La Tienda de Mario: The Mexican Piñata Shop That Went Viral for Being Haunted—And the Footage Is Bone-Chilling
Creepy and spooky things live everywhere, and no one knows that better than the owner of a piñata shop in Guadalajara, Mexico. The unassuming piñata shop looks like a fun place to get things for a party, but there is a sinister secret. According to the shop owner, La Tienda de Mario is haunted, and he has captured paranormal activity on camera.
La Tienda de Mario is popular on social media within paranormal circles because of the apparitions. Videos shared far and wide on social media fuel speculation that the shop houses evil spirits. Here is what we know so far and what the paranormal community says about the shop.
La Tienda de Mario is a piñata shop with a sinister secret resident
The shop in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, is known for its supernatural and paranormal activity. Even Dross, the master of spooky on social media, has highlighted La Tienda de Mario. The haunting started with one specific piñata that would be knocked down on the ground. Once it started, the piñata began showing up in different places around the store, and that is when the owner, Mario Lara, knew that something strange was happening.
The strange occurrences made the shop owner set up security cameras to see what was happening. That is when he got video confirmation of weird activity late at night with a notification to his phone from the camera. A sinister face rose up in a pile of piñatas and stared directly at the camera.
“I couldn’t believe what I was seeing,” Lara told Travel Channel.
Another moment that solidified his idea that the shop was haunted was when a random piñata hanging from the ceiling started spinning violently when no one else was in the store. The force that spun the piñata surprised Lara because, as he mentions, there wasn’t wind blowing through the shop.
“It was turning with such force that when I saw the video, I said to myself, ‘This is very strange,’” Lara told Travel Channel. “I was 100 percent sure it wasn’t wind.”
If you like paranormal travel, this piñata shop is one place you might want to visit
According to a 2016 study, 38 percent of people participated in supernatural or paranormal activities during their vacation. This includes haunted houses and ghost tours. Being a little afraid is always a surefire way to feel alive. The same study found that 44 percent of people who participated in these activities traveled specifically for that experience.
Paranormal travel is not new. As long as there have been stories of hauntings, people have wanted to get up close and personal with the unknown. People have been fascinated with being scared for centuries. There is nothing more Latino than believing in and experiencing ghosts and monsters.
Our whole childhood is filled with monsters who are always ready to jump out and take us if we misbehave. Every culture within the Latino community has its own monster. Maybe the monster from La Tienda de Mario will become the next canonized Latino spook. Imagine a world where we are telling our children that if they misbehave, they will be visited by La Piñata de Guadalajara.
