Extremadurian Halloween's legends I. The white lady ghost. Badajoz.

In accordance with legend, 200 years ago a beautiful lady jumped from Palma's bridge at night, in Badajoz. The reason: her family did not allow her to marry the man she loved. She dissapeared forever, and nobody (Neither the police, nor her family) could find her corpse.

This legend would not be interesting by itself. But some months ago something strange happened in the same bridge. A young boy called Alberto (about 20 years old) swam at night in Guadiana river. The reason: he had lost a bet with his friends. The thing is that the boy was swimming next to the fourth pillar when suddenly... He started drowning. His friends saw him and swam quickly for rescuing him. Fortunately they could do it. And at the river bank, when asking him what had happened... Alberto said that he had felt like a hand holding his foot and pulling him down. He even said that, already under the water, he could see a beautiful pale face smiling at him. Neither Alberto, nor his friends, have swum again on that dark and haunted waters.