Enter if you dare! A new type of museum just opened in San Antonio, Texas and it’s giving us some serious chills! If you thought San Antonio was only home to friendly ghosts at the Alamo, think again. South Texas just got a whole lot scarier, thanks to horror makeup master Sergio Guerra.
The San Antonio native, who’s been crafting monsters for years, has opened the Texas Horror Museum inside Wonderland of the Americas mall, and it’s crawling with creatures you’ve probably never heard of! From bloodthirsty legends of South America to our own bone-chilling borderland boogeymen, Guerra’s bringing nightmares to life!
The Texas Horror Museum
The museum’s first big fright fest is called Leyendas, an immersive, multimedia deep dive into South American folklore that many of us grew up hearing. Step inside and you’ll meet monsters pulled straight from the nightmares of Latin America, like Pishtaco, a myth from Peru and Bolivia who butchers victims and sells their flesh as chicharrones, or Colocolo, a creepy, rat-like thing from Chile that feeds on the saliva of sleeping people. There’s even El Sombrerón, a pint-sized boogeyman from Guatemala who charms young women with guitar music before spiriting them away.
Guerra has staged the whole thing like a theater show, so you’re not just looking at these creatures- you’re walking right into their stories.
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