Panteón Civil de Dolores

Mexico City · Mexico · Cemetery

If you hear the boy weeping among the graves he has chosen you — and the soldier Figueroa shouts halt at anyone who touches a stone.

Mexico's largest cemetery, opened in 1874, has two figures the gravediggers talk about. The first is the boy of Dolores, a weeping child who wanders between the headstones looking for his mother. The watchmen say that as long as you do not hear him all is well, but whoever hears the crying has been chosen: afterwards the child returns night after night in dreams, begging for help to find her, so insistently that several people have felt compelled to go back to the cemetery. The second is the soldier Andrés Figueroa, buried here at fifty-four, who still walks his rounds against grave robbers and barks his halt there out of the darkness at anyone who touches a stone.

FAQ

Where is Panteón Civil de Dolores located?

Panteón Civil de Dolores is in Mexico City, Mexico.

More haunted places in Mexico City

• The House of Tiles Mexico City · Historic building
• La Casa Colorada (House of La Malinche) Mexico City · Historic building
• Fuentes Brotantes National Park, Tlalpan Mexico City · Natural site
• The Old Palace of the Inquisition Mexico City · Palace
• Los Dínamos de Contreras Mexico City · Forest
• The Street of the Burned Woman Mexico City · Road
• The White House of San Ángel Mexico City · Manor
• San Fernando Cemetery Museum Mexico City · Cemetery

Accounts are drawn from local folklore and visitor reports.