Historias de Terror para Dormir Bien Vol. 10

The episode opens with the host setting the scene for the tenth volume of the series, promising stories of kidnappings where non-human presences help victims escape, a child sold to become a hitman, prostitutes who learn dark secrets, and truckers cursed by real-life hexes. The throughline is survival in the face of systemic cruelty, where the supernatural often mirrors or amplifies the horrors humans inflict on each other.

A Child Sold Into the Cartel

The first major story follows a man recounting his childhood in Sinaloa. After his father, a low-level dealer for the Sinaloa cartel, is killed by rivals, his mother descends into alcoholism and addiction. By age 12, she sells him to a sicario named Don Ricardo for cash. He is taken to a ranch where he and dozens of other children are forced to harvest marijuana and serve as lookouts. The true horror unfolds on a Saturday night when a bonfire is lit, and Don Ricardo leads a satanic ritual before burning five bound prisoners alive. The narrator describes watching his peers cheer as the victims writhe in the flames, a sight that marks him permanently. He spends years as a delivery boy for the cartel, saving money until he escapes at 17, eventually building a new life in Chiapas and opening a gym to shelter street youth. The story’s mechanism is clear: poverty and cartel violence create a pipeline where children become disposa