The Missing: Guadalupe Barajas Castro

          Our next post for Hispanic Heritage Month brings us to Washington State in 2001, where a young mother, pregnant with her second child, disappeared after a shopping trip. It was believed that Guadalupe’s husband went missing with her on that fateful day in 2001 - until he was found alive and well in 2020, living …

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The Missing: Victoria Amairani Marquina

          Our next Hispanic Heritage Month post brings us to a very recent Missing Persons case out of California. Victoria Amairani Marquina vanished from Sutter Creek less than a week before her 17th birthday, and she was last seen with a man she met online. Was this man, who was charged with sex crimes against the …

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Legend Has It: El Sombrerón

          Welcome back to the Morbid Library. It’s been a while, readers, but we’re returning with an all new set of posts for Hispanic Heritage month - which runs from September 15 to October 15. We’ll discuss a few unidentified descendants, missing persons, urban legends, and cryptids. First up: a Boogeyman myth known as El Sombrerón. …

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