
00:12:43.480 --> 00:12:45.799
to play, is about the opening of the mountain in
212
00:12:45.840 --> 00:12:49.919
which the Mayis was hidden. In Sotzil mythology, the rain
213
00:12:50.000 --> 00:12:54.440
deity also figures as the father of newbile women representing
214
00:12:54.600 --> 00:12:58.919
mayis and vegetables. In some versions of the Gekchi myth
215
00:12:59.000 --> 00:13:02.360
of Sun and Moon, the rain deity Chok or Cloud
216
00:13:02.519 --> 00:13:05.679
is the brother of Sun. Together they may defeat their
217
00:13:05.720 --> 00:13:09.919
aged adoptive mother and her lover. Later, Chok commits adultery
218
00:13:09.960 --> 00:13:13.360
with his brother's wife and is dually punished. His tears
219
00:13:13.399 --> 00:13:16.440
of agony give origin to the Rain. Versions of this
220
00:13:16.519 --> 00:13:19.960
myth show the rain deity Chok in his warlike fury,
221
00:13:20.120 --> 00:13:23.159
pursuing the fleeing Sun and Moon and attacking them with
222
00:13:23.240 --> 00:13:26.159
his lightning bolts. In some mythologies, it is believed that
223
00:13:26.240 --> 00:13:29.279
water and clouds are formed within the earth in caves
224
00:13:29.320 --> 00:13:32.679
and sonotas and then carried into the sky by deities
225
00:13:32.720 --> 00:13:35.440
such as Chok. So maybe that's the connection between a
226
00:13:35.519 --> 00:13:38.279
Cisi Mita and Chok is that In some mythologies, like
227
00:13:38.279 --> 00:13:40.559
it says here, it's believed that water and clouds are
228
00:13:40.600 --> 00:13:44.480
formed within the earth in caves, So maybe that's the
229
00:13:44.480 --> 00:13:49.120
correlation between Cisimta and this deity. Classic period Maya's sources
230
00:13:49.159 --> 00:13:51.440
also suggest that Chok was the god who opened the
231
00:13:51.440 --> 00:13:55.639
mountain containing Mayis using his lightning acts. So also from
232
00:13:55.759 --> 00:13:59.879
Wikipedia is an entry and this says Cisimethal with an
233
00:13:59.879 --> 00:14:01.799
O instead of an E at the end, but it
234
00:14:01.840 --> 00:14:04.919
says in Belizean, so there's a connection to belize here
235
00:14:05.000 --> 00:14:11.200
and Honduran folklore. The Cisimito again alternatively called Cisimeta, Cimita, sukara,
236
00:14:11.240 --> 00:14:15.559
and itta Gayo, is a bipedal upright guerrilla like creature
237
00:14:15.600 --> 00:14:18.080
that possesses a head much like a human, with long
238
00:14:18.120 --> 00:14:21.360
hair or fur covering its body. It is also referred
239
00:14:21.399 --> 00:14:24.840
to as the Mexican Bigfoot, though it is also known
240
00:14:24.879 --> 00:14:28.720
in the neighboring countries of Guatemala and Nicaragua. I have
241
00:14:29.159 --> 00:14:34.960
had several people ask me about covering bigfoot sightings from Mexico,
242
00:14:35.120 --> 00:14:37.240
so maybe this will kind of lead us into that,
243
00:14:37.480 --> 00:14:39.799
and I'm sure it'll probably be a lot about the Cisimtha,
244
00:14:39.879 --> 00:14:41.960
but there's got to be a lot of I guess,
245
00:14:42.000 --> 00:14:45.759
local legend around that. This description says the Cisimtha is
246
00:14:45.799 --> 00:14:49.240
believed to resemble a humanoid creature with black or dark
247
00:14:49.279 --> 00:14:52.639
brown fur, described as larger than an average person. It
248
00:14:52.679 --> 00:14:55.279
is said to have four fingers on each hand and
249
00:14:55.440 --> 00:14:59.279
no thumbs, eight like facial features, and backward facing feet
250
00:14:59.399 --> 00:15:02.320
with no damn. That's gotta be a stiff walk if
251
00:15:02.320 --> 00:15:05.279
he doesn't have knees. Its name differs between ethnic groups.
252
00:15:05.279 --> 00:15:09.039
For example, the Gattifuna call it SiZ Midu. The name
253
00:15:09.159 --> 00:15:11.639
has no true English translation, and it is believed to
254
00:15:11.679 --> 00:15:15.559
have come from the Nahuatl word mek in Honduras. According
255
00:15:15.600 --> 00:15:18.240
to the legends, it is believed that the Sisimta targets
256
00:15:18.240 --> 00:15:20.679
and kidnaps human women. It is believed that when a
257
00:15:20.720 --> 00:15:23.639
woman falls in love with the Sisimta, the Sisimta will
258
00:15:23.639 --> 00:15:26.120
claim her as his own and she will never be
259
00:15:26.159 --> 00:15:29.759
seen again. The Hunduran explorer and historian Hissus aguilada Bas,
260
00:15:29.840 --> 00:15:32.960
which I think Hissus Agladabas is like a really famous
261
00:15:32.960 --> 00:15:36.840
folklorist in or from Honduras, said that the Sisimta lives
262
00:15:36.840 --> 00:15:39.960
in the highest part of the Hunduran mountains, more specifically
263
00:15:40.000 --> 00:15:44.120
in the inaccessible caverns found there. Aguilad also explains that
264
00:15:44.120 --> 00:15:46.679
the sisi meat that feeds on the wild berries from
265
00:15:46.720 --> 00:15:49.360
the mountain, and that it is not a carnivorous being
266
00:15:49.480 --> 00:15:52.519
or hunter. However, it usually goes down to the village
267
00:15:52.519 --> 00:15:55.639
to kidnap women to take them to his cave. The
268
00:15:55.799 --> 00:15:58.480
union of Asisi Meta and a human is believed to
269
00:15:58.559 --> 00:16:02.480
produce ape men and then so tying it into Belize.
270
00:16:02.559 --> 00:16:05.080
As I mentioned earlier, it says in Belizean legend, the
271
00:16:05.080 --> 00:16:08.039
ceci Meta is said to also feast on humans so
272
00:16:08.240 --> 00:16:11.960
not just wild berries, but people. Furthermore, in Belizian societies,
273
00:16:11.960 --> 00:16:14.120
the belief is quote, if you are a man and
274
00:16:14.200 --> 00:16:16.240
you look at him in the eyes and escape, you
275
00:16:16.320 --> 00:16:18.519
will die within a month. If you are a woman
276
00:16:18.600 --> 00:16:20.600
and you look at him in the eyes and escape,
277
00:16:20.639 --> 00:16:24.120
your life will be prolonged. What's his beef is He's
278
00:16:24.240 --> 00:16:26.399
just like a supernatural alphamel and he's just going to
279
00:16:26.480 --> 00:16:29.480
kill other men. This continues. Tales of the Cecimeta were
280
00:16:29.480 --> 00:16:32.600
told in the camps by the Mahogany cutters of early
281
00:16:32.679 --> 00:16:35.799
days and are still passed along in villages like Ranchito
282
00:16:35.879 --> 00:16:38.360
and Hill Bank. The cci Meta is said to live
283
00:16:38.399 --> 00:16:41.399
in high forest areas and lives in caves and on
284
00:16:41.559 --> 00:16:45.480
rocky land in the Toledo District. Forest areas have decreased
285
00:16:45.480 --> 00:16:48.759
over the years because of agricultural development, and the Getchee
286
00:16:48.799 --> 00:16:52.840
believe that Toutraka, the thunder deities who protects them from
287
00:16:52.840 --> 00:16:56.279
the wild animals, has pulled the Cecimeata back into the
288
00:16:56.320 --> 00:17:00.639
few densely jungled areas remaining, so he is rarely seen today. Again,
289
00:17:00.679 --> 00:17:04.039
we have this idea of this forest dwelling creature that
290
00:17:04.119 --> 00:17:08.000
protects the nature. But this guy is kind of also
291
00:17:08.119 --> 00:17:13.000
insidious because he kidnaps women and babies, and depending on
292
00:17:13.000 --> 00:17:15.079
where you're from, you will die if you're a man
293
00:17:15.119 --> 00:17:17.720
and you look at him. The Cecimeata diet is believed
294
00:17:17.759 --> 00:17:20.240
to consist of raw meat and fruits. Again, this isn't
295
00:17:20.279 --> 00:17:23.039
belieze in under us. He's more of a what is
296
00:17:23.039 --> 00:17:25.799
it omnivore herbivore. There you go, And when feasting on
297
00:17:25.880 --> 00:17:28.839
human beings, he will tear the body into several pieces
298
00:17:28.839 --> 00:17:32.759
before devouring it. Though fierce and malevolent towards humans, he
299
00:17:32.839 --> 00:17:35.920
is afraid of water and dogs and will avoid them
300
00:17:35.960 --> 00:17:39.400
at all costs. See now this is an opposition of
301
00:17:39.640 --> 00:17:43.319
the Hunduran belief or the I guess the tie to
302
00:17:43.359 --> 00:17:46.240
the mind deities is that why would this rain this
303
00:17:46.319 --> 00:17:49.799
creature associated with like rain deities be afraid of water?
304
00:17:50.200 --> 00:17:52.680
I'm not sure? And also dogs, So good to know
305
00:17:53.000 --> 00:17:56.079
it says. The Cecimeta is believed to often assume human
306
00:17:56.200 --> 00:17:59.119
form in order to lure people out of villages with
307
00:17:59.160 --> 00:18:01.839
the purpose of killing them. Because of this, he is
308
00:18:01.880 --> 00:18:06.519
sometimes confused with Stabe or Layona. On Sundays and religious
309
00:18:06.519 --> 00:18:09.599
holidays such as Good Friday, Girhojans the devil happen on
310
00:18:09.599 --> 00:18:12.240
a good Friday, they say. The Cisimeta is believed to
311
00:18:12.319 --> 00:18:15.599
prey on hunters and other people who straight into the bushes.
312
00:18:15.880 --> 00:18:19.400
He follows human footprints, with its main purpose being either
313
00:18:19.480 --> 00:18:22.920
to kill its victims or to rip off their thumbs. Oh.
314
00:18:23.079 --> 00:18:26.119
The Cisimeta is also believed to attack men who are
315
00:18:26.240 --> 00:18:30.880
killing animals needlessly or destroying the forest. See that we love.
316
00:18:31.359 --> 00:18:34.319
That is king behavior. Keep it up, Cecimeta if that's
317
00:18:34.319 --> 00:18:37.240
what you're doing. The next piece of notes that Jeff
318
00:18:37.279 --> 00:18:40.400
has here is what I actually kind of based my
319
00:18:40.519 --> 00:18:44.880
own story of This is from X like the the
320
00:18:45.000 --> 00:18:49.599
letter x ploor Onduras dot com. This entry is called
321
00:18:49.680 --> 00:18:52.960
lequeva cimite and this says the Cisimeta cave is a
322
00:18:53.079 --> 00:18:56.759
peculiar cave located in the community of San Ignacio, which
323
00:18:56.799 --> 00:19:00.400
is a municipality of Gamasca, a department of in Theia Buca.
324
00:19:00.680 --> 00:19:03.359
And again this is in Honduras. According to stories from
325
00:19:03.400 --> 00:19:06.839
the community's ancient inhabitants, the cave was inhabited by a
326
00:19:06.880 --> 00:19:10.319
man or a kind of giant who ate children. This
327
00:19:10.519 --> 00:19:14.559
terrifying being that inhabited was associated with the Ccimeta which
328
00:19:14.640 --> 00:19:17.480
is why they called it the cave of Ccimete. So
329
00:19:17.599 --> 00:19:20.440
this says this being, and again this was It looks
330
00:19:20.480 --> 00:19:23.000
like this was translated from Spanish to English. In English,
331
00:19:23.000 --> 00:19:25.839
it says that this being was associated with the Cisimeta.
332
00:19:25.920 --> 00:19:29.279
It could also be that it is the Cisimeta. This continues,
333
00:19:29.400 --> 00:19:32.400
in fact, the Cisimeta cave does exist, and that there's
334
00:19:32.400 --> 00:19:34.400
a picture here that, of course I will be posting.
335
00:19:34.720 --> 00:19:36.799
And so the legend here says what is said to
336
00:19:36.880 --> 00:19:39.960
have happened in the community of Kamasca left its history
337
00:19:40.039 --> 00:19:43.799
marked forever. It was a quiet and sparsely populated community,
338
00:19:44.039 --> 00:19:47.200
so everyone quickly realized what was happening. One day, a
339
00:19:47.279 --> 00:19:50.400
mother became desperate when she noticed that her baby had disappeared,
340
00:19:50.559 --> 00:19:52.720
and no matter how hard they looked for him, the
341
00:19:52.720 --> 00:19:55.720
baby never appeared, which caused the entire town to panic.
342
00:19:55.960 --> 00:19:58.279
As the days went by, another baby, who was sleeping
343
00:19:58.319 --> 00:20:00.759
peacefully in a hammock in the hallway of his house,
344
00:20:00.880 --> 00:20:03.920
also disappeared while his mother was in the kitchen making lunch.
345
00:20:04.200 --> 00:20:06.920
That was in my story. This continues. While some mothers
346
00:20:06.920 --> 00:20:09.079
continue to search for their babies, it was the turn
347
00:20:09.200 --> 00:20:12.440
of the others. The tragedy was repeated until almost all
348
00:20:12.440 --> 00:20:15.920
babies in the town had disappeared. This abominable event had
349
00:20:15.920 --> 00:20:18.920
the town's inhabitants baffled since no one had any idea
350
00:20:18.920 --> 00:20:21.920
what was happening with the sudden disappearance of the babies.
351
00:20:22.319 --> 00:20:24.720
So this continues. There's this plotline that I also included
352
00:20:24.759 --> 00:20:27.519
in my story of the trap that was set, and
353
00:20:27.559 --> 00:20:29.559
here it says it was a desperate mother who lost
354
00:20:29.559 --> 00:20:32.720
her baby set this trap. She made the figure of
355
00:20:32.759 --> 00:20:35.519
a baby, filled it with ashes. In this story, she
356
00:20:35.640 --> 00:20:38.799
kind of left it out like unattended for the cecmedia
357
00:20:38.839 --> 00:20:41.680
to come and snag it. So her and other villagers
358
00:20:41.799 --> 00:20:45.359
followed the trail of ashes. It took them to a
359
00:20:45.400 --> 00:20:48.680
mysterious cave located at the highest point of the village.
360
00:20:48.680 --> 00:20:51.240
It says here it describes them waiting and they see
361
00:20:51.319 --> 00:20:55.240
the ceci meet the tall, thin creature with backwards facing feet.
362
00:20:55.559 --> 00:20:57.920
When they saw it, they were terrified, and then they
363
00:20:58.039 --> 00:21:00.599
devised the plant to set fire to the cave so
364
00:21:00.640 --> 00:21:03.359
that the creature would burn to death inside. And then
365
00:21:03.400 --> 00:21:05.799
here again it says, however, when the cisi meta felt
366
00:21:05.880 --> 00:21:07.759
the fire, it came out from the top of the
367
00:21:07.799 --> 00:21:10.559
cave After this, peace returned to the community, but no
368
00:21:10.599 --> 00:21:13.000
one was able to forget what happened. Since the babies
369
00:21:13.039 --> 00:21:16.200
never reappeared. The case still exists, but they never heard
370
00:21:16.240 --> 00:21:19.799
from the strange, creepy creature again. Again, that story is
371
00:21:19.839 --> 00:21:22.839
what I based mine on. So more from the notes here.
372
00:21:23.119 --> 00:21:27.480
This is from oocities dot org and this is just
373
00:21:27.519 --> 00:21:31.599
titled the Mysteries of on Buddhas by Bablo Vier Rubia Mausol.
374
00:21:31.920 --> 00:21:34.880
The notes that we have here says they're just excerpts
375
00:21:34.920 --> 00:21:37.759
from this source because it's a it's a pretty robust page,
376
00:21:37.759 --> 00:21:39.799
a lot of text. But the notes that Jeff pulled
377
00:21:39.799 --> 00:21:42.359
from that say, my grandfather told me that he ran
378
00:21:42.519 --> 00:21:46.839
into the Cisimta around nineteen twelve up there on Pico Bonito.
379
00:21:47.200 --> 00:21:49.759
It walked like a man, had a very hairy body
380
00:21:49.799 --> 00:21:53.079
and was very tall, said Don Manuel Mechilla. Oh, I
381
00:21:53.079 --> 00:21:55.599
didn't even notice that I used that name. I just
382
00:21:55.680 --> 00:22:00.720
kind of chose it randomly. And huh interesting, interesting, spooky,
383
00:22:01.279 --> 00:22:05.559
said by Don Manuel Mechilla, an octogenarian living in the
384
00:22:05.640 --> 00:22:09.880
village of Laognon, scant kilometers from La Seva. Also, I
385
00:22:09.920 --> 00:22:12.279
had to look this up. An octogenarian is someone who
386
00:22:12.359 --> 00:22:16.240
is in their like eighties eighties Yeah octo eight. His
387
00:22:16.359 --> 00:22:20.640
shaky hand pointed toward the mountains robed in their thick foliage.
388
00:22:20.880 --> 00:22:23.920
But what was the sisimta really? Much like its colder
389
00:22:23.960 --> 00:22:27.000
relatives such as the Tibetaneti or the Sasquatch of the
390
00:22:27.119 --> 00:22:30.519
US and Canadian Pacific Coast, the sisimta is another such
391
00:22:30.559 --> 00:22:33.200
creature which can appear out of nowhere and vanish in
392
00:22:33.240 --> 00:22:36.759
the same way. According to jus Agular Baz, one of
393
00:22:36.799 --> 00:22:41.119
Honduras's most renowned folklorists, Again, what's that name? The sisimita
394
00:22:41.319 --> 00:22:45.079
or Itakayo wanders the high mountain ranges and lives in
395
00:22:45.160 --> 00:22:48.200
dank caverns, feeding on wild fruit. In the same way
396
00:22:48.240 --> 00:22:51.359
as its Mexican cousin El Perludo or the Hairy One
397
00:22:51.440 --> 00:22:56.000
and Argentina's Ukumari quote. These monsters would kidnap women and
398
00:22:56.079 --> 00:22:58.519
take them to their layers. It is said that man
399
00:22:58.519 --> 00:23:01.559
apes were born of these made added the old man.
400
00:23:01.680 --> 00:23:04.079
The story of a woman who managed to escape from
401
00:23:04.119 --> 00:23:08.079
one such sisimita abode is still discussed among the mountain villagers.
402
00:23:08.359 --> 00:23:11.920
The creature pursued her, carrying with it the three offspring
403
00:23:11.960 --> 00:23:14.839
they had had together and showing them to the mother,
404
00:23:15.000 --> 00:23:17.240
who had fled to the other side of a river,
405
00:23:17.480 --> 00:23:20.359
in hopes of attracting her to her children. Its efforts
406
00:23:20.400 --> 00:23:23.759
were in vain, and the trogledite mortally threw the inhuman
407
00:23:23.799 --> 00:23:26.519
infants into the water. Again. This kind of inspired that
408
00:23:26.519 --> 00:23:29.119
part of my story. Other cisimitas have appeared in the
409
00:23:29.160 --> 00:23:33.519
Gamasca caverns. Italian friar Frederico Lunardi, one of the most
410
00:23:33.519 --> 00:23:37.400
influential scholars of Honduran culture, associated the creatures with the
411
00:23:37.480 --> 00:23:40.559
Mayan god Chok quote he who holds up the heavens,
412
00:23:40.599 --> 00:23:43.799
the god of water. According to Lunadi, within the caves,
413
00:23:43.839 --> 00:23:46.559
there was a wall depicting a hand with all its
414
00:23:46.559 --> 00:23:50.240
fingers and a number of scratches allegedly made by the cisimitas,
415
00:23:50.279 --> 00:23:52.599
who would go there at midnight to scratch the walls
416
00:23:52.599 --> 00:23:55.119
with their claws. I want to know if that mural
417
00:23:55.240 --> 00:23:57.359
is really in there. I don't know. That connection to
418
00:23:57.440 --> 00:24:00.119
me just seems kind of wonky. I guess as the
419
00:24:00.160 --> 00:24:02.960
word I'll use, I'm not entirely convinced by it, but
420
00:24:03.359 --> 00:24:05.240
maybe it's not for me to be convinced right. This
421
00:24:05.279 --> 00:24:08.519
continues the following day, and at my insistence, we headed
422
00:24:08.559 --> 00:24:11.880
for Punta Bethulia. Driving on the dirt and sand road,
423
00:24:12.119 --> 00:24:14.839
Houstino talked about my old friend, the ccimeta in those
424
00:24:14.920 --> 00:24:18.440
lands and other parts of Central America. Quote. Around nineteen
425
00:24:18.480 --> 00:24:21.000
forty six, a chain gang cutting wood in the mountainous
426
00:24:21.039 --> 00:24:25.319
area of Gopiedol caught two cisimetas, male and female. How
427
00:24:25.359 --> 00:24:27.240
also do they? I just like, I wonder about the
428
00:24:27.279 --> 00:24:29.799
physiology of these creatures. If there are these like ape
429
00:24:30.000 --> 00:24:32.680
like creatures, did one of them have a bow and lashes?
430
00:24:33.119 --> 00:24:35.160
You know when cartoons do that, when it's like, let's
431
00:24:35.200 --> 00:24:38.279
say emojis or something, those generic emojis, and one of
432
00:24:38.319 --> 00:24:40.319
them doesn't have anything on it, and the other one
433
00:24:40.319 --> 00:24:42.960
has like a bow and lashes, and people are like, oh,
434
00:24:43.079 --> 00:24:47.079
that's the girl. I don't know anyway, Sorry, this continues.
435
00:24:47.240 --> 00:24:49.759
They were hiding in a cave and were about four
436
00:24:49.799 --> 00:24:52.119
feet tall. See now this is different because they're four
437
00:24:52.160 --> 00:24:56.119
feet tall here, So wondering worthy ccimethas or were they
438
00:24:56.240 --> 00:25:00.000
just apes or chimps. What was strange is that they're okay.
439
00:25:00.119 --> 00:25:02.480
What was strange is that their legs were backward and
440
00:25:02.599 --> 00:25:05.880
their hair was very long. They only had four fingers
441
00:25:05.920 --> 00:25:08.359
and very short hands. Their legs were long and had
442
00:25:08.400 --> 00:25:11.119
hair reaching down to their knees. This says that employees
443
00:25:11.200 --> 00:25:14.359
of a banana company called Standard took them to Thruquillo.
444
00:25:14.759 --> 00:25:17.000
This says I never got to see them, but they
445
00:25:17.000 --> 00:25:19.519
were there for some ten to twelve days. The workers
446
00:25:19.559 --> 00:25:21.599
told me that the gringos wanted to take them to
447
00:25:21.680 --> 00:25:24.480
La Ceva and then to the United States. They would
448
00:25:24.480 --> 00:25:27.559
feed them meat, bananas and other things they wouldn't eat,
449
00:25:27.799 --> 00:25:30.359
and they died. This person asked, did you ever see
450
00:25:30.359 --> 00:25:33.440
a sisi mita and they responded no. But there are
451
00:25:33.480 --> 00:25:36.680
still some of these animals in the Truchuillo mountains because
452
00:25:36.720 --> 00:25:39.680
their screams can be heard. Since I've slept in these woods,
453
00:25:39.759 --> 00:25:43.759
I've heard them. We have virgin rainforests here between Galentura
454
00:25:43.839 --> 00:25:46.720
and Capiro, and it's possible that some of these creatures
455
00:25:46.720 --> 00:25:50.400
may still exist. Upon reaching Santa Fe, we met Ilario
456
00:25:50.480 --> 00:25:53.960
Amidres Galderon, aged forty three, who confmed the story of
457
00:25:53.960 --> 00:25:57.880
the Cisimita's capture. His version differed somewhat from that of
458
00:25:57.920 --> 00:26:01.839
Professor Galan, perhaps because his recall was faulty or he
459
00:26:01.920 --> 00:26:04.759
had heard it from third parties. It says, quote they
460
00:26:04.839 --> 00:26:07.720
caught them with a net. They would only eat river shrimp.
461
00:26:07.839 --> 00:26:10.319
I think a ship belonging to Standard Fruit took them
462
00:26:10.319 --> 00:26:13.200
to the US. Dccmethas were taller than a person he
463
00:26:13.279 --> 00:26:17.640
told us. So these are just really unreliable accounts. They
464
00:26:17.640 --> 00:26:20.279
don't line up at all. The ccmethas they looked different,
465
00:26:20.319 --> 00:26:23.400
they were captured different, they ate different things, and in
466
00:26:23.680 --> 00:26:26.720
one telling they survived, in the other they didn't. So
467
00:26:26.759 --> 00:26:29.119
who knows what the actual truth is there. This next
468
00:26:29.119 --> 00:26:32.400
one is an academic source that discusses giant humanoids in general.
469
00:26:32.599 --> 00:26:35.920
It looks like it's from something called Unknown Hominids and
470
00:26:35.960 --> 00:26:39.440
the New World Legends from Western Folklore Volume twenty three
471
00:26:39.759 --> 00:26:43.519
by A. Basal F. Curtly, and this says on the
472
00:26:43.599 --> 00:26:47.119
unexplored mountaintops is said to be found a tellus anthropoid ape,
473
00:26:47.200 --> 00:26:50.680
reminding of the gorilla, orangutang or chimpanzee of the Old World.
474
00:26:50.880 --> 00:26:53.559
It is of erect position, about five feet in height,
475
00:26:53.680 --> 00:26:56.920
covered with black hair, and has the feet turned backward.
476
00:26:57.160 --> 00:26:59.559
It is generally feared as it is supposed to carry
477
00:26:59.599 --> 00:27:02.599
off human beings of the opposite sex. This belief is
478
00:27:02.599 --> 00:27:06.000
also found among the other populations of the Mosquito coast,
479
00:27:06.240 --> 00:27:09.519
The Rama and the Creoles call this ape Yoho or Yojo,
480
00:27:09.839 --> 00:27:12.640
while the Baya and Ladinos apply to it the Spanish
481
00:27:12.680 --> 00:27:16.160
Mexican name Sisimeta or chichi Meta. Some Indians claim that
482
00:27:16.200 --> 00:27:18.880
this mysterious being has been seen several times during the
483
00:27:18.920 --> 00:27:24.039
last twenty years around the Guarunta Mountains, which extend northward
484
00:27:24.240 --> 00:27:27.240
of the Rio Coco. And again this is where it
485
00:27:27.279 --> 00:27:30.039
references the Belizian belief that if you are a man
486
00:27:30.079 --> 00:27:32.200
you look into the eyes and escape, you will die
487
00:27:32.200 --> 00:27:33.640
within a month. If you're a woman looking to the
488
00:27:33.680 --> 00:27:36.559
as an escape, your life will be prolonged. So the
489
00:27:36.559 --> 00:27:39.319
next thingk I have here is from a website Onduras
490
00:27:39.359 --> 00:27:42.880
dot com and this is just legend of Honduras Sisimita.
491
00:27:43.000 --> 00:27:45.279
It says it's a supernatural creature, one of the best
492
00:27:45.319 --> 00:27:48.079
known legends in Hunduran territory. It is kind of like
493
00:27:48.160 --> 00:27:50.680
a giant monkey with long hair that looks strong and
494
00:27:50.720 --> 00:27:53.000
lives deep in the forest and in the highest mountains
495
00:27:53.039 --> 00:27:55.680
of Honduras. It is said that the Sisimedia canaps women,
496
00:27:55.759 --> 00:27:58.559
takes them to its caves, makes him his wife. Okay,
497
00:27:58.599 --> 00:28:02.000
this one history of Cisimtadas. This says here it's kind
498
00:28:02.079 --> 00:28:04.119
it's a similar story, but there is slight variations. So
499
00:28:04.160 --> 00:28:06.440
this says the best known story of the cisi meet
500
00:28:06.440 --> 00:28:08.319
the legend is that of a woman who is walking
501
00:28:08.400 --> 00:28:10.960
through the forest exploring when she was kidnapped by this
502
00:28:11.079 --> 00:28:14.079
great ape man. She says, the Cisimeta kidnapped her and
503
00:28:14.160 --> 00:28:17.319
had children with him. They had three children. One day,
504
00:28:17.359 --> 00:28:20.079
she managed to escape from this monster with her children
505
00:28:20.119 --> 00:28:22.480
and ran all over the hill until she reached a river,
506
00:28:22.519 --> 00:28:25.599
where she had to leave her children and escape herself.
507
00:28:25.880 --> 00:28:28.759
The Cisimeta, in revenge for the woman, drowned them in
508
00:28:28.839 --> 00:28:31.559
the river and she had to flee to save herself.
509
00:28:31.839 --> 00:28:34.319
Legend has it that one day the Cecimta comes down
510
00:28:34.319 --> 00:28:36.319
from the mountain and kidnaps a woman to take to
511
00:28:36.359 --> 00:28:38.880
his cave. The villagers say that the woman had already
512
00:28:38.880 --> 00:28:41.400
been presumed dead until she was found near the town
513
00:28:41.599 --> 00:28:44.880
years after her disappearance, and apparently she told the story
514
00:28:44.880 --> 00:28:46.920
that is the most well known version about this creature,
515
00:28:47.079 --> 00:28:50.000
since she claims to have given birth to three ape children,
516
00:28:50.079 --> 00:28:52.480
and that the cci Meta kidnaps women who walk near
517
00:28:52.599 --> 00:28:55.519
their caves in the forest and the last press that
518
00:28:55.559 --> 00:28:57.960
I have here, it's actually an Instagram reel from this
519
00:28:58.000 --> 00:29:01.519
person who they did a longer video on YouTube, and
520
00:29:01.640 --> 00:29:04.599
I will have both those links in the sous to
521
00:29:04.640 --> 00:29:06.640
Google doc and I'll find a way to repost the
522
00:29:06.680 --> 00:29:08.960
YouTube video, maybe on like the website or something, because
523
00:29:09.079 --> 00:29:10.920
he does like a whole I haven't seen it. I
524
00:29:11.000 --> 00:29:12.799
just watched the reel, but the YouTube is the longer
525
00:29:12.880 --> 00:29:14.559
version of that, so I'll find a way to post
526
00:29:14.559 --> 00:29:30.160
that so that you all can see it as well.
527
00:29:30.200 --> 00:29:32.279
Welcome back to old friends. Thank you so much for
528
00:29:32.400 --> 00:29:36.000
listening to today's episode. As always, if you have your
529
00:29:36.000 --> 00:29:40.039
own scary story, a video, photo, audio recording, anything you
530
00:29:40.079 --> 00:29:42.160
think should be featured either on a Letters from the
531
00:29:42.160 --> 00:29:45.039
Beyond episode or on social media, you can send it
532
00:29:45.119 --> 00:29:48.640
to me via DM on social media, email my website,
533
00:29:48.839 --> 00:29:51.759
five star review comment on Spotify. You already know all
534
00:29:51.759 --> 00:29:53.319
those ways to get to me, and I hope that
535
00:29:53.359 --> 00:29:55.400
you do. Don't be shy, don't be afraid. Make sure
536
00:29:55.400 --> 00:29:58.640
to follow at Susto podcast across every social media platform
537
00:29:58.680 --> 00:30:02.480
for any and all updates on the show, including upcoming
538
00:30:02.519 --> 00:30:04.720
live events at Spooky Season. You know I still have
539
00:30:04.799 --> 00:30:07.960
time on my calendar So if you are putting on
540
00:30:08.160 --> 00:30:11.759
spooky event in the Austin area in the San Antonio area,
541
00:30:11.799 --> 00:30:13.400
I'd be willing to make the drive. Let me know,
542
00:30:13.480 --> 00:30:15.640
hit me up if you see something interesting again, don't
543
00:30:15.640 --> 00:30:17.519
be afraid to send it my way or reach out
544
00:30:17.599 --> 00:30:21.519
to event organizers. I love this season. I love how
545
00:30:21.559 --> 00:30:24.079
excited everybody gets. I mean, for me, it's spooky season
546
00:30:24.119 --> 00:30:26.759
all year round, right, But finally, this is where everyone's
547
00:30:26.799 --> 00:30:29.920
on the same page. Mainly everyone, right anyway, So again,
548
00:30:30.160 --> 00:30:33.240
follow online, send in your stuff for letters from and beyond,
549
00:30:33.480 --> 00:30:36.200
and if you would like to support SUSTO, the easiest
550
00:30:36.200 --> 00:30:39.119
way to do so is by engaging with the show
551
00:30:39.160 --> 00:30:41.799
wherever you are listening, and if you are feeling generous,
552
00:30:41.839 --> 00:30:44.759
you can sign up to be a paid Patreon subscriber
553
00:30:44.799 --> 00:30:48.359
by visiting patreon dot com slash sustal podcast. I'd like
554
00:30:48.400 --> 00:30:51.759
to thank this episode's sponsors who are able to enjoy
555
00:30:51.920 --> 00:30:55.720
episodes early and ad free, and you all are Liza
556
00:30:55.920 --> 00:31:01.359
Sadie Rachel, Alejandra Luthor, April Mario, Eva, d Josette, Sam
557
00:31:01.440 --> 00:31:07.079
Angelaine Co, Mandy, Jules Lori, Genie, Desiree Anna Ashes, Nedssa
558
00:31:07.160 --> 00:31:16.039
Assusena Rachel Rios, Marlen, Chata, Laney, Desiree, Cynthia, Sera Flamenca, Belinda, Archie, Richard, Sarah,
559
00:31:16.240 --> 00:31:20.279
Anastasia and Vanessa. Thank you all so much for your support.
560
00:31:20.359 --> 00:31:23.759
It means the underworld to me. I will haunt you
561
00:31:23.799 --> 00:32:02.440
in the next one, and until then nota soustes bye.
1
00:00:24.199 --> 00:00:28.719
Gay girl friends. It's me Adrian or Aiden. Either way,
2
00:00:28.800 --> 00:00:31.760
I am still your host and you are still listening
3
00:00:31.879 --> 00:00:36.079
to Sustill, the podcast of ooky, spooky scary stories centered
4
00:00:36.119 --> 00:00:39.920
on paranormal folklore from Latin American and Hispanic cultures. Welcome back.
5
00:00:40.039 --> 00:00:43.479
Thank you for reanimating and joining me once again. And
6
00:00:43.640 --> 00:00:46.320
if you are new here, welcome. We are so glad
7
00:00:46.399 --> 00:00:49.159
to finally have our human sacrifice, I mean our new
8
00:00:49.200 --> 00:00:51.640
friends here with us. Thank you so much for being here.
9
00:00:51.799 --> 00:00:54.280
All right, very quick updates, not a lot, I will say.
10
00:00:54.320 --> 00:00:56.520
If you did not have a chance to catch the
11
00:00:56.560 --> 00:01:00.359
anamicon live stream at anamicon dot com, you can still
12
00:01:00.479 --> 00:01:04.719
visit their YouTube, and they uploaded my presentation on there.
13
00:01:04.760 --> 00:01:06.959
I will also be sharing that, so make sure you
14
00:01:07.000 --> 00:01:08.879
go check it out. It was so much fun. I had,
15
00:01:09.079 --> 00:01:11.319
of course a lot of fun producing that, and the
16
00:01:11.359 --> 00:01:13.599
audience was so great. I was in that chat, you know,
17
00:01:13.799 --> 00:01:17.000
just going off having fun. All of you who watched
18
00:01:17.040 --> 00:01:19.079
and who were in the chat and who started listening
19
00:01:19.079 --> 00:01:21.719
to Sustal, thank you so much for your support. I'm
20
00:01:21.799 --> 00:01:24.000
so happy to have connected with you all again. If
21
00:01:24.000 --> 00:01:25.920
you miss that, you can go visit the somewhere in
22
00:01:25.959 --> 00:01:28.879
the Sky's YouTube channel and watch it there. Again, you
23
00:01:28.879 --> 00:01:31.719
can also visit anamicon dot com and the links will
24
00:01:31.760 --> 00:01:34.480
be there to the YouTube channel. Once more, I think
25
00:01:34.519 --> 00:01:36.200
I mentioned this in the last episode. I have a
26
00:01:36.200 --> 00:01:39.120
couple of events coming up, but again you can follow
27
00:01:39.200 --> 00:01:43.120
any in all updates, including live event schedules, by following
28
00:01:43.200 --> 00:01:47.799
the social media pages that's at Sustal Podcast across every
29
00:01:47.799 --> 00:01:51.400
social media platform. I'm putting together a little graphic of
30
00:01:51.879 --> 00:01:54.200
upcoming events so that you can see them all in
31
00:01:54.200 --> 00:01:56.480
one spot versus they're kind of scattered, and if anything
32
00:01:56.480 --> 00:01:58.920
gets updated, I will update it and repost it. So again,
33
00:01:59.079 --> 00:02:01.799
follow social media for all of that good stuff that
34
00:02:01.879 --> 00:02:04.159
seems to be it. I will just reiterate follow the
35
00:02:04.159 --> 00:02:06.920
social media pages. Spooky Season is here, so I am
36
00:02:07.159 --> 00:02:10.719
currently organizing giveaways that will be coming up, and again
37
00:02:10.759 --> 00:02:13.479
those will be on social media, so just keep your
38
00:02:13.479 --> 00:02:15.879
eyes on that if you want to win some free goodies.
39
00:02:16.039 --> 00:02:18.520
I have some ideas for this year, so we'll just
40
00:02:18.560 --> 00:02:21.560
we'll see what happens, you know, and as always, stay tuned.
41
00:02:21.879 --> 00:02:24.439
If you would like to share a scary story to
42
00:02:24.479 --> 00:02:28.360
be featured on a Letters from the Beyond episode, you
43
00:02:28.360 --> 00:02:30.840
can do so by sending me an email to susta
44
00:02:30.879 --> 00:02:33.280
podcast at gmail dot com, a DM on any social
45
00:02:33.319 --> 00:02:37.560
media platform, by leading a five star review on Apple podcasts,
46
00:02:37.599 --> 00:02:40.280
by leaving a comment on Spotify, by visiting my website
47
00:02:40.319 --> 00:02:43.639
sustalpodcast dot com and hitting the contact button, or you
48
00:02:43.680 --> 00:02:45.960
can leave a voice message by hitting that little thing
49
00:02:46.080 --> 00:02:48.000
on the right side of the page. And if you
50
00:02:48.120 --> 00:02:50.319
drop a two dollars bill in a well and you
51
00:02:50.400 --> 00:02:52.840
yell my name five times, I will appear and you
52
00:02:52.840 --> 00:02:54.479
can just tell me your story. Also, it doesn't have
53
00:02:54.520 --> 00:02:57.039
to be a story. You can send in a photo, video,
54
00:02:57.159 --> 00:02:59.680
audio recording. Anything you think that I should share, either
55
00:02:59.759 --> 00:03:02.800
on the show or on social media, send it into me.
56
00:03:03.199 --> 00:03:06.439
All of those ways, you have every opportunity. With all
57
00:03:06.479 --> 00:03:08.919
of that said and done, let's go ahead and get
58
00:03:08.960 --> 00:03:35.599
into today's story, which is the legend of the Sisi Mete.
59
00:03:36.599 --> 00:03:40.280
Things had been very different since Valentina returned from the forest.
60
00:03:40.919 --> 00:03:43.680
It had been only a few weeks since she returned
61
00:03:43.840 --> 00:03:47.639
running into the streets of San Ignacio screaming about a giant,
62
00:03:47.840 --> 00:03:51.520
hairy monster with backwards feet. She had gone missing years ago.
63
00:03:51.879 --> 00:03:54.400
Her family gave up on searching for her because the
64
00:03:54.479 --> 00:03:57.280
Hunduran mountains can be a dangerous place for those who
65
00:03:57.360 --> 00:04:00.879
take a wrong turn or get injured. When she finally
66
00:04:00.919 --> 00:04:04.719
did return, everyone was shocked. First they thought they saw
67
00:04:04.759 --> 00:04:09.039
a ghost, Then, after hearing her frantic ramblings, they believed
68
00:04:09.120 --> 00:04:14.120
Valentina lost her mind after spending so long lost and alone.
69
00:04:14.680 --> 00:04:17.560
Although she was back home, she spent her days wandering
70
00:04:17.600 --> 00:04:23.160
the streets muttering about this monster, about mutant children. Everyone
71
00:04:23.199 --> 00:04:26.000
would gather and try to piece together the bits and
72
00:04:26.120 --> 00:04:29.759
pieces they could understand. Soon the story was that she
73
00:04:29.839 --> 00:04:33.040
was abducted by an ape like creature. They called it
74
00:04:33.279 --> 00:04:37.519
the Sisimete. She was forced to carry the Cisimetha's children,
75
00:04:37.920 --> 00:04:41.160
two of them, and when she finally did escape, he
76
00:04:41.319 --> 00:04:46.519
tossed their unnatural offspring into a river. Again, her neighbors
77
00:04:46.519 --> 00:04:50.600
took pity on Valentina and simply tried to keep her calm.
78
00:04:51.319 --> 00:04:55.399
Then the baby started disappearing. The first one, a six
79
00:04:55.480 --> 00:05:00.079
month old from the Mehia family, vanished overnight. The community
80
00:05:00.120 --> 00:05:03.120
did what they could to be more vigilant. All doors
81
00:05:03.120 --> 00:05:07.399
were locked and windows remained shut. But it happened again,
82
00:05:08.120 --> 00:05:11.120
this time to the Bignellas. Their eight month old was
83
00:05:11.160 --> 00:05:13.600
outside in the middle of the day with a group
84
00:05:13.680 --> 00:05:17.160
of children being watched by the eldest cousin. The kids
85
00:05:17.160 --> 00:05:19.560
were caught up in their games and baby Binneeda had
86
00:05:19.639 --> 00:05:22.399
just figured out how to crawl. Before they knew it,
87
00:05:22.680 --> 00:05:26.199
the baby was gone. At this point, the town was
88
00:05:26.199 --> 00:05:29.399
in a full on panic. The children were no longer
89
00:05:29.480 --> 00:05:33.079
to play outside, at least until everyone figured out who
90
00:05:33.319 --> 00:05:37.439
or what was taking their kids. But it still wasn't enough.
91
00:05:38.000 --> 00:05:42.680
Senora Zuniga ran into the streets screaming for help. Her baby,
92
00:05:42.920 --> 00:05:46.120
a newborn, was sleeping in a hammock in the hallway
93
00:05:46.160 --> 00:05:48.720
of the house while she cooked. When she walked by
94
00:05:48.839 --> 00:05:52.680
to check on him, the hammock was empty. No longer
95
00:05:52.800 --> 00:05:55.800
safe in their own homes, the people of San Ignacio
96
00:05:56.000 --> 00:05:59.319
knew they had to take action, but they were distraught
97
00:05:59.360 --> 00:06:04.279
and unable to think clearly. So the abductions continued until
98
00:06:04.319 --> 00:06:08.360
almost all the babies of San Ignacio were gone. This
99
00:06:08.519 --> 00:06:12.759
already small community was shrinking, one child at a time.
100
00:06:13.680 --> 00:06:17.480
Valentina silently watched the town become engulfed in a sense
101
00:06:17.560 --> 00:06:21.319
of dismay and trepidation. She knew who was responsible for
102
00:06:21.360 --> 00:06:24.079
the abductions, and she knew how to get his attention.
103
00:06:24.839 --> 00:06:28.199
Valentina took some of her clothes, a needle and thread,
104
00:06:28.439 --> 00:06:30.879
and made a doll. She made it the size of
105
00:06:30.920 --> 00:06:34.560
an infant, filled it with sand, and punctured a small
106
00:06:34.600 --> 00:06:38.199
hole in one of the doll's feet. She unlocked the doors,
107
00:06:38.600 --> 00:06:41.399
cracked open the windows, and spent the night at a
108
00:06:41.439 --> 00:06:46.120
relative's house. The next morning, Valentina returned home to find
109
00:06:46.199 --> 00:06:49.879
the doll missing. She grinned for the first time in
110
00:06:50.000 --> 00:06:53.040
years and ran out to gather whoever she could get
111
00:06:53.160 --> 00:06:57.519
to follow her back. At first, they were confused, convinced
112
00:06:57.639 --> 00:07:00.000
this was more of her typical ranting, until she met
113
00:07:00.439 --> 00:07:05.480
the sand. Look, it's a trail, it's hymn. The townspeople's
114
00:07:05.519 --> 00:07:10.199
eyes widened as they finally understood Valentina had set a trap,
115
00:07:10.720 --> 00:07:15.120
and it worked. A group of townspeople, including Valentina, ventured
116
00:07:15.199 --> 00:07:19.439
into the forest following the trail of sand. They came
117
00:07:19.560 --> 00:07:22.600
upon a clearing. When she halted them, she put a
118
00:07:22.600 --> 00:07:26.199
finger to her mouth, signaling them to remain quiet, and
119
00:07:26.279 --> 00:07:30.560
pointed to a cave. Although it felt like hours, it
120
00:07:30.680 --> 00:07:35.040
wasn't long before clattering and grunting reverberated from the cave's mouth.
121
00:07:35.680 --> 00:07:38.680
The group was at full attention. The hair on the
122
00:07:38.720 --> 00:07:42.480
back of their necks stood and chills covered their bodies
123
00:07:42.680 --> 00:07:47.399
as he came into view. The sisimthe exactly as Valentina
124
00:07:47.480 --> 00:07:51.600
had described him all those months ago, Towering over six
125
00:07:51.639 --> 00:07:56.519
feet tall, thin covered in long, dark fur, and backwards
126
00:07:56.560 --> 00:08:00.600
facing feet. The group devised a plant to kill the Sissima.
127
00:08:01.079 --> 00:08:03.160
They were going to start a fire at the cave's
128
00:08:03.279 --> 00:08:07.120
entrance and burn him alive. As the noise from the
129
00:08:07.160 --> 00:08:11.839
cave retreated deeper, they inched closer and closer, staying as
130
00:08:11.839 --> 00:08:17.000
silent as possible. Finally, at the opening of the Sisimetha's layer,
131
00:08:17.480 --> 00:08:21.600
they started a blaze and moved back. Very soon after,
132
00:08:21.839 --> 00:08:25.519
they could hear the agitated grunts and howls of the Sisimita.
133
00:08:26.160 --> 00:08:29.720
Their plan was working. While they cheered and held each other,
134
00:08:30.040 --> 00:08:32.960
but Indiina kept her eyes on the cave. She could
135
00:08:32.960 --> 00:08:36.480
feel that something was wrong. She saw a plume of
136
00:08:36.559 --> 00:08:39.720
smoke rise into the air. A couple yards north of
137
00:08:39.759 --> 00:08:43.879
where they celebrated. The cave had a second opening. She
138
00:08:44.000 --> 00:08:48.240
screamed and pointed. Horror melted the smiles off of their
139
00:08:48.240 --> 00:08:51.279
faces as the Sisimita rose from the other side of
140
00:08:51.320 --> 00:08:55.120
the cave, and ran into the forest. In a sense,
141
00:08:55.519 --> 00:08:59.440
their plan did work. San Ignacio saw no more abductions
142
00:08:59.639 --> 00:09:04.399
and the community finally new piece again. Townspeople regularly visit
143
00:09:04.519 --> 00:09:07.080
the cave and set a fire at its mouth as
144
00:09:07.120 --> 00:09:10.919
a warning to the cci Meta, and for now he
145
00:09:11.080 --> 00:09:28.919
keeps his distance. Welcome back, gl friends, once again, this
146
00:09:29.159 --> 00:09:33.399
was a Susto original. Applause, applause, Nobel Prizes, thank you.
147
00:09:33.480 --> 00:09:36.120
I'm kidding, but Suso original. I wrote this story with
148
00:09:36.440 --> 00:09:40.120
the help of Jeffrey. Thank you so much. We love you, Jeffrey,
149
00:09:40.240 --> 00:09:42.559
and I'm gonna go ahead and read through the notes
150
00:09:42.559 --> 00:09:45.480
that jeff has here before we go through all the
151
00:09:45.519 --> 00:09:47.600
links that both of us put together. You can find
152
00:09:47.679 --> 00:09:50.279
the direct links to these Google docs on Patreon dot
153
00:09:50.320 --> 00:09:52.639
com slash Sustra podcast. So let's go ahead and go
154
00:09:52.720 --> 00:09:54.720
through it. So we know that the cci meta is
155
00:09:54.759 --> 00:09:58.360
from Hodudas and actually the cave that is mentioned in
156
00:09:58.399 --> 00:10:01.559
the story, it is a real cave. It's the Ccimeta's
157
00:10:01.600 --> 00:10:04.279
cave or La cueva del Scimeta, I think is what
158
00:10:04.320 --> 00:10:06.559
they called it, and the notes heresay. The ccimeta is
159
00:10:06.600 --> 00:10:10.200
a tall ape slash human type creature. It is covered
160
00:10:10.240 --> 00:10:13.679
in long hair, it's feeder on backwards, which if you
161
00:10:13.759 --> 00:10:15.519
all have been listening for a while or if you
162
00:10:15.600 --> 00:10:18.440
remember a long time ago in I have it right here.
163
00:10:18.480 --> 00:10:22.039
In January of twenty twenty one, I did an episode
164
00:10:22.080 --> 00:10:26.320
on Lasiwappa, who is one of Susto's cryptid fems, and
165
00:10:26.399 --> 00:10:29.080
she also has backwards facing feet. I think the story
166
00:10:29.080 --> 00:10:31.679
with her is that if you hear her footsteps again
167
00:10:31.840 --> 00:10:35.759
all of these kinds of noises el Si Lechusa's there
168
00:10:35.799 --> 00:10:38.519
have been several featured on Susto that when you hear
169
00:10:38.919 --> 00:10:43.799
their noise, whatever it is, whether it's footsteps, whistling, crying, hooting, whatever,
170
00:10:43.919 --> 00:10:46.879
if you hear them further away, that means they're closer,
171
00:10:46.919 --> 00:10:48.639
And if you hear them closer, that means that they're
172
00:10:48.639 --> 00:10:51.080
further away. And so I think that also applied to
173
00:10:51.159 --> 00:10:54.559
La Siwappa. So just a cool connection right there. I
174
00:10:54.559 --> 00:10:56.919
think that might be something that deserves its own episode
175
00:10:56.919 --> 00:10:59.360
after how many times we've seen it on here. So
176
00:10:59.639 --> 00:11:01.320
let me know that's something y'all are interested in and
177
00:11:01.360 --> 00:11:03.720
I can try and put it together. This continues. It
178
00:11:03.879 --> 00:11:06.279
likes to kidnap, it being the cisimeat that likes to
179
00:11:06.320 --> 00:11:09.600
kidnap women and babies. In some legends, it will force
180
00:11:09.639 --> 00:11:12.480
the women to carry its children. This has some crossovers
181
00:11:12.480 --> 00:11:14.960
with of course lod or not because the women will flee,
182
00:11:15.200 --> 00:11:18.440
but instead of taking her children like Lyodorna did, the
183
00:11:18.440 --> 00:11:21.360
cisi meat that will drown the children to spite her
184
00:11:21.480 --> 00:11:24.279
for not taking them. So talk about a dead bee, dad, right.
185
00:11:24.440 --> 00:11:26.000
But also it's going to come up again in a
186
00:11:26.000 --> 00:11:27.879
bit and then we'll that'll kind of explain a little
187
00:11:27.879 --> 00:11:30.559
bit more. I guess the motive behind that, if there's any.
188
00:11:30.720 --> 00:11:33.679
The notes continue. In other variations, there are both male
189
00:11:33.759 --> 00:11:37.279
and female cisimeta who will kidnap babies cisi meat that
190
00:11:37.320 --> 00:11:41.559
are also associated with rain, slash thunder deities such as Chok,
191
00:11:41.720 --> 00:11:44.600
the Mayan god of rain, thunder, and lightning, sent to
192
00:11:44.639 --> 00:11:48.919
protect nature from over harvesting, also associated with Sutaka, a
193
00:11:49.000 --> 00:11:52.000
Mayan group of deities who have both rain and earth features.
194
00:11:52.159 --> 00:11:56.000
The Sutaka protect farmers and agricultural workers from wild animals,
195
00:11:56.039 --> 00:11:58.279
so they are reported to have pushed the ccimeat that
196
00:11:58.360 --> 00:12:01.519
to only exist in dense forests so that harmless humans
197
00:12:01.519 --> 00:12:03.960
are not damaged. It seems like the cci meta is
198
00:12:04.000 --> 00:12:07.159
meant to represent a balance with nature, whereas it only
199
00:12:07.200 --> 00:12:10.000
goes after people and their kind if the people start
200
00:12:10.080 --> 00:12:13.039
to encroach on the boundaries of nature. So kind of
201
00:12:13.080 --> 00:12:14.879
like an interesting take there, I do want to read
202
00:12:14.919 --> 00:12:19.559
about this. The Mayan deity chalk at Chaac. This says
203
00:12:19.600 --> 00:12:22.480
that Chalk is the name of the Maya god of rain, thunder,
204
00:12:22.519 --> 00:12:25.960
and lightning. With his lightning acts, Chock strikes the clouds,
205
00:12:26.039 --> 00:12:29.480
causing them to produce thunder and rain. Chok corresponds to
206
00:12:29.639 --> 00:12:32.639
Laroque among the Aztecs. And this is a Wikipedia entry.
207
00:12:32.679 --> 00:12:34.480
I'm not sure if I mentioned that. In the mythology
208
00:12:34.519 --> 00:12:36.720
section of this, it says the rain deity is a
209
00:12:36.759 --> 00:12:39.799
patron of agriculture. A well known myth in which the
210
00:12:39.919 --> 00:12:43.440
Chalks or related rain lightning deities have an important role
211
00:12:43.480 --> 00:12:45.799
to play, is about the opening of the mountain in
212
00:12:45.840 --> 00:12:49.919
which the Mayis was hidden. In Sotzil mythology, the rain
213
00:12:50.000 --> 00:12:54.440
deity also figures as the father of newbile women representing
214
00:12:54.600 --> 00:12:58.919
mayis and vegetables. In some versions of the Gekchi myth
215
00:12:59.000 --> 00:13:02.360
of Sun and Moon, the rain deity Chok or Cloud
216
00:13:02.519 --> 00:13:05.679
is the brother of Sun. Together they may defeat their
217
00:13:05.720 --> 00:13:09.919
aged adoptive mother and her lover. Later, Chok commits adultery
218
00:13:09.960 --> 00:13:13.360
with his brother's wife and is dually punished. His tears
219
00:13:13.399 --> 00:13:16.440
of agony give origin to the Rain. Versions of this
220
00:13:16.519 --> 00:13:19.960
myth show the rain deity Chok in his warlike fury,
221
00:13:20.120 --> 00:13:23.159
pursuing the fleeing Sun and Moon and attacking them with
222
00:13:23.240 --> 00:13:26.159
his lightning bolts. In some mythologies, it is believed that
223
00:13:26.240 --> 00:13:29.279
water and clouds are formed within the earth in caves
224
00:13:29.320 --> 00:13:32.679
and sonotas and then carried into the sky by deities
225
00:13:32.720 --> 00:13:35.440
such as Chok. So maybe that's the connection between a
226
00:13:35.519 --> 00:13:38.279
Cisi Mita and Chok is that In some mythologies, like
227
00:13:38.279 --> 00:13:40.559
it says here, it's believed that water and clouds are
228
00:13:40.600 --> 00:13:44.480
formed within the earth in caves, So maybe that's the
229
00:13:44.480 --> 00:13:49.120
correlation between Cisimta and this deity. Classic period Maya's sources
230
00:13:49.159 --> 00:13:51.440
also suggest that Chok was the god who opened the
231
00:13:51.440 --> 00:13:55.639
mountain containing Mayis using his lightning acts. So also from
232
00:13:55.759 --> 00:13:59.879
Wikipedia is an entry and this says Cisimethal with an
233
00:13:59.879 --> 00:14:01.799
O instead of an E at the end, but it
234
00:14:01.840 --> 00:14:04.919
says in Belizean, so there's a connection to belize here
235
00:14:05.000 --> 00:14:11.200
and Honduran folklore. The Cisimito again alternatively called Cisimeta, Cimita, sukara,
236
00:14:11.240 --> 00:14:15.559
and itta Gayo, is a bipedal upright guerrilla like creature
237
00:14:15.600 --> 00:14:18.080
that possesses a head much like a human, with long
238
00:14:18.120 --> 00:14:21.360
hair or fur covering its body. It is also referred
239
00:14:21.399 --> 00:14:24.840
to as the Mexican Bigfoot, though it is also known
240
00:14:24.879 --> 00:14:28.720
in the neighboring countries of Guatemala and Nicaragua. I have
241
00:14:29.159 --> 00:14:34.960
had several people ask me about covering bigfoot sightings from Mexico,
242
00:14:35.120 --> 00:14:37.240
so maybe this will kind of lead us into that,
243
00:14:37.480 --> 00:14:39.799
and I'm sure it'll probably be a lot about the Cisimtha,
244
00:14:39.879 --> 00:14:41.960
but there's got to be a lot of I guess,
245
00:14:42.000 --> 00:14:45.759
local legend around that. This description says the Cisimtha is
246
00:14:45.799 --> 00:14:49.240
believed to resemble a humanoid creature with black or dark
247
00:14:49.279 --> 00:14:52.639
brown fur, described as larger than an average person. It
248
00:14:52.679 --> 00:14:55.279
is said to have four fingers on each hand and
249
00:14:55.440 --> 00:14:59.279
no thumbs, eight like facial features, and backward facing feet
250
00:14:59.399 --> 00:15:02.320
with no damn. That's gotta be a stiff walk if
251
00:15:02.320 --> 00:15:05.279
he doesn't have knees. Its name differs between ethnic groups.
252
00:15:05.279 --> 00:15:09.039
For example, the Gattifuna call it SiZ Midu. The name
253
00:15:09.159 --> 00:15:11.639
has no true English translation, and it is believed to
254
00:15:11.679 --> 00:15:15.559
have come from the Nahuatl word mek in Honduras. According
255
00:15:15.600 --> 00:15:18.240
to the legends, it is believed that the Sisimta targets
256
00:15:18.240 --> 00:15:20.679
and kidnaps human women. It is believed that when a
257
00:15:20.720 --> 00:15:23.639
woman falls in love with the Sisimta, the Sisimta will
258
00:15:23.639 --> 00:15:26.120
claim her as his own and she will never be
259
00:15:26.159 --> 00:15:29.759
seen again. The Hunduran explorer and historian Hissus aguilada Bas,
260
00:15:29.840 --> 00:15:32.960
which I think Hissus Agladabas is like a really famous
261
00:15:32.960 --> 00:15:36.840
folklorist in or from Honduras, said that the Sisimta lives
262
00:15:36.840 --> 00:15:39.960
in the highest part of the Hunduran mountains, more specifically
263
00:15:40.000 --> 00:15:44.120
in the inaccessible caverns found there. Aguilad also explains that
264
00:15:44.120 --> 00:15:46.679
the sisi meat that feeds on the wild berries from
265
00:15:46.720 --> 00:15:49.360
the mountain, and that it is not a carnivorous being
266
00:15:49.480 --> 00:15:52.519
or hunter. However, it usually goes down to the village
267
00:15:52.519 --> 00:15:55.639
to kidnap women to take them to his cave. The
268
00:15:55.799 --> 00:15:58.480
union of Asisi Meta and a human is believed to
269
00:15:58.559 --> 00:16:02.480
produce ape men and then so tying it into Belize.
270
00:16:02.559 --> 00:16:05.080
As I mentioned earlier, it says in Belizean legend, the
271
00:16:05.080 --> 00:16:08.039
ceci Meta is said to also feast on humans so
272
00:16:08.240 --> 00:16:11.960
not just wild berries, but people. Furthermore, in Belizian societies,
273
00:16:11.960 --> 00:16:14.120
the belief is quote, if you are a man and
274
00:16:14.200 --> 00:16:16.240
you look at him in the eyes and escape, you
275
00:16:16.320 --> 00:16:18.519
will die within a month. If you are a woman
276
00:16:18.600 --> 00:16:20.600
and you look at him in the eyes and escape,
277
00:16:20.639 --> 00:16:24.120
your life will be prolonged. What's his beef is He's
278
00:16:24.240 --> 00:16:26.399
just like a supernatural alphamel and he's just going to
279
00:16:26.480 --> 00:16:29.480
kill other men. This continues. Tales of the Cecimeta were
280
00:16:29.480 --> 00:16:32.600
told in the camps by the Mahogany cutters of early
281
00:16:32.679 --> 00:16:35.799
days and are still passed along in villages like Ranchito
282
00:16:35.879 --> 00:16:38.360
and Hill Bank. The cci Meta is said to live
283
00:16:38.399 --> 00:16:41.399
in high forest areas and lives in caves and on
284
00:16:41.559 --> 00:16:45.480
rocky land in the Toledo District. Forest areas have decreased
285
00:16:45.480 --> 00:16:48.759
over the years because of agricultural development, and the Getchee
286
00:16:48.799 --> 00:16:52.840
believe that Toutraka, the thunder deities who protects them from
287
00:16:52.840 --> 00:16:56.279
the wild animals, has pulled the Cecimeata back into the
288
00:16:56.320 --> 00:17:00.639
few densely jungled areas remaining, so he is rarely seen today. Again,
289
00:17:00.679 --> 00:17:04.039
we have this idea of this forest dwelling creature that
290
00:17:04.119 --> 00:17:08.000
protects the nature. But this guy is kind of also
291
00:17:08.119 --> 00:17:13.000
insidious because he kidnaps women and babies, and depending on
292
00:17:13.000 --> 00:17:15.079
where you're from, you will die if you're a man
293
00:17:15.119 --> 00:17:17.720
and you look at him. The Cecimeata diet is believed
294
00:17:17.759 --> 00:17:20.240
to consist of raw meat and fruits. Again, this isn't
295
00:17:20.279 --> 00:17:23.039
belieze in under us. He's more of a what is
296
00:17:23.039 --> 00:17:25.799
it omnivore herbivore. There you go, And when feasting on
297
00:17:25.880 --> 00:17:28.839
human beings, he will tear the body into several pieces
298
00:17:28.839 --> 00:17:32.759
before devouring it. Though fierce and malevolent towards humans, he
299
00:17:32.839 --> 00:17:35.920
is afraid of water and dogs and will avoid them
300
00:17:35.960 --> 00:17:39.400
at all costs. See now this is an opposition of
301
00:17:39.640 --> 00:17:43.319
the Hunduran belief or the I guess the tie to
302
00:17:43.359 --> 00:17:46.240
the mind deities is that why would this rain this
303
00:17:46.319 --> 00:17:49.799
creature associated with like rain deities be afraid of water?
304
00:17:50.200 --> 00:17:52.680
I'm not sure? And also dogs, So good to know
305
00:17:53.000 --> 00:17:56.079
it says. The Cecimeta is believed to often assume human
306
00:17:56.200 --> 00:17:59.119
form in order to lure people out of villages with
307
00:17:59.160 --> 00:18:01.839
the purpose of killing them. Because of this, he is
308
00:18:01.880 --> 00:18:06.519
sometimes confused with Stabe or Layona. On Sundays and religious
309
00:18:06.519 --> 00:18:09.599
holidays such as Good Friday, Girhojans the devil happen on
310
00:18:09.599 --> 00:18:12.240
a good Friday, they say. The Cisimeta is believed to
311
00:18:12.319 --> 00:18:15.599
prey on hunters and other people who straight into the bushes.
312
00:18:15.880 --> 00:18:19.400
He follows human footprints, with its main purpose being either
313
00:18:19.480 --> 00:18:22.920
to kill its victims or to rip off their thumbs. Oh.
314
00:18:23.079 --> 00:18:26.119
The Cisimeta is also believed to attack men who are
315
00:18:26.240 --> 00:18:30.880
killing animals needlessly or destroying the forest. See that we love.
316
00:18:31.359 --> 00:18:34.319
That is king behavior. Keep it up, Cecimeta if that's
317
00:18:34.319 --> 00:18:37.240
what you're doing. The next piece of notes that Jeff
318
00:18:37.279 --> 00:18:40.400
has here is what I actually kind of based my
319
00:18:40.519 --> 00:18:44.880
own story of This is from X like the the
320
00:18:45.000 --> 00:18:49.599
letter x ploor Onduras dot com. This entry is called
321
00:18:49.680 --> 00:18:52.960
lequeva cimite and this says the Cisimeta cave is a
322
00:18:53.079 --> 00:18:56.759
peculiar cave located in the community of San Ignacio, which
323
00:18:56.799 --> 00:19:00.400
is a municipality of Gamasca, a department of in Theia Buca.
324
00:19:00.680 --> 00:19:03.359
And again this is in Honduras. According to stories from
325
00:19:03.400 --> 00:19:06.839
the community's ancient inhabitants, the cave was inhabited by a
326
00:19:06.880 --> 00:19:10.319
man or a kind of giant who ate children. This
327
00:19:10.519 --> 00:19:14.559
terrifying being that inhabited was associated with the Ccimeta which
328
00:19:14.640 --> 00:19:17.480
is why they called it the cave of Ccimete. So
329
00:19:17.599 --> 00:19:20.440
this says this being, and again this was It looks
330
00:19:20.480 --> 00:19:23.000
like this was translated from Spanish to English. In English,
331
00:19:23.000 --> 00:19:25.839
it says that this being was associated with the Cisimeta.
332
00:19:25.920 --> 00:19:29.279
It could also be that it is the Cisimeta. This continues,
333
00:19:29.400 --> 00:19:32.400
in fact, the Cisimeta cave does exist, and that there's
334
00:19:32.400 --> 00:19:34.400
a picture here that, of course I will be posting.
335
00:19:34.720 --> 00:19:36.799
And so the legend here says what is said to
336
00:19:36.880 --> 00:19:39.960
have happened in the community of Kamasca left its history
337
00:19:40.039 --> 00:19:43.799
marked forever. It was a quiet and sparsely populated community,
338
00:19:44.039 --> 00:19:47.200
so everyone quickly realized what was happening. One day, a
339
00:19:47.279 --> 00:19:50.400
mother became desperate when she noticed that her baby had disappeared,
340
00:19:50.559 --> 00:19:52.720
and no matter how hard they looked for him, the
341
00:19:52.720 --> 00:19:55.720
baby never appeared, which caused the entire town to panic.
342
00:19:55.960 --> 00:19:58.279
As the days went by, another baby, who was sleeping
343
00:19:58.319 --> 00:20:00.759
peacefully in a hammock in the hallway of his house,
344
00:20:00.880 --> 00:20:03.920
also disappeared while his mother was in the kitchen making lunch.
345
00:20:04.200 --> 00:20:06.920
That was in my story. This continues. While some mothers
346
00:20:06.920 --> 00:20:09.079
continue to search for their babies, it was the turn
347
00:20:09.200 --> 00:20:12.440
of the others. The tragedy was repeated until almost all
348
00:20:12.440 --> 00:20:15.920
babies in the town had disappeared. This abominable event had
349
00:20:15.920 --> 00:20:18.920
the town's inhabitants baffled since no one had any idea
350
00:20:18.920 --> 00:20:21.920
what was happening with the sudden disappearance of the babies.
351
00:20:22.319 --> 00:20:24.720
So this continues. There's this plotline that I also included
352
00:20:24.759 --> 00:20:27.519
in my story of the trap that was set, and
353
00:20:27.559 --> 00:20:29.559
here it says it was a desperate mother who lost
354
00:20:29.559 --> 00:20:32.720
her baby set this trap. She made the figure of
355
00:20:32.759 --> 00:20:35.519
a baby, filled it with ashes. In this story, she
356
00:20:35.640 --> 00:20:38.799
kind of left it out like unattended for the cecmedia
357
00:20:38.839 --> 00:20:41.680
to come and snag it. So her and other villagers
358
00:20:41.799 --> 00:20:45.359
followed the trail of ashes. It took them to a
359
00:20:45.400 --> 00:20:48.680
mysterious cave located at the highest point of the village.
360
00:20:48.680 --> 00:20:51.240
It says here it describes them waiting and they see
361
00:20:51.319 --> 00:20:55.240
the ceci meet the tall, thin creature with backwards facing feet.
362
00:20:55.559 --> 00:20:57.920
When they saw it, they were terrified, and then they
363
00:20:58.039 --> 00:21:00.599
devised the plant to set fire to the cave so
364
00:21:00.640 --> 00:21:03.359
that the creature would burn to death inside. And then
365
00:21:03.400 --> 00:21:05.799
here again it says, however, when the cisi meta felt
366
00:21:05.880 --> 00:21:07.759
the fire, it came out from the top of the
367
00:21:07.799 --> 00:21:10.559
cave After this, peace returned to the community, but no
368
00:21:10.599 --> 00:21:13.000
one was able to forget what happened. Since the babies
369
00:21:13.039 --> 00:21:16.200
never reappeared. The case still exists, but they never heard
370
00:21:16.240 --> 00:21:19.799
from the strange, creepy creature again. Again, that story is
371
00:21:19.839 --> 00:21:22.839
what I based mine on. So more from the notes here.
372
00:21:23.119 --> 00:21:27.480
This is from oocities dot org and this is just
373
00:21:27.519 --> 00:21:31.599
titled the Mysteries of on Buddhas by Bablo Vier Rubia Mausol.
374
00:21:31.920 --> 00:21:34.880
The notes that we have here says they're just excerpts
375
00:21:34.920 --> 00:21:37.759
from this source because it's a it's a pretty robust page,
376
00:21:37.759 --> 00:21:39.799
a lot of text. But the notes that Jeff pulled
377
00:21:39.799 --> 00:21:42.359
from that say, my grandfather told me that he ran
378
00:21:42.519 --> 00:21:46.839
into the Cisimta around nineteen twelve up there on Pico Bonito.
379
00:21:47.200 --> 00:21:49.759
It walked like a man, had a very hairy body
380
00:21:49.799 --> 00:21:53.079
and was very tall, said Don Manuel Mechilla. Oh, I
381
00:21:53.079 --> 00:21:55.599
didn't even notice that I used that name. I just
382
00:21:55.680 --> 00:22:00.720
kind of chose it randomly. And huh interesting, interesting, spooky,
383
00:22:01.279 --> 00:22:05.559
said by Don Manuel Mechilla, an octogenarian living in the
384
00:22:05.640 --> 00:22:09.880
village of Laognon, scant kilometers from La Seva. Also, I
385
00:22:09.920 --> 00:22:12.279
had to look this up. An octogenarian is someone who
386
00:22:12.359 --> 00:22:16.240
is in their like eighties eighties Yeah octo eight. His
387
00:22:16.359 --> 00:22:20.640
shaky hand pointed toward the mountains robed in their thick foliage.
388
00:22:20.880 --> 00:22:23.920
But what was the sisimta really? Much like its colder
389
00:22:23.960 --> 00:22:27.000
relatives such as the Tibetaneti or the Sasquatch of the
390
00:22:27.119 --> 00:22:30.519
US and Canadian Pacific Coast, the sisimta is another such
391
00:22:30.559 --> 00:22:33.200
creature which can appear out of nowhere and vanish in
392
00:22:33.240 --> 00:22:36.759
the same way. According to jus Agular Baz, one of
393
00:22:36.799 --> 00:22:41.119
Honduras's most renowned folklorists, Again, what's that name? The sisimita
394
00:22:41.319 --> 00:22:45.079
or Itakayo wanders the high mountain ranges and lives in
395
00:22:45.160 --> 00:22:48.200
dank caverns, feeding on wild fruit. In the same way
396
00:22:48.240 --> 00:22:51.359
as its Mexican cousin El Perludo or the Hairy One
397
00:22:51.440 --> 00:22:56.000
and Argentina's Ukumari quote. These monsters would kidnap women and
398
00:22:56.079 --> 00:22:58.519
take them to their layers. It is said that man
399
00:22:58.519 --> 00:23:01.559
apes were born of these made added the old man.
400
00:23:01.680 --> 00:23:04.079
The story of a woman who managed to escape from
401
00:23:04.119 --> 00:23:08.079
one such sisimita abode is still discussed among the mountain villagers.
402
00:23:08.359 --> 00:23:11.920
The creature pursued her, carrying with it the three offspring
403
00:23:11.960 --> 00:23:14.839
they had had together and showing them to the mother,
404
00:23:15.000 --> 00:23:17.240
who had fled to the other side of a river,
405
00:23:17.480 --> 00:23:20.359
in hopes of attracting her to her children. Its efforts
406
00:23:20.400 --> 00:23:23.759
were in vain, and the trogledite mortally threw the inhuman
407
00:23:23.799 --> 00:23:26.519
infants into the water. Again. This kind of inspired that
408
00:23:26.519 --> 00:23:29.119
part of my story. Other cisimitas have appeared in the
409
00:23:29.160 --> 00:23:33.519
Gamasca caverns. Italian friar Frederico Lunardi, one of the most
410
00:23:33.519 --> 00:23:37.400
influential scholars of Honduran culture, associated the creatures with the
411
00:23:37.480 --> 00:23:40.559
Mayan god Chok quote he who holds up the heavens,
412
00:23:40.599 --> 00:23:43.799
the god of water. According to Lunadi, within the caves,
413
00:23:43.839 --> 00:23:46.559
there was a wall depicting a hand with all its
414
00:23:46.559 --> 00:23:50.240
fingers and a number of scratches allegedly made by the cisimitas,
415
00:23:50.279 --> 00:23:52.599
who would go there at midnight to scratch the walls
416
00:23:52.599 --> 00:23:55.119
with their claws. I want to know if that mural
417
00:23:55.240 --> 00:23:57.359
is really in there. I don't know. That connection to
418
00:23:57.440 --> 00:24:00.119
me just seems kind of wonky. I guess as the
419
00:24:00.160 --> 00:24:02.960
word I'll use, I'm not entirely convinced by it, but
420
00:24:03.359 --> 00:24:05.240
maybe it's not for me to be convinced right. This
421
00:24:05.279 --> 00:24:08.519
continues the following day, and at my insistence, we headed
422
00:24:08.559 --> 00:24:11.880
for Punta Bethulia. Driving on the dirt and sand road,
423
00:24:12.119 --> 00:24:14.839
Houstino talked about my old friend, the ccimeta in those
424
00:24:14.920 --> 00:24:18.440
lands and other parts of Central America. Quote. Around nineteen
425
00:24:18.480 --> 00:24:21.000
forty six, a chain gang cutting wood in the mountainous
426
00:24:21.039 --> 00:24:25.319
area of Gopiedol caught two cisimetas, male and female. How
427
00:24:25.359 --> 00:24:27.240
also do they? I just like, I wonder about the
428
00:24:27.279 --> 00:24:29.799
physiology of these creatures. If there are these like ape
429
00:24:30.000 --> 00:24:32.680
like creatures, did one of them have a bow and lashes?
430
00:24:33.119 --> 00:24:35.160
You know when cartoons do that, when it's like, let's
431
00:24:35.200 --> 00:24:38.279
say emojis or something, those generic emojis, and one of
432
00:24:38.319 --> 00:24:40.319
them doesn't have anything on it, and the other one
433
00:24:40.319 --> 00:24:42.960
has like a bow and lashes, and people are like, oh,
434
00:24:43.079 --> 00:24:47.079
that's the girl. I don't know anyway, Sorry, this continues.
435
00:24:47.240 --> 00:24:49.759
They were hiding in a cave and were about four
436
00:24:49.799 --> 00:24:52.119
feet tall. See now this is different because they're four
437
00:24:52.160 --> 00:24:56.119
feet tall here, So wondering worthy ccimethas or were they
438
00:24:56.240 --> 00:25:00.000
just apes or chimps. What was strange is that they're okay.
439
00:25:00.119 --> 00:25:02.480
What was strange is that their legs were backward and
440
00:25:02.599 --> 00:25:05.880
their hair was very long. They only had four fingers
441
00:25:05.920 --> 00:25:08.359
and very short hands. Their legs were long and had
442
00:25:08.400 --> 00:25:11.119
hair reaching down to their knees. This says that employees
443
00:25:11.200 --> 00:25:14.359
of a banana company called Standard took them to Thruquillo.
444
00:25:14.759 --> 00:25:17.000
This says I never got to see them, but they
445
00:25:17.000 --> 00:25:19.519
were there for some ten to twelve days. The workers
446
00:25:19.559 --> 00:25:21.599
told me that the gringos wanted to take them to
447
00:25:21.680 --> 00:25:24.480
La Ceva and then to the United States. They would
448
00:25:24.480 --> 00:25:27.559
feed them meat, bananas and other things they wouldn't eat,
449
00:25:27.799 --> 00:25:30.359
and they died. This person asked, did you ever see
450
00:25:30.359 --> 00:25:33.440
a sisi mita and they responded no. But there are
451
00:25:33.480 --> 00:25:36.680
still some of these animals in the Truchuillo mountains because
452
00:25:36.720 --> 00:25:39.680
their screams can be heard. Since I've slept in these woods,
453
00:25:39.759 --> 00:25:43.759
I've heard them. We have virgin rainforests here between Galentura
454
00:25:43.839 --> 00:25:46.720
and Capiro, and it's possible that some of these creatures
455
00:25:46.720 --> 00:25:50.400
may still exist. Upon reaching Santa Fe, we met Ilario
456
00:25:50.480 --> 00:25:53.960
Amidres Galderon, aged forty three, who confmed the story of
457
00:25:53.960 --> 00:25:57.880
the Cisimita's capture. His version differed somewhat from that of
458
00:25:57.920 --> 00:26:01.839
Professor Galan, perhaps because his recall was faulty or he
459
00:26:01.920 --> 00:26:04.759
had heard it from third parties. It says, quote they
460
00:26:04.839 --> 00:26:07.720
caught them with a net. They would only eat river shrimp.
461
00:26:07.839 --> 00:26:10.319
I think a ship belonging to Standard Fruit took them
462
00:26:10.319 --> 00:26:13.200
to the US. Dccmethas were taller than a person he
463
00:26:13.279 --> 00:26:17.640
told us. So these are just really unreliable accounts. They
464
00:26:17.640 --> 00:26:20.279
don't line up at all. The ccmethas they looked different,
465
00:26:20.319 --> 00:26:23.400
they were captured different, they ate different things, and in
466
00:26:23.680 --> 00:26:26.720
one telling they survived, in the other they didn't. So
467
00:26:26.759 --> 00:26:29.119
who knows what the actual truth is there. This next
468
00:26:29.119 --> 00:26:32.400
one is an academic source that discusses giant humanoids in general.
469
00:26:32.599 --> 00:26:35.920
It looks like it's from something called Unknown Hominids and
470
00:26:35.960 --> 00:26:39.440
the New World Legends from Western Folklore Volume twenty three
471
00:26:39.759 --> 00:26:43.519
by A. Basal F. Curtly, and this says on the
472
00:26:43.599 --> 00:26:47.119
unexplored mountaintops is said to be found a tellus anthropoid ape,
473
00:26:47.200 --> 00:26:50.680
reminding of the gorilla, orangutang or chimpanzee of the Old World.
474
00:26:50.880 --> 00:26:53.559
It is of erect position, about five feet in height,
475
00:26:53.680 --> 00:26:56.920
covered with black hair, and has the feet turned backward.
476
00:26:57.160 --> 00:26:59.559
It is generally feared as it is supposed to carry
477
00:26:59.599 --> 00:27:02.599
off human beings of the opposite sex. This belief is
478
00:27:02.599 --> 00:27:06.000
also found among the other populations of the Mosquito coast,
479
00:27:06.240 --> 00:27:09.519
The Rama and the Creoles call this ape Yoho or Yojo,
480
00:27:09.839 --> 00:27:12.640
while the Baya and Ladinos apply to it the Spanish
481
00:27:12.680 --> 00:27:16.160
Mexican name Sisimeta or chichi Meta. Some Indians claim that
482
00:27:16.200 --> 00:27:18.880
this mysterious being has been seen several times during the
483
00:27:18.920 --> 00:27:24.039
last twenty years around the Guarunta Mountains, which extend northward
484
00:27:24.240 --> 00:27:27.240
of the Rio Coco. And again this is where it
485
00:27:27.279 --> 00:27:30.039
references the Belizian belief that if you are a man
486
00:27:30.079 --> 00:27:32.200
you look into the eyes and escape, you will die
487
00:27:32.200 --> 00:27:33.640
within a month. If you're a woman looking to the
488
00:27:33.680 --> 00:27:36.559
as an escape, your life will be prolonged. So the
489
00:27:36.559 --> 00:27:39.319
next thingk I have here is from a website Onduras
490
00:27:39.359 --> 00:27:42.880
dot com and this is just legend of Honduras Sisimita.
491
00:27:43.000 --> 00:27:45.279
It says it's a supernatural creature, one of the best
492
00:27:45.319 --> 00:27:48.079
known legends in Hunduran territory. It is kind of like
493
00:27:48.160 --> 00:27:50.680
a giant monkey with long hair that looks strong and
494
00:27:50.720 --> 00:27:53.000
lives deep in the forest and in the highest mountains
495
00:27:53.039 --> 00:27:55.680
of Honduras. It is said that the Sisimedia canaps women,
496
00:27:55.759 --> 00:27:58.559
takes them to its caves, makes him his wife. Okay,
497
00:27:58.599 --> 00:28:02.000
this one history of Cisimtadas. This says here it's kind
498
00:28:02.079 --> 00:28:04.119
it's a similar story, but there is slight variations. So
499
00:28:04.160 --> 00:28:06.440
this says the best known story of the cisi meet
500
00:28:06.440 --> 00:28:08.319
the legend is that of a woman who is walking
501
00:28:08.400 --> 00:28:10.960
through the forest exploring when she was kidnapped by this
502
00:28:11.079 --> 00:28:14.079
great ape man. She says, the Cisimeta kidnapped her and
503
00:28:14.160 --> 00:28:17.319
had children with him. They had three children. One day,
504
00:28:17.359 --> 00:28:20.079
she managed to escape from this monster with her children
505
00:28:20.119 --> 00:28:22.480
and ran all over the hill until she reached a river,
506
00:28:22.519 --> 00:28:25.599
where she had to leave her children and escape herself.
507
00:28:25.880 --> 00:28:28.759
The Cisimeta, in revenge for the woman, drowned them in
508
00:28:28.839 --> 00:28:31.559
the river and she had to flee to save herself.
509
00:28:31.839 --> 00:28:34.319
Legend has it that one day the Cecimta comes down
510
00:28:34.319 --> 00:28:36.319
from the mountain and kidnaps a woman to take to
511
00:28:36.359 --> 00:28:38.880
his cave. The villagers say that the woman had already
512
00:28:38.880 --> 00:28:41.400
been presumed dead until she was found near the town
513
00:28:41.599 --> 00:28:44.880
years after her disappearance, and apparently she told the story
514
00:28:44.880 --> 00:28:46.920
that is the most well known version about this creature,
515
00:28:47.079 --> 00:28:50.000
since she claims to have given birth to three ape children,
516
00:28:50.079 --> 00:28:52.480
and that the cci Meta kidnaps women who walk near
517
00:28:52.599 --> 00:28:55.519
their caves in the forest and the last press that
518
00:28:55.559 --> 00:28:57.960
I have here, it's actually an Instagram reel from this
519
00:28:58.000 --> 00:29:01.519
person who they did a longer video on YouTube, and
520
00:29:01.640 --> 00:29:04.599
I will have both those links in the sous to
521
00:29:04.640 --> 00:29:06.640
Google doc and I'll find a way to repost the
522
00:29:06.680 --> 00:29:08.960
YouTube video, maybe on like the website or something, because
523
00:29:09.079 --> 00:29:10.920
he does like a whole I haven't seen it. I
524
00:29:11.000 --> 00:29:12.799
just watched the reel, but the YouTube is the longer
525
00:29:12.880 --> 00:29:14.559
version of that, so I'll find a way to post
526
00:29:14.559 --> 00:29:30.160
that so that you all can see it as well.
527
00:29:30.200 --> 00:29:32.279
Welcome back to old friends. Thank you so much for
528
00:29:32.400 --> 00:29:36.000
listening to today's episode. As always, if you have your
529
00:29:36.000 --> 00:29:40.039
own scary story, a video, photo, audio recording, anything you
530
00:29:40.079 --> 00:29:42.160
think should be featured either on a Letters from the
531
00:29:42.160 --> 00:29:45.039
Beyond episode or on social media, you can send it
532
00:29:45.119 --> 00:29:48.640
to me via DM on social media, email my website,
533
00:29:48.839 --> 00:29:51.759
five star review comment on Spotify. You already know all
534
00:29:51.759 --> 00:29:53.319
those ways to get to me, and I hope that
535
00:29:53.359 --> 00:29:55.400
you do. Don't be shy, don't be afraid. Make sure
536
00:29:55.400 --> 00:29:58.640
to follow at Susto podcast across every social media platform
537
00:29:58.680 --> 00:30:02.480
for any and all updates on the show, including upcoming
538
00:30:02.519 --> 00:30:04.720
live events at Spooky Season. You know I still have
539
00:30:04.799 --> 00:30:07.960
time on my calendar So if you are putting on
540
00:30:08.160 --> 00:30:11.759
spooky event in the Austin area in the San Antonio area,
541
00:30:11.799 --> 00:30:13.400
I'd be willing to make the drive. Let me know,
542
00:30:13.480 --> 00:30:15.640
hit me up if you see something interesting again, don't
543
00:30:15.640 --> 00:30:17.519
be afraid to send it my way or reach out
544
00:30:17.599 --> 00:30:21.519
to event organizers. I love this season. I love how
545
00:30:21.559 --> 00:30:24.079
excited everybody gets. I mean, for me, it's spooky season
546
00:30:24.119 --> 00:30:26.759
all year round, right, But finally, this is where everyone's
547
00:30:26.799 --> 00:30:29.920
on the same page. Mainly everyone, right anyway, So again,
548
00:30:30.160 --> 00:30:33.240
follow online, send in your stuff for letters from and beyond,
549
00:30:33.480 --> 00:30:36.200
and if you would like to support SUSTO, the easiest
550
00:30:36.200 --> 00:30:39.119
way to do so is by engaging with the show
551
00:30:39.160 --> 00:30:41.799
wherever you are listening, and if you are feeling generous,
552
00:30:41.839 --> 00:30:44.759
you can sign up to be a paid Patreon subscriber
553
00:30:44.799 --> 00:30:48.359
by visiting patreon dot com slash sustal podcast. I'd like
554
00:30:48.400 --> 00:30:51.759
to thank this episode's sponsors who are able to enjoy
555
00:30:51.920 --> 00:30:55.720
episodes early and ad free, and you all are Liza
556
00:30:55.920 --> 00:31:01.359
Sadie Rachel, Alejandra Luthor, April Mario, Eva, d Josette, Sam
557
00:31:01.440 --> 00:31:07.079
Angelaine Co, Mandy, Jules Lori, Genie, Desiree Anna Ashes, Nedssa
558
00:31:07.160 --> 00:31:16.039
Assusena Rachel Rios, Marlen, Chata, Laney, Desiree, Cynthia, Sera Flamenca, Belinda, Archie, Richard, Sarah,
559
00:31:16.240 --> 00:31:20.279
Anastasia and Vanessa. Thank you all so much for your support.
560
00:31:20.359 --> 00:31:23.759
It means the underworld to me. I will haunt you
561
00:31:23.799 --> 00:32:02.440
in the next one, and until then nota soustes bye.
