Skeleton found under bed in Cartagena
By Daniel Brody, Editorial Director
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Although Álvaro Consuegra had drunk 22 beers, it wasn't enough to smother the shock of finding a trail of bones under his bed.
The motorcycle taxi driver was looking for his shoes, but instead found a human skeleton.
The skeleton was almost complete, missing only a few foot and hip bones, and was about the same length as Consuegra's bed.
"I felt a strong chill, but without a breeze, it was as if the doors of a freezer had been left open," Consuegra told reporters.
Then, after recruiting a neighbor to check out the scene, they raised his mattress and found a trail of scattered bones, making Consuegra pee himself from fright upon viewing them.
One of the skull bones was marked with a painting of a cross and Consuegra's name, and was covered with a pair of the man's own boxer shorts.
Local police think that the skeleton could be a type of witchcraft, or a prank played by one of Consuegra's friends.
The motorcycle taxi driver dismissed the possibility of it being a prank, and seemed to lean towards the witchcraft explanation.
"I have had a spell cast on me for a few weeks now, with a fever, headaches, and a cough that just won't quit," he said.
The only lead he can think of is a man he had never seen before who told him to move from his house two weeks ago.
On the same day, he lost a white sheet from the same bed that would eventually have a skelton underneath it.
Scared and confused, Consuegra has moved from his house, stopped driving a motorcycle taxi, and is regularly attending church to break the spell that he thinks has been cast upon him.
Creepily, COnsuegra has also had a run of bad luck lately. In the past two months, he has crashed his motorcycle four times, the police have seized his motorcycle five times (driving a motorcycle taxi is illegal in Cartagena), and he was attacked once.
His favorite soccer team, Real Cartagena, has also been unable to win during home games.
Consuegra remains hopeful, however.
"I hope that I can shake this fear and get a good job," he said.
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