Santa Amalia's spooky stories II. The abandoned old flour factory.

Old flour factory.

If you are not too old may you still remember a ruinous abandoned building which was paced at Canseco street. It was the old flour factory, active until the 1950s, when something frightening happened. On October, the 28th or 29th (the date is not sure) a grinder machine trapped and killed Manuel Díaz. Manuel was a good worker, a citizen of Santa Amalia, beloved and appreciated by everybody. His death was a great trauma in town. His work partners asked for a factory stopping in order to bury and honor their died friend; but the boss refused. The money was more important than the death of a good worker. So the grind machine was cleaned of blood and flesh and the labour continued. One curious fact about those awful happenings is that the body of Manuel Díaz couldn't be recovered completely. A hand was missed inside the machine, and so, the corpse was buried uncompleted. Replacing the missed hand, a wooden limb was set in the coffin.

Old grinding machine

After this sordid event strange things started to happen in the factory. Many people noticed like pinches from an invisible hand. Machines started and stopped automatically, with no human intervention. Doors opened and slammed by themselves... Some workers even saw a dark shadow walking by the corridors in the evening, at the same time that Manuel had died. The staff was terryfied. They call the priest of Santa Amalia, who told them to set candles in the windows in order to drive away some malefic spirit. But it was counterproductive: the candles melted in a few minutes, making the window bars trembling. Finally the workers refused to work on that cursed place, running away from there. The boss could not find anyone for working in the factory; and so, it finally closed in 1954. 

The factory sleept quiet for many years, with all its history inside. Recently was demolished. But be careful. If one day, at the end of October, you decide to go along Canseco street at the last hour of evening, walk fast and don't look up from the ground. Perhaps you will see (or listen) things you don't like. Flames floating in the empty lot, strangee noises, the clinking of metal things... Even a grim shadow looking for his missed hand.