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Cabo San Antonio is a quiet and small coast side town. The wildness and perfects of the area invited people to live there. A quiet place in which one could sit back and relax. Its shores were often visited by sea travelers from all over the world. As in many other gorgeous locations, the tides and the bottom of the sea are not as tranquil as one might imagine, and thus, without proper signalization there were many shipwrecks nearby. Locals, in an attempt of finding an explanation to those catastrophes in paradise, began to explain them as a result of greater forces such as ghosts, mermaids, or an upper wish. These explanations became such a tradition that when Mar de Ajo’s first hotel was built they painted a mural telling these stories. Nowadays is common knowledge that sailing nearby the coast should be done with the proper equipment to avoid casualties, and the number of accidents has sensibly decreased. The stories however didn’t… and may be they needn’t for folk doesn’t necessary has to be uprooted, it just has to be complemented with a clear explanation and the joy of hearing a good old fellow tell us about all those fantasy stories.