El Futre is one of the most traditional legends of the province of Mendoza, in western Argentina. A province famous worldwide for the quality of its wines and for lying at the foot of the Andes Mountain Range.
There are two versions of how this story was born. A drunken gaucho, who fell asleep with his neck on the tracks of a train that, unable to stop, ran over him, beheading him. Another version makes reference to an Englishman who came every month to pay the wages of hundreds of locals who worked on the construction and maintenance of the railroad network that spread across the nation as from the mid-19th century.