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Haunting of El Monte: Exposed to Santeria Rituals, My Family Has Never Been the Same
After exposure to Santeria as children, 6 siblings report the things they have learned by living in haunted homes filled with horror…
When my mother and her siblings were children, they were exposed to rituals in Santeria meant to protect them, to cleanse them from negative energies.
However, some rituals have opened the door for dark entities to walk in and out of their lives, haunting each of them since they could remember. They followed all six children, turning every home into a haunted house.
“When I was 10, my grandfather had me look into a glass of water as he threw coconut shells on the ground as part of a cleansing ritual,” My mother explained, “And I could see three faceless women wearing white robes, looking back at me in the water. A black woman and two Latin women, one with blonde hair and the other with black hair.”
My grandfather and his family before him were Santeros. They performed Santeria, a religion that Africans and Cubans practiced together by combining Catholicism and Spiritism in Cuba.
Similar to Christian rituals where infants are bathed in holy water, their souls offered to God, my…
