Witch House – Update (by Cindy)

For those of you following along on the search for the Witch House in Escazú …

Monday, John and I were the only two that could make it to our Spanish class. Our teacher said that we could cover anything that we had questions about. Well, he opened the door, and you would be correct if you guessed that we asked about the witch house.

We had searched over the weekend and had pictures to show our teacher of the houses that we thought might possibly be the witch house. He looked at each one and said that none of them were it. He then pulled up a website of houses for rent and didn’t find it there. He probably thought it would be because of what he’s heard about the turnover at that house. Finally, he pulled up Google Earth on his laptop and located the house. There are actually two matching houses, one that the niece lives in (witch house) and the other that is rented right next door to it (haunted house). John and I thought for sure we’d been by there, but as we found out, we obviously had not.

After class, we walked to PriceMart and then walked back to our apartment with one (thankfully light) bag each. The weather was still fine, warm and sunny, which is atypical for our normal afternoon showers during the rainy season.  To get from PriceMart back to our apartment in Escazú Village, we have to walk in the neighborhood where the witch house is located. Based on what we saw on Google Earth, it wasn’t going to be too far out of our way, so we decided to find it.

We first turned down the street with the over-the-top, and somewhat creepy lawn ornaments.

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 We then went down two blocks and turned left. According to Google Earth, the houses should be located near the corner. As soon as we rounded the corner, we immediately knew we were in the right place. There were three cats on the sidewalk in front of the house. (There’s that number three again!)  I quickly pulled out my phone and tried to take a picture. Two of the cats had disappeared, but one black one remained on the sidewalk.

To get a good picture of the houses, we crossed the street before we passed directly in front of the houses. The witch house where the cats were located is on the left in the picture below. It has the white gate. The haunted house that our teacher was going to rent is on the right. Notice that it does have a sign (for sale) on it. Apparently, no one is living in that house now. (Well, no one that’s living, anyway.)

On the way back to our apartment, John said, “Those cats were kind of small. Do you think they were kittens or just little cats?” I answered, “They seemed like little cats. Maybe the witch turns the children into cats.”

I sent the house pictures to our teacher and he confirmed we had located the witch house. During class this morning, he also asked how we felt when we walked by the house. We told him that we had crossed the street. What we didn’t tell him was, this isn’t our family’s first encounter with the paranormal – we know better than to get too close.