Entidad Demoniaca, La Sombra Que Casi Me Consume Historias De Terror - REDE

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Shadow. Like many of you,
for years, I always assumed to see

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the slight blur on the edge of
my sight. It was a trick of

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my eyes to be so focused on
a particular area that the rest of your

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vision becomes blurred. As my mother
once told me when, as a child,

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I told her that I had seen
something at the door of my room

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and as I grew up, I
simply took it as a fact the way

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every child takes the wisdom of his
parents to heart and once I became an

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adult, I simply discarded it completely. That was up to one night living

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alone in a small one- bedroom
apartment. That means having to live further

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away from the city where I work, but I prefer to live alone than

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having to make the journey quite long
to work every day and as my free

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time during the day is almost null. I' m a night thing,

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too. That night in particular,
I was awake until late sitting at the

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table in my kitchen with my laptop
in front of me when the sensation came

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upon me. The small but remarkable
chill went up my spine and on the

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top edge of my vision, just
below where my hair began to fall on

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my eyes, I saw it was
a black and silver blur. At least

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that' s how it seemed to
me I quickly lifted my head looking towards

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the corner where I had seen it. Of course, when I looked up

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there was nothing there. For a
few more seconds, I just sat staring

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at the corner. Nothing moved,
there was no sound except the slight buzz

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of my laptop fan and the refrigerator
fan. My kitchen is in the back

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of the apartment. The bedroom is
also next to the kitchen and the wall

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separating it extends a little, causing
a rather large blind spot from where I

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was sitting. So I figured that
was the explanation and with a head move,

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I went back to the computer screen. The hours seemed to pass at

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an accelerated pace and, to my
surprise, when I checked the clock in

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the lower right corner of my laptop
screen, it was three o' clock

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in the morning. So I turned
off the computer the next night I set

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out to go to bed before midnight. One in the morning at the latest,

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so I didn' t turn on
my computer. Instead, I saw

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some TV and I liked playing some
games. Soon the clock next to the

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TV showed twelve, thirty- five. It was time to sleep and I

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got up by turning off the TV
and or the xbox. I decided I

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' d make myself a drink before
I went to sleep and went to the

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refrigerator. When I opened it,
I pulled out a jug of juice and

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grabbed a glass of a nearby cabinet, served myself a little apart from the

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sound of a tenel truck passing by
and the ticking clock above the sink was

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all silent. I put the glass
in the sink to wash it tomorrow and

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turned to return the jar to the
refrigerator. I almost let it go when

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I saw what was ahead when I
turned around I could see clearly through the

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kitchen and the living room, towards
the small corner where my main door was

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and for just a second I saw
the same black and silver stain disappearing from

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my sight. This time I was
sure it wasn' t just a trick

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of my vision or a lock of
hair passing in front of my face without

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waiting for an answer, because there
wasn' t any I knew for sure

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that there was something or someone there. I felt my pulse speeding up quickly

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and my heart began to beat hard
against my chest. What I thought was

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that someone had stepped into my house
either to steal or with some other intention.

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I quickly looked around for something to
defend myself with. My eyes sat

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on the block where I kept all
my kitchen knives and quickly pulled out the

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biggest and turned to the entrance.
There was no movement now, but I

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noticed a change in the atmosphere.
Without receiving an answer, I spoke again

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the tension in the room seemed to
have increased considerably with my words. I

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waited a minute feeling how I was
starting to get irritated I quickly crossed the

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room holding the knife in front of
me firmly. There was no one there

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for a moment I just stood there
feeling baffled. I knew from a fact

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that I had seen someone, it
had not been a trick of my eyes

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and I had not heard the front
door open. In fact, as I

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looked at the time, I saw
that the little knob on the door handle

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was turned in the closed position as
I looked at it with a huge chill.

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He toured my back, combined with
the feeling of being watched intensely,

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I almost felt as if whoever was
watching was behind me. I instinctively turned

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around cutting with the knife as hard
as I could, but again there was

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nothing. No one was behind me. The strangest thing was that as soon

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as I turned the sensation of eyes
sticking to the back of my skull,

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it ceased as if the observer had
simply ceased to exist at the time I

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turned. But the tension in the
apartment didn' t go away. It

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seemed to intensify and kept me on
alert so much that I searched the entire

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apartment. I went into the bathroom
running the shower curtain, went to my

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room and opened the sliding doors of
the closet. I even opened both cupboards

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in the living room, taking out
all the coats and boxes behind which someone

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could hide, but I found nothing
Even so, when I went to bed,

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I locked the door of my room
in case the next morning, when

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I woke up the sensation, I
had disappeared from the apartment. With one

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last look around, I locked the
front door behind me, got in my

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car and made the two- and- a- half hour trip to the

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city to work. The day passed
without much concern, apart from a mandatory

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team meeting that my boss decided to
impose on us during our lunch break for

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monotony. I calmed down a little
bit and began to make a mental mockery

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of how upset I had been the
night before. Even of course I told

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some colleagues, but I told them
as if it had been a funny thing,

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not a serious thing. Everyone laughed
a lot at it. The joke

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took it completely out of my mind
and before I knew it the afternoon had

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come. I packed my belongings back
in the car and started the trip back

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home still laughing a little and humming
the songs that sounded on the radio.

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However, when I entered the parking
lot of my apartment building and in my

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space at almost ten o' clock
at night, I saw something. My

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apartment was the second on the top
floor and from where I was sitting in

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my car, I could look up
and see the window of the living room

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of my place between the grooves of
the handrail of the hallway. As I

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always did when I left, I
had closed the white blinds so that no

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one passing through the window could look
into my place. Someone was sleeping with

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me among my peres. I felt
my blood turn into ice. I looked

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around for a moment at the darkened
windows of the other units, but I

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knew none of my neighbors would help
me. The days that neighbors took care

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of each other had inevitably ended would
tell me to find a way to call

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the police myself or tell me it
wasn' t their problem, so I

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opened the trunk and pulled out a
crossbreed to hit the person who had stepped

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into my apartment. I went up
to the door and tried to open it

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without putting the key in, because
I assumed someone had come in. So,

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the lock, according to me,
had already been forced. To my

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surprise, the door was locked.
Then I assumed that the person who got

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involved had closed inside. Then I
pulled out the key and opened the door.

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The place was so dark and quiet. My pulse accelerated as I slowly

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walked in my hand looking for the
light switch part of me feared that while

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searching blindly, the intruder would come
out and attack my mental image. He

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sent me a chill of fear.
Just when my fingers found the plastic switch.

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When the light was turned on,
the room was illuminated. I moved

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quickly to the corner, which gave
me a look at the kitchen beyond.

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Both the kitchen and the living room
were empty, but there was still the

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bathroom and the kitchen. I moved
slowly trying to remain as quiet as possible

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so that whoever was hiding wouldn'
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my breath as I passed through the
half- open doors of my bathroom and

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bedroom surrounding the sofa I turned to
start walking quickly back towards the open front

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door. But something stopped me,
something that made me freeze. There was

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a small wall section where something seemed
to have been written there, but after

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looking better I realized that what was
there was not writing as such. It

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did say something, but it was
written with pure scratches. What I was

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saying was we can see you.
From the left corner of my vision I

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saw that my bedroom door had opened
slowly, but noticeably a little more I

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could see the black and silver stain
again and in less than a second I

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was already running towards the door.
The silvery black figure flew out of the

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room, though it never made a
sound. I got out of the house

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and I closed the door behind me
and ran down the stairs and got in

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the car. I called the police
while I watched the blinds keep moving.

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When the police arrived I told them
as quickly as the situation was. They

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first checked that I was not alcoholized
or that I had consumed some substance,

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as they verified that if it was
in my five senses. They went up

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to check, but they didn'
t find anything. What I was literally

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told was sorry, sir, but
whoever it was is already gone. Doesn

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' t look like something' s
been stolen, just checking his stuff.

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I exhaled a bit overwhelmed by the
situation and asked them if they could stay

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close in case of anything. When
I told you that, I got some

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tickets. One of the cops grabbed
the money and since he kept it,

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he passed me his cell phone number
and told me to call him anything and

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they' d get there fast.
The cops left and I went up to

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my apartment. I turned on all
the lights, opened all the doors,

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checked all the corners. There was
no one. I locked myself in,

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made sure everything was as closed and
stuck as possible. I still didn'

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t feel safe to sleep, so
I sat in the room in front of

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the clock and stayed there until the
dream overcame the truth. I don'

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t remember what time I fell asleep. What I do remember is that I

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woke up in the morning. I' m not sure what woke me up

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when I opened my eyes. It
was still dark outside, not because I

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had all the lights on, because
I wanted it to be seen that there

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were people inside the apartment. I
looked at the watch. It wasn'

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t 4: 00 in the morning
yet Maybe it was 15 minutes past 3

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: 30. That' s for
sure. My back hurt a little bit

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because I fell asleep and unwell on
the couch, so I got up to

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go to bed. But the minute
I walked into the room, I realized

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the closet door was a little open. At that time the focus of the

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room melted. It wasn' t
just literally shutting down. The focus thundered

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to sac sparks with the room totally
in the dark. I was very quickly

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overwhelmed by fear, not so much
by the darkness itself, but because the

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second the focus was melted, my
eyes were able to focus on something that

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shouldn' t have been there,
something that looked at me from the edge

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of the closet door half open to
begin with, that door should be locked.

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I always leave the doors closed,
not because of superstitions or fear,

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but to keep a spider or something
from getting into the wardrobe That I was

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seeing was something black and silver.
The difference with the previous occasion was that

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this time it wasn' t just
a stain, it was something else.

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I could see it a little clearer, even though I could quite well distinguish

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the silhouette. Beyond that, the
details were not so visible, only what

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seemed to be two very dark eyes. Looking at me, I felt frozen

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in the place, fear paralyzed me
while I was petrified there with my eyes

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wide open, due to both fear
and impression. I slowly realized something else

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I was whispering. It was a
rough- sounding voice. The voice became

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increasingly angry, turning from a schism
to almost a demonic grunt. That voice

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gradually lost humanity and then there was
an absolute silence. That' s when

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I saw a hand that looked more
like a claw finished in five sharp nails

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like razors, which popped under the
bed. There was more than one creature

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to see that hand, that claw
coming out from under the bed. It

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made me react instantly, in less
than two seconds, I was already out

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of the apartment slamming the entrance door, very strong, as if doing that

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made any difference, and I didn' t or run to the car,

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but at that moment I was trying
to lock the door so that whatever was

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inside the apartment, couldn' t
get out for the best. It sounds

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silly, but a situation like that
doesn' t rationalize. It' s

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impossible to think clearly. You feel, fear, anxiety, anything but mental

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clarity. That' s why absurd
things are usually done. As soon as

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I finished closing something well. He
knocked on the door from the inside with

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a lot of force. Like I
was a little loaded over the door.

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The push pulled me back. I
ran down the stairs and got in the

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car and rushed to turn it on. I got out of the parking lot

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crawling. In fact, I almost
got hit by a van. When I

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went out I drove without thinking where
I was going. I remember I spent

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at least 20 minutes driving before I
stopped I had to know what I was

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going to do. It wasn'
t like I could just not come back

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and I already have money, but
not enough to leave an apartment. I

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couldn' t think of anything,
so I started the car again and drove

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until I saw a burger stand on
an avenue. That post is open 24

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hours a day. I wasn'
t really hungry, but I knew I

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had to eat something to get it
off, even if it was a little

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scary. I was there until about
six in the morning and then I went

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back to the car and drove to
my mother' s house. I was

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sure she' d know what to
do. I arrived at about six thirty

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my parents were already awake. I
barely got to say hello to my dad

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because I was just on my way
out. I went into the house and

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my mother invited me to coffee,
told her how things had been and then

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she went to her room. He
took out a small book and gave it

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to me with a rosary and a
Saint Benedict medal. Then he explained to

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me what pages I should read and
how I should read them. She assured

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me that, by doing that,
I could no longer be bothered by those

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things. She told me that many
years ago, in the village where she

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grew up one of her neighbors,
she had had problems with bad vibes that

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broke into her house and with the
objects my mother gave me. The neighbor

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was able to get rid of those
bad vibes. I trusted my mother.

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As soon as I finished my coffee, I went back to my apartment.

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I' m not going to say
I came here like a brave man.

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When I put the key in to
open the door, I was scared to

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death, but I didn' t
get away. I opened the door and

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as soon as I set foot inside
the apartment, I began to pray what

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my mother had told me and ventured
the whole process. It took me about

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half an hour to finish everything.
While I was doing that my mother had

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told me, there were a few
nsfestations, blows, sounds, flashing lights,

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but nothing too intimidating. In fact, I don' t even walk

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through the shadows that had made me
run out of the house. Every time

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I talked about this, they tell
me what my mother told me to do

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was a ritual. To me,
that seems a little strong, because I

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don' t think anything that involves
God can be called ritual, but I

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could say Catholic ritual. I don' t think that term is that inappropriate.

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Then I could finish the Catholic ritual
without any inconvenience, and the truth

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is that it worked. Nothing has
happened in the department since that time,

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and I' m sure nothing will
happen to a child again. It all

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started one night with my friends,
celebrating one of them' s birthdays.

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We were talking about paranormal issues and
at one point they decided to go to

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a cemetery to see if we could
find something supernatural. I' ve always

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believed in these things and I'
m really scared, so I didn'

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t want to go. I tried
to deflect the conversation, but they were

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very excited about the idea. I
eventually gave in to pressure, especially after

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they mocked me asking if anyone was
afraid or if they needed me to call

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their mom. We went to a
nearby cemetery accessible from the back due to

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a uneven terrain. Once inside we
look for a good place for what my

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friends would like to do. We
came to an area with graves of children

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and without knowing what to do.
Orlando suggested that we remain silent and watch

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around waiting to see some ghost after
a while, seeing nothing but darkness and

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some animals. Orlando said we should
try to call the entities to approach.

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This scared me even more because I
had read that this should not be done

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without knowledge. Orlando then spoke aloud
inviting any entity present to approach, assuring

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that we did not want to disturb
for several minutes nothing happened. My friends

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started asking questions in the air,
first seriously and then mockingly, asking if

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the spirits wanted beer or things like
that. I warned them it wasn'

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t a good idea to make fun
of me, but they called me afraid

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and they kept on playing jokes challenging
me to join them. Despite my fears,

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I decided to follow the game before
the mockery and looks of my friends,

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I took a beer and walked between
the tombs, offering one to each,

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while telling them that I came to
celebrate with them. That moment felt

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terumped when a beer placed on a
grave exploded without anyone touching it. We

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were silent, looking at the pieces
of bottle and looking at each other without

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understanding what had happened suddenly it seemed
as if someone started walking near us moving

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through the weeds and then running.
We all look scared. Just when I

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was going to suggest we should go. My friend Ana screamed and fell to

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the ground saying that someone had pulled
her hair, but there was no one

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behind her. That was enough for
us all to run out of the cemetery.

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After that, I didn' t
want to go on with them that

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night. I was upset and scared, so I decided to go home the

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next day. Still nervous and a
little scared, I wanted to talk to

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someone about what happened, but I
was embarrassed to tell what we had done.

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I preferred not to say anything and
move on two days later something woke

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me up. At night I heard
light steps outside my room and a little

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girl humming, thinking she was my
younger sister Greece, I told her it

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was late and to go back to
sleep the next day. I asked him

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if he got up during the night, but he said he didn' t

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know what he was talking about that
night. Very tired from work, I

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went straight to sleep later. Something
woke me up again and I heard a

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girl humming, but this time the
sound came from the ground floor. I

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thought it might be my sister doing
something I didn' t want us to

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know, so I got up and
headed that way. As I passed through

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my sister' s room, I
saw her sleeping in her bed, but

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I kept listening to the hum coming
from below. I was ashamed to admit

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that I was so afraid to come
down alone after hearing that sound. So

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I went to my mother' s
room to ask her to come down with

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me to check. When I opened
the sound to her, I stopped and

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explained to her what happened the night
before and that Greece had told me it

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wasn' t her. My mother
was surprised and we decided to go down

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together, but we found nothing.
My mother tried to reassure me that it

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might have been a dream, but
I knew it wasn' t, and

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that scared me. I spent the
next two nights without incident, although I

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was going to sleep fearfully, but
the third night my mother woke me up

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shouting my name. I ran out
of my room and saw my little sister

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in the hallway worried too. My
mother came out of the frightened bathroom and

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told me that when she went to
the bathroom she listened to the girl and

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something pushed the door against her.
She fought to open the door while something

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pushed her from the outside. He
yelled at my name and the door opened,

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but there was no one. That
night, my mother decided that the

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three of us would sleep together in
her room. I confessed to him what

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my friends and I had done in
the cemetery and how I thought that had

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triggered the events at home. My
mother was upset and disappointed, but seeing

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my fear, she assured me that
we would seek help. The next day,

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my mother contacted the father of our
church to come and bless the house.

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He didn' t go into detail
with him out of fear that he

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wouldn' t believe us. After
agreeing on a payment, the father came

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and blessed the house without anything strange
happening. My mother spoke to him in

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a subtle way about the events,
but he did not give him much importance,

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ensuring that the blessing would bring peace
to our home. After the father

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left, my mother hugged me by
making sure everything was going to be okay

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and made me promise not to do
anything like the cemetery again. The day

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passed without further incident and when the
night arrived we hoped to be able to

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rest without problems. However, I
was woken up by heavy blows. I

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left my room and saw my mother
in the hallway hugging my sister. The

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blows came from the bathroom, sounding
like someone was banging on the door from

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inside with a lot of force.
Suddenly, the blows stopped, but the

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silence that followed was disturbing. Then, in the dark, we saw the

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silhouette of something big in front of
the bathroom door, moving my sister screamed

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and we ran to my mother'
s room, where we locked ourselves by

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placing a small sofa in front of
the door like a barricade. I tried

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to act bravely to protect my family, but the fear was overwhelming or we

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lived again that sound of a girl
walking down the hall standing in front of

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my mother' s bedroom door.
We couldn' t sleep anymore that night

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and even at dawn. Fear did
not abandon us. We had a hard

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time gathering the courage to open the
door to the room. Father' s

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blessing had not served. So my
mother contacted an aunt interested in the esoteric

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that I knew people specializing in clean
and ritual. My aunt came with a

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nice old man who heard our story
from the beginning. He went through the

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whole pensive house and then talked to
us. He made it clear to us

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that he was not a sorcerer,
but a believer in God with a special

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gift to perceive such situations. He
explained to me that, by mocking and

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defying those entities in the cemetery something
spiritual, he had stuck to me what

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I had brought home that night.
She promised to help us, but said

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she needed more than a clean one
in the house. He looked at me

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seriously and explained that we would have
to go to the cemetery to make a

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prayer and an offering, which would
help take that thing off of me,

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as it was attached to me and
not to the house. Then I would

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do a final prayer and a clean
prayer throughout the house. That day he

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made several prayers in the house.
He used what I think was holy water

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and smoke from some grass he didn' t know. Then he gathered us

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in the room to make another prayer
for us. Before leaving, he advised

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us to entrust ourselves to God and
try to sleep together that night. In

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case something bad happened, he said
he would come back the next day to

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go to the Cemetery and finish the
last sentence in the house. That afternoon

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I was anxious to have him pass
by quickly so that the lord would come

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back and finish his job. The
fear of the night before was still with

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me. That night we decided to
stay in my mother' s room.

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I asked my mother to sleep with
my sister and told her not to worry

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that I would be awake. She
agreed, asking me to wake her up

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if I felt tired so I could
sleep too. The night spent quiet for

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the most part. I was hoping
to feel tired, but the fear was

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stronger than my tiredness. I don' t know what time it was,

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but while I was looking for a
magazine, I started hearing strange noises,

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like something was crawling down. My
breathing accelerated. I was trying to calm

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down to stay alert. I almost
expected to hear the girl with her peculiar

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sound. But instead I heard a
horrible complaint, though not very loud.

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It was terrifying like someone' s
dying lament and I kept hearing that drag

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down the floor. Suddenly, everything
was quiet. I was just hoping that

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nothing else would happen that night and
that early dawn a strong, dry blow

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interrupted. My thoughts sounded like something
had fallen to the ground, and that

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woke my mother up. She signaled
me to keep quiet and I pointed to

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my little sister that she was still
asleep. I approached my mother and whispered

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to her that I was hearing noises
downstairs. We stayed listening. For a

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moment nothing was heard, but then
we began to hear dragging and grumbling horrible

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steps. My mother, scared,
took me by the strong hand. The

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steps began to climb the ladder.
Approaching the door of our room, I

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got up fast. My mother hugged
my sister and stood between the bed and

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the door, pushing her with my
feet hoping to keep what was outside from

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coming in, but nothing else happened
that night. I still stood by the

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door until dawn. In the morning
the man who was helping us came back.

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We told him what happened and he
wasn' t surprised. He explained

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that sometimes entities don' t want
to leave, but he assured us that

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we would end all that day.
The process wasn' t as complicated as

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I thought. Always using a Bible. I followed all his directions, albeit

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with great fear. After those two
days of prayers, we no longer heard

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any strange noise. However, we
had a sense of fear and mistrust.

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I no longer felt safe getting up
at night and my mother felt the same

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way. We never felt safe again
in our home and so, after another

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month, we decided to move out
looking to leave those events behind and move

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on with our lives. They'
re not goblins. One summer, when

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I was a kid, my parents
sent me to stay with my grandparents during

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the holidays in the village where my
grandparents lived, they were good people,

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they were very hospitable. They were
not the best parents, but, like

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all parents, they are not the
best with their children and, for the

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same reason, they always seek to
be the best grandparents. The place where

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my grandparents lived was several miles from
the nearest city. In fact, my

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grandparents didn' t have direct neighbors. The land of my grandparents was quite

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large, so the nearest neighbor'
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For my good luck, I had
the fortune to meet was a girl

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after a few days of arriving and
we became friends quickly. Her name was

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Jessica Bajita thin long hair. His
dress was very simple, but very eye

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- catching. Both of them.
We liked to go to the woods and

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be there for hours. It was
the only place where there was something entertaining

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to make that forest. It wasn' t particularly dense, but how it

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seemed to spread was too big.
Jessica showed me some trails that moved into

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the forest, but without getting too
deep into the thickness of the trees.

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There were other trails that did enter
the forest, but Jessica never took them.

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In fact, I avoided them.
If we spent too much time without

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seeing anything she recognized, we would
immediately turn around until we were in a

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family territory. Again, we also
turned around when we got too close to

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the creek. On one occasion I
couldn' t resist it and ran towards

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the stream. I really wanted to
go swimming a little. It was just

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a meter from the creek. When
Jessica yelled at me to stop her scream.

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It wasn' t normal. It
sounded like he was gonna break his

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voice. As I turned, I
watched her stand still, almost pale and

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her eyes very dilated. Contemplating the
stream and the forest that extended beyond,

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his posture was quite rigid. His
hands were tight on his sides. I

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felt like she was about to cry. I decided then to come back to

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see what was wrong with him.
I already considered her my friend, but

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regardless of that, it was obvious
that she was getting this way for some

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reason. In particular, although the
stream did not present a great challenge,

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neither by its depth nor by its
current and we had not gone too far

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into the forest, its restlessness was
more than evident. On the way back

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I tried to ease the attention by
commenting on the ease with which we could

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have continued, but she remained silent. We headed for a clearing that we

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used to use as a basis for
our adventures, where he finally stopped to

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share his story. He talked about
a friend who used to explore those same

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forests and how they had once found
the creek just like we did. Then

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they met some children across the stream
that looked different. Disturbingly, he detailed

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the physical particularities of these children,
such as the inclined head of one and

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the abnormal smallness of the other.
He admitted to acting cruelly toward them,

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mocking their strange appearance and behavior.
Those children never reacted aggressively or crossed the

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stream. Despite the provocations, they
only kept observing and emitting peculiar sounds.

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She says it gave her the impression
that the children had no tongue. She

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and her friend made up stories about
them, saying they ate people and did

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strange things. But in time,
fear went away and they began to challenge

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00:35:20.079 --> 00:35:23.679
those children to cross the stream that
separated them, something they never did.

415
00:35:25.239 --> 00:35:30.960
She hinted that he was afraid to
cross because he was afraid of the girls.

416
00:35:31.679 --> 00:35:37.039
The boy simply walked away into the
forest until he disappeared from his sight.

417
00:35:37.840 --> 00:35:44.199
Jessica joked with her friend that she
should follow him if she didn'

418
00:35:44.599 --> 00:35:47.079
t want to be considered a coward. They both decided to cross the creek,

419
00:35:47.280 --> 00:35:51.920
which was not large and follow the
child into the forest. They went

420
00:35:52.000 --> 00:35:55.119
a little further and began to hear
a strange noise. It was like a

421
00:35:55.119 --> 00:36:01.719
snap. Suddenly they were surrounded by
several of those children who appeared as ghosts

422
00:36:01.760 --> 00:36:07.679
among the trees. Jessica was paralyzed
by fear, unable to move, just

423
00:36:08.199 --> 00:36:14.840
watching the children and wondering what was
going to happen. Then, one of

424
00:36:14.960 --> 00:36:19.360
them, the one with the sided
head, grabbed her friend. She screamed

425
00:36:19.880 --> 00:36:24.559
and that got Jessica out of shock. He ran as fast as he could

426
00:36:24.599 --> 00:36:30.440
across the stream and didn' t
stop until he got home, crying and

427
00:36:30.559 --> 00:36:35.760
with difficulty breathing. People were trying
to understand what had happened, but Jessica

428
00:36:36.039 --> 00:36:40.559
was too upset to talk. When
I asked her what had happened to her

429
00:36:40.639 --> 00:36:47.880
friend, she shook her head fighting
tears. He felt guilty for leaving her

430
00:36:47.960 --> 00:36:53.920
behind. She waited for hours for
her friend to come home so she could

431
00:36:54.039 --> 00:36:59.880
cry together and swear never to cross
that stream again. But her friend didn

432
00:36:59.880 --> 00:37:04.360
' t, she never came back. No one looked for her because she

433
00:37:04.360 --> 00:37:07.079
was an orphan. Jessica never said
anything, so no one knew they should

434
00:37:07.159 --> 00:37:12.000
look for her. Looking into the
forest and the stream, her voice broke

435
00:37:12.119 --> 00:37:16.079
when she said that the children took
her away without knowing what they did to

436
00:37:16.119 --> 00:37:21.400
her. I tried to comfort Jessica, even though I didn' t know

437
00:37:21.400 --> 00:37:24.800
what to say. She no longer
paid attention to me and rose up shaking

438
00:37:24.880 --> 00:37:30.679
the land from her shorts walking towards
the village. I kept asking her to

439
00:37:30.679 --> 00:37:35.000
wait, but she just said she
was going home. He couldn' t

440
00:37:35.000 --> 00:37:37.679
stay in the woods that day and
suggested I should go home, too.

441
00:37:38.280 --> 00:37:44.239
He insisted that he not cross the
creek under any circumstances, although part of

442
00:37:44.360 --> 00:37:47.320
me wanted to return to the creek. Jessica' s story had scared me

443
00:37:47.440 --> 00:37:52.480
so much that I barely got close
enough to see him through the trees.

444
00:37:52.559 --> 00:37:58.559
I looked for some sign of the
children, wanting to find something to confirm

445
00:37:58.639 --> 00:38:02.920
the story, but nothing came.
The other shore was empty, without signs

446
00:38:02.960 --> 00:38:07.440
of life and I dared not investigate
any more As the sky was darkened.

447
00:38:08.440 --> 00:38:13.800
I started the way home thinking about
the children' s story. For a

448
00:38:13.880 --> 00:38:19.239
moment, I almost bothered Jessica for
scaring me with a story that I was

449
00:38:19.320 --> 00:38:23.199
beginning to think was made up.
I thought I' d created everything,

450
00:38:23.639 --> 00:38:28.840
including an orphan girl, to scare
me. I laughed at my own credulity

451
00:38:29.079 --> 00:38:35.280
in considering how easily I had believed
in his account. During dinner. That

452
00:38:35.360 --> 00:38:39.000
night I asked my grandparents if they' d heard of someone disappearing in the

453
00:38:39.119 --> 00:38:45.000
woods. They looked at each other
curiously as if they looked into his memory.

454
00:38:45.079 --> 00:38:49.719
My grandmother, after thinking for a
moment, said she didn' t

455
00:38:49.760 --> 00:38:52.559
remember something like that. My grandfather
agreed, wondering why I was so curious.

456
00:38:54.159 --> 00:38:59.480
I told them I' d heard
some kids talk about a girl who

457
00:38:59.480 --> 00:39:04.960
disappeared. My grandmother then recalled that, although she did not know of a

458
00:39:05.280 --> 00:39:09.119
disappearance, she did remember a girl
terrified by the woods. A few years

459
00:39:09.119 --> 00:39:15.039
ago, she told how the girl
had run out of the terrified woods screaming

460
00:39:15.039 --> 00:39:20.639
and crying. She clarified that she
did not do much research on the matter

461
00:39:20.679 --> 00:39:24.039
or out of respect for the father
of the girl who had asked to leave

462
00:39:24.519 --> 00:39:30.400
her daughter alone, but knew that
the girl had been disturbed for weeks locked

463
00:39:30.440 --> 00:39:34.719
in her room without talking to anyone. My grandmother commented that whatever happened really

464
00:39:34.760 --> 00:39:42.840
shook the girl. That story filled
me with sudden terror, making me wonder

465
00:39:43.000 --> 00:39:47.960
if the story Jessica had told me
could be true. That night it took

466
00:39:49.039 --> 00:39:52.239
me to sleep and I had a
nightmare. I don' t remember the

467
00:39:52.519 --> 00:39:58.119
nightmare, but I know I had
it because I woke up agitated sweating and

468
00:39:58.119 --> 00:40:01.039
I even screamed. My grandfather.
He walked into the room quickly, followed

469
00:40:01.119 --> 00:40:06.920
by my worried grandmother. I felt
shame as I got rid of the sheets

470
00:40:07.000 --> 00:40:13.719
and got up explaining that it had
only been a bad nightmare. That morning

471
00:40:13.920 --> 00:40:19.400
I walked into the woods hoping to
meet Jessica, but she wasn' t

472
00:40:19.480 --> 00:40:23.599
anywhere. I looked down the road
several times looking for her, but she

473
00:40:23.599 --> 00:40:27.639
didn' t show up. I
went back to my house and then back

474
00:40:27.760 --> 00:40:32.039
into the woods, finding no trace
of her, I decided to wait for

475
00:40:32.159 --> 00:40:36.880
her in our favorite clearing. She
wasn' t there when I arrived and

476
00:40:36.960 --> 00:40:40.119
after waiting an hour, I began
to wonder if something bad had happened to

477
00:40:40.119 --> 00:40:45.440
her. But even if so,
I didn' t know what I could

478
00:40:45.440 --> 00:40:50.719
do about it, as I didn' t know where I lived. Almost

479
00:40:50.800 --> 00:40:54.119
without thinking, I started walking towards
the stream. After all, I had

480
00:40:54.159 --> 00:40:59.159
only promised not to cross it.
Also, if she was able to escape

481
00:40:59.280 --> 00:41:02.400
the children when it was bar they
were right next to her, I could

482
00:41:02.679 --> 00:41:08.840
also run away in case they appeared
to me I walked towards the stream a

483
00:41:08.840 --> 00:41:12.719
little nervous. Once I could see
the stream, I approached carefully trying not

484
00:41:12.960 --> 00:41:17.480
to make noise. Finally it was
only a few meters from the bank of

485
00:41:17.480 --> 00:41:22.199
the stream. At that moment,
a fleeting movement captured my attention. At

486
00:41:22.280 --> 00:41:28.400
first I hadn' t noticed it
because I was looking down, but as

487
00:41:28.440 --> 00:41:31.400
I looked up, I saw the
silhouette of something I couldn' t identify.

488
00:41:31.480 --> 00:41:37.840
It clearly rocked gently with the breeze
as if it were hanging from the

489
00:41:37.840 --> 00:41:43.320
branches. The leaves concealed the distant
form that had to be several meters away.

490
00:41:44.760 --> 00:41:50.239
I immediately forgot the promise I had
made to Jessica. I needed to

491
00:41:50.320 --> 00:41:54.079
know what that thing was. Just
as I was about to go down to

492
00:41:54.199 --> 00:41:59.400
the edge of the stream, a
call startled me and set me up in

493
00:41:59.440 --> 00:42:05.320
an instant Jessica was behind me clinging
to a tree as if she could fall

494
00:42:05.360 --> 00:42:08.159
without her support. Though his tone
was angry, his face was pale.

495
00:42:09.000 --> 00:42:15.000
He signaled me to get close.
I turned my body raising an arm to

496
00:42:15.079 --> 00:42:19.000
point out what I had seen between
the branches, but I could not locate

497
00:42:19.000 --> 00:42:22.960
it again. I tried to explain
that I had seen something looking between the

498
00:42:23.000 --> 00:42:28.920
leaves for the rocking shape. Jessica
insisted that we go trampling on the ground

499
00:42:28.960 --> 00:42:36.320
with frustration because she realized that I
was willing to cross the stream. Jessica,

500
00:42:36.400 --> 00:42:39.880
trying to stop me, bumped into
me with all her strength, sending

501
00:42:39.880 --> 00:42:45.360
us both, rolling down the shore
and falling into the stream. We screamed

502
00:42:45.360 --> 00:42:51.599
and we shook as the muddy water
fell, bubbling over us, and I

503
00:42:51.719 --> 00:42:54.400
crawled away to the opposite shore of
the stream. She followed me by instinct,

504
00:42:54.880 --> 00:43:00.960
not because she wanted to cross the
other side of the ARROYOAA to or

505
00:43:00.039 --> 00:43:04.239
we got out of the stream water
and we got up. Jessica' s

506
00:43:04.280 --> 00:43:07.519
first reaction was to hold on to
my arm. I was begging us to

507
00:43:07.800 --> 00:43:14.079
leave, but I wanted to know
what that was that I had seen a

508
00:43:14.079 --> 00:43:16.920
couple of minutes before. So I
started walking. My friend didn' t

509
00:43:16.920 --> 00:43:22.159
want to move, but as I
was pressed by my arm, she followed

510
00:43:22.239 --> 00:43:25.760
me to the place where I thought
I saw something. Hanging from the trees,

511
00:43:25.800 --> 00:43:30.760
we found nothing out of the ordinary. Despite that, I wanted to

512
00:43:30.800 --> 00:43:37.880
find something. As we advanced the
forest around us it became quieter as if

513
00:43:37.920 --> 00:43:43.920
we had entered an area where even
the animals avoided being. Despite his fear.

514
00:43:44.679 --> 00:43:51.480
Jessica stood by me, although she
was visibly frightened. After walking a

515
00:43:51.519 --> 00:43:55.360
little longer, we came across a
rocky formation and a small cave. What

516
00:43:55.360 --> 00:44:00.800
really caught our attention was a strange
doll standing in front of the cave entrance.

517
00:44:01.559 --> 00:44:07.320
Looking at us, the wrist had
a peculiar appearance, with an elongated

518
00:44:07.440 --> 00:44:13.880
forehead and small dark eyes, and
its skin seemed to be made of worn

519
00:44:13.880 --> 00:44:20.880
tissue. Before I could fully process
what we saw, terrified Jessica insisted that

520
00:44:20.920 --> 00:44:25.760
we get away from there. She
was convinced that the doll was not a

521
00:44:25.840 --> 00:44:30.239
doll, but that it was one
of those weird kids, which seemed to

522
00:44:30.320 --> 00:44:37.119
give her intense fear. Despite your
fears. I tried to reassure her by

523
00:44:37.239 --> 00:44:42.760
arguing that she was just a doll
and not a threat. However, at

524
00:44:42.960 --> 00:44:45.960
the time I set out to examine
her more closely, Jessica released me and

525
00:44:46.039 --> 00:44:52.000
in less than a second I was
already running back to the stream with the

526
00:44:52.079 --> 00:44:58.199
clear intention of crossing it and going
home, but she stopped strangely. I

527
00:44:58.280 --> 00:45:00.239
was gonna yell at him to wait
for me. But in that before releasing

528
00:45:00.280 --> 00:45:06.119
the first word another doll, this
one looks more careful and realistic than the

529
00:45:06.159 --> 00:45:13.239
previous one. I was standing in
the place where we had been moments before.

530
00:45:13.400 --> 00:45:15.920
This new doll, with its short
brown hair and worn red dress,

531
00:45:16.400 --> 00:45:22.880
watched us with a disconcerting intensity.
At a time of panic, as a

532
00:45:22.920 --> 00:45:29.360
doll who vaguely remembered a girl took
a step towards me, all my efforts

533
00:45:29.400 --> 00:45:35.679
focused on escaping. However, Jessica, as if under a spell, advanced

534
00:45:35.679 --> 00:45:43.760
toward the doll unable to resist.
While Jessica kept walking like hypnotized, I

535
00:45:43.880 --> 00:45:49.360
ran and grabbed her arm to take
her with me, but she didn'

536
00:45:49.400 --> 00:45:52.760
t react in a desperate attempt.
I grabbed a stone and pushed it hard

537
00:45:52.880 --> 00:45:59.440
into one of those dolls. When
I hit him, the cloth broke,

538
00:45:59.679 --> 00:46:02.440
letting me see I was under that
cloth There was rotten meat full of worms.

539
00:46:04.760 --> 00:46:07.039
When I realized several of those things
weren' t surrounding each other.

540
00:46:07.679 --> 00:46:14.920
Jessica was still walking totally hypnotized.
She was lost. There was nothing to

541
00:46:15.000 --> 00:46:20.079
do for her, so I left
her and ran to the creek. One

542
00:46:20.119 --> 00:46:23.440
of those things went through me,
but I pushed it. I was able

543
00:46:23.480 --> 00:46:28.519
to cross the creek. Looking back, I saw those things and Jessicas went

544
00:46:28.679 --> 00:46:34.039
into the depth of the forest.
I ran like I' d never done

545
00:46:34.119 --> 00:46:38.360
before until I got to my grandparents' house that night. They noticed my

546
00:46:38.360 --> 00:46:45.039
fear and stayed awake with me trying
to offer me comfort. The next day

547
00:46:45.360 --> 00:46:51.679
they tried to understand what had happened
to me, but I couldn' t

548
00:46:51.679 --> 00:46:54.840
explain it clearly. I only told
them that I had a nightmare after falling

549
00:46:54.920 --> 00:47:00.000
asleep in the woods, although they
tried to take it with humor and I

550
00:47:00.079 --> 00:47:06.880
knew the order that something serious had
happened, especially because Jessica had disappeared and

551
00:47:07.000 --> 00:47:09.239
I didn' t say anything about
it. Despite having an idea of what

552
00:47:09.360 --> 00:47:15.599
might have happened to her for the
rest of my vacation, I decided not

553
00:47:15.679 --> 00:47:22.760
to stay away from my grandparents,
staying home most of the time. When

554
00:47:22.800 --> 00:47:25.960
people started looking for Jessica, my
grandparents asked me if I knew anything,

555
00:47:27.360 --> 00:47:32.239
although inside I knew I should talk
about what had happened. I chose to

556
00:47:32.320 --> 00:47:37.199
keep quiet and say that the last
time I went to the woods, I

557
00:47:37.360 --> 00:47:42.480
had been alone. The reality is
that I feel a deep guilt for what

558
00:47:49.639 --> 00:47:57.360
happened persecuted, I did hiking and
camping for as long as I can remember.

559
00:47:57.880 --> 00:48:00.360
I think, if I add up
the hours I' ve given that

560
00:48:00.440 --> 00:48:04.840
to in my life, I'
m sure I' ve been in nature

561
00:48:05.159 --> 00:48:09.039
longer than watching movies. It was
what could be understood as an explorer.

562
00:48:09.199 --> 00:48:15.320
Then, after that, I managed
to convince some friends from high school and

563
00:48:15.400 --> 00:48:20.360
then from college to come on some
trips with me. My passion for nature

564
00:48:20.480 --> 00:48:24.800
remained strong long after I graduated from
college, which my parents did not believe.

565
00:48:27.280 --> 00:48:30.960
They were sure that as soon as
I got a job, I would

566
00:48:31.000 --> 00:48:37.039
not go back to a hill or
forest, but they were wrong as all

567
00:48:37.119 --> 00:48:42.760
my old fellow hikers began to give
up the hobby. It became more difficult

568
00:48:42.960 --> 00:48:46.400
to arrange a trip. In the
end it seemed that he did intend to

569
00:48:46.480 --> 00:48:52.960
go hiking as regularly as he wanted. I' d have to start going

570
00:48:52.039 --> 00:48:58.519
alone at first alone walking seemed a
little boring, but eventually I realized it

571
00:48:58.559 --> 00:49:04.679
was real pretty funny. The big
advantage was that it was not limited,

572
00:49:04.960 --> 00:49:08.719
so others wanted to do where they
wanted to go or when a trip could

573
00:49:08.800 --> 00:49:14.199
take place. I could just think
about it and do it. Most of

574
00:49:14.239 --> 00:49:19.000
the time I didn' t even
have to make plans in advance, because,

575
00:49:19.719 --> 00:49:23.679
as I was just going to,
I could improvise to get out of

576
00:49:23.800 --> 00:49:28.599
work on a Friday afternoon and then
spend the whole weekend in the woods before

577
00:49:28.639 --> 00:49:34.760
returning to bed on Sunday night.
The only real concern about going alone is

578
00:49:34.800 --> 00:49:39.079
security. In case of an accident. No one would be there to help

579
00:49:39.119 --> 00:49:43.880
me in case something went wrong,
I' d be alone in fact.

580
00:49:43.920 --> 00:49:46.679
For the same reason, I saw
myself in the need to get a gun,

581
00:49:46.880 --> 00:49:52.000
not illegally. I had my military
service, so at one time I

582
00:49:52.079 --> 00:49:58.000
went to Mexico City, I bought
a gun I only took it with me

583
00:49:58.199 --> 00:50:02.880
when I was going to explore places
not as friendly as the mountains or places

584
00:50:02.880 --> 00:50:08.199
in villages with dangerous situations. Like
anywhere else a person can go, it

585
00:50:08.360 --> 00:50:15.519
' s not really the wildlife you
should be afraid of. It' s

586
00:50:15.519 --> 00:50:22.719
people. As I mentioned. You
hear some really crazy stories, and I

587
00:50:22.760 --> 00:50:27.400
heard a lot of them. On
one occasion I wanted to go to a

588
00:50:27.960 --> 00:50:32.599
remote place whose only way to enter
was to drive to a rural area where

589
00:50:32.679 --> 00:50:37.119
there was not too much population.
When I got there, there was a

590
00:50:37.199 --> 00:50:40.039
girl there because of her way of
dressing. It was obvious he was there

591
00:50:40.119 --> 00:50:46.559
for hiking. I parked at a
distance from her I wanted to talk to

592
00:50:46.679 --> 00:50:51.679
her We made a little eye contact, and we started talking. We exchanged

593
00:50:51.760 --> 00:50:54.559
greetings and asked her if she was
okay and she said no. And that

594
00:50:54.599 --> 00:51:00.679
was it. Turns out her friend
stood her up for a walk she had

595
00:51:00.719 --> 00:51:05.440
been waiting for very eagerly and was
not anxious to drive all the way home.

596
00:51:07.599 --> 00:51:12.519
He was considering climbing the trail alone, but he also wanted to see

597
00:51:12.559 --> 00:51:15.800
if he could convince his friend to
get out. Anyway, since I was

598
00:51:15.920 --> 00:51:22.880
very aware that hiking alone as a
woman was not the brightest idea. I

599
00:51:22.960 --> 00:51:28.760
knew inviting her to walk with me
was a great way to meet a very

600
00:51:28.840 --> 00:51:35.039
pretty girl who clearly shared a passion
for nature. So I just did it

601
00:51:35.480 --> 00:51:38.119
and asked him if he wanted to
come with me. There was a moment

602
00:51:38.239 --> 00:51:44.079
of hesitation on her part. He
didn' t seem like the kind of

603
00:51:44.159 --> 00:51:49.079
girl who would just walk out on
a remote forest path with a complete stranger

604
00:51:49.119 --> 00:51:53.239
and for a second I thought he
was going to turn me down, but

605
00:51:53.280 --> 00:51:55.079
he looked at me with a big
smile and said yes. He told me

606
00:51:55.119 --> 00:52:01.920
his name was Alicia. We started
walking and I explained to her that I

607
00:52:01.960 --> 00:52:07.280
was planning to camp somewhere to stay
for the weekend, but that I would

608
00:52:07.360 --> 00:52:10.920
be happy to accompany her back to
her car when she was ready to leave.

609
00:52:12.480 --> 00:52:17.079
She thanked me once we felt more
comfortable with each other. I can

610
00:52:17.199 --> 00:52:22.280
safely say that it was one of
the best first dates, so to speak,

611
00:52:22.760 --> 00:52:28.079
that I had been on definitely had
this kind of atmosphere. We talked

612
00:52:28.119 --> 00:52:34.159
a lot at first about hiking,
places we had been, difficult situations we

613
00:52:34.360 --> 00:52:38.199
had faced and things like that,
but eventually we started talking about other things

614
00:52:38.199 --> 00:52:43.239
as well, such as our jobs, our families and relationships. She told

615
00:52:43.320 --> 00:52:47.400
me that she had been single for
a while, but that she was not

616
00:52:47.440 --> 00:52:54.039
looking for anything at the time,
but she also quickly added that if something

617
00:52:54.119 --> 00:52:58.639
appropriate appeared, she would be open
to change her mind. Maybe an hour

618
00:52:58.719 --> 00:53:02.719
after our walk we were walking by
the edge of a stream. When Alicia

619
00:53:02.800 --> 00:53:07.880
stopped to take a picture, then
asked me to wait a second while sending

620
00:53:07.960 --> 00:53:14.159
a text message to her friend.
Because of all the hills around us.

621
00:53:15.079 --> 00:53:20.159
The signal was a little hard to
get. While she was texting, I

622
00:53:20.280 --> 00:53:24.280
went a little further down the river
waiting for Alicia to finish doing her thing.

623
00:53:25.360 --> 00:53:30.199
When something caught my attention, perhaps
about fifty or sixty meters downstream,

624
00:53:30.519 --> 00:53:37.280
a flash of movement in the trees
very slightly, but I saw it clearly.

625
00:53:37.760 --> 00:53:43.039
I went back to Alicia to ask
her if she had a stiff spriya

626
00:53:43.079 --> 00:53:46.840
or something, but when she said
yes, I didn' t feel completely

627
00:53:46.840 --> 00:53:52.519
calm. It was good that we
could both defend ourselves in case of an

628
00:53:52.000 --> 00:53:58.719
animal attack, but at the same
time I didn' t want anything to

629
00:53:58.840 --> 00:54:00.480
ruin our walk, especially if that
something turned out to be a bear.

630
00:54:01.360 --> 00:54:07.000
I told her I thought I saw
something downriver she said she' d keep

631
00:54:07.119 --> 00:54:13.719
her eyes wide open and then we
went our way as usual. Perhaps an

632
00:54:13.800 --> 00:54:17.599
hour later we left the trees and
arrived at an open meadow that went up

633
00:54:17.719 --> 00:54:22.280
slightly. When we reached the top, or rather where the slope became a

634
00:54:22.320 --> 00:54:30.480
steep hill, we stopped and turned
around to contemplate the view. Then I

635
00:54:30.639 --> 00:54:35.679
saw a dark figure moving parallel to
the edge of the forest. I couldn

636
00:54:35.760 --> 00:54:40.800
' t really distinguish any details because
of the difference of light, but there

637
00:54:40.840 --> 00:54:45.800
was definitely something there, and just
when I thought they might be just a

638
00:54:45.920 --> 00:54:50.920
hiker, the figure stopped, turned
its profile and stood still. At first

639
00:54:51.000 --> 00:54:55.320
I thought they might be doing their
needs or something. But then I realized

640
00:54:55.400 --> 00:55:01.280
that they were watching us s s
s s s s s s s s

641
00:55:01.559 --> 00:55:06.119
s s s s s s s
s s s s s s s s

642
00:55:06.119 --> 00:55:06.119
s s s s s s s
s s s s s s s s

643
00:55:06.119 --> 00:55:06.119
s s s s s s s
s s s s s s s s

644
00:55:06.119 --> 00:55:06.119
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s s s s s s s s

645
00:55:06.119 --> 00:55:06.119
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s s s s s s s s

646
00:55:06.119 --> 00:55:06.119
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s s s s s s s s

647
00:55:06.119 --> 00:55:06.119
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648
00:55:06.119 --> 00:55:06.119
s s s s s s s
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649
00:55:06.119 --> 00:55:06.119
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650
00:55:06.119 --> 00:55:06.119
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651
00:55:06.119 --> 00:55:06.119
s s s s s s s
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652
00:55:06.119 --> 00:55:06.119
s s s s s s s
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653
00:55:06.119 --> 00:55:06.119
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654
00:55:06.119 --> 00:55:06.119
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655
00:55:06.119 --> 00:55:06.119
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656
00:55:06.119 --> 00:55:06.119
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657
00:55:06.119 --> 00:55:06.119
s s s s s s s
s s s s s s s s

658
00:55:06.119 --> 00:55:06.119
s s s s s s s
s s s s s s s s

659
00:55:06.119 --> 00:55:06.119
s s s s s s s
s s s s s s s s

660
00:55:06.119 --> 00:55:06.119
s s s s s s s
s s s s s s s s

661
00:55:06.119 --> 00:55:06.119
s s s s s s s
s s s s s s s s

662
00:55:06.119 --> 00:55:06.119
s s s s s s s
s s s s s s s s

663
00:55:06.119 --> 00:55:06.119
s s s s s s s
s s s s s s s s

664
00:55:06.119 --> 00:55:06.119
s s s s s s s
s s s s s s s s

665
00:55:06.119 --> 00:55:06.119
s s s s s s s
s s s s s s s s

666
00:55:06.119 --> 00:55:06.119
s s s s s s s
s s s s s s s s

667
00:55:06.119 --> 00:55:06.119
s s s s s s s
s s s s s s s s

668
00:55:06.119 --> 00:55:06.119
s s s s s s s
s s s s s s s s

669
00:55:06.119 --> 00:55:06.119
s s s s s s s
s s s s s s s s

670
00:55:06.119 --> 00:55:06.119
s s s s s s s
s s s s s s s s

671
00:55:06.119 --> 00:55:06.119
s s s s s s s
s s s s s s s s

672
00:55:06.119 --> 00:55:06.119
s s s s s s s
s s s s s s s s

673
00:55:06.119 --> 00:55:07.239
s s s s s s s
s s s s She turned to look

674
00:55:07.360 --> 00:55:13.280
and then gave me a skeptical answer. When I asked him if he could

675
00:55:13.280 --> 00:55:16.239
see anything. She asked me if
I was 100% sure that the person

676
00:55:16.280 --> 00:55:21.840
had been watching us and, to
be honest, I didn' t know

677
00:55:21.920 --> 00:55:27.760
for sure. I just had a
bad feeling based on the brief glimmer of

678
00:55:27.960 --> 00:55:31.920
movement in the trees near the creek. I tried again to make him look

679
00:55:31.960 --> 00:55:37.719
in the right place and when I
turned to look again I saw that there

680
00:55:37.840 --> 00:55:42.440
was no one there. I scanned
the edge of the forest for the third

681
00:55:42.519 --> 00:55:47.079
time in almost so many minutes and
there was nothing there, but I still

682
00:55:47.119 --> 00:55:52.239
felt very restless and suggested that we
simply continue. Our original plan had been

683
00:55:52.320 --> 00:55:58.440
to walk around the base of the
hill we had reached and then return along

684
00:55:58.639 --> 00:56:04.639
the same path to where Alice'
s car was parked. But because of

685
00:56:04.719 --> 00:56:09.320
how restless I was, I suggested
that we walk around so we don'

686
00:56:09.400 --> 00:56:14.840
t have to go back on our
steps. After walking a mile or so,

687
00:56:15.559 --> 00:56:19.840
the tension had started to dissipate,
no one was following us anymore,

688
00:56:20.039 --> 00:56:24.559
at least it didn' t seem
like that and I was starting to think

689
00:56:24.639 --> 00:56:30.400
I was just making paranoid. Not
much. After going back into the forest,

690
00:56:30.599 --> 00:56:35.920
we arrived at another stream. Alicia
seemed delighted with it and started taking

691
00:56:36.000 --> 00:56:40.599
pictures. While I was walking around, he liked the place so much that

692
00:56:40.639 --> 00:56:46.559
he wanted to stay there for a
while to rest and eat some snacks and

693
00:56:46.639 --> 00:56:51.840
while we were doing it, he
planned to send text messages to his friend

694
00:56:51.840 --> 00:56:54.440
with the photos if the signal allowed. While Alicia was busy trying to send

695
00:56:54.480 --> 00:57:00.440
messages, I excused myself to go
do my needs somewhere private and then went

696
00:57:00.559 --> 00:57:07.679
into the trees to find a secluded
place. I found a place and I

697
00:57:07.760 --> 00:57:13.000
did my thing and just as I
was turning back I heard something in the

698
00:57:13.079 --> 00:57:16.440
trees behind me. It reminded me
instantly of that feeling of being followed,

699
00:57:17.400 --> 00:57:22.760
only this time I really made an
effort to find out if there was something

700
00:57:22.800 --> 00:57:30.000
or someone that was following us I
started walking directly to where I had heard

701
00:57:30.199 --> 00:57:36.119
the noise, calling and asking if
there was anyone there, and then I

702
00:57:36.239 --> 00:57:39.519
saw this big guy dressed in hiking
gear that was walking away from me at

703
00:57:39.599 --> 00:57:45.679
a pace that I found somewhat reassuring
as if I could give him the benefit

704
00:57:45.679 --> 00:57:51.519
of the doubt, but at the
same time, I was now facing the

705
00:57:51.519 --> 00:57:54.800
evidence that we were being followed.
The odds of meeting someone especially off the

706
00:57:54.840 --> 00:58:00.679
trails are almost zero. So,
even though I was convinced that they were

707
00:58:00.679 --> 00:58:07.400
following us, I still wanted to
confront that guy to make sure I called

708
00:58:07.440 --> 00:58:12.840
him not in an overly aggressive way, just to get his attention. I

709
00:58:12.920 --> 00:58:16.960
was planning on asking her something pretty
innocent like she was okay or something,

710
00:58:17.199 --> 00:58:21.760
but when she turned around, I
was dumb. He was dressed like a

711
00:58:22.079 --> 00:58:28.519
hiker, but he wore these thick, heavy gloves, almost like those riot

712
00:58:28.559 --> 00:58:31.280
control gloves you see with hard knuckles
and the bottom half of his face.

713
00:58:31.559 --> 00:58:37.320
It was covered with a home protector
from those where only the eyes of the

714
00:58:37.320 --> 00:58:43.800
person are seen, although wearing a
facial cover like that was totally normal before

715
00:58:43.920 --> 00:58:47.880
and was still accepted to some extent. Nowadays, it was definitely not common

716
00:58:47.960 --> 00:58:53.280
to see, especially because the guy
didn' t have any orange indicators on

717
00:58:53.400 --> 00:58:59.519
his clothes for the house or any
weapon he could see I felt something to

718
00:58:59.559 --> 00:59:02.199
the or aviated, seeing that he
didn' t have any weapons in his

719
00:59:02.199 --> 00:59:08.920
hands, but the fact that he
was covering his face meant that he was

720
00:59:09.000 --> 00:59:14.920
obviously up to something bad and then
there was the fact that he just refused

721
00:59:14.920 --> 00:59:19.000
to answer me. When I finally
asked him if everything was all right,

722
00:59:19.199 --> 00:59:22.960
he just gave me a look for
a second and then turned back and walked

723
00:59:23.039 --> 00:59:28.960
away into the forest. At that
time my mind was running a thousand an

724
00:59:29.039 --> 00:59:34.400
hour to follow us on a single
path was one thing, but this guy

725
00:59:34.639 --> 00:59:38.880
had potentially tracked our way through an
open meadow and then, by chance,

726
00:59:39.239 --> 00:59:45.800
stayed on our trail. Even though
we crossed the hill and took a seemingly

727
00:59:45.880 --> 00:59:51.480
random route, I ran back to
Alicia. I told him exactly what I

728
00:59:51.599 --> 00:59:54.719
' d seen and told him we
needed to move fast. I told him

729
00:59:54.800 --> 01:00:00.880
I knew he sounded crazy and completely
understood. Why would I think he was

730
01:00:00.920 --> 01:00:06.400
a weird guy, but I'
d rather he thought he was weird and

731
01:00:06.440 --> 01:00:12.320
live than act out at nothing and
risk our lives. I started walking as

732
01:00:12.400 --> 01:00:16.920
I signaled him to follow me.
She just stood still, but instead of

733
01:00:17.000 --> 01:00:22.639
following me, she told me she
was acting like a real asshole and if

734
01:00:22.719 --> 01:00:28.480
they were following us, she would
have noticed something about it. She wasn

735
01:00:28.599 --> 01:00:32.440
' t a helpless little girl either, so she felt like she was acting

736
01:00:32.440 --> 01:00:36.880
like she was. According to her, the fact that someone was on our

737
01:00:36.960 --> 01:00:43.280
path did not mean that he acted
maliciously. I guess the only mitigating factor

738
01:00:43.760 --> 01:00:49.360
was this idea that she thought it
was me that was trying to trick her

739
01:00:49.480 --> 01:00:53.960
into doing something to her. I
fully understood and suspected that his reluctance came

740
01:00:53.960 --> 01:00:59.400
from there and not from being naive
not to trust enough to ignore my warnings.

741
01:01:00.760 --> 01:01:07.360
By that time we were both being
quite noisy arguing from one side to

742
01:01:07.880 --> 01:01:12.559
the other and I realized that our
volume would make it very easy for someone

743
01:01:12.639 --> 01:01:16.639
to locate us and catch us unsuspecting. I remember looking around just to make

744
01:01:16.679 --> 01:01:23.280
sure we were still alone and I
felt that chilling feeling that comes with knowing

745
01:01:23.639 --> 01:01:29.199
that they' re really watching you. Honestly, I thought if I just

746
01:01:29.280 --> 01:01:36.440
started walking Alicia, I' d
come around somehow, and I' d

747
01:01:36.480 --> 01:01:39.079
keep going, so that' s
what I did. I started walking back

748
01:01:39.119 --> 01:01:44.440
just once to see if she was
going to follow me or not. She

749
01:01:44.519 --> 01:01:50.280
seemed furious Alicia refused to listen to
my warnings about the man she thought was

750
01:01:50.320 --> 01:01:54.840
following us. According to her we
were letting fear dominate us, which was

751
01:01:55.239 --> 01:02:01.639
probably just another hiker enjoying nature.
But something inside of me told me we

752
01:02:01.719 --> 01:02:07.920
were in danger. As I walked
away keeping a prudent distance from Alicia,

753
01:02:08.119 --> 01:02:13.880
something happened that frozen the blood in
my veins. The mysterious man emerged from

754
01:02:13.920 --> 01:02:17.800
among the trees and began to walk
where I was. For this she had

755
01:02:17.880 --> 01:02:22.840
to pass right next to Alicia,
but she didn' t react to that.

756
01:02:22.320 --> 01:02:27.079
It was as if she couldn'
t see it, as if for

757
01:02:27.119 --> 01:02:30.559
her the man were invisible. At
that moment, all my alerts went off.

758
01:02:31.280 --> 01:02:36.239
There was no time to look for
logical explanations to what was happening.

759
01:02:36.760 --> 01:02:42.360
The man accelerated the pace almost now
running straight to me. The adrenaline took

760
01:02:42.400 --> 01:02:46.159
over my body and without thinking about
it, I began to run driven by

761
01:02:46.159 --> 01:02:52.199
fear. I ran down the path
dodging low branches and exposed roots. Without

762
01:02:52.239 --> 01:02:55.880
daring to look back, I could
hear the man' s footsteps behind me

763
01:02:55.920 --> 01:03:01.679
getting closer and closer. Suddenly I
stumbled upon a fallen trunk, hurling me

764
01:03:01.760 --> 01:03:07.159
forward with a force that left my
body breathless. He hit the floor covered

765
01:03:07.280 --> 01:03:13.599
with leaves. With effort I got
ready to keep running, but I stopped

766
01:03:13.679 --> 01:03:19.639
dry. The man was standing there
in front of me motionless like a statue.

767
01:03:20.320 --> 01:03:24.639
There was no aggressiveness in his posture. He was just there looking at

768
01:03:24.719 --> 01:03:30.559
me, saying nothing, doing nothing, not even blinking. The intensity of

769
01:03:30.599 --> 01:03:35.119
his gaze. It was penetrating as
if it could see through me, fear

770
01:03:35.119 --> 01:03:40.159
paralyzed me. I couldn' t
run, I couldn' t scream,

771
01:03:40.159 --> 01:03:44.599
I could barely breathe. In one
last desperate attempt to do something, anything,

772
01:03:44.880 --> 01:03:49.280
I asked him what he wanted from
me, but what happened next challenged

773
01:03:49.400 --> 01:03:55.599
all logic. The man just disappeared. There was no flash of light,

774
01:03:57.119 --> 01:04:01.679
no cloud of smoke, nothing.
One second I was there and the next

775
01:04:01.760 --> 01:04:08.119
there was no one. I stood
there trying to process what happened. My

776
01:04:08.239 --> 01:04:12.559
knees were shaking and I felt the
pulse in my throat. The man who

777
01:04:12.599 --> 01:04:15.960
had followed me, who had appeared
and disappeared. He was a ghost.

778
01:04:16.480 --> 01:04:21.320
There was no other possible explanation.
It wasn' t a figment of my

779
01:04:21.320 --> 01:04:34.960
imagination. I can assure you of
that. Restaurant. I own a small

780
01:04:34.960 --> 01:04:41.360
restaurant in a very small town.
The restaurant does not receive many people,

781
01:04:42.199 --> 01:04:45.280
only the inhabitants of the village and
some people from outside looking to eat something.

782
01:04:45.840 --> 01:04:49.280
When they arrive I like to introduce
myself to serve you their food.

783
01:04:49.840 --> 01:04:54.920
I own and waiter. I only
have two people who help me in the

784
01:04:54.920 --> 01:04:59.400
kitchen. I inherited my parents'
restaurant and spent practically my whole life in

785
01:04:59.440 --> 01:05:04.280
this town, except for some trips
to nearby events such as markets and state

786
01:05:04.320 --> 01:05:10.599
fairs, but that' s only
on special occasions. I enjoy the peace

787
01:05:10.639 --> 01:05:15.920
and tranquility of my lifestyle and consider
that I have a pretty good life I

788
01:05:15.480 --> 01:05:20.480
have wonderful friends, the most loving
husband and a beautiful girl. Same thing

789
01:05:20.519 --> 01:05:28.159
about everything in my life being okay. I haven' t experienced very exciting

790
01:05:28.239 --> 01:05:30.960
things about five years ago. I
think this happened in early July, right

791
01:05:31.360 --> 01:05:39.559
after my 27th birthday. A young
woman staggered into the restaurant I reckon she

792
01:05:39.639 --> 01:05:43.039
was a few years younger than me. The poor girl seemed to have not

793
01:05:43.159 --> 01:05:47.280
slept well in weeks with dark shiners
so dark that I had to take a

794
01:05:47.360 --> 01:05:51.079
moment to make sure they weren'
t bruises. He sat at a table

795
01:05:51.320 --> 01:05:56.400
and I approached him to serve him
coffee that he accepted gratefully. I took

796
01:05:56.519 --> 01:06:00.199
her order and moved to sit in
front of her. Instead of asking her

797
01:06:00.280 --> 01:06:04.960
if she had stories to tell,
I decided to ask her if she was

798
01:06:05.000 --> 01:06:10.840
okay, since the way her eyes
were moving around the room and how her

799
01:06:10.920 --> 01:06:15.480
hands were shaking violently when she tried
to use the cutlery, made me think

800
01:06:15.480 --> 01:06:18.519
she might be in danger. He
looked at me and his eyes began to

801
01:06:18.639 --> 01:06:24.840
fill with tears and just told me
he wouldn' t believe him. I

802
01:06:24.960 --> 01:06:29.760
remember how he looked down at the
table as he moved his hands to scratch

803
01:06:29.800 --> 01:06:33.360
the skin of his arms, which
were already covered with long red marks.

804
01:06:35.360 --> 01:06:41.239
She told me someone was following her, someone she thought was not a human.

805
01:06:42.360 --> 01:06:45.199
The first time you saw him was
a few months earlier. She had

806
01:06:45.280 --> 01:06:49.199
gone out with some friends and didn' t realize how late it was and

807
01:06:49.239 --> 01:06:53.679
when she started coming home, it
was almost 2: 00 in the morning.

808
01:06:54.360 --> 01:06:58.960
The fastest way home required using a
desolate little path that didn' t

809
01:06:59.039 --> 01:07:02.280
light it one or one light and
told me that I was so worried about

810
01:07:02.360 --> 01:07:06.119
a big exam I had to study
for, that I didn' t think

811
01:07:06.199 --> 01:07:12.159
about the dangers of walking around at
night. As she walked, she felt

812
01:07:12.239 --> 01:07:15.920
that terrible feeling that someone was watching
her and from nowhere a wave of anxiety

813
01:07:15.920 --> 01:07:21.159
invaded her. His heart began to
beat frantically and he covered himself with cold

814
01:07:21.239 --> 01:07:27.920
sweat. Then he noticed her watching
her from the tree line. He was

815
01:07:28.199 --> 01:07:32.920
tall and vaguely human- shaped,
although he said he would hesitate to call

816
01:07:33.039 --> 01:07:38.360
it that and by the way he
meant abnormally tall more than two meters.

817
01:07:38.400 --> 01:07:44.239
His skin was pale and sick and
his eyes were injected into blood, accompanied

818
01:07:44.239 --> 01:07:49.679
by an impossiblely broad smile that revealed
too many horribly stained teeth. So he

819
01:07:49.679 --> 01:07:55.719
could see the thing was completely bald
and dressed in camouflage clothes, the guy

820
01:07:55.800 --> 01:08:00.480
the hunters and the military wear.
He told me that he was paralyzed by

821
01:08:00.920 --> 01:08:04.840
watching him look at the thing with
absolute horror and just stood there smiling at

822
01:08:04.840 --> 01:08:12.360
him. Eventually he reacted and ran, but the thing made no move to

823
01:08:12.440 --> 01:08:16.800
follow it. All she did was
turn around and keep smiling as she ran.

824
01:08:17.640 --> 01:08:21.479
She told me that when she came
home, she suddenly felt a terrible

825
01:08:21.560 --> 01:08:27.479
urge to throw up. She said
that night she had nightmares beyond horrible ones,

826
01:08:28.600 --> 01:08:34.000
so much so that during the morning
she had woken up screaming four times

827
01:08:34.079 --> 01:08:39.159
the girl was very bad. I
had to go to the counter to get

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him some napkins and a glass of
water. After calming down he kept talking.

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As he fell the next night,
he saw the thing again this time

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watching it from the window of his
living room. Instead of being paralyzed.

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Again she started screaming and when her
sister ran to see what was going on,

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she looked out the window and became
pale as a ghost. She asked

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her sister if she saw him too, and she only nodded before dragging her

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out of sight of the thing and
calling the police. After seeing that thing

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again, he threw up again.
When the police arrived. They made them

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worse. They, of course,
found nothing, but as both she and

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her sister were completely certain of what
they had seen, the police assumed that

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someone was stalking them with the intention
of sneaking into the house to do something

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to them, so they stayed out
of the place watching. It was all

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night, the sun came up,
and no one showed up, so the

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cops didn' t leave without telling
the girl and her sister that anything would

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call them right away. She was
so scared that she decided not to leave

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her house for a week. In
those seven days he kept the windows covered

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and did not approach either the front
door or the door facing the courtyard.

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After that week she decided to relax
and went out, not so much because

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she wanted to, but because her
sister was gone and there was nothing for

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dinner, so she had to go
to the store, which was about ten

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minutes from her house walking. It
wasn' t that late, but it

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wasn' t an hour when there
were a lot of people on the street

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either. He barely walked five minutes
before he had that feeling. Again,

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the unmistakable sensation of being observed accompanied
by cold sweats and horrible anxiety, turned

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his gaze toward an alley that was
not too far away and there he was

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tall and pale as death, with
the same eyes injected into blood and smile

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with too many teeth, and that
same camouflage outfit that always seemed to wear

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she turned and ran at full speed
back home. The huge problem was that

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on that occasion that thing did chase
her. She told me she' d

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always been a good runner. He
participated in athletics in high school and even

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reached the state finals, and this
was certainly the time he had run faster

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in his life. But that thing
somehow caught up with her in a matter

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of seconds and grabbed her shoulder.
At that moment one of the sleeves of

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his sweatshirt came down and I could
see that on his shoulder there was a

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big scar in the shape of a
hand. After showing me the scar,

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she told me she remembered falling down
on the floor screaming terrified and just before

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she passed out, she said she
saw the thing lean over her and with

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that horrible smile still on her face. He said a word he didn'

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t understand. He woke up at
the hospital. Two days later. There

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was her sister and her parents.
When he recovered and after a couple of

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weeks of rest at home, he
decided to go to the bus station and

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simply bought the ticket for the bus
that was leaving earlier and it was so

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he got to the village where I
live. She was pretty sure that,

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despite being hundreds of miles away from
her house. She was very sure that

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at any moment, that horrible creature
was going to find her. That said,

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he got up and left my restaurant. I guess she went to another

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town. I just hope the thing
that chased her didn' t find her.

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Stories written and adapted by Ramiro contreras