My boyfriend of that long ago era 1989 had failed Criminal Law at school so I decided to help him prepare for the make up test, but our homes seemed to have many distractions, we decided to pack up our gear and use this place his family had out of the city limits, more or less 45 mins away. This place used to be a recreational site in it's younger days, and had a huge pool, a baby pool and a whirlpool (remember those?) all of them empty, a petting zoo, all that was left was a goat, it had a huge dinning area, and all over were fruit trees, and of course lots of display cages where the used to be all kinds of different birds, hence the name, Los Pajaros. His family had been leasing it for a couple of years, it's glory days long past, and only a couple of times had sub let it to near by villages for wedding receptions and such, they paid for the caretaker, which lived on the premises with his family. Since there was no use for it's original purpose, his family (my boyfriend's) had decided to use the whole place to raise all different kinds of birds (poultry) geese, turkeys, ducks, etc. Back to the story, we decide to use this place since it was as good as abandoned, and the first time we went up, we had all the keys to the place except the one that opened up to the dinning area that led to what had been the office (our intended place of study) so we sat outside and got bit by bugs and left at dusk. We never did go back and study, it just left our minds, and in the end he did pass the test.

Well a weekend in July we decide to have a barbecue with some friends on the premises, and when we went to pick our friends up (brother and sister) they made up some lame excuse not to go so we went on our own, and we did have the right keys this time, but it started to rain, we had to cook the hamburgers in the fireplace and it was just a hassle since the wood was wet, and every other imaginable thing, we finally ate, and had chocolate cake for desert, and we were laying on these psychiatric type couches (one on each) and we hadn't noticed how dark it was getting outside, and I started hearing a sort of footsteps on the roof, my boyfriend said it was probably a squirrel or something between the wooden planks, I wasn't convinced, it kept up for a while, the rain hadn't stopped and all of a sudden we hear 3 LOUD BANGS on the metal entrance door, we freaked out! We opened the door from the office that led to the dinning area, and it was all embraced in a sort of mist, you could see it but at the same time it wasn't there. And I remember an eerie feeling I got when I set foot out of the office, we checked the premises, and opened the door, we looked for the caretaker and he was inside his house with all his family, children sleeping, we decided to leave FAST, we picked up our stuff and practically ran out. We left and on the way back to the city we spoke about how we had felt, and my boyfriend confessed that the knocks I had been hearing on the roof could not have been made by squirrels but he didn't want to scare me then. We started bringing up theories on what could have banged the door, and the mist, and the eerie feelings to no avail. We got to my house, and sat in the car for awhile talking about what had just happened. But it was late, almost 11 pm, my boyfriend, took the car keys from the ignition and opened his door to get out and I opened mine, and on comes the air conditioner gushing out air! We just stared at each other and at the keys in his hand! There was no way that could happen, the car wasn't even running! Needless to say we were freaked, we never went back to Los Pajaros, and eventually his family stopped leasing the property. He is married now, but we still keep in touch, I guess he's my best friend, and when ever we get a chance to talk we still wonder about what went on that night… I'm pretty sure someone needed a lift back to the city. Who knows?