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The herd. My name is vicent
and what I' m going to tell

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you happened to me in a mining
town already almost abandoned, in southern Mexico,

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about the year nineteen hundred and seventy. Although the years have passed,

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I remember every moment as if it
had been only yesterday. At that time

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he was barely seventeen years old.
Since the late 1930s, my dad worked

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in a mine extracting silver. Although
very close to the entrance was the village.

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Most of the workers came from neighboring
villages. My dad always left the

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house at 5: 00 a m
to get into the dark cave. As

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he called the mine, he carried
his tool because they didn' t give

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it to anyone. So he worked
until it was closed before a thousand nine

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hundred and fifty for strange situations.
Until I was eight years old, I

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paid attention to the stories that every
day told us many details, the terrible

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fights that the miners had down there, even the accidents that occurred very frequently,

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also the fear and suffocation that faced
the burning eyes and the fight against

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claustrophobia. Something that was going on
inside the mine and that was hard for

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my dad to tell was the fact
that boys and girls worked there in the

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eyes of everyone and nobody said anything. Sometimes they were children of miners,

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but other children sadly came walking alone
from rancheries or nearby villages. They did

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not extract minerals, bring water for
the miners or send them errands. They

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got them something to eat. So, the important thing was to earn a

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few coins to take home. Very
rarely they helped the miners carrying small stones.

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The terrifying thing about this is that
sporadically the children disappeared without leaving any

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trace, as if they had never
existed. My dad said this was happening

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about every day, it was hotter. Although the disappearances had always happened,

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no one took them into account,
but over the years they paid attention to

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that, because the number of lost
children was already remarkable in the mine.

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Officially nothing happened, there was no
record, because they didn' t work

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there. Family members were tired of
asking about them, but convinced them that

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they could be stolen along the way
or perhaps others could have fallen into deep

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wells inside that old mine, already
heavily drilled over time. But the company

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defended itself by saying that the children
sneaked in because they were banned from entering.

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It seemed that family members accepted that
they had been swallowed up by the

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land, or, rather, the
mine also told the people who gave them

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money and thus stopped looking for them. The rumors that ran inside the mine

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were that the cause of taking the
children were terrible witches who had a well

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deep down there were miners who claimed
to have seen them when they came out

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of nowhere to take someone away and
even some showed scratch marks on their bodies,

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although other miners claimed that they were
horrible large nahual beasts, black as

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the darkness itself. So much so
that they were said to walk among the

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workers of the mine without being detected. They had big nails and huge snout,

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always hungry for baby meat. Those
animals got into the mine when they

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were hungry and took out those who
found themselves alone and unprotected. The truth

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was that f f was one or
the other. It was terrifying and very

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hard to believe. Some time later, they weren' t just kids.

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The miners also began to disappear.
Because of that situation, my dad never

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took my older brother to work at
the mine and me less because he was

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younger every morning that he went out
to work. My mom used to persuade

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him many times as if it was
the last time I was going to see

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him so he wouldn' t face
the problems they already were. Many of

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the mine owners, who were by
the way foreigners, decided to close on

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the grounds that the silver Beta was
over. Although the workers knew it was

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not true, they dynamited the entrance
and everything was left in abandonment. My

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dad was a miner, he didn' t know and he didn' t

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want to work on anything else.
Like hundreds of workers, he looked for

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another mine. It was his life
living underground. That' s how the

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next few years went by, but
it wasn' t all forgotten for me.

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By the time I was eighteen,
the mine was closed for a long

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time. When the work was finished, the inhabitants also went to other mines

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to never return, and so the
people, little by little was considered ghost.

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The memory of those stories my dad
told us crossed my mind I always

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had a lot of doubts that everything
was true. That' s why I

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started planning to go, to go
around that town and know if what lived

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in the bowels of the mine were
either witches or Nahuales. I was still

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surrounded by two friends whose parents had
also been miners. There, one morning

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we walked to that mine. The
cave, as we said, had heard

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stories about something disturbing that was walking
through that mining town that was said to

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be abandoned. They claimed to see
great shadows that in the evenings the old

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lonely alleyways would travel to, in
addition to the or hear howling screams and

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terrifying laments Determined to discover what the
people could hide, We charged with what

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it took to spend a full night, flashlights, meals, matches and more

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things that are very necessary like that
along the way. We talked about the

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stories they told us about children.
That' s precisely why, as children,

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they seemed frightening to us, but
now we were young and we weren

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' t scared of anything but those
kinds of stories that were so common in

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our homes. Among the talks,
one of them, the youngest of us,

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named Juan, said that once his
father was walking through a new tunnel.

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It was guided only by the light
of his lamp that he finished doing

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a routine scan. When he had
only a few meters to go out to

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a safe area, something breathed him
very close to the ear I listened and

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n n n the bad breath of
an animal. At that time he ran

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because he said the tunnel was still
very narrow. There was no chance anyone

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else would be there. Apparently,
what was there was part of the land.

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For three days he lived scared.
The other of my friends who accompanied

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me, named Luis, told this
story. His dad, too, like

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mine, worked on the morning shift. He left his house very early before

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dawn one morning on his way to
the mine, and looked at silhouettes as

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they walked in a hurry as they
spoke among themselves. He thought that they

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were miners of the same turn,
too, he rushed to reach them,

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but the closer he approached them,
the stranger his figures seemed to him to

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be very thin, tall and with
great heads. He stopped following them because

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they left the road leading to the
mine and climbed a frightened hill. He

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realized that he was following two animals
walking on two legs. He did not

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tell anyone about his companions because perhaps
he had imagined it, but during his

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turn he thought he saw those silhouettes
that walked inside the mine. He claimed

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that these animals were the cause of
the disappearances. He always thanked God that

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those creatures did not look at him
alone on the mountain. That morning I

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also told them one of the many
situations my dad had to live in that

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mine one day. As he was
about to finish his shift, he was

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walking along with other workers through a
tunnel to the exit. Passing through a

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stretch where two other tunnels were connected, he felt that someone pulled him from

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one arm to the ground. When
they tried to get up, they grabbed

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him by the ankle and started dragging
him. Heading for a deep well.

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He quickly reacted and shouted. For
help, his companions took his hands and,

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pulling him among several, managed to
rescue him. When they were outside,

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he found out that what was dragging
him was a big black animal with

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bright eyes. My dad told us
that out of fear he didn' t

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look at anything, but when he
told us this story, he also showed

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us his scars on the ankle to
show us that it was true. We

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knew that many miners were mutilated from
some fingers in the mine. They said

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they were accidents with shovels and beaks, but they claimed they had been bitten

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by strange creatures hiding in the dark. After walking for a long time talking

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about our stories, we looked away
at the mine entrance, which was obviously

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blocked by tons of land and stones. When we reached the edge of the

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village, the sun was about to
hide behind the cereros, casting shadows between

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the structures, some of them about
to be ruins. We settled in the

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first house in good condition we found, rested a little and ate something.

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Maybe it' ll be six o' clock in the afternoon. We decided

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to take a first tour to find
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We had barely walked a few meters
when a man has already entered in years

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we came to the pass dressed very
humble and with some dust on his clothes.

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He asked us if we were lost
so we wouldn' t go into

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details. We answered that we only
wanted to know the place. Maybe we

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' d spend the night. We
only talked there for a while, but

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it was enough for him to talk
to us about a lot of things.

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He told us that in the village
only one family lived that he was in

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charge of taking care of the place
of people like us. Then he told

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us we probably didn' t know
what was being told about that place.

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I said no, and I asked
him to talk to us. The lord

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assured us that the people had owners, but these were not ordinary people.

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It was a pack of very different
beings. We asked a lot of questions

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about it. Maybe he looked at
us unbelievingly or realized what we were really

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going to do, because he didn' t want to comment anymore. He

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warned us to withdraw because it was
very dangerous to spend one night. That

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' s where he turned around and
left. We looked at each other and

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decided to continue, because we had
walked a lot to get to that place.

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First we toured part of the village
all together for a few moments to

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enter into confidence. There were only
two cobblestone streets. The others were from

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the ground. We looked well,
instead, the houses were small, but

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there were many. After a few
minutes we decided to split up. We

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met an hour later on the outskirts
of town. Before nightfall everyone took a

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different course. I started exploring.
Some houses in good condition. They were

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the ones closest to the mine entrance. I was looking for anything, whether

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it was fingerprints or traces. However, it was all desolation because of the

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way he told us things. My
dad wasn' t such an unknown place.

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For me I had described every corner
of the town that being there made

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me back in time imagining what the
people looked like at the time when the

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mine was working. While searching an
old house, I heard steps in the

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back, thinking he might be one
of my friends. I went to see,

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but it was heard that they were
making big strides. Besides, the

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sound was so strange that it seemed
like they were walking through the walls.

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Upon arrival I saw a tall figure
disappearing in a dark room. Following the

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r to uer I slowly took it
just to find the empty room with the

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window open. I thought they went
out that way who I looked at I

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looked for an explanation. Maybe it
was that gentleman who was spying on us

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without giving it so much importance.
I continued my exploration. I ran several

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houses without finding anything interesting. In
some sections where I passed, there was

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a very rare and very strong smell. I smelled like a dead animal,

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but I looked and there was none
anywhere. I really accepted that weird things

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were going on there. Before nightfall
we met again my friends and I all

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agreed that there was nothing unusual in
any of the houses or in the surroundings,

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although they also heard that someone was
walking in the ruins, they thought

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that it could be any of those
who lived in the village, but neither

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did they look at anyone. Maybe
it was around eight o' clock at

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night. In the middle of all
that silence, we heard something strange in

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the distance, perhaps a howl for
being near a hill was common that there

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were coyotes. We weren' t
going to be alarmed by that, but

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even though no one said anything,
that howl was very different it didn'

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t remind me of any known animals. It was not until the moon was

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high in the sky that I understood
that we were not alone, because it

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was heard running down the narrow streets. They didn' t look like people,

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rather they were animals, as if
a herd had crossed the village for

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a moment. We hesitated a little, but then we decided to leave.

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After all, that' s what
we were going to walk through the dusty,

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dirt streets. Sometimes it was all
silence. Others we could hear the

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echo of some words turned into whispers. My friends thought that the man with

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whom we had spoken intended to frighten
us without fear, but on alert we

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walked among the houses. We could
not identify that they were not even two

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where those sounds came from at times
I seemed to see shadows hiding between the

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constructions. The light seemed to bother
them believing. That was alluding to the

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flashlight from one side to the other. I thought I heard something inside a

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room and suddenly got in without telling
my friends. I opened my eyes a

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little more lighted up and down without
finding anything the silence that had been overwhelming.

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I was only there for a few
minutes, no more. When I

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went back to the narrow street,
I looked at myself I just called my

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friends, but no one answered they
were gone. I started looking for them,

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but there was no one. For
the first time I felt nervous.

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As I walked, I heard some
stones moving as if rolling were following me.

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I decided to return to the edge
of town to plan what we would

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do before the night closed completely.
We had to decide whether to stay or

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leave to avoid problems. However,
on my way back, perhaps by nervousness

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I took a wrong turn between the
cobbled streets and found myself lost among the

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ruins. I couldn' t believe
it because the place was too small.

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While I was trying to find my
way, I heard strange noises. Behind

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me were agile steps and whispers among
the shadows that intensified with every second that

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passed. I soon realized that I
was being chased not by a few simple

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stones, it was by someone.
Besides, I felt stalked. Something was

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hiding in the dark. The nervousness
took over me. I tried so hard

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to find out who it was that
I managed to look at two figures the

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moment I couldn' t define them
as human. I ran as hard as

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I could without thinking that I could
stumble and hurt myself. I just thought

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I' d get safe as I
ran through the narrow streets, ducking debris,

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avoiding falling into the ditches open for
time and abandonment. I remembered the

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old stories that said the town was
cursed. I felt that the figures followed

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me and were getting closer, moving
fast, running supernaturally. Something told me

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that what came after me was the
Nahuales. He knew from the stories that

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those were beings able to transform into
big, horrible animals to protect their territory

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with ferocity. And we, that
night, were disturbed intruders. I hid

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behind an old wall about to fall. I looked as close to me,

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several figures emerged from the shadows moving
with agility. His appearance was between human

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and beast. I couldn' t
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dark. All I could hear was
his grunts. They seemed to have their

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own language. It was evident that
these Nahuales were the same ones that got

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into the mine when it worked.
One of them, the bigger figure,

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the more intimidating than the others,
stopped and raised his head, smelled the

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air. His bright eyes, like
those of the cats, were fixed in

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my direction at that time. I
knew what he was sniffing was me.

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Without waiting to see his reaction,
I ran out of town without looking back.

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The stretch became very long, although
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during that journey. I regretted going
to that place and felt guilty of dragging

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my two friends with me. When
I got to the old house where we

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were meeting. There were already my
friends very scared. I knew something they

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wanted to tell me, but I
yelled at them that we had to run

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away. He didn' t seem
to understand why they were just looking at

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me bewildered. I didn' t
have time to tell them any more.

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We started writing about taking strong breaths. It wasn' t just one,

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there were several and they were outside
the house where we took refuge. We

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turn off the flashlights and keep quiet. We could hear how they walked around

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us. We were sure it was
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the environment. We didn' t
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' t have guns and we didn' t have anything to defend ourselves with.

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We didn' t even dare look
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' t realize what time Juan disappeared
without making the slightest noise Suddenly we didn

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' t see him anymore. I
was really worried that he had come out

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to find out. The minutes passed, the noises outside didn' t stop

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and our friend didn' t come
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When John came back screaming for help, I turned on the flashlight to see

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who was chasing him. The only
thing I could see was a shadow that

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receded with the light. Notably frightened, he told us that something had dragged

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him and intended to lead him to
the mine. All he could think of

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was playing dead, and that creature
let him go. When he found the

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opportunity, he ran back. He
told us on several occasions that in all

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the people there were shadows walking around
had some scratches and his clothes were torn,

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as we could and by God'
s miracle, we endured all night.

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At dawn, we left in a
hurry knowing that it had been a

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mistake to go to that place.
On the last street we met the inhabitants

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of the village, who were surprised
to see us before they asked us something,

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I told them that we had already
talked to the manager to take care

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of the place to spend the night, but that we were leaving. This

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person told me there was no manager. I gave him the sign of that

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gentleman and to my surprise, I
was assured that he was the ghost of

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a miner who had eaten him animals. Since his death he appeared throughout the

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village to warn people not to walk
alone at night. He asked us not

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to come back at night. He
assured us that the people of the village

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had abandoned him, not only because
the work was finished, but also because

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there were naguals and they were no
longer one or two. It was already

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a herd. That was why the
mine had been closed. We left that

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town convinced that the stories our parents
told us were true. I don'

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t live near there anymore. When
I had the chance, I walked away

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as far as I could now with
the Internet. I know it' s

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a tourist town and it gets a
lot of people. Maybe those animals also

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left for another mine at the age
I am. I keep telling this story

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in her time, I told it
to my children and then to my grandchildren.

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I don' t know if they
believe me or not and I understand

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them, but at least I,
although in the worst way, convinced myself

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that Nahuales do exist. My name
is Ernesto. It all started in a

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winter season. I decided to go
camping in a cabin near a wooded area,

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very close to the village from which
my parents originated. I knew that

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place had always been surrounded by mysteries
and ancient beliefs. That' s precisely

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why I chose to go there I
just ended a relationship I needed a break,

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a distraction. Spending the weekend away
from everything and everyone, I found

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it perfect. This happened to me
at the end of the nineties and already

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in tréba, with twenty- seven
years in the journey I remembered that from

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a young age they raised me with
stories of Nahuales, beings who, being

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from another world, could transform and
walk among us, but invisible to the

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eyes of those who were not willing
to see. I' ve always considered

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the Nahuales to be true beings,
even though I' ve never seen them

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before. Whenever my dad told me
about them, he made a lot of

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gestures, he would point at me
to tell me how big they were,

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and he would pop the sound of
his grunts. I was afraid to hear

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it, but I was drawing a
smile to keep him talking to me with

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such emotion that I was convinced that
he had seen them in person. My

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thoughts were over when I finally got
to the old cabin, where I'

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d stay for the weekend. It
was late January. The strongest point of

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winter. The cold air crept through
every crack whistling in a way that was

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not heard in the city. That
didn' t make me suffer. I

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was also there for the pleasure of
being alone with my memories. Soon Friday

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night came and with it the cold
increased even more. I turned on the

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fireplace that, apart from heat,
would give me some light. I was

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willing to have dinner when I clearly
heard something that happened running a few meters

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from the cabin. It was so
fast I couldn' t identify it could

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have been. The only thing I
could say was that they weren' t

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from a human. I held my
breath and tried not to make noise to

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find out what that was. After
a few minutes, it was heard again

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only that this time much closer could
be many things by instinct I secured the

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doors and windows. Up to that
point I cannot say that I was afraid

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or that I was nervous in the
forest, where animals and their sounds are

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very frequent. My reaction was a
precaution. The minutes passed and everything remained

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silent. It was the first time
I was in that cabin, at least

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I just because once, as a
child, I accompanied my dad to precisely

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that place. At that time,
I began to remember what had happened on

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that occasion. It was also winter. The first night we were there,

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we heard some noises, some kind
of roar coming and going. I don

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' t know my dad, but
I couldn' t imagine what kind of

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animal could make that sound so loud. Apparently, first it was just one.

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Then they increased. Maybe there were
three animals out there. My dad

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didn' t go out to investigate, claiming it was dangerous because the Nahuales

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were responsible. On that occasion she
explained to me differently what a gual was,

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but I was too young to understand
it. The only thing that was

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recorded to me was that they were
creatures of another world that by some strange

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force, had managed to cross ours. When they disappeared for seasons, it

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was because they returned to where they
belonged that they had that ability to come

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and go whenever they wanted. All
night we were listening as someone was lurking

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around the cabin without specifying what he
could do. Sometimes you could hear the

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sound that bears make, but in
others you could hear it so strange that

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it was impossible to identify. The
next morning we looked for prints, even

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though it had slightly snowed we found. Many were deeper than normal and much

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larger. What walked around the cabin
that night would tell me a little more

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than two meters. He' s
used to camping. My dad was familiar

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with a lot of things, with
mecates and some branches he found. He

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prepared and set up several coyotes traps
waiting for those animals. We feel a

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little calmer about that already. We
forgot that incident. Most of the day

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we spent it inside the cabin because
of the cold that was the next night,

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Like the previous one, I walked
to someone near us, although they

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never made the attempt to meterse it
was strange. I fell asleep too late,

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but my dad didn' t,
he stayed awake. The next day

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he told me that all the traps
had been activated, but that they had

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not heard howlings of coyotes, squeals
or anything like that. We went out

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early to check what kind of animal
was trapped. To our surprise, there

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was nothing, not even the traps
were. They were all gone. My

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dad looked for clues. He assured
me that the only animal that could do

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such a thing was a gual.
At that time there was not much danger,

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because he assured me that those animals
only appeared at night. Anyway,

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he knew it wasn' t very
safe to get into the deep forest.

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He told me we' d only
walk a few more minutes when we came

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back. He held me tight by
the hand. He started looking at bushes

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and asked me to remain silent.
I realized what my dad was looking at

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was a well barely covered with some
branches. He told me not to move.

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He came up to see him closely. It wasn' t very big,

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but it made me afraid. From
where I was I could sense a

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very strong and unpleasant smell. I
looked at my dad squatting to look inside,

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and suddenly he got up and looked
at the well. He turned to

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look at me I knew he'
d seen something strange. When he returned,

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he felt that there was no need
to do without investigating or withdrawing,

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he said between his teeth that the
well was the den of the Nahual with

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a stick drew signs on the ground. In doing so, he felt scared.

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Without letting go of my hand,
we started walking fast. I went

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back to see the well and I
thought I saw that there was one of

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the coyotes traps that had disappeared.
A few roars were heard when we had

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barely advanced a few meters. My
dad ran as far as he let me

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hold his hand. He repeated to
me many times not to turn back.

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We arrived at the cabin panting air. My dad was thoughtful while I sat

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on the floor to rest. I
was mired in my thoughts. When a

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loud noise made me return to reality. I left my memories and got on

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alert because now I was alone in
that cabin. I didn' t know

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for sure what kind of animals lived
in that place. Could be wolves,

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bears or any dangerous animal. However, the first thing that came to mind

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was the Nahuales that my dad was
talking about so much. I wasn'

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t a hunter. I just wanted
to be alone and forget about my problems

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for a few days, so I
wouldn' t go out to investigate.

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I settled in front of the fireplace
until I fell asleep no matter what noises

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were out already on Saturday morning I
had very much in mind what I had

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heard at night. Driven by curiosity, I decided to go out and go

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a little further into the forest I
would walk for a while looking for something

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I did not know well that perhaps
a distraction adventure or perhaps in the depths

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of my being a proof that the
stories of my childhood, those that talked

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so much about Nahuales, were not
stories, but also something deep within me.

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He asked me to look for the
nahual burrow to check if it still

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existed. As I left the cabin, I felt the tremendous cold. The

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first thing I found were a lot
of footprints, as if a pack of

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animals had passed by, but those
animals, apparently, were huge because their

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footprints were almost like that of an
average human. Despite that, I decided

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to tour the place. I would' ve walked if I were a few

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feet away. When the first signs
appeared lying beside the narrow path, several

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rabbits were dead. Close to them, I found the same prints outside the

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cabin. I walked a little longer
until I decided to come back because I

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found a much bigger animal dead.
Maybe it was the remains of a deer,

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maybe because of the cold, they
were very well preserved. I forgot

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to look for the nahual well I
can' t deny that I was already

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nervous. When I got to the
cabin, I found the door to n

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the open I looked carefully after checking
that there was no one. I went

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in to check. I thought maybe
the wind had opened it, because everything,

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apparently, was in order. I
say apparently because inside the cabin there

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was a strange smell, something that
made me check again, but I didn

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' t find anything at the time. I started to get restless because I

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remembered that that smell was himself or
very similar to the one in that well

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that my dad and I found the
first time we were in that cabin.

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The point is, I smelled a
lot of animal like a lot of dogs

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had been in for a long time. There were no wrecks or anything at

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all. When I left again I
realized something else strange. The cabin was

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marked, just as dogs do to
let them know what their territory is.

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I didn' t know much about
his customs. Animals. I couldn'

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t understand how dangerous that would be. I just threw a little water in

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it to get the strong smell off. Then I looked for some logs to

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better secure the door. In the
afternoon I threatened to snow I went out

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again to gather a little more firewood. Then I locked myself in the cabin

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and locked up as best I could. It barely got dark. I alerted

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myself because some sounds came out of
nowhere. I thought he was suggesting to

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me the air was running so hard
that it looked like wolf howls and the

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wood trolling. When it burned,
it seemed like the crackling of the branches,

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like when someone came this close.
I' ve been there for a

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while. When I made a new
coffee account, I was reminded of those

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who had interrupted. It came to
mind the image of my dad bringing things

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together to leave. I didn'
t know what he looked at in the

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well, but it was probably something
that scared him because we almost ran out

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of the cabin. I finished my
coffee and left the memories. I was

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getting ready to sleep when I heard
something heavy was loaded on the wall at

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the side of the door. Now, yes, nervous, I got up

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wondering what I could do with care, I looked out over one of the

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four windows I had at the window, afraid of what I might find something

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I was standing outside just a few
meters from the door. At first glance

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I didn' t know what it
was. There were barely perceptible shadows moving

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slowly. I walked away from the
window. I' m sure those shadows

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weren' t the product of my
imagination. I remembered that I was carrying

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00:34:45.039 --> 00:34:49.760
a lamp I took it and with
it again I stood in front of the

415
00:34:50.320 --> 00:34:54.000
window, pointed towards the forest and
lit it. That' s when I

416
00:34:54.119 --> 00:34:59.599
looked at that thing that was the
closest thing to a gual, just as

417
00:34:59.639 --> 00:35:04.800
my dad had described to me countless
times was a very tall animal, standing

418
00:35:04.920 --> 00:35:07.599
on two legs. All his fur
was black. Despite the snow that was

419
00:35:07.679 --> 00:35:13.760
falling. I was looking straight at
the cabin with intent to pounce on it.

420
00:35:14.480 --> 00:35:17.559
He threw such a terrible roar that
I could no longer see. I

421
00:35:17.559 --> 00:35:22.000
turned off the lamp and stood at
the side of the fire of the chimney

422
00:35:22.079 --> 00:35:25.760
turning around. I was looking with
my eyes. With what to defend myself,

423
00:35:27.079 --> 00:35:30.400
despite knowing that nothing would stop a
beast like the one I had just

424
00:35:30.440 --> 00:35:37.639
seen outside at the time was blocked. The next few minutes were eternal.

425
00:35:37.079 --> 00:35:43.239
There was a scary silence instead of
feeling safe, I felt trapped inside the

426
00:35:43.360 --> 00:35:49.199
cabin. It was the first time
I witnessed my death, but the minutes

427
00:35:49.239 --> 00:35:53.239
passed and passed. For my good
luck, nothing happened. About an hour

428
00:35:53.320 --> 00:35:59.559
and a half I heard that roar
again followed by something different. I trembled

429
00:35:59.639 --> 00:36:05.760
at the potability that two creatures were
after a few minutes. It was only

430
00:36:05.800 --> 00:36:09.239
heard again that this time it looked
like it was moving away. I was

431
00:36:09.280 --> 00:36:14.599
on alert. Fear and worry would
not be taken away from me that night

432
00:36:14.719 --> 00:36:19.760
with anything. Suddenly dawned on Sunday
with the image of the nahual still fresh

433
00:36:19.840 --> 00:36:23.199
in my mind, the most coherent
thing was to run away from there from

434
00:36:23.280 --> 00:36:28.880
what I had seen. I think
anyone would have, but my story doesn

435
00:36:29.119 --> 00:36:32.119
' t end there. I don' t know why I decided to stay

436
00:36:32.119 --> 00:36:36.679
total. All I had left was
that day. All morning I felt restless,

437
00:36:37.119 --> 00:36:40.800
but I also had a need to
discover the truth behind that encounter.

438
00:36:42.800 --> 00:36:46.880
Maybe deep inside me. I never
got over seeing my dad run away scared

439
00:36:46.960 --> 00:36:51.840
because of that nagual. It was
that that brought me back into the forest

440
00:36:51.880 --> 00:36:57.400
with the intention of searching until I
found the den of the Nahual. I

441
00:36:57.440 --> 00:37:00.079
didn' t even know I'
d win in case I found out.

442
00:37:00.239 --> 00:37:05.679
I think for about three hours,
when I was about to give up,

443
00:37:05.880 --> 00:37:09.760
I made the last attempt, after
a while I walked back down a path.

444
00:37:10.920 --> 00:37:15.599
There I found an old man about
seventy years old. We greeted each

445
00:37:15.639 --> 00:37:20.880
other and asked me if I was
lost. His name was Justino. He

446
00:37:20.920 --> 00:37:23.800
gave me so much confidence that I
ended up telling him everything. The lord

447
00:37:23.920 --> 00:37:29.199
only paid me much attention without being
able to hide his face in amazement.

448
00:37:29.760 --> 00:37:34.239
He assured me that he was many
years old living near there and that he

449
00:37:34.360 --> 00:37:37.800
had never seen or heard anything.
It' s still like water. Now,

450
00:37:37.840 --> 00:37:43.159
in question of the well, he
told me that if I knew where

451
00:37:43.840 --> 00:37:46.400
I was, I asked him to
take me. He hesitated a little before

452
00:37:46.400 --> 00:37:52.079
telling me he was okay. We
walked through the woods without taking any road.

453
00:37:52.679 --> 00:37:57.559
It seemed that the Lord knew that
place perfectly for more than half an

454
00:37:57.639 --> 00:38:01.639
hour. I practically walked among the
rice trees behind him because, despite being

455
00:38:01.679 --> 00:38:07.000
an old man and gnawing from one
of his legs, he could not keep

456
00:38:07.039 --> 00:38:10.760
up with him. I remembered that
the well was near the cabin and we

457
00:38:10.760 --> 00:38:16.920
were far away. Had a good
time stopped. He aimed his finger at

458
00:38:17.079 --> 00:38:22.960
some bushes. He turned to see
me and told me that there was the

459
00:38:22.960 --> 00:38:27.159
well. When I looked into his
eyes, he had a strange glow.

460
00:38:27.840 --> 00:38:32.440
I wanted to ignore him because some
of his factions had changed. I turned

461
00:38:32.519 --> 00:38:37.960
my eyes and turned to see the
well feeling a huge distrust of turning that

462
00:38:38.159 --> 00:38:44.119
old stranger' s back. Obviously, that well wasn' t the same

463
00:38:44.159 --> 00:38:49.480
one my dad and I had found
many years ago. This one was further

464
00:38:49.679 --> 00:38:54.800
and much bigger. As if inside
a huge animal were hidden in the ground,

465
00:38:55.000 --> 00:39:00.480
all around it there were many very
marked traces and from inside it came

466
00:39:00.559 --> 00:39:06.880
that unmistakable smell. The entrance was
barely covered with dry branches as if they

467
00:39:07.159 --> 00:39:10.559
were trying to hide it. Also
protected with the shadows of the trees.

468
00:39:12.159 --> 00:39:15.039
I got my dad' s memories, but I didn' t have time

469
00:39:15.039 --> 00:39:20.119
for that. I went back to
see that old man to my surprise,

470
00:39:20.559 --> 00:39:23.840
he was gone. He was gone, making no noise. I looked for

471
00:39:24.000 --> 00:39:29.480
him walking a few meters, thinking
he couldn' t have made much progress

472
00:39:29.480 --> 00:39:31.559
in his way of walking. I
yelled at him several times, but there

473
00:39:31.679 --> 00:39:36.199
was no trace of him. I
went back to the well, I looked

474
00:39:36.199 --> 00:39:40.280
up and, enduring that terrible smell, I tried to distinguish something between all

475
00:39:40.360 --> 00:39:45.960
that darkness inside. I was surprised
when, after a few seconds of trying

476
00:39:45.039 --> 00:39:49.920
to see something, I discovered two
bright spots. They were the eyes of

477
00:39:49.920 --> 00:39:53.039
a big animal. Looking at it
something inside of me, he knew it

478
00:39:53.119 --> 00:39:59.400
was the nahual In his gaze I
recognized the same radiance that had shone the

479
00:39:59.400 --> 00:40:02.280
night before. What bothered me the
most was that the same brightness was that

480
00:40:02.320 --> 00:40:07.480
of the old man who had led
me to that place. My gut told

481
00:40:07.559 --> 00:40:10.760
me I had to go out.
Running from there I remembered how the signs

482
00:40:10.760 --> 00:40:15.679
my dad had drawn and quickly took
a stick to put them. I,

483
00:40:16.440 --> 00:40:20.679
too, at that time knew I
didn' t know the way back.

484
00:40:21.239 --> 00:40:24.599
Feeling the worst, I let go
of the rod and ran through the trees

485
00:40:24.639 --> 00:40:30.039
nowhere. The case was to get
as far away as I could from there

486
00:40:30.079 --> 00:40:37.719
without stopping I looked at my clock
It was four o' clock in the

487
00:40:37.719 --> 00:40:39.480
afternoon because it was winter season.
Considering that, I soon became nervous and

488
00:40:39.559 --> 00:40:45.480
worried about not finding the way.
I' d be lost in the middle

489
00:40:45.519 --> 00:40:51.800
of the woods on that animal'
s territory. I fell into despair because

490
00:40:51.880 --> 00:40:55.159
time was running too fast. I
walked one way, then the other.

491
00:40:57.000 --> 00:41:01.519
No path led me to the cabins. Suspecting that old man' s intention

492
00:41:01.719 --> 00:41:06.920
was to take me deep into the
woods to get lost. When the sky

493
00:41:06.960 --> 00:41:12.199
threatened to darken, I was in
great distress until I stopped suddenly, because

494
00:41:12.199 --> 00:41:17.519
I felt that someone was watching me
I looked through the bushes. I turned

495
00:41:17.519 --> 00:41:22.719
to see the treetops and couldn'
t see anyone was going to keep walking

496
00:41:22.760 --> 00:41:27.280
straight ahead, but a tall black
figure moved about 20 meters from me.

497
00:41:29.920 --> 00:41:34.159
I took another course running as far
as I could. Minutes later, another

498
00:41:34.239 --> 00:41:38.760
figure like the previous one tried to
hide behind a pretty thick tree seemed to

499
00:41:38.800 --> 00:41:44.840
be surrounding me. I swerved the
way back and ran convinced it was the

500
00:41:44.920 --> 00:41:49.039
last thing my legs would ever give. After that, I' d vanish.

501
00:41:49.679 --> 00:41:53.840
I was about to suffocate when I
unbelievably looked away at the cabin.

502
00:41:54.920 --> 00:42:00.760
That got me new strength and I
ran to see myself inside. At that

503
00:42:00.840 --> 00:42:05.679
point I decided I wouldn' t
spend another night in that place. I

504
00:42:05.760 --> 00:42:09.320
was in there just what it took
me to get all the stuff together,

505
00:42:09.840 --> 00:42:15.440
no matter how soon the night would
come. It was inevitable to see me

506
00:42:15.599 --> 00:42:21.400
walking through the darkness on a path
that looked like a snake, through so

507
00:42:21.400 --> 00:42:23.199
many turns that I was going.
I knew I was short enough to get

508
00:42:23.199 --> 00:42:28.880
out of the wooded area. However, he also knew that while he was

509
00:42:29.400 --> 00:42:32.840
there he was in danger of an
attack by that animal. When I got

510
00:42:32.840 --> 00:42:37.039
out, it was past eight o' clock at night. There was a

511
00:42:37.159 --> 00:42:39.519
snack bar where I asked for help. I managed to order a taxi that

512
00:42:39.599 --> 00:42:45.199
would take 40 minutes to arrive.
Being there, I took advantage of it

513
00:42:45.239 --> 00:42:49.679
and asked the clerk if he knew
Don Justino. He was a little surprised

514
00:42:49.719 --> 00:42:53.119
then he said yes. I told
him I had spoken to him in the

515
00:42:53.119 --> 00:42:59.599
woods. He was very surprised and
told me that this gentleman had a long

516
00:42:59.599 --> 00:43:02.639
time gone. He was the sorcerer
of a nearby town who used to go

517
00:43:02.719 --> 00:43:07.559
into the woods to do his jobs. One day he came in and never

518
00:43:07.559 --> 00:43:12.199
saw him again At that time he
would be a few seventy years old.

519
00:43:12.920 --> 00:43:15.840
I insisted, claiming that I had
only a few hours spoken to him.

520
00:43:16.519 --> 00:43:22.079
He told me it couldn' t
be because Don Justino was over thirty years

521
00:43:22.079 --> 00:43:25.400
old missing. I ran out of
talk for a while. The taxi came

522
00:43:25.519 --> 00:43:30.800
for me and took me to the
bus station. I promised myself never to

523
00:43:30.880 --> 00:43:35.039
tell this story and so I did
for many years. Now I share it,

524
00:43:35.519 --> 00:43:39.119
not to reveal a mystery, but
to alert people who like to get

525
00:43:39.440 --> 00:43:45.480
into the woods like this to adventure, without having any experience. Remembering that

526
00:43:45.519 --> 00:43:52.280
moment of looking at the eyes of
the nahual still makes me nervous and although

527
00:43:52.360 --> 00:43:55.360
some may doubt the veracity of my
story, I know what I saw,

528
00:43:55.960 --> 00:44:00.239
what I felt and what I learned
from that time when I could see the

529
00:44:00.280 --> 00:44:06.639
animal walking between two worlds. I' ve never been back there. I

530
00:44:06.760 --> 00:44:10.639
' ll never do that well.
La Madriguera del Nahual, as well as

531
00:44:10.719 --> 00:44:15.800
Don Justino, are located within a
wooded area of the State of San Luis

532
00:44:15.800 --> 00:44:29.840
Potosí, the Nahual del Monte my
name is Ramón and I have always been

533
00:44:29.880 --> 00:44:35.320
a country man, accustomed to night
noises, to the whistle of the wind

534
00:44:35.320 --> 00:44:37.840
between the trees, to the wild
animals that travel. The darkness. It

535
00:44:37.920 --> 00:44:42.280
' s still part of my life. That' s where my story comes

536
00:44:42.280 --> 00:44:47.039
from. At that time he was
only eighteen years old. I was tall

537
00:44:47.079 --> 00:44:52.320
and strong, but I was always
very lonely. I had very few friends

538
00:44:52.320 --> 00:44:55.679
and no siblings, only one sister, but three years younger than me.

539
00:44:57.280 --> 00:45:00.880
That' s why we didn'
t have much communication apart. He was

540
00:45:00.920 --> 00:45:05.480
very unbelieving, even though it was
very common in the villages to talk a

541
00:45:05.519 --> 00:45:09.679
lot about witches and Nahuales with nothing
convinced me of their existence. For the

542
00:45:09.760 --> 00:45:15.599
same reason, I was not afraid
to walk alone in the mountain. One

543
00:45:15.679 --> 00:45:20.920
night I came back from visiting my
grandmother in a nearby village. I visited

544
00:45:21.079 --> 00:45:24.079
her once a month and that week
it was my turn to go. My

545
00:45:24.119 --> 00:45:30.840
grandmother was an eighty- year-
old woman who knew many things, including

546
00:45:30.920 --> 00:45:35.679
things related to witchcraft. I'
m not saying she was a witch,

547
00:45:35.920 --> 00:45:39.559
although in her village that was said. His house was strange. Inside there

548
00:45:39.639 --> 00:45:45.480
were many things that were not common. He had a lot of horrible dolls

549
00:45:46.039 --> 00:45:52.159
in a showcase saying in the village
that he kept his black jobs on every

550
00:45:52.159 --> 00:45:54.440
doll. It bothered me that they
talked about my grandmother, but I didn

551
00:45:54.559 --> 00:45:59.000
' t care so much about her. It was her custom that all the

552
00:45:59.039 --> 00:46:02.800
time she talked to him, she
kept telling me about witches and witches.

553
00:46:05.199 --> 00:46:09.440
These sorcerers, as I was told, were so wise and powerful that they

554
00:46:09.480 --> 00:46:15.800
could be transformed at pleasure into any
animal they wished for, no matter the

555
00:46:15.800 --> 00:46:20.320
size. But it wasn' t
all stories. He assured me that those

556
00:46:20.320 --> 00:46:24.079
sorcerers, or at least one of
them lived on the mountain between his people

557
00:46:24.159 --> 00:46:31.159
and mine, sometimes turned into a
pig into a donkey and many others mostly

558
00:46:31.239 --> 00:46:37.119
transformed into a huge coyote who used
to steal it when the nights were darker

559
00:46:37.159 --> 00:46:43.199
to return to my house. He
took that desolate old road where no one

560
00:46:43.199 --> 00:46:49.079
walked, because, according to the
people of the village, he was cursed

561
00:46:49.159 --> 00:46:53.599
with shadows and strange animals that chased
people. My grandmother assured me that these

562
00:46:53.639 --> 00:46:59.760
animals were the Nahual witches. I
must make it clear that I' ve

563
00:46:59.760 --> 00:47:04.199
never seen anything before. My grandmother
knew that every time I visited her I

564
00:47:04.239 --> 00:47:07.719
would come back around, because it
was the shortest way. He didn'

565
00:47:07.760 --> 00:47:13.400
t get tired of asking me not
to walk around that place because it was

566
00:47:14.039 --> 00:47:16.719
nagual sorcerer' s territory, but
I was stubborn that night. When I

567
00:47:16.800 --> 00:47:21.519
said goodbye to her, she told
me to go wherever I wanted. He

568
00:47:21.599 --> 00:47:25.079
didn' t want me to meet
some sorcerer, but in case I did,

569
00:47:25.440 --> 00:47:31.559
he recommended that I not look him
in the eye directly, because he

570
00:47:31.559 --> 00:47:37.559
was terribly dangerous. I could consider
it a challenge or an offense and attack

571
00:47:37.599 --> 00:47:42.679
me to take me to the underworld
very confident of me, I asked her

572
00:47:42.679 --> 00:47:47.039
not to worry my grandmother, showing
a smile of concern, because I knew

573
00:47:47.320 --> 00:47:51.559
I would not listen to her something
sought among her things as protection. He

574
00:47:51.599 --> 00:47:57.199
gave me a strange amulet. I
would only have to show it to the

575
00:47:57.239 --> 00:48:00.400
nahual in whatever form it was,
and he would leave me alone the truth

576
00:48:00.400 --> 00:48:02.199
and I didn' t believe him. Anyway, out of respect, I

577
00:48:02.559 --> 00:48:07.000
kept it in my shirt bag.
There was nothing to worry about. I

578
00:48:07.079 --> 00:48:12.360
hadn' t been walking to my
house for more than an hour, where

579
00:48:12.480 --> 00:48:15.840
I still lived with my parents.
Besides, it wasn' t even that

580
00:48:15.320 --> 00:48:20.400
late, if it was after nine
o' clock at night when I went

581
00:48:20.400 --> 00:48:22.840
to the Mount. For the first
time I felt something strange. I turned

582
00:48:22.840 --> 00:48:27.880
around to see if my grandmother came
after me, because that' s what

583
00:48:27.880 --> 00:48:30.920
I felt, but I was alone. He wasn' t carrying a lamp.

584
00:48:30.400 --> 00:48:36.719
I was used to walking under the
moonlight. But that night the moon

585
00:48:36.800 --> 00:48:43.320
was hiding behind thick clouds announcing rains. Not even the few remaining stars offered

586
00:48:43.519 --> 00:48:46.480
some light, making the shadows of
the trees, which could hardly be distinguished,

587
00:48:46.960 --> 00:48:52.000
lost in the darkness or sometimes when
they moved in the air, seem

588
00:48:52.079 --> 00:48:58.679
as if they were coming to life. The atmosphere was filled with a smell

589
00:48:58.719 --> 00:49:02.159
of wet soil and I and go
lowered the temperature a little. I walked

590
00:49:02.239 --> 00:49:07.159
carefree for 15 minutes. That'
s when I heard something behind me were

591
00:49:07.199 --> 00:49:12.920
not steps, but a gentle drag, like the rubbing of something against the

592
00:49:12.920 --> 00:49:17.000
earth. At first I thought it
might be a wounded animal trying to take

593
00:49:17.039 --> 00:49:22.880
refuge from the approaching storm, but
something in the environment made me think of

594
00:49:22.880 --> 00:49:27.280
my grandmother' s stories, of
her warnings not to walk alone on that

595
00:49:27.360 --> 00:49:31.840
road where the Nahuales lived those sorcerers
who took the form of animals to make

596
00:49:31.880 --> 00:49:37.000
their misdeeds. My reaction was to
stop me for a moment. I don

597
00:49:37.079 --> 00:49:40.239
' t feel sorry to say it. I persected myself because I had a

598
00:49:40.239 --> 00:49:45.960
bad feeling. I know that anyone
who was in my situation would react in

599
00:49:45.039 --> 00:49:50.760
a similar way, whether he was
a believer or not, without being sure

600
00:49:50.800 --> 00:49:53.599
what he was going to do.
I turned slowly hoping to see a horrible

601
00:49:53.599 --> 00:49:59.280
thing. Maybe a huge animal with
a big snout full of big, pointy

602
00:49:59.320 --> 00:50:05.840
teeth, but to my surprise,
there was nothing. Although he was accustomed

603
00:50:05.880 --> 00:50:10.119
to walking in the dark through the
cloudy sky he could not distinguish well more

604
00:50:10.159 --> 00:50:15.800
than ten or twelve meters. Only
with my gaze did I search through the

605
00:50:15.840 --> 00:50:19.920
mountain and there was nothing, no
footprints or signs of any animal. The

606
00:50:20.039 --> 00:50:24.239
first lightnings appeared every time they did
so, lighting the whole mountain in a

607
00:50:24.320 --> 00:50:31.199
sinister way. The same bushes seemed
to transform into grotesque figures, small and

608
00:50:31.280 --> 00:50:36.400
large, dancing from one side to
the other. Another thing that seemed incredible

609
00:50:36.480 --> 00:50:40.559
to me, and for the same
reason, filled me with concern was to

610
00:50:40.679 --> 00:50:46.480
hear that all the crickets kept silent
at the same time as if they had

611
00:50:46.519 --> 00:50:52.360
agreed throughout Mount Di. The half
way around was just going to keep walking

612
00:50:52.440 --> 00:50:57.760
when that drag was heard again,
only this time the sound was something much

613
00:50:57.840 --> 00:51:02.719
heavier. I turned and walked back, looked again for the origin of that

614
00:51:02.800 --> 00:51:07.960
sound. I don' t know
if it' s right to say it

615
00:51:08.039 --> 00:51:10.679
that way, but the only thing
I could hear was him quiet. I

616
00:51:10.719 --> 00:51:15.079
screamed up to three times who was
there, but I didn' t get

617
00:51:15.079 --> 00:51:21.119
an answer. I felt the road
would get too long. My intention at

618
00:51:21.159 --> 00:51:24.239
the time was to run as fast
as I could. I didn' t

619
00:51:24.599 --> 00:51:30.519
because I didn' t want to
panic, but I did push the step

620
00:51:30.559 --> 00:51:34.159
if I was even halfway there.
When it started to rain with the rain

621
00:51:34.239 --> 00:51:39.280
and the wind that was also starting
to untie, it made me feel something

622
00:51:39.320 --> 00:51:43.760
like a strange chill that I had
never felt before. The wind began to

623
00:51:43.840 --> 00:51:47.440
move the bushes as if it wanted
to tear them off, and the sound

624
00:51:47.679 --> 00:51:52.760
of thunder warned me that I was
in trouble that road had gone through infinity.

625
00:51:52.800 --> 00:51:58.039
Sometimes even so, because of the
darkness and the rain that was falling

626
00:51:58.159 --> 00:52:05.199
on my eyes, they caused me
to lose sight of him without stopping I

627
00:52:05.199 --> 00:52:08.880
began to walk around dodging the bushes. At first I would jump the puddles

628
00:52:08.920 --> 00:52:15.920
until it became impossible because everything became
a lagoon. I stopped because I was

629
00:52:15.039 --> 00:52:20.800
lost in the middle of the night
and its darkness had never been scary,

630
00:52:21.360 --> 00:52:25.480
but by then the nerves would not
let me think clearly what I could do

631
00:52:25.599 --> 00:52:30.679
to get out soon. From there
it was not necessary to see the clock

632
00:52:30.719 --> 00:52:34.519
I knew that it had already been
more than an hour for it to come

633
00:52:35.119 --> 00:52:39.800
to my house, but the only
thing that looked around me was the mountain

634
00:52:40.280 --> 00:52:45.840
full of shrubs and one that another
large tree submerged in complete darkness, I

635
00:52:45.880 --> 00:52:50.159
sensed that it was far away from
home. Despite the sound of the rain,

636
00:52:50.360 --> 00:52:53.320
something more could be heard in the
distance. It was a lament,

637
00:52:53.880 --> 00:52:59.840
a strange cry that was not of
help or pain. I couldn' t

638
00:53:00.119 --> 00:53:04.000
even say it belonged to a human. To this day, without fear of

639
00:53:04.079 --> 00:53:08.039
being wrong, I can say that
this alarm has been the worst, the

640
00:53:08.119 --> 00:53:13.320
most dreadful thing I have ever heard. Hearing it would put my chinita skin

641
00:53:13.320 --> 00:53:16.199
on. I tried to calm down
thinking that everything would have an explanation.

642
00:53:16.760 --> 00:53:22.079
He was telling me nothing was going
on. Besides, I wasn' t

643
00:53:22.360 --> 00:53:27.920
gonna get lost in the bush forever. After the rain, I' d

644
00:53:27.960 --> 00:53:31.360
surely find the way. I stopped
running and began to look at the place

645
00:53:31.639 --> 00:53:36.480
I had traveled so many times.
I realized I' d never paid any

646
00:53:36.519 --> 00:53:39.880
attention to him. I was going
through inertia, without recording the route,

647
00:53:40.079 --> 00:53:45.239
how many big trees there were or
things like that, I walked pointless.

648
00:53:45.360 --> 00:53:50.519
A little more. I would turn
to see the sky to see if it

649
00:53:50.719 --> 00:53:52.719
would clear, but it was all
clouds. I did not expect that with

650
00:53:52.719 --> 00:53:59.440
the glow of a long lightning,
I would look at the figure of a

651
00:53:59.480 --> 00:54:02.800
creature about twenty months from me.
Just seeing that figure iced me. The

652
00:54:02.880 --> 00:54:08.119
blood was bigger than a man.
It had the twisted and similar shape of

653
00:54:08.159 --> 00:54:15.920
a coyote, but strangely raised on
its two hind legs. His fur was

654
00:54:15.960 --> 00:54:21.440
a dark set of shadows. His
eyes shone so brightly that they seemed to

655
00:54:21.599 --> 00:54:24.920
pierce the darkness. I stared at
him for a few seconds to make sure

656
00:54:24.960 --> 00:54:30.199
he didn' t imagine it,
but he wasn' t standing there in

657
00:54:30.199 --> 00:54:32.239
front of me. I can'
t deny that I felt a tremendous scare.

658
00:54:32.719 --> 00:54:37.639
When the lightning came to an end, the darkness returned, leaving in

659
00:54:37.760 --> 00:54:43.199
the distance only the brightness of his
eyes. Then there was a noise so

660
00:54:43.239 --> 00:54:46.960
loud that it made me move again
without a fixed course. Scraping my clothes

661
00:54:47.039 --> 00:54:52.760
for so many thorns I had despaired, I increased my pace because my own

662
00:54:52.800 --> 00:54:59.119
fear assured me that that creature was
running after me. I could hear her

663
00:54:59.199 --> 00:55:05.719
huge strides. His breathing was getting
closer and closer. I ran feeling reached

664
00:55:05.800 --> 00:55:10.039
as the sound of his follow-
up became more intense, my heart speeded

665
00:55:10.039 --> 00:55:16.000
up. My mind turned remembering every
story, every warning from Grandma about not

666
00:55:16.039 --> 00:55:22.079
looking into the eyes of such creatures, because they could steal my soul or

667
00:55:22.159 --> 00:55:27.719
take me with her to her dark
world. As I ran in despair,

668
00:55:28.559 --> 00:55:32.400
I listened to a big, heavy
animal like me. He hit the water

669
00:55:32.480 --> 00:55:37.639
hard. I remembered bringing the amulet
my grandmother had given me. I slowed

670
00:55:37.719 --> 00:55:45.039
down determinedly to face whatever that was
after me. I stopped I pulled out

671
00:55:45.039 --> 00:55:47.960
the amulet. I turned quickly so
that that petticoat would stand with him and

672
00:55:49.039 --> 00:55:52.880
stop harassing me. But in doing
so there was no one behind me.

673
00:55:53.480 --> 00:56:00.199
That, far from being carefree,
filled me with more fear because it might

674
00:55:59.760 --> 00:56:05.159
be that the one who was chasing
me was invisible and what I could do

675
00:56:05.159 --> 00:56:08.000
against something like that. The downpour
intensified and the gusts of the wind pushed

676
00:56:08.039 --> 00:56:13.719
me where I did not want to
go or sometimes prevented me from advancing.

677
00:56:14.440 --> 00:56:17.199
I was trying to keep my eyes
open, even though with the wind so

678
00:56:17.199 --> 00:56:22.599
strong, the rain looked like pins
that fit into my skin. When turning

679
00:56:22.599 --> 00:56:28.559
towards some trunks that were about fifteen
meters away, a figure different from the

680
00:56:28.599 --> 00:56:32.920
previous one rose on two legs.
This one looked like a huge pig that

681
00:56:34.079 --> 00:56:37.880
made a pretty serious and terrifying noise. I didn' t know where to

682
00:56:37.880 --> 00:56:42.320
run anymore. For the first time
I believed in all the stories that were

683
00:56:42.400 --> 00:56:47.920
told about that place. I often
regretted being so stubborn and ignoring my grandmother

684
00:56:47.960 --> 00:56:52.159
' s warnings, but what I
could do now. I was already lost

685
00:56:52.199 --> 00:56:57.960
in that cursed place, where every
minute I passed, the hopes of getting

686
00:56:58.079 --> 00:57:01.639
out of that huge sonic pig were
shortened. He stood on all fours warning

687
00:57:01.679 --> 00:57:06.480
that he was going to attack.
Suddenly he ran hard at me for a

688
00:57:06.599 --> 00:57:10.960
moment. I wanted to run,
but I was stuck in the same place

689
00:57:12.039 --> 00:57:15.719
without being able to move, even
if I wanted to in the next few

690
00:57:15.719 --> 00:57:21.320
seconds. I imagined a thousand horrible
things. I saw myself being bullied and

691
00:57:21.639 --> 00:57:25.920
then devoured by that huge beast.
Before that monstrous animal lashed at me,

692
00:57:27.320 --> 00:57:30.519
I closed my eyes and covered myself
with my hands waiting for the impact,

693
00:57:31.239 --> 00:57:37.000
but strangely nothing happened. I just
felt a gust of air that passed over

694
00:57:37.000 --> 00:57:42.760
me. I opened my eyes to
my surprise. There was no animal.

695
00:57:43.199 --> 00:57:46.559
It doesn' t look like a
joke anywhere, but I touched my body

696
00:57:46.599 --> 00:57:51.519
to make sure I was still alive. I didn' t know where he

697
00:57:51.599 --> 00:57:54.920
could hide such a thing as there
was nothing. I thought I imagined it,

698
00:57:55.519 --> 00:58:00.440
but everything had been so real.
I didn' t know if I

699
00:58:00.480 --> 00:58:04.159
was sweating or I was still running
out of rainwater. Besides, I felt

700
00:58:04.199 --> 00:58:09.079
my head very hot, I swallowed
saliva and breathed deep if I was ever

701
00:58:09.119 --> 00:58:14.199
going to believe in anything. That
was the time. For the first time

702
00:58:14.239 --> 00:58:17.719
I asked God to be with me, to help me get rid of everything

703
00:58:17.760 --> 00:58:22.679
that was happening to me. Whether
it' s true or not. I

704
00:58:22.719 --> 00:58:28.000
already felt tired of running. Perhaps
my strength failed, but in an oversight

705
00:58:28.079 --> 00:58:31.880
I stumbled upon some root and fell
into the water. I didn' t

706
00:58:31.920 --> 00:58:37.920
get up right away because I heard
someone or something coming up scared to death.

707
00:58:37.199 --> 00:58:43.239
I cornered as much as I could
into a bush. I heard loud,

708
00:58:43.280 --> 00:58:47.320
strange, gruntlike steps of a cat
I knew he was looking for me

709
00:58:47.480 --> 00:58:53.320
because I smelled insistently, but I
never managed to look at anyone near me.

710
00:58:54.119 --> 00:59:00.440
I was convinced they were hallucinations.
I couldn' t find another logical

711
00:59:00.440 --> 00:59:07.559
explanation. The minutes passed slowly.
Then I slowly straightened out because I couldn

712
00:59:07.639 --> 00:59:12.440
' t stay in the water for
long either. I turned around everywhere.

713
00:59:12.519 --> 00:59:17.519
When I was sure there was no
creature, I got up and kept on

714
00:59:17.599 --> 00:59:22.519
walking in the hope of finding again
the way back, because I could no

715
00:59:22.599 --> 00:59:28.039
longer. With a lot of walking
in a straight line. I would do

716
00:59:28.159 --> 00:59:32.480
it until I got out of the
mountain and wouldn' t stop to look

717
00:59:32.559 --> 00:59:37.519
at what I looked at, but
I walked for a long time in the

718
00:59:37.719 --> 00:59:43.639
cold rain without getting anywhere with that
feeling that someone was punishing me for not

719
00:59:43.639 --> 00:59:45.400
believing in those mystery things. After
a while. The rain finally stopped.

720
00:59:46.480 --> 00:59:51.800
I can' t deny it was
a relief, but after that I heard

721
00:59:51.880 --> 00:59:55.760
someone screaming in the distance paying attention
to him. They looked like they were

722
00:59:55.760 --> 01:00:00.960
shouting my name. I felt a
hope because I thought he' d come

723
01:00:00.960 --> 01:00:05.719
looking for me, maybe my dad. I walked where that scream came from.

724
01:00:06.159 --> 01:00:09.760
The minutes passed and the sound never
made it. It went further and

725
01:00:09.880 --> 01:00:15.239
further and further. That filled me
with concern. It was so much my

726
01:00:15.360 --> 01:00:20.599
desperation to know who was calling me
that I was running back into the thick

727
01:00:20.599 --> 01:00:23.840
Monte. I wanted to stop,
but as I kept hearing them say my

728
01:00:24.280 --> 01:00:30.119
name, I also started screaming so
they could locate me. Minutes later,

729
01:00:30.400 --> 01:00:35.440
far away, I could distinguish a
shadow that walked in great steps. I

730
01:00:35.480 --> 01:00:40.039
ran to her, but as I
approached her, that shadow was becoming distorted,

731
01:00:40.440 --> 01:00:44.760
she was tall and thin. In
fact, it was growing more and

732
01:00:44.760 --> 01:00:47.239
more. With the last scream I
gave he stopped walking and turned to see

733
01:00:47.239 --> 01:00:52.880
me. At the time I knew
he wasn' t my dad or anyone

734
01:00:52.920 --> 01:00:57.280
I knew didn' t even look
like a person. For a few distressing

735
01:00:57.320 --> 01:01:00.719
seconds we look at each other.
My reaction was to run to the opposite

736
01:01:00.840 --> 01:01:07.039
side, because the shadow became a
grotesque figure with large legs and long hands

737
01:01:07.199 --> 01:01:14.119
that moved for both sides. As
he ran, he listened to his grunts

738
01:01:14.800 --> 01:01:17.800
that seemed to reach me he heard
strange and disturbing sounds. It looked like

739
01:01:17.960 --> 01:01:22.559
he was throwing bites. I felt
my arms scratched, but they could also

740
01:01:22.719 --> 01:01:29.920
be the thorns of the bushes.
I ran as hard as I could.

741
01:01:30.239 --> 01:01:34.079
I don' t know how long. It seemed strange to me that such

742
01:01:34.159 --> 01:01:37.840
a large animal, with those long
legs, could not reach me. Maybe

743
01:01:37.159 --> 01:01:40.679
I didn' t want to do
it without stopping. I turned around and

744
01:01:40.760 --> 01:01:45.719
no one came after me. I
stopped surprised. Then I put my hands

745
01:01:45.760 --> 01:01:52.840
on my knees and pulled air I
wished with all my might that it was

746
01:01:52.119 --> 01:01:55.960
dawn, but everything was still so
dark. Again. I felt someone approaching

747
01:01:57.000 --> 01:02:01.280
maybe it was that sorcerer transformed into
the wind, because it was the only

748
01:02:01.400 --> 01:02:06.960
thing I could feel. I took
courage and asked him what he wanted from

749
01:02:06.960 --> 01:02:10.599
me. No one answered me with
a loud voice. I asked him to

750
01:02:10.679 --> 01:02:16.239
leave me alone. I also faced
the mountain because it could be a tree.

751
01:02:16.679 --> 01:02:20.519
I didn' t know what to
think anymore. I don' t

752
01:02:20.519 --> 01:02:24.119
know why, but my grandmother'
s essence suddenly came to me out of

753
01:02:24.800 --> 01:02:30.719
nowhere as if her scent or her
memory had come to me through the air

754
01:02:30.800 --> 01:02:35.039
until I thought that maybe it was
she who was looking for me in the

755
01:02:35.039 --> 01:02:37.480
bush. I didn' t know
how, but I took a road that

756
01:02:37.559 --> 01:02:42.000
led me to the shores of my
town. I finally arrived at my house,

757
01:02:42.840 --> 01:02:45.880
closed the door tightly, and charged
myself against her. I stayed there

758
01:02:46.039 --> 01:02:52.679
for a few seconds wondering if what
I had seen was real or just the

759
01:02:52.760 --> 01:02:58.039
product of my imagination caused by fear
or by the legends my grandmother told me.

760
01:03:00.159 --> 01:03:04.039
The clock It had only been two
hours since I left my grandmother'

761
01:03:04.079 --> 01:03:08.199
s house, I could assure you
that I was lost on the mountain for

762
01:03:08.880 --> 01:03:12.599
an eternity in my house and had
not noticed that I had not arrived.

763
01:03:13.280 --> 01:03:16.239
Then I realized that no one was
looking for me in the bush. Surely

764
01:03:16.599 --> 01:03:22.719
it was that sorcerer who made me
believe that to confuse me. From that

765
01:03:22.760 --> 01:03:25.719
experience, I believed in God,
in witches and witches and, above all,

766
01:03:27.119 --> 01:03:30.559
in the Nahuales that I never went
through that stretch of the mountain again.

767
01:03:31.400 --> 01:03:36.679
I told the people of the village
myself that this place was haunted.

768
01:03:37.320 --> 01:03:40.639
The next month that I had to
visit my grandmother, I went down the

769
01:03:40.679 --> 01:03:45.480
road that all the people used I
didn' t know whether to tell her

770
01:03:45.519 --> 01:03:49.760
or not everything I had lived that
night. Nothing more. When I greeted

771
01:03:50.039 --> 01:03:53.199
her, I realized that I already
knew what had happened to me, even

772
01:03:53.239 --> 01:03:59.599
though I had not told anyone.
He also asked me never to get rid

773
01:03:59.639 --> 01:04:03.800
of the crutch he had given me, because it was safe protection. I

774
01:04:03.920 --> 01:04:09.679
asked him why if he' d
been there so many times, I'

775
01:04:09.800 --> 01:04:14.440
d never seen anything. He replied
that the Nahual was waiting for an opportunity

776
01:04:14.480 --> 01:04:26.159
and had found it that night.
To my luck, the creature wore the

777
01:04:26.239 --> 01:04:32.400
amulet. My name is Rodrigo.
In nineteen hundred and eighty- five he

778
01:04:32.480 --> 01:04:38.400
was a young veterinarian, newly graduated, full of dreams eager to progress.

779
01:04:39.119 --> 01:04:43.840
I chose to offer my services in
a peasant community, very close to my

780
01:04:43.840 --> 01:04:48.440
city, in the State of Mexico, believing that there my help would be

781
01:04:48.639 --> 01:04:53.440
more valuable and I would get a
lot of experience. The community was welcoming,

782
01:04:53.800 --> 01:04:58.199
simple people, but with a big
heart. Since my arrival I noticed

783
01:04:58.199 --> 01:05:02.000
certain things that seemed strange to me. In every house. There were amulets

784
01:05:02.079 --> 01:05:08.639
hanging from the windows and white crosses
painted on the doors as if they wanted

785
01:05:08.760 --> 01:05:14.239
to protect themselves from a malignant or
paranormal presence. I talked to some locals

786
01:05:14.320 --> 01:05:18.639
without asking anything about it. I
calmed down because people didn' t show

787
01:05:18.639 --> 01:05:24.880
fear. On the contrary, they
were very kind, showing me that they

788
01:05:24.880 --> 01:05:27.559
thanked me that I was going to
take care of their animals. The place

789
01:05:27.679 --> 01:05:32.239
where I would stay was very close
to the main road, a pretty quiet

790
01:05:32.239 --> 01:05:36.880
place. If during the day few
people transited. As evening fell, everything

791
01:05:38.159 --> 01:05:43.440
remained silent. I already knew that, as a rural community, people withdrew

792
01:05:43.440 --> 01:05:49.599
early. The first night I spent
there I was enjoying the peace of mind

793
01:05:49.639 --> 01:05:55.039
by having coffee, maybe it would
be around ten. When I realized that

794
01:05:55.280 --> 01:06:00.320
outside there were some noises that I
couldn' t identify. It seemed like

795
01:06:00.360 --> 01:06:06.039
someone was lurking around the house.
The first reaction I had was to go

796
01:06:06.119 --> 01:06:12.039
out and find out, but something
like an instinct stopped me from going outside.

797
01:06:12.239 --> 01:06:16.199
Maybe he wanted me to know he
was there, because the noises were

798
01:06:16.199 --> 01:06:21.719
very obvious. The minutes passed and
I knew that what was out there was

799
01:06:23.000 --> 01:06:29.000
a big animal. The rest of
the night I spent the rest of the

800
01:06:29.400 --> 01:06:33.519
night restless by the slope of not
knowing for certain what could happen at dawn

801
01:06:33.559 --> 01:06:38.519
Before I left to do my first
job, I searched the earth for traces.

802
01:06:39.199 --> 01:06:43.880
The only ones I found apparently were
canines. I say it like that,

803
01:06:44.559 --> 01:06:47.599
because they were much bigger than normal, almost like a human foot.

804
01:06:48.519 --> 01:06:54.880
The first thing I thought was that
they were trying to make a joke on

805
01:06:55.000 --> 01:06:59.119
me, because I didn' t
know an animal that left footprints like those

806
01:06:59.119 --> 01:07:01.400
strange ones. I followed the time
for a few meters, but it was

807
01:07:01.519 --> 01:07:05.519
lost in the bush. That day
I visited four ranches. In the first

808
01:07:05.639 --> 01:07:12.519
three, everything happened normally. I
applied some vaccines and healed other animals,

809
01:07:12.920 --> 01:07:17.639
but in the last one I looked
at something that surprised me. I found

810
01:07:17.679 --> 01:07:23.400
traces of an animal apparently from a
goat. The only thing that could be

811
01:07:23.480 --> 01:07:29.480
clearly identified was one of the legs
tied with a chain, while the rest

812
01:07:29.559 --> 01:07:35.039
of the body was visibly devoured.
What surprised me was when I searched the

813
01:07:35.119 --> 01:07:42.840
land and found footprints very similar to
those around my house. I asked some

814
01:07:42.880 --> 01:07:46.079
of the people that had happened to
the animal, but they all evasively answered

815
01:07:46.199 --> 01:07:51.840
me until I left things like this, I understood that none of them would

816
01:07:51.840 --> 01:07:57.159
talk about what happened. At the
end of the day I retired thoughtfully from

817
01:07:57.199 --> 01:08:00.480
what I had seen. Most likely
I' ve been suffering from attacks from

818
01:08:00.639 --> 01:08:06.719
some pack of coyotes or hungry dogs. I had learned in school that that

819
01:08:06.840 --> 01:08:15.760
could happen in some regions. I
also knew how to set up traps to

820
01:08:15.800 --> 01:08:19.319
hunt them already at night, while
sharing dinner with one of the families I

821
01:08:19.359 --> 01:08:24.800
told them what happened. First they
got the misunderstandings. Later, the Nahuales

822
01:08:24.880 --> 01:08:30.359
theme arose almost immediately, despite having
ever heard anything about it. I didn

823
01:08:30.439 --> 01:08:34.399
' t believe in those things,
but out of respect, I wasn'

824
01:08:34.399 --> 01:08:38.520
t going to let you know.
The Nahuales as they explained to me that

825
01:08:38.800 --> 01:08:45.479
night, those people were not the
classic evil beings able to transform themselves into

826
01:08:45.520 --> 01:08:47.880
hungry animals, not at least those
who lived in that region. He,

827
01:08:47.960 --> 01:08:54.720
like the normal Nahuales, were guardians
of nature. But also, according to

828
01:08:54.800 --> 01:09:00.199
their beliefs, bearers of omens and
protectors of the region. He explains many

829
01:09:00.239 --> 01:09:05.119
more things to me, including that
the nahual was part of them. I

830
01:09:05.159 --> 01:09:11.319
must admit, I didn' t
really believe it, because in my town

831
01:09:11.399 --> 01:09:14.439
there wasn' t much talk about
things like that. As if I'

832
01:09:14.520 --> 01:09:19.000
d been interested in the subject,
I told them that I thought those beings

833
01:09:19.039 --> 01:09:24.319
were out of hell. Therefore,
they were dangerous. The grandfather of the

834
01:09:24.359 --> 01:09:30.359
family explained to me that if there
were other types of Nahuales as terrible as

835
01:09:30.760 --> 01:09:35.720
evil, the black Nahuales, these
beings were robbers, able to steal animals

836
01:09:35.760 --> 01:09:41.640
and attack people, but who inhabited
other lands. It was very rare for

837
01:09:41.760 --> 01:09:45.720
any of those creatures to approach,
because the smell of the protective nahual was

838
01:09:45.800 --> 01:09:53.760
a threat to them. He told
me interesting stories, but incredible creatures,

839
01:09:54.319 --> 01:10:00.279
fighting among themselves for some territory,
animals that disappeared regardless of their size and

840
01:10:00.319 --> 01:10:04.159
attacks on people. When night fell, he asked me in a warning tone

841
01:10:04.880 --> 01:10:09.319
if I had already protected my house
with the lime cross, which I told

842
01:10:09.399 --> 01:10:15.840
him not yet, but that at
the first opportunity I would. The old

843
01:10:15.079 --> 01:10:20.039
man looked at me in a way
that made me uncomfortable, intrigued and I

844
01:10:20.199 --> 01:10:25.520
must admit a little interested. I
began to investigate more about these beings with

845
01:10:25.560 --> 01:10:29.520
the people where I was going to
check their animals. Although they didn’

846
01:10:29.880 --> 01:10:32.439
t talk much about it, they
all had a version that was attached to

847
01:10:32.520 --> 01:10:36.640
what that old man had told me. Analyzing things, people felt protected not

848
01:10:36.640 --> 01:10:42.800
by an animal, but rather by
a person who transformed himself at night and

849
01:10:42.880 --> 01:10:50.319
thus became a kind of being very
different from anything known. He went all

850
01:10:50.439 --> 01:10:57.119
over the country looking after all the
inhabitants. My days passed between the care

851
01:10:57.239 --> 01:11:02.319
of animals, conversations with places years
about their beliefs and traditions. But it

852
01:11:02.439 --> 01:11:08.640
was one night, when I returned
from a veterinary emergency on a distant farm,

853
01:11:08.800 --> 01:11:14.039
when my horror story actually began.
That time I was late checking some

854
01:11:14.199 --> 01:11:18.479
horses. For the same reason,
the way back was already dark illuminated.

855
01:11:18.760 --> 01:11:24.399
Only by the dim light of the
moon following a sidewalk. I walked without

856
01:11:24.399 --> 01:11:29.640
fear. That' s when I
first saw him as a silhouette that looked

857
01:11:29.680 --> 01:11:34.520
like a human and an animal.
Moving with a supernatural agility, I watched

858
01:11:34.560 --> 01:11:40.399
him pass across the road about eight
meters. He never even saw me again.

859
01:11:40.800 --> 01:11:45.159
Even so, my heart accelerated and
although my mind sought a logical explanation,

860
01:11:45.720 --> 01:11:49.159
my body reacted with a chill.
The figure didn' t stop.

861
01:11:49.399 --> 01:11:54.880
I followed him until he got lost
in the dark. For a moment I

862
01:11:54.880 --> 01:11:59.279
came to suppose that I had imagined
it, suggested by everything I had been

863
01:11:59.279 --> 01:12:03.199
told. I kept moving. When
I was in the place where I saw

864
01:12:03.279 --> 01:12:09.439
that creature pass I reached to see
that some eyes shone, something undefined.

865
01:12:10.119 --> 01:12:15.760
I was there in the middle of
the shadows, maybe waiting for me more

866
01:12:15.800 --> 01:12:19.199
than anything else was an appearance.
It was not entirely human, it was

867
01:12:19.199 --> 01:12:25.119
tall and, apparently thin, it
breathed very hard and fast. Just like

868
01:12:25.159 --> 01:12:29.760
he showed up. It faded into
the dark, although it took me a

869
01:12:29.800 --> 01:12:32.640
little while to react, I ran
as far as I could. When I

870
01:12:32.680 --> 01:12:36.319
arrived at my home, I noticed
that someone had already painted a rather large

871
01:12:36.720 --> 01:12:42.239
white cross at the door. When
I saw her, I felt protected.

872
01:12:42.640 --> 01:12:45.640
I walked in and locked the door
inside. I can' t explain the

873
01:12:45.760 --> 01:12:50.159
fear I had at the time,
although nothing unusual was heard. Perhaps from

874
01:12:50.279 --> 01:12:55.479
what I had seen, my nerves
betrayed me and it appeared to me that,

875
01:12:55.920 --> 01:13:00.479
suddenly that which had crossed the road
in the middle of the mountain would

876
01:13:00.560 --> 01:13:04.760
enter in a violent way to attack
me. Nothing happened. The next day

877
01:13:05.039 --> 01:13:11.880
I shared my experience with some workers
waiting for mockery. It didn' t

878
01:13:11.880 --> 01:13:15.479
happen like that. I found serious
and understanding faces. They explained something to

879
01:13:15.520 --> 01:13:20.439
me that filled me with amazement.
He had had a meeting with the community

880
01:13:20.520 --> 01:13:25.960
' s protective nahual. This meeting, according to them, was no coincidence.

881
01:13:26.680 --> 01:13:30.520
He already knew he was new there
in his territory. They warned me

882
01:13:30.840 --> 01:13:38.039
that I should be respectful and careful
also because there were things in that place

883
01:13:38.079 --> 01:13:42.920
that were beyond what I could understand. During the day I asked among the

884
01:13:43.039 --> 01:13:46.239
ranchers who had painted the White Cross
on my door, but no one gave

885
01:13:46.239 --> 01:13:50.960
me an answer. At the last
ranch I visited the manager told me to

886
01:13:51.000 --> 01:13:57.439
stop digging into the nahual, because
that wasn' t good. He asked

887
01:13:57.479 --> 01:14:00.840
me not to be afraid because the
nahual, if he wanted to, would

888
01:14:00.920 --> 01:14:04.760
have attacked me any way he wanted. He suggested that I visit the Community

889
01:14:04.800 --> 01:14:11.239
shaman to give me the protection I
lacked. He gave me the signs to

890
01:14:11.279 --> 01:14:15.880
find his home and recommended that,
if possible during the morning, when I

891
01:14:15.800 --> 01:14:20.359
was with him, I should be
respectful to ask for things. Please,

892
01:14:20.880 --> 01:14:26.520
and don' t refer to the
Nahuales as hell animals or expressions, so

893
01:14:27.920 --> 01:14:31.079
I told the ranchers the rest of
the day about the traps to kill or

894
01:14:31.279 --> 01:14:38.640
catch whoever was attacking their animals.
They just looked at me like I was

895
01:14:38.720 --> 01:14:42.920
proposing a barbarity. Of course everyone
refused and I didn' t understand why

896
01:14:43.000 --> 01:14:47.399
that night. I wasn' t
really expecting it, I was just about

897
01:14:47.399 --> 01:14:51.840
to fall asleep. When I heard
again that someone was walking outside, it

898
01:14:51.920 --> 01:14:58.439
seemed like I was looking for something
because I was fanning things out, I

899
01:14:58.680 --> 01:15:00.840
worried about my safety, thinking maybe
I was nagual and looking for food.

900
01:15:01.399 --> 01:15:05.479
He had no dog, no chickens, or anything else to feed him.

901
01:15:05.840 --> 01:15:11.359
It was just me. That'
s what scared me. I grabbed a

902
01:15:11.439 --> 01:15:15.720
stick that I had and pushed it
up against the wall so I knew I

903
01:15:15.720 --> 01:15:19.159
was listening to it. That'
s enough for him to stop making those

904
01:15:19.159 --> 01:15:24.960
noises. Thinking he' d left, I looked out the window. Everything

905
01:15:25.000 --> 01:15:30.359
was a complete darkness that prevented me
from distinguishing anything. Making an effort,

906
01:15:30.359 --> 01:15:32.960
I could see something moved in the
dark. He was blacker than the same

907
01:15:33.039 --> 01:15:39.279
night he got in the bush.
He did it by making big strides without

908
01:15:39.359 --> 01:15:44.840
making the slightest noise. I checked
so it was the nahual. After seeing

909
01:15:44.880 --> 01:15:48.279
that being who could not classify him
as a definite species, my days passed

910
01:15:48.359 --> 01:15:56.000
between a mixture of doubt and fear. I couldn' t get the image

911
01:15:56.079 --> 01:16:00.680
of the black nahual out of my
head like coal and making strange noises.

912
01:16:00.079 --> 01:16:06.199
The feeling of being in front of
something completely unknown was already affecting me It

913
01:16:06.279 --> 01:16:12.279
was then when I decided to look
for Don Ernesto, the shaman, a

914
01:16:12.319 --> 01:16:16.239
highly respected old man in the Community, who was said to have a lot

915
01:16:16.439 --> 01:16:20.359
of wisdom, but above all,
I knew more about the Nahuales than anyone

916
01:16:20.359 --> 01:16:25.520
else around. His house was the
most remote and solitary in the Community,

917
01:16:26.079 --> 01:16:30.880
surrounded by dry trees, all built
of wood. I had no animals in

918
01:16:30.000 --> 01:16:35.199
sight, although occasionally some chickens were
heard and welcomed me as if already waiting

919
01:16:35.279 --> 01:16:42.880
for me. Don Ernesto listened attentively
to me nodding from time to time he

920
01:16:42.960 --> 01:16:45.399
had a hard look and did not
interrupt me. When I finished talking,

921
01:16:45.600 --> 01:16:49.800
he said quietly the Nahuales don'
t reveal themselves for no reason. If

922
01:16:49.880 --> 01:16:54.359
you' ve come across one,
it' s because something' s about

923
01:16:54.359 --> 01:16:58.159
to happen. His tone was serious, filled with a concern that he could

924
01:16:58.239 --> 01:17:03.239
not fully understand before he could ask
more. He assured me that what he

925
01:17:03.359 --> 01:17:08.119
had seen was not the protective nahual. He stood up and gave me some

926
01:17:08.159 --> 01:17:12.680
kind of amulet to put in my
window, just as they had the other

927
01:17:12.720 --> 01:17:15.640
houses. He asked me not to
walk alone at night, to be a

928
01:17:15.720 --> 01:17:19.960
black nagual. What I looked at
wasn' t just me, we were

929
01:17:19.960 --> 01:17:23.840
all in danger. He told me
it was important to protect the community.

930
01:17:25.319 --> 01:17:28.920
We' re still talking a little
longer. When the afternoon fell, Don

931
01:17:29.039 --> 01:17:32.800
Ernesto said he would accompany me to
my house to place the protection he had

932
01:17:32.920 --> 01:17:36.600
given me about to fall the night. We got out of his house.

933
01:17:38.159 --> 01:17:43.239
After half an hour, we were
already walking under the moonlight. Don Ernesto

934
01:17:43.439 --> 01:17:47.600
took me on another road one that
surrounded the whole Community and that I had

935
01:17:47.680 --> 01:17:53.319
never traveled. Before we went home, we headed to a place where the

936
01:17:53.520 --> 01:17:58.920
shadows of the trees intertwined and the
sound of the wind seemed to cry.

937
01:18:00.319 --> 01:18:04.760
We arrived at a cabin tucked into
the mountain by the smell of moisture I

938
01:18:04.840 --> 01:18:11.079
knew it had been long, abandoned
even in the dark. Don Ernesto walked

939
01:18:11.159 --> 01:18:15.840
very safely as if he were part
of his home. He explained to me

940
01:18:15.920 --> 01:18:20.640
that he would try to find the
Nahual to understand his intention. Making sure

941
01:18:20.720 --> 01:18:26.239
it wouldn' t be easy even
with my fear, I asked him to

942
01:18:26.239 --> 01:18:30.479
let me accompany him. He warned
me that the idea was not to marry

943
01:18:30.560 --> 01:18:35.079
him, but rather to understand and
if it was possible to lead him away

944
01:18:35.199 --> 01:18:39.359
from the community, perhaps he was
only hungry. We sat in front of

945
01:18:39.479 --> 01:18:44.960
an old table and Don Ernesto lit
a candle with little light. I realized

946
01:18:45.039 --> 01:18:49.000
that he looked at me in a
disturbing way, like wanting to say something,

947
01:18:49.840 --> 01:18:54.279
like the minutes passed and he didn' t talk. I asked him

948
01:18:54.319 --> 01:18:57.479
what was going on. He didn' t answer me. I felt more

949
01:18:57.520 --> 01:19:03.159
and more nervous and began to feel
that something was wrong. I was going

950
01:19:03.239 --> 01:19:08.359
to get up to retire. When
Don Ernesto told me that he was the

951
01:19:08.439 --> 01:19:12.960
nahual of the Community. I didn' t think it was a joke at

952
01:19:12.960 --> 01:19:16.399
the time. Getting over the chair, I got up scared. I went

953
01:19:16.439 --> 01:19:20.159
back to see how far the door
was. I realized I locked it with

954
01:19:20.239 --> 01:19:27.159
a lock. I walked a few
steps back without taking his sight away from

955
01:19:27.479 --> 01:19:30.159
that old man who showed no expression
on his face. I wanted to run

956
01:19:30.279 --> 01:19:35.560
away, but I felt stuck I
realized that I was in danger, plunged

957
01:19:36.119 --> 01:19:40.359
in the middle of the mountain inside
an abandoned hut. Also, in front

958
01:19:40.399 --> 01:19:45.479
of a stranger who assured me that
I was a nahual in case this was

959
01:19:45.800 --> 01:19:48.439
not enough, I didn' t
even know the way back. Don Ernesto,

960
01:19:48.640 --> 01:19:53.800
while looking at me, asked me
not to be afraid, because he,

961
01:19:54.479 --> 01:19:57.960
being the protector, would never hurt
me. He assured me that all

962
01:19:58.079 --> 01:20:02.159
the people in the community knew.
Besides, they had an agreement at night.

963
01:20:02.279 --> 01:20:06.920
He went out to tour the surroundings
and, as a payment, could

964
01:20:06.960 --> 01:20:11.880
take some of the animals from any
house or ranch. I didn' t

965
01:20:12.000 --> 01:20:15.600
know if everything he was telling me
was true, but because of the look

966
01:20:15.880 --> 01:20:20.239
on his face he made me assume
it was. My conservation instinct told me

967
01:20:20.319 --> 01:20:27.359
that I had to escape without expecting
a violent reaction from him. I ran

968
01:20:27.479 --> 01:20:31.520
out to where I believed my house
was in the middle of the darkness in

969
01:20:31.640 --> 01:20:36.600
the mountains and imagining atrocious things,
I walked away from there no matter what

970
01:20:36.600 --> 01:20:42.000
I lost. The important thing at
the time was to get me safe from

971
01:20:42.079 --> 01:20:44.359
that old man who didn' t
know what he might be able to do.

972
01:20:45.840 --> 01:20:48.960
There came a moment when I no
longer knew where I was or where

973
01:20:48.960 --> 01:20:55.399
to run. I stood by to
locate myself trying to recognize something, but

974
01:20:55.640 --> 01:20:59.680
all the scrubs seemed the same to
me. I was looking over and over.

975
01:21:00.800 --> 01:21:02.960
I decided to run a little more. When I did, I could

976
01:21:03.039 --> 01:21:09.039
distinguish a black and tall silhouette moving
towards me. I stopped again trying to

977
01:21:09.079 --> 01:21:15.560
identify what that was. I didn' t have time to get out of

978
01:21:15.640 --> 01:21:16.680
the way in a few seconds.
I already had him in front of me.

979
01:21:17.399 --> 01:21:23.800
The Nahual seemed agitated. His eyes
shone with great intensity. At a

980
01:21:23.880 --> 01:21:28.119
time of tension, he jumped at
me and I received a blow that threw

981
01:21:28.159 --> 01:21:32.399
me to the ground. I felt
the pain of the wound from the force

982
01:21:32.479 --> 01:21:36.600
with which he attacked me. I
assumed it would be serious, but I

983
01:21:38.079 --> 01:21:42.199
also felt that that was all.
You didn' t see any intention of

984
01:21:42.239 --> 01:21:45.159
attacking me as if you just wanted
to step in and I was in the

985
01:21:45.159 --> 01:21:48.479
way of you. Thrown on the
ground and stunned as I was, I

986
01:21:48.800 --> 01:21:55.159
looked even bigger at that animal.
He made horrible sounds like he wanted to

987
01:21:56.640 --> 01:22:00.399
talk while looking at me. He
jumped over me and went on his way

988
01:22:00.039 --> 01:22:05.840
making a great effort. I got
up. I was very stunned. I

989
01:22:05.880 --> 01:22:10.880
crossed the mountain with my eyes looking
for the Nahual, but he was gone.

990
01:22:11.560 --> 01:22:15.640
I still managed to hear him running
through the bushes. I began to

991
01:22:15.720 --> 01:22:21.159
walk fearfully, knowing that at any
moment I could find that animal again.

992
01:22:21.720 --> 01:22:27.680
I heard someone was walking a few
feet away from me. I rushed in

993
01:22:27.800 --> 01:22:31.000
because I couldn' t think of
anything else. I thought it was the

994
01:22:31.239 --> 01:22:35.279
nahual who was following me with one
hand in the wound. I walked as

995
01:22:35.319 --> 01:22:40.840
fast as I could, trying to
find the way. I was afraid to

996
01:22:40.880 --> 01:22:45.880
think that the animal that followed me
could smell my blood and find me and

997
01:22:45.920 --> 01:22:51.319
attack me again. I walked for
a long time, so long that my

998
01:22:51.319 --> 01:22:56.159
legs hurt, until guided by a
light that I looked away, I found

999
01:22:56.159 --> 01:23:00.119
the Community and with it my home. When it is I had runs inside

1000
01:23:00.199 --> 01:23:04.039
I went through everything I could to
block the door. I also covered the

1001
01:23:04.039 --> 01:23:08.840
window. I checked the wound and
it wasn' t serious. I remembered

1002
01:23:08.880 --> 01:23:13.760
the amulet Don Ernesto had given me. Soon I put it in the window

1003
01:23:13.800 --> 01:23:16.760
hoping it would work and not be
a deception of that old man. I

1004
01:23:16.800 --> 01:23:20.279
spent the rest of the night with
a piece of wood in my hands to

1005
01:23:20.680 --> 01:23:26.800
defend myself if necessary. I was
very open- eyed to the slope,

1006
01:23:27.119 --> 01:23:30.840
but fearful that Don Ernesto, transformed
into that nagual, would attack me.

1007
01:23:31.279 --> 01:23:35.720
I didn' t think an animal
like that was protective. Even if that

1008
01:23:35.880 --> 01:23:42.960
were true, then the other nahual, the dangerous, was also at risk.

1009
01:23:45.199 --> 01:23:48.279
Nothing more. Dawn I gathered all
my things to leave that place.

1010
01:23:48.840 --> 01:23:53.720
Although the sun had already risen,
I was afraid to walk in the mountain,

1011
01:23:54.199 --> 01:23:58.079
but I had no choice. Decided
to leave that place. I did

1012
01:23:58.199 --> 01:24:02.920
so by praying that I could not
get into the Nahual or Don Ernesto I

1013
01:24:03.000 --> 01:24:08.640
was thinking of leaving without telling anyone, but in that case a rancher passed

1014
01:24:08.720 --> 01:24:11.439
in his truck and offered to take
me. In telling him what had happened

1015
01:24:11.520 --> 01:24:15.680
to me, he confirmed to me
that Don Ernesto was the Nahual, but

1016
01:24:15.760 --> 01:24:18.640
that he had never done anything to
them. Surely what had attacked me was

1017
01:24:18.920 --> 01:24:24.760
an animal from the mountain, because
it was not known that another Nagual walked

1018
01:24:24.760 --> 01:24:29.359
in the Community. The further I
walked away from there I regained my safety.

1019
01:24:30.000 --> 01:24:34.079
That' s why I promised I' d come back to talk to

1020
01:24:34.079 --> 01:24:39.640
everyone and even to Don Ernesto,
who at the end of the day had

1021
01:24:39.640 --> 01:24:42.880
the possibility that he wouldn' t
have attacked me. I returned to my

1022
01:24:42.880 --> 01:24:47.239
city, where I initially thought I
should not have left yet today. I

1023
01:24:47.239 --> 01:24:51.600
' m a veterinarian because animals are
my passion. When I begin to think

1024
01:24:51.680 --> 01:24:57.239
about what happened to me, I
cannot help but wonder how many stories and

1025
01:24:57.319 --> 01:25:01.239
truths are hidden in the traditions and
legends of the neo- Eens, although

1026
01:25:01.319 --> 01:25:08.720
for a long time I have sought
logical explanations because my mind still refuses to

1027
01:25:08.840 --> 01:25:11.800
accept, but I know that what
I lived was real. Nahuales, in

1028
01:25:11.960 --> 01:25:15.840
any of their forms, do always
exist for me in the shadows. They

1029
01:25:15.880 --> 01:25:23.479
are a constant reminder that sometimes reality
surpasses fiction. Now I have great respect

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for all those beliefs. I learned
to see the world of the paranormal through

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other eyes, although I never returned
to that place for some time I felt

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the presence of something that was around
my house. I came to see silhouettes,

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to hear grunts and a shadow in
the corner of my courtyard, stories

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written and adapted by black cat