The Carretón of the Other Life


According to popular belief, the Carretón de la Otra Vida (The Carretón de la Otra Vida) went out to search the misguided souls at night to take them to hell. It originated from the mythologies that the people of the town of Santa Cruz used to tell.

According to witnesses who claim to have seen it, it appeared after midnight at surazo time. The carter was the devil himself, and the cart was built with human bones instead of wood, its cargo being hundreds of yellowish skulls.

The terrible cry of the carter was heard throughout the pampa and outside the village. The oxen that pulled the cart instead of eyes had a pair of embers that flashed with a deep red.

On stormy nights no one left for fear of meeting the Carretón de la Otra Vida and its diabolical companion. but many of the Benyan savannas in the Bolivian East testify to having heard the raucous rumble of the wooden wheels of the carreton, which grew closer and closer but in the end never reached destination until dawn, at the same time accompanying the rumor of the the cry to the oxen "gia huesa gìa, gìa, that by these parts means forward to the oxen on all the carreton of the other life appears to the people who behave badly and the solitary people this legend was initiated on 25 September 1458.

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