The legend of the taxi driver.

Our story begins on any given day for a driver and owner of a rental car, a "carro cerrado" or a "tourism", as taxis used to be called until not long ago here in San Cristóbal. They say that this One day, very early in the morning, two ladies with two bouquets of flowers approached Pedro, who was cleaning his unit, and asked him to take them to the local cemetery. The women got into the car and the quick trip of no more than five minutes was made. It is believed that around 7 in the morning, and almost to head back to the city, Pedro was startled, when a voice in the back of the car ordered him to take her to the center of the city. Intrigued by the way the woman had gotten into the car, while he is driving along the San Cristóbal zócalo, he can't stop seeing that woman in the rearview mirror who covers her white face behind a black veil.

Upon reaching the temple of Nuestra Señora de La Merced, the woman orders the taxi driver to stop and tells him to wait for her. He gets out of the car and Pedro notices the well-defined body of the woman, outlined in a fitted black dress. She is tall, white and you can guess behind the veil that covers her face, her beautiful features. The woman takes a while inside the temple and then, instead of getting into the car, she signals to the taxi driver to continue waiting for her and she goes to the Calvary temple. A while later, the woman returns and gets back into the car, orders to go to the Guadalupe neighborhood and does the same. She gets out of the car and enters the temple, to leave a while after her and order him to take her to another neighborhood, to visit another temple.

Thus the hours pass and the day dies, finally, since they have visited all the temples of San Cristóbal de las Casas, that woman with a tired voice orders the taxi driver to take her to the temple of San Felipe. It is almost night, the dim lights of some electric lamps come on, when the woman leaves the San Felipe temple and orders the taxi driver to take her back to the city cemetery. There, before entering the cemetery, the woman turns to the taxi driver and asks him to please collect what she owes him the next morning, at her home; her veil is raised from her that covers her face and the taxi driver can see in all her fullness the beautiful face of the woman, somewhat pale and emaciated and hands her a written piece of paper. The beautiful woman, without expecting anything, disappears at the entrance to the cemetery and the somewhat angry taxi driver leaves the place. Pedro, tired from a day driving almost non-stop, goes to his house to rest. Early the next day, they show up at the address that strange woman gave them and which is in the Mexicanos neighborhood. He knocks on the door and asks to speak to the owner of the house. The owner comes out and the taxi driver explains that a woman used her vehicle and that she left him a piece of paper with that address to collect. First Pedro receives a loud laugh from that man as an answer, and then he himself asks him more carefully about the details of the service and the face of the owner of that house, he turns from laughter to a more serious state. Then he invites the taxi driver to the house and asks him if he is able to recognize the woman who was with him the day before.

The owner of that house takes out a large painting and shows Pedro a photograph of a beautiful young woman. Pedro, the taxi driver, recognizes her instantly, it's her, there's no doubt. But the owner of the house says that this is impossible, that what the taxi driver says cannot be, that this woman cannot have been transported in the taxi, because she has been dead for more than ten years. upon receiving that answer, Pedro faints. The owners of the house call other taxi drivers to help them. He is taken to his house. Pedro regains consciousness and is able to give a detailed account of what has happened. But he is unable to get out of bed. That same day, he starts to have a high fever. It is said that there were eight days of fever, until he finally died. He blames his death on this strange event.

The popular voice tells that, still today, on spring mornings and cold winter nights, suddenly, a beautiful white woman, dressed in black, appears in the area of the pantheon, asking to be taken to visit the churches of San Cristóbal. Mystery? Yes, a horrifying legend that freezes the blood and makes us believe in the supernatural, in the terrible enigmatic, which is the afterlife; but not everything stops there, it is said that even today two or three people and not exactly taxi drivers have been approached by a beautiful woman who wears black and who comes out of the pantheon, although, apparently, they have not had such bad luck like it happened to the taxi driver.