EXPLORÉ TEMPLO HUNDIDO Y SU TERRIBLE HISTORIA — Transcript

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1. 0:00I am Celgrini and welcome to the Sunken
2. 0:02Temple. The Temple of the Virgin of
3. 0:15Sorrows, better known as the sunken
4. 0:17temple, was built in a town with a
5. 0:18great misfortune. People were starving,
6. 0:21the fields were not growing, and the
7. 0:23livestock were not living long enough.
8. 0:25And why was that? Well, the town was
9. 0:27running out of water.
10. 0:28Hello, how's it going? I am Andrés
11. 0:29from Aventura Hal, Guanajuato. Today we
12. 0:31are at the temple, and well, we have
13. 0:33been dedicated to giving this tour for
14. 0:356 years, and we have obtained relevant
15. 0:37information based on anecdotes told to
16. 0:39us by all the townspeople, the
17. 0:41fishermen, and others. It is
18. 0:43colloquially known as the sunken temple
19. 0:44, but that's wrong because if you look,
20. 0:46right now it is not sunken. Its
21. 0:47original name, its true name, is the
22. 0:49Temple of the Virgin of Sorrows.
23. 0:53Outfit for exploring a sunken temple
24. 0:56and a city that was sacrificed to
25. 0:58provide drinking water to another city,
26. 1:00and the only thing that survived was a
27. 1:02temple. I feel like I'm going to the
28. 1:06Atlantis of Mexico.
29. 1:08The houses, the lands, and the temple
30. 1:10were intentionally flooded. The
31. 1:12inhabitants were displaced and
32. 1:14everything ended up underwater as a
33. 1:16necessary sacrifice. And well, beneath
34. 1:18this great dam, not only did the ruins
35. 1:20of this town remain, but the story of a
36. 1:22priest also stands out, who decided to
37. 1:24stay and drown rather than leave this
38. 1:26sacred place. Over the years, ancient
39. 1:29coins, buried objects, and human
40. 1:31remains began to appear within the
41. 1:32temple walls. Since then, there has
42. 1:35been a question: does the sunken temple
43. 1:37really hide a treasure for which the
44. 1:39priest lost his life so that no one
45. 1:41would find it? Well, we are arriving at
46. 1:43the temple now. This temple, from what
47. 1:46I researched—correct me if I'm wrong
48. 1:49—is a temple from the 1800s to the
49. 1:52late 1700s; but it has been sunken for
50. 1:55about 50 years, meaning it was due to
51. 1:58this dam being built, and well, this
52. 2:01whole town, as I told you, which is our
53. 2:04Mexican Atlantis, ended up underwater.
54. 2:08But we are about to be told the stories
55. 2:11directly from the mouths of the people
56. 2:13who once lived in this town and whose
57. 2:15homes were, unfortunately, submerged.
58. 2:18As we continued moving forward and
59. 2:20gathering information, we realized that
60. 2:22this temple does not actually hide any
61. 2:24treasure, and the only thing people
62. 2:25have caused is its deterioration.
63. 2:27In this place where you currently see
64. 2:29water, there used to be an entire town
65. 2:31that lived mainly from agriculture, and
66. 2:33only rivers flowed through here. The
67. 2:34main river, the Macadoloso river, comes
68. 2:36from Guanajuato. We see it there in the
69. 2:37background. Here in the town,
70. 2:38everything was love and peace. People
71. 2:39used those waters to irrigate their
72. 2:41crops. And well, what happened? That in
73. 2:431973, in the neighboring city of
74. 2:45Irapuato, its main dam broke and
75. 2:47overflowed during a tropical storm.
76. 2:49Part of the city of Irapuato was
77. 2:50flooded for 4 days. There were deaths
78. 2:52and a lot of material damage. And in
79. 2:531980, the whole town was underwater,
80. 2:55including this temple and all the
81. 2:57little houses, right? Since the rain
82. 2:59doesn't arrive in May, it becomes the
83. 3:01driest month, it drops so much that you
84. 3:02can appreciate it as it is now, where
85. 3:04you can walk perfectly into the site.
86. 3:06Well, this is the main entrance to what
87. 3:08was the temple. In this part here, you
88. 3:10can see how there was an arch that gave
89. 3:12life to what was a double height where
90. 3:14the organ and the choir were placed.
91. 3:16For example, this was the stairwell, as
92. 3:18you can see, this rectangular dimension
93. 3:21. It went upwards, and passing the slab
94. 3:23, the rooftop, it became what was the
95. 3:24bell tower. And also from here you can
96. 3:26access what was the double height I
97. 3:28mentioned or where the choir was.
98. 3:29Uh-huh, agreed. Had it not been for
99. 3:31human beings, this place would still be
100. 3:33standing completely. I forgot to
101. 3:35mention that if we turn, for example,
102. 3:37to the top part in the corner, you can
103. 3:38see it very little, but well, there is
104. 3:40that part there. And if not, this slab
105. 3:43this slab above. Uh-huh. On the slab
106. 3:45above the rooftop, we see some clay
107. 3:47pots embedded,
108. 3:48because in the end, this was also a
109. 3:51tourist spot where its attraction or
110. 3:53beauty was to enter by kayak and be
111. 3:55able to see the domes and feel how the
112. 3:57era enveloped you and transported you
113. 4:00to something, well, mystical, right?
114. 4:02It's very beautiful, it really has the
115. 4:05art. Fortunately or unfortunately, we
116. 4:08are in a time where we can walk inside.
117. 4:11However, I have seen videos of this
118. 4:13place where people would enter by kayak
119. 4:15and it was very immersive and very
120. 4:17beautiful. Uh, like it transported you
121. 4:19to another era. However, this also
122. 4:21harbors a very sad history. Here where
123. 4:25all those stones are, it is supposed to
124. 4:27be the main area where the priest stood
125. 4:29to perform mass, right? That area is
126. 4:32where the priest—I'm going to stand
127. 4:34there so you know where. In fact, right
128. 4:37where I am standing, it is said that
129. 4:39the Virgin was left behind before the
130. 4:40dam destroyed and swept away the entire
131. 4:42town. There was a Virgin here that is
132. 4:45said to have sadly sunk along with the
133. 4:47temple and was never found. It was the
134. 4:49Virgin of Sorrows. And it is said that
135. 4:52this is exactly where the priest used
136. 4:54to give mass. And, this being a very
137. 4:56old temple, all around here is full of
138. 4:59corpses. I mean, it was a cemetery. And
139. 5:01in the main part, a priest is buried.
140. 5:04It is not known exactly if the priest
141. 5:06said, "I am not leaving my temple and I
142. 5:08am staying here," because those are
143. 5:09some of the things people say. Or if
144. 5:11the priest genuinely passed away, had
145. 5:13his little mass, and said, "Bury me
146. 5:15here in my temple and I will stay here.
147. 5:17" So, many people also believe that
148. 5:19there is gold and treasure and things
149. 5:21like that. Uh, the guides have
150. 5:22confirmed to us that there is nothing
151. 5:24here, that there is no gold. So, don't
152. 5:26come digging, there is nothing of value
153. 5:28, and if you dig you will surely just
154. 5:31find corpses because we are around a
155. 5:33cemetery, since in the past it was also
156. 5:35common to bury loved ones around
157. 5:37hospitals and town temples. But yes,
158. 5:40basically if we go back to the history
159. 5:43from a long time ago, here supposedly
160. 5:45lie the remains of a priest whom we are
161. 5:47going to try to contact today to see if
162. 5:50it is true that he decided to stay and
163. 5:52sink like a good captain of his cruise
164. 5:54ship, just like in the Titanic. He said
165. 5:57, "I'm staying in my temple," and
166. 5:59besides, if you were near this temple,
167. 6:01would you dare to go investigate to see
168. 6:04if you could find any treasure? Or if
169. 6:06you were to hear of a place that hides
170. 6:08a treasure, would you be capable of
171. 6:10destroying it just to keep it? This is
172. 6:12the part where you go up to the bell.
173. 6:15It is also very damaged now, but with
174. 6:17great care, I think we can make it to
175. 6:19the top. So the little spiders, poor
176. 6:21little spiders, they build their little
177. 6:24homes, but they don't know that in a
178. 6:26few days or a few more rains they will
179. 6:28drown. Ah, I hit my knee really hard.
180. 6:34Leave a "rub it, Celeste" in the
181. 6:35comments if you made it to this part of
182. 6:36the video because it really hurt. We
183. 6:39don't have enough time to go up further
184. 6:41, but this here is what is known as the
185. 6:43bell tower. This is where usually the
186. 6:46priest, the monk, or the assistants
187. 6:48would call for mass, but all those
188. 6:51items were taken to the town's new
189. 6:53temple. And well, I hope you really
190. 6:56liked this story of the sunken temple.
191. 6:58The truth is, I only feel nostalgia and
192. 7:00pity for the conditions it's in today.
193. 7:03But oh well, what can you do, it is
194. 7:05what it is. I hope you liked the story.
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196. 7:10please, humans, don't destroy ancient
197. 7:13places; after all, these things are
198. 7:15stories, and they speak volumes about
199. 7:17our education regarding history. And
200. 7:20don't think everything ancient has
201. 7:22treasure, and even if it did, well, it
202. 7:24isn't yours. What's it to you? Don't go
203. 7:26sticking your nose where you aren't
204. 7:27wanted. Take care of and preserve
205. 7:29history, monuments, and the buildings
206. 7:31that hold it. God bless reggaeton. Amen
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