La Cornudilla

La Cornudilla became famous thanks to the book "Guide to the Cursed Spanish Cities", written by the Valencian Juan Garcia Atienza in 1985 due to a paranormal episode, which by that time was almost forgotten.

It seems that at the end of the 50s, the village (consisting of several houses, trulli warehouses and cattle pens, which failed to become a town) suffered a wave of noise and strange events that forced the intervention of the church authorities. Later, they will focus on a particular house separated from the rest, the famous "House of Noises", with screams, screams and dragging chains forcing its inhabitants to leave. After that, it will still be a place that, of course, neighbors and farmers passing by are afraid of.

Subsequently, the idea spread that La Cornudilla was abandoned in a traumatic and rapid manner because of this event. With some comics related to UFO claims or plague epidemics. Nothing could be further from the truth than these versions... This settlement, like most of these small settlements, even before the 1950s entered into a demographic decline trend. The lack of drinking water, electricity and other communications, as well as the improvement of roads, paths and inter-district transport made life in nearby towns and villages very attractive, from where it was possible to continue cultivating these lands with great comfort. Thus, La Cornudilla was another case of depopulation and concentration of cities characteristic of the entire Meseta de Utiel Requena since the mid-20th century.

The place and its history are considered an excellent example of how to do sensational journalism, spreading hoaxes and half-truths that mythologized a very curious and mysterious event, but in a highly distorted form.