This Sounds Like an Urban Legend
Imagine you hire someone to fix your leaky roof. A crew shows up, patches your roof, replaces a section of shingles, you pay the bill and they leave. A week or two later, you begin to hear strange noises in your attic and bad smells and find unusual rubbish in your yard. You may be a victim of the Mexican ManCave.
I found this on a Fark Post here:
It was VERY scary for me and my whole family. I am hoping that by telling all of you this, maybe we can all prevent it from happening to anyone else!!!
We recently bought a new house, and part of the agreement was that the previous owners would put on a new roof. Well, they did, and we moved in and for a few months everything was great. We got the locks changed, fixed some windows and upgraded the security system.
But, slowly we started noticing that something wasn’t quite right. At night we would hear odd sounds outside and in the attic. We would smell strange smells and find trash in our yard. We worried that we had raccoons or rats, but we could never find anything.
Until, one night I went outside to check on a sound, and there COMING OUT OF MY ROOF was a Mexican man!! He had placed a ladder on the wall, and was coming out of a “trap-door” in the roof. It was cut into the plywood under the new roof shingles! I screamed and he jumped down and ran away.
Naturally, I called the police and got my family out of the house. The police came quickly, and investigated the “trap-door” and the attic. And I was horrified to discover that MEXICANS HAD BEEN LIVING IN MY ATTIC! The roofers must have been “in on it” and they had built a “trap-door” into my roof without me knowing it! And then they must have told people how to get in! Can you understand how scared I was?
But, my fear was nothing compared to the outrage when I talked to the police. You will never guess what the police officer told me! He said that they were starting to see this “roof-sneaking” and Mexican “man-caves“(that is what he called it) a lot! And not only in Southern California, but all across the country! Evidently when people (usually immigrants) do work on your house, they are starting to build cubby-holes and secret entrances so that they can have people live there who are illegal immigrants!
It always happens this way. First you get bats, or worse, squirrels moving into your attic. Before you know it you have a full-on Mexican Outbreak and then when they are doing the Mexican Hat Dance around the sombrero to the tune of La Cucaracha, Pedro Lopez comes crashing through the ceiling, drunk on cheap tequila, and smashing his face on the corner of your dresser. Then you have a lawsuit on your hands and next thing you know your homeowners insurance cancels on you- its a total disaster! This happened to me twice already last Thursday.
Seriously though, I searched the internet to see if there were any news stories about this. I found this one story in the UK where some Kosovo refugees had pulled the old “Mexican Mancave” trick.
