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The ruins of Huerta de San José Monastery in Carmona, Seville were once thought to be haunted by demons and the devil himself. After a horrible tragedy that ended in the death of all the monks, the place has been known as The Devil’s Monastery or the Monastery from Hell.
The ruins of Huerta de San José Monastery in Carmona, Seville were once thought to be haunted by demons and the devil himself. After a horrible tragedy that ended in the death of all the monks, the place has been known as The Devil’s Monastery or the Monastery from Hell.
Spain is famous for its haunted history and tales of angels and demons. With its rich history and diverse culture, there are many places that are said to be haunted. In Carmona in Seville, Spain there is the ruins of a monastery that is said to be cursed by the devil himself.
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The church known as The Devil’s Monastery is known for the mysterious and spooky presence of a ghost, who is rumored to have been lingering there for centuries. The stories surrounding this The Devil’s Monastery are fascinating and are sure to give you chills down your spine. In this blog post, we will explore the history of the haunted church in Spain and the ghost that haunts it.
Huerta de San José Monastery, belonged to the religious order of the Carmelites of Saint Joseph. The cloister dates back to the 17th century but was never completed. The building close to the small and sleepy village was only used for a couple of decades before a horrible tragedy befell the monastery.
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A group of Franciscan-Dominican friars came to the hilltop to build their monastery to both be a convent as well as a boarding school for the locals. Here they would serve the words of their lord in peace. But the fact was that their dream about Huerta de San José Monastery would never be true and the convent would never be remembered as the place of god, but The Devil’s Monastery.
In 1680, Don Jaime Malvidas joined the convent as a new monk. According to the documents that were made from the case about the Huerta de San José Monastery at the time, Maldives woke up in the morning and found out his door was bolted from the outside.
The fact that the door was locked wasn’t an unusual thing, as the Dominican monks had a habit of locking themselves in after Vespers before opening the doors in the morning. But this time, there was no one there to open it.
He tried to meditate as he waited for morning, but the sound of steps outside made him curious. They stopped right outside and the door was opened with a bang. But when he looked outside, he found no one.
He thought maybe he was late for mass and hurried toward the chapel they were building. But there was no one. The only thing he heard was a wailing he almost thought came from himself. He started to investigate and went down into the basement. There he found all of the friars hanging from hooks, all dead.
And according to his testimony he also said this: I, gentlemen, upon seeing that infernal and bloody setting, began to see some small beings, who crowded around the dead bodies, ate their meat.
A fire broke out in now The Devil’s Monastery, and the monk ran out screaming that Satan was here. Some say that the monk really did meet the devil in the basement and left him alive to tell the world about his arrival. No one believed him and he was arrested after reporting it all to the authorities.
The next day the locals approached the burnt The Devil’s Monastery with crosses and bibles burying the dead monks. As they did it was as the sky darkened and what seemed like the face of Satan himself appeared between two columns of Huerta de San José Monastery.
They entered the building with their protection, but it was all for nothing as Satan was watching from the bell tower. He threw them around “like dolls” according to the documents. but an earthquake forced them out and further damaged the building.
Huerta de San José Monastery was purged with salt and the whole city had two years of masses to absolve them from the evil they had encountered those days.
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In the ruins of what is left of the The Devil’s Monastery, it is said the souls of the murdered monks are still trapped inside and haunt the place, all the documents signed by the Archbishop of Jerez.
People that have visited the ruins of The Devil’s Monastery claim to have heard whispers and ghostly silhouettes of the monks. Gregorian voices and chants have been heard as well as strange lights floating around the place.
Today the ruins of Huerta de San José Monastery is abandoned except for those wandering in the outskirts of the nearby village or the nightly ghost tours they have to try to catch a glimpse of the murdered monks trapped forever where they died.
El misterio del ‘Monasterio del Diablo’
Monasterio Huerta de San José – Carmona
