{"podcast":{"title":"Espooky Tales","slug":"espooky-tales-1328270","podcast_index_feed_id":1328270,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/5931957/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/espooky-tales","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/1909201327b5d9b62a373baebfccb546.jpg","author":"Cristina Lumague","episode_count":288,"summary":"Latin American folklore, myths, legends, haunted places,true crime and espooky cuentos del rancho. Hear the stories you grew up with like La Llorona, as well as true stories from listeners and guests. Join twins, Cristina & Carmen (formerly MJ), every other Friday as they share these tales and have a few laughs. Stay espooky!","last_synced_at":"2026-06-13T12:17:41.350341+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/espooky-tales-1328270"},"episode":{"title":"The Beast of Metapan And Other Stories","slug":"the-beast-of-metapan-and-other-stories","published_at":"2026-01-02T12:05:08+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/espooky-tales-1328270/the-beast-of-metapan-and-other-stories","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/espooky-tales-1328270","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-beast-of-metapan-and-other-stories--69275564","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pscrb.fm/rss/p/prfx.byspotify.com/e/clrtpod.com/m/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/69275564/et234finalmix1.mp3","summary":"Metapán, a city and municipality in the Santa Ana department of El Salvador. It borders Honduras and Guatemala, as it is located in the north of the country. It’s the second largest city, and in Nahuatl, it means, “river of the Maguey”. It's also a little espooky! In this episode, Cristina and Carmen share three stories from this town. If you have a spooky story to share, email Espookytales@gmail.com or leave us a voicemail at the Espooky Hot Line (360)836-4486. You can also submit it on Discord! Join the Espooky Tales Book Club for Busy People: https://substack.com/@espooky?utm_source=profile-page Listen to Carmen and Cristina's other podcast Historias Unknown The next book club read is the Possession of Alba Diaz by Isabel Cañas. If you want to purchase the book, check out our bookshop link https://bookshop.org/lists/espooky-book-club-list For more spooky stories, check out the Tiktok! https://www.tiktok.com/@espookytales Instagram https://www.instagram.com/espookytales/ Chat with us on Discord! https://discord.gg/cWk7CvVgaR Want to be a Patron? Get episodes AD-FREE, listen before they are released to anyone else, get bonus episodes, exclusive stickers, virtual hangouts, and more! Support Espooky Tales. Learn more by visiting https://www.patreon.com/Espookytales By joining, you can help Espooky Tales donate 20% funds to charity. This month's donation went to CLEAN, carwash worker center, an org that has been helping car wash workers who are unable to leave their homes due to increasing ICE raids in LA country, by providing groceries to over 200 car wash workers. Follow @carwasherxs on instagram Get Espooky Merch: https://www.bonfire.com/store/espooky-tales/ Find us on YouTube: https://youtube.com/@espookytales","meta_description":"Metapán, a city and municipality in the Santa Ana department of El Salvador. It borders Honduras and Guatemala, as it is located in the north of the count…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2099,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/espooky-tales-1328270/episodes/the-beast-of-metapan-and-other-stories/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/espooky-tales-1328270/the-beast-of-metapan-and-other-stories.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}