Le Regalé Un Muñeco Maldito A Mi Madre Historias De Terror - REDE

0:04 The Harlequin. He was working in a company that was involved in the production of medicines and everything related to the pharmaceutical industry was employed in production and in that organization there were very few days that he stopped producing, so he played a shift for a week. He worked in the morning, the next one in the afternoon and then in the evening. The most difficult shift for me was the night shift, because there came a time when it gave me a lot of sleep, but I couldn' t rest, because my job was to check the serums. So they were going through a band. If any of the serums did not meet quality control standards, I would take it out of the belt and place it in a special container. The same was true of the medicines and other products produced by the laboratory. The work in the company was not heavy, but constant, because the whole shift had to be working except for lunchtime. The lab gave us an hour to eat food.

1:07 In addition, he had his own dining room service, so it was not necessary to go out and spend on the street. The catering service was organized with different schedules so that all workers did not agree at the same time. Anyway, at lunchtime it was when I had the opportunity to meet and talk with other people from different production areas of the company. So it was, as Veronica knew, although she was in the packing area we almost always agreed on the shift and the time that the catering service assigned us to the exit from work. We were leaving together in the transport that the lab provided.

1:48 Veronica lived closer than me so she got off the truck. First I was a little further away, but it wasn' t a complication because the truck left me near my house. It was only necessary for him to walk a few streets to arrive, only when it was night he had to walk in desolate streets. No mishap ever happened to me, but I was afraid to go through the empty and dark streets. I lived next to my mom. I had two brothers who already lived apart with their families, so most of the time we were just my mother and I was a little sorry to leave her alone because she was already big and had a hard time walking. There were times when I had extra time in the lab, so I only got to sleep at my house, so I saw very little of my mom.

2:38 She told me she was lonely. I was looking for ways to make her feel good, but it wasn' t enough because my work demanded a lot of time. My mom' s birthday was coming up, so I thought I' d give her a reception with my brothers and their families. That ' s why one day I didn' t go back to my house at the shuttle service or or or and asked my friend Veronica to come with me to buy her a special present downtown. We went one day in the afternoon to walk through the shops. My mother had a taste for ancient and peculiar objects. In the house there was a furniture in which she had collected through time ceramic and porcelain ornaments from different parts of the Republic. Family members and acquaintances who knew of his preferences brought him some ceramic items as gifts. He had elephants, giraffes, dogs, fish and more, but one of the strangest was a ceramic doll that was well made. It seemed like it was real. While looking for her gift by my friend' s side, Veronica pulled me by the arm. She saw a bazaar that had a large assortment of items for the house. Usually the bazaars he had gone to were small locals that piled things up everywhere. The bazaar my friend found didn' t make much of the difference to sception, which was very big. It had several hallways with shelves full of old things, some newer ones, but everything was unordered. The bazaar seemed a little strange to me. The glass on

4:12 the door was painted black, which did not allow much light to enter. Moreover, it had only one light bulb of yellow light, which was not enough to illuminate all the parts of the premises. On the furthest shelves of the entrance there was almost everything in complete darkness, which made the objects in that part look a little disturbing. There were dolls of all sizes. While I was walking down the hall, I got the impression that some dolls were closing their eyes. I told my friend to come and see them. She was across the hall that one of the dolls had closed her eyes. Veronica didn' t pay much attention to me. He grabbed his wrist and with his hand opened him and closed his eyes. She was one of those old dolls that didn' t have her eyes fixed, but my friend was in her hands. Another strangest object was a porcelain harlequin. He was in an exceptional state, perfectly cared for, with his face very well done and his suit well crafted. The harlequin was not very large, measuring about thirty centimeters.

5:18 I had an intense red suit that I liked as soon as I saw it My friend knew about my mom' s tastes, so as soon as she saw it, she thought it might be the ideal gift. I didn ' t look anymore. I was excited, just like my friend, we approached the box to pay for it. At the counter was an elderly man. When he saw that I was holding the Harlequin in my hands. He smiled. He told us it was an excellent choice, as the article was very old. The seller gave us the price of the harlequin. It got expensive. I told my friend I wasn' t gonna buy it. She told me that, knowing my mom, I was sure she would like it a lot besides and it was very expensive for me. She helped me with half, of course I told her I didn' t pay and before I left the bazaar shop, I wanted to go with my friend to see her wrist again, as I was sure she had moved her eyes. But veronica no longer wanted to, because she thought everything was the product of my imagination.

6:16 So we left the place, walked down different streets to buy what was needed for my mom' s birthday celebration. Next Saturday we' ll meet at the house. My brothers came along with their wives and children. Each one brought him a gift, but when I gave him the one I bought and broke the gift paper the smile he outlined, my mom was worth what the Harlequin had cost immediately put it in the middle of her furniture. He set aside the porcelain doll and the Harlequin sat down. The family reunion ended around ten o' clock at night. My brothers said goodbye and left.

6:58 I told Veronica I could sleep in the house. Since there were two single rooms and the next day was Sunday, so we didn' t work. Veronica gladly agreed, alerted her mom and stayed longer talking. My mom went to rest. As soon as my brothers left, I stayed with my friend, we made a bed for the living room sofa, and we set out to watch a movie. We couldn' t see her completely because she started beating us, so we' d rather go to sleep. I immediately fell asleep and fell into a deep sleep. I didn' t know what hours it would be when I started hearing fret noises in the kitchen, as if someone had gone to get food. I thought it was my mom. I heard when one of the cups broke when it fell to the ground. I was just gonna get up to see if my mom was okay, but the fatigue beat me. I noticed that there was light under the door and I completely covered myself with the blanket. The next day, my mom was preparing the desayo. One. Veronica was talking to her. I asked them which one of them got up in the kitchen at night. My mom said she was so tired, she never woke up. He slept all night, like he hadn' t before. Veronica replied that she too had slept well.

8:18 I told them not to play with me. I heard, when a cup broke when it fell to the ground as a joke, I told them that they probably broke my favorite cup and that' s why they told me that they hadn' t gotten up. I went immediately to the cupboard to show my friend my rate. When I opened the door to the furniture, I found all the broken cups inside. I took the rest of a cup trying to understand what had happened, but I couldn' t give a logical explanation to the event. My friend saw me so seriously that she thought I was upset about my cup. It wasn' t that. The cup was the least. What intrigued me a lot was knowing what had happened at night.

9:00 I heard someone was in the kitchen and it wasn' t the product of my imagination, because the proof was obvious. I didn' t want to give much importance to what happened. I cleaned up dinner and stopped talking about what happened because I saw my mom worried. I asked him not to care and we went to the living room. As soon as I sat on the furniture, I asked my mom about the Harlequin. She had left it in the bookseller and was gone. He couldn' t answer me. He told me he had no idea where he was, because the night before he left it there. In the afternoon, veronica told me it was time to go home. I accompanied her to the truck stop on my return. I went to get some rest as soon as I lay down. When I saw the Harlequin in the dressing room, I grabbed him and took him to his place.

9:48 I was going to ask my mom why I left it in my room, but I knew she already forgot a lot. Maybe she was going to answer me that she didn' t know, so I didn' t read to her I said anything. Next week I was on the night shift. On Monday I lay down to rest in the afternoon so that I could be in vigil during the shift. My mom went to pray the rosary. I knew she' d stay for mass later, so I was left alone in the house. I played music so I could relax and fall asleep. Soon I didn' t know how long I fell asleep until I heard the music went up in volume. Then I heard another kind of melody. It was a strange song. I didn' t know the genre and I didn' t like it. Little by little the volume went up. I got up right away to turn off Alexa. I gave him the order to stop and I didn' t do it flat. I had to disconnect it. It was the only way for the device to stop ringing. I thought it was a flaw. I saw it was seven o' clock in the afternoon.

10:48 I still had to get to work, but I wasn' t sleepy anymore. I made myself something to eat and sat in the living room eating while watching TV. Since my mom didn' t laugh, she only had the kitchen light on as far as the living room. There was a little lighting coming in. The rest of the house was dark in the movie I was watching. I liked it a lot until a noise in my mom' s room made me stop seeing her. First I thought she was my mother, but I remembered she wasn' t there. I went to his room to see that he had fallen I found several jars pulled from his dressing room. The balm jar he used for his rheumatism had been broken, so the room was filled with arnica camphori odor had no choice, so I started cleaning the floor. I noticed the window was open and there was a lot of wind outside. I thought that was the reason the bottles had fallen off. As I continued to sink on the floor cleaning, I saw something moving under the bed. I got up right away thinking it was a rat. I went for a broom without looking under the bed because I was afraid to find the rat. I passed the broom several times clearly heard that there was something, but then everything was silent. I didn' t want to look anymore because I was afraid of rats. I thought I' d take a fumigator to exterminate the plague. I heard when my mom came to the house. He

12:20 told me he left before Mass because he felt bad, so he got to rest. He slept in his bed. I hadn' t noticed she looked down and pale. I offered him some food babbling. He replied that not only did he feel very tired and fell asleep. The time to get to work was approaching. I rushed to get ready while I was in the transport truck. I started to analyze what was happening in the house, because several strange things had already happened. Later on my friend Veronica went up. I told him what had happened. She found a solution to the problem because she told me that the heat was starting and it was common for pests to also appear. At his house. There were many cockroaches and they were also beginning to see traces that rats were working. When the watchman told me they were calling me on the phone, it was my mom. We weren' t allowed to use the cell phone during the shift. I left it in the locker. Only in emergency situations could they call us at the reception line.

13:24 As soon as I heard the watchman, I thought something really bad had happened to my mom. I went immediately to answer the call. I asked my mom what was going on, but it wasn' t her voice. There was someone else on the other side of the line who told me to be calm, as I was taking care of my mom. She would no longer feel alone, because she would always accompany her. I just wanted to warn myself not to worry about her. Then there was a loud noise, so loud that I had to get the device out of my ear. The watchman heard it too. He stared at me without comment. I went quickly with my immediate boss I explained my mom' s situation, although she didn' t even care, because she told me she couldn' t leave my workplace like this. Everything was done as a team, and if one piece was missing, it was all out of control at four in the morning. There were still two hours to finish my shift. What my boss did was let me out a little earlier, but I couldn' t do anything else.

14:28 I continued to work with a sense of anxiety, despair and doubt. As soon as my boss let me out, I went without saying goodbye to Veronica on the way out. I took a cab at that time. There was very little traffic, so I arrived very quickly. While I was on my way to the house. I figured out all kinds of things, like there was a thief inside and that I had my mom kidnapped. I also thought the worst my mother could be dead. As soon as I got home, I stopped for a moment. I hesitated a bit to get in because I didn' t know what I was going to find. I put the key in the lock trying to make as little noise as possible. It wasn' t dawn yet It was dark. I went into the house looking for my mom. I checked the kitchen in the living room in my room I went to his room. She wasn' t even aware of my presence. I sat on the couch that was on the side of my mother' s bed.

15:28 I was trying to understand what had happened and who was the person who spoke to me on the phone at work. My mom started moving in a restless way. I felt like I had a nightmare. I talked to her and she opened her eyes and stared at me. He asked me where I was and I asked him who he meant who he was with me all night. He sang, danced, made me laugh and even slept with me. First I thought that my mom had had an episode of madness or that she felt or so lonely that I imagined things I approached telling her that there was no one at home. I had gone to work on the night shift and she was left alone, but my mom said he wasn' t in the house. I walked all over the house in fear of encountering an unpleasant surprise, but there was no one. Everything was in order. I only realized that the Harlequin was not in the place where I had left it. I looked everywhere for him without finding him. I went with my mother to see if she had changed places the gift I gave her smiling said that he was the one who accompanied her during the night. He actually had a really fun night and he promised him he' d never leave his side. Every time she was left alone, the Harlequin would accompany her. I couldn' t believe my mother' s words. So much was her loneliness that she was able to feel accompanied by a toy Although inside me I tried to give her

17:00 a reasonable explanation, I knew that something was not right I approached her to tell her that I would try to stay with her longer. I' d ask for the holiday week that I already had and we' d go to the place she wanted. However, he replied that it was not necessary. She felt very comfortable with him that I could stay extra time in the lab. Now she was accompanied. I didn' t want to talk about it anymore. It was obvious that he was not in his right mind. The best thing was to make decisions about it again. I looked for the Arlequin, although what my mom was saying to me seemed crazy. I had a little doubt about what he told me. Suddenly I saw the Harlequin sitting on the furniture where I had already looked for it and had not found it.

17:48 I held it and checked it in detail. The Harlequin had his red dress. In his head. He had a hat with two long tips of the same color as his stroke. His face was finely crafted. He kept a strange smile all the time. I watched him very carefully as if I expected to find something in him that would allow me to agree with my mom, but the Harlequin kept his smile static all the time. I went back to my mother' s bedroom, I didn' t ask her any questions anymore. I plattered with her as if nothing abnormal had happened. I tried to get him up to make him something to eat. Then I' d go to sleep. She tried to get in without getting it. I noticed his legs hurt a lot. I took her blanket off to check it out.

18:38 She had her legs full of bruises as if she had been beaten. When he tried to get up, he couldn' t. She told me she was feeling very dizzy. That' s when I realized the extreme paleness on his face. I put her in bed with a lot of pillows. I brought him something to eat because I probably didn' t realize he wasn' t eating well. I asked him not to get up. I made her a quick breakfast. You could tell I wasn' t hungry. He just ate some fruit and took the orange juice. The dream was beginning to wreak havoc on my body. I slept with my mom and went to rest earlier. I told my mom that anything she needed could talk to me right away I fell asleep. Strange noises woke me up apparently. I fell asleep for a long time. The house was silent and with the lights out suddenly I heard a strange sound. I immediately thought about my mom going to her room.

19:44 What I saw was really grotesque. I was stuck to my mom' s leg. It looked like he was sucking his blood. I stayed at the door and didn' t know what to do. Suddenly, the Harlequin realized my presence and stopped sucking my mom' s leg. He lifted his face slowly and made his smile bigger. I immediately ran to the door, but realized that I could not leave my mother with that cursed object I returned and the Harlequin was gone. I tried to wake my mom up without getting it, it looked like she was unconscious. I started to hear noises in the kitchen, you heard the frets that fell to the floor and broke.

20:26 I didn' t care, I just wanted to get out of the house and take my mother. Since I could not do so, I marked Veronica as soon as I could tell her that I needed her help. When I saw the Harlequin standing in my mom' s room, I walked slowly making pirouettes with her legs. He got close to the bed while listening to disturbing laughter from one moment to the next. I stopped seeing him. I just felt a blow to my head and became unconscious when I woke up my friend Veronica was with me. He asked me to take it easy right away. I asked him about my mom. I tried to get in, but a severe headache wouldn' t let me. But from the couch I could see my mother' s pale face. I looked at Veronica. She just felt as my mother had died, I didn' t even doubt it anymore.

21:21 It had been that cursed object. I asked him to help me find him and return him to his owner. He was responsible for what happened. My friend asked me to calm down. My mother had suffered from a sudden attack, which caused her death. I told him it wasn' t true. It was all the Harlequin' s fault. I could hardly get up. I walked all over looking for him. I didn' t find him anywhere calmer. I explained to Veronica what had happened. I thought you wouldn' t believe me. He didn' t make any comments, he just asked me to try to take it easy. Thanks to my sisters. My mother had a dignified funeral, because I had no head to digest everything that was going on. All the time I was looking between people and furniture for that sinister being who was surely responsible for my mom' s death. It was necessary to give me a lot of painkillers to be calm. It was true that the loss of my mother was very painful for me, but it made me more reluctant to know that that gift I gave to her was out there waiting to find her new victim, shortly before the time came for me to take my mother' s body to the pantheon I could see it. There it was under one of the funeral parlor benches. His smile was longer, which made him look more gloomy. I couldn' t tell anyone what was going on because they already wanted to take me to a mental hospital. I

22:51 didn' t make any comments anymore. Upon arriving at my home I felt the great weight of loneliness. I think it was the crucial moment when I really understood my mom Veronica was going with me, she stayed that night to sleep to keep me company. Most of the night I kept her awake at any noise. I was hoping to see you again. It didn' t happen that way, not even in the course of the next few days did I see it again. I' d rather think he left because the damage was already done to the place of the apparitions. I am originally from the municipality of Minatitlán, in the State of Colima, a village located in the mountain, with large wooded areas that have great areas to camp and enjoy nature, as well as a great waterfall. In this village I lived next to my parents and my sisters. He was the oldest of the children. My dad taught me the drill job. The items my dad made the most were guaraches with leather straps, also girdles and gun cases, but the latter were very few that were made with us. My grandmother Paterna also lived. She had been widowed five years ago. He had several sons and daughters, but as they had all moved elsewhere. The only one who had stayed in town was my dad. He therefore decided to go and live with us. Grandma

24:26 ' s house didn' t have that much construction, so my dad preferred to use it to plant vegetables and fruit trees for our own consumption. Every once in a while my dad and I went to the town of Comala to buy everything that was needed to make the guaraches, from the skin, the nails, the glue, the chins. He told me that he taught me the trade so that I could continue with it and have a way of getting the trade. I liked to perform it next to my dad, but I didn' t see myself when I was older doing the same thing especially because when we went to Comala and passed by Colima, I wanted to go to work for those places. The first time I told my dad that I didn ' t intend to live in Huarachero he bothered me. He didn' t tell me anything, but he was very quiet all day. That' s why I didn' t say anything to her again, although my idea of leaving town was firm. Comala was a small village, very nice, with houses painted white red roof and stoned streets very well maintained. It had some portals in front of the park where they prepared very rich food. They did not serve in vastness of everything that was sold. I liked the town so much that I thought it might be a good option to go live there.

25:48 In addition, Colima was only a few minutes away from the village. As I walked through the streets of that place, I looked at some housing I could rent in. No one had the sign that I rented, so I asked Doña Carmen the cook who prepared the food that my father and I used to eat on the portals, without my dad noticing I approached her after she came from washing my hands. Doña Carmen was always kind to us, so I was confident to ask her to help me find a place to live. I was also interested to know the cost of the room I was planning to rent and see if my budget would give me to move out of residence.

26:30 I was doing everything without my dad noticing, since he didn' t agree that I should leave Minatitlan. He believed that he could be his successor, of his trade and of the care of the women of the house, but I did not see myself doing the same thing as my father. My grandmother Margarita, she knew a lot about plants, fillings, scares, accommodating the child to pregnant women and many other things. People in the village often looked for her to give them natural remedies and, above all, to help children calm down more, because there were times when they cried without apparent cause. My grandmother would suck it and give them some teas. I noticed that it was what I gave to the children, because then their mothers came very happy saying that their little ones had improved a lot. I had a very good relationship with my grandmother because I learned from her. Although it might seem a little strange, what she knew interested me in knowing and putting it into practice.

27:33 When she had any doubts about the benefit or curse of any of the plants she had in her room, she would explain to me all the details about the medicinal herb. I was so confident in her that I told her the idea of leaving town, contrary to what I thought. My grandmother was very pleased with my intention to look for new horizons. He prepared a special amulet for my protection and good fortune. Thus, the amulet could open up paths for me to find wealth. Maybe it was all his management, but it was something my grandmother and I believed in. So I took the amulet he gave me and kept it very well was the main object that would take me to eat it. My grandmother was known in the village as a white witch who helped people not charge for their service. I told the people I cared for, to give them what they wanted, and if there was a woman who didn' t carry money, my grandmother wouldn' t bother.

28:30 He gave her his job. I learned many remedies and ways to cure diseases from her. There was a plant that looked after jealously. It was a cactus he had in the yard was already big. She told me that it was a very careful plant, because if any person consumed, it could also die or have an effect contrary to what was expected. I remember my grandmother looking everywhere before telling me that if I gave someone a tea from the plant that person could lose his will. That' s why it was very specific to use. Likewise, my grandmother taught me rituals of protection and abundance so that I could do well in comala. She gave me a fetish that was a kind of mud doll that she herself made out of the mud she brought from the waterfall. Then I' d conjure him with protection. He told me he' d always be protected with that amulet. My father didn' t like me learning from my grandmother' s knowledge. He said it was no use, but so many people would go home to heal them and come back to thank my grandmother was no big deal. There were compelling reasons to know that I did serve all the knowledge I had about plants and white magic when I told my parents that I was going to live in Comala to work.

29:51 My dad' s reaction was a little baffled. I noticed him sad and with great restraint. I thought I would have felt better if it had been in C. She just told me she was fine, she took care of me a lot, and she walked out. My mom disagreed and behaved a little hostile about her. I expected his support more and it was the opposite. Before I left, I went to my grandmother' s room. I asked him for his blessing to be protected and to do well. She gave me a long hug with which I felt a lot of strength to get ahead in the face of any contrariety that appeared. He pulled out a red scallop tied with a yellow ribbon. He put it in my hand. I felt the coldness of the object. When I opened it it was a round saying with many symbols inscribed. It was a silver color. My grandmother took me by the hand, took me to her window so I could see the best in daylight. Without asking him any questions, he began to explain to me the meaning of each of the symbols. I could easily recognize a five - peak star that was at the center of the saying. He explained to me that if he used the saying with a single tip of the star upwards it was for my protection, for the beings of light to take care of me. On the contrary, if I used it with the two tips up, it represented the darkness. I took the amulet hard, thanking my grandmother for her protection. She took me back by the arm to tell me that it was necessary to activate him to fulfill his purpose. They were a series

31:23 of instructions I had to carry out during the crescent moon. On Sunday of that week, at twelve o' clock on the day, I would begin to perform the ritual. After explaining in detail how to activate it and the prayer I had to perform, he smiled satisfied. He hung the amulet on my neck asking me never to take it off like that. She would be calm knowing that angels and beings of light always accompanied me. It was the last Sunday of April, a few days ago it had spent Easter Weeks and Easter Week. I wanted to leave before the Lent festivities to get involved in the traditions of comala, but my mother asked me to stay until after the Passover to carry out all the rituals of the Church of the people. In the trucking station. My parents didn' t come with me to say goodbye.

32:20 My mom probably didn' t do it because she was still upset with me. Instead, I thought my father hadn' t done it so he wouldn' t see it fall apart. Emotionally, my sisters and my grandmother went to the bus station. They were there until I could no longer see them through the window of the truck. At that time I thought I was making a mistake and that I had to stay with my family to continue with the family tradition. I felt a knot in my throat that got stuck by the crying, but I had already done everything I needed to leave I was brave and tried not to think of my family, but of my longings. As the truck moved away from the town that saw me born. The need to stay in the heat of the home was dispelled, especially when we entered the city of Colima. I began to get excited about the adventure that started before I arrived in Comala. The road that led us to the village was a wide street surrounded by leafy trees on both sides of the street, which intersected with the top of its branches, causing a natural arch that resembled a tunnel. It was very nice to observe the road to Comala. On the way to the village, I felt a strange feeling. I got the impression that someone was watching me in the street through the window I tried to see if there was anyone outside without getting to see anyone a chill. He invaded my whole body. I rubbed my arms to calm that feeling, but the

33:51 presence of the first houses, with their roof tile, made me forget about the incident, which was quite strange, because it was weather or warm and as it was characterized by having a very pleasant climate. As soon as I got off the bus, I went straight to Carmen' s kitchen. I had already talked to her to help me get a place to live, as well as a recommendation to find a job. As soon as the lady saw me, she noticed that she was very pleased to see me, smiled and opened her arms to welcome me to Dona Carmen, a child about my age had died. Maybe that' s why he treated me with a lot of warmth. Doña Carmen offered me lunch. He asked me to stay until he finished his shift to go directly to the house where I could stay I helped him wash the frets and order the chairs and tables. So we' d go to my new house soon. We walk through the village. The house was on the banks of comala on the opposite side of the village entrance.

34:57 After fifteen minutes of walking, Doña Carmen showed me the house was the last house on the street. It was until the end it was a little different from the other houses in the place because it was two floors. It was evident that it had been a very large and beautiful house, although time had made its own, because it was old and worn out. Its walls were scattered and the place where the garden was located was a mound of earth and dry vegetation. Only a tree stood leafy in the center of which one day was a place full of flowers. Surely, Doña Carmen saw disappointment in my face because, without telling her anything, she told me that it was the cheapest thing she could find, since an old woman lived in that house.

35:43 In your good times. She was a beautiful young woman with great financial resources, but something happened in the family, because her parents died in an inexplicable way. The rest of her brothers went to live in the United States and she was left alone. Little by little he spent the inheritance left to him by his parents to such an extent that he saw the need to rent rooms to young people like me so that he could continue to have his livelihood. Without saying anything, Doña Carmen played on the wooden gate that had an iron gate and within a few minutes a few slow steps were heard. He opened the door. A woman of old age who had a lot of character.

36:24 She introduced herself as Miss Inés. He walked down the hall with his hand. He pointed out the room in the back was where I was going to stay. He told me he couldn' t get night visits, he didn ' t want loud music or scandals. The room rent was paid every day. First of the month he told me that, as a rule. I didn' t accept strangers or people who weren' t from the village, but I had made an exception because Doña Carmen had recommended that I shouldn' t look bad to the lady right away. He retired leaving a set of keys on the nra table. Doña Carmen shrugged. He smiled and patted me on the back. He told me he was waiting for me the next day for breakfast at his fonda. Until I was left alone in the house.

37:12 I noticed the strange decorative figures that were everywhere. They were small clay statuettes that pretended to be small men or women, but with a somewhat terrifying face he saw each of the strange ornaments that served as decoration objects. I couldn ' t keep checking the house because I heard a few steps coming into the living room I clearly noticed when they were dragging my feet, I left immediately to what was my home. For indefinite time. I closed the door cautiously, but not enough to see who the person who approached the room was. From the place where my room was. There was visibility to the lower part of the house. I was for several minutes with the door ajar without being able to see anyone even though the sound of the steps were still heard all over the house, I gave up and closed the door. There was a badly stretched double bed. I had a desk next to him with a book to read a dresser, with a mirror adorned with golden inlays and a large closet to store all my belongings. I really felt alien and strange to that place, but I also realized it was the first day in that house and in the village. It was only a matter of time before I adapted to my new life. When the sun went out and the shadow flooded the whole house, it looked more disturbing. There were very few lamps inside the house.

38:40 In addition, the light they gave was yellow and dim so it was not enough light to reach every corner of the house. As I walked down the halls, my shadow moved and enlarged, which caused me a little fear at eight o' clock at night. I heard Miss Inés left her room. I knew it because his door was made of wood It was so old that it gnashed. When it opened, I didn' t move in the living room. I was hoping she' d go out and talk to me, but I didn' t. I heard clearly when he closed the front door. I went immediately to tell her if I could accompany her anywhere, as I felt strange in that place. By the time I left, however, she had already disappeared. I couldn' t see her anywhere, not even on the paved road to her house. I felt more confident to check every part of the house. On the top there were three single rooms.

39:37 I noticed it because there were no clothes in the closets. Apparently, we were just inhabiting Miss Inés' house and I tried to get into her room, but I couldn' t do it because I had locked it. I wasn' t hungry. Maybe it was because of so many emotions together in one day. It was the first time I slept away from my home and my family. I wasn' t tired and I had nothing to do. I went up to my room. I entertained myself by looking out the window into the street. The window in my room was facing the back of the house. There were no more houses, only the big trees and the grown weeds. I was about to close the window. When I noticed something moving between the bushes, it looked like an animal, which I could not distinguish from because it was extremely dark. I just noticed it making a strange noise, like it was the sound of some castanets. I didn' t stay and see what it was all about. I thought it might be a wild animal, so I closed the window. Although the noise continued to be heard the dry weed creaked before the animal behind the house. I had no choice but to stay in my room mired in my thoughts, thinking if I had done the right thing. I didn' t know when I fell asleep or how long it was. I was woken up by a noise inside my room.

40:59 Trying to identify what it was and where it came from. It sounded like rats were gnawing at something. The strange thing was that it was heard inside the walls. I saw it was a little past four in the morning. The rat noise continued to be heard. I thought the next day I ' d tell Miss Inés what was going on. I could no longer sleep I was awake listening to the sound of the wind that moved with intensity from the treetops. I heard when the front door opened, Miss Inés' slow steps. In such a short time I had identified them. I also heard when he came into his room. It was pretty weird. Apparently, since she left at night, she was barely coming back. I didn' t understand how such a lonely, big woman could be out of the house at those hours of the night. The cocksongs announced to me. The dawn was a great relief to see again. The house with daylight looked so different.

41:58 In the evening his his sns relieved and I prepared to go with Doña Carmen. The lady was already waiting for me with a blender. He gave me directions to go talk to a man who had a little restaurant on the portals. He told me that he needed an assistant to wash the slab and that, when it was necessary to serve the tables, I accepted the work immediately. Later I would see how to learn some trade. For the time being I was grateful to Doña Carmen and Don José who gave me the opportunity to have an entrance to the job. I stayed to wait for Doña Carmen. She took longer to get out because she was in charge of the place. I had to leave the place in order, so I started helping him clean the tables and sort out the chairs while we were working. She immediately asked me how I was going with Miss Inés. I told her she was a very strange woman I told her how little I' d seen at night.

42:55 Doña Carmen told me that she was a very rare person. Even though he had a lot of time living in the village, he hardly related to anyone. He was rarely seen in the center only when he needed to buy what he needed for his pantry, although he bought a lot so he didn' t have to leave frequently, but the boy who helped him carry his errand said he was giving a very good tip. Surely, Doña Carmen noticed my concern by telling me not to keep an eye on it. She was a very lonely woman, but that' s all. He' s never been with anyone before, and he didn' t hurt people either. I didn ' t want to talk any more, as I had very little time to meet her, but from the beginning I had a strange feeling with her presence.

43:44 The following nights passed in the same way. During the day I did not see Miss Inés when she arrived in the afternoon of work. She didn ' t leave her room until it was dark and she didn' t come back soon. Only when it started to dawn at work. My colleagues told me to go on the day off to the magical area of Colima. I ' ve never heard of her. I asked them what it was about. They told me that it was an area with magnetic attraction in which the physical laws broke, since if you drove to that place and stopped it, instead of going down the road, it went in the opposite direction, upwards.

44:24 I didn' t understand what it was about until we got to that part, which was four kilometers from the common road to its Chitlán. It was true everything the car told me and anything put on the slope, instead of going down, was attracted up. Because of the force of gravity, we stayed there until very late. Besides, it was full moon night and the place wasn' t dark. We were having a few beers while we were having fun putting every object that could roll a ball, a marble, anything was going up. I wasn' t used to drinking, so I just tried a beer that I felt a little dizzy with and I didn' t want any more. I walked away from my classmates to do the bathroom.

45:14 While I was in that place I heard again the same sound as in the house. I hastened to go along with my companions and tell them that it was better for us to leave the place, but I did not reach it, because this time I could see with a little difficulty something that was crawling in the grass. I thought it was a wild animal, but it wasn ' t exactly that. It was a strange creature that walked on all fours, with its head covered with very little hair, with its skin attached to the skeleton. As he moved between the weeds, his limbs moved in a disturbing way. When he saw me, he raised his face, which looked like a monster. I ran immediately to my coms with a trembling voice.

46:01 I told them what I just saw. I pointed my hand at them to the side he was on, but I think they were already too drunk because they laughed out of my fear. I was told not to be so scared. Every full moon went out with the witch I lived with. I didn ' t understand what they told me, but I told them to get out of that damn place right away, a little upset. They continued to drink their beers until they finished the ones they had began to show that we would leave the place, although they first wanted to go to the bathroom. Two of my partners did it in front of everyone. The other one went into the tall grass. I heard when he screamed scared he was bleeding from one arm. He came running, urging us to leave immediately. We get in the car and start at full speed. I looked out behind the window, I saw that creature again, even though it had been gilded on two legs.

47:00 At the same time he issued such a disturbing cry that I covered my ears and trembled with fear. He wasn' t the only one. My colleagues had heard him drunk too. It was taken from them. The worst was when I looked back at that monster. He got back on all fours and started running. He was so fast he seemed from another world. Soon I saw him behind the car. My partner who was driving, he also saw it through the rearview mirror. We all urged him to hit the car faster. He was going as fast as he could. I was afraid that at any moment that entity would catch up with us or that my partner would get off the road suddenly I saw the face of that being at the side of the window. He had an elongated face with small, completely dark eyes.

47:51 His hair gave the appearance of being slender, erect branches. I moved towards my partners. I was afraid that at any moment, I would break the crystal creek and hurt me. It didn' t happen, but I did notice that he stared at me as he opened his mouth to air another scream that scared us. I saw the lights on the road from another car coming in the opposite direction. That got the monster away from us. I saw when he changed direction and started following the other car. My partner didn ' t stop stepping on the throttle. Although the being no longer pursued us, it did not slow down upon arriving at Comala left us in our respective homes. He took me to the end because it was the last house in town. Before I got off, he told me to be careful with the owner of the house. She was said to be a witch. That' s all he told me and left. I was afraid to enter the house, but I had nowhere else to go I went trying to make as little noise as possible, although the old wooden doors and the floor did not allow me to do so. With my walking I turned everything to my room.

49:02 When I noticed paired up at the door of Miss Inés' room because of the fear I was, I didn' t even try to look out. I went straight to my bedroom, but I couldn' t sleep. I still felt the adrenaline of fear, so I sat in bed. That' s how I was for a while, but it kept calling my attention to entering Miss Ines' room. With great caution I headed for the room. Little by little I opened the door inside. There was no one. The bed was lying. I began to see the photographs I had on an antique wooden furniture. The photos were black and white. He did not distinguish them clearly because he lit the room with a candlelight that was in the living room.

49:50 There were many old items. The closet was full of elegant dresses because of its appearance. They were pretty old. It caught my attention from nra finding a cardboard box with lots of baby clothes, socks, mamelucos, sparrows, diapers. The first thing I thought about was that maybe at some point she was pregnant and that her baby wasn' t born. I ran into a photo that caught my attention. She was younger in it, Miss Inés. I was with two people bigger than her. They were probably his parents. I could no longer stay inside the room because I heard the disturbing lament.

50:30 In the distance. I left immediately taking the photograph and went quickly to my room. I' ve been sitting in bed, sleeping at times at the window. Suddenly I heard again the sound in the window I saw when that being stayed for a few seconds trying to see inward by the light that gave the moon VI, which was the same monster that had followed us from the magical zone. There was a time when the eyes of those ls crossed with mine. My heart started beating faster. He was so strong that I was afraid that the entity could hear him. I didn' t make any kind of movement. I sat with the breath contained for several seconds. I was like this until the being left at great speed. I saw him running through the plain on all fours until he disappeared. I' d be lying if I told them I could sleep. I didn' t do it all the time. I was crouched in bed without knowing what to do or think.

51:32 The cocksongs and the incipient sunlight announced the new day immediately I grabbed my things along with the photograph in my hands. As soon as I was leaving the room when I heard that they opened the door to the entrance, their classic gnashing gave it away, I didn' t want to make any moves. I just stood there and didn' t know what to do. I clearly heard Miss Inés' footsteps incarnated into my room. He stood for a few minutes on the other side of the door. Then he retired and went into his room. I heard, when he locked it in, I waited a while longer to get out of the room, when I thought I' d spent enough time. I left with great caution, carrying with me my few belongings and heading towards the portals. I stayed on the benches of the park until I saw in the distance doña Carmen, who was coming to the food shop immediately I went to board her. I didn' t know how to explain what happened. I even started stuttering a situation that never happened to me. Soon I told her everything, asking her to help me live somewhere else, she didn' t want to be with Miss Inés anymore. At that moment I remembered the photograph I had taken from his room. With the light of day it was possible to see it more clearly. In it were two elderly people, a young couple and Miss Inés dressed very elegantly. Doña

53:02 Carmen covered her mouth with her hand saying that it was not possible, she could not be immediately. I asked him what was wrong with him. He told me that the young couple were his great- grandparents, because he kept a photograph of them. His mother had given it to him before he died. On the back of the photograph was inscribed the date of sixteen May of one thousand eight hundred ninety- six. I immediately understood Doña Carmen' s reaction. Miss Inés was many years older than I imagined, but how could that be? I asked Doña Carmen. He replied that many things were said about Miss Inés in the village. She wouldn' t listen, though.

53:45 She thought they were people' s gossip, because Miss Inés never related to anyone, even though they said that children from other villages disappeared from time to time and never found them again. I remembered the baby clothes I found in a big drawer in the wooden closet, I couldn' t believe what I was living. We weren' t out of our surprise yet. When a farmer came to sow, he was frightened. An accident had occurred near the magic area. The two crew members had been left in horrible conditions, their faces shattered, as had their limbs. When I asked the farmer the color of the car, I knew it was the same car we met. When the monster followed us, Doña Carmen noticed my anguish. He asked me to calm down. I wouldn' t go back to that house anymore. It would help me find another place to live on a moderate income as well.

54:40 We couldn' t stay in the park any longer We went to our respective jobs. My colleagues from the restaurant hadn' t arrived. Only one of them came up to see how I was feeling. Between the two of us we came to the conclusion that what we saw was a witch, a vampire, or an entity from another world. What my partner couldn' t explain was how nothing happened to us if that monster reached us easily until then. I remembered the amulet my grandmother gave me. Surely that was the one who protected me and my companions managed to receive protection. When I arrived in Comala, the people of the village said it was a village of ghosts that in the evenings went out to roam the park and the portals. I never saw them although several people said that, especially in the restaurant opposite they appeared at night and that on the path full of trees, before arriving at Comala, also appeared the ghost of a girlfriend who died dressed in white, of which I am sure. It was a lens that I saw and that was that of the Miss Ines, who by the photograph was many years old. The ghost bird. In my house we were very familiar with animals. My dad was a vet, so he often talked to us about their behaviors. I had a lot of empathy with any stray animal. If he was in bad

56:15 shape, he would take him home until he got well. Then I was trying to find her a home. Sometimes I couldn' t get it, so at home there were three dogs, a perico and a cat. My dad used to work at a veterinary clinic. He was doing great, but he wanted to put a vet on his own. It' s been several years for me to get it. When he put it in, I was fifteen, I was very pleased that he made it because I could go work with him. Our family was made up of my parents, my sister, who was two years younger than me and our animals. I remember when my dad put up his own business he was in the same colony we lived in, he just had to walk a few streets to be with him. He helped her in the care of the animals and in the cleaning of the premises.

57:07 There were times when some dog or cat stayed in because my dad had done some surgery. Those days he stayed to sleep at the vet to keep an eye on them. If this happened on the weekend, I asked him to stay with him, even though he almost wouldn' t let me. He told me he didn' t have a place to sleep. Only on a few occasions did I do so because there were more than two animals interned for the profession my father had I was interested in many animals. In the colony where we lived there was a very large natural park. The authorities had already tried to remove it to build vertical housing, but most of the neighbors organized themselves so that it would not be destroyed, as it was one of the main lungs of our colony and there were various physical and recreational activities.

58:02 On Sundays very early my parents liked to go see the birds. The birding consisted of carrying a few catalyses to be able to admire the various species of birds that lived in the natural environment. The first time I went along with my sister, we both started playing with the flowers of the place without taking into account the explanation my dad gave us about each bird, until one day he called me to see a woodpecker. When I saw him stinging the bark of the tree, I was impressed. From that time on, I began to pay attention to the various types of birds in the natural environment. As he walked, he saw his customs in the trees. I asked my dad if we could do it at night too, because I thought of nocturnal animals that can only be seen at those hours, like owls, bats and other species. However, my dad told me that it was difficult to see them easily because we invaded their space, since a source of light was needed or, failing that, a specialized team to do so, but that I could try with the catalejos. Perhaps in full moon days it was possible to have a little visibility. I wanted to make the attempt with my sister, but she wasn' t very interested. I told my friend Saul. Between the two of us we thought we could do it while we were doing other kinds of activities, so I started going out at night with my pair of catalyses.

59:32 Saul also liked animals, not as much as I did, but he agreed to accompany me, as I was afraid to do so alone. For several nights I went out with my friend to do school activities or meetings with some friends. On our way back, we had the natural park, so we took advantage of it to get into its vegetation. The first time I entered the park I felt a strange feeling I realized that it was not the same to go during the day as at night, because with the air some trees made strange movements. It was as if each tree had life its branches resembled two large long arms that wanted to grab us and not let us go.

1:00:16 I thought it was all part of my great imagination, but before I made any comments to my friend he asked me if we' d better leave and come back another time, when there was more light without answering him I heard the howling of an owl. I asked him to remain silent as I paid more attention. The sounds of the nocturnal birds began to be heard more clearly. While I was watching for any movement or sound. Saul gave me a sign for one of the trees. There was an owl with a lamp emitting a not- so- strong flash. I could see it clearly. He immediately hid himself from the intrusion of light. I preferred not to bother nocturnal birds. I gave my friend a signal to get us out of the place. We walked along the path that led us to the exit. When I heard a very sad lament, but in turn dark, it caused me a little fear to hear it. It didn' t seem like the sound of a normal bird, but the crying of a human. Both Saul and I turned to see each other with fear. I shrugged my shoulders to make him understand that I didn' t know what it was about. We heard a movement between the branches of one of the trees. I got really scared because I got the impression that a branch of the tree was moving and from there came the disturbing sound. I signaled to Saul and we left quickly.

1:01:40 When we feel safer, we throw ourselves in the grass. Again I heard the terrifying lament I could perceive from the place where I was in that park did not look the same from the outside, because it looked like a stain of dark trees moving with the wind. We' re back walking more calmly. I think I felt calmer with the hustle and bustle of the city, the light of the luminaires and the noise of the cars. Again I listened in the distance to the disturbing sound, but I was no longer afraid because I was far from the park at the entrance to the apartment. Saul went home. My dad was coming home from work. He brought with him a cat that had operated and still required serum. He asked me to take care of him. While the serum was accommodating him, I told him what had happened to me inside the natural park. My dad told me about a strange bird, which I never mentioned before. It was a rare species of urutu name better known as a ghost bird by the name my dad gave it.

1:02:49 I thought it was a joke, but it wasn' t. It was once real and very little known. From that day on I began to pay more attention to night sounds. The natural park was almost in front of our building. You just had to cross the main avenue to get to him. I was on the balcony of my room for a while, looking into the dark of the park. It was a very windy night. The sky from moment to moment was filled with clouds that did not allow to see the moonlight I could see how the trees were moving again in a disturbing way. It didn' t take long to start raining hard. There was a rain with lightning and thunder. When it started raining I came to distinguish the macabre song from the ghost bird, but I was no longer afraid because I felt in the stillness of my room. I stayed for a few more minutes trying to identify the bird my dad told me about, but as the rain got more intense, it was impossible. I was about to get in when I noticed something very strange in the park in the dark a woman came out. She was completely dressed in black or at least that seemed just to be able to distinguish her white hair, which was dripping wet on her shoulders. I had to get out of the balcony because the rainwater was starting to wet me.

1:04:10 Anyway, I was attentive through the window I saw clearly how that woman quickly disappeared because of her physiognomy. She seemed like a very old woman, but I was surprised to see her run so fast. She went to the peripheral and it was no longer possible for me to know who it was. In the distance, I heard again the same disturbing lament that when I was in the park at that time I began to doubt whether there were only wild animals inside the park. The storm didn' t happen for more than two hours. I had no urge to sleep early because the next day I had no school, so I stayed awake because I was intermittently listening to that strange lament.

1:04:54 Although my dad had told me that it was a bird, it seemed to me that it was not a sound, that a bird could replicate as if it were a human. I was startled because I heard noises in the kitchen. It was the cat my dad had taken care of. He probably felt better because he was looking for food in the cupboard. I opened a cat food envelope and put it on the plate. The animal began to eat desperately for the surgery had been fasting and was just beginning to recover. I was with the cat until he finished eating. I was no longer sleepy, so I went to the living room to watch some TV. That' s how he kept taking care of the cat. He settled next to me.

1:05:34 While I was looking for something on TV I found an old show that made me laugh a lot. Little by little he started to make me sleepy without realizing it. I fell asleep sitting, but the cat woke me up, who jumped suddenly and sat in the middle of the room looking at the front door. Still sleepy, I picked him up to take him to his bed. However, the cat refused to take him to me, jumped out of my arms and stood behind the door. He didn' t understand the cat ' s behavior because he then started rubbing his head at the door. Suddenly I heard a noise outside. I looked through the peephole. I didn' t see anyone outside, but the cat kept mauling. I had the confidence to open the door because I had already checked that no one will be found outside. The cat ran up the stairs. It was very strange to see that the floor was wet. I found him standing over the stairs that were still wet. I grabbed him to get in before I entered the apartment, heard the same scary lament that I already recognized from that bird. I can ' t deny that I found it disturbing, but it also gave me a little peace of mind to know that it was a bird and not anything else strange for that moment. The rain was already giving way. I set the cat up and went to rest. The next day I didn' t attend high school. I had to make arrangements to get into high school, which was very close to my house. Before I left, I looked up at the window. Saul was waiting for me. We were supposed to go together.

1:07:09 As soon as my friend saw me, he told me that in the evening he heard the same regret that we had heard in the park, that he had been afraid because it seemed that it was a person' s regret. I noticed Saul very upset so I tried to calm him down. I told him that I had also heard him and that, like him, he gave me a little fear, but that he did not worry was simply the singing of the ghost bird. I didn' t want to comment on everything that happened with the cat, because it would have been more upset, even though he was still very restless. What seemed very strange to me was realizing that, while we did not know of the existence of that bird, I had never heard that regret. Until we saw her. We keep listening to her. Without saying anything else to my friend. I started investigating the ghost bird on my own. I found some pictures of her. It was a species about forty to fifty centimetres long. He had big yellow jumping eyes.

1:08:06 Its plumage was mostly gray as the color of the bark of the trees, so it was easy to camouflage with any branch of a tree. The cat just had to take care of him the next night. Then I' d go back to their owners. I was awake until midnight, while the cat purred very close to the door. He stood there looking at her for a while. I found the cat' s behavior strange. All of a sudden he started to maul. At the same time he scratched the door as if he wanted to leave. I went to pick him up to calm him down, but he jumped upset. At the same time he scratched my arm and kept scratching the door. I peeked into the peephole at the door. I was surprised what I saw outside. There was a woman with her face stuck at the door. It was so much as amazement that I jumped back.

1:09:00 I covered my mouth with my hand trying not to make any sound so that that woman wouldn' t notice my presence. Instead, the cat was still standing at the door in fear. I looked up again, although there was no one out there The fear didn' t get away from me because I heard that scary lament on the street. I ran to the balcony of my room. I kind of related that lament to the woman I saw behind my door. It may sound crazy, but more than a bird. I thought it was that woman in the natural park there was no one. I thought it was all because of my excited nerves. I stayed for a few minutes looking out. I was just about to go into my room. When I saw the same woman walking towards the park. On this occasion I walked slowly.

1:09:49 I kept seeing her carefully in the colony. There were several people on the street. I already recognized most of them, but not that woman. As she walked behind her on her way to the pair, she kept watching her carefully until she stopped. He looked in the direction I was in. He stayed quiet for a few seconds. Seeing what I was doing. My body was filled with chills, though I thought it was not possible for him to hurt me from the outside. However, she crossed the street and started walking towards my building, taking a few steps back. Suddenly he stopped, raised his hands and moved them in a very strange way. At the same time he opened his mouth and from it came the same disturbing lament. It was like she was getting ready to do something else, because she started running with incredible speed. It was so much fear that I got into my room right away. I closed the window and the curtains. I stood behind them that night. Only a light rain fell and there was no wind. I could hear when she jumped onto the balcony and started scratching my window with her fingernails. It was an annoying squeak that in turn was scary. I walked away from the window. I didn' t know where to hide, because I was afraid that at any moment the window would open wide and she would enter my room through the curtain. He was able to see his silhouette moving from one side to the other as if trying to find a way in.

1:11:21 However, he did not. After a few minutes he left in the distance. I heard the same regret again. I sat in bed with my feet shrunk for a long time. The rain was rising. Although I no longer had any disturbing appearances outside my room, it was difficult for me to fall asleep. The rest of the night I was attentive to that regret. I heard it several times in the distance, as if it was getting farther away, but that didn' t give me any peace of mind. I heard other noises inside the apartment. I went out with mistrust. He was the cat who made his own, jumping everywhere, throwing everything around him. I grabbed him to stop messing around, but he got more upset and scratched me again. This time I couldn' t stand it anymore. I threw him to the floor with annoyance, while he seemed to notice my anger, because he stared at me, opened his eyes and bowed his head. I didn ' t know if everything was the result of my nervous disturbance, but I had the feeling that that cat realized how I felt and laughed at me.

1:12:33 My dad went out to see what was going on. I told him I didn' t want to have that cat anymore. He was very annoying at night and he wouldn' t let me rest well. My dad asked me to calm down that the next day I would take him to the office because his owners were already picking him up. It was at that moment that I asked who that cat belonged to. My dad told me that a lady heard him at the office. It seemed a little strange to that woman because she spoke very little. He asked for his personal data, but he didn' t want to give him that information. He just told my dad his name was Maria and left. I had the impression that that cat belonged to the same woman I had seen, but it was not safe. I wanted to tell my dad what had happened, but I didn' t dare to do it because I thought he wouldn' t believe me, because on several occasions he came to tell me that the ghost bird was related to witches, because the lament he was uttering was very similar to what they were doing, but they were only wrong beliefs of people. The ghost bird was only an animal with peculiar characteristics, but nothing more. He had no relationship with evil beings.

1:13:49 Though his lamentation was disturbing, he was still part of the animal kingdom. My father kept his promise. The next day he took the cat a break for everyone, because the cat was acting worse and worse. I thought the next night I was gonna be able to rest better, but it didn ' t happen that way, because it started raining since the afternoon. I figured in about two hours, the rain would stop and I could walk out into the natural park. However, the storm increased in intensity every time. The sky went completely black. The wind was blowing very loudly, so much so that it opened the window of my room. When I approached to close the window, it was almost impossible to see out from the rain so intense that it was falling. As I changed my clothes the light went out the house and the colony was in the dark. It only lit up for instants by lightning. When lightning lit the sky, I could see the figure of that woman behind the window. He stared at me, lowered his face a little and smiled in a sinister way. Then I didn' t know what happened I only managed to distinguish a bird flying between the storm. The regret was deeper and more disturbing. Then everything was quiet. In a few minutes the rain began to give way. There was only the disaster that had caused in the streets, as several trees fell. The avenue was completely flooded.

1:15:16 Many cars were stranded between traffic and flooding. That night was chaos the next morning that I went to help my father to the vet. The place had also been ravaged, the water had been put in, although the animals we had had nothing happened to them. I noticed my dad was very worried. He told me he couldn' t find the cat. I had left him one more night at the vet' s, he didn' t want me to give him any more trouble. He stayed to sleep at the place, but when he woke up the cat had disappeared. I noticed my dad scared and distracted. Something bad seemed to have happened to him, but he wouldn ' t say it. Little by little he calmed down with the passing of days, told me that the owner of the cat never came for him, although the cat had probably already arrived with her, because neither of them appeared.

1:16:13 I never told my dad what I saw in the natural park, nor that the ghost bird was really a witch who was desperate to have the cat by her side. She firmly believed that the cat was a human being transformed into an animal and that the ghost bird was actually a witch and it was she who caused the terrible storm to recover her cat, because after the cat disappeared, everything was calm the Sea Witch made great friends. During my time at the University, I worked to cover my expenses and occasionally went on a trip to a nearby location. Like my colleagues, they also had a part - time job or were interns in some company. We were in the last semester of the bachelor' s degree, so we started organizing a trip to finish school. Several from the group of friends suggested that we go to Cancun or Acapulco. I told them that if we wanted to be on the beach for a week, we had to find a place that was not so touristy so it would be less expensive. My friends agreed, although I was entrusted with the task of finding a place where we could make camping. We had never slept in a cottage by the sea and wanted it to be an unforgettable experience. I started looking for few known places in the State of Jalisco.

1:17:45 I found a beach named Boca de Iguanas. According to the information I found, it said it was south of Jalisco, very close to tenacatita. On this beach camp and motor homes were allowed, so I thought it was the ideal place. As soon as I saw my schoolmates, I shared with them the beach I had liked. Just like me. My friends didn' t know him either They hadn' t even heard of this place. Five months to finish college, the time needed to raise money and implements to be able to travel and camp. We went on a trip in the year two thousand five, At the end of September, one of my friends was not able to accompany us because her mother had become serious and was hospitalized. The rest of the group of friends left on a very early Monday morning. My friend Alejandro was with whom he had the best relationship, although he was also very close to his and Araceli. When we got to the mouth of iguanas and saw the beach, we didn' t regret choosing that place. It was a bay that allowed the waves not to be so intense. A tropical estuary where we were told he had coconutd. In addition, the large strip of Palmeras was ideal for camping. The beach was almost alone. In the distance I could see some local people, as well as fishermen. We were all pleased by the desolateness of the place and how beautiful it was. That day

1:19:16 we dedicated ourselves to walking around the village and getting to know a little bit about the place. In a funda where we had breakfast, they told us that if we went up the hill we would find a cave that was very large and inside it was heard the water that ran from a river. In the afternoon we set out to set up our tents. It was a bit of a complicated task, because it was the first time we did it. After a while of trying to connect the tubes, we did it. The resting place was ready. I went with my friends to the shore of the beach. We stayed there drinking beers and talking anecdotes about when we were younger while we were talking. I thought I saw something moving inside the sea.

1:20:00 Maybe I was wrong, but I looked like a person Swimming I told my friends they stayed for a second watching without seeing anything. They didn' t pay much attention to me. They said they were very tired. It had been a very agitated day and they went to sleep. I' ve been looking at the darkness of the sea for a while. I was almost sure that I had seen something in the waves, although I was not certain. Later Alexander arrived and sat next to me. He told me that it was most normal that I had seen movement between the water, especially because it was night and the marine animals felt more confident to walk on the shore. It was when they went out to get their food. I didn' t stay any longer. I went into the campaign house to rest. My friends had stayed together, so I left with my friend. Tiredness overcame us very soon.

1:20:57 We fell asleep. Soon I was asleep. When I heard noises outside the campaign house. I looked at Alejandro and he was asleep. For a moment I thought it might be one of my friends who had gone to the bathroom. I opened the lock and looked outside. There was no one. However, he kept hearing that the vegetation was moving. I thought it could be a wild animal, so I immediately shut down the campaign house and lay down trying to identify what produced that noise was lying down. The silence of the night allowed me to hear any external sound. I clearly heard some footsteps around the house. It was as if that animal or whatever it was, was prowling around and then attacking. Suddenly I heard he started scratching the ground, like he was trying to make a hole under the house so he could get in. That' s when I woke Alejandro up I signaled him to remain silent and to pay attention and my friend was unexpectedly attentive. That animal tore the campaign house without thinking about it. He dropped a blow that he surely gave him somewhere in that animal' s body, because we heard when he complained, so he soon left. The rest of the night. We almost didn' t sleep We were alert to any noise. We thought that at any moment the wild animal could return. It was about dawn. When

1:22:28 I decided to leave the house, I checked everywhere around. I saw the campaign house damaged by the scratch that the animal made, as well as its footprints marked on the sand. It was strange because they didn' t look like footprints of an animal, but of a person. I no longer wanted to find explanations for the event. Later we walked towards rocks that were on the other side. From there it was possible to admire the sea and the sunrise. Suddenly I saw someone swimming deep into the sea. I pointed to Alejandro. He also saw when that person plunged. I' ve been watching for over ten minutes. I was hoping he' d come out for air, but that being didn' t happen again. I thought I had confused him with some fish, although I had the doubt because clearly I saw that he had long hair. We went to town for breakfast while we waited for our food. I asked the waitress if there were wild animals on the beach.

1:23:31 She said yes, but when they came down from the hill, they usually stayed in the estuary, because it not only housed crocodiles, but because of the marsh conditions it could protect a biodiversity of aquatic and terrestrial animals. I asked the waitress insistently if, for any reason, any animal could be near the camping area. I think the girl was overwhelmed with such a question. Why he shrugged his shoulders and ran away. My friends told me to relax and maybe it won' t happen again. Yeah. I didn' t want to discuss the matter. I' d rather not say anything and try to forget what happened at the funda. Again we were told that we could climb the hill to see the cave. Without hesitation, we went to know the place so commented on in the village. We walked towards the cave.

1:24:26 As soon as we got to her, I felt a weird feeling. It was like I felt watched. I was under the impression that there was someone inside the cave. I wanted to tell my friends, but I didn ' t because they already said I imagined things. As soon as we enter the cave, we feel the change in temperature. Perhaps it was because it was a place where the sun did not enter, so it remained wet and cool all the time. I could hear the sound of the river running to the bottom Araceli told me to go swimming in the river. I told him not to go deep into the cave anymore. Maybe we could get the wild animal out again. The best thing was to leave and be safe. My friends didn' t even listen to me. They went to bathe in the underground river. I went after them, though I had no intention of getting in while I was waiting for them, sitting on a stone. I saw someone on the other side of the cave moving in the dark. I told my friends to get out right away because there was someone on the other side, his yes screamed loudly, because something had grabbed his foot. He didn ' t finish saying it. When he sank, Alexander plunged to look for her. My friends took a while to emerge. I was about to get in when I saw Alejandro bringing his between Aracel and I helped them out.

1:25:46 We started giving him first aid. When he poured water and began coughing, I noticed that his leg and neck had red marks. It was like they wanted to suffocate her. When she got her breath back or we asked her what had happened, she couldn' t answer us because she had no idea what happened. He just felt a hand pull her off his foot. He thought he wasn' t going to get out alive anymore. Then he lost consciousness and leaned on Alexander to get out of the cave. Before we all left, we heard a strange lament. It seemed as if someone were inside and wanted us not to leave that cry, it was heard louder again, which meant that the animal was closer. We almost ran out of the place.

1:26:33 When I saw the entrance to the cave, I was relieved. However, before I left, I felt someone holding my arm. I didn' t even try to turn around I snuck out as I could, and I didn' t turn back. Until I was out on my arm, there were a few holes left. He had no religious belief whatsoever, but Alexander and Aracel and Yes, as they passed through the altar of the Virgin of Guadalupe, asked him to take care of them and protect them. We went to one of the country houses trying to understand what had happened to us, but none of us could know what was trying to hurt us. I told them it was probably a wild animal that had its lair inside the cave, but Alexander said it was not a wild animal, but another kind of creature, one he didn' t know because it caught up with him to see his face under the water. We asked him more about that savage being, but he couldn' t see it clearly because it was very dark. That day we stayed on the beach trying to assimilate what happened. We ordered food in a restaurant near the sea and a fisherman who accommodated his boat and decided to approach. I asked him how much he knew about the wild animals in the estuary. The fisherman, with some distrust, told me that very little.

1:27:53 I showed him my arm hurt. He just told me to be very careful because at night the crocodiles went out to get their food, although what attacked us in the cave was perhaps not a crocodile, but another kind of creature. I explained to the fisherman that we were camping. I pointed him at our tents. I just wanted to know if we could stay for the night, if we could be sure. The fisherman told me that if we didn' t bother the creature, she wouldn' t do anything to us either, but that we should be very careful at night because she was a lover of darkness and went out for a walk every night. She continued to say that there was a woman who waited for her husband. He was also a fisherman who went out in the early morning to fish when all the fishermen arrived on their boats with nets loaded with fish. She waited for her partner, but he never came back. He asked the other fishermen about him.

1:28:50 The fishermen told her that her husband did not go fishing that morning, that maybe he went to the other side of the sea or some other beach, but with them he was not. The woman stayed all day waiting for her husband. Her two sons were with her, and several men told her that it was best for her to go to rest. Perhaps her husband was already at home, but she never left the beach, after being insisted many times that she take her children to rest she did not want to leave the sea. They left her alone. The next day, no one knew about her. Fishermen entered the sea as usual. People said that they found their two children drowned in the sea, but her body did not appear, nor did they hear anything about her husband. Some said he had abandoned her because she was a witch. Others said her husband went fishing elsewhere and also drowned.

1:29:50 That' s why he never came back. As soon as the fisherman finished his story, I asked him if it was just a legend or really had happened. He replied that many people said that it was not true, that it was only stories invented by people. However, he had seen her walk along the beach several times while on the sea fishing. I thanked the fisherman and left as soon as I arrived with my friends, I told them everything the fisherman told me, but they didn' t believe me, arguing that legends were like that. As they passed the information orally, they became deformed and each person added to their own imagination and that what attacked us in the cave was nothing more than an animal that felt invaded as it entered their den.

1:30:40 I didn' t want to go into the fisherman' s account. I only warned them that if at night the same animal was hanging around the country houses, the next day we were going to stay in a hotel. They agreed and we stayed the rest of the afternoon on the beach we saw the sunset until that one. The darkness of the night came. Very late we went to rest again I slept next to Alexander. He had taken more alcohol and was drunk as soon as he lay down. He fell completely asleep, snoring in a noisy way. With everything and the noise my friend made, I fell asleep immediately. I didn' t know how long it was, but the sound of a lament woke me up was identical to the one I had heard in the cave. I kept an eye out to see what was going on. Then I started to hear footsteps around my friends' campaign house. It looked like he was looking for someone and not finding them right away. He went to the house where he slept with my friend Alejandro.

1:31:42 He was going around several times until he stopped and started scratching on the ground, doing the same thing as the night before. I started moving my friend trying to wake him up, but he was deep asleep. I shook him hard until he could get out of sleep. With a very low voice, I told him that the wild animal was again outside the campaign house. Just as I told you, we heard the sinister lament as if you were warning that you had already found your prey. I was afraid more wild animals would come to our homes. I heard when they tore the tent cloth. I saw a bony hand with long nails dragging Alejandro. He had a huge force.

1:32:26 He was trying to get away without getting it. He yelled at me to help him. I went after him. His and Araceli peeked out to see what was happening. I asked them to help me pull Alejandro so the animal wouldn' t take him, but they were paralyzed with fear and didn ' t even try to get up. I couldn' t see what kind of animal took my friend until we passed the Palmeras area and the moonlight lit up his face, which I saw puzzled me. She was a very thin, tall woman. His long hair moved in the wind. He had his arms and his bony legs with very long hands. It was disturbing to see his face. When he lifted his face, I saw a sinister smile on him. His eyes were two dark basins with a white glow. He had no nose, his hair was straight and covered a part of his face.

1:33:21 Then he moved his head sideways and opened his mouth wide. At the same time he again uttered that lament that was disturbing and sinister. He just stopped for a few seconds, long enough to see her. While she was holding Alejandro' s legs, I wasn' t letting go of his arms, my friend shouted that he wouldn' t let go. That monster pulled Alexander so hard that I could no longer hold him. I let him go while he tried to hold on to any bush. He could have grabbed a log, but the monster fit his long fingernails into his forearms. He either did it or caused him to let go. The worst thing happened when he got to the beach. She started contorting and walking backwards like a giant spider.

1:34:10 I never understood why he did it. Even though he didn' t release my friend at any moment. Then he joined and took his normal posture to bring my friend Alejandro into the sea. Little by little I saw them disappear in the water. When I came out of my terror I ran after him. Sussy and Araceli did the same. They didn' t try to get into the sea. I did try to catch up with that woman. He could still see his head with his hair floating in the water. He went in until he disappeared with my friend. It was seconds or minutes that I stayed at sea with the wave swing until one of them rolled me over and pushed me to the beach. Only in that way could I react because I had run out of thoughts and words. Araceli and his were coming to meet me. They cried in anguish and fear. I thought I' d go report to the civil protection guys so they could help us get my friend Araceli out. He wanted to do the best thing was for one of us to stay on the beach to see if Alejandro was coming out of the sea.

1:35:16 I told them to go both to ask anyone who could support us for help. They ran to the village. I sat desolate in the sand. I knew my friend wasn' t going out anymore because it had been several minutes before that moment he would already be drowned. In a short time people from the village came to support us. Among the men who came to the sea, he recognized the fisherman. He didn' t even try to get into the sea. The rest of the men told them that the boy would no longer be found. The woman from the sea had taken him away. Most of the men who came to support us were fishermen. Another of them told us that his son had also laughed the sea witch. Surely it was a curse that had passed time. Stories written and adapted by Adriana Cuevas