TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO FOLKLORE CHARACTERS AND TALES

[trini mk5]

^^Very strange indeed. Soucouyants as far as i know don't normally show themselves so early in the night.
Anyway i have a cool story to tell.
A guy in work about his mid 40's was giving me and a couple other co-workers a story from when he was younger.
A soucouyant use to visit his home, when he was a child and suck his brother's blood. They used to sleep in the same room but different beds. A few times well his brother'S blood was getting sampled, until his father could'nt take it anymore and waited for it to come. Soucouyants from my understanding make a lot of racket when they coming by you, and you could hear them walking on the galvanised roof if you have. So the guy's father was waiting in the room and when the soucouyant came he started to shout at it and say some kinda prayers and the soucouyant left and never came after that. This was in chagaunas somewhere.
Now if you know the guy like i do, he is not the kind of guy to make sheit like this up. so i think there is some credibility behind the story.
Also my father and grandmother both have seen soucouyants in their times...and i know a few other people who have also encountered "folklore" characters and can give cool stories.

[Rory Phoulorie]

. . . .Also my father and grandmother both have seen soucouyants in their times...and i know a few other people who have also encountered "folklore" characters and can give cool stories.

When I was in the hospital some years back, one night the other patients in the ward began to talk about soucouyants. One man said a night he was on the beach and saw about four or five of them flying over the water. One patient asked him which beach was this. He said Manzanilla. He collected level cuss from the other patients afterwards.

[ifrit]

Im from Valsayn and when i was younger about 17, i went to spend the night with my aunt and cousin in felicity. I was relaxing on the bed reading the newspaper around 11 pm. I heard shouting coming from the living room so i went to check what was up. My aunt said there was nothing to worry about to go back to bed. about half an hour later i felt like some one came a sat down next to me because the bed sank. then i stared to feel extremely cold and my pores rose. Tears started to come out my eyes. I wasn't crying though just tears. I couldnt move for a while. my aunt came in the room and started to shout GET OUT GET OUT, LEAVE THIS HOUSE NOW. at that moment objects began smashing around the room and the room began to shake. she then began to pray loudly while my cousin kept shouting get out get out leave this place. it was at that point in time that things got disturbing. A deep menacing voice replied i not going anywhere. prayers cant F...ing help allyuh. everyboding going to dead tonight. then the roof started shaking and a foul odour filled the room. we ran outside and waited until morning. my aunt explained that it was a very evil spirit that passed through. That was a traumatizing experience and i never went back there. dougla_boy was right, there is a lot of crazy things that happen there on a regular basis.

[Trini Hookah]

Oh nevermind, wasn't planning to sleep tonight anyway.

[Rory Phoulorie]

Im from Valsayn and when i was younger about 17, i went to spend the night with my aunt and cousin in felicity. I was relaxing on the bed reading the newspaper around 11 pm. I heard shouting coming from the living room so i went to check what was up. My aunt said there was nothing to worry about to go back to bed. about half an hour later i felt like some one came a sat down next to me because the bed sank. then i stared to feel extremely cold and my pores rose. Tears started to come out my eyes. I wasn't crying though just tears. I couldnt move for a while. my aunt came in the room and started to shout GET OUT GET OUT, LEAVE THIS HOUSE NOW. at that moment objects began smashing around the room and the room began to shake. she then began to pray loudly while my cousin kept shouting get out get out leave this place. it was at that point in time that things got disturbing. A deep menacing voice replied i not going anywhere. prayers cant F...ing help allyuh. everyboding going to dead tonight. then the roof started shaking and a foul odour filled the room. we ran outside and waited until morning. my aunt explained that it was a very evil spirit that passed through. That was a traumatizing experience and i never went back there. dougla_boy was right, there is a lot of crazy things that happen there on a regular basis.

Some of you all really need to lay off the marijuana. There is no such thing as spirits, other than methylated spirits.

[rfari]

Im from Valsayn and when i was younger about 17, i went to spend the night with my aunt and cousin in felicity. I was relaxing on the bed reading the newspaper around 11 pm. I heard shouting coming from the living room so i went to check what was up. My aunt said there was nothing to worry about to go back to bed. about half an hour later i felt like some one came a sat down next to me because the bed sank. then i stared to feel extremely cold and my pores rose. Tears started to come out my eyes. I wasn't crying though just tears. I couldnt move for a while. my aunt came in the room and started to shout GET OUT GET OUT, LEAVE THIS HOUSE NOW. at that moment objects began smashing around the room and the room began to shake. she then began to pray loudly while my cousin kept shouting get out get out leave this place. it was at that point in time that things got disturbing. A deep menacing voice replied i not going anywhere. prayers cant F...ing help allyuh. everyboding going to dead tonight. then the roof started shaking and a foul odour filled the room. we ran outside and waited until morning. my aunt explained that it was a very evil spirit that passed through. That was a traumatizing experience and i never went back there. dougla_boy was right, there is a lot of crazy things that happen there on a regular basis.

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[dougla_boy]

hear about a similar experience from a guy @ Santa Rosa church....

his grand mother died, and his grandfather did what ever yuh does do and lock the grand mother spirit to her room/house, after the grand father died, he had to go to the house to see about stuff and he ended up spending the night. whilst sleeping, he heard someone talking in his grands room. he got up to see, and saw a shadow at the bottom of the door as if someone was in the room walking around. eventually it stopped and he went back to sleep. a few hours later he got up to find a kitchen knife in his hand with blood on it, and blood all over him and the room and his grandfather walking up and down the corridor.

[stev]

just some stories i heard a few years ago:

1. Uncle from londonville (or however u spell it) went hunting with some friends. normally they would set out on friday night and return Sunday evening. he said one friday they were not catching anything and decided to call it a night. all four of them were awaken by the dogs barking at something in a maura tree. they thought it was a iguana / manicou but he said it was like top of the tree was on fire. after a couple of seconds, the fire flew out of the tree and was not seen as the other trees covered it as it flew away. a couple of burning leaves fell to the ground from the tree they saw it in. (Valencia Forest)

2. same uncle and partners were hunting in valencia again when they came up on the popular river where people usually lime. said he saw a guy sitting next to the water (just the silhouette of a man, he cudnt see his face). he assumed it was another hunter as it is normal to come across other hunters that time of year. when his group attempted to go over and greet him, he said the figure just ran into the water and went under....not a single drop of water was splashed....he just lit a cigarette and they continued on their way.

3. when my great grand father was alive, he told me in his days of working Caroni, one night he ended up staying late at the fatory in pt lisas and only headed home (to waterloo) on bike. he sai when he there is an old cane road that joins waterloo to couva (not paved today) that he would normally take....he said he saw a woman walking with a market bag full of eddoes (clearly too heavy for her). he offered to give her a ride so she sat on the bar (usual tow) and he tied the bag to the flat metal seat at the back....he said he made sure to check out she two foot b4 he offered a ride ...when she finally came off to where she lived, he said he striked a match to light a cigarette before he told her goodbye....the woman screamed and ran into a burnt canefield that was not too far from them....the market bag was gone...and he didnt even untie it....next day on his way home, he asked a woman who lives in the shack (where he dropped off the woman). she said nobody, that has been abandoned for years...


4. the same great grandfather would normally get up very early on days he had no work and head out to one of his gardens to work. normally, about an hour after, my aunt (living abroad now and could still tell the story) would go after to meet him carrying water or food etc. one morning she said she went looking for him but when she called for him....he told her he was looking for something that fell in the bush (at the side of the garden had bush)....she said she walked into the bush calling him but anytime he answered, his voice would tend to sound further and further away.....being the chicken that she is, she dropped everything and ran home occasionally looking back to see nothing.........good thing she did because my great grandfather was sick that morning and stayed home upstairs in his room....

again...these are just some of the stories i heard from older relatives. the only experience i had was posted b4.

[sMASH]

moral of the stories, don't stay out too late after dark.

[altec]

[~Vēġó~]

wdf did I enter this thread this hour....

[trini mk5]

I guess if you hunt in the forest often, you would have come across dogs or even other animals that are humans in disguise. Hunters can probably give you stories.

[dougla_boy]

once i was home in my bed sleeping and heard my mother shouting meh name. i said f she, i not getting up, i going back and sleep. hear the shout the next day i waltz in her room to loud she up for waking meh up, she say she never call meh, she was out cold whole night!

[rollingstock]

^ Yuh mammy probably get a bad dream bout she lil dougla boy and called out yuh name in her sleep.

[dougla_boy]

^ Yuh mammy probably get a bad dream bout she lil dougla boy and called out yuh name in her sleep.

Was thinking that but moms don't talk and sheit in her sleep.....plus she took a 2 panadol drowsy that night......real doubt is here

[Ted_v2]

gotta lay off that weed bruh

[dougla_boy]

gotta lay off that weed bruh

laid off that sheit when i passed out for 3 hours....LOL......

[DVSTT]

Im from Valsayn and when i was younger about 17, i went to spend the night with my aunt and cousin in felicity. I was relaxing on the bed reading the newspaper around 11 pm. I heard shouting coming from the living room so i went to check what was up. My aunt said there was nothing to worry about to go back to bed. about half an hour later i felt like some one came a sat down next to me because the bed sank. then i stared to feel extremely cold and my pores rose. Tears started to come out my eyes. I wasn't crying though just tears. I couldnt move for a while. my aunt came in the room and started to shout GET OUT GET OUT, LEAVE THIS HOUSE NOW. at that moment objects began smashing around the room and the room began to shake. she then began to pray loudly while my cousin kept shouting get out get out leave this place. it was at that point in time that things got disturbing. A deep menacing voice replied i not going anywhere. prayers cant F...ing help allyuh. everyboding going to dead tonight. then the roof started shaking and a foul odour filled the room. we ran outside and waited until morning. my aunt explained that it was a very evil spirit that passed through. That was a traumatizing experience and i never went back there. dougla_boy was right, there is a lot of crazy things that happen there on a regular basis.

Oh nevermind, wasn't planning to sleep tonight anyway.

x2

But my dad was telling me about this woman you used to see crossing the road Forres Park that you see from the highway, late at night. People used to swerve to avoid her and hit light posts and stuff. It was said to be the spirit of a plantation owners daughter that had died when she was young. Apparently there was a statue of her, I never saw it though. Anyone else heard of similar incidents?

[nervewrecker]

Im from Valsayn and when i was younger about 17, i went to spend the night with my aunt and cousin in felicity. I was relaxing on the bed reading the newspaper around 11 pm. I heard shouting coming from the living room so i went to check what was up. My aunt said there was nothing to worry about to go back to bed. about half an hour later i felt like some one came a sat down next to me because the bed sank. then i stared to feel extremely cold and my pores rose. Tears started to come out my eyes. I wasn't crying though just tears. I couldnt move for a while. my aunt came in the room and started to shout GET OUT GET OUT, LEAVE THIS HOUSE NOW. at that moment objects began smashing around the room and the room began to shake. she then began to pray loudly while my cousin kept shouting get out get out leave this place. it was at that point in time that things got disturbing. A deep menacing voice replied i not going anywhere. prayers cant F...ing help allyuh. everyboding going to dead tonight. then the roof started shaking and a foul odour filled the room. we ran outside and waited until morning. my aunt explained that it was a very evil spirit that passed through. That was a traumatizing experience and i never went back there. dougla_boy was right, there is a lot of crazy things that happen there on a regular basis.

Oh nevermind, wasn't planning to sleep tonight anyway.

x2

But my dad was telling me about this woman you used to see crossing the road Forres Park that you see from the highway, late at night. People used to swerve to avoid her and hit light posts and stuff. It was said to be the spirit of a plantation owners daughter that had died when she was young. Apparently there was a statue of her, I never saw it though. Anyone else heard of similar incidents?

during dry season when fire blaze the hill the statue is visible from the highway.

buh yea, de storie is chu jed, I see she real plenty time and crash bout 6 car in that same spot.
The fact that I was drunk everytime and the road kinda fcuked up in that area have nuttin to do with it, was de statue.

[ilove3]

Im from Valsayn and when i was younger about 17, i went to spend the night with my aunt and cousin in felicity. I was relaxing on the bed reading the newspaper around 11 pm. I heard shouting coming from the living room so i went to check what was up. My aunt said there was nothing to worry about to go back to bed. about half an hour later i felt like some one came a sat down next to me because the bed sank. then i stared to feel extremely cold and my pores rose. Tears started to come out my eyes. I wasn't crying though just tears. I couldnt move for a while. my aunt came in the room and started to shout GET OUT GET OUT, LEAVE THIS HOUSE NOW. at that moment objects began smashing around the room and the room began to shake. she then began to pray loudly while my cousin kept shouting get out get out leave this place. it was at that point in time that things got disturbing. A deep menacing voice replied i not going anywhere. prayers cant F...ing help allyuh. everyboding going to dead tonight. then the roof started shaking and a foul odour filled the room. we ran outside and waited until morning. my aunt explained that it was a very evil spirit that passed through. That was a traumatizing experience and i never went back there. dougla_boy was right, there is a lot of crazy things that happen there on a regular basis.

I guess that it was all out of respect that yuh didnt say "Tantee, excuze mih French but wah de MC was dat about again?!?"

[ilove3]

Im from Valsayn and when i was younger about 17, i went to spend the night with my aunt and cousin in felicity. I was relaxing on the bed reading the newspaper around 11 pm. I heard shouting coming from the living room so i went to check what was up. My aunt said there was nothing to worry about to go back to bed. about half an hour later i felt like some one came a sat down next to me because the bed sank. then i stared to feel extremely cold and my pores rose. Tears started to come out my eyes. I wasn't crying though just tears. I couldnt move for a while. my aunt came in the room and started to shout GET OUT GET OUT, LEAVE THIS HOUSE NOW. at that moment objects began smashing around the room and the room began to shake. she then began to pray loudly while my cousin kept shouting get out get out leave this place. it was at that point in time that things got disturbing. A deep menacing voice replied i not going anywhere. prayers cant F...ing help allyuh. everyboding going to dead tonight. then the roof started shaking and a foul odour filled the room. we ran outside and waited until morning. my aunt explained that it was a very evil spirit that passed through. That was a traumatizing experience and i never went back there. dougla_boy was right, there is a lot of crazy things that happen there on a regular basis.

Oh nevermind, wasn't planning to sleep tonight anyway.

x2

But my dad was telling me about this woman you used to see crossing the road Forres Park that you see from the highway, late at night. People used to swerve to avoid her and hit light posts and stuff. It was said to be the spirit of a plantation owners daughter that had died when she was young. Apparently there was a statue of her, I never saw it though. Anyone else heard of similar incidents?

Yuh see dis setta talk about this statue on de hill? Who up do investigating this and see wah we go find and experience?

[Trini Hookah]

Next thing ah snake bite us and they have to erect a statue for all of us too

[nervewrecker]

once is not a one eyed trouser snake.

anyways, it been done already, pics in a thread here on the forum. search button is your friend.

[recklessone]

I heard of this as an explanation about the amount of fatal accidents that take place there. I think that she committed suicide... cant recall for sure.

Idk if I missed it somewhere in the thread, anybody ever encounter the young girl that runs across the highway by claxton bay flyover.There was a statue on the hill supposedly built by the girl's family.She died in her youth and has been haunting the area ever since.

There was a thread on this....she was bitten by a snake and died from what was told to me.

I heard the part about she being bitten by the snake and dying and her father, a farmer, built the statue but ended up accidentally knocking the head of the statue with his tractor. Drivers passing in that area often claim to see her playing/running on the highway and swerve to avoid her and end up crashing.



Anyways, I had an experience about two or three days ago. I was laying in my bed at about 3AM when I heard in the road what seemed to be the dragging of chains. It went "down" the road, then it passed back and the dogs were going crazy. I decided to get up and peer through an opening in the curtain [I didn't move it, mind you] but I saw nothing and this noise had stopped. I went back to bed and it passed by again. This time I was in between fascinated to know what it was and freaked out as fcuk [coming to the realisation that it may be a "laga-hoo" or some man-beast]. And to think, about two days before that, I was outside on my porch bareback at about 2AM till about 4... normel, normel I also wasn't the only one who heard this dragging.

PS. It does have bush by me. Not plenty though. Kinda built up.

[gastly369]

I heard the part about she being bitten by the snake and dying and her father, a farmer, built the statue but ended up accidentally knocking the head of the statue with his tractor. Drivers passing in that area often claim to see her playing/running on the highway and swerve to avoid her and end up crashing.



Anyways, I had an experience about two or three days ago. I was laying in my bed at about 3AM when I heard in the road what seemed to be the dragging of chains. It went "down" the road, then it passed back and the dogs were going crazy. I decided to get up and peer through an opening in the curtain [I didn't move it, mind you] but I saw nothing and this noise had stopped. I went back to bed and it passed by again. This time I was in between fascinated to know what it was and freaked out as fcuk [coming to the realisation that it may be a "laga-hoo" or some man-beast]. And to think, about two days before that, I was outside on my porch bareback at about 2AM till about 4... normel, normel I also wasn't the only one who heard this dragging.

PS. It does have bush by me. Not plenty though. Kinda built up.

for those who know

[Trini Hookah]

Hour of the devil?

[rfari]

Im from Valsayn and when i was younger about 17, i went to spend the night with my aunt and cousin in felicity. I was relaxing on the bed reading the newspaper around 11 pm. I heard shouting coming from the living room so i went to check what was up. My aunt said there was nothing to worry about to go back to bed. about half an hour later i felt like some one came a sat down next to me because the bed sank. then i stared to feel extremely cold and my pores rose. Tears started to come out my eyes. I wasn't crying though just tears. I couldnt move for a while. my aunt came in the room and started to shout GET OUT GET OUT, LEAVE THIS HOUSE NOW. at that moment objects began smashing around the room and the room began to shake. she then began to pray loudly while my cousin kept shouting get out get out leave this place. it was at that point in time that things got disturbing. A deep menacing voice replied i not going anywhere. prayers cant F...ing help allyuh. everyboding going to dead tonight. then the roof started shaking and a foul odour filled the room. we ran outside and waited until morning. my aunt explained that it was a very evil spirit that passed through. That was a traumatizing experience and i never went back there. dougla_boy was right, there is a lot of crazy things that happen there on a regular basis.

Oh nevermind, wasn't planning to sleep tonight anyway.

x2

But my dad was telling me about this woman you used to see crossing the road Forres Park that you see from the highway, late at night. People used to swerve to avoid her and hit light posts and stuff. It was said to be the spirit of a plantation owners daughter that had died when she was young. Apparently there was a statue of her, I never saw it though. Anyone else heard of similar incidents?

during dry season when fire blaze the hill the statue is visible from the highway.

buh yea, de storie is chu jed, I see she real plenty time and crash bout 6 car in that same spot.
The fact that I was drunk everytime and the road kinda fcuked up in that area have nuttin to do with it, was de statue.

Bwahahahahahhahaha!!!!!!

[nervewrecker]

statue pics:

viewtopic.php?f=4&t=90491&hilit=statue

[sliderz1]

best time to enter this thread is late night or early morning!

[DVSTT]

Im from Valsayn and when i was younger about 17, i went to spend the night with my aunt and cousin in felicity. I was relaxing on the bed reading the newspaper around 11 pm. I heard shouting coming from the living room so i went to check what was up. My aunt said there was nothing to worry about to go back to bed. about half an hour later i felt like some one came a sat down next to me because the bed sank. then i stared to feel extremely cold and my pores rose. Tears started to come out my eyes. I wasn't crying though just tears. I couldnt move for a while. my aunt came in the room and started to shout GET OUT GET OUT, LEAVE THIS HOUSE NOW. at that moment objects began smashing around the room and the room began to shake. she then began to pray loudly while my cousin kept shouting get out get out leave this place. it was at that point in time that things got disturbing. A deep menacing voice replied i not going anywhere. prayers cant F...ing help allyuh. everyboding going to dead tonight. then the roof started shaking and a foul odour filled the room. we ran outside and waited until morning. my aunt explained that it was a very evil spirit that passed through. That was a traumatizing experience and i never went back there. dougla_boy was right, there is a lot of crazy things that happen there on a regular basis.

Oh nevermind, wasn't planning to sleep tonight anyway.

x2

But my dad was telling me about this woman you used to see crossing the road Forres Park that you see from the highway, late at night. People used to swerve to avoid her and hit light posts and stuff. It was said to be the spirit of a plantation owners daughter that had died when she was young. Apparently there was a statue of her, I never saw it though. Anyone else heard of similar incidents?

during dry season when fire blaze the hill the statue is visible from the highway.

buh yea, de storie is chu jed, I see she real plenty time and crash bout 6 car in that same spot.
The fact that I was drunk everytime and the road kinda fcuked up in that area have nuttin to do with it, was de statue.

You still gettin insurance hoss?