BRUJAS Y NAHUALES, El Cerro De Las Brujas Historias De Terror - REDE

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The Witch Hill. This isn'
t a story of mine, but it

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' s a story my grandfather tells
me every time I go to visit him

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today. He' s a very
old person and sometimes I feel like he

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forgets a lot of things. My
grandfather grew up in a village of which

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I would not like to say his
name for security reasons and also because my

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grandfather has always refused to specify the
area. We know the town. He

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has always worried that one of us
is brave enough or stupid enough to go

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in search of what he saw.
In his village there was a hill called

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by the people of the place like
Cerro de la Bruja. Everyone in the

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village claimed that witches gathered on that
hill and performed their rituals. On more

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than one occasion, people from the
village had found her strange symbols carved on

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the trees, as well as on
the earth and some dead animals that seemed

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to have been sacrificed. In addition
to that, several people had also spotted

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species of fireballs jumping in the trees. During the morning, my grandfather told

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me that even he himself had come
to see them. I wasn' t

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entirely sure they were another particularity of
that hill. It was the best place

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to cut firewood. The trees were
never scarce and the wood was much better

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than the trees of other nearby hills. Despite the risk of playing with a

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witch, most people in the village
knew it was worth it, the risk,

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and they had also developed a sort
of system to never run into a

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witch. Most people went very early
to bring firewood and were back in their

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homes long before the night fell on
the village. Despite his precautions, more

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than one person claimed to have seen
strange things in that place. In fact,

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he had always told me that as
a child I was very afraid of

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that place. Besides all the legends
that were told. When he or his

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brothers misbehaved, his mother usually threatened
them by saying that he was going to

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leave them on that hill for the
witches to take away. This made him

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totally afraid of that place. As
he grew up and also acquired many more

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responsibilities in his home he began to
change his mind and very often used to

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say that those stories of Bruges were
nothing but beliefs of ignorant people and that

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all people claimed to have seen or
heard were probably hallucinations because they were so

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afraid. My grandfather tells me that, being a time when wood was basically

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needed for everything, his father commissioned
him to be in charge of bringing the

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firewood to store for the rains and
winter. He had to hurry to get

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enough firewood. Before that. He
notes that, as a 13- year

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- old teenager, his father initially
refused to be intimidated by my grandfather,

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threatening him that if they didn'
t have enough firewood for the winter and

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the rainy season, he was better
off preparing, because he would have it

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cut even in the rain. My
grandfather never listened to his father and when

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the rainy season came, his father
now did force him to cut firewood in

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the rain to serve as a lesson
for the other brothers, but no matter

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how hard he tried. It was
too difficult for him to cover the entire

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month' s work in just a
few days. He said at some point

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he got so desperate that he started
crying. And it was then that his

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two brothers, Manuel and Miguel twins, who were only two years younger,

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asked him what the problem was.
My grandfather told them and they told him

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they could go to the hill together
and not come down until they had enough

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firewood. Even one of them proposed
to take the donkey so as to bring

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firewood faster. They claimed they could
make two trips with the donkey while their

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parents went to the other town fair
to sell their pots and clay dishes.

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Relieved accepted and as soon as his
parents left. They all took the donkey

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and headed for the hill of the
Witch, where there was more wood to

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finish much faster. They thought it
would be a very simple task and the

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rain threatened to fall. They made
a trip without any problems and the amount

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of wood that had already been assembled
was quite decent. They knew their father

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wouldn' t settle for that,
as he had given her a whole month

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to put her together and knew that
wouldn' t be enough. They were

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willing to go for one more trip, but the donkey was already very tired,

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because they had to wait several hours
for the animal to drink water and

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eat something to recover. And,
to tell you the truth, they needed

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it, too, as it was
too tiring a journey. As soon as

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they were all ready to leave again, they realized that one drop of rain

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was already beginning to fall and,
on top of that, there was not

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much time left for it to get
dark. My grandfather says that his brother

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Manuel said that maybe it would be
best to leave it this way, but

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my grandfather afraid of what could happen
to him if he didn' t bring

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the rest of the wood, said
no and convinced them to go again.

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When they arrived, they realized that
there were still enough trees to cut down.

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The best ones had already been cut
and the ones that were left were

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somewhat removed. They had to go
deep into that hill so they could carry

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all the firewood. But still,
they didn' t care about this and

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went to work. But as soon
as the sun began to stop lighting,

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very well, his frightened brothers said
it would be best to leave because everyone

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there knew what was said about that
hill and did not want to meet any

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witches. My grandfather told them that
those were pure lies and that they were

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not going to find anything, that
the people of the village had invented those

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things because they wanted to attract attention
or because they were just cowards. At

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the same time he questioned them whether
they were and how their brothers did not

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want to look like cowards. They
said no and they kept working until they

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were simply not able to see where
they were hitting the trees in the dark,

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and that' s when they decided
it was best to come back.

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He was quite satisfied, as the
donkey was carrying a very good amount.

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He was absolutely sure his father couldn' t complain, let alone punish him.

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As they progressed. It started to
rain very little. He says that

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they began to walk downhill taking care
of where they were stepping so they wouldn

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' t stumble, as they weren' t enough. My grandfather tells me

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that on some stage none of them
were afraid. They were just talking.

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He remembers very well that they were
laughing when they suddenly heard something strange.

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It was heard as if women were
singing a song that they had never heard

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in their entire lives. It was
a language they didn' t know.

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He said something was being heard nearby, and of course everyone started to get

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scared. They began to rush through
trying to get away from those voices.

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It seemed that they were doing everything
the opposite, since at every step everything

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was heard more clearly and that I
know that I know and r r or

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the realization that the truth was that, without wanting it, their path to

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walk was leading them no more or
less than those women suddenly managed to see

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in the middle of the darkness a
huge bonfire. They knew it was great

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because, even though they were several
meters away, they could still see the

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fire sticking out even above the treetops. And not only that, but those

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songs were heard much louder and made
them feel a lot of fear. At

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that time, he could no longer
doubt that all those stories that the people

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of the village told were reality.
He began to think that they could do

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since, as much as he wanted
not to go through, they had to,

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because it was the only way to
get there. Yes, there was

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a way to surround that place,
but they would arrive practically in the morning

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in the village. Obviously, his
parents would not only notice it, but

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also the rain also threatened to be
much stronger. There were some lightnings in

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the sky. It was not at
all safe to try to surround the hill

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in an attempt to reassure its brothers, who were very frightened. My grandfather

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told them that he was fine and
that they would walk normally. The moment

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they arrived near that place, everyone
would be very quiet and in that way

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the witches would not see them.
His brothers only nodded and continued to walk

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until the inevitable finally happened and came
to that part where the bonfire was.

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He said that even the donkey seemed
to be walking very carefully, almost as

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if it detected a strong danger right
in front of him. My grandfather tells

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me that the moment they started passing
right by that bonfire they could see seven

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women. They were all naked and
danced to the mole around the bonfire.

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My grandfather said it was very strange
because they sometimes jumped into the fire through

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the fire without it hurting them.
My grandfather told me that it was impossible,

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because it was not only that they
were doing it too fast for the

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fire to burn them, but sometimes
they deliberately put in a foot or hand

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for several minutes before taking it out
and that they were not damaged. He

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said that by the light of the
bonfire he could see that all of them

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were very beautiful and had very long
and beautiful hair, but they still kept

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fearing for the simple fact that they
were doing that in the middle of a

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hill for no apparent reason. The
further it advanced, you could see that

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on the floor on which they were
dancing was drawn a huge circle that seemed

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to have some kind of symbol inside
of the material with which it was drawn.

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Even though they stepped on it or
danced to make such sudden movements,

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the pattern of the drawing on the
ground did not spread and did not lose

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its shape either. My grandfather told
me that at first his plan was working

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and that none of those women seemed
to have noticed his presence, that they

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were only taking care of their affairs. When, suddenly, one of his

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brothers stumbled upon a stone falling on
his knees on top of a branch burying

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it in the palm of his hand. His brother cried out for the heavy

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pain that it caused him, leaving
them exposed. My grandfather says that he

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saw clearly how those women turned directly
in his direction and saw that they were

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there. My grandfather tells how they
didn' t want to waste time and

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started running down the hill with the
intention of getting as far away from those

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women as possible. While they were
running, they began to hear a laugh

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that only he can describe to this
day as satanic, which not only mocked

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them, but at the same time
they could hear clearly as they said,

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that they were going to catch them
and hear how they were running after them.

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Soon after, they stopped listening to
the steps. They were still running

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and suddenly they saw something else.
They began to see fireballs floating above the

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trees, which were heading towards them. My grandfather talked to me as they

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still kept running and that the donkey
was in front of them and then,

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horrified they saw as one of those
fireballs landed directly on the donkey, who

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began to shake, trying to get
that fireball, which had already taken a

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form of woman, down from him. But before he could make it,

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that errant woman with an enormous force
took the donkey' s head and turned

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it. They all heard how he
creaked as he turned most of the way

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around and the donkey fell dead.
In that instant. They kept running,

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they stopped chasing them, and when
my grandfather left, he realized that his

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brother Manuel was gone. He says
that when they arrived at his house they

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told his parents until they arrived and
together with other friends of the town,

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they went up the hill to try
to locate the child, but all they

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could find was that donkey with a
broken neck, which gave a great truth

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to their story. But as much
as they searched, they couldn' t

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find him. This story doesn'
t end there. My grandfather says that,

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although this was a very hard blow
for the whole family, little by

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little everyone started to come back to
a routine. Some people who lived closer

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to the hill of the Witch arrived
quickly and told their mother that they had

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endorsed their son. They all went
to see thinking that it would only be

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about the body, but Manuel was
alive, he no longer seemed unable to

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speak himself, his eyes looked very
dull and he was very thin. My

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grandfather told us that they took him
home and tried to cure him. Of

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course, at the time there was
no access to a hospital as such and,

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in fact, the first thing his
mother did was to get him to

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clean up and cure him with fright, as he believed that was what he

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had. But the healer told him
that the witches had taken his soul and

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that his child was no longer his, but only his body. At first,

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my grandfather' s mother didn'
t believe him and still took him

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home, he couldn' t do
anything on his own, he didn'

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t eat without help, he didn' t talk, he just spent it

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lying down. Finally, about two
weeks after one morning arrived, there were

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no traces of him, which were
leaving the property and seemed to be heading

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towards the hill of the Witch.
But no one could confirm it, as

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the trail was lost shortly afterwards by
the different people passing by. My grandfather

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says he doesn' t know what
happened to his brother to date, but

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his whole life will feel very guilty. The new neighbor grew up in a

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fairly marginalized colony in Neza city.
The truth is, for anyone who knows

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anything about this place, he'
ll know it' s not a safe

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place. My mom didn' t
feel too sure we' d go out

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on the street without them. He
usually kept us locked up in the house

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for long hours while they both went
to work. Very rarely did we go

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out and when we did it it
was just for a couple of hours with

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some kind of supervision. At the
age of ten, we discovered that we

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could easily walk out the bathroom window. My brother and I were working out

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to go out and play in the
afternoons and come back before my parents arrived.

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It was precisely on one of these
occasions that we returned after playing near

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one of the vacant grounds that was
just a few meters behind our house,

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we saw a person moving into the
room, which was right next to our

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home. That man looked a little
strange, He had a long scar,

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almost as if his face was cut
in a vertical line and his eye seemed

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to have been affected by that wound. He had it in a gray color.

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He was a big person, perhaps
about fifty years old, dressed in

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a plaid shirt and a pair of
plain denim pants. We just surround it

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and follow our path and, as
soon as it' s you, we

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go far enough. We both started
saying how creepy that man, my brother,

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looked, who was two years older
than me. He told me with

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the intention of scaring me that most
likely in that big coffee suitcase that was

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coming down from his motorcycle, there
were probably hundreds of corpses of children.

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I told him that couldn' t
be, but he said yes, because

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he looked like a serial killer.
At that moment. None of us thought

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beyond that. We just took it
into play from the first night. We

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knew that something very strange could be
happening at home, as while we were

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sleeping, we could feel some flashes. We thought it might well be from

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outside, since it wasn' t
a quiet neighborhood at all. When we

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woke up, we realized that,
in fact, they seemed to come from

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the other side of the wall as
such old and careless constructions. It was

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not surprising that they had cracks through
which the light that evidently came from the

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other house leaked. At first,
both my brother and I thought it was

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only about the light of some focus
on the other side, but this was

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greener. In addition, it looked
similar to lasers, not to mention that

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strange noises were also heard. It
was like someone was breaking things and hitting

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the walls. It wasn' t
like there was a fight, as there

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was no screaming as such. It
just seemed like there was only one person

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in there, but it did seem
like he was freaking out. After that,

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everything remained silent for about five minutes. Even for a moment we thought

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whatever it would have been was over. After the past, that time began

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to hear something else. They were
like grunts of what I can only describe

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as a dog. But then his
grunts began to mix at times. It

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looked like a bird that was about
to attack and in others something similar to

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a pig. Neither of us could
be sure what we were witnessing. But

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a couple of minutes later it was
heard as the door in that room opened

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and then closed. We assumed it
had gone out, as everything remained silent.

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Again this seemed even more strange to
us, as we had no windows

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to see. We just couldn'
t see what was going on in that

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direction. But still, we were
both very intrigued. The next morning we

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asked my parents if they had heard
it, but they answered that it is

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not criss. We lived everything in
luxury of detail and they mocked us a

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little bit by telling us that we
had probably been dreaming and that that could

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not be real, since that room
was too small for the lord to put

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animals in there and, for the
most part, that we tried to explain

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to them about the lights or that
it had really been heard how those grunts

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of animals ignored us. Then they
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After that, we both went out
again and went to play football with some

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friends from the block. We told
them what had happened to us and,

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of course, as children, they
believed us almost immediately. Even one of

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them who lived only two houses ahead. He mentioned that he had seen him

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go in and out almost all day
with rare herbs. On one of those

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occasions I had even seen him bring
a rabbit even with his skin, but

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he was already dead. This made
us think that he himself had killed him.

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I remember well that same day later, as my brother and I returned

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from football, we saw again that
man coming down from his motorcycle and carrying

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in a basket a lot of herbs
that looked very fresh as if he had

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gone to collect them from somewhere.
On top of that, there was something

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very dark in a bottle. It
also looked very thick. My brother and

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I were staring at the basket for
a couple of seconds until that man told

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us what we were looking at and
we were going home. Scared, we

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ran straight to our house and after
entering the window, we stayed there.

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That same night it was repeated about
the night before. Exactly the same grunts

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of animals were heard in the same
order. We were wondering if maybe I

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or I would be some kind of
recording. We assumed it might well be

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some documentary or just animal videos and
decided to ignore it. The next morning

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something else happened. Some neighbors began
to say that they had seen something very

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strange in the vicinity of that neighborhood. Some said he was a werewolf,

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but many others claimed he was not, as he had a horn similar to

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that of a pig. At first, not many believed it. They thought

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it was just a rumor, but
there was one person who claimed to have

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seen it. They said he was
jumping through the roofs and a few started

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saying he was missing an eye.
This led the neighbors to suspect the new

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member of our neighborhood. It fulfilled
all the characteristics of what could be called

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a nahual. And the most important
thing for the whole accusation on which most

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of the neighbors were based was that
they didn' t have one of their

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eyes, just like the nahual that
most people claimed to have seen. My

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brother' s group of friends and
I started talking about the possibility of seeing

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what he had inside the room he
was staying in. That way, we

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could know if she was a gual. At first they were just words about

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a possibility or something that, deep
down, we all knew we wouldn'

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t dare do, but from one
moment to the next we were already making

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a plan to get in. I
wasn' t very sure. Everyone in

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our group of friends was bigger than
me. I was only ten years old

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and they were twelve. Besides,
I knew that if for some reason I

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refused, I would just look like
a coward and decided to totally agree with

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what they were planning. At first
it consisted only of spying at the time

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he left and then trying to enter, but he made sure that he was

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well aware that any attempt was useless. We spent much of our time trying

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to find a way in or at
least be able to see through one of

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the windows, until one day without
planning it, we were presented with the

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opportunity. As we returned from football, we found something unusual. The man

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seemed very angry. Usually, you
could see him arrive with his bike and

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then go into his room, but
this time he was just standing there and

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his bike wasn' t upset about
how he was. We all realized it

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was stolen. The truth is,
in that place, they stole everything you

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could leave without protection. Everyone had
to take responsibility for taking care of their

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things at all costs, as there
was a special neighbor who deliberately stole anything

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that he saw badly put in any
house or on the street, all of

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whom we knew who he was,
but no one dared to ask him for

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his things back, as he behaved
very aggressively. On one occasion he had

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beaten someone who had tried to recover
his son' s bicycle. Many times,

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if he had been sloppy enough to
leave something unlocked or unguarded, then

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he could know that it was best
to leave it that way, as he

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would not know it again and there
was a high probability that that neighbor would

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be responsible. And, to be
completely honest, everyone in the neighborhood knew

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that stealing that man' s bike
was just a matter of time, since

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he never chained it or kept it
in any way. It just left her

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parked right in front of her room, almost as an invitation to be robbed.

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And it had finally happened. I
remember well that man was very upset

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to the point that he didn'
t even know a notifier. I remember

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clearly that he went into his house
and came out a couple of seconds later

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with something in his arms that seemed
to be a coat at first sight,

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but the more we saw him the
more we realized that that wasn' t

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a coat. It seemed to be
the skin of perhaps a jaguar. It

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looked very real. It didn'
t look synthetic at all. Literally,

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it was as if they had skinned
a jaguar. He had even his head

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and all that man, as I
mentioned before, didn' t even turn

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to see us. He just ran
away with that skin in his arms.

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At first, none of us had
much to think about. It was a

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strange situation, but that neighbor was
already weird by himself. A few seconds

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later, Fernando, who was my
brother' s best friend, noticed something

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and that man had left the door
open. I was so focused on being

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curious that I forgot to close it. The door was still open. We

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all questioned for a moment whether the
idea of entering was good or bad.

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I think that was the first time
I felt so real. I remember well

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that I told my brother that I
wasn' t entirely convinced to do something

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like that, but he was right
away. He told me not to be

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a coward to come in, but
I didn' t want to. Besides

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that, it was already getting dark. We had so much more light than

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half an hour and I knew my
parents would be back soon. Going in

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would be silly, but everyone there
started saying we wouldn' t have another

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chance to get into that place.
I guess my brother saw that I was

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really scared because then he told me
that I should be the one to watch

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that all I had to do was
stay there and see any indication that that

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man was coming back. Then all
I had to do was bar and everybody

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would get out of there. Very
fast. At first, I liked this

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idea as I was afraid and besides, we were close enough to see if

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my parents were already coming. I
accepted They came in and I stayed out.

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It was only a couple of minutes
before curiosity invaded me completely. Besides,

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I didn' t hear any of
them make any noise. I thought

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what they found should be pretty good. I could no longer endure temptation and

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entered at first. The first thing
that hit me when I came in was

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a rather peculiar smell, something like
incense and herbs. The smell was so

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strong, I felt my eyes burn
and my nose itch. Besides that,

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the place was darker than usual.
While it was true that outside there was

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not much light in it, it
looked too dark as if there were no

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windows. I looked around looking for
my brother and his friends, but I

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couldn' t see them anywhere.
I called them, but they didn'

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t answer me either. The place
wasn' t too big. In fact,

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there was only a small corner that
was slightly covered by a wall.

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I figured that' s where they
were, since there was nowhere else to

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hide. I began to walk there, but the moment I arrived I realized

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that, indeed, all of them
were there, but they were all petrified

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by what was on the wall and
the moment I turned I could see what

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they were seeing. On the wall
I had skins that looked very strange.

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They were skins of different kinds of
animals. It was like something very crafty

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that looked too strange and scary.
The most abundant were the skins of dogs

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of different sizes. There were also
some cats and a rabbit, but of

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the strangest ones there were that of
a pig, a goat, a monkey

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and a long snake so large that
it almost surrounded the entire frame of the

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wall. None of us could help
but notice that there was a large space,

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which pointed out that a skin was
missing. Besides that, we could

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notice that in the bar that was
anchored to the wall, there were several

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very rare things, there was a
book in a language that we didn'

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t know and there was also a
lot of herbs and strange things in jars.

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At that moment, none of us
endured fear and we all ran away

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quickly. From there. As soon
as we were gone, they all ran

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to their respective homes. Once my
brother and I were in our own room,

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we had a scrambled stomach. We
both knew we wanted to talk about

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it, but we didn' t
even know how to start, because I

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had no idea what we had seen. I remember well that the next morning

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the two of us were still trying
to assimilate what we had seen as we

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walked through the door. The first
thing I saw was that that man'

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s bike was parked in the same
place. A couple of hours later,

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another rumor began to spread among the
neighbors, and that neighbor, who was

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a thief, had died or rather
had been killed. Many of them said

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it was only a matter of time
and that he had always been in bad

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steps. Most likely, he had
bothered someone he shouldn' t have,

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but so everyone was quickly told he
was killed by the Nahual because the wounds

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he had were not normal. Everyone
said it looked like he had been attacked

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by a beast with sharp claws.
One of our friends talked to his parents

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about what we saw and soon everything
ran into the neighborhood. That man left

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without giving any explanation. In fact, no one saw him leave. It

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just seemed that when everyone knew their
secret, they moved away. I don

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' t know where he might be
now or if he' s still alive.

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All I know is that I'
m more than convinced that man was

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a gual. The salt witch had
begun to have a certain interest in everything

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related to witchcraft and spiritism, having
a father very devoted to Catholicism. I

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could hardly practice it with a lot
of freedom, but I managed. This

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particular hobby, not only made me
isolate myself, but also attracted bullying.

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While they only ignored me at school
before, they were now messing directly with

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me, which made me increasingly unhappy
with them. I remember well that on

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one occasion, during the break,
I was reading a digital book of witchcraft

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when a boy approached me to mock
me and emphasize how strange it was to

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be reading something like that. Normally
I just kept quiet until they got bored

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and left me alone, but on
this occasion I guess they reached my limit.

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I remember turning off my tablet,
staring at it and telling it to

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be careful or that the salt witch
would come for it. Of course,

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he didn' t believe me.
In fact, he mocked me even more,

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but I didn' t back down
if I' m completely honest.

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I hadn' t even read the
name of the salt witch anywhere. I

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just made it up at the time. I remember well that I told her

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that the Salt Witch could make her
very bad luck and besides, she was

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on my side better to leave me
alone that boy. His smile was erased.

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I always thought it was partly because
my face was very serious, but

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I couldn' t say for sure. All I know is that after her

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smile was erased and even a couple
of steps back, she looked at her

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friends and trying to look like a
false trust, she just told me something

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like she was crazy and the truth
went away. It' s just that

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at the time I was very happy
because at least the rest of the day

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no one in the living room came
back to me. But the next morning,

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when I went into the living room, I thought this whole salt witch

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thing was gonna play me against it. Some girls threw a box of empty

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juice at me and told me to
ask the salt witch to save me.

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I didn' t answer anything and
went to my place thinking it had been

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so stupid to say all those things
while I was blaming myself for that.

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That boy who had bothered me the
day before entered the living room, his

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arm was broken and he also wore
necklaces. He looked at me for a

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moment and then went to sit down
the truth. I don' t know

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who started the rumor, whether it
was the same boy or someone else in

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the group who had heard me talk
about the salt witch I just know that

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by the same day, during the
break, a large part of the boys

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were already aware that I had thrown
a curse. The one who was injured

415
00:35:30.280 --> 00:35:34.599
now didn' t know exactly what
happened to him. Apparently he was riding

416
00:35:34.679 --> 00:35:38.280
a bike with his cousin and they
fell. While this is common among unwise

417
00:35:38.360 --> 00:35:44.559
youths, that boy only took it
as a sign that the salt witch had

418
00:35:44.639 --> 00:35:50.960
made him unlucky. Although these rumors
began to grow that day, many of

419
00:35:50.960 --> 00:35:53.800
them, for obvious reasons, doubted
it, as it sounded quite impossible.

420
00:35:57.920 --> 00:36:02.079
As the days passed, it seemed
that this curse was only confirmed because the

421
00:36:02.159 --> 00:36:09.039
bad luck streak of that boy only
seemed to have worsened. He was constantly

422
00:36:09.039 --> 00:36:15.199
hurt, among other things that you
could only call bad luck. Honestly,

423
00:36:15.559 --> 00:36:21.239
this benefited me a lot, as
he was the main person who gave me

424
00:36:21.320 --> 00:36:24.039
the most attacks and after it became
known that he had apparently cursed him,

425
00:36:24.360 --> 00:36:31.719
bullying went down to practically zero.
Of course I heard some whispers, but

426
00:36:31.760 --> 00:36:37.039
nothing I couldn' t handle.
If I' m completely honest, I

427
00:36:37.119 --> 00:36:40.760
didn' t think anything that was
happening to this boy was my fault.

428
00:36:42.800 --> 00:36:46.719
Rather, I felt it was a
funny coincidence from which I could take advantage

429
00:36:46.800 --> 00:36:52.639
of the time it lasted. Or
at least it was until almost a month

430
00:36:52.719 --> 00:36:57.039
after this, that boy approached me
and asked me for an apology telling me

431
00:36:57.639 --> 00:37:01.280
that I could no longer live and
that, please, I told the Witch

432
00:37:01.280 --> 00:37:06.840
of Salt to leave him alone,
because I felt that one day of these

433
00:37:06.960 --> 00:37:13.239
I would kill him. Even he
claimed to see shadows in his house and

434
00:37:13.320 --> 00:37:16.639
had no doubt that it was the
Salt Witch who waited patiently to stalk him

435
00:37:16.679 --> 00:37:23.639
and make him have the worst luck
in the world. I know I should

436
00:37:23.719 --> 00:37:30.719
have stopped at the time and told
her the truth, but the opportunity was

437
00:37:30.760 --> 00:37:34.199
too good not to take advantage of
it. I felt powerful at the time.

438
00:37:35.440 --> 00:37:38.679
It was almost as if I had
the option that bullying not only slowed

439
00:37:38.760 --> 00:37:45.920
down completely, but I could also
get revenge. At first, I thought

440
00:37:45.960 --> 00:37:49.880
of asking for money, perhaps a
monthly fee, in exchange for the salt

441
00:37:50.000 --> 00:37:53.480
witch to leave him alone, for
I assumed that if he thought he would

442
00:37:53.519 --> 00:38:00.719
leave him alone, then this streak
of bad luck would gradually decrease, as

443
00:38:00.800 --> 00:38:07.280
at that point he was quite suggested. But after thinking about it for a

444
00:38:07.280 --> 00:38:10.840
few seconds, it occurred to me
that I could scare them, I could

445
00:38:10.880 --> 00:38:16.760
try to take as many of my
stalkers as I could and I could fake

446
00:38:16.880 --> 00:38:22.239
some kind of spiritist session so that
everyone would be so scared that the idea

447
00:38:22.360 --> 00:38:25.360
of messing with me again would erect
their skin very serious. I replied that

448
00:38:25.719 --> 00:38:30.519
if he wanted to get rid of
the salt witch, I could help him,

449
00:38:30.519 --> 00:38:35.559
but he would have to ask him
in person. The boy looked at

450
00:38:35.599 --> 00:38:39.800
me with some distrust and told me
what he was talking about. I told

451
00:38:39.880 --> 00:38:45.920
him that he needed to buy a
daughter and then I would help him engage

452
00:38:46.000 --> 00:38:51.639
in a conversation with the salt witch
Al. Home, he refused. He

453
00:38:51.719 --> 00:38:54.159
told me he wasn' t going
to buy anything. I just shrugged my

454
00:38:54.199 --> 00:38:58.840
shoulders and told her that I didn' t care, but that she took

455
00:38:58.880 --> 00:39:05.199
care of herself because the salt witch
was only increasing her intensity and that if

456
00:39:05.280 --> 00:39:08.760
she believed that a broken arm was
the worst thing that could happen to her,

457
00:39:09.360 --> 00:39:13.760
then she was very naive. He
left there. Later that day.

458
00:39:14.880 --> 00:39:19.079
He came back to tell me he
was fine, that he would do it,

459
00:39:19.559 --> 00:39:21.079
and he asked me if I knew
where I could buy the pot.

460
00:39:22.320 --> 00:39:25.199
I told him no, but on
the Internet you could buy anything, and

461
00:39:25.280 --> 00:39:30.280
then I told him the more people
there were the better, because their energy

462
00:39:30.360 --> 00:39:37.519
would help the salt witch get present. He said yes and about two weeks

463
00:39:37.599 --> 00:39:43.239
after that he went with me and
confirmed to me that he already had the

464
00:39:43.320 --> 00:39:46.559
bank and that when we could do
it. I told him I' d

465
00:39:46.599 --> 00:39:51.519
see him at ten o' clock
at night in a house building, which

466
00:39:51.559 --> 00:39:54.639
wasn' t so far removed from
my house. At first he refused and

467
00:39:54.719 --> 00:39:59.360
told me that his parents would not
let him go so late. I'

468
00:39:59.400 --> 00:40:02.880
d go back to holding my shoulders
and told him I couldn' t help

469
00:40:02.880 --> 00:40:07.880
him then. He told me he
was fine and that he would go along

470
00:40:07.920 --> 00:40:14.599
that day. Different boys and girls
came to me asking me about that spiritist

471
00:40:14.679 --> 00:40:19.599
session and I told everyone that they
were more than welcome to witness it.

472
00:40:20.159 --> 00:40:22.039
And it' s just that I
already had it all planned out. I

473
00:40:22.119 --> 00:40:28.880
had managed to convince my two older
brothers, who were already finishing high school

474
00:40:29.000 --> 00:40:34.920
by that time, but they agreed
to help me after I mentioned to them

475
00:40:34.960 --> 00:40:38.320
that those boys bothered me. What
we would do would be very simple.

476
00:40:38.920 --> 00:40:45.239
That construction was almost in black works, but in the room where we would

477
00:40:45.360 --> 00:40:50.360
be there was a door in the
first place. During the spiritist session,

478
00:40:50.880 --> 00:40:55.039
they would both be responsible for making
all kinds of sounds and things that would

479
00:40:55.400 --> 00:40:59.480
make it seem like we were in
the presence of ghosts. And as soon

480
00:40:59.800 --> 00:41:05.079
as I said that the salt witch
wanted to take that boy, then they

481
00:41:05.119 --> 00:41:09.880
would start shaking the handle dangerously.
We were hoping that by this point everyone

482
00:41:09.960 --> 00:41:14.519
would have already run away from fear. But in the case that not one

483
00:41:15.039 --> 00:41:20.039
of my brothers had the idea to
disguise a mannequin as a Witch so that

484
00:41:20.079 --> 00:41:25.239
whoever saw her would have no doubt
that the salt witch was present. Everything

485
00:41:25.360 --> 00:41:31.000
was already planned. I really liked
this whole plan. The idea of playing

486
00:41:31.000 --> 00:41:36.519
the huija didn' t excite me
because I had read cases where things didn

487
00:41:36.559 --> 00:41:40.039
' t go so well. But
I had also read that if you didn

488
00:41:40.079 --> 00:41:45.159
' t do it with any intention
of summoning anyone and you knew it wasn

489
00:41:45.159 --> 00:41:51.599
' t going to work, then
probably nothing would happen. And the night

490
00:41:51.639 --> 00:41:57.280
came when all this took place at
first. When I arrived at the place,

491
00:41:58.039 --> 00:42:02.760
my brothers and I had become 40
minutes earlier. This with the sole

492
00:42:02.840 --> 00:42:08.440
intention that no one would see us
and they could enter the construction before and

493
00:42:08.440 --> 00:42:13.719
begin to prepare everything. That'
s how they did it. They both

494
00:42:13.760 --> 00:42:17.559
said goodbye to me and told me
that as soon as it was over,

495
00:42:19.480 --> 00:42:22.960
I would wait for them because they
wanted to come home with me, as

496
00:42:22.960 --> 00:42:27.159
it was a little late. I
said yes, and they went as far

497
00:42:27.239 --> 00:42:30.440
as I knew they were going in
the back of the house. I stayed

498
00:42:30.480 --> 00:42:35.840
at the entrance to wait for the
others and when he gave the time and

499
00:42:35.880 --> 00:42:38.639
there was no one, I thought
maybe they wouldn' t dare come.

500
00:42:39.679 --> 00:42:45.199
A short time later came two who, although they were not that boy who

501
00:42:45.519 --> 00:42:51.599
was supposedly cursed by me, if
they were two girls who had made some

502
00:42:51.719 --> 00:42:54.920
derogatory comments about my appearance. I
thought he wouldn' t make it.

503
00:42:55.400 --> 00:43:00.000
Maybe I could still trick them into
entering the s p NS fake session.

504
00:43:00.800 --> 00:43:06.960
A short time later more and more
people were arriving and soon more than half

505
00:43:07.039 --> 00:43:09.519
of my living room. He was
there with the exception of that boy.

506
00:43:10.360 --> 00:43:15.039
At first everyone said he probably wasn' t coming, as his parents hadn

507
00:43:15.079 --> 00:43:20.800
' t given him permission. But
just as it was five minutes to ten

508
00:43:20.880 --> 00:43:24.760
thirty, we saw him approaching.
He looked quite nervous and had a black

509
00:43:24.880 --> 00:43:30.960
eye. I remember well that at
that moment he looked at me and told

510
00:43:31.079 --> 00:43:36.599
me if I was sure that bad
luck would finally go away. I replied

511
00:43:36.679 --> 00:43:39.840
that maybe yes, if the salt
witch wanted to let go, but that

512
00:43:40.639 --> 00:43:45.639
was no longer up to me,
only that I would do what was necessary

513
00:43:46.039 --> 00:43:52.119
right away. We went into the
house. As we enter we all hear

514
00:43:52.480 --> 00:43:57.719
something that is not quite similar to
footprints. Most of them got a little

515
00:43:57.800 --> 00:44:01.880
scared, but I knew it was
my brothers. I just encouraged them to

516
00:44:01.920 --> 00:44:07.519
move on. I lit a few
red candles and had us all sit in

517
00:44:07.599 --> 00:44:12.760
circles. I told this boy to
sit in front of me and gave them

518
00:44:12.760 --> 00:44:20.159
instructions to hold hands, and so
the false session began. I placed my

519
00:44:20.360 --> 00:44:23.119
hands and his hands on the tip
of the huija and started asking the salt

520
00:44:23.119 --> 00:44:28.559
witch' s entity to manifest itself
before us or give us a sample at

521
00:44:28.679 --> 00:44:34.800
least that it was there. I
remember I began to move it in a

522
00:44:34.840 --> 00:44:39.039
hidden way so it would seem that
someone else was doing it and everyone else

523
00:44:39.039 --> 00:44:45.960
believed it completely, but I told
them that under no circumstances should they let

524
00:44:45.119 --> 00:44:50.199
go of their hands, because then
the spirit of the witch of Sal would

525
00:44:50.199 --> 00:44:54.559
stick to them. They held even
stronger hands. By that time I wanted

526
00:44:54.639 --> 00:45:00.199
to make fun of myself, but
I stood by and asked the salt witch

527
00:45:00.280 --> 00:45:05.639
a question again, telling her if
she could show up among us. At

528
00:45:05.679 --> 00:45:09.679
that time, a small gravel stone
went through the room. They were all

529
00:45:09.719 --> 00:45:15.519
very frightened and even seemed to be
totally sorry that they had gone. They

530
00:45:15.840 --> 00:45:21.679
probably weren' t prepared to run
into it real. But at that moment

531
00:45:22.079 --> 00:45:25.039
that boy looked at me and begged
me to please ask him to leave him

532
00:45:25.079 --> 00:45:30.239
alone once and for all to what
I told the Salt Witch if I could

533
00:45:30.280 --> 00:45:34.000
leave him alone at that moment,
one of the cartons covering a large window

534
00:45:34.119 --> 00:45:42.480
of that construction was torn. Everyone
shouted and the truth is that at that

535
00:45:42.559 --> 00:45:46.159
moment I was a little surprised,
as I did not see the knife or

536
00:45:46.239 --> 00:45:51.800
the material with which my brothers could
have torn it. It was impossible that

537
00:45:51.880 --> 00:45:55.400
it would have broken only with the
air, but the truth is that at

538
00:45:55.519 --> 00:46:00.000
that moment I was so excited about
the results that I didn' t question.

539
00:46:00.280 --> 00:46:05.559
That again asked me that spirit of
the Salt Witch if I could leave

540
00:46:05.639 --> 00:46:10.119
my friend alone, as I had
avenged myself enough. Likewise, I told

541
00:46:10.159 --> 00:46:15.719
him to play once for himself and
twice for no. It was then that

542
00:46:15.039 --> 00:46:21.440
the echo of two dry blows echoed
throughout the house, which made everyone tremble.

543
00:46:22.519 --> 00:46:27.840
At that time, that boy became
very pale, as clearly that was

544
00:46:28.360 --> 00:46:32.800
no. I was using all the
willpower I had not to laugh at that

545
00:46:32.920 --> 00:46:38.039
moment, and that boy, in
his despair, almost at the edge of

546
00:46:38.159 --> 00:46:44.079
tears, said something like, please
forgive him and that he would never mess

547
00:46:44.119 --> 00:46:47.559
with me again, but that,
please, he could no longer live like

548
00:46:47.599 --> 00:46:53.800
this. I think that at that
moment I felt slightly ill towards him,

549
00:46:54.760 --> 00:47:00.719
as he really looked very desperate.
I quickly came back to get on with

550
00:47:00.239 --> 00:47:04.760
the plan, as I just had
to remember how bad it had been with

551
00:47:04.760 --> 00:47:08.760
me. Basically since I had entered
high school, I followed the game and

552
00:47:08.840 --> 00:47:14.360
asked the salt witch what punishment she
had to receive and we all looked at

553
00:47:14.400 --> 00:47:19.440
the board of the huija. Then
I started forcing an answer to make it

554
00:47:19.480 --> 00:47:25.320
look like I was writing. I
wrote the phrase take it with me as

555
00:47:25.320 --> 00:47:30.239
soon as I said that, my
brothers had to start shaking the door so

556
00:47:30.360 --> 00:47:35.199
as to scare everyone present. I
think it took about five or ten seconds,

557
00:47:35.880 --> 00:47:39.480
which became a time lapse too big
for me, as I thought they

558
00:47:39.519 --> 00:47:45.480
hadn' t listened to me and
repeated it out loud again, I felt

559
00:47:45.719 --> 00:47:51.440
it would look too suspicious, but
soon it was heard how they knocked on

560
00:47:52.039 --> 00:47:57.519
the door and at that time all
the boys who were there turned over terrified

561
00:47:57.599 --> 00:48:01.159
and heard clearly as whatever was on
you. I was trying to get out

562
00:48:01.920 --> 00:48:07.239
at all costs until, suddenly,
the plate was defeated and it was heard

563
00:48:07.280 --> 00:48:10.239
as the door was beginning to open. At that time, all those who

564
00:48:10.280 --> 00:48:15.239
were there terrified of what they had
been witnessing, did not endure anymore,

565
00:48:15.960 --> 00:48:21.920
got up and ran away, while
I, already alone, couldn' t

566
00:48:22.000 --> 00:48:28.159
help but laugh because I had completely
accomplished my task. I turned to the

567
00:48:28.159 --> 00:48:31.719
door, as I expected to see
the mannequin that my brothers had adorned,

568
00:48:32.199 --> 00:48:36.679
but I didn' t see it
In fact, there was nothing. I

569
00:48:36.719 --> 00:48:42.159
assumed that maybe something had happened to
the mannequin and in the end they had

570
00:48:42.159 --> 00:48:44.719
decided not to use it, but
I didn' t give it much importance.

571
00:48:45.599 --> 00:48:51.760
I was already alone, because everyone
had already run away. I just

572
00:48:51.800 --> 00:48:57.199
picked things up, including the daughter
board that I thought might as well keep

573
00:48:57.320 --> 00:49:01.639
it, as I had always wanted
a quiet walk out of the house.

574
00:49:02.159 --> 00:49:07.559
I didn' t expect to find
my brothers, as I assumed it was

575
00:49:07.760 --> 00:49:12.000
more work to get in or out
of the back. When I came out

576
00:49:12.480 --> 00:49:15.079
I saw them there they were both
arguing and I saw they seemed relieved.

577
00:49:15.599 --> 00:49:21.320
I asked them what was going on
and they told me that they had not

578
00:49:21.400 --> 00:49:24.480
been able to enter that area of
the house, since someone had covered it

579
00:49:24.639 --> 00:49:29.960
up in such a way that it
was impossible for them even though they tried.

580
00:49:30.199 --> 00:49:35.440
After that, they smiled at me
and told me that they had not

581
00:49:35.440 --> 00:49:38.639
been able to help me, but
that apparently I had managed very well on

582
00:49:38.639 --> 00:49:43.360
my own. I told them it
wasn' t like that and I explained

583
00:49:43.480 --> 00:49:47.559
to them everything that had happened I
even told them to stop playing with me,

584
00:49:49.119 --> 00:49:53.000
as I was aware of everything we
had witnessed and knew it had been

585
00:49:53.000 --> 00:49:58.199
them. But they said no again, and in fact, they were arguing

586
00:49:58.239 --> 00:50:02.320
because I thought I too had run
away with the others so as not to

587
00:50:02.360 --> 00:50:08.159
raise suspicions. I was so incredulous
that even they took me to the back

588
00:50:08.199 --> 00:50:13.840
to show me that you couldn'
t get into that area. The door

589
00:50:13.960 --> 00:50:19.400
we were at was covered. We
were so dismayed that we left there.

590
00:50:20.760 --> 00:50:24.639
The plan worked. They never bothered
me again, but I, to date,

591
00:50:25.159 --> 00:50:30.239
have no idea what happened. And
it' s something that my brothers

592
00:50:30.360 --> 00:50:35.119
and I often talk about, because
we don' t know if it'

593
00:50:35.199 --> 00:50:37.719
s really a spirit that helped me
or whether it was just part of our

594
00:50:37.719 --> 00:50:43.480
hysteria. I always rule out the
latter, as I saw clearly how that

595
00:50:43.519 --> 00:50:53.320
door opened, but I guess I' ll never get an answer. The

596
00:50:53.440 --> 00:51:00.519
nuhual of the prey. My name
is Miguel and at the age of fifteen,

597
00:51:00.880 --> 00:51:04.800
my friends and I found what I
am convinced to this day was the

598
00:51:04.840 --> 00:51:09.599
hiding place of a wal where I
grew up along with my friends. There

599
00:51:09.639 --> 00:51:15.719
was a big problem related to a
project that the governor introduced back then started

600
00:51:15.760 --> 00:51:20.239
building a dam. This happened even
before my friends and I were born.

601
00:51:21.440 --> 00:51:25.039
I' m not so aware of
exactly what it was like, but what

602
00:51:25.079 --> 00:51:30.000
I do know is that they offered
money to the people around them to leave

603
00:51:30.000 --> 00:51:35.159
so they could occupy that land for
the big project. And many of those

604
00:51:35.199 --> 00:51:39.840
people said they were not willing to
leave their homes, but from one moment

605
00:51:39.920 --> 00:51:45.559
to another, apparently, they did
or at least they liked to believe most

606
00:51:45.599 --> 00:51:49.880
of the people around, because no
one could ask them, since none was

607
00:51:49.920 --> 00:51:58.199
seen again. Thus, the most
pessimistic and to a certain extent realistic claimed

608
00:51:58.239 --> 00:52:01.480
that they had disappeared, as it
used to happen very often in the country

609
00:52:02.039 --> 00:52:07.440
and, therefore, from the very
first moment that project of the dam was

610
00:52:07.480 --> 00:52:13.679
marked and there had always been a
lot of rumors about that place. They

611
00:52:13.719 --> 00:52:17.679
used to say that I was cursed
and that the souls of people who had

612
00:52:17.760 --> 00:52:22.159
lived in that place before were still
wandering around, and there was something else

613
00:52:22.239 --> 00:52:27.960
that was also curious. They didn' t destroy the houses and when the

614
00:52:28.039 --> 00:52:30.559
dam water was very low, you
could see the roofs. People who lived

615
00:52:30.639 --> 00:52:37.119
closer to the dam claimed that when
this happened, they could hear crying from

616
00:52:37.119 --> 00:52:42.559
babies or children, playing with what
I grew up the most in childhood was

617
00:52:42.719 --> 00:52:47.679
with stories of fear created around that
prey. Some were quite fanciful. The

618
00:52:47.679 --> 00:52:52.960
truth is that I had my doubts
about these stories, but when I was

619
00:52:52.039 --> 00:52:57.119
older, the country went through one
of its strongest droughts, which made the

620
00:52:57.360 --> 00:53:02.400
dam so empty that it looked like
you could go down. There was even

621
00:53:02.440 --> 00:53:08.559
a sort of welded ladder to the
wall wasn' t completely empty, but

622
00:53:08.639 --> 00:53:14.239
you could give yourself an idea that
the water wouldn' t even reach your

623
00:53:14.239 --> 00:53:19.559
knees. It was then that rumors
began to spread more widely, saying that

624
00:53:19.639 --> 00:53:25.280
people were heard more clearly than there
were people there. I remember one time,

625
00:53:27.000 --> 00:53:30.599
while I was talking to my father
about all these stories that were told,

626
00:53:31.079 --> 00:53:37.000
he replied that they were pure lies. Since none of that was real,

627
00:53:37.360 --> 00:53:42.199
I asked him what it was then
that people heard like crying or screaming,

628
00:53:42.440 --> 00:53:46.679
to which my father replied that they
were probably raccoons or sarihuellas who lived

629
00:53:46.800 --> 00:53:53.519
near that place and came to fight. He also told me that if people

630
00:53:53.599 --> 00:53:59.519
now listened to them more than ever
it was because if this grunt and screams

631
00:53:59.519 --> 00:54:05.440
of map or sarihuellas was real.
The fact that the dam was now almost

632
00:54:05.519 --> 00:54:10.480
empty generated quite a lot of echo, so it was heard much louder and

633
00:54:10.559 --> 00:54:15.280
more people heard it. He also
told me that I was too smart to

634
00:54:15.320 --> 00:54:21.079
believe in those things and forget about
it once and for all. I remember

635
00:54:21.119 --> 00:54:24.960
that at that age, being so
influential, I began to act like an

636
00:54:24.960 --> 00:54:30.880
intellectual, pretending that none of that
seemed real to me and that anyone who

637
00:54:30.920 --> 00:54:36.239
shared it as a true fact was
foolish. I proceeded to correct them until

638
00:54:36.400 --> 00:54:39.400
on one occasion my friend Julian,
who lived next to the dam, was

639
00:54:39.960 --> 00:54:45.840
telling us how his brother had told
him that he had several days watching him

640
00:54:45.880 --> 00:54:50.280
leave the dam. To someone he
said that at first they had believed that

641
00:54:50.320 --> 00:54:55.639
he was a homeless person who was
taking advantage of the scarcity of water to

642
00:54:55.760 --> 00:55:00.000
have a roof and to be inside
one of the ruined houses, even if

643
00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:04.760
it were temporary. But the more
the nights passed, the more they realized

644
00:55:05.199 --> 00:55:09.079
that this man was very strange.
He also said that since that man had

645
00:55:09.119 --> 00:55:14.840
moved to the dam, the strangest
noises were heard and that the night before

646
00:55:14.880 --> 00:55:17.800
he had seen that this man,
after leaving the dam, stood for a

647
00:55:19.320 --> 00:55:22.920
few seconds and then ran off on
all fours until he was lost in the

648
00:55:22.960 --> 00:55:30.079
dark. He said that his entire
family was convinced that the man was a

649
00:55:30.239 --> 00:55:34.840
gual and that he now lived in
the dam. The rest of my friends

650
00:55:34.920 --> 00:55:40.159
were impressed by the fantastic story Julian
had just told us. I must admit

651
00:55:40.320 --> 00:55:46.639
that I was impressed, too,
but at the time I tried to hide

652
00:55:46.719 --> 00:55:52.880
it and following my facade, I
told him that was a lie. I

653
00:55:52.039 --> 00:55:55.880
remember well that at that time I
told him that his brother, without a

654
00:55:55.880 --> 00:56:00.960
doubt, must have seen bad that
n and that of no RNS that could

655
00:56:00.039 --> 00:56:07.440
be real. I also told him
that everything had a logical explanation and that

656
00:56:07.559 --> 00:56:12.719
if he really saw it as he
claimed, then he was probably just a

657
00:56:12.840 --> 00:56:17.480
crazy bum and not a hua that
wasn' t even real. I guess

658
00:56:17.519 --> 00:56:22.800
I didn' t say it the
best way, as my friend Julián quickly

659
00:56:22.880 --> 00:56:29.000
got defensive and a discussion between the
two began. While we were arguing.

660
00:56:29.400 --> 00:56:34.960
I was insisting that it was pure
nonsense. That' s when he challenged

661
00:56:34.960 --> 00:56:37.800
me. He told me that if
I was so sure that all that was

662
00:56:37.840 --> 00:56:43.599
a complete lie, then we would
go at night to see those houses.

663
00:56:43.719 --> 00:56:46.480
The truth is that at that moment
I was very afraid, even though I

664
00:56:46.519 --> 00:56:51.280
seemed not to believe in any of
that. Deep down, I did believe

665
00:56:51.360 --> 00:56:54.400
it and going down to the dam
only made it more real to me.

666
00:56:55.159 --> 00:57:00.000
But in an attempt to try to
keep my sceptical facade, I accepted and

667
00:57:00.079 --> 00:57:05.719
told him that there was no problem, that most likely we would only find

668
00:57:05.760 --> 00:57:10.960
ruins and that everything would be empty
and wet. Julián' s brother said

669
00:57:12.039 --> 00:57:15.840
that most likely we would meet the
Nahual cave at that time there were already

670
00:57:15.960 --> 00:57:21.440
cell phones, but they were not
at all close to what they are today.

671
00:57:22.679 --> 00:57:25.719
They were only small rectangles with which
you could light with your flashlight and

672
00:57:25.840 --> 00:57:32.400
the signal was terrible. My friend
Miguel had one of these. He took

673
00:57:32.440 --> 00:57:37.880
it in the hope of recording the
blissful Nahual or at least his dwelling.

674
00:57:37.400 --> 00:57:42.159
The truth is that, while at
first we all said that we would go

675
00:57:42.199 --> 00:57:45.880
in the night, in the end
we were very afraid and invented a great

676
00:57:45.880 --> 00:57:51.519
series of excuses, which led us
to go after school, when there was

677
00:57:51.639 --> 00:57:55.519
still light. We went and all
the way I secretly prayed that the moment

678
00:57:55.880 --> 00:58:00.800
we approached the edge of the dam, some adult who was watching us would

679
00:58:00.840 --> 00:58:07.199
stop us and tell us to go
home. But the truth is, none

680
00:58:07.320 --> 00:58:12.920
of that happened. I remember well
that the descent was very difficult, because

681
00:58:13.000 --> 00:58:17.039
it was very inclined and it also
felt wet, even though there was a

682
00:58:17.360 --> 00:58:22.400
lot of sun and we would believe
that that would have dried up the stairs

683
00:58:22.400 --> 00:58:27.719
completely. But it seemed as if
someone had used it recently, someone who

684
00:58:27.800 --> 00:58:32.119
would have been walking in the water, but none of us mattered. It

685
00:58:32.159 --> 00:58:37.800
was like we all started walking towards
those houses weren' t as many in

686
00:58:38.039 --> 00:58:43.679
all there were five. I remember
well that as we moved forward, we

687
00:58:43.800 --> 00:58:49.599
were saying what we knew about that
place, like the government had sent the

688
00:58:49.599 --> 00:58:53.719
owners away. Even my friend Julian
mentioned that his father had told him the

689
00:58:54.039 --> 00:59:00.559
reason they hadn' t demolished those
houses. It was because they had made

690
00:59:00.599 --> 00:59:02.400
a pact with the devil so that
they would not fall with the prey.

691
00:59:02.960 --> 00:59:07.679
He mentioned that his father firmly believed
that there were people still in the houses

692
00:59:07.719 --> 00:59:14.559
when the water arrived, so he
would not be surprised to find the bodies.

693
00:59:14.599 --> 00:59:17.480
At the time we were in front
of the first house. Their partitions

694
00:59:17.599 --> 00:59:23.000
were all worn out by the water
and the windows were broken. The door

695
00:59:23.320 --> 00:59:28.079
was made of wood, but it
was lying down. It looked all dark

696
00:59:28.199 --> 00:59:31.760
inside We walked in. We were
quite surprised, because, although there was

697
00:59:31.880 --> 00:59:37.679
nothing shocking, if you could see
that the people who had lived there had

698
00:59:37.800 --> 00:59:43.199
gone away very quickly, because there
were still certain personal objects. There were

699
00:59:43.239 --> 00:59:49.519
some pictures with photographs of wardrobes some
clothes and a bed. Of course it

700
00:59:49.559 --> 00:59:53.000
looked a bit wet, not much
anymore because of the strong heat wave that

701
00:59:53.039 --> 00:59:59.360
we were going through at the time, but the mattress was still draining water

702
00:59:59.440 --> 01:00:02.559
and the wood of the closet was
completely ruined. We opened some drawers,

703
01:00:04.119 --> 01:00:08.840
but they were mostly empty. Yeah, there were certain things, we even

704
01:00:08.880 --> 01:00:14.239
found some cans of groceries like peas
or beans. There wasn' t much

705
01:00:14.280 --> 01:00:17.079
to see in that house. As
soon as we get bored, we move

706
01:00:17.079 --> 01:00:22.400
on to the next one. The
second entrance to the houses was a little

707
01:00:22.519 --> 01:00:25.800
more of the same. However,
I think if any of you had any

708
01:00:25.880 --> 01:00:30.559
doubts that the people there were forced
to leave or worse, here it became

709
01:00:30.599 --> 01:00:37.199
clearer. In this house there were
three rooms and in one of them it

710
01:00:37.239 --> 01:00:40.519
was closed, but the door,
being wooden, was so soft that we

711
01:00:40.639 --> 01:00:45.840
did not need it. It was
enough with several strong blows to open it.

712
01:00:45.320 --> 01:00:51.719
We realized that a child must have
slept in that room. Not only

713
01:00:51.760 --> 01:00:57.199
was the bed small, but there
were also many toys, toys that a

714
01:00:57.320 --> 01:01:00.440
child would have taken with him when
he moved in. That gave us all

715
01:01:00.480 --> 01:01:06.480
a chill and none of us had
to express anything, we turned around and

716
01:01:06.559 --> 01:01:12.960
got out of there. I think
we were all very quiet on the way

717
01:01:13.079 --> 01:01:16.800
to the third house. No one
seemed to care about the whole nahual theme

718
01:01:17.119 --> 01:01:22.039
or paranormal events. It was more
to think about what they could have done

719
01:01:22.079 --> 01:01:27.639
to those people. As soon as
we arrived at the third house, the

720
01:01:27.760 --> 01:01:30.920
subject of the nahual was retaken.
We realized that, unlike the other houses

721
01:01:31.000 --> 01:01:37.280
where the windows were broken, in
this third house someone had covered the windows

722
01:01:37.320 --> 01:01:44.400
with garbage bags and cartons. The
door was gone, but someone had taken

723
01:01:44.440 --> 01:01:49.559
enough time to replace it with a
curtain of cloth so that nothing could be

724
01:01:49.599 --> 01:01:55.199
seen. Inside the five of us
looked at each other thinking that we had

725
01:01:55.280 --> 01:01:59.800
found the hiding place of said nahual. Without wasting time, my friend toured

726
01:01:59.800 --> 01:02:04.360
the curtain and what happened was something
that I have not been able to erase

727
01:02:04.400 --> 01:02:09.119
from my memory until today. Inside, it sucked dead animals. It was

728
01:02:09.199 --> 01:02:15.800
impossible for us that that smell had
not arrived before, since the only thing

729
01:02:15.880 --> 01:02:20.519
that separated us from that smell was
a curtain. I think I couldn'

730
01:02:20.800 --> 01:02:22.639
t take it anymore at the time, and I threw up. I think

731
01:02:22.719 --> 01:02:28.519
Luis was pretty soon, too.
Miguel lit the flashlight on his phone,

732
01:02:28.960 --> 01:02:32.320
as the place was so dark that
we couldn' t see anything inside him

733
01:02:32.840 --> 01:02:37.119
and as soon as he did,
we all saw with horror. In the

734
01:02:37.159 --> 01:02:40.559
middle of what appeared to be the
room of that house was the body of

735
01:02:40.599 --> 01:02:46.079
a dog, or rather, the
skin was perfectly mounted on what seemed to

736
01:02:46.119 --> 01:02:52.360
be a kind of dog figure.
Fact, wires, none of us could

737
01:02:52.519 --> 01:02:58.480
believe what he was seeing. I
think even Julian mentioned that that was his

738
01:02:58.559 --> 01:03:02.079
costume I was just about to ask
him what he meant by all that,

739
01:03:02.960 --> 01:03:07.559
when all of a sudden we all
heard a noise. Thanks to the echo

740
01:03:07.559 --> 01:03:13.760
of the dam, we were all
able to distinguish exactly that it was someone

741
01:03:13.800 --> 01:03:16.599
coming down the metal stairs. This
scared us so much that we retreated.

742
01:03:17.559 --> 01:03:22.599
Julian closed the curtain just as we
had left it, and after that we

743
01:03:22.679 --> 01:03:28.639
left that place. We thought maybe
if we hid in one of the other

744
01:03:28.679 --> 01:03:32.920
houses, we could wait there until
whoever was with us now left to think

745
01:03:34.000 --> 01:03:39.519
that was the best option. We' ve all gone, we' re

746
01:03:39.639 --> 01:03:42.960
all trying to move forward in the
hope of making almost no noise. It

747
01:03:43.039 --> 01:03:47.760
was almost impossible, as we heard
thick and rough steps heading towards us.

748
01:03:49.119 --> 01:03:54.199
We rushed into one of the houses. When we were inside, we realized

749
01:03:54.559 --> 01:04:00.920
that there were more skins there,
but not only that, but it also

750
01:04:00.039 --> 01:04:04.159
seemed to be the place where I
threw the bodies. There were still enough

751
01:04:04.199 --> 01:04:10.880
in decomposition states. Soon we realized
that those skins seemed to be the ones

752
01:04:10.920 --> 01:04:14.679
that didn' t serve them.
I mean, they were broken. It

753
01:04:14.719 --> 01:04:18.519
was like they didn' t work, but they looked torn in a very

754
01:04:18.519 --> 01:04:23.760
rare way. Some were broken from
the head, others from the legs or

755
01:04:23.840 --> 01:04:28.920
even from the torso. It was
a very strange thing, but at the

756
01:04:29.000 --> 01:04:31.760
time we didn' t take much
notice of it. All this that I

757
01:04:31.800 --> 01:04:36.280
am telling you is rather something that
I have noticed every time I remember,

758
01:04:36.880 --> 01:04:42.880
because at that moment the only thing
that provoked us was a lot of disgust

759
01:04:42.880 --> 01:04:46.960
and fear. We couldn' t
stand it there and went out as soon

760
01:04:47.000 --> 01:04:49.599
as we were out, we saw
that man was already there. He was

761
01:04:49.679 --> 01:04:55.920
very surprised to see us. We
were really scared because he wasn' t

762
01:04:56.000 --> 01:04:59.440
any homeless people we' d seen
in the vicinity. It was a small

763
01:04:59.440 --> 01:05:03.960
place. We knew the local bums. This was a very long- haired

764
01:05:04.000 --> 01:05:09.719
man, who tied himself with a
braid. He was wearing a very long

765
01:05:09.719 --> 01:05:15.280
shirt. We were all about to
run when that man cried with an authoritarian

766
01:05:15.400 --> 01:05:20.599
tone that we should not move.
But obviously we didn' t listen and

767
01:05:20.719 --> 01:05:26.559
we heard how he screamed that if
we told someone what we found here,

768
01:05:26.920 --> 01:05:30.599
he' d look for us and
take our skins off. We keep running

769
01:05:30.719 --> 01:05:33.119
until we get out of the dam. I remember nobody wanted to talk about

770
01:05:33.119 --> 01:05:38.000
it. We were all very afraid
of the man. That' s why

771
01:05:38.039 --> 01:05:45.480
we didn' t say anything about
what happened. Stories written and adapted by Lisa Hernández