Las Brujas Que Levitan En El Bosque Historias De Terror - REDE

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What we invoke is called Sergio and
the story I' m going to tell

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you next is an event of my
life that is a little complicated for me

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to talk about. I feel like
it' s time and it' s

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important for someone else to know it
that way. Maybe in this way I

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can avoid making the same mistakes I
made back then I was thirteen years old

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and led a life like that of
any other boy at that age. We

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had just moved and I was working
hard to fit in and make friends.

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This led me to make unwise decisions
about my company, as the boys I

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was hanging out with weren' t
exactly the best influence. They were kind

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of rude and they often encouraged me
to do things that I wasn' t

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sure I wanted to do. Like
skipping classes, running away at night,

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and even consuming alcohol or substances.
I didn' t really want to do

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all that, but I did it
to make them think I was part of

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them. In spite of everything,
at that age I really believed that those

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people were my friends and I was
willing to do anything to keep them.

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One day a couple of them suggested
the idea of going from camp to one

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of the nearby mountains. He was
not entirely convinced, for, despite being

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thirteen years old, he still kept
a certain fear of darkness. The idea

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was planted in them and soon everyone
agreed to do that camp, so I

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had no choice but to follow them. The game. So on a Sabbath

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day we all set out for that
mountain at about six o' clock in

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the afternoon. At first we only
walked practically in circles for almost an hour,

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since none of us had camping experience
or anything like that, so we

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didn' t know how to identify
a good place to settle. Finally,

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tired of walking, we chose any
place and set up the only tent we

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were wearing there. Fortunately, this
was big enough for the four of us

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to fit comfortably. I don'
t remember all the details about what we

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did the rest of that day.
It was about ten o' clock at

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night, when a little tired of
being by the fire that we had managed

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to light one of my friends began
to say that on that mountain his father

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had seen a witch. That made
my friends start laughing and making jokes about

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it. I, for one,
got really nervous. I had heard stories

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about that mountain, never a witch, but about a creature running down in

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flames. The witch' s story. It made me remember all those horror

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stories and soon I began to feel
stalked and quite scared. Still, I

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wanted to look brave with my friends, so I just followed their jokes and

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made comments from time to time that
seemed to work for a while. However,

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one thing he didn' t even
foresee was when Roberto took a board

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or daughter out of his backpack,
which he claimed had taken from his late

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grandmother' s room, which,
although he didn' t know, his

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father had assured him that he had
devoted himself for many years to witchcraft and

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all sorts of things. Roberto didn' t challenge everyone to try it.

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I wasn' t interested in doing
that at all. However, the others

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found the idea exciting and again I
was entangled in complacency, so without further

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objection, we all put our hands
on the pointer of the table. Run.

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One of my friends asked the first
question, which did not cause the

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table to move or anything like that. The next of my friends tried another

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question, but again the pointer remained
motionless. That' s when everyone looked

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at me to ask one more question, even though I didn' t want

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to. I was a little calmer
for that moment, since not moving the

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first few times, I was convinced
that the same thing would happen to me.

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After asking the question, the pointer
began to move slowly to one side

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where it said wave. That caused
a chill on my back, but the

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others seemed completely excited that the board
had worked. That' s when Roberto

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asked another question, but the pointer
again stood still. My friends began to

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speculate on how only anything that was
answering us would answer my questions. That

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scared me pretty much. I didn' t want it at all. I

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wanted to stop the games though,
my friends told me not to be a

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coward and to keep asking about what
I asked the question about his or.

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The letters he marked didn' t
seem to make any sense, or at

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least not in the language we spoke. That' s when I asked the

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famous question You' re here.
The answer with the pointer was a yes.

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That seemed to make even the rest
of my friends really nervous, who

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stopped laughing and got serious. One
of them said maybe it would be better

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to stop playing. But by saying
that we began to feel like a strong

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wind shook the tent very hard.
This was more like someone shaking her from

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the outside. We just couldn'
t see or listen to anyone. The

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fear was such that we all let
go of the table pointer and in doing

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so, the store stopped shaking.
Almost instantly we were seeing each other without

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knowing what to say or do.
That' s when Roberto decided to put

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the board back in his backpack and
none of us talked more about what had

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happened better, we went to sleep. I have no idea what I dreamt

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that night. I can' t
remember it at all. All I know

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is that the last thing I saw
was a terrible face coming out of the

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shadows to drag me along with her. Fortunately, I woke up just before

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I did. I was even sweating. I looked at the rest of my

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friends, who seemed to sleep peacefully
without disturbing them. I lay down again

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and tried to calm down, repeating
to myself over and over again that everything

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would be fine and that, as
soon as the sun came up, I

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would return home. I was just
about to fall asleep again. When I

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started hearing a very strange noise outside
the tent. It was like someone was

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digging through the things we had left
out. I thought it might be some

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animal that would want to eat the
remains of food that we had left,

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but something very and inside of me
told me that it was not about any

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animal. After a couple of minutes
of trying to ignore whatever it was that

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was searching between our things, I
decided that maybe it would be better to

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wake up my friends so that they
too would listen. What I was listening

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to. That' s when I
shook the one next to me, he

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' s a little upset and sleepy. He woke up questioning me why I

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was bothering him. Before he finished
his sentence, he heard the noises outside.

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He immediately woke up the others by
moving them and saying there was an

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animal outside. When the others woke
up, the noises stopped almost entirely,

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but some footsteps could still be heard
on earth. The moonlight allowed us to

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see it as a huge shadow.
He was getting closer and closer to the

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tent. That' s when I
noticed that it was definitely not an animal,

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since it seemed to be the size
of a very tall adult man.

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I looked at my friends, who
seemed to be left with nothing to say.

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Roberto pulled a small knife out of
his pocket and, trying to play

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brave, began to say that it
would be better for him to get away

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or he would go really wrong.
That caused the figure to seem to move

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away until its silhouette was completely lost
sight. All my friends, including me,

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congratulated Roberto on how brave he had
been and we began to praise how

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that man had been afraid of him. But the taste of that victory did

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not last long, as I saw
that silhouette again, but this time it

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was seen approaching the entrance of the
store. My friends, completely alien to

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that situation, couldn' t see
it until the entrance opened, letting themselves

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see the horrible head of a pig
freaking out inside the store. That creature,

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moreover, was dreadful, for not
only did it look like a pig,

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but it also retained human traits.
It was almost like a hybrid between

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a pig and a person fired a
fetid smell similar to that of rotten eggs

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and when we saw it, it
began to squeal in a frightening way.

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It was as if a human actually
tried to simulate the squealing of a pig,

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resulting in frightening and rather bizarre sounds. The fear among all of us

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was so great that each of us, by his own means, did everything

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possible to get out of that tent. When we were outside, we ran

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no matter what we left all our
stuff. We only cared about getting away

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from that grotesque entity that had come
before us. We just stopped running until

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we got back to town. None
of us are completely sure of what we

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witnessed that day. I have no
doubt that whatever we saw was the spirit

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that we invoked with that board or
daughter until the day of or today still

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preserved nightmares and I have heard multiple
stories of people who have seen that horrible

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creature wandering around the hill. And
even though many discredit those sightings, I

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am absolutely sure that that thing is
still on that hill, waiting for anyone

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who dares to pass by. Bruges, my name is Philip and what I

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' m going to tell you next
is a story that even today provokes nightmares

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and makes me question the evil that
exists in this world. At that time,

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I was twenty years old and worked
in a shop as a wine cellar

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organizer. Most of the time it
was quiet. Inside the box. I

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didn' t have much time to
go out or meet with my friends,

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who, mostly studying in college,
had a bit of free time that they

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often wanted to use to meet me. Many times I would cancel at the

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last minute because my boss used to
ask me to stay until later, or

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just get out of work so tired
that I wanted to do nothing but take

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a bath and get into bed until
I fell asleep. All this caused us

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not to be able to see ourselves
too much for almost a year and a

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half. Almost in early December,
my friends were planning to go camping before

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the Christmas holidays. They also told
me that they would really like me to

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join them this time, as that
would be the last time we could all

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really be together, as both frames
and exchanges would be going on next year

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and they would probably not come back
in a long time. That news made

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me decide to ask for my vacation
so I could go to that camp and,

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for my fortune, it was not
very difficult to get them, even

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though it was the highest season regarding
sales in the store. That' s

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how I started getting ready for that
trip. If I' m completely frank,

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camping had never been one of my
favorite activities. I hated the idea

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of sleeping in the open of animals
and all that stuff. However, at

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that time, the last thing I
was interested in was where I would spend

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the night. I just wanted to
see my friends before they left. The

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much- acclaimed day came the weather. He wasn' t the best camper

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and I remember thinking he wasn'
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One of my friends told me not
to worry, since the place we

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were going was not so cold.
By that time I hadn' t even

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questioned where we were going. I
was informed that we were going to the

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town of Mateo, which had a
hill that was very popular for camping.

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I thought it was a good idea, but when I got there it was

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nothing that I had imagined, as
I thought it was a place specifically designated

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for campers, but in reality it
was nothing that seemed to him to kill

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me he assured me that he was
camping in those places since he was a

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child and that nothing had ever happened, besides that everyone in the village used

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the mountain for that, so no
one would bother them or tell them they

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couldn' t be there. With
some doubt I agreed to stay. The

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day passed normally. You could say
it was one of the best days of

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my life. I had a lot
of time that I didn' t share

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that way with my friends and I
really appreciated taking the time to go on

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that trip. At nightfall, it
was the first time I noticed anything strange.

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Everyone was already asleep. I woke
up because I really wanted to pee,

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so I got up and left my
store. When I finished and was

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about to return, I heard a
strange noise beyond the wind. Blowing through

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the trees. They heard, like
many whispers, something chilling. I also

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felt stalked under the weight of a
look that seemed to be waiting for me

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to make a mistake to catch myself. Everything got worse when in the bush

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of the mountain I began to notice
a couple of shadows rising up. I

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screamed so loud that I woke up
one of my friends, who was closer.

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He went out immediately to see what
was happening, pointing out where he

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had seen those shadows, but there
was nothing left. My friend told me

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that I was probably very sleepy and
that I had been confused, as nature

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often makes us see things that are
not really there and that it would be

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best if I went back to sleep. I didn' t want to go

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back to sleep. I was sure
of what I had seen and heard.

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However, I didn' t want
my friends to think I was looking for

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an excuse to leave before camp.
So I ended up choosing to listen to

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my friend and re- enter my
store for the rest of the night.

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I couldn' t sleep I kept
a close eye on any noise or shadow

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that was projected outside my tent and
so dawn came. I was very tired

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during breakfast. On the other hand, my friends looked perfectly rested and some

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made jokes about what I had told
them. Marcos told me that, obviously,

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I was not used to the noises
of nature and that I had to

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leave the city more, which was
perhaps true, since in reality I did

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not believe in spirits or anything like
that. While we were having breakfast,

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we all felt watched as if someone
outside our group of friends were close to

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us. That' s when a
man came out between the weeds. He

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was an old man with a hat
and had a lot of wood on his

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back. He looked at us a
little strange and questioned what we were doing

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there. Mark immediately told him that
he was from the village and that we

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were simply camping. The man was
a little serious and said that if we

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didn' t know that part of
it shouldn' t be camped. Marcos

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simply said that he used to camp
there all the time as a child and

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that he did not know that the
rules had changed. The very serious man

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said that if we hadn' t
heard about the witches of the mountain,

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that made us look at each other, and then I looked at Mark,

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who seemed even more confused than us. The old man, seeing our disbelief,

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said that for a couple of years
a group of witches had come to

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that mountain, who were very territorial
and did not like to have strangers near

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his mountain at all. None of
us knew what to say about it.

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After all, no one believed in
things like bris the old man advised us

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to leave before something bad happened to
us as soon as he left. We

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all began to let go of nervous
laughter and Marcos assured that those witch tales

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were quite common in the village,
but that in reality those things did not

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exist. The children were only told
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reassured us a little more. We
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come and take us or how we
could see them flying through their brooms at

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midnight. Wanting to appear brave made
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The day was going on normally,
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felt someone watching me from between the
weeds or behind some tree, but I

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thought it might be a product of
my paranoia the night before, so I

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just let it go no. S
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S. S. S. S. NS. We already found everyone in

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our respective tent trying to fall asleep
or at least I couldn' t sleep

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no matter how much something within me
tried to tell me it wasn' t

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right that we were still staying there. Then I listened again to those whispers,

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which I did not understand, although
this time they heard much closer it

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was as if someone said completely meaningless
words in a very low voice, I

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tried to close my eyes and tell
myself that everything was in my imagination.

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However, I soon heard a scream
that I was sure I could not have

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imagined. It was Abby' s
scream. That made me leave my shop

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very quickly just to realize how it
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We had all left our stores by
that time and asked him what had

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happened. Abi told us that while
she fell asleep, she felt someone taking

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her leg and pulling her too hard
out of her tent. However, as

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soon as he was outside, he
saw no one. That alarmed us all.

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We tried to see all our directions, looking for the person responsible for

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what had just happened. However,
it didn' t matter where we turned.

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We could see nothing but darkness and
nature. We decided it would be

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best to pick up our things and
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We found ourselves lifting all our things. When suddenly a gust of cold wind

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caught us all to our bones,
we didn' t know what to think

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about it. That' s when
I started listening back to those strange whispers.

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This time I was not the only
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I could hear as another of my
friends questioned what those sounds were. I

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could hear Mark' s cry,
which pointed behind us. When I turned,

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I could see how those shadows I
had seen the night before started to

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rise up to stay right behind us
were like old ladies, only they wore

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hoods. That terrified me so much
that I immediately started to turn back the

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faces of the old women could not
be seen because they were covered, but

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it seemed that they were seeing us. It was then that the hoods were

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removed, that they covered their faces
and these were horrible. Not only were

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they old, but their faces were
deformed as if they lacked some parts,

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but they all sketched a diabolical smile. No matter what we do, we

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start running. We ran until our
legs didn' t allow us to move

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on. I felt my lungs about
to burst. We left that area as

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we could, already with the intention
of not returning. We were scared to

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death. We never came back for
our things, or we talked about what

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happened. Sometimes I wonder what we
saw that night. I am quite convinced

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that those women were not human the
creature of the forest. My name is

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Sandra and what I' m going
to tell you next is a stage of

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my life that is very difficult for
me. Many people have tried to convince

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me that what I lived that day
was nothing more than something my mind created

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to keep me safe from reality.
However, I know this was not the

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case. I know exactly what I
lived and I hope someone can believe me

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now. It all started when I
was 20. I had been dating my

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partner back then, for almost three
years, we were planning a trip in

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a van. We both loved the
idea of camping outdoors, doing activities and

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all those things that many people don' t usually like. I always felt

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lucky thinking I had found the perfect
couple. We' d had that project

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to fix my boyfriend' s old
dad' s van for almost half a

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year and I was finally ready for
the trip. So one summer afternoon we

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set out for the unknown. Everything
was planned to make a one- week

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trip. We had many places to
visit, but the most acclaimed for us

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was certainly a forest, which I
will omit its location. That forest had

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a large camper area, but we
had no intention of using it. We

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thought we were more than experienced campers
and were convinced that we could manage on

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our own in nature. The trip
was most normal. It could be said

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that those memories are one of the
best of my life. Almost like a

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dream, or at least it was
until we got to that forest. As

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I said before, we did not
completely separate ourselves from the usual route to

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fully enter nature. As soon as
we found a good place for what we

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thought would be a quiet and safe
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The first warning signal I saw was
a strange amulet made with branches hanging

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from a tree. It was a
little high, so I couldn' t

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reach it to get it down.
It didn' t look like anything I

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' d seen before. When he
asked my partner about it, he told

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me that someone had probably thrown him
in there and by not being able to

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bring him down, they had simply
forgotten. He also told me that it

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looked like the handcraft of a five- year- old boy, which I

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immediately believed and set aside. After
that, my boyfriend proposed to me to

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take a little walk. That was
one of the main activities we had made

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the trip for, so I didn' t hesitate a minute to accept.

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We had always been very careful about
guidance. We had both seen enough programs

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of people getting lost in nature,
so we always carried compasses and a map

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with everything ready. We started our
walk. I have no idea how long

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we walk. I just know it
was for a long time. The landscape

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was so beautiful and nature could be
seen in all its splendor, just as

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we both liked everything seemed to be
going well or at least. So it

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was until we began to feel watched. While trying to locate what made us

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feel. That way, I was
able to visualize a second amulet hanging on

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one of the nearby trees. That
became too strange to me, as it

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was exactly like the amulet we had
seen near our camp. I pointed it

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out to my partner, who didn' t seem interested at all. It

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didn' t matter where you were
heading, we couldn' t see anything

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but nature, not even a bird
or an animal. That made us very

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nervous, so much so that my
boyfriend, who would have been the first

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to refuse to return to the camp
as soon as he proposed that it would

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be best to return. I completely
agreed, as the atmosphere was beginning to

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feel too heavy and something frightening.
When we got back to camp, we

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ran into our stuff lying all over
the place. It was like someone was

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looking for something in desperation inside our
backpacks and tent. It was as if

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a whirlwind had passed through the place. It had been fortunate that we would

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have locked the van if we weren' t convinced it would be the same

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inside. I was scared, but
my boyfriend argued that nothing had actually been

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stolen. He assured me that it
was probably raccoons or some other animal that

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had approached with the opportunity to get
food. His explanation seemed plausible. However,

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something inside me told me that this
had not been provoked by any animal

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and it also told me that whatever
it was was was still nearby. After

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collecting all things, we decided to
continue the camp for the rest of the

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night. Everything seemed to be back
to normal. In fact, even I

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had convinced myself that everything previously lived
was things that could easily happen in nature.

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After all, we were entering completely
unknown territory. Although the van was

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equipped to sleep inside it, my
partner and I had decided that when we

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arrived in the forest, we would
sleep in the tent as we used to

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in all camps. The calmness since
our walk had kept that decision, so

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when the time came we went to
sleep in the store. The dream beat

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me almost the instant I lay down. After all, it had been a

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long day and we still lacked many
things to do, so I wanted to

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be rested for the next day.
I woke up abruptly around 4 a m.

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I was so cold. That didn' t make much sense, as

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both the store and our sleeping bags
were thermal. I tried to wake my

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partner, but in doing so I
realized he wasn' t by my side.

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That scared me a lot, as
he had woken me up at the

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time we had gone to sleep,
as he wanted to go to the bathroom.

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I was so tired that I just
saw him come out and fell asleep.

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I almost immediately wondered if he hadn' t come back since. That

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' s when I realized that even
the closing of the store was downstairs and

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that explained why I felt so cold. I left the store and called my

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partner by name a couple of times
without receiving any answers. I went back

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in this time for my flashlight and
set out thinking maybe he was in trouble.

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I walked around the camp calling him
and telling him that if that was

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a joke, it wasn' t
funny. However, he did not receive

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an answer. Absolutely nothing I said. It seemed to come up. Effect,

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that worried me even more, since
he didn' t usually joke like

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that. Suddenly I heard her scream. It was a pretty heartbreaking scream.

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Immediately he ran in that direction with
all intent to help him, but it

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was only a cry and nothing more. After that the whole forest returned to

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that disturbing silence of the night.
It was until I was submerged in that

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overwhelming silence that I noticed that I
had entered the forest completely alone, in

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the middle of the darkness and without
a map or compass that could help me

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orient myself back to the camp.
I felt like a fool to have done

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that, but I didn' t
have much time to recriminate myself, because

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my priority at the time was to
find my partner, who kept calling and

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trying to illuminate as much as possible
to find her. Suddenly I could hear

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hasty steps, which seemed to address
me directly. I lit up in that

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direction to see my partner running in
despair to where I was. My eyes

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could not believe what I was seeing, since I was completely bloodied. I

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couldn' t say for sure if
all that blood was his or not his

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clothes. She was torn apart and
also barefooted. I didn' t even

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have time to react or question him
what had happened, as he held my

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hand and pulled me in the opposite
direction. He didn' t say a

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word. It seemed his only goal
was to get as far away from that

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place as possible. I don'
t know if at some point we turned

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because of fear, I felt we
had run a lot more than I thought.

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To have me away from camp.
We both found ourselves quite disoriented and

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tired. Finally, my partner and
I hid behind a large trunk torn down

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in the middle of the forest.
We had not yet exchanged words and by

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that time I kept asking him questions
about what had happened to him. When

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I lit his face directly with the
flashlight, I was horrified to see that

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he had an empty look. Some
time later I knew that look is better

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known as the look of the thousand
yards. But the scariest thing was not

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that, but he opened his mouth
letting me see that he had no tongue

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anymore. I was so horrified that
I couldn' t help but let go

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of a choked scream, which made
him immediately cover my mouth, but I

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guess it was too late. I
heard clearly a sound quite similar to that

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of a bird or at least that, I think it' s the closest

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thing I can compare it to.
The atmosphere felt cold and although I could

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not hear footsteps or anything like that, I could feel something getting closer and

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closer. I know my partner felt
it, too. Without telling me anything.

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He jumped from behind the tree like
he was trying to draw attention to

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whatever was stalking us. I stayed
behind the tree before hearing some complaints from

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my partner, who could hear how
she was dragged into the forest. I

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stayed behind that trunk until the rays
of the sun lit up back. I

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don' t think I' ve
moved even an inch in all that time,

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but I could finally gather enough courage
to get out of my hideout and

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back to camp. I got in
the van and drove back. I asked

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for help and told my story.
However, no one believed me. Everyone

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thinks we were attacked by gang members
or we saw something that we shouldn'

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t have seen and that, luckily, I was out alive. But I

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' m sure what happened. I
never forgot my partner or the great sacrifice

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he made for me to live.
And today I still expect someone to believe

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me my friend Sam. The next
story happened when I was nine. Back

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then I was a pretty naive kid. I didn' t used to have

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many friends. I had an older
brother, who didn' t make my

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childhood much easier. He used to
bother me a lot. He was always

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looking for new reasons to annoy me, which is why he preferred to stay

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as long as possible away from him. It was Santa' s weekend vacation

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and my father came up with the
idea of going camping in a trailer.

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I thought it was a good idea, as I thought it would be like

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in the movies. My father took
us to a caravan park where he promised

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we' d spend the best vacation
we' d ever had. However,

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I was very disappointed to see him, as he looked nothing like movies,

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not to mention that up to that
point I realized that I was confined to

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my brother in a much smaller space. From the first day I knew that

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vacation would be the worst, because
my brother, being very bored, set

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out to see how many times he
could make me cry a day and,

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for the most part, he was
trying to complain to my parents. They

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told me that they were only brothers' jokes and that I had to put

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up with that. This caused me
to get away from the caravan and go

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a little further into the forest,
where there were some pretty rusty games.

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Those games were too small for me
to use, so I just limited myself

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to making drawings on earth with a
branch. That quickly became very boring,

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but at least I was grateful to
be far enough away from my brother so

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that he wouldn' t make me
cry for the sixth time in the day,

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while I was drawing a shadow,
he obstructed the sunlight. I immediately

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turned something scared, believing it was
my brother, but it wasn' t.

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Behind me was a boy, who
had very dark, long and rather

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careless hair, I could even say
he had some dirt and dry leaves.

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In him he had large eyes,
which contrasted with rather prominent shiners. But

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without a doubt, what struck me
most was her pale skin, which seemed

416
00:34:45.599 --> 00:34:52.079
to be sick. Despite that,
the child seemed happy to meet me,

417
00:34:52.400 --> 00:34:58.280
smiled at me with a certain innocence
and praised my drawing. That made me

418
00:34:58.280 --> 00:35:01.199
like him almost immediately, so it
didn’ t take long to become friends.

419
00:35:02.119 --> 00:35:07.920
We spent most of the afternoon in
that rusty little playground. One thing

420
00:35:07.960 --> 00:35:12.599
I remember about him is that he
constantly told me that his stomach hurt and

421
00:35:12.719 --> 00:35:15.679
when I asked him why he didn' t go to the doctor, he

422
00:35:15.719 --> 00:35:20.800
was just shrugging his shoulders and continuing
the game. I was just a kid

423
00:35:21.079 --> 00:35:24.400
and I didn' t really think
much about it, plus I seemed to

424
00:35:24.440 --> 00:35:28.639
be able to play and move well, so I didn' t think it

425
00:35:28.639 --> 00:35:32.000
was that bad. The day began
to fade, giving way to the night.

426
00:35:32.199 --> 00:35:36.079
I knew I had to go back, so I told my new friend,

427
00:35:36.480 --> 00:35:39.280
who seemed a little sad that I
had to leave, but he finally

428
00:35:39.320 --> 00:35:45.440
seemed to understand and told me that
I would see myself tomorrow, which I

429
00:35:45.480 --> 00:35:51.440
accepted that night. I remember over
dinner I told my parents about my new

430
00:35:51.480 --> 00:35:55.960
friend. These thinking he was just
a kid from the other caravans that were

431
00:35:57.000 --> 00:36:00.519
on the spot. I didn'
t even pay much attention to the strange

432
00:36:00.559 --> 00:36:06.599
traits I mentioned about this child.
But I remember my brother making a comment

433
00:36:06.679 --> 00:36:10.679
about how what he described looked like
a zombie, which I immediately told him

434
00:36:10.719 --> 00:36:15.239
not to be silly, as zombies
didn' t exist. But my brother,

435
00:36:15.480 --> 00:36:21.239
trying to bother me as always,
told me that of course they existed

436
00:36:21.400 --> 00:36:25.400
and that I had surely become friends
with one and then, when I neglected

437
00:36:28.119 --> 00:36:29.679
this one I would try to eat
me the next day. I went back

438
00:36:29.719 --> 00:36:32.519
to the park to meet my friend
again, but he wasn' t there.

439
00:36:32.840 --> 00:36:36.599
I decided to wait for him for
a moment. However, an hour

440
00:36:36.679 --> 00:36:42.280
later, the weather changed abruptly starting
to rain. This made it stop waiting

441
00:36:42.320 --> 00:36:45.079
any longer, so I went back
to the camper. I don' t

442
00:36:45.159 --> 00:36:49.400
remember what I did for the rest
of that afternoon. All I know is

443
00:36:49.480 --> 00:36:53.679
that almost at night, while I
was coloring, I could hear a few

444
00:36:53.719 --> 00:36:58.519
little bumps at the window. When
I opened the curtain, I came face

445
00:36:58.559 --> 00:37:01.119
to face with my friend, who, even though there were still slight drops

446
00:37:01.199 --> 00:37:07.000
of rain, seemed to be completely
dry. This one didn' t say

447
00:37:07.000 --> 00:37:10.559
a word. He was just looking
at me even when I asked him if

448
00:37:10.599 --> 00:37:13.920
he wanted to come in to color
with me. I felt a little uncomfortable,

449
00:37:14.239 --> 00:37:17.320
but I finally decided to leave the
camper to go with him. After

450
00:37:17.360 --> 00:37:22.599
all, the rain had calmed down
almost completely and I didn' t think

451
00:37:22.679 --> 00:37:27.880
my parents had any trouble letting me
out. Before leaving, I took a

452
00:37:27.920 --> 00:37:31.199
bag of candy to share with my
friend, and the rain was very light,

453
00:37:31.440 --> 00:37:37.280
almost imperceptible, so we both decided
to go to the park again we

454
00:37:37.320 --> 00:37:40.119
were there for almost two hours.
However, in all that time my friend

455
00:37:40.159 --> 00:37:44.480
didn' t seem to want to
eat anything. He said his stomach hurt,

456
00:37:45.119 --> 00:37:49.960
so he couldn' t eat.
I remember asking him where he lived

457
00:37:50.000 --> 00:37:52.320
and if his parents didn' t
mind me playing in the rain. He

458
00:37:52.360 --> 00:37:58.400
pointed me to the forest, where
my father was strictly forbidden to enter me

459
00:37:58.480 --> 00:38:01.679
and told me that he lived for
him. He also mentioned that his parents

460
00:38:01.760 --> 00:38:06.400
did not care if he played in
the rain, as they were never there.

461
00:38:06.639 --> 00:38:09.360
I thought that not having supervision was
the coolest thing that could have happened,

462
00:38:09.880 --> 00:38:15.280
and I even let him know,
but he continued with that serious,

463
00:38:15.960 --> 00:38:20.719
inert expression he always had on his
face. We kept playing for almost half

464
00:38:20.840 --> 00:38:24.920
an hour before I could hear my
father' s voice calling me, it

465
00:38:25.000 --> 00:38:30.320
sounded a little annoying, so I
wanted to tell my friend I should go

466
00:38:30.400 --> 00:38:35.039
when I turned to where I thought
I was, I realized I wasn'

467
00:38:35.039 --> 00:38:38.559
t there anymore. That seemed rather
strange to me, but I assumed that

468
00:38:38.559 --> 00:38:43.719
when I heard my father' s
angry voice, he thought he was in

469
00:38:44.239 --> 00:38:47.280
trouble and he was hiding or something. I didn' t want to put

470
00:38:47.280 --> 00:38:50.119
too much emphasis on the matter.
So I went back to my father,

471
00:38:50.599 --> 00:38:53.760
who rebuked me for wetting me in
the rain. I tried to explain to

472
00:38:53.800 --> 00:38:57.760
him why I had done it,
but my father didn' t want excuses.

473
00:38:58.480 --> 00:39:01.760
He just reminded me that I should
always tell them where I was and

474
00:39:01.800 --> 00:39:06.880
that I should be careful not to
be alone in those places. The next

475
00:39:06.960 --> 00:39:09.039
day I went back to the park
where I used to see my friend.

476
00:39:09.480 --> 00:39:13.480
After waiting for him for almost two
hours, I figured he wouldn' t

477
00:39:13.480 --> 00:39:17.199
come. I thought maybe his parents
had also scolded him for coming out when

478
00:39:17.239 --> 00:39:22.679
it was raining, so maybe they
hadn' t let him out that day

479
00:39:22.880 --> 00:39:25.440
I got a little sad, as
that was the last day we' d

480
00:39:25.480 --> 00:39:30.400
be in the trailer park, so
it was the last chance to play together.

481
00:39:30.440 --> 00:39:35.960
Anyway, I decided to leave him
some of my candy so he could

482
00:39:36.000 --> 00:39:40.679
eat it when he felt better.
While we were keeping our things to go

483
00:39:42.280 --> 00:39:45.679
I saw my friend from afar,
who was signaling me to approach. I

484
00:39:45.719 --> 00:39:50.679
figured maybe he wanted to say goodbye
to me. So, taking advantage of

485
00:39:50.719 --> 00:39:54.159
an oversight from my parents, I
ran to the park where we had met.

486
00:39:54.760 --> 00:39:59.679
When I arrived I could see that
my friend looked different. His times

487
00:39:59.719 --> 00:40:02.960
were noticed too much on his skin, which seemed much paler than usual.

488
00:40:05.639 --> 00:40:10.320
Even his eyes looked more sunk.
I thought he was really sick and in

489
00:40:10.320 --> 00:40:15.280
fact I mentioned it to him,
but he told me that he was fine

490
00:40:15.320 --> 00:40:19.199
and that I should accompany him to
his house, which missed me too much,

491
00:40:19.559 --> 00:40:22.480
as he had never invited me.
Besides, I was just about to

492
00:40:22.519 --> 00:40:24.599
leave and I couldn' t just
go with him. I let him know,

493
00:40:24.840 --> 00:40:30.119
but he didn' t seem to
hear anything I was saying and he

494
00:40:30.159 --> 00:40:32.400
kept telling me to go with him. He took me by the hand and

495
00:40:32.400 --> 00:40:37.239
began to pull me into the forest, but I began to put up resistance,

496
00:40:37.639 --> 00:40:43.599
since not only was it forbidden to
go in there, but something really

497
00:40:43.679 --> 00:40:45.239
started to give me a very bad
thorn. However, he was much stronger

498
00:40:45.320 --> 00:40:50.800
than I was so much, so
he started dragging me around and telling me

499
00:40:50.880 --> 00:40:54.360
that I should accompany him. At
one point, he turned to see me

500
00:40:54.400 --> 00:41:00.199
again and his appearance was quite cadaveric. He even seemed to have no eyes

501
00:41:00.199 --> 00:41:05.239
anymore. That scared me so much
that I started pulling so hard until I

502
00:41:05.280 --> 00:41:08.960
got rid of his grip and then
ran back to my parents. I found

503
00:41:09.079 --> 00:41:15.239
myself crying and barely could tell what
happened. My parents thought that something had

504
00:41:15.280 --> 00:41:20.440
just scared me, so they decided
to simply determine to pack everything up and

505
00:41:20.440 --> 00:41:24.920
leave. The years passed and that
story was buried in my memory. As

506
00:41:24.960 --> 00:41:30.760
is often the case with many childhood
memories. When I was almost thirty years

507
00:41:31.280 --> 00:41:36.159
old, fate took me back to
that caravan park, as I had to

508
00:41:36.239 --> 00:41:40.320
do a report on it. Being
there made me remember everything I experienced that

509
00:41:40.400 --> 00:41:45.880
day and at the same time made
me question all the strangeness of the situation.

510
00:41:46.639 --> 00:41:51.599
As soon as I finished my job, I remember going to the little

511
00:41:51.679 --> 00:41:54.800
rusty playground, which by that time
they weren' t even there. There

512
00:41:55.239 --> 00:42:00.000
I could see that in the forest
where my father had had me so much

513
00:42:00.400 --> 00:42:04.519
to enter, one could see a
small road, which I decided to follow.

514
00:42:04.960 --> 00:42:07.679
I didn' t have to walk
for long, as I came to

515
00:42:07.960 --> 00:42:13.760
a small house almost in ruins.
No one was inside. She was all

516
00:42:13.840 --> 00:42:16.360
ill- treated and full of graffiti. All that became so strange to me,

517
00:42:16.760 --> 00:42:22.440
as that house had seemed abandoned for
a long time and I wondered what

518
00:42:22.440 --> 00:42:30.599
had happened that day. The memories
were quite confusing, but I was convinced

519
00:42:30.599 --> 00:42:36.400
that the child had existed in some
way. That' s when I decided

520
00:42:36.440 --> 00:42:40.360
to do a little more research on
it, it didn' t take long

521
00:42:40.440 --> 00:42:45.079
to find a story that said how
a family had lived in that house for

522
00:42:45.159 --> 00:42:47.639
some time, which consisted of the
father, the mother and a young child.

523
00:42:47.920 --> 00:42:52.920
However, the mother had poisoned everyone
in her food, causing them a

524
00:42:52.960 --> 00:42:58.519
rather slow and agonizing death. What
struck me the most was that, seeing

525
00:42:58.559 --> 00:43:01.719
a picture of the family in the
newspaper of that time, I ran into

526
00:43:01.760 --> 00:43:06.400
the picture of that child I played
with. I couldn' t believe it.

527
00:43:06.880 --> 00:43:09.159
Even today I have a hard time
doing it. I have no idea

528
00:43:09.199 --> 00:43:14.559
why that child decided to appear before
me or why his soul could not rest

529
00:43:14.639 --> 00:43:19.920
in peace. But I really hope
that the soul of that child can rest

530
00:43:20.000 --> 00:43:34.119
today cow head. My name is
Manuel and what I' m about to

531
00:43:34.159 --> 00:43:38.760
tell you happened when I was sixteen. It' s a little complicated for

532
00:43:38.880 --> 00:43:43.360
me to tell this. Whenever I
try to tell. People usually think I

533
00:43:43.400 --> 00:43:46.440
' m lying to them. However, I am more than convinced that what

534
00:43:46.559 --> 00:43:52.199
I experienced was real. From a
very young age I was always interested in

535
00:43:52.239 --> 00:43:57.960
everything related to nature and the outdoors. Among my favorite activities, there was

536
00:43:58.000 --> 00:44:01.880
always camping. I used to do
it at least twice a month. Many

537
00:44:01.920 --> 00:44:06.480
of those times I had to do
it alone, as my friends and family

538
00:44:06.480 --> 00:44:09.199
were not very excited about spending more
than three days away from any civilization.

539
00:44:12.679 --> 00:44:15.079
It didn' t bother me at
all. I loved being close to nature

540
00:44:15.159 --> 00:44:21.760
and being alone. Many times it
created a peace for me for my sixteen

541
00:44:21.760 --> 00:44:25.199
years. I was proud to be
too experienced a camper. I had a

542
00:44:25.239 --> 00:44:30.280
whole team ready, even things that
many kids my age wouldn' t even

543
00:44:30.320 --> 00:44:37.519
consider taking to a camp, like
compasses, reserve food and even always carried

544
00:44:37.559 --> 00:44:43.440
a physical map. I remember that
day very well I woke up very early,

545
00:44:43.599 --> 00:44:47.239
exactly at four thirty in the morning. He always said getting out early

546
00:44:47.320 --> 00:44:52.519
guaranteed to find the best places to
camp. My parents, at that point,

547
00:44:52.000 --> 00:44:55.320
they didn' t often question where
I would go. They just wanted

548
00:44:55.360 --> 00:45:01.800
to be informed of how many days
I would be camping, so without waking

549
00:45:01.800 --> 00:45:06.280
them I left home. I was
so excited. That particular day, since

550
00:45:06.880 --> 00:45:10.039
the place where he would camp was
not like the other special camping sites.

551
00:45:10.880 --> 00:45:16.199
That day I was determined to face
nature completely and camp in a little crowded

552
00:45:16.280 --> 00:45:22.239
place. That plan was meant to
happen with one of my best friends.

553
00:45:22.360 --> 00:45:28.119
However, the night before this one
had sent me a message telling me that

554
00:45:28.119 --> 00:45:30.800
he had become sick of the stomach
and it would be impossible for him to

555
00:45:30.800 --> 00:45:35.039
go with me. I thought it
was a silly excuse, since it wasn

556
00:45:35.159 --> 00:45:38.159
' t the first time someone stood
me up like that. So, without

557
00:45:38.239 --> 00:45:45.000
wanting to cancel that plan, I
ventured to that place. I just found

558
00:45:45.039 --> 00:45:50.960
myself quite far from any trace of
civilization and I must admit it was pretty

559
00:45:50.960 --> 00:45:54.119
cool. At that time, all
I could think of was that the landscape

560
00:45:54.280 --> 00:45:59.920
was beautiful to take some photographs.
As soon as I' m done with

561
00:46:00.199 --> 00:46:01.519
it, he arranged for me to
set up my shop and prepare my breakfast.

562
00:46:02.360 --> 00:46:07.039
As I ate the photos on my
camera, I was amazed as I

563
00:46:07.119 --> 00:46:12.039
passed by and thought that I could
not wait to come home to upload them

564
00:46:12.119 --> 00:46:15.960
to my social networks. As I
looked at the photos, one in particular

565
00:46:16.000 --> 00:46:22.039
caught my attention at the bottom of
the photo, something completely alien to the

566
00:46:22.119 --> 00:46:24.079
whole weed could be seen. They
were what seemed to be a pair of

567
00:46:24.440 --> 00:46:29.440
horns or ears. I couldn'
t say it for sure because it was

568
00:46:29.599 --> 00:46:31.559
a little far away and it couldn' t look good. I looked at

569
00:46:31.639 --> 00:46:37.880
the rest of the photographs in that
same area trying to compare some of the

570
00:46:37.960 --> 00:46:43.440
things that could have such an effect
on the photograph that had that thing in

571
00:46:43.480 --> 00:46:46.480
no other photograph had anything similar appeared. After thinking about it for a moment,

572
00:46:47.480 --> 00:46:52.000
I figured it might be some animal
that was wandering around. That way

573
00:46:52.400 --> 00:46:55.719
and as soon as I had seen
myself if I had been scared, I

574
00:46:55.719 --> 00:46:59.360
didn' t give it more importance. The rest of that day passed without

575
00:46:59.400 --> 00:47:05.480
much convenience. I did all the
activities I had planned. There were times

576
00:47:05.599 --> 00:47:09.519
of the day when I felt watched, I checked the entire perimeter hoping to

577
00:47:09.599 --> 00:47:14.320
bump into someone, but I didn' t find anyone. That night.

578
00:47:14.480 --> 00:47:19.880
I had a hard time falling asleep, which was strange to me because I

579
00:47:19.920 --> 00:47:23.000
had woken up very early and I
was not the kind of person who had

580
00:47:23.119 --> 00:47:30.239
trouble sleeping anywhere in an attempt to
fall asleep. I started counting back.

581
00:47:30.760 --> 00:47:36.159
I was about to finish the hundred
numbers, when suddenly I heard clearly as

582
00:47:36.320 --> 00:47:39.480
the cans, which I had tied
with the intention of listening to, in

583
00:47:39.559 --> 00:47:45.159
case anyone entered the perimeter of my
camp made noise. That made me rise

584
00:47:45.239 --> 00:47:50.840
up a little startled to take the
hunter' s knife that I always carried

585
00:47:50.840 --> 00:47:53.800
in the backpack, but as soon
as I took it, the silence of

586
00:47:53.920 --> 00:47:59.599
the night returned to its entirety.
My heart was pounding, but after a

587
00:47:59.639 --> 00:48:06.800
few minutes I managed to calm down
by telling myself that probably a small stream

588
00:48:06.880 --> 00:48:09.880
of air had moved the cans no
longer heard anything. Still, I kept

589
00:48:09.920 --> 00:48:15.599
the knife close to me. When
I went back to bed that night,

590
00:48:15.079 --> 00:48:19.840
I could only sleep slowly inside me. I knew something wasn' t right.

591
00:48:21.199 --> 00:48:24.280
When the first rays of the sun
began to rise, I set out

592
00:48:24.320 --> 00:48:29.599
to leave my tent. I was
somewhat tired and I could even say that

593
00:48:29.639 --> 00:48:34.559
I was completely sorry that I had
made the decision to camp there. But

594
00:48:34.599 --> 00:48:37.880
even with all this, I was
determined to have a good time. After

595
00:48:37.920 --> 00:48:42.960
all, a place like that didn' t come to me every day and

596
00:48:43.039 --> 00:48:45.800
I really wanted to take advantage of
it. When my friend had told me

597
00:48:45.880 --> 00:48:52.039
about that place, he had mentioned
a spring, he had assured that his

598
00:48:52.079 --> 00:48:55.119
water was the most delicious that anyone
had ever tasted. I thought maybe I

599
00:48:55.199 --> 00:48:59.800
was exaggerating a little bit. However, I had never seen a spring,

600
00:49:00.480 --> 00:49:05.440
so, remembering the instructions my friend
had given me, I decided to go

601
00:49:05.719 --> 00:49:12.199
see him. I should have walked
almost twenty minutes and no matter how hard

602
00:49:12.199 --> 00:49:15.360
I tried, I could see nothing
but nature and stones. Which made me

603
00:49:15.440 --> 00:49:20.639
think that maybe that spring didn'
t really exist and my friend had just

604
00:49:20.800 --> 00:49:24.159
said it with all intent of making
fun of me, I even checked my

605
00:49:24.199 --> 00:49:30.760
map, on which no spring came. Without further ado, my common sense

606
00:49:30.800 --> 00:49:35.159
told me that perhaps it would be
better for me to come back, since

607
00:49:35.519 --> 00:49:37.440
as I continued to delve into myself
I risked losing myself. After all,

608
00:49:37.760 --> 00:49:40.960
I knew absolutely nothing about that area, so I turned around and started walking

609
00:49:42.000 --> 00:49:49.360
back. I walked for about five
minutes before feeling watched again. That might

610
00:49:49.440 --> 00:49:53.760
not be so scary at first,
as I was in nature surrounded entirely by

611
00:49:53.880 --> 00:50:00.920
animals, which might be interested in
someone unknown. At that time nothing could

612
00:50:01.000 --> 00:50:06.400
be heard, neither the song of
the birds, nor even the wind blowing.

613
00:50:06.840 --> 00:50:12.440
It was as if the whole place
had submerged in deep silence. I

614
00:50:12.440 --> 00:50:16.400
began to rush through with every intention
of reaching my camp. I started listening

615
00:50:16.519 --> 00:50:22.119
to footsteps. If anyone here is
a hunter or has spent enough time in

616
00:50:22.199 --> 00:50:27.719
nature, he can agree with me
that animals are stealthy and often you cannot

617
00:50:27.760 --> 00:50:32.199
hear them. On the contrary,
of humans, who tend to be noisy

618
00:50:32.239 --> 00:50:39.000
and careless. The steps were clearly
heard as those of a person who seemed

619
00:50:39.039 --> 00:50:43.920
to be behind me, but when
turning around. I couldn' t see

620
00:50:43.920 --> 00:50:47.719
it. The worst came when I
began to hear a very heavy breath,

621
00:50:49.159 --> 00:50:52.800
almost like bufids. That was the
last thing I could take. I started

622
00:50:52.840 --> 00:51:00.719
running as fast as my legs allowed
me to get to camp. After running

623
00:51:00.719 --> 00:51:04.440
for a while, I realized that
I had gone a long way off the

624
00:51:04.559 --> 00:51:08.880
road and what was worse, I
had no idea where I was. I

625
00:51:08.920 --> 00:51:15.079
consulted my compass, but it seemed
to have gone mad At that moment I

626
00:51:15.159 --> 00:51:20.079
could not be able to orient myself
and as if that were not enough,

627
00:51:20.639 --> 00:51:22.599
I listened again to those footsteps along
with that breath. I knew I had

628
00:51:22.719 --> 00:51:28.599
to make a decision about which path
to take, so begging because it was

629
00:51:28.599 --> 00:51:31.639
the right one, I chose one
and started running again. I soon realized

630
00:51:31.719 --> 00:51:37.480
that the decision I had made was
the wrong one. He seemed to be

631
00:51:37.519 --> 00:51:40.000
moving me deeper and deeper into the
weeds. The steps of whatever was chasing

632
00:51:40.079 --> 00:51:45.639
me were being heard closer and closer, but I was completely unable to see

633
00:51:45.679 --> 00:51:52.440
it. Tiredness finally ended up beating
me I had to stop. My legs

634
00:51:52.480 --> 00:51:57.199
were burning and my lungs were about
to burst. It was at that moment

635
00:51:57.239 --> 00:52:00.599
that I felt how something struck me. I would fall to the ground with

636
00:52:00.679 --> 00:52:05.079
that thing on top of me and
say something because that wasn' t a

637
00:52:05.079 --> 00:52:08.480
human being. He had a humanoid
body was almost entirely human, he even

638
00:52:08.559 --> 00:52:14.880
had hands, only that his body
was covered by an almost imperceptible thin fur

639
00:52:15.400 --> 00:52:19.920
and his head was completely animal.
I didn' t have a trace of

640
00:52:19.920 --> 00:52:23.719
humanity. In it it was the
head of a cow. I know how

641
00:52:23.920 --> 00:52:28.360
that sounds, but that' s
how it was. His head was totally

642
00:52:28.519 --> 00:52:32.119
that of a cow and he was
close enough to feel his warm and heavy

643
00:52:32.320 --> 00:52:38.119
breathing. I tried to get it
off my back, but this one bit

644
00:52:38.199 --> 00:52:40.719
my fingers to the point of almost
ripping them off. I don' t

645
00:52:40.840 --> 00:52:45.840
know where I got the strength to
take a rock and hit it very hard.

646
00:52:45.559 --> 00:52:50.239
That made him get off me,
giving me enough time to get me

647
00:52:50.320 --> 00:52:55.840
up and start running again I could
hear him behind me. I felt it

648
00:52:55.920 --> 00:53:00.639
was my end. Suddenly I could
hear water running, so I directed my

649
00:53:00.679 --> 00:53:07.039
steps toward that sound coming to the
spring. It was a miracle that when

650
00:53:07.119 --> 00:53:12.079
I arrived, there would be a
man who was gathering water. Upon seeing

651
00:53:12.079 --> 00:53:15.000
me, this one was greatly terrified
because of the state in which I was

652
00:53:15.000 --> 00:53:20.239
in. He shouted at his other
friends, who were not far away.

653
00:53:20.440 --> 00:53:23.199
These helped me and took me back
to civilization and to a hospital lost from

654
00:53:23.880 --> 00:53:29.719
my fingers because of an infection that
doctors could not explain, because it became

655
00:53:29.719 --> 00:53:35.239
infected very quickly, as the wound
seemed very recent. I told my story,

656
00:53:35.679 --> 00:53:40.000
but no one seemed to believe me
They assured me that whatever happened to

657
00:53:40.159 --> 00:53:45.239
me was so traumatic that my mind
created a completely alternate story to understand what

658
00:53:45.239 --> 00:53:50.559
happened. After that day I did
not go back to camp and to this

659
00:53:50.639 --> 00:53:54.719
day I still have nightmares about it. I know you' re still in

660
00:53:54.719 --> 00:53:59.639
that place waiting for anyone to step
into your territory, but maybe you won

661
00:53:59.679 --> 00:54:08.320
' t run with mine. My
luck' s better than I didn'

662
00:54:08.320 --> 00:54:15.960
t come back. Carlos called me. I grew up in a pretty quaint

663
00:54:15.000 --> 00:54:20.280
little town in Arkansas. That town
was too small, so much so that

664
00:54:20.280 --> 00:54:23.719
we all knew each other. He
had a best friend named Derek. He

665
00:54:23.920 --> 00:54:29.519
knew everything about the paranormal theme,
just like any other topic that asked him.

666
00:54:30.719 --> 00:54:35.079
He also had a lot of experience
from different parts of the world,

667
00:54:35.519 --> 00:54:37.440
as his parents used to take him
on a trip. At that time,

668
00:54:38.400 --> 00:54:44.519
summer was beginning. Entertainment for children
at home was not something parents used to

669
00:54:44.639 --> 00:54:49.960
enjoy too much, so some village
adults organized themselves so that, as long

670
00:54:50.000 --> 00:54:54.599
as parents gave a small voluntary commission, they could take the children for a

671
00:54:54.639 --> 00:55:01.440
day camp ride. We were even
promised that if we behaved well one day,

672
00:55:02.079 --> 00:55:09.000
we could really camp. That idea
of the neighbors was quite rewarding both

673
00:55:09.079 --> 00:55:14.000
for parents and for us children,
at that time, since, because of

674
00:55:14.000 --> 00:55:16.239
the time, we didn' t
have many things to do, so to

675
00:55:16.280 --> 00:55:21.920
give walks and have programmed activities.
So, that day would be a little

676
00:55:22.000 --> 00:55:25.480
quieter. For my fortune, Derek' s parents had also paid for that

677
00:55:25.920 --> 00:55:30.000
commission and we were both having a
great time at that day camp. However,

678
00:55:30.400 --> 00:55:35.159
that changed when one of the neighbors, who was a big fan of

679
00:55:35.239 --> 00:55:39.280
fishing proposed as an activity to take
all the children to fish the place to

680
00:55:39.360 --> 00:55:45.840
do that activity It was a little
further away from what we used to distance

681
00:55:45.920 --> 00:55:52.239
ourselves for the activities of the camp. Going to that place was something that

682
00:55:52.320 --> 00:55:57.199
excited all the children, as we
were willing to lose almost all day to

683
00:55:57.320 --> 00:56:00.719
go fishing. When we got to
that place. In fact, very few

684
00:56:00.760 --> 00:56:06.239
of us were really interested in learning
how to fish. After a couple of

685
00:56:06.239 --> 00:56:09.960
hours trying to catch something, many
of the children had lost interest and had

686
00:56:10.000 --> 00:56:17.079
started playing around. Derek and I
were in that second group. We had

687
00:56:17.199 --> 00:56:22.119
found a small puddle in which we
were trying to make a prey. We

688
00:56:22.159 --> 00:56:25.199
weren' t having much success with
that. When strange lights in the sky

689
00:56:25.280 --> 00:56:31.199
caught our attention, they had not
been very clever, as there was still

690
00:56:31.320 --> 00:56:37.480
daylight, but we were both sure
of what we had seen and noticed that

691
00:56:37.519 --> 00:56:43.199
the two of us were the only
ones who had noticed. Then we decided

692
00:56:43.239 --> 00:56:47.079
to go and investigate what those lights
had been, which seemed to have fallen

693
00:56:47.119 --> 00:56:52.199
a few meters away from where we
were. We took advantage of the fact

694
00:56:52.239 --> 00:56:58.360
that our only caregiver was completely immersed
in his fishing task. To completely separate

695
00:56:58.440 --> 00:57:04.599
ourselves from the group, we walk
for about seven minutes or so before thinking

696
00:57:04.639 --> 00:57:07.679
about following those lights. It wasn' t the best idea we would have

697
00:57:07.719 --> 00:57:12.679
had, or at least that'
s what I thought, but I really

698
00:57:12.719 --> 00:57:15.880
wanted to know what those flashes had
been, so we kept walking. I

699
00:57:15.960 --> 00:57:21.320
really remember worrying as soon as I
stopped listening to the hustle and bustle of

700
00:57:21.320 --> 00:57:24.559
the children, as that indicated that
we had gone too far. I was

701
00:57:24.599 --> 00:57:30.079
about to suggest to Derek that we
return when he pointed out what seemed to

702
00:57:30.119 --> 00:57:34.800
be, in the distance, a
very rare stone here we were already almost

703
00:57:34.840 --> 00:57:37.559
at the entrance of the forest.
Both he and I knew that we should

704
00:57:37.639 --> 00:57:42.599
not set foot in that place,
as we had always been told that there

705
00:57:42.639 --> 00:57:46.880
were dangerous animals there, at the
same time that gangs met, which you

706
00:57:46.920 --> 00:57:52.599
did not want to touch. I
guess we were kind of grateful that that

707
00:57:52.679 --> 00:57:57.760
rock wasn' t found inside the
woods. That rock was a little strange,

708
00:57:58.079 --> 00:58:01.320
to say the least it was almost
like a meteorite, or at least

709
00:58:01.440 --> 00:58:06.199
I could compare it because of some
photos I' ve come to see in

710
00:58:06.199 --> 00:58:09.920
books. Far from how spectacular it
could appear. Actually, that was just

711
00:58:10.079 --> 00:58:16.639
a rock. Derek started hitting her
repeatedly with a stick he had found,

712
00:58:17.239 --> 00:58:22.719
but that quickly bore us. Both
of them. I remember hearing the cries

713
00:58:22.800 --> 00:58:28.960
of our caretaker calling us by our
name. That made me turn right away

714
00:58:29.480 --> 00:58:32.199
and still on my back. I
mentioned to my friend that we were in

715
00:58:32.239 --> 00:58:37.079
trouble and that it would be best
if we got back. But as I

716
00:58:37.119 --> 00:58:40.800
did not receive an answer, I
turned back to him just to realize that

717
00:58:40.840 --> 00:58:45.719
it was no longer behind me that
really scared me. I started calling Derek

718
00:58:45.760 --> 00:58:50.280
and telling him that if that was
a joke, it wasn' t funny.

719
00:58:50.920 --> 00:58:53.840
However, no matter how much I
called him. Derek never answered me.

720
00:58:54.480 --> 00:58:59.480
While he was still shouting his name. Our caretaker came to where I

721
00:58:59.519 --> 00:59:04.639
met and questioned me where Derek was, but I couldn' t give him

722
00:59:04.639 --> 00:59:08.840
an answer. Derek' s search
completely overshadowed. My story of that mysterious

723
00:59:08.960 --> 00:59:14.719
stone is more. No one even
seemed to take the importance, for,

724
00:59:15.079 --> 00:59:19.119
as I said, if you didn' t know the story of the lights,

725
00:59:19.440 --> 00:59:22.400
that was nothing but a simple stone. We stayed at that place for

726
00:59:22.480 --> 00:59:28.679
hours, almost until nightfall came,
but we finally had to leave without Derek.

727
00:59:30.960 --> 00:59:35.880
Many questioned me about what had happened. His search extended for days,

728
00:59:36.679 --> 00:59:40.079
even though by the time he gave
the week no one expected to find him

729
00:59:40.079 --> 00:59:45.639
alive. It wasn' t until
almost the end of the month that Derek

730
00:59:45.920 --> 00:59:49.880
' s parents, despite what the
authorities said, never gave up, went

731
00:59:50.760 --> 00:59:53.679
to the place every day to look
for Derek and in one of those days

732
00:59:53.800 --> 01:00:00.159
I asked permission to accompany them,
since I still felt so guilty about what

733
01:00:00.159 --> 01:00:05.360
had happened, as well as missing
Derek a lot. I accompanied Derek'

734
01:00:05.400 --> 01:00:08.920
s parents almost all the time while
searching for him, but I knew we

735
01:00:09.320 --> 01:00:14.679
were looking in the wrong place,
as we were very far away from the

736
01:00:14.719 --> 01:00:20.079
forest and I wanted to go to
the same place where we had seen that

737
01:00:20.079 --> 01:00:23.119
strange rock and started from there,
but his parents assured me that they had

738
01:00:23.199 --> 01:00:27.760
already looked for everything they could in
that place and that maybe it would be

739
01:00:27.760 --> 01:00:30.639
better to look elsewhere. At one
point in the search, I parted a

740
01:00:30.719 --> 01:00:35.639
little bit from them. My mind
couldn' t conceive of looking anywhere other

741
01:00:35.719 --> 01:00:40.159
than that. I went straight to
where we had seen that rock and screamed

742
01:00:40.480 --> 01:00:45.599
its name a couple of times hoping
that it would respond to me and come

743
01:00:45.679 --> 01:00:49.280
out from among the trees so that
everything would be left behind. I was

744
01:00:49.280 --> 01:00:52.920
just about to give up. When
I saw movement among the trees, I

745
01:00:53.000 --> 01:00:58.679
was amazed to see Derek walking out
of the woods. He had a very

746
01:00:58.719 --> 01:01:01.920
strange look that was hard to describe. It was like I was just looking

747
01:01:02.079 --> 01:01:06.960
into the void. One of his
shoes was missing and he was very dirty.

748
01:01:07.519 --> 01:01:10.599
You would think that when you saw
me you would feel relieved to see

749
01:01:12.119 --> 01:01:15.639
a familiar face, but you simply
walked long and showed no emotion. I

750
01:01:15.719 --> 01:01:20.000
tried to talk to him, I
tried to make him react. After all,

751
01:01:20.280 --> 01:01:23.440
he was a kid. I even
shook him a little thinking he might

752
01:01:23.480 --> 01:01:28.199
be in shock or something, but
nothing he tried seemed to give results.

753
01:01:29.599 --> 01:01:32.360
Soon I heard Derek' s mother
scream, who almost pushed me to hug

754
01:01:32.440 --> 01:01:37.719
her son and question him where he
had been and if he was okay.

755
01:01:37.519 --> 01:01:40.920
But Derek didn' t talk.
Derek' s parents left me with a

756
01:01:42.000 --> 01:01:46.079
neighbor to take me home, while
they took Dereka to the hospital. I

757
01:01:46.159 --> 01:01:50.639
' m not really sure what happened
there, since they didn' t tell

758
01:01:50.719 --> 01:01:53.639
me anything about it. I wanted
Derek so badly that as soon as he

759
01:01:53.719 --> 01:01:58.960
got back from the hospital, I
tried to visit him on more than one

760
01:01:59.079 --> 01:02:01.599
occasion, but I soon realized that
he was no longer the same Derek I

761
01:02:02.199 --> 01:02:07.400
knew, he was very quiet,
so much so that most of the time

762
01:02:07.400 --> 01:02:08.559
I was talking to myself. While
he, from time to time, nodded

763
01:02:08.679 --> 01:02:15.199
his head and when questioning where he
had been, he only stopped answering any

764
01:02:15.239 --> 01:02:21.760
questions he would ask him one day. He just started telling me we had

765
01:02:21.840 --> 01:02:24.519
to go back to the place where
he disappeared. I didn' t understand

766
01:02:24.599 --> 01:02:30.960
why anyone would want to go back
there, but he insisted too much asking

767
01:02:31.000 --> 01:02:35.039
me to accompany him or to help
him go. I never accepted that,

768
01:02:35.199 --> 01:02:39.159
because I was very afraid that it
would disappear again or something similar, and

769
01:02:39.239 --> 01:02:44.360
I didn' t really understand why
I wanted to go back there. Ever

770
01:02:44.480 --> 01:02:47.639
since his disappearance, Derek could spend
an hour sitting there staring into the void.

771
01:02:49.039 --> 01:02:52.599
I can swear that his gaze was
never the same again, although sometimes

772
01:02:52.679 --> 01:02:57.159
he seemed to try. Many times
I just went home without him seeming to

773
01:02:57.239 --> 01:03:01.960
notice. One good day, when
Derek' s parents left him at my

774
01:03:02.079 --> 01:03:06.679
house to play, he said goodbye
to me and told me to come back.

775
01:03:07.360 --> 01:03:10.159
I didn' t quite understand what
he meant, but I figured he

776
01:03:10.280 --> 01:03:15.360
' d come home. He didn' t come home. No one ever

777
01:03:15.440 --> 01:03:19.440
saw him again. I have no
idea if the one who came back that

778
01:03:19.559 --> 01:03:24.519
day from the woods was really my
friend or something that had imitated him quite

779
01:03:24.599 --> 01:03:29.559
well over the years and the more
I think about it I realized that what

780
01:03:29.719 --> 01:03:32.880
I lived with the few days I
came back with was not Derek. Some

781
01:03:32.960 --> 01:03:37.079
questions still keep me awake until today, but I know all I can do

782
01:03:37.159 --> 01:03:52.119
is think Derek is in a better
place. The world took it many times.

783
01:03:52.679 --> 01:03:58.119
It is a place that harbors many
secrets, which many times it would

784
01:03:58.199 --> 01:04:00.360
be better never to know. Like
I did when I was ten years old.

785
01:04:01.039 --> 01:04:04.119
It was the summer of two thousand
ten when this story took place.

786
01:04:04.679 --> 01:04:10.000
I remember being very excited, because, like every summer, my parents sent

787
01:04:10.079 --> 01:04:13.760
me to a camp where I had
the opportunity to see one of my best

788
01:04:13.800 --> 01:04:17.360
friends, who could only see during
those days in the camp, my friend

789
01:04:18.480 --> 01:04:24.280
was called Miguel, was a year
older than me. He always played us

790
01:04:24.360 --> 01:04:28.639
in the same cabin and used to
wear a lot of fireworks and treats.

791
01:04:29.519 --> 01:04:32.880
Now that I think about it better, I think his parents didn' t

792
01:04:33.480 --> 01:04:35.800
pay much attention to him for letting
him take that to camp. Still,

793
01:04:36.079 --> 01:04:42.679
he was my best friend. I
used to use a vocabulary that my parents

794
01:04:43.119 --> 01:04:46.440
had completely forbidden me, but for
him it was completely natural. I learned

795
01:04:46.519 --> 01:04:50.800
a couple of curses. Thanks to
my friend and the previous year this one

796
01:04:50.880 --> 01:04:56.559
had promised me that by that year
I would carry the most dangerous and cool

797
01:04:56.679 --> 01:05:00.239
rocket I had ever seen in my
life. I remember getting off the bus

798
01:05:00.480 --> 01:05:04.159
extremely excited and starting to look for
it among all the children. It didn

799
01:05:04.199 --> 01:05:09.559
' t take long to find him, as he was also looking for me

800
01:05:09.639 --> 01:05:12.639
remembering the past a little bit more. I can see how much my personality

801
01:05:12.760 --> 01:05:16.320
changed when he was around, since
there was nothing he said or did that

802
01:05:16.360 --> 01:05:23.400
he didn' t support 100%
trying to get his approval. This led

803
01:05:23.440 --> 01:05:27.679
us to ignore the welcome speech,
which used to be given to first-

804
01:05:28.559 --> 01:05:32.840
timers in the camp, although it
also served to remind us of the rules

805
01:05:32.920 --> 01:05:35.079
of the camp and that sort of
thing. He assured me that, since

806
01:05:35.119 --> 01:05:41.079
that was not our first time in
the camp, no one would really notice

807
01:05:41.159 --> 01:05:45.639
our absence. That made a lot
of sense, so, without thinking too

808
01:05:45.760 --> 01:05:51.440
much about it, we snuck out
and went for a walk around the premises

809
01:05:51.760 --> 01:05:58.519
I remember feeling like an apocalyptic movie, because we couldn' t find anyone

810
01:05:58.639 --> 01:06:01.320
anywhere but the two of us.
That' s when Miguel pulled a rocket

811
01:06:01.559 --> 01:06:05.639
out of his pocket, which assured
me was the most destructive thing I'

812
01:06:05.760 --> 01:06:11.480
d ever seen before. I was
skeptical about it, as it was too

813
01:06:11.639 --> 01:06:15.679
small to cause the damage that Michael
assured me caused, but I said nothing.

814
01:06:15.599 --> 01:06:20.000
He told me that we should blow
him away from the camp so that

815
01:06:20.199 --> 01:06:26.360
the carers could not hear him,
so when he asked him where he planned

816
01:06:26.400 --> 01:06:30.719
to do so, he took my
hand and made me run into the forest

817
01:06:30.199 --> 01:06:35.559
surrounding the camp, in which we
were strictly forbidden to enter without the supervision

818
01:06:35.559 --> 01:06:41.559
of our carers. We went too
far, so I started feeling a little

819
01:06:41.639 --> 01:06:45.280
scared, thinking maybe we couldn'
t go back. Miguel looked quite calm

820
01:06:45.440 --> 01:06:50.840
and kept telling me that we should
be far away so that no one would

821
01:06:50.840 --> 01:06:54.920
hear that explosive. He told me
not to be a baby and that he

822
01:06:55.039 --> 01:06:58.519
knew perfectly well how to get back. That calmed me down a bit,

823
01:06:59.119 --> 01:07:02.039
so I continued after him. We
got to what looked like a cave.

824
01:07:02.280 --> 01:07:08.239
Miguel screamed a little by echoing it
and challenged me to come in. I

825
01:07:08.320 --> 01:07:13.480
refused flatly, since we had no
lanterns or anything like it and there seemed

826
01:07:13.559 --> 01:07:17.760
to be no light inside. So
he came up with another idea, he

827
01:07:17.800 --> 01:07:21.159
pulled the explosive out of his pants
and turned it on. He held it

828
01:07:21.320 --> 01:07:26.320
for a few seconds before throwing it
out with all his might. Inside the

829
01:07:26.360 --> 01:07:30.639
cave. We stood waiting for it
to explode, which he didn' t

830
01:07:30.719 --> 01:07:34.559
take long to do. The explosion
was very strong, so much so that

831
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I thought the cave would collapse,
which happened to us. The euphoria over

832
01:07:41.159 --> 01:07:45.639
what happened was still in the bud. When we suddenly began to hear a

833
01:07:45.719 --> 01:07:50.320
strange noise. These seemed to be
stepped on by some very large animal that

834
01:07:50.440 --> 01:07:56.559
seemed to come straight to us from
within the cave. Our laughs immediately stopped

835
01:07:56.840 --> 01:07:59.960
and Miguel told me that it would
be best to get out of there at

836
01:07:59.960 --> 01:08:03.199
that time. I didn' t
hesitate a minute before I listened to him

837
01:08:03.320 --> 01:08:08.400
and ran back to camp. As
soon as we found ourselves in his safety,

838
01:08:08.920 --> 01:08:14.159
our courage seemed to return immediately.
We began to laugh and talk about

839
01:08:14.199 --> 01:08:18.000
what we had done. Miguel even
mentioned that that could be the cave of

840
01:08:18.119 --> 01:08:25.000
a huge bear who was now angry. The day began to pass normally and

841
01:08:25.119 --> 01:08:30.560
no one seemed to have noticed our
mischief, which made us feel like true

842
01:08:30.720 --> 01:08:36.159
masters of escape. The night finally
fell and, as always happened on the

843
01:08:36.239 --> 01:08:41.880
first night of the camp, they
put us a film, which both Miguel

844
01:08:41.960 --> 01:08:45.319
and I agreed that we could see
any day in our homes. All this

845
01:08:45.399 --> 01:08:49.399
not to mention that what we had
been given for dinner was horrible. So

846
01:08:49.479 --> 01:08:55.319
we decided to sneak out one more
time, but this time with the intention

847
01:08:55.359 --> 01:08:59.640
of going to the cabin to eat
sweets and tell us stories of our day

848
01:08:59.640 --> 01:09:02.520
to day. That' s how
we did it. While we were at

849
01:09:02.560 --> 01:09:08.680
the cabin eating one chocolate after another, Miguel began to tell me about how

850
01:09:08.760 --> 01:09:13.479
his older brother had been teaching him
how to skate and that maybe next year

851
01:09:13.560 --> 01:09:17.479
he could take her to teach me. I thought that was a very good

852
01:09:17.840 --> 01:09:23.279
idea, and I even made it
promise that I would. Time passed as

853
01:09:23.399 --> 01:09:28.399
we talked, we knew it was
almost time for the film to end and

854
01:09:28.520 --> 01:09:33.600
that soon everyone would return to their
respective huts. Suddenly, while we were

855
01:09:33.720 --> 01:09:39.920
hiding the wrappers and the rest of
the candy. Michael became completely pale and

856
01:09:40.000 --> 01:09:45.880
cried out. As I pointed to
the window. I turned my head right

857
01:09:45.880 --> 01:09:47.560
away, but I didn' t
see anything. I questioned him about what

858
01:09:47.680 --> 01:09:51.840
had happened and he told me that
he saw someone outside only that he seemed

859
01:09:51.960 --> 01:09:57.680
to have a disfigured face. I
thought he was joking with me, but

860
01:09:57.800 --> 01:10:00.199
after a while I could see that
he was very scared. I told him

861
01:10:00.279 --> 01:10:04.680
to calm down and maybe he was
some other kid in a mask. He

862
01:10:04.720 --> 01:10:09.760
assured me that it looked very real, but he tried to believe my version.

863
01:10:11.159 --> 01:10:15.359
We finished picking up and started going
back to where they were all,

864
01:10:15.720 --> 01:10:19.399
because we knew that after the film
they always made a count before sending us

865
01:10:19.479 --> 01:10:25.119
to the cabin and if we didn' t find each other, then they

866
01:10:25.239 --> 01:10:28.920
would realize that we weren' t
there. As soon as we set foot

867
01:10:29.000 --> 01:10:32.319
outside the cabin, the atmosphere was
heavy all the time. It looked like

868
01:10:32.520 --> 01:10:39.079
someone or something was stalking us.
We both looked at each other trying to

869
01:10:39.199 --> 01:10:45.239
pretend we were calm. However,
our hasty steps clearly indicated that we were

870
01:10:45.319 --> 01:10:50.520
terrified. Suddenly I heard what it
looked like as if a dog started gasping

871
01:10:50.600 --> 01:10:57.079
too much, very close to us
and right away. We began to hear

872
01:10:57.199 --> 01:11:03.239
those quadruped steps, which were fast
approaching us. Miguel and I started running

873
01:11:03.359 --> 01:11:08.399
towards where they were all, but
our legs weren' t fast enough.

874
01:11:11.159 --> 01:11:15.399
I heard Miguel' s scream,
at the same time that I could hear

875
01:11:15.520 --> 01:11:18.720
how he hit the ground. I
turned immediately just to see in front of

876
01:11:18.800 --> 01:11:25.600
me the scariest, scariest creature I' ve ever seen anywhere else. He

877
01:11:25.720 --> 01:11:30.199
looked like a man only on all
fours and seemed to have his head upside

878
01:11:30.279 --> 01:11:34.000
down. This one looked at us
and smiled in a creepy way. One

879
01:11:34.079 --> 01:11:39.840
of his hands held Miguel by the
foot, who was completely terrified trying to

880
01:11:40.279 --> 01:11:45.560
free himself from the grip of that
thing. That nightmare being fired a foul

881
01:11:45.640 --> 01:11:50.720
aroma similar to rotten eggs. Fear
did not allow me to move or even

882
01:11:51.159 --> 01:11:56.840
scream and I saw the man begin
to drag Miguel into the forest. That

883
01:11:56.880 --> 01:12:01.520
made me react immediately. I yelled
at the bears in charge as I held

884
01:12:01.680 --> 01:12:05.239
Michael by one of his hands to
prevent that thing from taking him away.

885
01:12:05.840 --> 01:12:13.359
But the creature was too strong for
me to do anything. I can perfectly

886
01:12:13.560 --> 01:12:16.479
remember Miguel' s panic screams,
which asked me, please, not to

887
01:12:16.479 --> 01:12:21.720
let him go and not to let
him take him. Those screams still torment

888
01:12:21.800 --> 01:12:28.159
me. Some nights I was trying
to hold him, but he was dragging

889
01:12:28.279 --> 01:12:30.880
us both into the woods. The
sounds that my aunt was so awful and

890
01:12:31.039 --> 01:12:36.520
salivated a lot as if she was
savoring her prey still alive. I kept

891
01:12:36.640 --> 01:12:41.960
shouting and holding Miguel, but there
was a moment when the creature threw so

892
01:12:42.079 --> 01:12:45.359
hard that it slipped and as soon
as I let go, the creature started

893
01:12:45.760 --> 01:12:50.600
to run very fast. Dragging him, I couldn' t do anything but

894
01:12:50.680 --> 01:12:56.000
watch him take my friend. The
last thing I could hear was her screams.

895
01:12:56.119 --> 01:13:00.640
Asking for help. The caregivers arrived
a few minutes after Miguel' s

896
01:13:00.720 --> 01:13:05.600
screams stopped being heard. I was
questioned about what had happened and I told

897
01:13:05.760 --> 01:13:12.199
exactly what had happened, but my
explanation made no sense to them. A

898
01:13:12.279 --> 01:13:15.680
group of caregivers went into the forest
to look for Miguel, but they were

899
01:13:15.800 --> 01:13:21.159
not lucky. The camp ended that
same night. We all went back to

900
01:13:21.159 --> 01:13:25.920
our homes. The sun just came
up. Miguel' s search lasted for

901
01:13:26.039 --> 01:13:30.880
months, but he was never found. The official version. What happened was

902
01:13:30.000 --> 01:13:34.399
that a man wearing an alleged mask
took Miguel