Mexico Unexplained
Mexico Unexplained: It's the X Files with a Latino twist. We explore the magic, the mysteries and the miracles of Mexico every week.
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- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 15 minutes
- Episodes
- 362
- Years Active
- 2024 - 2025
The 8 Omens of Montezuma and the End of the Aztec Empire
In the ten years prior to the Spanish Conquest, 8 strange things happened in and around the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan, leading many to believe that the Aztec Empire was doomed. Were these omens …
00:14:29 |
Fri 08 Aug 2025
Tenamaxtli & the Mixtón War
A little-known indigenous rebellion in colonial Mexico shook the Spanish Empire to its very foundations. This is the story of the Mixtón War, and its leader, Francisco Tenamaxtli.
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00:16:58 |
Fri 08 Aug 2025
2012, the Maya Calendar and Doomsday - What Happened?
Doomsday hysteria ramped up closer to 2012 based on the prophecies of the Maya. Was the world supposed to end or did a shift in consciousness occur?
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00:19:23 |
Fri 08 Aug 2025
El Niño Fidencio, Miraculous Healer or Fake?
In a dusty desert town in northern Mexico a man claiming to be a faith healer allegedly cured tens of thousands of people in the 1920s and 1930s. Was he a fraud?
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00:19:35 |
Fri 08 Aug 2025
La Llorona, Mexico's Ditch Witch
La Llorona is one of the most powerful and enduring pieces of Mexican folklore. She haunts the canals, creek beds, rivers, arroyos and acequias of Mexico and the American Southwest. If you are a chil…
00:14:18 |
Fri 08 Aug 2025
El Manatí, Sacred Swamp of the Olmecs
In 1987 villagers in a remote part of Veracruz stumbled upon one of the most important archaeological sites of the Olmec culture.
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00:14:51 |
Thu 07 Aug 2025
Ek Balam, City of the Jaguar Star
This mostly unexcavated Maya city in the northern Yucatan still holds some fascinating secrets.
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00:14:44 |
Thu 07 Aug 2025
Catarina de San Juan and the Trans-Pacific Slave Trade
An enslaved woman from India found herself 10,000 miles from home in 1600s Colonial Mexico. This is her fascinating story.
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00:15:14 |
Thu 07 Aug 2025
Legends from Coahuila
The third largest state in Mexico - Coahuila - is home to many legends. Here are three:
1. The Mysterious Casa de las Canicas
2. El Callejon del Diablo
3. The Ghost Bride of Patos
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1. The Mysterious Casa de las Canicas
2. El Callejon del Diablo
3. The Ghost Bride of Patos
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00:14:05 |
Thu 07 Aug 2025
Ghostly Guadalajara
The Mexican city of Guadalajara has an overabundance of haunted places. Here are 5 stories that will scare the tamales out of you.
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00:15:24 |
Thu 07 Aug 2025
Emperor Ahuizotl and the Expansion of the Aztec Empire
He ushered in the Aztec Golden Age and doubled the size of the empire, but in the end, Emperor Ahuizotl died tragically and before his time.
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00:16:09 |
Thu 07 Aug 2025
Edzná, Land of the Seven Provinces
This magnificent lost city in the jungles of Campeche has an interesting and mysterious history.
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00:14:39 |
Thu 07 Aug 2025
Bandits and Hidden Treasures, Part One
Many folktales, ballads and legends throughout Mexico tell of bandits amassing fortunes and hiding away their treasures. Some of these stories may not be tall tales at all.
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00:15:46 |
Thu 07 Aug 2025
The Ulimate Cinco de Mayo Show
It's not Mexican Independence Day. It's not the day that Mexico kicked out the French. So, what exactly is the holiday called Cinco de Mayo?
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00:14:16 |
Thu 07 Aug 2025
Cerro Culiacán, Mexican Mountain of Mystery
This pyramid-shaped mountain in Guanajuato has everything: strange creatures, buried treasure and a possible subterranean city accessible through its many caves.
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00:15:37 |
Wed 06 Aug 2025
Don Pedrito Jaramillo; Healer, Clairvoyant, Folk Saint
Credited with tens of thousands of healings, Don Pedrito Jaramillo was considered to be part curandero and part psychic. Now he is a folk saint revered by many on both sides of the border.
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00:14:05 |
Wed 06 Aug 2025
Have You Ever Heard of the Islas Coronado?
Visible from San Diego, this northernmost Mexican island group has a fascinating history and strange tales to tell.
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00:15:20 |
Wed 06 Aug 2025
Edzná, Land of the Seven Provinces
This magnificent lost city in the jungles of Campeche has an interesting and mysterious history.
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00:14:39 |
Wed 06 Aug 2025
María Uchu Túpac: Inca Princess in Colonial Mexico
An Inca princess found herself in colonial Mexico fighting for her rights, recognition of her family's status, and a place in a post-Conquest world.
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00:15:16 |
Wed 06 Aug 2025
Did a Mexican Invent Color TV?
Many Mexicans have never heard of genius inventor Guillermo González Camarena.
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00:12:22 |
Tue 05 Aug 2025
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