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Aruban legends: Frenchman’s Pass

(Oranjestad)—If you ever ever, as the French were one involves a lonely hitch- braced for impact, but just Sometime later, two men
plan on taking a group heavily equipped with fire hiker, trying to find a ride when he though the car walked into the bar and
tour of the island, you may arms, the indigenous set- back home in the dark might drive straight off the one of them noticed the
pass through the French- tlers began to retreat, and rainy night. road and crash, he saw a hitchhiker. He called out to
man’s Pass in Balashi. The hid away in nearby caves. hand appear out the win- his buddy and said: “Look,
Frenchman’s pass (known The French colonizers tried Sometime after trying to dow and turn the wheel. there’s the idiot who sat
to locals as “Franse Pas”) to smoke them out of the hitchhike, the man saw a For the next few turns, the in our car when we were
remains a mysterious—and caves, but the indigenous car approaching, appear- hand appeared again. Af- pushing it!”
spooky—road of which its settlers ended up inhal- ing almost ghost-like in the ter having had enough, the
legend is told from genera- ing too much smoke and rain. However, since he man decided to jump out French man’s pass is one
tion to generation. most died in those caves. needed a ride real bad, and he ran to Santa Cruz. of the few sites on the is-
From then on, this passage he didn’t think twice and land that keeps the locals
The history of the French- was known as Frenchman’s jumped in. But to his horror, Arriving at a nearby bar, on their toes. While most
man’s pass—and how it got Pass, and there have been he noticed that the there he ordered a drink and be- ghost stories may not have
its name—dates back to many accounts of spirits was no driver in the front. gan to tell everyone about real grounds—or some may
the colonization era, when roaming the area of Span- Paralyzed with fear, he his experience. Everyone even be a set up story for a
the French tried to colo- ish Lagoon. didn’t dare to get out, and grew quiet, because they joke, this pass contributes a
nize the island, but were the car started to move. realized he wasn’t some lot to our culture of folkloric
met with an angry mob of There are many ghost sto- drunk messing around; he story-telling. q
indigenous settlers, refusing ries surrounding this area, When approaching a was telling the truth.
to give up their land. How- but one of the most famous sharp turn, the hitch hiker Source: visitaruba.com