Urban Legends

      In every country there are always legends  such as: ghosts, UFOs, aliens, witches, etc ... Here in Dominican Republic these stories always crop up in fields or areas remote from urbanization. Most of these stories has come up since decades ago. One of my favorite is the famous case of "The Queen of the Americas", from which, by the way, the film producer Alfonso Rodriguez made a mini series where dramatized this legend. This film became very famous!

      It turns out that not long ago'The Queen of the Americans" was walking in the  South Mirador , Salud Avenue around 10:00 pm. According to a testimony from a student that studies The Autonomous University Of Santo Domingo, he went out with a friend in his car, then when he was approaching  the Avenue he saw her, and he got so scared that he  accelerated his car as much as he could. When he got home he fell down on his knees and made some prayers before getting in bed!


   For those that do not know  where the legend came from, I will give you a brief story about it. It all starts in the Dominican Republic, where some years ago was reported the death of Natalia Coss, a  young beautiful girl , and a former local beauty queen, to which she was known popularly as "the queen of the people". Natalia had everything a girl could wish for: she was beautiful, lived well, and was engaged to a handsome young musician. After  several years of courtship  with this musician,  they decided to get married, after the celebration, Natalia and her  husband, traveled down the highway of Las Americas, Dominican Republic, in the direction of the international airport, where they would take a plane to get to their honeymoon. The night was a bit rainy and the highway was wet, then suddenly a car went through and the young musician of the car lost control, crashing into one of the retaining walls, being the end of the young couple, in which only was recovered the body of the young girl in pieces.
      A month after the accident, it began to be reported testimonies of people saying that when it rained, they saw a young woman in a wedding dress roaming at the highway. Several men claimed to have seen her, but there was no evidence, so the case was closed. Weeks later, a taxi driver was going down the highway on a rainy night, and saw the girl at a roadside, he stopped and, after talking with her, decided to take her home. Along the way, the driver and Natalia talked about several things. It was raining heavily, so the taxi driver lent the girl a coat while he said "Do not worry, I will come tomorrow  for it "after that,  the young girl got out of the car and entered into the house. The next day, the driver went to the house of the girl to get his coat, upon arrival, knocked on the door, opening an old lady.The driver asked for Natalia, but she told him that she had died a few months ago. The taxi driver,not believing this, told him what had happened the night before, the woman returned to explain that her daughter was dead, and that if he did not believe it, then he could go to the cemetery where the tomb of the young girl was. The driver decided to go with the lady to see the tomb. At the cemetery, the mother of the deceased girl guided him to the grave of his daughter. There he found the coat with a note that said: "Thanks, it was very useful."
      After that, multiple investigations have been made, but still no one knows exactly who seeks the young queen, maybe one more time on Earth, perhaps the person who went through his car that fateful night, or perhaps the body of his loved husband.