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The photograph. My name is Eva. I' m the third of four

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brothers. This leaves me in the
middle son' s position. My family

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is native to northern Italy. My
parents and grandparents were born in Modena,

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a city of great beauty that I
sadly know only by images and videos.

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My parents emigrated to northern Mexico because
of an economic crisis. Eventually, my

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father managed to restore his economy by
setting up one of the first companies dedicated

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to riding racing bikes in Mexico.
I would not want to judge my father,

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for each of us is the product
of decisions and consequences. But my

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father just got this economic skill again. He returned to Modena with a woman

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twenty years younger than him, almost
completely disobedient to us. I don'

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t know if my father really neglected
us, or it would be that my

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mother, because of the courage for
the bad play, would have forbidden him

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to see us or communicate with us. The fact is that they were at

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least two rather difficult years in which
my mother had to keep us alone and

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that at that time none of us
still had the age to work. I

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know there are a lot of minors
working in Mexico, but my mother didn

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' t want us to be employed
until the past. The fifteen years were

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difficult times when we were rolling from
house to house, looking for cheap rents

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and my mother jumping from job to
job. We still had a lot of

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shortcomings. My mother was always looking
for the way our birthday wouldn' t

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go unnoticed. And it' s
just that my mother was an excellent pastry

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maker and so our birthday will be
limited simply to a simple cake with a

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candle. It was a wonderful thing
for us. As I said earlier,

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we had to move constantly and we
weren' t stable until my mother got

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a good job at a bakery that
doesn' t exist today. But thanks

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to her it was that my mother
managed to give us some of this skill

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for a while in the house that
my mother got. We could finally have

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some separate rooms, and it'
s just that before we all slept in

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the same room. I think it
was my older brother, Fabricio, who

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mentioned something about the house. It
was a silly comment where he thought the

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kitchen lights went out alone because the
house was haunted. But this was solved

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after the electrician visited us. Turns
out the house we lived in was pretty

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old and was already beginning to show
faults in the electrical wiring. However,

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it happened that everything mentioned by Fabrizio
was not the fruit of the superstition of

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a frightened child. It happened that
we started finding strange things in the kitchen.

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At first, they were small things
that almost went unnoticed. And because

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the kitchen was quite large, with
drawers and cupboards connecting to each other,

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we practically took it as our amusement
park. As long as my mother wasn

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' t home, we found dried
flower petals also thorns. One day,

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when we got back from school,
my sister Rosenda, who hadn' t

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been to school, told us she
found something interesting behind a drawer in the

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cupboard. It was a wooden box
that was already so rotten that it was

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practically broken in our hands. Inside
we found some species of cast steel vents

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that, when opened, had organs
almost mummified. One had the shape of

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a heart and two more would not
know what form they would have. But

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inside they also contained something that in
the past formed the organ of some animal.

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We left the alleys on the table, as we thought to show them

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to our mother, as they became
too strange to us. When my mother

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arrived and saw our find, she
became pale, threw everything into a black

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bag and threw it into a vacant
lot two blocks from our house. When

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he came back from throwing the bag, he scolded us, not without first

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explaining that those objects were part of
some curse of a witch who came to

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live in the house earlier. Don' t let us ever think of snooping

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around where we weren' t called. As the days passed, we never

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snooped back in the drawers, but
we began to notice even more strange and

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macabre things. For example, it
once happened that in the middle of the

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night I got a hunger attack,
so I decided to give a quick visit

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to the kitchen. After drinking some
milk straight from the bottle and eating an

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apple, I started to notice a
sound, as if someone was choking.

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Then I turned on the kitchen light. Right next to the sink was a

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huge metal drum where my mother stored
water. The sound of someone suffocating stopped,

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but right away. I started listening
like a little dripping suddenly I saw

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a head sticking out of the boat. At first I thought it was just

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a white plastic bag, but after
a few seconds I saw his eyes,

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two green eyes painted with blood around. Her skin seemed to be made of

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that white bag. Then he completely
pulled out his head and saw a completely

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rotten denture. He smiled and immediately. He started making that sound I heard

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seconds earlier. Because of the scare, I spilled the bottle of milk on

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the floor and ran to my mother' s room. I told her what

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I had just seen and although she
allowed me to spend the rest of the

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night with her, she didn'
t believe me. He told me it

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was all the work of my imagination, and he didn' t pray with

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the passing of days. My mother
insisted that what she had seen was totally

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real. But even my brothers didn' t believe me mostly all manufacturing,

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although from him I think I said
rather not to believe myself as revenge for

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not believing him at first, when
I mentioned to notice strange events in the

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kitchen, at least I decided to
stay away from the kitchen and every time

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my mother ordered something from me I
always refused, even though I ended up

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being forced into girdles. Soon Fabrizio
was old enough to work. My other

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brothers stayed in school and I,
shamefully failed for a year and my mother,

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who was always of a proud character, did not want me to repeat

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it at the same school, but
because I was looking for another option,

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I was unable to enter the school. For a year, my mother was

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upset with me, so she entrusted
me with the household chores, and that

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' s because she took double employment
because she was paying a lawyer to finally

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demand that my father take care of
our expense. I practically became the housewife

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I was practically in charge of all
the cleaning. Only my mother left us

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the meals made, which seemed perfect
to me, because although I was beginning

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to lose the fear of the kitchen, I did not forget completely my encounter

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with that entity. Even when I
didn' t have to eat, I

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didn' t save myself from approaching
the kitchen, because in more than a

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day a week I had to wash
a mountain behind dirty ones. So I

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tried to carry out this activity until
my school brothers had arrived and always asked

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them to accompany me while I was
washing them. It once occurred to me

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that around 12: 30 in the
morning I began to hear as if there

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was someone in the kitchen. As
on several occasions, my brothers entered the

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house over there and the kitchen had
a door facing a garden that in turn

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led to the street. I thought
some of the boys had arrived, so

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I told them out loud to wait
for me there, because I had dishes

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to wash I approached the kitchen and
when I found no one, I tried

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to back down, but before my
eyes, the drawers of the cupboards opened

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themselves. Then I heard a voice
saying my name. It was heard far

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away and on the wall as if
there was someone inside the drain pipes.

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At that moment I decided to leave
the house and wait for my brothers in

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the garden of the entrance. I
tried not to look towards the house,

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because in my mind I imagined meeting
that white- skinned entity again. My

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brothers came and when they saw my
face pale and frightened, they asked me

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what was going on. I told
them what I had just lived in the

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kitchen, but as expected, they
didn' t believe me. Fabricio joked

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that he had surely seen the witch
who lived there before and Rosenda laughed saying

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it was just my imagination. Despite
their jokes, they decided to accompany me

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back to the kitchen to show me
that there was nothing strange about going in.

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Everything seemed normal. The drawers were
closed and no voice was heard.

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My brothers started making fun of me, claiming that my fear was the product

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of invented stories. But at that
moment the door of the cupboard opened with

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force and we were all dazzled by
it. A cold wind came out and

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we heard the same voice as before. He said my name and uttered incomprehensible

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words. My brothers, now scared, grabbed my arm. I took them

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to the living room, where my
mother had a huge crucifix that was brought

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from Italy. At that time,
Rosenda became honest and told us that she

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had seen the entity, but not
in the kitchen, but in the bathroom.

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My mother had a plastic tub for
us and even though she forbade us

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from using it because she spent a
lot of water, sometimes she was a

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little flexible with her orders. So
one day Rosenda was sick, my mother

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gave her permission to get into Latin
for a while, so she would get

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down to the fever. I remember
that day I was busy laying wet clothes

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in the yard, so I didn' t realize what happened. But Rosenda

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told us that she heated some water
in a pot to mix it with water

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at room temperature of the key.
But when he went to the kitchen through

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the pot back to the bathroom,
he saw someone tucked into the latina.

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She thought it was one of us, so she toured the curtain at that

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time said she saw this white-
skinned witch with rotten teeth. It was

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such a shock that Rosenda dropped the
pot with hot water burning her feet.

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Once he finished his account, I
complained to him for not believing me,

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being that I had seen something similar
to what I saw Then, my younger

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brother and yancarlo went on to tell
another similar encounter. He saw her near

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his room. My mother divided us
between men and women, so he didn

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' t sleep in the same room
as I did It happened as he folded

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his clothes when he pulled the basket
back into the hallway, something took him

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by the arm. According to him, his hand looked very bony and almost

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transparent in skin. My brother said
he couldn' t scream, but he

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saw her as if she were an
old lady and even talked to him.

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He told her if she went with
her, I' d give her cookies

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and a ball. He struggled and
ran out of the house to meet Mom.

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I felt a lot of courage that
when I talked to them about these

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kinds of situations, everyone refused to
believe me, since similar situations also occurred

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to them. So, once they
were quiet about why they decided to lie,

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but they told me they didn'
t really know. Even Rosenda said

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she did not remember it, for
from that day on she felt that she

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could not keep the focus and much
less remember some facts from day to day.

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I was really confused. I even
came to think that nothing that they

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had just told happened to them,
and they only invented it to maintain empathy

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with me and the events that we
have just witnessed. The point is,

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we decided to talk to my mother, who, although she said she didn

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' t believe us, started looking
for another house to go to live in.

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And that' s why the lawsuit
against my father had already proceeded.

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Then my father came to visit us, stayed for about a month bought a

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house and registered it in our name. All this time nothing strange happened and

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my father wanted to make up for
all the time he walked away from us.

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It was the same thing in the
end. My father left Mexico again,

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but this time leaving an account in
our name, where he deposited money

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with us month after month. This
brought us good stability and allowed me to

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attend a private school. Time passed
and we forgot about it. My younger

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brother' s birthday party is here. On this occasion, my mother wanted

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to celebrate how big she hired a
clown show, a magician and a person

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who prepared snags for the children.
All my brothers were very happy, as

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I hadn' t seen them in
my mother' s years or talked.

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He was dissipating from caring for relatives
and friends, although relatives did not have

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much, really only a couple of
days and cousins from my father, who

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did have enough children. I,
for my part, although happy, felt

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stressed because I had a lot of
work to do in caring for people.

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The party lasted too long and many
people left without breaking the cake. And

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it' s just that my mother
thought of holding the party on Tuesday in

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the middle of the month by the
time the cake broke, we practically just

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left my brothers and some cousins.
As it began to cloud and threatened to

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rain, we decided to pick up
everything for this point. The gentlemen who

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hired for the snacks had already gone
the same, the clown and the magician.

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My mother put in the coffee machine
and ordered me to pour a glass

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of milk to the children. Then
there were all the children at the table.

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At the front was the cake with
ten candles and behind it was a

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window facing the garden. Before lighting
the candles, my mother asked us to

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wait a few minutes, went into
her room and came back with a box.

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He opened the box and removed a
camera. He told us he bought

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it that morning. Now yes,
we lit my brother' s candles and

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turned off the lights. My mother
took a picture before the candles went out

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and right after the candles went out
and the lights went off, the camera

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dropped out of her hands, her
face was pale and she began to tremble.

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My brothers and other children did not
understand what was going on, and

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it is that my mother had us
all come to the room at that time.

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My mother lay on a couch.
He gave us some air. It

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looked like she was going to faint. My mother gave up the party and

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sent us to bed without first accompanying
her to pray a rosary. I remember

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that night, while trying to sleep, I heard my mother throwing holy water

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all over the house and I also
heard her cry, which broke my soul

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at about 3 a m. I
went to see her in her room and

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found her with all her crooked face. It looked pretty bad. At the

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time I called one of my aunts
who took care of sending an ambulance to

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the county where we lived. My
mother had a stroke. That night.

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My aunt took care of us,
but at least I didn' t take

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off from my mother. Almost usually, every afternoon I was with her in

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the hospital. We went to my
aunt' s house, because as she

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told us, it was my mother' s will that we should not stay

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in that house anymore. Every night, before I slept, I wondered what

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my mother would have seen during the
birthday party. I wasn' t sure,

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but I could almost swear it was
the Witch, although it didn'

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t make sense, because it wasn' t the same house where my brothers

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and I witnessed it. Then I
thought that if I had the camera roll

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revealed, I' d know what
caused the embolism to my mother. So

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I did under the pretext of cleaning
the house. I told my aunt I

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would come to the house and actually
did the toilet, but I also took

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the camera which, though broken,
had the photographic scroll intact, so I

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took it out and kept it in
my purse. That day, as I

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washed the mountain of frets that were
since the day of the feast, I

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began to feel very cold and felt
this state in which the senses become more

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acute as when you sense that something
bad is going to happen. I turned

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on the radio to give me courage, because I still didn' t have

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half of the dishes washed. It
was a mistake to turn the radio on,

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as it began to change its tuning
on its own. The sound was

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not like when the signal was lost, but it changed between stations, which

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was difficult. Back then, when
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To change the frequency of the radio, you had to manually move the

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knob. I was going to try
to disconnect the device, but at that

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moment it became pure static, I
disconnected the radio and everything was left in

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deep silence. I tried to make
myself understand that what I had seen in

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our old house could not chase us
here much less, because the house my

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father bought for us was completely new. I gathered enough courage to stop to

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keep washing the frets. When I
was about to finish, I began to

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hear the same sound I noticed that
night in the other house. When I

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went down to the fridge, it
looked like someone suffocating. I pulled back

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trying not to look in the direction
of the small window in front of the

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kitchen. I heard it clearly like
a voice. He told me that if

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I' d forgotten about her already, I couldn' t stand being in

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the house for a second and ran
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Luckily, I didn' t forget
the photographic scroll and took it to

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pharmacies that had a developer lab.
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her recovery would take much longer than
we thought. Then he needed us even

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more. I was so entertained carrying
the chores of the home that I completely

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forgot about the unfolding of the photographic
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roll. I would have preferred it
to be damaged, for what I saw

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I taught everyone is so terrible that
even today, after almost forty years I

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could not get it out of my
mind, I decided to open the envelope

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during a dinner at which I was
with all my brothers. The last photo

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to be revealed showed the following.
My brothers were sitting at the table in

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front of the cake and behind him
they the window and in the window stood

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the albina woman with her bloody eyes
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Everyone saw the photo, including my
aunt, who couldn' t stand to

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see it and decided to burn it
immediately. Then she blessed the house and

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went to wash the house from top
to bottom with ammonia, saying it was

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the only way to turn away the
bad energies. I told my aunt everything

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that happened to us since we lived
in the previous house, how we opened

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these alleys that kept pieces of meat
inside and how my mother wouldn' t

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believe anyone about what was going on. Then my aunt told us that the

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problem would not be the house in
question, but that this energy contained in

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the aldermen she believed would be part
of a witch who lived many years ago.

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He was trying to take over one
of us' s bodies to keep

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living. My aunt performed a series
of rituals, healings that at least to

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me if they worked, although throughout
the process I suffered terrible nightmares in which

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that witch kept me locked in a
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In the end, the nightmares stopped
and although my mother recovered never again,

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we mentioned the subject again, because
every time we touched her, she began

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to tremble, just as if she
had Parkinson' s. Sometimes I think

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my mother saw something even more terrible
than that same photograph, something she never

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dared to talk to any of us
about and that it was a secret that

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the last apartment was taken to the
grave. I met Amanda by pure chance,

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maybe by fate. The point is, I saw an ad on one

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of those sales pages of used stuff. I' ve always been a fan

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of wearing old clothes, Amanda,
blesses, sacks and suits worn for gentlemen

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on the Internet like she didn'
t have a physical store. We met

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to meet in a busy square in
Bogotá. She was a girl a little

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taller than me Brunette and athletic-
looking I' m rather fat, very

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wide in shoulders and back. The
sack I asked you for. He didn

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' t stay, so he asked
me to accompany him to his apartment,

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because he kept other models of several
larger sizes. I then came to one

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of the oldest areas in Bogotá,
a place to which, before I met

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Amanda, I would not dare to
visit at night. During the transfer we

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were talking about everything and it came
out that I needed that sack for a

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conference that I would give next month, because I was releasing a new book.

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My name is reserved for me,
but I work as a writer for

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a local newspaper. In addition,
in my spare time I write novels and

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at that time I premiered my second
publication. Amanda found my profession quite interesting,

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so we started talking about urban legends
and paranormal themes. He lived in

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the heart of that old neighborhood.
A steel fence prevented access to stairs that

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took you to the apartments where she
lived. That first day he asked me

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to wait on the street. I
then stared at the alley, where there

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were several bars with quite striking concepts. I also saw a lot of people

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walking in the stairs. I figured
the housing complex should be pretty big.

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One of the people who entered the
stairs caught my attention a lot, as

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his skin looked quite wrinkled, so
wrinkled that it seemed to bleed between the

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folds that formed those wrinkles. She
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Apparently, the gentleman was engaged in
clowning when Amanda got off He brought several

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bags in different suits. They were
all my size, but I bought him

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a dark grey square. After paying
him just for sheer inertia, I asked

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him if he didn' t want
to go have a beer with me.

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I thought you' d say no,' cause it' s weird for

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a stranger to buy you something the
first time he sees you. However,

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to my surprise, she said yes. So we' re done. Going

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to a bar very close to his
house. She told me she had just

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set up her tattoo studio apartment.
He showed me his work, which,

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by the way, was pretty good. Although I' m not a fan

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of tattooing my skin, I asked
her if she didn' t feel it

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was overwhelming to live in the middle
of the noise and the uproar of a

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neighborhood like that. She replied that
it was a bit overwhelming, but that

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she would not live anywhere else,
because she loved to be in the city.

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We stopped talking for about fifteen days
and, like me, I was

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very pleased to ask her out again. After that exit we felt a lot

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of chemistry between the two of us
and ended up in a courtship. It

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took a month for her to invite
me to her apartment and when she did,

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it became clear that she was a
little embarrassed about the place she lived

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in, because according to her it
was a fairly old and careless building and

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it was actually a neighborhood. I
told him that the site seemed fantastic to

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me, because despite being careless,
it showed a colonial style architecture. In

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addition, he had decorated his apartment
fantastically. It looked pretty gothic. I

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spent a lot of weekends with her. One thing we had in common was

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that we didn' t have many
relatives. She and I only had one

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sister aunt of my mother, who
took care of me since childhood and she

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was an orphan, so if we
didn' t go to my studio on

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weekends, we would spend her in
her apartment. One day in the afternoon

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I went looking for her, I
met the man in front of me with

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clown makeup, I tried to greet
him, but the man ignored me and

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passed by. He walked down the
hall into the apartment. By simple inertia,

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I went to the door, where
that strange subject entered. The apartment

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he entered looked pretty deteriorated. A
layer of dust covered each part of the

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door and the window in it,
as well as having a couple of broken

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glass. Since it was Sunday and
everything was quiet, I tried to listen

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inside. Then I heard a laugh
like macabre, so I preferred to get

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away from there, because I didn' t know if the tenant would be

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some kind of schizophrenic or have any
disorders. When I arrived with Amanda,

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I found her busy doing a tattoo
on a girl' s back. I

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didn' t mean to interrupt her, so I sat on a couch once

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I was done, we popped a
couple of beers. Then I asked her

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about her neighbor with clown makeup Amanda
opened her eyes a lot and surprised me

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she told me that she had no
neighbor like that who, in fact,

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the bottom department the last one had
already been unemployed for at least eight years.

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I swore to him that I had
seen this man, but she held

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on to the fact that there was
no one in the building that looked like

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a clown, in addition to the
fact that most tenants were young people.

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That afternoon we took care of watching
a movie, but I couldn' t

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get the image of that clown out
of my head. I was sure I

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' d seen him, and I
didn' t think he was a ghost.

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I' ve seen spectra in the
past, but that man looked too

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real. Then I insisted on talking
about that clown. Angry Amanda asked me

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to accompany her to the apartment and
see if, after corroborating that inside it

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was totally empty. I was convinced
that it wasn' t possible for anyone

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to live there. We went back
to that apartment then. Amanda, taking

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advantage of the lack of a glass
at the door, opened the lock.

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By or inside we entered and,
as she said, the apartment was almost

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empty. Except for one piece of
furniture in Ruinas, the place was too

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small and did not have its own
bathroom. According to Amandas and they were

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before all the departments, but at
present each of these had its own bathroom.

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The apartment itself was two small rooms, one with a curtain and behind

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it, as frozen in time,
a beautiful dresser filled with make- up

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covered in cobwebs and dust a broken
mirror and in front of it reflected a

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small seat and on it a small
ventriloquist doll. He wore a Renaissance-

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style suit and his face painted like
an arlequin. The doll was somewhat frightening,

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especially the expression of his face,
as it gave the impression of maintaining

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a perpetual smile. His teeth and
hair were too realistic. He had no

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eyes. I found a lot of
resemblance in the sea make- up of

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that puppet with the man I swore
to have seen go in there. I

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told Amanda that the makeup on that
doll was identical to the man I saw

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going in there, but she didn' t answer me. He just turned

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his eyes. We left that place
leaving everything intact and never mentioned the subject

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again. We spent a month together
and the relationship went even further. I

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practically moved in with her, because
there were weeks when she asked me not

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to leave her because I was afraid
at night, although she never mentioned that

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I was afraid of her. Followed
in the evenings, she heard her complaining

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in her sleep It seemed as if
some trauma had gotten into the depths of

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her being. When this happened,
I used to hug her on a rainy

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night. We fell asleep. About
three o' clock in the morning.

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I started listening to a leak fall
in the room, but I didn'

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t want to pay attention to it. Then I began to dream in my

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dream. I heard someone knocking on
the door and as Amanda was busy,

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I attended and when I opened I
couldn' t find anyone, but I

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heard a mixture of laughter and crying, I wouldn' t know how to

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explain it, but the sound was
really sinister. After hearing that sound,

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I walked into the house and locked
the door again. Seconds later they played

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with more insistence. This time.
Amanda walked me to the door. Then

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we found the ventriloquist doll with half
a broken head. In that the doll

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stood up and began to cry by
grasping the part of his head that he

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needed. That' s when I
woke up. It was day and,

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to my surprise, they knocked on
the door with a lot of force.

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Amanda stood up and answered the door. They were neighbors who came to invite

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him to the birthday party of two
girls who were twins. The party would

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be held outside in the yard and
hallway of the apartments. Amanda told me

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that they used to throw good parties
there, that she had already been in

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a couple of them and practically all
the neighbors cooperated to pay for these celebrations.

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We decided to attend, although we
didn' t really know what we

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were doing at a children' s
party. Being a couple without children.

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Two days before the party, Amanda
introduced me to a forty- five-

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year- old man who had spent
practically his entire life living in the neighborhood,

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as did his family three generations ago. Amanda wanted me to meet this

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man, whose name was Julio,
as she told him about my meeting with

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the Clown in the last department.
It turned out that Julio, as a

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child, found out about a story
his grandfather told him. The story was

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about a man who was prey to
all vices, who in his youth was

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heir to a great fortune, who
squandered, lost property, lost his way

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to business cars and, as is
to be expected when you have friends,

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for convenience, no one was with
him when he stayed on the street.

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So that man fell into the neighborhood, where all he could devote himself to

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was clowning, although it wasn'
t his only activity, because people murmured

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that he used to meet some witches
at night, this to be able to

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recover his fortune magically, which obviously
didn' t happen and all he managed

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to do was degrade himself every time
as a human being, they always saw

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him drunk drinking on the streets little
by little there were also rumors that that

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that man made improper touching on women. Julio was not sure if this was

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just a rumor or had been true, but what did happen was that he

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earned the contempt of all the people
who came to know him. Julio interrupted

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to ask if he knew whether the
man in question also possessed a ventriloquist doll.

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Julio kept quiet for a couple of
seconds. He went on to say

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that the last years of his life
he traveled with a ventriloquist doll to the

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nearest cities and to the center during
the holidays. According to Julio, no

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one ever knew how that man died. There were only rumors. Some claimed

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to have seen him throw himself into
a river, others said he locked himself

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in an electricity station, and others
swore to have seen a demon come out

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of the mirror in his dressing room
to bring him alive to hell to pay

415
00:32:35.240 --> 00:32:38.759
for his sins. Julio' s
story seemed quite interesting to me. Unfortunately,

416
00:32:38.880 --> 00:32:42.960
he couldn' t give me any
more details about it. He found

417
00:32:43.079 --> 00:32:47.759
it interesting that that doll was still
in his apartment. The same makeup immediately

418
00:32:49.319 --> 00:32:53.960
asked us to show him what we
found in the apartment. We went back

419
00:32:54.039 --> 00:32:59.440
to that place, but the ventriloquist
doll was no longer just the makeup and

420
00:32:59.559 --> 00:33:01.960
something else, something I didn'
t notice in my first intrusion into this

421
00:33:02.000 --> 00:33:07.359
department. It was a little picture
of a clown who didn' t look

422
00:33:07.440 --> 00:33:12.759
like I' d seen. He
was young, wearing a cone- shaped

423
00:33:12.839 --> 00:33:17.119
hat and his expression was sad.
He was carrying a stick on his shoulder

424
00:33:17.440 --> 00:33:22.640
with a bag- like blanket,
tied to the tip, just like a

425
00:33:22.720 --> 00:33:28.279
bum would. Julio looked around and
then told us something like that every urban

426
00:33:28.400 --> 00:33:31.920
legend contained its degree of truth and
whatever the truth of that sad clown must

427
00:33:32.000 --> 00:33:40.039
have been one of the scariest to
keep people away for decades. That day,

428
00:33:40.519 --> 00:33:45.200
Amanda began to believe that she had
actually seen that clown- painted man.

429
00:33:46.359 --> 00:33:51.920
From the moment he agreed to believe
me, his nightmares got worse at

430
00:33:52.000 --> 00:33:53.559
such a point that he asked me
not to leave him alone any night.

431
00:33:54.839 --> 00:34:00.400
Another thing that happened to him was
that he developed an uncontrolled phobia, the

432
00:34:00.440 --> 00:34:05.160
bera to clowns. If we found
one of them in a square, he

433
00:34:05.200 --> 00:34:09.039
would always ask me to stay away
or if one was on television, he

434
00:34:09.079 --> 00:34:14.199
would close his eyes and tell me
to change the channel. The date of

435
00:34:14.239 --> 00:34:17.199
the children' s party was immediately
reached. Fortunately, they did not hire

436
00:34:17.239 --> 00:34:22.239
any clowns, just a magician and
some girls who painted the faces of several

437
00:34:22.360 --> 00:34:27.480
children who were invited. There was
all kinds of food and candy. Amanda

438
00:34:27.519 --> 00:34:30.760
and I had several beers. Although
neither she nor I wanted to have children.

439
00:34:31.199 --> 00:34:37.199
The children used to follow us a
lot, so at that party we

440
00:34:37.239 --> 00:34:39.559
made friends with the children of several
neighbors during the party. I heard a

441
00:34:39.559 --> 00:34:44.559
couple of kids say they saw a
clown in the back yard of the building.

442
00:34:44.960 --> 00:34:49.079
According to them, he was wearing
a doll that spoke only Amanda.

443
00:34:49.199 --> 00:34:52.519
She was completely pale. But far
from losing his mind, he went to

444
00:34:52.559 --> 00:34:58.280
look for the parents of those children
to ask if they had hired any surprise

445
00:34:58.280 --> 00:35:02.599
shows. The children' s unemployed
were quite frightened, so they went to

446
00:35:02.599 --> 00:35:07.360
the place where they claimed to have
seen the clown and as expected, they

447
00:35:07.400 --> 00:35:13.280
found no one. But if they
heard a squeaky, mocking voice, just

448
00:35:13.360 --> 00:35:16.960
as a clown would pretend, this
event didn' t stop the party.

449
00:35:17.440 --> 00:35:22.519
Only children were prevented from moving away
from the main courtyard. And it'

450
00:35:22.559 --> 00:35:27.199
s just that there really wasn'
t any proof that some maniac was hanging

451
00:35:28.360 --> 00:35:31.599
around the party, Amanda and I
decided not to spend the night in her

452
00:35:31.719 --> 00:35:36.400
apartment, not so much because of
what had happened with the kids, but

453
00:35:36.480 --> 00:35:38.320
because neither she nor I liked to
reveal ourselves. And, as Amanda told

454
00:35:38.400 --> 00:35:44.519
me, the parties were going on
long enough there. That night, Amanda,

455
00:35:44.559 --> 00:35:47.480
she finally dared to tell me about
the reason for her night terrors.

456
00:35:49.320 --> 00:35:53.280
It turned out that when I was
a child and I lived in an orphanage

457
00:35:53.360 --> 00:35:58.559
during a holiday that I didn'
t remember well whether it was Child'

458
00:35:58.599 --> 00:36:01.119
s Day or whether it was just
one of those occasions when companies were carrying

459
00:36:01.119 --> 00:36:05.840
donations. But the case was that, while everyone was having fun with a

460
00:36:05.840 --> 00:36:09.679
boar show, she snuck out to
one of the girls' rooms and being

461
00:36:09.719 --> 00:36:15.800
there saw a man dressed as a
clown performing an improper act with one of

462
00:36:15.840 --> 00:36:20.400
the orphanage' s roommates. While
he was telling me this, his voice

463
00:36:20.400 --> 00:36:22.800
was shaking. You could see he
was having a hard time talking, so

464
00:36:22.880 --> 00:36:27.599
I told him he was fine.
If she did not continue to count that

465
00:36:28.559 --> 00:36:31.320
traumatic event, she shook her head
and continued to tell me that what remained

466
00:36:31.360 --> 00:36:36.320
most engraved on her head was the
hair of the man she swore to me.

467
00:36:36.400 --> 00:36:40.039
He did not simply wear a wig, but had let grow three strands

468
00:36:40.079 --> 00:36:45.320
of hair that were so dirty that
they were raised, in addition to being

469
00:36:45.320 --> 00:36:50.159
painted red, and the rest of
his head was bald and covered with grains.

470
00:36:50.960 --> 00:36:54.360
I imagined that man as being more
repulsive on earth, and I embraced

471
00:36:54.400 --> 00:36:59.360
him and she set me aside.
He told me that was the reason why

472
00:36:59.360 --> 00:37:04.559
he had night terrors and why he
was afraid of clowns. I didn'

473
00:37:04.679 --> 00:37:08.280
t want to hug her again.
I just stood there listening. After he

474
00:37:08.280 --> 00:37:14.800
told me that terrible story. He
fell into deep sleep. Like never before.

475
00:37:14.840 --> 00:37:19.679
I saw her for me it was
as if she had freed herself from

476
00:37:19.800 --> 00:37:24.800
a terrible burden. Instead, that
night I had another nightmare again in this

477
00:37:24.880 --> 00:37:30.960
dream. After following the man dressed
as a clown, he came back to

478
00:37:30.000 --> 00:37:37.360
that apartment and immediately began to hear
the cry of several young children. Following

479
00:37:37.440 --> 00:37:42.039
this sound, I reached the part
where we found the dresser. In that

480
00:37:42.199 --> 00:37:45.639
I realized that behind the curtains in
the background there was some kind of little

481
00:37:45.719 --> 00:37:52.760
pig opened it and found many pictures
with curses written from behind. At the

482
00:37:52.880 --> 00:37:59.320
time I was trying to get out
of the apartment, but the door was

483
00:38:00.039 --> 00:38:01.920
disappearing from my sight and even though
I was screaming for help. No one

484
00:38:01.920 --> 00:38:06.559
responded to my call and, on
the contrary, listened to that squeaky laugh.

485
00:38:07.199 --> 00:38:10.119
On that I woke up almost screaming. Luckily, Amanda was so deep

486
00:38:10.199 --> 00:38:15.519
asleep that she didn' t even
complain about my screams. The days went

487
00:38:15.719 --> 00:38:21.039
by and Amanda started avoiding me the
truth. I never liked to go after

488
00:38:21.039 --> 00:38:24.800
anyone, so I ran into her
directly asking if anything was wrong, but

489
00:38:24.880 --> 00:38:30.639
she told me she was just feeling
indisposed. I didn' t want to

490
00:38:30.679 --> 00:38:32.320
look for her again, and I
preferred to spend more time on my work.

491
00:38:32.760 --> 00:38:36.800
And with the short time I had
left, I was going to wander

492
00:38:36.880 --> 00:38:40.639
through the square, because at least
in Bogotá every day extraordinary things happen.

493
00:38:42.639 --> 00:38:46.840
Unfortunately, in the busy days I
began to notice a certain character among the

494
00:38:46.840 --> 00:38:51.760
crowd. It was that old man
dressed as a clown. I didn'

495
00:38:51.800 --> 00:38:54.119
t even notice it at first.
I thought it was one of so many

496
00:38:54.199 --> 00:38:59.360
homeless people who took advantage of whatever
option they had left to earn some coins.

497
00:39:00.480 --> 00:39:04.079
However, after seeing him, I
noticed those wrinkles on his bleeding skin

498
00:39:04.199 --> 00:39:08.480
and that look was unmistakable. It
was the man I saw in the neighborhood

499
00:39:08.599 --> 00:39:14.239
where Amanda lived. The man gave
me a look of contempt. The first

500
00:39:14.280 --> 00:39:19.119
times I saw him I tried to
talk to him, but the clown got

501
00:39:19.119 --> 00:39:22.000
lost in the crowd. Another day
I found him sitting on a bench next

502
00:39:22.079 --> 00:39:28.679
to a fountain. I brought that
ventriloquist doll and saw perfectly how I entertained

503
00:39:28.760 --> 00:39:32.800
all the people in the audience making
a mockery of my name and my story

504
00:39:32.880 --> 00:39:37.320
with Amanda. In her act she
declared that I had been deceived, that

505
00:39:37.360 --> 00:39:43.239
I had been used only as a
means for her to get some missing appliances

506
00:39:43.280 --> 00:39:47.039
and that now she slept with Julio, her neighbor and that together they had

507
00:39:47.039 --> 00:39:53.360
haunted me. I must confess that
for this I was already emotionally ill I

508
00:39:53.480 --> 00:39:58.400
used to drink at least one bottle
of red wine a day, but I

509
00:39:58.480 --> 00:40:01.000
swear to God that what I witnessed
was not the work of alcohol or delirium.

510
00:40:01.119 --> 00:40:06.000
Then, shamefully, I have to
accept that the first time I met

511
00:40:06.079 --> 00:40:09.639
that clown making fun of me,
I had drunk too much and with warm

512
00:40:09.719 --> 00:40:14.360
blood for alcohol. I threw myself
at him trying to shut him up.

513
00:40:15.239 --> 00:40:19.239
But that clown, despite his age, was pretty fast and always ran away.

514
00:40:20.920 --> 00:40:23.880
When I asked the people where the
clown had gone, they answered me

515
00:40:23.960 --> 00:40:30.440
that there was no clown there.
One day in the morning, Amanda texted

516
00:40:30.480 --> 00:40:35.480
me. She was urgently asking me
to visit her. My pride could have

517
00:40:35.480 --> 00:40:37.239
been more, so I didn'
t come to the first call. However,

518
00:40:37.639 --> 00:40:43.840
as several days passed, his messages
were increasingly insistent and then, one

519
00:40:43.880 --> 00:40:49.039
last week his last message, I
came to see her. I found her

520
00:40:49.159 --> 00:40:52.000
totally pale, as if she'
d seen a dead man. Without words,

521
00:40:52.519 --> 00:40:57.199
he pointed to a package that was
on his table. I went right

522
00:40:57.239 --> 00:41:00.440
away to see what it was about. It was the ventriloquist echo. The

523
00:41:00.480 --> 00:41:06.639
package had no sender or any other
indication of where it had been sent from.

524
00:41:07.480 --> 00:41:10.280
When I finally got to talk to
her, she confessed everything to me

525
00:41:10.320 --> 00:41:15.000
just like that clown said. She
had several encounters with that Julio guy.

526
00:41:15.559 --> 00:41:20.639
Obviously, I didn' t agree
to go back to her, but I

527
00:41:20.719 --> 00:41:22.679
offered to try and solve the mystery
about that package. She agreed and asked

528
00:41:22.880 --> 00:41:28.119
me to stay in my apartment,
a request to which I refused, but

529
00:41:28.199 --> 00:41:31.960
I offered to take the doll and
get rid of it. I got rid

530
00:41:32.079 --> 00:41:37.440
of the doll by throwing it in
a garbage can by the train. That

531
00:41:37.519 --> 00:41:42.519
night I fell asleep early, but
about five o' clock in the morning

532
00:41:42.599 --> 00:41:45.840
I got a call from Amanda.
He told me that he had seen the

533
00:41:45.880 --> 00:41:50.880
same clown as me and that at
that very moment he was laughing at her

534
00:41:50.880 --> 00:41:54.440
at the entrance of his apartment.
I made fun of the situation, told

535
00:41:54.480 --> 00:42:00.599
him to call Julio. She almost
cried, apologized again and asked me to

536
00:42:00.639 --> 00:42:06.119
come to her house. That night
I refused and before hanging him I promised

537
00:42:06.159 --> 00:42:08.480
to go see her in the morning. When I arrived at his house,

538
00:42:09.239 --> 00:42:14.519
I trembled from the front door,
as the gate was closed. No one

539
00:42:14.559 --> 00:42:17.519
answered my call, but I took
advantage of the fact that a boy was

540
00:42:17.519 --> 00:42:20.920
going on a bicycle to get in. He had a key to his apartment,

541
00:42:21.360 --> 00:42:23.199
but not to the entrance. I
walked to his door and knocked immediately,

542
00:42:23.760 --> 00:42:29.119
my door call was not answered,
so I knocked. Twice more,

543
00:42:29.440 --> 00:42:32.519
a neighbor opened his door and,
as I knew him, asked him if

544
00:42:32.599 --> 00:42:37.000
he did not know if Amanda was
at home, to which the neighbor replied

545
00:42:37.039 --> 00:42:40.440
that he had not seen her leave
all day. The neighbor approached me and

546
00:42:40.519 --> 00:42:45.800
told me in the ear that in
the night he had heard a lot of

547
00:42:45.119 --> 00:42:50.159
scandal, that Amanda was screaming in
terror and the neighbor was about to call

548
00:42:50.239 --> 00:42:52.440
the police if not because his wife
went to see what was going on.

549
00:42:54.079 --> 00:42:59.079
Amanda opened the door and told her
everything was fine, that she was just

550
00:42:59.119 --> 00:43:05.039
going through a crisis and even invited
her into her apartment. The woman said

551
00:43:05.079 --> 00:43:10.239
she saw that she was alone except
for a horrid ventriloquist doll. At that

552
00:43:10.360 --> 00:43:15.679
moment I understood the urgency of my
presence from Amanda, but I didn'

553
00:43:15.719 --> 00:43:19.599
t want to interrupt the neighbor,
so I let him continue. At that

554
00:43:19.639 --> 00:43:23.159
we began to hear laughter. Coming
from the bottom of the hall. The

555
00:43:23.199 --> 00:43:28.719
neighbor and I were amazed, but
we went to see what was going on

556
00:43:29.360 --> 00:43:32.400
there. Inside was Amanda sitting in
front of the dresser. He seemed to

557
00:43:32.440 --> 00:43:37.280
have gone mad taking her by the
shoulders. We drove her to her apartment.

558
00:43:37.840 --> 00:43:42.119
There we were able to make her
react. As soon as he saw

559
00:43:42.119 --> 00:43:45.480
me, he hugged me. Then
she asked the neighbor out and left her

560
00:43:45.559 --> 00:43:51.159
alone with me. Then he explained
to me that such a man Julio really

561
00:43:51.280 --> 00:43:54.519
knew more about the clown, for
he himself was a descendant of him and

562
00:43:54.719 --> 00:43:59.519
that he was not really a mere
human being. Then she didn' t

563
00:43:59.599 --> 00:44:04.760
want to tell me anymore, and
I didn' t want to hear her,

564
00:44:05.159 --> 00:44:08.800
because even though the whole thing had
been too weird, she felt a

565
00:44:08.920 --> 00:44:09.599
lot of mixed feelings and no longer
wanted to be with her, so I

566
00:44:09.599 --> 00:44:14.960
told God. Eventually I learned that
there were a couple of disappearances that even

567
00:44:15.000 --> 00:44:19.400
led the police to investigate the case, in addition to Amanda' s being

568
00:44:19.480 --> 00:44:23.519
known to be an active witchcraft practitioner. For my part, and luckily,

569
00:44:24.000 --> 00:44:40.119
I never met that clown or Amanda
again. Fun park, I' m

570
00:44:40.159 --> 00:44:45.320
an engineer in electromechanics. In my
career I have had to carry out several

571
00:44:45.360 --> 00:44:50.559
constructions and remodelings of amusement parks,
in which on more than one occasion I

572
00:44:50.639 --> 00:44:55.639
have witnessed strange and paranormal events,
including objects and evidence that the practice of

573
00:44:55.679 --> 00:45:00.519
satanism and witchcraft is more common than
one believed, especially in homes of wealthy

574
00:45:00.519 --> 00:45:08.159
people, who strive for the devil
to improve their future. Rather than respecting

575
00:45:08.199 --> 00:45:13.880
God' s plans. On one
occasion, at the beginning of my career,

576
00:45:14.039 --> 00:45:19.440
I was assigned the remodeling of an
amusement park abandoned by privacy issues.

577
00:45:19.800 --> 00:45:23.519
I prefer to reserve the exact location
of this site, but this was in

578
00:45:23.559 --> 00:45:28.800
a province state in Mexico. The
place had initially been the main attraction of

579
00:45:28.840 --> 00:45:34.840
a shopping mall, as it handled
a fantastic concept aimed especially at children.

580
00:45:37.199 --> 00:45:40.960
I remember watching commercials on local television
when I was a kid, but since

581
00:45:42.000 --> 00:45:45.719
I came from a very poor family, my parents never took me since the

582
00:45:45.800 --> 00:45:51.159
first day I went to get the
budget, I couldn' t understand how

583
00:45:51.320 --> 00:45:53.920
a place like that could end up
in abandonment. If you had everything you

584
00:45:54.039 --> 00:45:59.199
could wish for, as a child. There was a train that made a

585
00:45:59.280 --> 00:46:04.519
tour around the square and passed through
specific places in the park. There were

586
00:46:04.639 --> 00:46:08.840
all kinds of games, carousels,
arcades and even had its own auditorium and

587
00:46:08.920 --> 00:46:14.320
children' s party area. He
could not understand how such a place went

588
00:46:14.360 --> 00:46:19.440
into decline, for apart from so
many attractions, he was also passing through

589
00:46:19.519 --> 00:46:22.880
a fairly central place in the city. The rest of the square continued to

590
00:46:22.920 --> 00:46:28.800
function normally. However, it was
perceived as the abandonment and decline of the

591
00:46:28.880 --> 00:46:32.960
amusement park. It filtered to each
of the outside businesses and that is what

592
00:46:34.119 --> 00:46:37.320
the place looked like, since the
amusement park was closed with steel mesh and

593
00:46:37.440 --> 00:46:44.519
covered the view with black plastic.
I entered an area where the crossing of

594
00:46:44.599 --> 00:46:49.079
the train was appreciated, now covered
entirely with dust, but in very good

595
00:46:49.079 --> 00:46:52.920
condition. Two in charge of the
square showed me how all the games continued

596
00:46:53.440 --> 00:46:59.960
to work except for some areas that
were completely closed, as I was informed

597
00:47:00.000 --> 00:47:05.519
that there were problems with the pipe
that caused several short circuits in the electrical

598
00:47:05.960 --> 00:47:10.159
wiring and it was necessary to keep
those areas without energy. We went through

599
00:47:10.400 --> 00:47:15.039
several games until we reached the auditorium
where the children' s parties were held.

600
00:47:15.840 --> 00:47:20.119
A feeling of melancholy took hold of
me when I saw how several serpentine

601
00:47:20.159 --> 00:47:25.599
hats were still preserved on the tables
and on the main table the heads of

602
00:47:25.679 --> 00:47:30.599
a few plastic clowns. In that
we arrived at a huge tower, where

603
00:47:30.639 --> 00:47:35.960
it was explained to me that the
power plant was located, as well as

604
00:47:36.039 --> 00:47:40.280
a circuit of cameras that for a
long time had not functioned and although they

605
00:47:40.280 --> 00:47:43.599
had hired several technicians, they never
managed to make them work. 100%.

606
00:47:44.960 --> 00:47:47.760
I had my contacts back then,
so I thought I' d call

607
00:47:47.840 --> 00:47:52.840
one of my best friends to take
care of this job at the time.

608
00:47:52.519 --> 00:47:59.639
After assessing the situation, I signed
the contract and started working immediately. I

609
00:47:59.679 --> 00:48:04.119
decided to form a team of work
as best I could and a week after

610
00:48:04.199 --> 00:48:08.119
doing all the work of calculations and
getting all the diagrams on which we were

611
00:48:08.239 --> 00:48:14.079
going to work, so as not
to disturb the few remaining locators in the

612
00:48:14.199 --> 00:48:19.760
square we were asked to work at
night. This did not cause any problems,

613
00:48:20.440 --> 00:48:22.679
for being a man over forty years
old, being single, I tend

614
00:48:22.800 --> 00:48:30.360
to have noctambulal habits. We quickly
set up a task force that advanced by

615
00:48:30.480 --> 00:48:35.920
leaps and bounds and soon had at
least seventy- five percent of the overall

616
00:48:35.920 --> 00:48:40.440
advance. Unfortunately, whenever you start
a job or a job you usually underestimate

617
00:48:40.559 --> 00:48:45.639
the total of work and time,
so we get to a point where the

618
00:48:45.679 --> 00:48:51.440
advance stopped. And with this jam, strange things also started to happen.

619
00:48:51.519 --> 00:48:54.880
The first thing that happened was that
several workers resigned overnight and were people who

620
00:48:55.400 --> 00:49:00.880
had already been working with me on
more than one play. They were responsible

621
00:49:00.960 --> 00:49:04.920
men who would not vote for the
job. Just like that, I don

622
00:49:04.960 --> 00:49:08.320
' t usually talk to the workers
who do this, but on that occasion

623
00:49:08.400 --> 00:49:15.000
I did find it strange that even
a man I trusted most would have voted

624
00:49:15.119 --> 00:49:20.000
for the job. His name was
Ramiro. When I spoke to Ramiro,

625
00:49:20.280 --> 00:49:23.719
after apologizing, he told me a
story of the most incredible that at the

626
00:49:23.800 --> 00:49:30.559
time I considered ridiculous. It was
something like that. We found ourselves repairing

627
00:49:30.639 --> 00:49:36.079
the wiring where the auditorium is located
and apparently everything was going well until we

628
00:49:36.119 --> 00:49:40.480
found a kind of fungus. This
fungus stinked and dissolved anything that touched his

629
00:49:40.599 --> 00:49:46.719
path. We tried to remove it
with several chemicals, but nothing worked,

630
00:49:46.920 --> 00:49:52.039
which is why we decided to completely
remove the building material on which that fungus

631
00:49:52.039 --> 00:49:57.239
was located. We put aside the
work in that area and when we get

632
00:49:57.440 --> 00:50:01.119
back, we find an old woman
with a blue tissue sweater. He didn

633
00:50:01.280 --> 00:50:07.119
' t wear shoes and his feet
were black and torn. I offered him

634
00:50:07.119 --> 00:50:09.880
help, but when he approached me, I saw that the woman had eyes

635
00:50:09.920 --> 00:50:15.760
like cat' s and as I
got closer I noticed a certain sound similar

636
00:50:15.880 --> 00:50:20.679
to that of these cats as a
kind of purr. I walked away from

637
00:50:21.239 --> 00:50:25.000
her and that strange woman slowly walked
back. Then he went through one of

638
00:50:25.039 --> 00:50:31.400
the vents. When we tried to
remove the concrete where the fungus was,

639
00:50:31.599 --> 00:50:36.920
we noticed that it leaked even to
the vents where the strange old woman had

640
00:50:37.039 --> 00:50:43.559
fled. Then we decided to go
into one of the ducts and there lighting

641
00:50:43.679 --> 00:50:46.280
with lamps we discovered that the fungus
was an even greater plague than we thought,

642
00:50:46.719 --> 00:50:51.599
as the ducts were filled with it. And that was not the worst,

643
00:50:51.880 --> 00:50:55.760
but we discovered the body of a
person involved in that mass of rot

644
00:50:55.800 --> 00:51:02.760
and pestilence. According to Ramiro and
two other workers, that abandoned park was

645
00:51:02.840 --> 00:51:07.599
the nest of a witch. I
didn' t believe him at the time

646
00:51:07.679 --> 00:51:10.719
and decided to start investigating on my
own. Usually, I haven' t

647
00:51:10.800 --> 00:51:15.039
done a lot of wiring or manual
work, only when Czech that something isn

648
00:51:15.079 --> 00:51:20.039
' t right. But having run
out of workers, I hired a couple

649
00:51:20.079 --> 00:51:23.800
of kids and I led the crew
myself. First we start the old electric

650
00:51:23.880 --> 00:51:30.519
train. Then we checked all the
arcade video game machines. These had already

651
00:51:30.559 --> 00:51:34.760
been put out and were still in
good condition. Then we headed for a

652
00:51:34.840 --> 00:51:38.840
beautiful carousel that, as I was
told, had been imported from Florence Italy.

653
00:51:39.400 --> 00:51:44.000
Everything worked well with the carousel.
You just had to change a couple

654
00:51:44.079 --> 00:51:47.400
of spotlights, plus you needed a
horse. The next day I asked the

655
00:51:47.480 --> 00:51:52.000
owner about this missing piece, but
he told me that I didn' t

656
00:51:52.079 --> 00:51:59.400
know that most likely several parts would
be missing due to vandalism and although they

657
00:51:59.519 --> 00:52:01.320
had hired private security in the room, they never lasted. They always had

658
00:52:01.360 --> 00:52:07.840
to be rotating the guards. Retaking
the investigation, it happened that we were

659
00:52:07.079 --> 00:52:14.239
pressured to finish the repairs. Then
I offered to stay all night working Obviously,

660
00:52:14.599 --> 00:52:17.199
the pay was pretty good. It
was then that I myself began to

661
00:52:17.280 --> 00:52:22.360
notice certain strange things for this I
had not approached the auditorium and vents,

662
00:52:22.920 --> 00:52:28.960
for if there was something really scary
in there, I would rather leave it

663
00:52:29.079 --> 00:52:32.719
to the latter and move forward with
the rest of the work. We were

664
00:52:32.840 --> 00:52:37.840
working in a fuse box very close
to the carousel When out of nowhere this

665
00:52:37.880 --> 00:52:45.199
had no explanation, because the carousel
was without electric power. Even if there

666
00:52:45.320 --> 00:52:49.599
was a false contact, I'
d have to connect the wires and turn

667
00:52:49.599 --> 00:52:52.280
the switch up. I didn'
t want to show the fear I felt,

668
00:52:52.760 --> 00:52:58.480
because I didn' t want to
scare the men who were still with

669
00:52:58.559 --> 00:52:59.400
me, so I just ordered them
to shut it down and explained to them

670
00:52:59.400 --> 00:53:06.239
what. Perhaps there was another power
supply that we would then investigate. One

671
00:53:06.280 --> 00:53:09.159
of the boys told me to see
an old woman in the shadows, but

672
00:53:09.199 --> 00:53:14.440
at the time I didn' t
believe her and I told her to get

673
00:53:14.440 --> 00:53:19.079
on with the job. When we
looked directly at what had happened in the

674
00:53:19.559 --> 00:53:23.920
carousel we noticed that someone had connected
and lifted the switch as I had thought.

675
00:53:24.679 --> 00:53:29.440
Far from thinking that it was a
ghost or witch, I thought that

676
00:53:29.480 --> 00:53:35.119
maybe some person, some partner or
former worker, did not want that little

677
00:53:35.159 --> 00:53:40.760
amusement park to be re- opened. Then I ordered the workers to watch

678
00:53:42.039 --> 00:53:46.760
out if they would ever see anyone
round again or around the mall. No

679
00:53:46.840 --> 00:53:52.800
more incidents occurred that night. It
was time to move on to the area

680
00:53:52.840 --> 00:53:58.039
where the auditorium was located. I
found that the site was even more disgusting

681
00:53:58.079 --> 00:54:01.280
than the last time I saw it
to say that the plague had spread to

682
00:54:01.320 --> 00:54:07.280
the table area and to the main
stage. For this I had obtained a

683
00:54:07.320 --> 00:54:12.519
compound recommended to me by a friend
who is a chemical pharmacobiologist, I put

684
00:54:12.559 --> 00:54:15.079
the workers to spray it while I
was looking for the source of that rot.

685
00:54:15.639 --> 00:54:20.920
Then I got to the vents.
I went back to the cellar,

686
00:54:21.639 --> 00:54:24.480
where we kept the tool. I
took a flashlight and a knife. When

687
00:54:24.519 --> 00:54:30.840
I returned I found the workers very
frightened, for they said they had heard

688
00:54:30.920 --> 00:54:37.800
rather strange sounds inside the vents.
According to them, it was something like

689
00:54:37.920 --> 00:54:42.360
the sound of cats. When they
want to mate, I told the boys

690
00:54:42.400 --> 00:54:46.599
that it was very likely that there
was a cat in there and that was

691
00:54:46.679 --> 00:54:50.960
no reason to be afraid. That' s why I asked them to come

692
00:54:50.960 --> 00:54:54.920
with me. The main duct was
exactly on the stage of the auditorium.

693
00:54:55.599 --> 00:54:59.920
I went up there and found everything
covered by that fungus l l or.

694
00:55:00.880 --> 00:55:06.760
I found then that which frightened men
before, but it was not a human

695
00:55:06.840 --> 00:55:09.960
being that was attached to the walls, but the remains of the missing piece

696
00:55:10.039 --> 00:55:15.320
of the carousel, only that by
the position in which it was found it

697
00:55:15.920 --> 00:55:19.840
was easy to confuse it with a
person. What I did notice was the

698
00:55:19.920 --> 00:55:23.960
sound the workers were talking about and
I knew why they were scared. It

699
00:55:24.039 --> 00:55:29.000
sounded not like a cat, but
something else, something I had never heard

700
00:55:29.039 --> 00:55:32.480
and no matter how much I wished, I could not describe. I did

701
00:55:32.519 --> 00:55:37.519
not let myself be overwhelmed and,
on the contrary, I myself began to

702
00:55:37.880 --> 00:55:42.159
wash that area by asking the other
men to bring me all the cleaning products,

703
00:55:42.519 --> 00:55:45.559
and they, when I was calm, also began to clean the ducts.

704
00:55:45.320 --> 00:55:50.800
We pulled the horse out of the
duct and discovered how his face had

705
00:55:50.880 --> 00:55:54.519
been scratched and several strange symbols,
such as stars and meaningless numbers, were

706
00:55:54.519 --> 00:55:59.920
drawn. I gave the piece to
the owner who sent us to paint it,

707
00:56:00.360 --> 00:56:04.440
but earlier when he saw it or
put a look that showed a deep

708
00:56:04.440 --> 00:56:08.039
fear. We cleaned the ducts and
managed to get rid of rot. We

709
00:56:08.159 --> 00:56:12.480
moved forward quickly, but from time
to time we saw this fungus appear again.

710
00:56:13.159 --> 00:56:16.960
There were a couple of accidents before
the restorations ended. For example,

711
00:56:17.280 --> 00:56:22.519
one of the workers fell off a
ladder as he was setting up some cables.

712
00:56:22.039 --> 00:56:28.320
Others were severely electrocuted. With everything
and incidents we managed to complete the

713
00:56:28.320 --> 00:56:34.320
work. It would only be aesthetic
questions for it to be inaugurated. Everything

714
00:56:34.480 --> 00:56:38.320
went wrong. In the first tests
machines that had already been tested again failed

715
00:56:38.320 --> 00:56:45.639
the wiring that had been replaced by
a completely new one. It was all

716
00:56:45.679 --> 00:56:49.119
filled with that fungus. Even the
person who hired me, whom we showed

717
00:56:49.119 --> 00:56:54.800
the advance, was surprised how everything
was ruined by magic. I felt like

718
00:56:54.840 --> 00:57:00.960
in the middle of a curse,
but far from losing my mind I preferred

719
00:57:00.039 --> 00:57:05.800
to make sure everything was okay,
because my first hypothesis was that some owner

720
00:57:05.960 --> 00:57:09.239
' s partner didn' t want
the park to open up again, so

721
00:57:09.280 --> 00:57:13.880
I decided to take matters up.
For this I faced a sort of sense

722
00:57:13.920 --> 00:57:17.199
of paranoia. I had problems with
a couple of partners and family members,

723
00:57:19.000 --> 00:57:22.679
even discovered an infidelity on the part
of my then partner, I took a

724
00:57:22.800 --> 00:57:28.840
cot and some blankets to a tower
of the amusement park. Then I installed

725
00:57:28.920 --> 00:57:32.199
a closed- circuit camera. I
did this without telling anyone, because there

726
00:57:32.239 --> 00:57:37.800
was someone who wanted to sabotage my
work. I' d have to find

727
00:57:37.800 --> 00:57:43.800
him. I slept a while before
the square was empty I woke up around

728
00:57:43.920 --> 00:57:46.679
11: 00. Then I started
checking the laptop cameras at first everything was

729
00:57:46.760 --> 00:57:52.639
normal. I only saw a guard
from the square approaching the amusement park to

730
00:57:52.960 --> 00:57:58.760
light a cigarette that was most likely
not tobacco, but cannabis. The man

731
00:57:58.880 --> 00:58:02.440
gave several draughts. Then he looked
in the direction of one of the park

732
00:58:02.920 --> 00:58:08.480
games and ran. Scared. So
I ran another camera that I kept near

733
00:58:08.599 --> 00:58:13.880
that area. I didn' t
see anything, just like some kind of

734
00:58:13.960 --> 00:58:17.199
fog leaks. This scared me a
little, because I thought it would be

735
00:58:17.320 --> 00:58:22.199
smoke. My mind usually looks for
the worst panorama ever for anything, and

736
00:58:22.239 --> 00:58:27.599
at that moment I imagined something had
made a short circuit causing a fire.

737
00:58:28.440 --> 00:58:32.039
This being what scared the guard,
then I got out of the tower bringing

738
00:58:32.079 --> 00:58:37.079
with me a lamp a hand extinguisher
and an electro- shock device, as

739
00:58:37.119 --> 00:58:42.800
a defense weapon, I reached the
point where the guard was moments before and

740
00:58:42.840 --> 00:58:46.880
I actually found his cigarette thrown on
the floor and something else, a sign

741
00:58:46.960 --> 00:58:52.920
and a birthday candle. In that
one someone threw a small ball of those

742
00:58:52.000 --> 00:58:59.280
with which the swimming pools are filled
to play the children I reached to light

743
00:58:59.320 --> 00:59:02.079
up in the direction of ns where
the ball had come. Then I saw

744
00:59:02.159 --> 00:59:06.880
what I thought was a child.
As soon as he saw me, he

745
00:59:06.880 --> 00:59:10.199
ran. For this I noticed that
his steps were not those of a child,

746
00:59:12.039 --> 00:59:15.079
because he moved much faster than anyone
else, besides that his legs were

747
00:59:15.119 --> 00:59:21.239
short as those of a person of
low stature. I went along with it

748
00:59:21.280 --> 00:59:25.840
thinking maybe he was the one who
was sabotaging me. I followed him to

749
00:59:25.880 --> 00:59:31.320
a maze made of slides that gave
up several ball pools. I got inside,

750
00:59:31.679 --> 00:59:37.400
but no joke could get into the
slides. Instead I closed down very

751
00:59:37.400 --> 00:59:40.719
well the entrance to that game with
a chain and a lock that were lying

752
00:59:40.760 --> 00:59:45.280
there. If the guy was in
there, he wouldn' t be out

753
00:59:45.280 --> 00:59:50.519
all night. At that I felt
a blow to the face again. I

754
00:59:50.559 --> 00:59:54.199
was hit again by a plastic ball. That' s where I lit up

755
00:59:54.199 --> 00:59:58.559
and saw that midget on his back
for a second. He turned, but

756
00:59:58.599 --> 01:00:01.239
I could not see his face well, for after laughing at me he ran

757
01:00:01.320 --> 01:00:07.639
again. This time with direction to
the auditorium, I chased him and almost

758
01:00:07.639 --> 01:00:12.599
caught him. Then he grabbed onto
the vent, knocked down the gate and

759
01:00:12.639 --> 01:00:16.639
went inside. Even though the unnatural
movements of that dwarf left me shocked,

760
01:00:17.119 --> 01:00:22.639
my anger was greater, so I
lit up inside the duct inside I didn

761
01:00:22.760 --> 01:00:27.519
' t see this guy. Only
that fungus, which, no matter how

762
01:00:27.880 --> 01:00:30.679
hard it was, could not completely
be eliminated. That' s where I

763
01:00:30.960 --> 01:00:36.880
tantrumed and heard that laugh again.
Illuminating the duct again, he pulled out

764
01:00:37.000 --> 01:00:39.199
his head and I could see it. He had a pointed nose. The

765
01:00:39.239 --> 01:00:45.039
same thing, his ears were completely
bald and he smiled with pointed teeth.

766
01:00:45.440 --> 01:00:49.960
In that the dwarf told me to
stay away from there if I wanted to

767
01:00:50.079 --> 01:00:53.000
stay alive, because the witch was
already sick of me and I would soon

768
01:00:53.480 --> 01:01:00.000
present myself as I was on a
small ladder suddenly I felt how this movement

769
01:01:00.079 --> 01:01:02.800
was swinging or more, the impact
of having seen that creature. They made

770
01:01:02.880 --> 01:01:07.199
me lose my balance and I fell
to the ground. I lost consciousness for

771
01:01:07.280 --> 01:01:13.159
a few minutes. When I woke
up, I found a brochure showing the

772
01:01:13.199 --> 01:01:15.519
face of that dwarf. The letters
of the announcement were no longer legible,

773
01:01:16.199 --> 01:01:22.440
but I deduced that it had been
a show that took place there. At

774
01:01:22.480 --> 01:01:27.519
that time I made the mistake of
not associating everything with a supernatural event and

775
01:01:27.559 --> 01:01:31.559
it is that both the dwarf and
what was happening felt it and looked as

776
01:01:32.159 --> 01:01:37.400
real as if I saw anyone.
What I did was try to talk to

777
01:01:37.480 --> 01:01:42.159
the security guards in the square.
I knew three guards, one of them

778
01:01:42.199 --> 01:01:45.760
was a woman. None of the
men wanted to tell me anything about the

779
01:01:45.800 --> 01:01:51.199
amusement park, not even the one
I recorded that night. The security guard

780
01:01:51.239 --> 01:01:54.239
who agreed to talk to me did
so only on the condition that I invite

781
01:01:54.320 --> 01:02:00.239
him to dinner. We bought Chinese
food and ate on benches that were enough

782
01:02:00.280 --> 01:02:02.800
in front of the train station.
After having dinner and having a two-

783
01:02:04.000 --> 01:02:07.800
litre thermos of coffee, she began
to tell me that everything happened when she

784
01:02:07.880 --> 01:02:13.400
was younger and worked at the pizza
shop next to the auditorium. Many people

785
01:02:13.480 --> 01:02:17.639
used to hire clowns and various shows. The same company had direct contact with

786
01:02:17.719 --> 01:02:23.920
some professionals in this field. One
day a woman appeared offering her magic show.

787
01:02:24.800 --> 01:02:29.760
He was accompanied by a strange man
of low stature. The woman came

788
01:02:29.880 --> 01:02:34.480
asking for a job. She wasn' t hired by anyone, but she

789
01:02:34.519 --> 01:02:37.639
said she was working just for a
tip. The then owner of the amusement

790
01:02:37.679 --> 01:02:42.840
park used to be quite charitable,
so he gave him the chance on a

791
01:02:42.920 --> 01:02:46.440
Sunday afternoon. That day he was
going to burst because it was customary that,

792
01:02:47.079 --> 01:02:51.639
even if he didn' t have
a private party, an hour and

793
01:02:51.639 --> 01:02:54.480
a half show was offered. When
the woman got on stage, everything went

794
01:02:54.519 --> 01:03:00.719
wrong and this caused people not to
like her show. The security guard felt

795
01:03:00.960 --> 01:03:05.639
sorry for her, but instead,
the children didn' t boo her and

796
01:03:05.679 --> 01:03:09.159
started throwing things at her. The
woman got angry, turned red, then

797
01:03:09.239 --> 01:03:16.480
began to behave aggressively, attacking how
many people approached her. Then the commission

798
01:03:16.559 --> 01:03:22.400
in turn sent two boys who worked
as operators in the games to get her

799
01:03:22.440 --> 01:03:27.280
out of there. But when the
boys grabbed her, the woman began to

800
01:03:27.280 --> 01:03:31.559
suffer a cardiac arrest and the dwarf
accompanying her threw a bite into the thigh

801
01:03:31.599 --> 01:03:37.079
of the boys tearing out a piece
of meat. Then, taking advantage of

802
01:03:37.079 --> 01:03:42.480
the distraction, he ran out and
there was no one to stop him,

803
01:03:42.559 --> 01:03:45.840
because the people, when they saw
his face stained with blood, turned him

804
01:03:45.840 --> 01:03:49.480
around. The woman was taken by
the ambulance, but she never knew who

805
01:03:49.599 --> 01:03:54.320
she was or where she had come
from, as did her companion. From

806
01:03:54.360 --> 01:04:00.360
that fateful day on, a curse
fell on the amusement park. First,

807
01:04:00.519 --> 01:04:06.760
the park was the focus of attention
of corrupt public officials who took advantage of

808
01:04:06.800 --> 01:04:11.960
the accident to begin extorting the owner. This resulted in more than one occasion

809
01:04:12.039 --> 01:04:16.559
being closed down. Then accidents began
to occur and in the end, the

810
01:04:16.679 --> 01:04:20.599
owner had to pay so much money
that he decided to abandon everything. Then,

811
01:04:20.679 --> 01:04:25.960
the place changed owners a couple of
times, but none had tried to

812
01:04:26.039 --> 01:04:30.559
open it. Only the last one
who bought it who turned out to be

813
01:04:30.639 --> 01:04:32.480
the nephew of the original owner.
Who was the person who hired me.

814
01:04:33.400 --> 01:04:40.199
Now everything made sense to me.
At that time I decided to show him

815
01:04:40.239 --> 01:04:44.440
the poster and the birthday candle.
She watched the sign and told me that

816
01:04:44.480 --> 01:04:48.800
advertising was exactly the one carried by
that strange woman. That time. Instead,

817
01:04:49.320 --> 01:04:55.199
the birthday candle did not find anything
strange, it might well have been

818
01:04:55.239 --> 01:04:59.519
there for years. Then I told
the woman about my incident. As a

819
01:04:59.639 --> 01:05:03.039
monkey, I had seen a dwarf
throwing balls at me his mocking face and

820
01:05:03.239 --> 01:05:08.400
as he told me the witch would
come after me. The woman seemed quite

821
01:05:08.440 --> 01:05:13.239
frightened, so much so that immediately
she stood up, she set out to

822
01:05:13.239 --> 01:05:15.960
leave, not before suggesting that I
leave there, that I was not the

823
01:05:16.039 --> 01:05:21.320
first person to say I saw this
being she was sure of. He was

824
01:05:21.400 --> 01:05:27.119
not a mere human being and about
the witch, only a security guard had

825
01:05:27.239 --> 01:05:30.639
seen her and now he no longer
worked there, but ended up in a

826
01:05:30.719 --> 01:05:38.960
psychiatric hospital. I saw the security
guard walk away. I understood why the

827
01:05:39.039 --> 01:05:42.960
guards did not approach that area they
were afraid. I, on the other

828
01:05:43.159 --> 01:05:46.559
hand, continued to the end the
last night I was in that place.

829
01:05:46.880 --> 01:05:51.760
I had the brilliant idea of illuminating
the tower with the birthday candle itself that

830
01:05:51.840 --> 01:05:57.519
I placed in front of a small
shell- shaped mirror. For this he

831
01:05:57.599 --> 01:06:00.719
had spent a couple of nights in
which nothing had failed. I even showed

832
01:06:00.800 --> 01:06:04.719
all the work to the owner,
who with a smile on his face,

833
01:06:04.840 --> 01:06:10.159
congratulated me. Then he handed me
the head of the horse that was needed

834
01:06:10.159 --> 01:06:14.800
in the carousel and entrusted me to
throw it as far as possible. I

835
01:06:14.840 --> 01:06:17.280
didn' t throw the horse'
s head and carry it with me.

836
01:06:17.440 --> 01:06:24.039
I still put three of the guys
who were still working with me to run

837
01:06:24.119 --> 01:06:29.519
the last tests, while I supervised
everything from the closed circuit, watching the

838
01:06:29.559 --> 01:06:32.880
videos from my laptop. In that
I noticed something in the reflection of the

839
01:06:32.880 --> 01:06:39.440
candle. It was as if from
the smoke of the candle formed human faces

840
01:06:39.559 --> 01:06:43.760
too sharp behind the mirror, as
if to think that everything was the work

841
01:06:43.880 --> 01:06:47.679
of the mind that always seeks to
find faces where they are not frightened.

842
01:06:47.960 --> 01:06:53.920
I turned off the candle. While
this was happening, I heard a scream,

843
01:06:54.159 --> 01:06:58.360
looked at the cameras and found that
there, next to the carousel was

844
01:06:58.480 --> 01:07:02.760
the witch I came down quickly,
but everything was quiet. Even the boys

845
01:07:02.840 --> 01:07:08.559
were like nothing. When I told
them I had heard a scream, they

846
01:07:08.639 --> 01:07:13.039
told me it was my imagination,
that I was still resentful of my last

847
01:07:13.039 --> 01:07:16.119
incident. Seeing that nothing had failed, I took my stuff back out of

848
01:07:16.159 --> 01:07:20.519
the tower, but someone else was
already waiting for me. The last thing

849
01:07:20.599 --> 01:07:26.239
I remember was seeing her next to
that dwarf. She carried the horse'

850
01:07:26.360 --> 01:07:31.360
s head and the dwarf the cake
candle. I lost consciousness. I woke

851
01:07:31.400 --> 01:07:36.880
up in the hospital for a long
time I kept quiet about this story,

852
01:07:38.360 --> 01:07:41.079
because I thought no one would believe
it. They opened the park a couple

853
01:07:41.159 --> 01:07:45.239
of times only for private parties,
but in the end they ended up selling

854
01:07:45.760 --> 01:07:49.800
everything in parts and building more premises
in the area where it stood. I,

855
01:07:49.880 --> 01:07:55.000
for one, have never run into
that witch again. For my good

856
01:07:55.079 --> 01:07:59.360
fortune, for both her and that
dwarf' s faces are images that I

857
01:07:59.400 --> 01:08:10.400
still can' t get out of
my head today, the witch of the

858
01:08:10.400 --> 01:08:16.119
people. Having reached the age of
majority, I decided to make a trip

859
01:08:16.199 --> 01:08:21.279
to a remote village in the middle
of the Sierra Madre Occidental, an activity

860
01:08:21.359 --> 01:08:27.319
I always wanted to carry out,
but unfortunately I could not afford it,

861
01:08:27.600 --> 01:08:31.920
since my parents were too strict and
never allowed me to do activities beyond going

862
01:08:31.920 --> 01:08:36.600
to school and then working at my
father' s bakery. I always felt

863
01:08:36.640 --> 01:08:43.399
suffocated from living in a city like
Mexico. I learned thanks to a friend

864
01:08:43.439 --> 01:08:46.760
of this town near the coast of
Jalisco, that it looked like a time

865
01:08:46.880 --> 01:08:53.000
capsule and looked just like it if
it still belonged to the viceroyalty of New

866
01:08:53.000 --> 01:08:57.239
Spain. The name is reserved for
me, because the least I would like

867
01:08:57.279 --> 01:09:00.000
to do would be to make bad
publicity to the people who reside there.

868
01:09:00.640 --> 01:09:05.079
The place called something inside me.
Every person who saw pictures felt a huge

869
01:09:05.159 --> 01:09:10.119
desire to visit the place. In
the past, the village was built by

870
01:09:10.199 --> 01:09:15.359
Spanish miners. This had achieved a
certain level of wealth and splendor. That

871
01:09:15.439 --> 01:09:19.359
was why most of the buildings were
huge houses of great beauty and elegance.

872
01:09:20.800 --> 01:09:26.960
I tried to contact an agency that
would take walks to that place, but

873
01:09:26.960 --> 01:09:30.479
apparently the village was so deep into
the mountains that access was only possible in

874
01:09:30.520 --> 01:09:36.039
private vehicles and not in buses.
This is more than anything, because access

875
01:09:36.079 --> 01:09:42.439
to the village was only one and
to get there it was necessary to cross

876
01:09:42.520 --> 01:09:45.880
a bridge where there was no big
cars or buses. I was disappointed.

877
01:09:46.159 --> 01:09:50.760
I thought I wasn' t gonna
get to know that beautiful place through an

878
01:09:50.760 --> 01:09:56.279
acquaintance. I learned that a lady
who was taking walks would arrive in the

879
01:09:56.359 --> 01:10:02.159
village in passing and three other people
were planning to stay for camping already after

880
01:10:02.199 --> 01:10:04.520
three days would take a truck on
the road that would go to columa.

881
01:10:05.479 --> 01:10:12.279
From there we could take a bus
to Mexico City. Then I made the

882
01:10:12.319 --> 01:10:15.520
decision to contact the lady and join
the group of these boys, of whom

883
01:10:15.600 --> 01:10:19.640
I only knew one. The road
was quite long and in certain parts it

884
01:10:19.680 --> 01:10:25.760
seemed endless, especially the pronounced curves
that are on the road inside the Sierra.

885
01:10:26.880 --> 01:10:30.079
I think on more than one occasion
I was about to throw up.

886
01:10:30.359 --> 01:10:34.319
Even though I took a pill for
dizziness just as I was about to surrender

887
01:10:34.359 --> 01:10:40.119
to the need to vomit, the
bus turned on a straight road that led

888
01:10:40.199 --> 01:10:45.159
us to the entrance arch of the
village. As soon as I entered,

889
01:10:45.640 --> 01:10:47.640
I felt a huge change in the
atmosphere. The bridge that crossed to the

890
01:10:47.720 --> 01:10:54.279
main square was still made of stone
and wood. I found some abandoned homes,

891
01:10:55.439 --> 01:11:00.399
mostly cabins, to which nature had
already begun to claim. Then they

892
01:11:00.439 --> 01:11:04.800
were all full of weeds and in
some they even grew trees on the roofs.

893
01:11:05.800 --> 01:11:11.079
We continued our walk, which lasted
for several kilometers, as it was

894
01:11:11.119 --> 01:11:15.560
not simply to cross the bridge,
but to follow a long stretch along a

895
01:11:15.680 --> 01:11:18.840
beautiful stone road. Arriving at the
main square. We didn' t find

896
01:11:18.840 --> 01:11:25.239
many people. A few, two
restaurants served by families, we had breakfast

897
01:11:25.279 --> 01:11:30.279
in one and there we contacted the
owner of a house that would rent us

898
01:11:30.359 --> 01:11:33.880
a space in an old stable.
The square was empty with the exception of

899
01:11:33.920 --> 01:11:40.720
a couple of elderly people sitting on
some of the benches. The first thing

900
01:11:40.800 --> 01:11:45.840
we did was to head to the
house where we would build the tents.

901
01:11:45.920 --> 01:11:49.960
The place was on the side of
the municipal presidency. It was a one

902
01:11:50.119 --> 01:11:55.119
- story construction, but it covered
large land. The person who rented us

903
01:11:55.159 --> 01:11:59.079
the place was a young person.
I wouldn' t even be forty years

904
01:11:59.079 --> 01:12:01.079
old. I asked him if it
was true that the people were empty,

905
01:12:01.840 --> 01:12:08.800
to which he replied that most people
living there were very reserved. Most of

906
01:12:08.920 --> 01:12:13.760
them were foreigners who kept their country
houses on the site, but some people

907
01:12:13.840 --> 01:12:18.239
were from there landowners who, in
their youth, worked in one of the

908
01:12:18.319 --> 01:12:24.279
mines of the people who refused to
leave their lands. What was scarce in

909
01:12:24.399 --> 01:12:28.960
the village were young people. Most
of the people in the village were aged

910
01:12:29.039 --> 01:12:34.239
between forty and sixty years. The
man advised me not to go exploring at

911
01:12:34.279 --> 01:12:40.239
night, because things used to get
a little weird there. Above all,

912
01:12:40.319 --> 01:12:44.279
he suggested that I not go to
the area where the old pantheon was.

913
01:12:44.399 --> 01:12:48.199
I have always felt great attraction for
the old places, more towards those where

914
01:12:48.239 --> 01:12:53.840
you can read inscriptions of the past, and having heard that the people possessed

915
01:12:53.880 --> 01:12:58.680
an ancient pantheon, aroused great curiosity
in me, so I pointed it out

916
01:12:58.720 --> 01:13:01.039
in one of so many places that
I would visit in my stay in the

917
01:13:01.039 --> 01:13:03.520
village. I didn' t visit
him at night. Like the man warned

918
01:13:03.560 --> 01:13:10.079
me. That afternoon we climbed a
hill where we were promised to see this

919
01:13:10.119 --> 01:13:16.279
activity took us almost half the day. We return tired and hungry. We

920
01:13:16.319 --> 01:13:21.279
arrived at the same restaurant where we
had breakfast. We were treated by a

921
01:13:21.319 --> 01:13:26.560
young woman who seemed to be my
own age. He had deep black eyes,

922
01:13:26.920 --> 01:13:31.720
long eyelashes, and very long,
beautiful hair. I tried to get

923
01:13:32.000 --> 01:13:38.199
her to talk, but she was
pretty private with me, so the second

924
01:13:38.279 --> 01:13:41.920
attempt to set up a conversation,
I gave up. When my food came

925
01:13:41.960 --> 01:13:45.359
to me, I saw a luxurious
vehicle stand up. Right in front of

926
01:13:45.960 --> 01:13:51.439
the restaurant came two guys from the
front doors and between the two opened a

927
01:13:51.840 --> 01:13:56.760
side door that opened in two parts. Then they both went down to a

928
01:13:56.800 --> 01:14:00.199
man of rather peculiar appearance. He
didn' t see himself looking old,

929
01:14:00.600 --> 01:14:03.840
but on the other hand, he
did look rather fragile. He was too

930
01:14:04.439 --> 01:14:09.479
thin and his face was missing an
eye and a piece of lip. I

931
01:14:09.640 --> 01:14:14.159
didn' t mean to be reckless, so I didn' t hold my

932
01:14:14.239 --> 01:14:16.640
eyes to that man much. Then
I saw that they took him to the

933
01:14:16.720 --> 01:14:21.680
back of a small chapel right next
to the municipal palace. After paying my

934
01:14:21.720 --> 01:14:26.640
bill, the beautiful black- eyed
girl approached me and told me she did

935
01:14:26.680 --> 01:14:30.239
want to meet her. I could
only do it the next day. After

936
01:14:30.279 --> 01:14:36.000
Mass. I assumed her parents were
too conservative. On the other hand,

937
01:14:36.319 --> 01:14:42.279
I was surprised that religious service was
carried out in such an uninhabited place.

938
01:14:42.920 --> 01:14:46.840
That day, the rest of the
group wanted to go to bed early.

939
01:14:46.920 --> 01:14:51.119
I, after bathing, did not
immediately fall asleep, but sat on a

940
01:14:51.159 --> 01:14:58.680
bench in front of a football field. The luminaires lit up and I saw

941
01:14:58.720 --> 01:15:03.000
the only police patrol pass. Heading
for the saw. I was reading a

942
01:15:03.119 --> 01:15:08.640
book I had brought with me,
but forcing my eyes with reading caused me

943
01:15:08.720 --> 01:15:12.520
a lot of sleep, so I
left the book and lay on the bench.

944
01:15:13.199 --> 01:15:16.079
I covered myself with a gabán that
carried my eyes and without feeling it

945
01:15:16.119 --> 01:15:20.720
I fell asleep. I don'
t know how long I' ve lost

946
01:15:20.800 --> 01:15:25.000
consciousness, because I wasn' t
carrying a pulse clock with me. I

947
01:15:25.079 --> 01:15:30.960
rose up startled and with numb limbs
I stood up and walked towards the Presidency.

948
01:15:31.039 --> 01:15:35.640
Then I walked through one side of
the chapel and heard a little noise

949
01:15:36.239 --> 01:15:42.439
inside and came up to a little
pig. I saw inside someone perform some

950
01:15:42.479 --> 01:15:46.800
kind of rite out loud. Then
I looked out of a window and came

951
01:15:46.840 --> 01:15:50.319
to see that man who was in
a car and in front of him,

952
01:15:50.760 --> 01:15:56.199
a man with a strange cassock.
In front of him he performed this kind

953
01:15:56.199 --> 01:15:59.640
of rite. I never looked up
again and walked sneaking through the chapel.

954
01:16:00.760 --> 01:16:04.760
At that moment I wanted to run
towards the gate of the house where we

955
01:16:04.800 --> 01:16:11.119
were staying, but something to the
distance caught my attention. One of the

956
01:16:11.159 --> 01:16:15.720
houses was open and inside you could
see a thousand flames of candles, each

957
01:16:16.000 --> 01:16:21.159
on a small candlestick and there,
in the middle of everything, a woman

958
01:16:21.199 --> 01:16:27.960
was standing. At that moment I
felt a chill that ran all over my

959
01:16:28.000 --> 01:16:31.399
body and after a couple of seconds, that woman approached the entrance of the

960
01:16:31.439 --> 01:16:36.119
house and held her gaze and,
although she said nothing, a deep terror

961
01:16:36.199 --> 01:16:43.840
seized me and I ran. Then
I came to the house and found the

962
01:16:43.920 --> 01:16:47.479
rest of the group, snoring at
full lung. At that moment I locked

963
01:16:47.479 --> 01:16:53.520
myself in my shop and a deep
sense of loneliness invaded me almost felt like

964
01:16:53.640 --> 01:16:58.800
leaving there. But after calming down
I remembered that beautiful girl' s eyes

965
01:16:58.880 --> 01:17:01.760
and thought of everything she saw that
night and it didn' t make sense

966
01:17:01.760 --> 01:17:06.319
to scare me. Possibly, everything
was normal among people from places as far

967
01:17:06.359 --> 01:17:13.279
away as those. The next morning. After Mass, I met a beautiful

968
01:17:13.439 --> 01:17:18.159
girl who told me her name was
Nancy. She was very happy to meet

969
01:17:18.479 --> 01:17:23.760
me, for she said that there
were not many children of her age in

970
01:17:23.840 --> 01:17:28.319
the whole town, and the few
who lived were often too rare, just

971
01:17:28.439 --> 01:17:30.000
like almost all the people in the
village. It was strange to me that

972
01:17:30.000 --> 01:17:35.399
she, being native to it,
regarded the other inhabitants as rare. Then

973
01:17:35.680 --> 01:17:40.640
I asked her if she was not
originally from the village, to which she

974
01:17:40.680 --> 01:17:45.079
told me not really, that her
father had brought her whole family from Ixtlan

975
01:17:45.199 --> 01:17:50.159
of the Nayarit River when she was
barely ten years old. At that time

976
01:17:50.399 --> 01:17:55.960
he asked me directly to take her
with me when the group left that I

977
01:17:56.079 --> 01:18:00.159
was already twenty- one years old
and that for a long time I had

978
01:18:00.159 --> 01:18:02.680
made the decision to leave there,
but that I did not trust anyone.

979
01:18:03.800 --> 01:18:08.880
I kept a moment of silence.
Then I made him realize that he didn

980
01:18:08.920 --> 01:18:14.079
' t even know me enough to
want to run away with me or anyone

981
01:18:14.279 --> 01:18:18.079
else, that it would be best
if he saved some money and if he

982
01:18:18.159 --> 01:18:21.640
wanted to, he could go anywhere
on his own. She didn' t

983
01:18:23.159 --> 01:18:28.119
answer me and just feel with her
head. Then some tears fell down her

984
01:18:28.159 --> 01:18:32.119
cheeks. At that moment. She
asked me for an apology, and before

985
01:18:32.119 --> 01:18:36.960
she left, she asked me to
at least allow her to accompany me the

986
01:18:36.960 --> 01:18:40.319
next day to the old pantheon.
I told her she was fine as long

987
01:18:40.319 --> 01:18:44.520
as this didn' t bother her
parents. She told me there wouldn'

988
01:18:44.600 --> 01:18:47.439
t be a problem. Besides,
that was his day off and the old

989
01:18:47.479 --> 01:18:53.039
pantheon was his favorite place in the
whole town. We' d meet at

990
01:18:53.079 --> 01:18:58.600
ten in the morning at a crossroads
leading up to the road. That afternoon

991
01:18:58.680 --> 01:19:01.960
we went into an abandoned mine.
All day I thought of Nancy. Her

992
01:19:02.039 --> 01:19:06.520
tears told me more than her words. I formed all kinds of stories about

993
01:19:06.600 --> 01:19:11.840
her in my head, because I
didn' t think I wanted to run

994
01:19:11.920 --> 01:19:15.720
away from the village simply because I
was bored, let alone leave in such

995
01:19:15.800 --> 01:19:19.920
a abrupt way with a complete stranger
back. I tried to get to the

996
01:19:20.000 --> 01:19:24.520
restaurant to see if I could see
Nancy, even if she was angry,

997
01:19:24.520 --> 01:19:27.199
but I couldn' t find her. I got a feeling of emptiness and

998
01:19:27.319 --> 01:19:32.399
had a few drinks of a local
alcoholic drink called raicilla, as I was

999
01:19:32.439 --> 01:19:38.039
only used to drinking a couple of
drinks at parties, now drink straight whole

1000
01:19:38.039 --> 01:19:42.840
glasses. I got drunk quickly and
ended up falling asleep outside my campaign house.

1001
01:19:43.960 --> 01:19:48.640
That night between dreams, I remember
hearing a kind of song similar to

1002
01:19:48.720 --> 01:19:54.800
the prayers that take place at the
March of Silence during Holy Week. A.

1003
01:19:54.800 --> 01:19:58.760
The next morning I woke up with
a terrible headache, so I immediately

1004
01:19:58.840 --> 01:20:02.680
went to bathe in ice water.
I didn' t want to invite any

1005
01:20:02.680 --> 01:20:06.680
of the guys in the group,
but I did let them know where I

1006
01:20:06.680 --> 01:20:10.479
was going and with whom. Everyone
mocked me, but not in a bad

1007
01:20:10.520 --> 01:20:15.319
way. That afternoon, the sun
shone brightly and Nancy shone on the hill

1008
01:20:15.359 --> 01:20:18.840
on the road that would lead us
to the pantheon. She wore a beautiful

1009
01:20:18.920 --> 01:20:24.640
white dress and her hair picked up. I thought she was the most beautiful

1010
01:20:24.760 --> 01:20:29.439
woman I' d ever seen.
We walked about twenty minutes through several cobbled

1011
01:20:29.479 --> 01:20:34.479
hills and I noticed several picturesque little
houses on the very sides that seemed to

1012
01:20:34.479 --> 01:20:40.039
be inhabited. I even got to
hear the barking of several dogs. Nancy

1013
01:20:40.079 --> 01:20:44.640
told me that people who lived in
that area rarely went down to the central

1014
01:20:44.720 --> 01:20:51.079
square mostly were foreigners with very hermitish
behaviors and when they saw people passing through

1015
01:20:51.159 --> 01:20:57.960
the streets outside their homes, they
seemed to hide completely. She had only

1016
01:20:58.039 --> 01:21:01.359
seen a couple of people on one
occasion and swore to me that both their

1017
01:21:01.479 --> 01:21:08.399
faces and the shape of their bodies
were a rare thing. I told him

1018
01:21:08.560 --> 01:21:13.199
about the man I saw getting out
of a vehicle. Nancy told me that

1019
01:21:13.319 --> 01:21:16.319
the man in question was one of
the people who still kept the main mine

1020
01:21:16.439 --> 01:21:21.399
of the village active, which was
of Bulgarian origin, but that it was

1021
01:21:21.479 --> 01:21:27.600
not allowed to be seen either because
of a malformation that had caused him a

1022
01:21:27.600 --> 01:21:30.640
degenerative disease. He suggested I stay
away from them, but he didn'

1023
01:21:30.720 --> 01:21:35.319
t tell me why. A few
meters before arriving at the cemetery, I

1024
01:21:35.359 --> 01:21:40.800
could see a beautiful arch formed with
wild flowers and, in the distance,

1025
01:21:41.239 --> 01:21:45.359
the beautiful tombstones of the few tombs
that still stood. The place was really

1026
01:21:45.560 --> 01:21:50.960
beautiful. The few tombs were very
ornamented and although most of them had already

1027
01:21:51.039 --> 01:21:57.039
been completely erased from the inscription.
Some of them had dates dating back to

1028
01:21:57.119 --> 01:22:00.439
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
six. I was surprised the faith will

1029
01:22:00.439 --> 01:22:04.119
sound strange, but there in the
pantheon we had a breakfast that Nancy prepared.

1030
01:22:04.600 --> 01:22:08.720
She looked calmer than the first time
I spoke to her, but I

1031
01:22:09.279 --> 01:22:13.479
didn' t want to push to
know why she wanted to leave there in

1032
01:22:13.520 --> 01:22:17.600
such a abrupt way. After kissing
us and throwing us on the grass,

1033
01:22:18.079 --> 01:22:24.479
looking at the sky, I heard
a few steps I got up quickly as

1034
01:22:24.560 --> 01:22:27.680
Nancy held my hand. That'
s where I see a pretty tall man.

1035
01:22:28.000 --> 01:22:30.199
He wore a circular hat and a
suit similar to a father' s.

1036
01:22:31.000 --> 01:22:33.840
Seeing him more closely, I noticed
he didn' t have pupils.

1037
01:22:34.319 --> 01:22:40.439
Despite pretending to be a blind man, I was walking safely at the time,

1038
01:22:41.079 --> 01:22:44.800
Nancy told me it would be better
if we went somewhere else. I

1039
01:22:44.880 --> 01:22:47.079
asked him about why Nancy told me
that, the less I knew better,

1040
01:22:47.399 --> 01:22:51.920
he pulled me by the hand and
I turned my head to see that man

1041
01:22:51.960 --> 01:22:58.640
more closely. At that moment I
understood why he hastened me to leave.

1042
01:22:59.199 --> 01:23:01.399
That man looked at us, as
he was supposed to see a living person.

1043
01:23:02.359 --> 01:23:08.239
I wouldn' t know how to
explain it It was like her skin

1044
01:23:08.239 --> 01:23:11.479
was kind of sticky and rotting.
We reached a hill far from the village.

1045
01:23:12.039 --> 01:23:16.239
Then she became honest with me.
He told me that in the village

1046
01:23:16.279 --> 01:23:20.840
there was an evil that had already
taken some time on some of the people

1047
01:23:20.880 --> 01:23:24.159
there that now, being older,
he found out about him. Why her

1048
01:23:24.199 --> 01:23:28.760
parents wanted to move in. It
turned out that his father heard through a

1049
01:23:28.840 --> 01:23:33.359
traveler that the miners in the village
were enriching overnight. This was because a

1050
01:23:33.439 --> 01:23:38.520
woman had been discovered in the village
on the top of a mountain, and

1051
01:23:38.520 --> 01:23:43.760
they found her praying at the feet
of a sculpture of a virgin. No

1052
01:23:43.800 --> 01:23:47.720
one in the village recognized this woman, who did not appear to be more

1053
01:23:47.840 --> 01:23:53.680
than forty years old. They were
all surprised that a lonely woman could live

1054
01:23:53.680 --> 01:23:58.560
there, in the middle of nowhere, where temperatures fall to extreme levels and

1055
01:23:59.000 --> 01:24:01.439
that it was not possible for the
woman to live in some other village or

1056
01:24:01.520 --> 01:24:06.800
ranch, as there was none of
that in many kilometers. The locals thought

1057
01:24:06.800 --> 01:24:13.199
that this woman was miraculous, especially
for having found her next to the sculpture

1058
01:24:13.279 --> 01:24:16.680
of the Virgin, so they took
her with them to see if she would

1059
01:24:16.800 --> 01:24:20.199
intercede for them in the mines.
And it is that years ago the mines

1060
01:24:20.239 --> 01:24:26.600
had been abandoned and it was not
until a foreigner appeared that invested to open

1061
01:24:26.680 --> 01:24:31.119
new sections in the caves, but
the excavations had been stalled for a long

1062
01:24:31.119 --> 01:24:36.399
time. What happened next was that
things improved, but that woman, far

1063
01:24:36.399 --> 01:24:42.359
from pretending to be a sacred woman, turned out to be an ally of

1064
01:24:42.439 --> 01:24:46.159
evil and the price they paid was
quite expensive. The woman began to teach

1065
01:24:46.319 --> 01:24:53.520
rituals to people who wanted to help
and soon the priest of the village ran

1066
01:24:53.600 --> 01:24:57.920
out of the parish itself, which
was occupied by the woman who soon made

1067
01:24:57.960 --> 01:25:04.039
many inhabitants not follow her profane rites. Nancy continued to say that, obviously,

1068
01:25:04.520 --> 01:25:09.760
not everyone followed the Witch. The
majority left the village, leaving only

1069
01:25:09.880 --> 01:25:15.199
the most ambitious among them their father, who was not even originally from the

1070
01:25:15.199 --> 01:25:18.640
village, but, as he mentioned
at the beginning of his story, arrived

1071
01:25:19.000 --> 01:25:23.560
there with Avaricia and had lived there
for a few years. What happened was

1072
01:25:23.600 --> 01:25:28.199
that in some of the people who
were with the witch they began to suffer

1073
01:25:28.560 --> 01:25:32.880
from a series of degenerative diseases that, even when they came to the doctor,

1074
01:25:33.039 --> 01:25:36.279
did not find a diagnosis that would
explain to them what was happening.

1075
01:25:36.880 --> 01:25:42.680
Apart from the fact that many of
them became too quiet, some people no

1076
01:25:42.800 --> 01:25:47.920
longer even left their homes and hired
people to take care of them. Finally,

1077
01:25:48.399 --> 01:25:53.119
Nancy told me that, as she
learned, the witch was confronted by

1078
01:25:53.199 --> 01:25:57.600
a group of young people who were
still living in the village, but who

1079
01:25:57.640 --> 01:26:01.159
never agreed with everything that was practiced
ba in it. Among them was the

1080
01:26:01.199 --> 01:26:04.880
municipal police commander, who, by
the way, was never seen again.

1081
01:26:06.920 --> 01:26:12.359
The group faced the witch near the
place where they first found her, as

1082
01:26:12.359 --> 01:26:15.800
every night on April 30th she performed
a rite in front of the sculpture.

1083
01:26:17.399 --> 01:26:24.159
There they confronted her by throwing her
down a ravine, although they did not

1084
01:26:24.159 --> 01:26:27.119
see the body. The group wore
with it, his dress and a hat

1085
01:26:27.199 --> 01:26:30.880
that the woman always wore. With
the passing of the days, each of

1086
01:26:30.920 --> 01:26:35.840
the people who came to face the
Witch, were disappearing, being the last

1087
01:26:35.880 --> 01:26:43.399
to disappear the police commander. It
was because of this situation that Nancy wanted

1088
01:26:43.880 --> 01:26:46.520
to flee, because she felt that
it was not so much the earth,

1089
01:26:46.920 --> 01:26:51.800
but something beyond our understanding, which
kept a curse on people and had already

1090
01:26:51.840 --> 01:26:56.520
begun to reach it. To her
I, looking into her eyes, told

1091
01:26:56.560 --> 01:27:00.520
her that she was very well,
that she had made the decision to leave,

1092
01:27:00.680 --> 01:27:03.039
but that she should plan for the
best, since she did not know

1093
01:27:03.079 --> 01:27:06.760
the world beyond the limits of the
people. Instead of trying to convince me

1094
01:27:06.840 --> 01:27:11.960
with words, she pulled me by
the arm and asked me to accompany her

1095
01:27:11.960 --> 01:27:16.039
to see something. We walked to
the area with more houses that curiously was

1096
01:27:16.119 --> 01:27:21.960
located just one side of the mines. We went through walkers and alleys so

1097
01:27:23.039 --> 01:27:27.560
narrow that only one person could pass. At the same time we arrived at

1098
01:27:27.640 --> 01:27:30.319
a huge estate to which, at
first sight, I saw neither doors nor

1099
01:27:30.319 --> 01:27:33.920
windows. Nancy asked me to step
aside. Then, looking at me,

1100
01:27:34.479 --> 01:27:39.600
I noticed a little door on the
bottom of the building. She opened the

1101
01:27:39.640 --> 01:27:44.039
door easily. While we were going
in. He explained to me that this

1102
01:27:44.119 --> 01:27:48.000
was a community house, that the
owner of the mine kept standing for its

1103
01:27:48.439 --> 01:27:55.479
workers and for people who were in
a street situation inside it really sucked was

1104
01:27:55.520 --> 01:27:59.920
a smell of death that seemed unbearable
to me. I was asking for nothing,

1105
01:28:00.359 --> 01:28:04.640
so we' d better not come
back and ask for something to drink

1106
01:28:04.640 --> 01:28:08.000
while we were watching the sunset.
But she told me that we would leave

1107
01:28:08.000 --> 01:28:13.159
as soon as she showed me something, I saw many simple people, rocking

1108
01:28:13.159 --> 01:28:16.119
others in Hammocks. They all looked
quite advanced in age and their skin was

1109
01:28:16.399 --> 01:28:20.640
quite similar to that of the blind
man I saw in the cemetery. I

1110
01:28:20.640 --> 01:28:26.199
started feeling nervous, so I was
insisting on Nancy leaving, but she pulled

1111
01:28:26.319 --> 01:28:32.960
me out harder. Then we got
to a room where it sucked even louder.

1112
01:28:33.840 --> 01:28:39.039
There was a petate and over him
a man all covered with bloody cloth

1113
01:28:39.079 --> 01:28:45.159
bandages. I thought it was a
mortaja, but after I noticed a deep

1114
01:28:45.239 --> 01:28:49.720
breath of that mass of blood,
whose only human form was maintained thanks to

1115
01:28:49.800 --> 01:28:56.199
the bandages, I was petrified by
fear. Nancy told me that the man

1116
01:28:56.239 --> 01:29:00.239
shouldn' t be alive, but
he was, and all because of the

1117
01:29:00.279 --> 01:29:06.039
witch, I ran out leaving her
inside. I felt upset, though I

1118
01:29:06.199 --> 01:29:11.720
understood why he showed me that hell
came almost behind me and I got carried

1119
01:29:11.800 --> 01:29:15.039
away by courage, so I told
him I would go to camp once before

1120
01:29:15.279 --> 01:29:20.640
we split up. She asked me
again to take her with me. When

1121
01:29:20.680 --> 01:29:27.760
I left to get her home.
I arrived at the camp and found that

1122
01:29:27.800 --> 01:29:31.359
we would leave the next day,
right after breakfast, because one of the

1123
01:29:31.399 --> 01:29:35.960
boys found out that a relative of
his would pass by the road and would

1124
01:29:36.039 --> 01:29:42.399
turn away to pass by us that
night and I was already fed up and

1125
01:29:42.479 --> 01:29:46.359
wanted to leave already, because that
beautiful landscape had ruined me with the visit

1126
01:29:46.439 --> 01:29:51.000
of that community house. Still,
in the early morning I felt a huge

1127
01:29:51.079 --> 01:29:56.439
burden of consciousness. Then I got
up and went to the street. My

1128
01:29:56.479 --> 01:30:00.359
initial wish was not to meet Nancy. However, after seeing her standing in

1129
01:30:00.439 --> 01:30:04.560
a corner under a lamp I felt
too sorry for her, so I approached

1130
01:30:04.600 --> 01:30:11.279
her. I know many will think
I was reckless and probably most would have

1131
01:30:11.439 --> 01:30:15.560
chosen not to leave the camp overnight, but I, apart from being naive,

1132
01:30:15.199 --> 01:30:20.079
felt as if a haunt caught me, so without will I headed as

1133
01:30:20.119 --> 01:30:26.399
far as she was. He kept
his head down. He didn' t

1134
01:30:26.439 --> 01:30:30.039
look straight at me, but he
listened to his voice. He asked me

1135
01:30:30.079 --> 01:30:33.720
once again to take her with me, who even brought some money that I

1136
01:30:33.800 --> 01:30:39.159
had saved during the year. I
told him I was fine, but he

1137
01:30:39.199 --> 01:30:43.479
wouldn' t hold me responsible for
the reaction his parents had. He drove

1138
01:30:43.520 --> 01:30:47.880
me to his house, which was
just above his parents' restaurant. She

1139
01:30:47.920 --> 01:30:53.199
passed me a suitcase. I,
after taking it, noticed the snoring and

1140
01:30:53.279 --> 01:30:57.439
the presence of another body on the
bed that was supposed to be Nancy'

1141
01:30:57.439 --> 01:31:01.439
s. Confused. I turned to
Nancy to claim it with a sign,

1142
01:31:01.720 --> 01:31:06.399
but at that moment the lights went
on and Nancy' s father, next

1143
01:31:06.520 --> 01:31:11.680
to another man, grabbed me by
the arms. Then someone hit me very

1144
01:31:11.720 --> 01:31:15.960
hard on the head. I lost
consciousness for a few seconds. Then I

1145
01:31:16.039 --> 01:31:20.520
woke up in the municipal presidency.
He was handcuffed. The guard explained to

1146
01:31:20.680 --> 01:31:25.840
me that for breaking and entering I
was locked up for 24 hours. I

1147
01:31:25.840 --> 01:31:29.359
asked them to warn the rest of
the group to wait for me. The

1148
01:31:29.439 --> 01:31:31.920
Guard didn' t assure me that
I could warn them, but I would

1149
01:31:31.920 --> 01:31:35.720
do my best. They led me
to a dungeon, which made me ridiculous,

1150
01:31:36.319 --> 01:31:40.760
but they explained to me that,
being such a small town and not

1151
01:31:40.800 --> 01:31:45.119
having so many criminals, they still
used that dungeon that was there since the

1152
01:31:45.199 --> 01:31:50.640
arrival of the Spaniards. The dungeon
was simply a huge concrete vault without any

1153
01:31:50.720 --> 01:31:57.000
comfort. Inside a metal bed,
with a pair of blankets and a bucket

1154
01:31:57.039 --> 01:32:00.359
to make the needs. It was
the only thing that adorned him. I

1155
01:32:00.439 --> 01:32:04.560
was also given a jug of water
and a plastic glass. Then, without

1156
01:32:04.640 --> 01:32:10.640
further explanation, they left me alone
the cold and the fear did not allow

1157
01:32:10.640 --> 01:32:13.399
me to sleep. Also, during
the night I could see the ghosts that

1158
01:32:13.439 --> 01:32:16.680
still live there. I sat on
the bed with my palms in my eyes

1159
01:32:16.720 --> 01:32:21.760
when I heard Nancy talking to me. When I looked at the gate I

1160
01:32:23.079 --> 01:32:26.960
saw no one and at that moment
I began to think that all this had

1161
01:32:27.039 --> 01:32:32.199
been intended by that damn witch Nancy
told me about. Seconds later I saw

1162
01:32:32.279 --> 01:32:36.680
her standing at the gate with her
low head smelling like her, but something

1163
01:32:36.800 --> 01:32:42.079
in her didn' t fit,
I didn' t raise my head to

1164
01:32:42.520 --> 01:32:45.720
look at me and something in her
caused chills. I asked him to get

1165
01:32:45.720 --> 01:32:49.800
me out, but instead of answering
me he started throwing a macabre laugh.

1166
01:32:50.760 --> 01:32:56.239
He raised his face and thanks to
a luminaire that was in the corridor of

1167
01:32:56.239 --> 01:32:59.800
entry to the dungeon, I saw
that his face was not that of Nancy.

1168
01:33:00.359 --> 01:33:02.880
I knew everything. I was the
witch at the time. She had

1169
01:33:02.920 --> 01:33:08.920
set me up and so her insistence
that I take her with me. The

1170
01:33:09.039 --> 01:33:13.920
face of that witch is too difficult
to explain, for I can swear to

1171
01:33:14.039 --> 01:33:19.119
God that her features changed and could
not maintain consistency. I wouldn' t

1172
01:33:19.560 --> 01:33:25.520
know how to explain it all of
a sudden I saw that witch run two

1173
01:33:25.600 --> 01:33:28.520
snakes through her body and try to
get close to me. I couldn'

1174
01:33:28.640 --> 01:33:32.119
t help but scream in despair,
but at the time the guard was with

1175
01:33:32.199 --> 01:33:35.239
a couple of kids from the camp. In that the witch ran to a

1176
01:33:35.319 --> 01:33:40.159
corner from where several rats came out
who, passing through the feet of those

1177
01:33:40.279 --> 01:33:46.239
present, leaped with disgust and fear. They let me out of the dungeon

1178
01:33:46.319 --> 01:33:51.079
and when morning came I left that
place forever. I didn' t want

1179
01:33:51.119 --> 01:33:56.439
to tell the story immediately to anyone, and that' s what I heard

1180
01:33:56.680 --> 01:34:02.880
in the transport of a few strange
things about the people, stories written and

1181
01:34:02.439 --> 01:34:02.880
adapted by Mauricio Farfán