11/12/2025
(1946, Zacatecas) The Mendoza Family: He impregnated 7 daughters and created the most degenerate family in the region.
This is the story of the "El Silencio" Hacienda, a tale that demonstrates how the most unsettling legends can be rooted in a truth that authorities tried to bury for decades.
Deep in the remote mountains of Zacatecas, the air feels heavy as you approach the abandoned Mendoza family property. The dilapidated structure stands as a monument to horrors that many locals still refuse to acknowledge, a place where the lines between isolation and depravity blurred into something unimaginable under the weight of secrets spanning three generations.
It all began in 1903. Don Rodolfo Mendoza arrived in Zacatecas with his wife, Doña Elena, and their seven daughters, ranging in age from 4 to 16. He bought nearly 200 hectares of remote, wooded land using a sum of cash that no one could account for. According to now-yellowed documents, Mendoza paid almost double the asking price on the condition that no questions be asked about his previous residence.
The local newspaper, El Minero Ilustrado, barely mentioned the newcomers, noting that Mendoza desired privacy to establish a sustainable estate, far removed from the corrupting influences of modern society. The personal notes of the town clerk who processed the deed, never before made public, described Mendoza as a man of intimidating presence, with peculiar religious notions that kept his daughters exceptionally quiet. Doña Elena signed her part of the paperwork with a simple "X."
The Mendozas established their isolation immediately, building a large country house without hiring any local labor. General store records showed massive orders for supplies, but no one except Don Rodolfo himself was seen picking them up.
Suspicion began to subtly surface. Jacobo Durán, a former postal worker, shared his father's diary, who served that route. In three years, the postman never saw any of the women or girls, although he heard female voices coming from the house. Don Rodolfo always found him at the edge of the property, preventing him from approaching. The postman noticed something else in April 1907: "Today I delivered a package and heard what sounded like a woman crying from the barn. When I asked, Mendoza explained that it was a newborn calf... but I've heard enough cattle births to know the difference between animal and human distress. Something isn't right up there."
The first real indication that something sinister was happening came in the winter of 1908. The local doctor, Dr. Ernesto Solís, was called to the property for a "difficult delivery." Upon arriving, he didn't find Doña Elena in labor, but rather her 21-year-old daughter, Catalina. The doctor's diary contains a chilling entry: "The young woman was clearly in distress... I determined that it was not her first pregnancy, even though there are no records of her marriage. When I inquired about the father, Mr. Mendoza was hostile... What disturbed me most was the young woman's reaction when her father entered the room: a visible trembling that suggested terror." As he left, Dr. Solís noticed the other six sisters watching him from the shadows in the hallway; at least two of them appeared to be pregnant. Don Rodolfo firmly escorted him out, warning him not to return uninvited.
The doctor's concerns reached the local commissioner, Guillermo Huerta, who conducted a cursory investigation. His three-sentence official report stated that the family was "private, but not in obvious danger." Later testimonies would reveal that Mendoza made substantial annual contributions to both the commissioner's reelection fund and charitable organizations.
To be continued...👇
