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The Harlequin. He was working in
a company that was involved in the production

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of medicines and everything related to the
pharmaceutical industry was employed in production and in

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that organization there were very few days
that he stopped producing, so he played

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a shift for a week. He
worked in the morning, the next one

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in the afternoon and then in the
evening. The most difficult shift for me

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was the night shift, because there
came a time when it gave me a

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lot of sleep, but I couldn' t rest, because my job was

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to check the serums. So they
were going through a band. If any

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of the serums did not meet quality
control standards, I would take it out

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of the belt and place it in
a special container. The same was true

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of the medicines and other products produced
by the laboratory. The work in the

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company was not heavy, but constant, because the whole shift had to be

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working except for lunchtime. The lab
gave us an hour to eat food.

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In addition, he had his own
dining room service, so it was not

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necessary to go out and spend on
the street. The catering service was organized

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with different schedules so that all workers
did not agree at the same time.

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Anyway, at lunchtime it was when
I had the opportunity to meet and talk

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with other people from different production areas
of the company. So it was,

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as Veronica knew, although she was
in the packing area we almost always agreed

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on the shift and the time that
the catering service assigned us to the exit

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from work. We were leaving together
in the transport that the lab provided.

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Veronica lived closer than me so she
got off the truck. First I was

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a little further away, but it
wasn' t a complication because the truck

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left me near my house. It
was only necessary for him to walk a

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few streets to arrive, only when
it was night he had to walk in

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desolate streets. No mishap ever happened
to me, but I was afraid to

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go through the empty and dark streets. I lived next to my mom.

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I had two brothers who already lived
apart with their families, so most of

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the time we were just my mother
and I was a little sorry to leave

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her alone because she was already big
and had a hard time walking. There

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were times when I had extra time
in the lab, so I only got

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to sleep at my house, so
I saw very little of my mom.

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She told me she was lonely.
I was looking for ways to make her

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feel good, but it wasn'
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of time. My mom' s
birthday was coming up, so I thought

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I' d give her a reception
with my brothers and their families. That

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' s why one day I didn' t go back to my house at

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the shuttle service or or or and
asked my friend Veronica to come with me

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to buy her a special present downtown. We went one day in the afternoon

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to walk through the shops. My
mother had a taste for ancient and peculiar

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objects. In the house there was
a furniture in which she had collected through

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time ceramic and porcelain ornaments from different
parts of the Republic. Family members and

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acquaintances who knew of his preferences brought
him some ceramic items as gifts. He

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had elephants, giraffes, dogs,
fish and more, but one of the

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strangest was a ceramic doll that was
well made. It seemed like it was

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real. While looking for her gift
by my friend' s side, Veronica

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pulled me by the arm. She
saw a bazaar that had a large assortment

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of items for the house. Usually
the bazaars he had gone to were small

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locals that piled things up everywhere.
The bazaar my friend found didn' t

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make much of the difference to sception, which was very big. It had

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several hallways with shelves full of old
things, some newer ones, but everything

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was unordered. The bazaar seemed a
little strange to me. The glass on

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the door was painted black, which
did not allow much light to enter.

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Moreover, it had only one light
bulb of yellow light, which was not

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enough to illuminate all the parts of
the premises. On the furthest shelves of

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the entrance there was almost everything in
complete darkness, which made the objects in

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that part look a little disturbing.
There were dolls of all sizes. While

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I was walking down the hall,
I got the impression that some dolls were

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closing their eyes. I told my
friend to come and see them. She

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was across the hall that one of
the dolls had closed her eyes. Veronica

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didn' t pay much attention to
me. He grabbed his wrist and with

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his hand opened him and closed his
eyes. She was one of those old

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dolls that didn' t have her
eyes fixed, but my friend was in

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her hands. Another strangest object was
a porcelain harlequin. He was in an

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exceptional state, perfectly cared for,
with his face very well done and his

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suit well crafted. The harlequin was
not very large, measuring about thirty centimeters.

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I had an intense red suit that
I liked as soon as I saw

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it My friend knew about my mom' s tastes, so as soon as

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she saw it, she thought it
might be the ideal gift. I didn

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' t look anymore. I was
excited, just like my friend, we

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approached the box to pay for it. At the counter was an elderly man.

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When he saw that I was holding
the Harlequin in my hands. He

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smiled. He told us it was
an excellent choice, as the article was

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very old. The seller gave us
the price of the harlequin. It got

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expensive. I told my friend I
wasn' t gonna buy it. She

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told me that, knowing my mom, I was sure she would like it

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a lot besides and it was very
expensive for me. She helped me with

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half, of course I told her
I didn' t pay and before I

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left the bazaar shop, I wanted
to go with my friend to see her

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wrist again, as I was sure
she had moved her eyes. But veronica

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no longer wanted to, because she
thought everything was the product of my imagination.

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So we left the place, walked
down different streets to buy what was

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needed for my mom' s birthday
celebration. Next Saturday we' ll meet

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at the house. My brothers came
along with their wives and children. Each

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one brought him a gift, but
when I gave him the one I bought

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and broke the gift paper the smile
he outlined, my mom was worth what

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the Harlequin had cost immediately put it
in the middle of her furniture. He

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set aside the porcelain doll and the
Harlequin sat down. The family reunion ended

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around ten o' clock at night. My brothers said goodbye and left.

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I told Veronica I could sleep in
the house. Since there were two single

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rooms and the next day was Sunday, so we didn' t work.

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Veronica gladly agreed, alerted her mom
and stayed longer talking. My mom went

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to rest. As soon as my
brothers left, I stayed with my friend,

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we made a bed for the living
room sofa, and we set out

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to watch a movie. We couldn' t see her completely because she started

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beating us, so we' d
rather go to sleep. I immediately fell

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asleep and fell into a deep sleep. I didn' t know what hours

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it would be when I started hearing
fret noises in the kitchen, as if

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someone had gone to get food.
I thought it was my mom. I

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heard when one of the cups broke
when it fell to the ground. I

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was just gonna get up to see
if my mom was okay, but the

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fatigue beat me. I noticed that
there was light under the door and I

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completely covered myself with the blanket.
The next day, my mom was preparing

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the desayo. One. Veronica was
talking to her. I asked them which

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one of them got up in the
kitchen at night. My mom said she

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was so tired, she never woke
up. He slept all night, like

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he hadn' t before. Veronica
replied that she too had slept well.

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I told them not to play with
me. I heard, when a cup

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broke when it fell to the ground
as a joke, I told them that

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they probably broke my favorite cup and
that' s why they told me that

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they hadn' t gotten up.
I went immediately to the cupboard to show

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my friend my rate. When I
opened the door to the furniture, I

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found all the broken cups inside.
I took the rest of a cup trying

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to understand what had happened, but
I couldn' t give a logical explanation

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to the event. My friend saw
me so seriously that she thought I was

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upset about my cup. It wasn' t that. The cup was the

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least. What intrigued me a lot
was knowing what had happened at night.

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I heard someone was in the kitchen
and it wasn' t the product of

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my imagination, because the proof was
obvious. I didn' t want to

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give much importance to what happened.
I cleaned up dinner and stopped talking about

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what happened because I saw my mom
worried. I asked him not to care

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and we went to the living room. As soon as I sat on the

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furniture, I asked my mom about
the Harlequin. She had left it in

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the bookseller and was gone. He
couldn' t answer me. He told

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me he had no idea where he
was, because the night before he left

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it there. In the afternoon,
veronica told me it was time to go

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home. I accompanied her to the
truck stop on my return. I went

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to get some rest as soon as
I lay down. When I saw the

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Harlequin in the dressing room, I
grabbed him and took him to his place.

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I was going to ask my mom
why I left it in my room,

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but I knew she already forgot a
lot. Maybe she was going to

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answer me that she didn' t
know, so I didn' t read

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to her I said anything. Next
week I was on the night shift.

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On Monday I lay down to rest
in the afternoon so that I could be

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in vigil during the shift. My
mom went to pray the rosary. I

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knew she' d stay for mass
later, so I was left alone in

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the house. I played music so
I could relax and fall asleep. Soon

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I didn' t know how long
I fell asleep until I heard the music

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went up in volume. Then I
heard another kind of melody. It was

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a strange song. I didn'
t know the genre and I didn'

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t like it. Little by little
the volume went up. I got up

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right away to turn off Alexa.
I gave him the order to stop and

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I didn' t do it flat. I had to disconnect it. It

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was the only way for the device
to stop ringing. I thought it was

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a flaw. I saw it was
seven o' clock in the afternoon.

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I still had to get to work, but I wasn' t sleepy anymore.

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I made myself something to eat and
sat in the living room eating while

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watching TV. Since my mom didn' t laugh, she only had the

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kitchen light on as far as the
living room. There was a little lighting

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coming in. The rest of the
house was dark in the movie I was

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watching. I liked it a lot
until a noise in my mom' s

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room made me stop seeing her.
First I thought she was my mother,

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but I remembered she wasn' t
there. I went to his room to

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see that he had fallen I found
several jars pulled from his dressing room.

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The balm jar he used for his
rheumatism had been broken, so the room

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was filled with arnica camphori odor had
no choice, so I started cleaning the

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floor. I noticed the window was
open and there was a lot of wind

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outside. I thought that was the
reason the bottles had fallen off. As

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I continued to sink on the floor
cleaning, I saw something moving under the

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bed. I got up right away
thinking it was a rat. I went

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for a broom without looking under the
bed because I was afraid to find the

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rat. I passed the broom several
times clearly heard that there was something,

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but then everything was silent. I
didn' t want to look anymore because

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I was afraid of rats. I
thought I' d take a fumigator to

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exterminate the plague. I heard when
my mom came to the house. He

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told me he left before Mass because
he felt bad, so he got to

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rest. He slept in his bed. I hadn' t noticed she looked

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down and pale. I offered him
some food babbling. He replied that not

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only did he feel very tired and
fell asleep. The time to get to

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work was approaching. I rushed to
get ready while I was in the transport

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truck. I started to analyze what
was happening in the house, because several

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strange things had already happened. Later
on my friend Veronica went up. I

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told him what had happened. She
found a solution to the problem because she

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told me that the heat was starting
and it was common for pests to also

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appear. At his house. There
were many cockroaches and they were also beginning

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to see traces that rats were working. When the watchman told me they were

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calling me on the phone, it
was my mom. We weren' t

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allowed to use the cell phone during
the shift. I left it in the

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locker. Only in emergency situations could
they call us at the reception line.

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As soon as I heard the watchman, I thought something really bad had happened

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to my mom. I went immediately
to answer the call. I asked my

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mom what was going on, but
it wasn' t her voice. There

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was someone else on the other side
of the line who told me to be

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calm, as I was taking care
of my mom. She would no longer

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feel alone, because she would always
accompany her. I just wanted to warn

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myself not to worry about her.
Then there was a loud noise, so

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loud that I had to get the
device out of my ear. The watchman

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heard it too. He stared at
me without comment. I went quickly with

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my immediate boss I explained my mom' s situation, although she didn'

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t even care, because she told
me she couldn' t leave my workplace

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like this. Everything was done as
a team, and if one piece was

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missing, it was all out of
control at four in the morning. There

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were still two hours to finish my
shift. What my boss did was let

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me out a little earlier, but
I couldn' t do anything else.

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I continued to work with a sense
of anxiety, despair and doubt. As

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soon as my boss let me out, I went without saying goodbye to Veronica

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on the way out. I took
a cab at that time. There was

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very little traffic, so I arrived
very quickly. While I was on my

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way to the house. I figured
out all kinds of things, like there

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was a thief inside and that I
had my mom kidnapped. I also thought

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the worst my mother could be dead. As soon as I got home,

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I stopped for a moment. I
hesitated a bit to get in because I

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didn' t know what I was
going to find. I put the key

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in the lock trying to make as
little noise as possible. It wasn'

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t dawn yet It was dark.
I went into the house looking for my

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mom. I checked the kitchen in
the living room in my room I went

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to his room. She wasn'
t even aware of my presence. I

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sat on the couch that was on
the side of my mother' s bed.

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I was trying to understand what had
happened and who was the person who

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spoke to me on the phone at
work. My mom started moving in a

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restless way. I felt like I
had a nightmare. I talked to her

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and she opened her eyes and stared
at me. He asked me where I

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was and I asked him who he
meant who he was with me all night.

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He sang, danced, made me
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First I thought that my mom had
had an episode of madness or that she

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felt or so lonely that I imagined
things I approached telling her that there was

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no one at home. I had
gone to work on the night shift and

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she was left alone, but my
mom said he wasn' t in the

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house. I walked all over the
house in fear of encountering an unpleasant surprise,

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but there was no one. Everything
was in order. I only realized

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that the Harlequin was not in the
place where I had left it. I

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looked everywhere for him without finding him. I went with my mother to see

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if she had changed places the gift
I gave her smiling said that he was

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the one who accompanied her during the
night. He actually had a really fun

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night and he promised him he'
d never leave his side. Every time

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she was left alone, the Harlequin
would accompany her. I couldn' t

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believe my mother' s words.
So much was her loneliness that she was

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able to feel accompanied by a toy
Although inside me I tried to give her

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a reasonable explanation, I knew that
something was not right I approached her to

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tell her that I would try to
stay with her longer. I' d

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ask for the holiday week that I
already had and we' d go to

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the place she wanted. However,
he replied that it was not necessary.

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She felt very comfortable with him that
I could stay extra time in the lab.

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Now she was accompanied. I didn' t want to talk about it

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anymore. It was obvious that he
was not in his right mind. The

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best thing was to make decisions about
it again. I looked for the Arlequin,

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although what my mom was saying to
me seemed crazy. I had a

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little doubt about what he told me. Suddenly I saw the Harlequin sitting on

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the furniture where I had already looked
for it and had not found it.

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I held it and checked it in
detail. The Harlequin had his red dress.

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In his head. He had a
hat with two long tips of the

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same color as his stroke. His
face was finely crafted. He kept a

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strange smile all the time. I
watched him very carefully as if I expected

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to find something in him that would
allow me to agree with my mom,

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but the Harlequin kept his smile static
all the time. I went back to

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my mother' s bedroom, I
didn' t ask her any questions anymore.

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I plattered with her as if nothing
abnormal had happened. I tried to

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get him up to make him something
to eat. Then I' d go

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to sleep. She tried to get
in without getting it. I noticed his

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legs hurt a lot. I took
her blanket off to check it out.

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She had her legs full of bruises
as if she had been beaten. When

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he tried to get up, he
couldn' t. She told me she

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was feeling very dizzy. That'
s when I realized the extreme paleness on

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his face. I put her in
bed with a lot of pillows. I

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brought him something to eat because I
probably didn' t realize he wasn'

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t eating well. I asked him
not to get up. I made her

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a quick breakfast. You could tell
I wasn' t hungry. He just

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ate some fruit and took the orange
juice. The dream was beginning to wreak

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havoc on my body. I slept
with my mom and went to rest earlier.

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I told my mom that anything she
needed could talk to me right away

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I fell asleep. Strange noises woke
me up apparently. I fell asleep for

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a long time. The house was
silent and with the lights out suddenly I

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heard a strange sound. I immediately
thought about my mom going to her room.

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What I saw was really grotesque.
I was stuck to my mom'

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s leg. It looked like he
was sucking his blood. I stayed at

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the door and didn' t know
what to do. Suddenly, the Harlequin

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realized my presence and stopped sucking my
mom' s leg. He lifted his

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face slowly and made his smile bigger. I immediately ran to the door,

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but realized that I could not leave
my mother with that cursed object I returned

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and the Harlequin was gone. I
tried to wake my mom up without getting

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it, it looked like she was
unconscious. I started to hear noises in

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the kitchen, you heard the frets
that fell to the floor and broke.

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I didn' t care, I
just wanted to get out of the house

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and take my mother. Since I
could not do so, I marked Veronica

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as soon as I could tell her
that I needed her help. When I

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saw the Harlequin standing in my mom' s room, I walked slowly making

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pirouettes with her legs. He got
close to the bed while listening to disturbing

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laughter from one moment to the next. I stopped seeing him. I just

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felt a blow to my head and
became unconscious when I woke up my friend

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Veronica was with me. He asked
me to take it easy right away.

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I asked him about my mom.
I tried to get in, but a

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severe headache wouldn' t let me. But from the couch I could see

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my mother' s pale face.
I looked at Veronica. She just felt

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as my mother had died, I
didn' t even doubt it anymore.

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It had been that cursed object.
I asked him to help me find him

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and return him to his owner.
He was responsible for what happened. My

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friend asked me to calm down.
My mother had suffered from a sudden attack,

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which caused her death. I told
him it wasn' t true.

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It was all the Harlequin' s
fault. I could hardly get up.

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I walked all over looking for him. I didn' t find him anywhere

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calmer. I explained to Veronica what
had happened. I thought you wouldn'

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t believe me. He didn'
t make any comments, he just asked

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me to try to take it easy. Thanks to my sisters. My mother

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had a dignified funeral, because I
had no head to digest everything that was

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going on. All the time I
was looking between people and furniture for that

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sinister being who was surely responsible for
my mom' s death. It was

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necessary to give me a lot of
painkillers to be calm. It was true

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that the loss of my mother was
very painful for me, but it made

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me more reluctant to know that that
gift I gave to her was out there

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waiting to find her new victim,
shortly before the time came for me to

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take my mother' s body to
the pantheon I could see it. There

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it was under one of the funeral
parlor benches. His smile was longer,

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which made him look more gloomy.
I couldn' t tell anyone what was

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going on because they already wanted to
take me to a mental hospital. I

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didn' t make any comments anymore. Upon arriving at my home I felt

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the great weight of loneliness. I
think it was the crucial moment when I

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really understood my mom Veronica was going
with me, she stayed that night to

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sleep to keep me company. Most
of the night I kept her awake at

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any noise. I was hoping to
see you again. It didn' t

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happen that way, not even in
the course of the next few days did

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I see it again. I'
d rather think he left because the damage

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was already done to the place of
the apparitions. I am originally from the

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municipality of Minatitlán, in the State
of Colima, a village located in the

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mountain, with large wooded areas that
have great areas to camp and enjoy nature,

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as well as a great waterfall.
In this village I lived next to

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my parents and my sisters. He
was the oldest of the children. My

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dad taught me the drill job.
The items my dad made the most were

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guaraches with leather straps, also girdles
and gun cases, but the latter were

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very few that were made with us. My grandmother Paterna also lived. She

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had been widowed five years ago.
He had several sons and daughters, but

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as they had all moved elsewhere.
The only one who had stayed in town

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was my dad. He therefore decided
to go and live with us. Grandma

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' s house didn' t have
that much construction, so my dad preferred

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to use it to plant vegetables and
fruit trees for our own consumption. Every

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once in a while my dad and
I went to the town of Comala to

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buy everything that was needed to make
the guaraches, from the skin, the

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nails, the glue, the chins. He told me that he taught me

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the trade so that I could continue
with it and have a way of getting

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the trade. I liked to perform
it next to my dad, but I

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didn' t see myself when I
was older doing the same thing especially because

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when we went to Comala and passed
by Colima, I wanted to go to

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work for those places. The first
time I told my dad that I didn

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' t intend to live in Huarachero
he bothered me. He didn' t

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tell me anything, but he was
very quiet all day. That' s

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why I didn' t say anything
to her again, although my idea of

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leaving town was firm. Comala was
a small village, very nice, with

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houses painted white red roof and stoned
streets very well maintained. It had some

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portals in front of the park where
they prepared very rich food. They did

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not serve in vastness of everything that
was sold. I liked the town so

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much that I thought it might be
a good option to go live there.

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In addition, Colima was only a
few minutes away from the village. As

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I walked through the streets of that
place, I looked at some housing I

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could rent in. No one had
the sign that I rented, so I

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asked Doña Carmen the cook who prepared
the food that my father and I used

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to eat on the portals, without
my dad noticing I approached her after she

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came from washing my hands. Doña
Carmen was always kind to us, so

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I was confident to ask her to
help me find a place to live.

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I was also interested to know the
cost of the room I was planning to

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rent and see if my budget would
give me to move out of residence.

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I was doing everything without my dad
noticing, since he didn' t agree

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that I should leave Minatitlan. He
believed that he could be his successor,

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of his trade and of the care
of the women of the house, but

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I did not see myself doing the
same thing as my father. My grandmother

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Margarita, she knew a lot about
plants, fillings, scares, accommodating the

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child to pregnant women and many other
things. People in the village often looked

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for her to give them natural remedies
and, above all, to help children

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calm down more, because there were
times when they cried without apparent cause.

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My grandmother would suck it and give
them some teas. I noticed that it

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was what I gave to the children, because then their mothers came very happy

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saying that their little ones had improved
a lot. I had a very good

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relationship with my grandmother because I learned
from her. Although it might seem a

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little strange, what she knew interested
me in knowing and putting it into practice.

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When she had any doubts about the
benefit or curse of any of the

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plants she had in her room,
she would explain to me all the details

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about the medicinal herb. I was
so confident in her that I told her

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the idea of leaving town, contrary
to what I thought. My grandmother was

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very pleased with my intention to look
for new horizons. He prepared a special

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amulet for my protection and good fortune. Thus, the amulet could open up

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paths for me to find wealth.
Maybe it was all his management, but

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it was something my grandmother and I
believed in. So I took the amulet

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he gave me and kept it very
well was the main object that would take

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me to eat it. My grandmother
was known in the village as a white

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witch who helped people not charge for
their service. I told the people I

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cared for, to give them what
they wanted, and if there was a

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woman who didn' t carry money, my grandmother wouldn' t bother.

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He gave her his job. I
learned many remedies and ways to cure diseases

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from her. There was a plant
that looked after jealously. It was a

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cactus he had in the yard was
already big. She told me that it

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was a very careful plant, because
if any person consumed, it could also

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die or have an effect contrary to
what was expected. I remember my grandmother

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looking everywhere before telling me that if
I gave someone a tea from the plant

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that person could lose his will.
That' s why it was very specific

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to use. Likewise, my grandmother
taught me rituals of protection and abundance so

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that I could do well in comala. She gave me a fetish that was

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a kind of mud doll that she
herself made out of the mud she brought

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from the waterfall. Then I'
d conjure him with protection. He told

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me he' d always be protected
with that amulet. My father didn'

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t like me learning from my grandmother' s knowledge. He said it was

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no use, but so many people
would go home to heal them and come

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back to thank my grandmother was no
big deal. There were compelling reasons to

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know that I did serve all the
knowledge I had about plants and white magic

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when I told my parents that I
was going to live in Comala to work.

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My dad' s reaction was a
little baffled. I noticed him sad

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and with great restraint. I thought
I would have felt better if it had

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been in C. She just told
me she was fine, she took care

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of me a lot, and she
walked out. My mom disagreed and behaved

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a little hostile about her. I
expected his support more and it was the

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opposite. Before I left, I
went to my grandmother' s room.

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I asked him for his blessing to
be protected and to do well. She

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gave me a long hug with which
I felt a lot of strength to get

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ahead in the face of any contrariety
that appeared. He pulled out a red

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scallop tied with a yellow ribbon.
He put it in my hand. I

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felt the coldness of the object.
When I opened it it was a round

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saying with many symbols inscribed. It
was a silver color. My grandmother took

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me by the hand, took me
to her window so I could see the

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best in daylight. Without asking him
any questions, he began to explain to

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me the meaning of each of the
symbols. I could easily recognize a five

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- peak star that was at the
center of the saying. He explained to

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me that if he used the saying
with a single tip of the star upwards

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it was for my protection, for
the beings of light to take care of

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me. On the contrary, if
I used it with the two tips up,

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it represented the darkness. I took
the amulet hard, thanking my grandmother

413
00:31:15.039 --> 00:31:21.240
for her protection. She took me
back by the arm to tell me that

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it was necessary to activate him to
fulfill his purpose. They were a series

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of instructions I had to carry out
during the crescent moon. On Sunday of

416
00:31:29.680 --> 00:31:33.440
that week, at twelve o'
clock on the day, I would begin

417
00:31:33.440 --> 00:31:37.519
to perform the ritual. After explaining
in detail how to activate it and the

418
00:31:37.559 --> 00:31:41.400
prayer I had to perform, he
smiled satisfied. He hung the amulet on

419
00:31:41.400 --> 00:31:47.720
my neck asking me never to take
it off like that. She would be

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00:31:48.240 --> 00:31:52.960
calm knowing that angels and beings of
light always accompanied me. It was the

421
00:31:53.079 --> 00:31:59.440
last Sunday of April, a few
days ago it had spent Easter Weeks and

422
00:31:59.480 --> 00:32:05.079
Easter Week. I wanted to leave
before the Lent festivities to get involved in

423
00:32:05.119 --> 00:32:08.559
the traditions of comala, but my
mother asked me to stay until after the

424
00:32:09.039 --> 00:32:15.079
Passover to carry out all the rituals
of the Church of the people. In

425
00:32:15.079 --> 00:32:19.599
the trucking station. My parents didn' t come with me to say goodbye.

426
00:32:20.079 --> 00:32:22.920
My mom probably didn' t do
it because she was still upset with

427
00:32:22.920 --> 00:32:27.440
me. Instead, I thought my
father hadn' t done it so he

428
00:32:27.519 --> 00:32:30.559
wouldn' t see it fall apart. Emotionally, my sisters and my grandmother

429
00:32:31.000 --> 00:32:36.119
went to the bus station. They
were there until I could no longer see

430
00:32:36.160 --> 00:32:39.640
them through the window of the truck. At that time I thought I was

431
00:32:39.720 --> 00:32:45.039
making a mistake and that I had
to stay with my family to continue with

432
00:32:45.119 --> 00:32:49.759
the family tradition. I felt a
knot in my throat that got stuck by

433
00:32:49.880 --> 00:32:54.119
the crying, but I had already
done everything I needed to leave I was

434
00:32:54.240 --> 00:32:58.640
brave and tried not to think of
my family, but of my longings.

435
00:32:59.559 --> 00:33:04.119
As the truck moved away from the
town that saw me born. The need

436
00:33:04.160 --> 00:33:07.920
to stay in the heat of the
home was dispelled, especially when we entered

437
00:33:07.960 --> 00:33:15.119
the city of Colima. I began
to get excited about the adventure that started

438
00:33:15.200 --> 00:33:17.839
before I arrived in Comala. The
road that led us to the village was

439
00:33:17.960 --> 00:33:23.240
a wide street surrounded by leafy trees
on both sides of the street, which

440
00:33:23.559 --> 00:33:28.480
intersected with the top of its branches, causing a natural arch that resembled a

441
00:33:28.599 --> 00:33:34.240
tunnel. It was very nice to
observe the road to Comala. On the

442
00:33:34.279 --> 00:33:37.200
way to the village, I felt
a strange feeling. I got the impression

443
00:33:37.200 --> 00:33:40.680
that someone was watching me in the
street through the window I tried to see

444
00:33:40.720 --> 00:33:45.960
if there was anyone outside without getting
to see anyone a chill. He invaded

445
00:33:46.079 --> 00:33:50.960
my whole body. I rubbed my
arms to calm that feeling, but the

446
00:33:51.039 --> 00:33:53.759
presence of the first houses, with
their roof tile, made me forget about

447
00:33:53.839 --> 00:33:59.920
the incident, which was quite strange, because it was weather or warm and

448
00:34:00.079 --> 00:34:06.119
as it was characterized by having a
very pleasant climate. As soon as I

449
00:34:06.160 --> 00:34:08.480
got off the bus, I went
straight to Carmen' s kitchen. I

450
00:34:08.599 --> 00:34:13.360
had already talked to her to help
me get a place to live, as

451
00:34:13.719 --> 00:34:17.519
well as a recommendation to find a
job. As soon as the lady saw

452
00:34:17.519 --> 00:34:22.559
me, she noticed that she was
very pleased to see me, smiled and

453
00:34:22.599 --> 00:34:27.079
opened her arms to welcome me to
Dona Carmen, a child about my age

454
00:34:27.280 --> 00:34:31.800
had died. Maybe that' s
why he treated me with a lot of

455
00:34:31.800 --> 00:34:36.880
warmth. Doña Carmen offered me lunch. He asked me to stay until he

456
00:34:37.000 --> 00:34:42.559
finished his shift to go directly to
the house where I could stay I helped

457
00:34:42.599 --> 00:34:46.920
him wash the frets and order the
chairs and tables. So we' d

458
00:34:47.159 --> 00:34:52.840
go to my new house soon.
We walk through the village. The house

459
00:34:52.880 --> 00:34:55.679
was on the banks of comala on
the opposite side of the village entrance.

460
00:34:57.960 --> 00:35:01.960
After fifteen minutes of walking, Doña
Carmen showed me the house was the last

461
00:35:02.039 --> 00:35:07.199
house on the street. It was
until the end it was a little different

462
00:35:07.199 --> 00:35:10.119
from the other houses in the place
because it was two floors. It was

463
00:35:10.199 --> 00:35:15.360
evident that it had been a very
large and beautiful house, although time had

464
00:35:15.400 --> 00:35:20.119
made its own, because it was
old and worn out. Its walls were

465
00:35:20.159 --> 00:35:23.559
scattered and the place where the garden
was located was a mound of earth and

466
00:35:23.639 --> 00:35:30.079
dry vegetation. Only a tree stood
leafy in the center of which one day

467
00:35:30.159 --> 00:35:34.840
was a place full of flowers.
Surely, Doña Carmen saw disappointment in my

468
00:35:34.920 --> 00:35:37.320
face because, without telling her anything, she told me that it was the

469
00:35:37.400 --> 00:35:43.360
cheapest thing she could find, since
an old woman lived in that house.

470
00:35:43.679 --> 00:35:47.480
In your good times. She was
a beautiful young woman with great financial resources,

471
00:35:49.119 --> 00:35:52.440
but something happened in the family,
because her parents died in an inexplicable

472
00:35:52.480 --> 00:35:59.000
way. The rest of her brothers
went to live in the United States and

473
00:35:59.079 --> 00:36:01.920
she was left alone. Little by
little he spent the inheritance left to him

474
00:36:01.920 --> 00:36:07.239
by his parents to such an extent
that he saw the need to rent rooms

475
00:36:07.320 --> 00:36:10.480
to young people like me so that
he could continue to have his livelihood.

476
00:36:12.559 --> 00:36:15.440
Without saying anything, Doña Carmen played
on the wooden gate that had an iron

477
00:36:15.519 --> 00:36:21.719
gate and within a few minutes a
few slow steps were heard. He opened

478
00:36:21.760 --> 00:36:24.280
the door. A woman of old
age who had a lot of character.

479
00:36:24.760 --> 00:36:30.639
She introduced herself as Miss Inés.
He walked down the hall with his hand.

480
00:36:30.679 --> 00:36:34.079
He pointed out the room in the
back was where I was going to

481
00:36:34.079 --> 00:36:37.719
stay. He told me he couldn' t get night visits, he didn

482
00:36:37.760 --> 00:36:42.960
' t want loud music or scandals. The room rent was paid every day.

483
00:36:43.679 --> 00:36:45.400
First of the month he told me
that, as a rule. I

484
00:36:45.440 --> 00:36:50.199
didn' t accept strangers or people
who weren' t from the village,

485
00:36:50.800 --> 00:36:54.239
but I had made an exception because
Doña Carmen had recommended that I shouldn'

486
00:36:54.280 --> 00:36:58.599
t look bad to the lady right
away. He retired leaving a set of

487
00:36:58.679 --> 00:37:05.280
keys on the nra table. Doña
Carmen shrugged. He smiled and patted me

488
00:37:05.280 --> 00:37:08.599
on the back. He told me
he was waiting for me the next day

489
00:37:08.639 --> 00:37:12.400
for breakfast at his fonda. Until
I was left alone in the house.

490
00:37:12.920 --> 00:37:20.039
I noticed the strange decorative figures that
were everywhere. They were small clay statuettes

491
00:37:20.440 --> 00:37:24.440
that pretended to be small men or
women, but with a somewhat terrifying face

492
00:37:24.960 --> 00:37:30.320
he saw each of the strange ornaments
that served as decoration objects. I couldn

493
00:37:30.440 --> 00:37:37.119
' t keep checking the house because
I heard a few steps coming into the

494
00:37:37.159 --> 00:37:39.800
living room I clearly noticed when they
were dragging my feet, I left immediately

495
00:37:39.800 --> 00:37:44.320
to what was my home. For
indefinite time. I closed the door cautiously,

496
00:37:44.920 --> 00:37:47.280
but not enough to see who the
person who approached the room was.

497
00:37:49.480 --> 00:37:52.800
From the place where my room was. There was visibility to the lower part

498
00:37:52.840 --> 00:37:58.400
of the house. I was for
several minutes with the door ajar without being

499
00:37:58.440 --> 00:38:01.960
able to see anyone even though the
sound of the steps were still heard all

500
00:38:02.039 --> 00:38:07.159
over the house, I gave up
and closed the door. There was a

501
00:38:07.239 --> 00:38:12.840
badly stretched double bed. I had
a desk next to him with a book

502
00:38:13.400 --> 00:38:17.639
to read a dresser, with a
mirror adorned with golden inlays and a large

503
00:38:17.719 --> 00:38:22.840
closet to store all my belongings.
I really felt alien and strange to that

504
00:38:22.920 --> 00:38:27.920
place, but I also realized it
was the first day in that house and

505
00:38:28.039 --> 00:38:30.920
in the village. It was only
a matter of time before I adapted to

506
00:38:30.920 --> 00:38:36.280
my new life. When the sun
went out and the shadow flooded the whole

507
00:38:36.320 --> 00:38:39.679
house, it looked more disturbing.
There were very few lamps inside the house.

508
00:38:40.199 --> 00:38:45.599
In addition, the light they gave
was yellow and dim so it was

509
00:38:45.679 --> 00:38:50.400
not enough light to reach every corner
of the house. As I walked down

510
00:38:50.480 --> 00:38:54.079
the halls, my shadow moved and
enlarged, which caused me a little fear

511
00:38:54.159 --> 00:38:59.840
at eight o' clock at night. I heard Miss Inés left her room.

512
00:39:00.239 --> 00:39:04.840
I knew it because his door was
made of wood It was so old

513
00:39:04.840 --> 00:39:07.679
that it gnashed. When it opened, I didn' t move in the

514
00:39:07.679 --> 00:39:10.360
living room. I was hoping she' d go out and talk to me,

515
00:39:10.360 --> 00:39:14.239
but I didn' t. I
heard clearly when he closed the front

516
00:39:14.239 --> 00:39:17.440
door. I went immediately to tell
her if I could accompany her anywhere,

517
00:39:17.679 --> 00:39:22.719
as I felt strange in that place. By the time I left, however,

518
00:39:23.119 --> 00:39:27.480
she had already disappeared. I couldn' t see her anywhere, not

519
00:39:27.480 --> 00:39:31.760
even on the paved road to her
house. I felt more confident to check

520
00:39:31.800 --> 00:39:37.519
every part of the house. On
the top there were three single rooms.

521
00:39:37.559 --> 00:39:40.920
I noticed it because there were no
clothes in the closets. Apparently, we

522
00:39:42.079 --> 00:39:45.880
were just inhabiting Miss Inés' house
and I tried to get into her room,

523
00:39:46.480 --> 00:39:51.400
but I couldn' t do it
because I had locked it. I

524
00:39:51.440 --> 00:39:54.639
wasn' t hungry. Maybe it
was because of so many emotions together in

525
00:39:54.719 --> 00:39:59.320
one day. It was the first
time I slept away from my home and

526
00:39:59.360 --> 00:40:02.000
my family. I wasn' t
tired and I had nothing to do.

527
00:40:02.360 --> 00:40:07.320
I went up to my room.
I entertained myself by looking out the window

528
00:40:07.360 --> 00:40:10.039
into the street. The window in
my room was facing the back of the

529
00:40:10.039 --> 00:40:15.760
house. There were no more houses, only the big trees and the grown

530
00:40:15.880 --> 00:40:20.840
weeds. I was about to close
the window. When I noticed something moving

531
00:40:20.920 --> 00:40:25.199
between the bushes, it looked like
an animal, which I could not distinguish

532
00:40:25.280 --> 00:40:30.360
from because it was extremely dark.
I just noticed it making a strange noise,

533
00:40:30.760 --> 00:40:32.880
like it was the sound of some
castanets. I didn' t stay

534
00:40:32.920 --> 00:40:37.800
and see what it was all about. I thought it might be a wild

535
00:40:37.800 --> 00:40:42.480
animal, so I closed the window. Although the noise continued to be heard

536
00:40:42.599 --> 00:40:46.679
the dry weed creaked before the animal
behind the house. I had no choice

537
00:40:46.719 --> 00:40:52.480
but to stay in my room mired
in my thoughts, thinking if I had

538
00:40:52.519 --> 00:40:55.000
done the right thing. I didn' t know when I fell asleep or

539
00:40:55.079 --> 00:40:59.079
how long it was. I was
woken up by a noise inside my room.

540
00:40:59.039 --> 00:41:01.960
Trying to identify what it was and
where it came from. It sounded

541
00:41:02.039 --> 00:41:07.400
like rats were gnawing at something.
The strange thing was that it was heard

542
00:41:07.440 --> 00:41:09.079
inside the walls. I saw it
was a little past four in the morning.

543
00:41:10.159 --> 00:41:15.039
The rat noise continued to be heard. I thought the next day I

544
00:41:15.079 --> 00:41:19.400
' d tell Miss Inés what was
going on. I could no longer sleep

545
00:41:20.079 --> 00:41:24.199
I was awake listening to the sound
of the wind that moved with intensity from

546
00:41:24.199 --> 00:41:30.559
the treetops. I heard when the
front door opened, Miss Inés' slow

547
00:41:30.599 --> 00:41:35.679
steps. In such a short time
I had identified them. I also heard

548
00:41:35.719 --> 00:41:38.760
when he came into his room.
It was pretty weird. Apparently, since

549
00:41:38.920 --> 00:41:44.840
she left at night, she was
barely coming back. I didn' t

550
00:41:44.920 --> 00:41:49.360
understand how such a lonely, big
woman could be out of the house at

551
00:41:49.400 --> 00:41:53.320
those hours of the night. The
cocksongs announced to me. The dawn was

552
00:41:53.360 --> 00:41:57.480
a great relief to see again.
The house with daylight looked so different.

553
00:41:58.559 --> 00:42:01.119
In the evening his his sns relieved
and I prepared to go with Doña Carmen.

554
00:42:02.559 --> 00:42:07.519
The lady was already waiting for me
with a blender. He gave me

555
00:42:07.559 --> 00:42:10.159
directions to go talk to a man
who had a little restaurant on the portals.

556
00:42:12.360 --> 00:42:15.360
He told me that he needed an
assistant to wash the slab and that,

557
00:42:15.760 --> 00:42:20.719
when it was necessary to serve the
tables, I accepted the work immediately.

558
00:42:21.800 --> 00:42:24.880
Later I would see how to learn
some trade. For the time being

559
00:42:24.920 --> 00:42:30.480
I was grateful to Doña Carmen and
Don José who gave me the opportunity to

560
00:42:30.599 --> 00:42:35.559
have an entrance to the job.
I stayed to wait for Doña Carmen.

561
00:42:35.639 --> 00:42:37.639
She took longer to get out because
she was in charge of the place.

562
00:42:38.079 --> 00:42:42.519
I had to leave the place in
order, so I started helping him clean

563
00:42:42.599 --> 00:42:47.760
the tables and sort out the chairs
while we were working. She immediately asked

564
00:42:47.880 --> 00:42:52.199
me how I was going with Miss
Inés. I told her she was a

565
00:42:52.280 --> 00:42:55.400
very strange woman I told her how
little I' d seen at night.

566
00:42:55.920 --> 00:43:00.679
Doña Carmen told me that she was
a very rare person. Even though he

567
00:43:00.719 --> 00:43:05.599
had a lot of time living in
the village, he hardly related to anyone.

568
00:43:05.719 --> 00:43:08.960
He was rarely seen in the center
only when he needed to buy what

569
00:43:09.039 --> 00:43:15.440
he needed for his pantry, although
he bought a lot so he didn'

570
00:43:15.440 --> 00:43:20.239
t have to leave frequently, but
the boy who helped him carry his errand

571
00:43:20.320 --> 00:43:23.159
said he was giving a very good
tip. Surely, Doña Carmen noticed my

572
00:43:23.239 --> 00:43:28.880
concern by telling me not to keep
an eye on it. She was a

573
00:43:28.960 --> 00:43:32.079
very lonely woman, but that'
s all. He' s never been

574
00:43:32.239 --> 00:43:36.840
with anyone before, and he didn' t hurt people either. I didn

575
00:43:36.880 --> 00:43:40.159
' t want to talk any more, as I had very little time to

576
00:43:40.239 --> 00:43:44.119
meet her, but from the beginning
I had a strange feeling with her presence.

577
00:43:44.639 --> 00:43:47.840
The following nights passed in the same
way. During the day I did

578
00:43:47.880 --> 00:43:52.920
not see Miss Inés when she arrived
in the afternoon of work. She didn

579
00:43:52.039 --> 00:43:57.800
' t leave her room until it
was dark and she didn' t come

580
00:43:57.800 --> 00:44:01.679
back soon. Only when it started
to dawn at work. My colleagues told

581
00:44:01.719 --> 00:44:07.079
me to go on the day off
to the magical area of Colima. I

582
00:44:07.119 --> 00:44:09.639
' ve never heard of her.
I asked them what it was about.

583
00:44:10.000 --> 00:44:15.199
They told me that it was an
area with magnetic attraction in which the physical

584
00:44:15.280 --> 00:44:19.360
laws broke, since if you drove
to that place and stopped it, instead

585
00:44:19.360 --> 00:44:22.320
of going down the road, it
went in the opposite direction, upwards.

586
00:44:24.880 --> 00:44:30.239
I didn' t understand what it
was about until we got to that part,

587
00:44:30.400 --> 00:44:34.639
which was four kilometers from the common
road to its Chitlán. It was

588
00:44:34.719 --> 00:44:37.400
true everything the car told me and
anything put on the slope, instead of

589
00:44:37.400 --> 00:44:44.519
going down, was attracted up.
Because of the force of gravity, we

590
00:44:45.079 --> 00:44:50.840
stayed there until very late. Besides, it was full moon night and the

591
00:44:50.920 --> 00:44:55.679
place wasn' t dark. We
were having a few beers while we were

592
00:44:55.800 --> 00:45:01.719
having fun putting every object that could
roll a ball, a marble, anything

593
00:45:01.760 --> 00:45:06.639
was going up. I wasn'
t used to drinking, so I just

594
00:45:06.760 --> 00:45:09.960
tried a beer that I felt a
little dizzy with and I didn' t

595
00:45:10.039 --> 00:45:14.280
want any more. I walked away
from my classmates to do the bathroom.

596
00:45:14.760 --> 00:45:19.119
While I was in that place I
heard again the same sound as in the

597
00:45:19.119 --> 00:45:22.880
house. I hastened to go along
with my companions and tell them that it

598
00:45:22.960 --> 00:45:28.480
was better for us to leave the
place, but I did not reach it,

599
00:45:28.800 --> 00:45:32.280
because this time I could see with
a little difficulty something that was crawling

600
00:45:32.360 --> 00:45:37.440
in the grass. I thought it
was a wild animal, but it wasn

601
00:45:37.480 --> 00:45:42.440
' t exactly that. It was
a strange creature that walked on all fours,

602
00:45:42.760 --> 00:45:46.119
with its head covered with very little
hair, with its skin attached to

603
00:45:46.119 --> 00:45:51.559
the skeleton. As he moved between
the weeds, his limbs moved in a

604
00:45:51.639 --> 00:45:55.719
disturbing way. When he saw me, he raised his face, which looked

605
00:45:55.719 --> 00:46:00.840
like a monster. I ran immediately
to my coms with a trembling voice.

606
00:46:01.320 --> 00:46:06.079
I told them what I just saw. I pointed my hand at them to

607
00:46:06.119 --> 00:46:09.639
the side he was on, but
I think they were already too drunk because

608
00:46:10.119 --> 00:46:15.679
they laughed out of my fear.
I was told not to be so scared.

609
00:46:15.360 --> 00:46:19.920
Every full moon went out with the
witch I lived with. I didn

610
00:46:20.000 --> 00:46:22.840
' t understand what they told me, but I told them to get out

611
00:46:22.920 --> 00:46:28.360
of that damn place right away,
a little upset. They continued to drink

612
00:46:28.440 --> 00:46:32.639
their beers until they finished the ones
they had began to show that we would

613
00:46:32.719 --> 00:46:37.760
leave the place, although they first
wanted to go to the bathroom. Two

614
00:46:37.800 --> 00:46:42.880
of my partners did it in front
of everyone. The other one went into

615
00:46:42.920 --> 00:46:46.760
the tall grass. I heard when
he screamed scared he was bleeding from one

616
00:46:46.760 --> 00:46:51.760
arm. He came running, urging
us to leave immediately. We get in

617
00:46:51.840 --> 00:46:55.239
the car and start at full speed. I looked out behind the window,

618
00:46:55.679 --> 00:47:00.800
I saw that creature again, even
though it had been gilded on two legs.

619
00:47:00.840 --> 00:47:06.880
At the same time he issued such
a disturbing cry that I covered my

620
00:47:06.920 --> 00:47:09.199
ears and trembled with fear. He
wasn' t the only one. My

621
00:47:09.239 --> 00:47:15.039
colleagues had heard him drunk too.
It was taken from them. The worst

622
00:47:15.079 --> 00:47:20.000
was when I looked back at that
monster. He got back on all fours

623
00:47:20.119 --> 00:47:24.599
and started running. He was so
fast he seemed from another world. Soon

624
00:47:24.679 --> 00:47:29.440
I saw him behind the car.
My partner who was driving, he also

625
00:47:29.519 --> 00:47:32.639
saw it through the rearview mirror.
We all urged him to hit the car

626
00:47:32.679 --> 00:47:37.280
faster. He was going as fast
as he could. I was afraid that

627
00:47:37.280 --> 00:47:40.480
at any moment that entity would catch
up with us or that my partner would

628
00:47:40.519 --> 00:47:45.039
get off the road suddenly I saw
the face of that being at the side

629
00:47:45.039 --> 00:47:50.639
of the window. He had an
elongated face with small, completely dark eyes.

630
00:47:51.079 --> 00:47:54.920
His hair gave the appearance of being
slender, erect branches. I moved

631
00:47:54.960 --> 00:48:00.360
towards my partners. I was afraid
that at any moment, I would break

632
00:48:00.599 --> 00:48:04.119
the crystal creek and hurt me.
It didn' t happen, but I

633
00:48:04.159 --> 00:48:08.480
did notice that he stared at me
as he opened his mouth to air another

634
00:48:08.480 --> 00:48:13.079
scream that scared us. I saw
the lights on the road from another car

635
00:48:13.119 --> 00:48:17.320
coming in the opposite direction. That
got the monster away from us. I

636
00:48:17.360 --> 00:48:22.199
saw when he changed direction and started
following the other car. My partner didn

637
00:48:22.280 --> 00:48:25.920
' t stop stepping on the throttle. Although the being no longer pursued us,

638
00:48:27.159 --> 00:48:31.880
it did not slow down upon arriving
at Comala left us in our respective

639
00:48:31.880 --> 00:48:36.639
homes. He took me to the
end because it was the last house in

640
00:48:36.760 --> 00:48:40.159
town. Before I got off,
he told me to be careful with the

641
00:48:40.239 --> 00:48:44.960
owner of the house. She was
said to be a witch. That'

642
00:48:45.079 --> 00:48:47.840
s all he told me and left. I was afraid to enter the house,

643
00:48:49.360 --> 00:48:52.800
but I had nowhere else to go
I went trying to make as little

644
00:48:52.920 --> 00:48:58.760
noise as possible, although the old
wooden doors and the floor did not allow

645
00:48:58.760 --> 00:49:01.599
me to do so. With my
walking I turned everything to my room.

646
00:49:02.800 --> 00:49:07.159
When I noticed paired up at the
door of Miss Inés' room because of

647
00:49:07.199 --> 00:49:10.119
the fear I was, I didn' t even try to look out.

648
00:49:10.599 --> 00:49:15.639
I went straight to my bedroom,
but I couldn' t sleep. I

649
00:49:15.719 --> 00:49:21.239
still felt the adrenaline of fear,
so I sat in bed. That'

650
00:49:21.320 --> 00:49:24.159
s how I was for a while, but it kept calling my attention to

651
00:49:24.199 --> 00:49:29.480
entering Miss Ines' room. With
great caution I headed for the room.

652
00:49:30.159 --> 00:49:34.480
Little by little I opened the door
inside. There was no one. The

653
00:49:34.559 --> 00:49:38.719
bed was lying. I began to
see the photographs I had on an antique

654
00:49:38.760 --> 00:49:44.840
wooden furniture. The photos were black
and white. He did not distinguish them

655
00:49:45.800 --> 00:49:50.159
clearly because he lit the room with
a candlelight that was in the living room.

656
00:49:50.679 --> 00:49:55.039
There were many old items. The
closet was full of elegant dresses because

657
00:49:55.079 --> 00:49:59.960
of its appearance. They were pretty
old. It caught my attention from nra

658
00:50:00.079 --> 00:50:05.400
finding a cardboard box with lots of
baby clothes, socks, mamelucos, sparrows,

659
00:50:06.119 --> 00:50:09.440
diapers. The first thing I thought
about was that maybe at some point

660
00:50:09.599 --> 00:50:14.840
she was pregnant and that her baby
wasn' t born. I ran into

661
00:50:14.960 --> 00:50:19.480
a photo that caught my attention.
She was younger in it, Miss Inés.

662
00:50:20.400 --> 00:50:23.800
I was with two people bigger than
her. They were probably his parents.

663
00:50:24.280 --> 00:50:29.639
I could no longer stay inside the
room because I heard the disturbing lament.

664
00:50:30.800 --> 00:50:35.519
In the distance. I left immediately
taking the photograph and went quickly to

665
00:50:35.679 --> 00:50:40.440
my room. I' ve been
sitting in bed, sleeping at times at

666
00:50:40.440 --> 00:50:46.000
the window. Suddenly I heard again
the sound in the window I saw when

667
00:50:46.039 --> 00:50:52.079
that being stayed for a few seconds
trying to see inward by the light that

668
00:50:52.159 --> 00:50:55.079
gave the moon VI, which was
the same monster that had followed us from

669
00:50:55.159 --> 00:51:00.360
the magical zone. There was a
time when the eyes of those ls crossed

670
00:51:00.440 --> 00:51:06.880
with mine. My heart started beating
faster. He was so strong that I

671
00:51:06.960 --> 00:51:09.639
was afraid that the entity could hear
him. I didn' t make any

672
00:51:09.639 --> 00:51:15.639
kind of movement. I sat with
the breath contained for several seconds. I

673
00:51:15.679 --> 00:51:20.000
was like this until the being left
at great speed. I saw him running

674
00:51:20.079 --> 00:51:24.639
through the plain on all fours until
he disappeared. I' d be lying

675
00:51:24.760 --> 00:51:28.800
if I told them I could sleep. I didn' t do it all

676
00:51:28.800 --> 00:51:31.760
the time. I was crouched in
bed without knowing what to do or think.

677
00:51:32.320 --> 00:51:37.639
The cocksongs and the incipient sunlight announced
the new day immediately I grabbed my

678
00:51:37.760 --> 00:51:45.559
things along with the photograph in my
hands. As soon as I was leaving

679
00:51:45.639 --> 00:51:51.360
the room when I heard that they
opened the door to the entrance, their

680
00:51:51.920 --> 00:51:52.719
classic gnashing gave it away, I
didn' t want to make any moves.

681
00:51:52.920 --> 00:51:55.920
I just stood there and didn'
t know what to do. I

682
00:51:57.079 --> 00:52:01.840
clearly heard Miss Inés' footsteps incarnated
into my room. He stood for a

683
00:52:01.960 --> 00:52:06.760
few minutes on the other side of
the door. Then he retired and went

684
00:52:06.800 --> 00:52:10.400
into his room. I heard,
when he locked it in, I waited

685
00:52:10.519 --> 00:52:15.880
a while longer to get out of
the room, when I thought I'

686
00:52:15.880 --> 00:52:19.719
d spent enough time. I left
with great caution, carrying with me my

687
00:52:19.760 --> 00:52:23.599
few belongings and heading towards the portals. I stayed on the benches of the

688
00:52:24.199 --> 00:52:28.400
park until I saw in the distance
doña Carmen, who was coming to the

689
00:52:28.440 --> 00:52:35.159
food shop immediately I went to board
her. I didn' t know how

690
00:52:35.159 --> 00:52:38.159
to explain what happened. I even
started stuttering a situation that never happened to

691
00:52:38.159 --> 00:52:43.039
me. Soon I told her everything, asking her to help me live somewhere

692
00:52:43.079 --> 00:52:46.760
else, she didn' t want
to be with Miss Inés anymore. At

693
00:52:46.800 --> 00:52:52.000
that moment I remembered the photograph I
had taken from his room. With the

694
00:52:52.079 --> 00:52:54.960
light of day it was possible to
see it more clearly. In it were

695
00:52:55.039 --> 00:53:02.360
two elderly people, a young couple
and Miss Inés dressed very elegantly. Doña

696
00:53:02.480 --> 00:53:07.280
Carmen covered her mouth with her hand
saying that it was not possible, she

697
00:53:07.400 --> 00:53:10.639
could not be immediately. I asked
him what was wrong with him. He

698
00:53:10.679 --> 00:53:15.800
told me that the young couple were
his great- grandparents, because he kept

699
00:53:15.840 --> 00:53:20.239
a photograph of them. His mother
had given it to him before he died.

700
00:53:20.960 --> 00:53:24.519
On the back of the photograph was
inscribed the date of sixteen May of

701
00:53:24.559 --> 00:53:30.320
one thousand eight hundred ninety- six. I immediately understood Doña Carmen' s

702
00:53:30.400 --> 00:53:35.159
reaction. Miss Inés was many years
older than I imagined, but how could

703
00:53:35.360 --> 00:53:39.280
that be? I asked Doña Carmen. He replied that many things were said

704
00:53:39.360 --> 00:53:44.599
about Miss Inés in the village.
She wouldn' t listen, though.

705
00:53:45.400 --> 00:53:50.119
She thought they were people' s
gossip, because Miss Inés never related to

706
00:53:50.239 --> 00:53:54.599
anyone, even though they said that
children from other villages disappeared from time to

707
00:53:55.039 --> 00:54:00.440
time and never found them again.
I remembered the baby clothes I found in

708
00:54:00.480 --> 00:54:04.320
a big drawer in the wooden closet, I couldn' t believe what I

709
00:54:04.440 --> 00:54:07.159
was living. We weren' t
out of our surprise yet. When a

710
00:54:07.159 --> 00:54:14.199
farmer came to sow, he was
frightened. An accident had occurred near the

711
00:54:14.239 --> 00:54:20.719
magic area. The two crew members
had been left in horrible conditions, their

712
00:54:20.719 --> 00:54:25.239
faces shattered, as had their limbs. When I asked the farmer the color

713
00:54:25.280 --> 00:54:29.800
of the car, I knew it
was the same car we met. When

714
00:54:29.840 --> 00:54:32.880
the monster followed us, Doña Carmen
noticed my anguish. He asked me to

715
00:54:32.960 --> 00:54:36.599
calm down. I wouldn' t
go back to that house anymore. It

716
00:54:36.639 --> 00:54:40.320
would help me find another place to
live on a moderate income as well.

717
00:54:40.960 --> 00:54:45.679
We couldn' t stay in the
park any longer We went to our respective

718
00:54:45.679 --> 00:54:50.639
jobs. My colleagues from the restaurant
hadn' t arrived. Only one of

719
00:54:50.760 --> 00:54:54.000
them came up to see how I
was feeling. Between the two of us

720
00:54:54.000 --> 00:54:58.639
we came to the conclusion that what
we saw was a witch, a vampire,

721
00:54:59.000 --> 00:55:00.880
or an entity from another world.
What my partner couldn' t explain

722
00:55:00.920 --> 00:55:07.840
was how nothing happened to us if
that monster reached us easily until then.

723
00:55:07.639 --> 00:55:12.760
I remembered the amulet my grandmother gave
me. Surely that was the one who

724
00:55:12.880 --> 00:55:17.360
protected me and my companions managed to
receive protection. When I arrived in Comala,

725
00:55:19.000 --> 00:55:22.280
the people of the village said it
was a village of ghosts that in

726
00:55:22.360 --> 00:55:27.039
the evenings went out to roam the
park and the portals. I never saw

727
00:55:27.159 --> 00:55:31.000
them although several people said that,
especially in the restaurant opposite they appeared at

728
00:55:31.039 --> 00:55:36.360
night and that on the path full
of trees, before arriving at Comala,

729
00:55:36.480 --> 00:55:40.760
also appeared the ghost of a girlfriend
who died dressed in white, of which

730
00:55:40.880 --> 00:55:45.920
I am sure. It was a
lens that I saw and that was that

731
00:55:46.000 --> 00:55:58.599
of the Miss Ines, who by
the photograph was many years old. The

732
00:55:58.599 --> 00:56:06.480
ghost bird. In my house we
were very familiar with animals. My dad

733
00:56:06.599 --> 00:56:10.800
was a vet, so he often
talked to us about their behaviors. I

734
00:56:10.880 --> 00:56:15.119
had a lot of empathy with any
stray animal. If he was in bad

735
00:56:15.159 --> 00:56:20.559
shape, he would take him home
until he got well. Then I was

736
00:56:20.559 --> 00:56:23.480
trying to find her a home.
Sometimes I couldn' t get it,

737
00:56:23.599 --> 00:56:28.639
so at home there were three dogs, a perico and a cat. My

738
00:56:28.679 --> 00:56:32.480
dad used to work at a veterinary
clinic. He was doing great, but

739
00:56:32.599 --> 00:56:37.199
he wanted to put a vet on
his own. It' s been several

740
00:56:37.280 --> 00:56:40.159
years for me to get it.
When he put it in, I was

741
00:56:40.159 --> 00:56:45.159
fifteen, I was very pleased that
he made it because I could go work

742
00:56:45.159 --> 00:56:49.679
with him. Our family was made
up of my parents, my sister,

743
00:56:50.079 --> 00:56:53.760
who was two years younger than me
and our animals. I remember when my

744
00:56:53.840 --> 00:56:58.719
dad put up his own business he
was in the same colony we lived in,

745
00:56:59.559 --> 00:57:02.199
he just had to walk a few
streets to be with him. He

746
00:57:02.239 --> 00:57:06.840
helped her in the care of the
animals and in the cleaning of the premises.

747
00:57:07.719 --> 00:57:12.360
There were times when some dog or
cat stayed in because my dad had

748
00:57:12.400 --> 00:57:17.559
done some surgery. Those days he
stayed to sleep at the vet to keep

749
00:57:17.559 --> 00:57:22.079
an eye on them. If this
happened on the weekend, I asked him

750
00:57:22.159 --> 00:57:25.159
to stay with him, even though
he almost wouldn' t let me.

751
00:57:25.599 --> 00:57:30.239
He told me he didn' t
have a place to sleep. Only on

752
00:57:30.320 --> 00:57:36.599
a few occasions did I do so
because there were more than two animals interned

753
00:57:36.679 --> 00:57:39.559
for the profession my father had I
was interested in many animals. In the

754
00:57:39.559 --> 00:57:45.400
colony where we lived there was a
very large natural park. The authorities had

755
00:57:45.480 --> 00:57:51.559
already tried to remove it to build
vertical housing, but most of the neighbors

756
00:57:51.880 --> 00:57:55.239
organized themselves so that it would not
be destroyed, as it was one of

757
00:57:55.280 --> 00:58:00.760
the main lungs of our colony and
there were various physical and recreational activities.

758
00:58:02.639 --> 00:58:07.320
On Sundays very early my parents liked
to go see the birds. The birding

759
00:58:07.440 --> 00:58:13.360
consisted of carrying a few catalyses to
be able to admire the various species of

760
00:58:13.519 --> 00:58:16.639
birds that lived in the natural environment. The first time I went along with

761
00:58:16.679 --> 00:58:21.840
my sister, we both started playing
with the flowers of the place without taking

762
00:58:21.920 --> 00:58:24.760
into account the explanation my dad gave
us about each bird, until one day

763
00:58:25.440 --> 00:58:30.840
he called me to see a woodpecker. When I saw him stinging the bark

764
00:58:30.960 --> 00:58:35.480
of the tree, I was impressed. From that time on, I began

765
00:58:35.519 --> 00:58:40.119
to pay attention to the various types
of birds in the natural environment. As

766
00:58:40.159 --> 00:58:45.360
he walked, he saw his customs
in the trees. I asked my dad

767
00:58:45.400 --> 00:58:50.559
if we could do it at night
too, because I thought of nocturnal animals

768
00:58:50.639 --> 00:58:53.079
that can only be seen at those
hours, like owls, bats and other

769
00:58:53.119 --> 00:59:00.159
species. However, my dad told
me that it was difficult to see them

770
00:59:00.199 --> 00:59:05.119
easily because we invaded their space,
since a source of light was needed or,

771
00:59:05.159 --> 00:59:08.639
failing that, a specialized team to
do so, but that I could

772
00:59:08.679 --> 00:59:14.360
try with the catalejos. Perhaps in
full moon days it was possible to have

773
00:59:14.440 --> 00:59:19.639
a little visibility. I wanted to
make the attempt with my sister, but

774
00:59:19.679 --> 00:59:22.679
she wasn' t very interested.
I told my friend Saul. Between the

775
00:59:22.760 --> 00:59:29.360
two of us we thought we could
do it while we were doing other kinds

776
00:59:29.360 --> 00:59:30.880
of activities, so I started going
out at night with my pair of catalyses.

777
00:59:32.079 --> 00:59:36.639
Saul also liked animals, not as
much as I did, but he

778
00:59:37.159 --> 00:59:42.239
agreed to accompany me, as I
was afraid to do so alone. For

779
00:59:42.320 --> 00:59:46.800
several nights I went out with my
friend to do school activities or meetings with

780
00:59:46.840 --> 00:59:52.199
some friends. On our way back, we had the natural park, so

781
00:59:52.199 --> 00:59:57.559
we took advantage of it to get
into its vegetation. The first time I

782
00:59:57.599 --> 01:00:01.039
entered the park I felt a strange
feeling I realized that it was not the

783
01:00:01.159 --> 01:00:06.800
same to go during the day as
at night, because with the air some

784
01:00:06.880 --> 01:00:10.360
trees made strange movements. It was
as if each tree had life its branches

785
01:00:10.400 --> 01:00:16.000
resembled two large long arms that wanted
to grab us and not let us go.

786
01:00:16.639 --> 01:00:21.639
I thought it was all part of
my great imagination, but before I

787
01:00:21.719 --> 01:00:25.599
made any comments to my friend he
asked me if we' d better leave

788
01:00:25.679 --> 01:00:31.639
and come back another time, when
there was more light without answering him I

789
01:00:31.719 --> 01:00:36.840
heard the howling of an owl.
I asked him to remain silent as I

790
01:00:36.880 --> 01:00:39.920
paid more attention. The sounds of
the nocturnal birds began to be heard more

791
01:00:40.039 --> 01:00:46.119
clearly. While I was watching for
any movement or sound. Saul gave me

792
01:00:46.199 --> 01:00:51.840
a sign for one of the trees. There was an owl with a lamp

793
01:00:51.880 --> 01:00:54.719
emitting a not- so- strong
flash. I could see it clearly.

794
01:00:55.119 --> 01:01:00.440
He immediately hid himself from the intrusion
of light. I preferred not to bother

795
01:01:00.480 --> 01:01:04.440
nocturnal birds. I gave my friend
a signal to get us out of the

796
01:01:04.440 --> 01:01:07.920
place. We walked along the path
that led us to the exit. When

797
01:01:07.960 --> 01:01:13.320
I heard a very sad lament,
but in turn dark, it caused me

798
01:01:13.400 --> 01:01:16.320
a little fear to hear it.
It didn' t seem like the sound

799
01:01:16.400 --> 01:01:21.320
of a normal bird, but the
crying of a human. Both Saul and

800
01:01:21.400 --> 01:01:24.079
I turned to see each other with
fear. I shrugged my shoulders to make

801
01:01:24.119 --> 01:01:28.199
him understand that I didn' t
know what it was about. We heard

802
01:01:28.320 --> 01:01:31.320
a movement between the branches of one
of the trees. I got really scared

803
01:01:31.440 --> 01:01:35.920
because I got the impression that a
branch of the tree was moving and from

804
01:01:36.039 --> 01:01:39.039
there came the disturbing sound. I
signaled to Saul and we left quickly.

805
01:01:40.719 --> 01:01:45.239
When we feel safer, we throw
ourselves in the grass. Again I heard

806
01:01:45.360 --> 01:01:51.480
the terrifying lament I could perceive from
the place where I was in that park

807
01:01:51.559 --> 01:01:55.840
did not look the same from the
outside, because it looked like a stain

808
01:01:55.920 --> 01:02:00.840
of dark trees moving with the wind. We' re back walking more calmly.

809
01:02:01.320 --> 01:02:05.440
I think I felt calmer with the
hustle and bustle of the city,

810
01:02:06.000 --> 01:02:09.480
the light of the luminaires and the
noise of the cars. Again I listened

811
01:02:09.559 --> 01:02:14.880
in the distance to the disturbing sound, but I was no longer afraid because

812
01:02:14.920 --> 01:02:19.079
I was far from the park at
the entrance to the apartment. Saul went

813
01:02:19.079 --> 01:02:22.760
home. My dad was coming home
from work. He brought with him a

814
01:02:22.800 --> 01:02:28.360
cat that had operated and still required
serum. He asked me to take care

815
01:02:28.440 --> 01:02:31.400
of him. While the serum was
accommodating him, I told him what had

816
01:02:31.480 --> 01:02:36.960
happened to me inside the natural park. My dad told me about a strange

817
01:02:37.000 --> 01:02:43.159
bird, which I never mentioned before. It was a rare species of urutu

818
01:02:43.360 --> 01:02:47.840
name better known as a ghost bird
by the name my dad gave it.

819
01:02:49.719 --> 01:02:52.679
I thought it was a joke,
but it wasn' t. It was

820
01:02:52.800 --> 01:02:59.039
once real and very little known.
From that day on I began to pay

821
01:02:59.119 --> 01:03:04.559
more attention to night sounds. The
natural park was almost in front of our

822
01:03:04.559 --> 01:03:07.079
building. You just had to cross
the main avenue to get to him.

823
01:03:07.480 --> 01:03:12.280
I was on the balcony of my
room for a while, looking into the

824
01:03:12.360 --> 01:03:15.679
dark of the park. It was
a very windy night. The sky from

825
01:03:15.760 --> 01:03:19.840
moment to moment was filled with clouds
that did not allow to see the moonlight

826
01:03:19.880 --> 01:03:24.599
I could see how the trees were
moving again in a disturbing way. It

827
01:03:24.679 --> 01:03:29.079
didn' t take long to start
raining hard. There was a rain with

828
01:03:29.159 --> 01:03:34.679
lightning and thunder. When it started
raining I came to distinguish the macabre song

829
01:03:34.760 --> 01:03:37.639
from the ghost bird, but I
was no longer afraid because I felt in

830
01:03:37.719 --> 01:03:43.159
the stillness of my room. I
stayed for a few more minutes trying to

831
01:03:43.199 --> 01:03:45.840
identify the bird my dad told me
about, but as the rain got more

832
01:03:45.880 --> 01:03:50.760
intense, it was impossible. I
was about to get in when I noticed

833
01:03:50.800 --> 01:03:54.320
something very strange in the park in
the dark a woman came out. She

834
01:03:54.360 --> 01:04:00.559
was completely dressed in black or at
least that seemed just to be able to

835
01:04:00.559 --> 01:04:04.159
distinguish her white hair, which was
dripping wet on her shoulders. I had

836
01:04:04.199 --> 01:04:09.639
to get out of the balcony because
the rainwater was starting to wet me.

837
01:04:10.159 --> 01:04:15.039
Anyway, I was attentive through the
window I saw clearly how that woman quickly

838
01:04:15.079 --> 01:04:23.039
disappeared because of her physiognomy. She
seemed like a very old woman, but

839
01:04:23.199 --> 01:04:26.079
I was surprised to see her run
so fast. She went to the peripheral

840
01:04:26.119 --> 01:04:30.719
and it was no longer possible for
me to know who it was. In

841
01:04:30.800 --> 01:04:33.599
the distance, I heard again the
same disturbing lament that when I was in

842
01:04:33.639 --> 01:04:40.559
the park at that time I began
to doubt whether there were only wild animals

843
01:04:40.559 --> 01:04:43.239
inside the park. The storm didn' t happen for more than two hours.

844
01:04:43.840 --> 01:04:47.320
I had no urge to sleep early
because the next day I had no

845
01:04:47.719 --> 01:04:54.320
school, so I stayed awake because
I was intermittently listening to that strange lament.

846
01:04:54.360 --> 01:04:57.559
Although my dad had told me that
it was a bird, it seemed

847
01:04:57.599 --> 01:05:00.599
to me that it was not a
sound, that a bird could replicate as

848
01:05:00.639 --> 01:05:04.280
if it were a human. I
was startled because I heard noises in the

849
01:05:04.280 --> 01:05:09.519
kitchen. It was the cat my
dad had taken care of. He probably

850
01:05:09.519 --> 01:05:13.800
felt better because he was looking for
food in the cupboard. I opened a

851
01:05:13.880 --> 01:05:17.480
cat food envelope and put it on
the plate. The animal began to eat

852
01:05:17.519 --> 01:05:25.679
desperately for the surgery had been fasting
and was just beginning to recover. I

853
01:05:25.760 --> 01:05:29.159
was with the cat until he finished
eating. I was no longer sleepy,

854
01:05:29.760 --> 01:05:32.599
so I went to the living room
to watch some TV. That' s

855
01:05:32.639 --> 01:05:34.360
how he kept taking care of the
cat. He settled next to me.

856
01:05:34.960 --> 01:05:41.000
While I was looking for something on
TV I found an old show that made

857
01:05:41.079 --> 01:05:45.559
me laugh a lot. Little by
little he started to make me sleepy without

858
01:05:45.559 --> 01:05:47.480
realizing it. I fell asleep sitting, but the cat woke me up,

859
01:05:47.679 --> 01:05:53.239
who jumped suddenly and sat in the
middle of the room looking at the front

860
01:05:53.280 --> 01:05:57.719
door. Still sleepy, I picked
him up to take him to his bed.

861
01:05:58.239 --> 01:06:00.599
However, the cat refused to take
him to me, jumped out of

862
01:06:00.599 --> 01:06:05.599
my arms and stood behind the door. He didn' t understand the cat

863
01:06:05.719 --> 01:06:09.719
' s behavior because he then started
rubbing his head at the door. Suddenly

864
01:06:09.800 --> 01:06:14.360
I heard a noise outside. I
looked through the peephole. I didn'

865
01:06:14.440 --> 01:06:17.400
t see anyone outside, but the
cat kept mauling. I had the confidence

866
01:06:17.440 --> 01:06:21.679
to open the door because I had
already checked that no one will be found

867
01:06:21.679 --> 01:06:26.199
outside. The cat ran up the
stairs. It was very strange to see

868
01:06:26.280 --> 01:06:30.239
that the floor was wet. I
found him standing over the stairs that were

869
01:06:30.280 --> 01:06:35.239
still wet. I grabbed him to
get in before I entered the apartment,

870
01:06:35.400 --> 01:06:40.280
heard the same scary lament that I
already recognized from that bird. I can

871
01:06:40.400 --> 01:06:45.440
' t deny that I found it
disturbing, but it also gave me a

872
01:06:45.480 --> 01:06:48.719
little peace of mind to know that
it was a bird and not anything else

873
01:06:48.800 --> 01:06:51.960
strange for that moment. The rain
was already giving way. I set the

874
01:06:53.000 --> 01:06:56.920
cat up and went to rest.
The next day I didn' t attend

875
01:06:56.920 --> 01:07:00.599
high school. I had to make
arrangements to get into high school, which

876
01:07:00.639 --> 01:07:03.639
was very close to my house.
Before I left, I looked up at

877
01:07:03.679 --> 01:07:09.679
the window. Saul was waiting for
me. We were supposed to go together.

878
01:07:09.760 --> 01:07:12.719
As soon as my friend saw me, he told me that in the

879
01:07:12.800 --> 01:07:15.519
evening he heard the same regret that
we had heard in the park, that

880
01:07:15.800 --> 01:07:18.719
he had been afraid because it seemed
that it was a person' s regret.

881
01:07:19.440 --> 01:07:24.039
I noticed Saul very upset so I
tried to calm him down. I

882
01:07:24.079 --> 01:07:27.320
told him that I had also heard
him and that, like him, he

883
01:07:27.400 --> 01:07:30.760
gave me a little fear, but
that he did not worry was simply the

884
01:07:30.760 --> 01:07:34.679
singing of the ghost bird. I
didn' t want to comment on everything

885
01:07:34.760 --> 01:07:39.599
that happened with the cat, because
it would have been more upset, even

886
01:07:39.599 --> 01:07:42.760
though he was still very restless.
What seemed very strange to me was realizing

887
01:07:42.800 --> 01:07:45.880
that, while we did not know
of the existence of that bird, I

888
01:07:45.960 --> 01:07:49.760
had never heard that regret. Until
we saw her. We keep listening to

889
01:07:49.760 --> 01:07:54.960
her. Without saying anything else to
my friend. I started investigating the ghost

890
01:07:55.000 --> 01:07:59.679
bird on my own. I found
some pictures of her. It was a

891
01:07:59.679 --> 01:08:04.960
species about forty to fifty centimetres long. He had big yellow jumping eyes.

892
01:08:06.360 --> 01:08:12.480
Its plumage was mostly gray as the
color of the bark of the trees,

893
01:08:12.519 --> 01:08:16.840
so it was easy to camouflage with
any branch of a tree. The cat

894
01:08:16.920 --> 01:08:20.840
just had to take care of him
the next night. Then I' d

895
01:08:20.920 --> 01:08:25.399
go back to their owners. I
was awake until midnight, while the cat

896
01:08:25.920 --> 01:08:30.560
purred very close to the door.
He stood there looking at her for a

897
01:08:30.560 --> 01:08:35.720
while. I found the cat'
s behavior strange. All of a sudden

898
01:08:35.720 --> 01:08:41.039
he started to maul. At the
same time he scratched the door as if

899
01:08:41.039 --> 01:08:44.960
he wanted to leave. I went
to pick him up to calm him down,

900
01:08:45.399 --> 01:08:48.079
but he jumped upset. At the
same time he scratched my arm and

901
01:08:48.199 --> 01:08:51.720
kept scratching the door. I peeked
into the peephole at the door. I

902
01:08:51.800 --> 01:08:56.560
was surprised what I saw outside.
There was a woman with her face stuck

903
01:08:56.600 --> 01:08:59.840
at the door. It was so
much as amazement that I jumped back.

904
01:09:00.840 --> 01:09:04.399
I covered my mouth with my hand
trying not to make any sound so that

905
01:09:04.439 --> 01:09:10.279
that woman wouldn' t notice my
presence. Instead, the cat was still

906
01:09:10.359 --> 01:09:14.399
standing at the door in fear.
I looked up again, although there was

907
01:09:14.399 --> 01:09:18.159
no one out there The fear didn' t get away from me because I

908
01:09:18.239 --> 01:09:20.960
heard that scary lament on the street. I ran to the balcony of my

909
01:09:21.000 --> 01:09:27.079
room. I kind of related that
lament to the woman I saw behind my

910
01:09:27.119 --> 01:09:31.039
door. It may sound crazy,
but more than a bird. I thought

911
01:09:31.079 --> 01:09:35.600
it was that woman in the natural
park there was no one. I thought

912
01:09:35.680 --> 01:09:40.960
it was all because of my excited
nerves. I stayed for a few minutes

913
01:09:41.000 --> 01:09:44.760
looking out. I was just about
to go into my room. When I

914
01:09:44.840 --> 01:09:48.640
saw the same woman walking towards the
park. On this occasion I walked slowly.

915
01:09:49.119 --> 01:09:54.279
I kept seeing her carefully in the
colony. There were several people on

916
01:09:54.319 --> 01:09:57.920
the street. I already recognized most
of them, but not that woman.

917
01:09:59.680 --> 01:10:03.039
As she walked behind her on her
way to the pair, she kept watching

918
01:10:03.119 --> 01:10:05.680
her carefully until she stopped. He
looked in the direction I was in.

919
01:10:06.720 --> 01:10:11.560
He stayed quiet for a few seconds. Seeing what I was doing. My

920
01:10:11.600 --> 01:10:15.960
body was filled with chills, though
I thought it was not possible for him

921
01:10:15.079 --> 01:10:18.920
to hurt me from the outside.
However, she crossed the street and started

922
01:10:18.960 --> 01:10:24.800
walking towards my building, taking a
few steps back. Suddenly he stopped,

923
01:10:25.239 --> 01:10:30.079
raised his hands and moved them in
a very strange way. At the same

924
01:10:30.119 --> 01:10:34.000
time he opened his mouth and from
it came the same disturbing lament. It

925
01:10:34.039 --> 01:10:39.199
was like she was getting ready to
do something else, because she started running

926
01:10:39.239 --> 01:10:43.600
with incredible speed. It was so
much fear that I got into my room

927
01:10:43.640 --> 01:10:48.279
right away. I closed the window
and the curtains. I stood behind them

928
01:10:48.359 --> 01:10:55.079
that night. Only a light rain
fell and there was no wind. I

929
01:10:55.159 --> 01:11:00.199
could hear when she jumped onto the
balcony and started scratching my window with her

930
01:11:00.199 --> 01:11:03.319
fingernails. It was an annoying squeak
that in turn was scary. I walked

931
01:11:03.359 --> 01:11:08.520
away from the window. I didn' t know where to hide, because

932
01:11:08.520 --> 01:11:12.880
I was afraid that at any moment
the window would open wide and she would

933
01:11:12.920 --> 01:11:17.319
enter my room through the curtain.
He was able to see his silhouette moving

934
01:11:17.399 --> 01:11:21.720
from one side to the other as
if trying to find a way in.

935
01:11:21.880 --> 01:11:28.920
However, he did not. After
a few minutes he left in the distance.

936
01:11:29.279 --> 01:11:33.199
I heard the same regret again.
I sat in bed with my feet

937
01:11:33.239 --> 01:11:39.000
shrunk for a long time. The
rain was rising. Although I no longer

938
01:11:39.119 --> 01:11:44.800
had any disturbing appearances outside my room, it was difficult for me to fall

939
01:11:44.800 --> 01:11:47.800
asleep. The rest of the night
I was attentive to that regret. I

940
01:11:47.840 --> 01:11:53.960
heard it several times in the distance, as if it was getting farther away,

941
01:11:54.000 --> 01:11:57.279
but that didn' t give me
any peace of mind. I heard

942
01:11:57.359 --> 01:12:00.920
other noises inside the apartment. I
went out with mistrust. He was the

943
01:12:00.960 --> 01:12:06.720
cat who made his own, jumping
everywhere, throwing everything around him. I

944
01:12:06.720 --> 01:12:12.039
grabbed him to stop messing around,
but he got more upset and scratched me

945
01:12:12.119 --> 01:12:15.680
again. This time I couldn'
t stand it anymore. I threw him

946
01:12:15.800 --> 01:12:19.520
to the floor with annoyance, while
he seemed to notice my anger, because

947
01:12:19.520 --> 01:12:26.720
he stared at me, opened his
eyes and bowed his head. I didn

948
01:12:26.760 --> 01:12:30.720
' t know if everything was the
result of my nervous disturbance, but I

949
01:12:30.760 --> 01:12:33.199
had the feeling that that cat realized
how I felt and laughed at me.

950
01:12:33.920 --> 01:12:38.600
My dad went out to see what
was going on. I told him I

951
01:12:38.640 --> 01:12:42.000
didn' t want to have that
cat anymore. He was very annoying at

952
01:12:42.039 --> 01:12:45.000
night and he wouldn' t let
me rest well. My dad asked me

953
01:12:45.000 --> 01:12:50.279
to calm down that the next day
I would take him to the office because

954
01:12:50.359 --> 01:12:54.520
his owners were already picking him up. It was at that moment that I

955
01:12:54.600 --> 01:12:59.720
asked who that cat belonged to.
My dad told me that a lady heard

956
01:12:59.760 --> 01:13:03.960
him at the office. It seemed
a little strange to that woman because she

957
01:13:04.039 --> 01:13:09.159
spoke very little. He asked for
his personal data, but he didn'

958
01:13:09.199 --> 01:13:12.159
t want to give him that information. He just told my dad his name

959
01:13:12.199 --> 01:13:16.720
was Maria and left. I had
the impression that that cat belonged to the

960
01:13:16.760 --> 01:13:21.680
same woman I had seen, but
it was not safe. I wanted to

961
01:13:21.680 --> 01:13:27.000
tell my dad what had happened,
but I didn' t dare to do

962
01:13:27.119 --> 01:13:30.800
it because I thought he wouldn'
t believe me, because on several occasions

963
01:13:30.840 --> 01:13:34.399
he came to tell me that the
ghost bird was related to witches, because

964
01:13:34.439 --> 01:13:40.840
the lament he was uttering was very
similar to what they were doing, but

965
01:13:40.840 --> 01:13:44.319
they were only wrong beliefs of people. The ghost bird was only an animal

966
01:13:44.399 --> 01:13:49.520
with peculiar characteristics, but nothing more. He had no relationship with evil beings.

967
01:13:49.800 --> 01:13:55.319
Though his lamentation was disturbing, he
was still part of the animal kingdom.

968
01:13:56.119 --> 01:14:00.239
My father kept his promise. The
next day he took the cat a

969
01:14:00.239 --> 01:14:03.119
break for everyone, because the cat
was acting worse and worse. I thought

970
01:14:03.199 --> 01:14:06.760
the next night I was gonna be
able to rest better, but it didn

971
01:14:06.880 --> 01:14:10.399
' t happen that way, because
it started raining since the afternoon. I

972
01:14:10.439 --> 01:14:14.159
figured in about two hours, the
rain would stop and I could walk out

973
01:14:14.199 --> 01:14:17.880
into the natural park. However,
the storm increased in intensity every time.

974
01:14:19.159 --> 01:14:25.319
The sky went completely black. The
wind was blowing very loudly, so much

975
01:14:25.319 --> 01:14:28.640
so that it opened the window of
my room. When I approached to close

976
01:14:28.680 --> 01:14:32.479
the window, it was almost impossible
to see out from the rain so intense

977
01:14:32.520 --> 01:14:38.159
that it was falling. As I
changed my clothes the light went out the

978
01:14:38.239 --> 01:14:43.039
house and the colony was in the
dark. It only lit up for instants

979
01:14:43.159 --> 01:14:46.960
by lightning. When lightning lit the
sky, I could see the figure of

980
01:14:47.000 --> 01:14:53.119
that woman behind the window. He
stared at me, lowered his face a

981
01:14:53.239 --> 01:14:58.720
little and smiled in a sinister way. Then I didn' t know what

982
01:14:58.720 --> 01:15:01.279
happened I only managed to distinguish a
bird flying between the storm. The regret

983
01:15:01.359 --> 01:15:08.119
was deeper and more disturbing. Then
everything was quiet. In a few minutes

984
01:15:08.199 --> 01:15:12.000
the rain began to give way.
There was only the disaster that had caused

985
01:15:12.000 --> 01:15:16.479
in the streets, as several trees
fell. The avenue was completely flooded.

986
01:15:16.840 --> 01:15:25.760
Many cars were stranded between traffic and
flooding. That night was chaos the next

987
01:15:25.760 --> 01:15:30.479
morning that I went to help my
father to the vet. The place had

988
01:15:30.520 --> 01:15:33.840
also been ravaged, the water had
been put in, although the animals we

989
01:15:33.960 --> 01:15:38.960
had had nothing happened to them.
I noticed my dad was very worried.

990
01:15:39.560 --> 01:15:42.520
He told me he couldn' t
find the cat. I had left him

991
01:15:42.600 --> 01:15:45.239
one more night at the vet'
s, he didn' t want me

992
01:15:45.239 --> 01:15:46.720
to give him any more trouble.
He stayed to sleep at the place,

993
01:15:47.119 --> 01:15:54.520
but when he woke up the cat
had disappeared. I noticed my dad scared

994
01:15:54.560 --> 01:15:59.800
and distracted. Something bad seemed to
have happened to him, but he wouldn

995
01:15:59.800 --> 01:16:02.159
' t say it. Little by
little he calmed down with the passing of

996
01:16:02.199 --> 01:16:05.920
days, told me that the owner
of the cat never came for him,

997
01:16:06.319 --> 01:16:11.960
although the cat had probably already arrived
with her, because neither of them appeared.

998
01:16:13.159 --> 01:16:15.119
I never told my dad what I
saw in the natural park, nor

999
01:16:15.439 --> 01:16:19.880
that the ghost bird was really a
witch who was desperate to have the cat

1000
01:16:19.920 --> 01:16:26.159
by her side. She firmly believed
that the cat was a human being transformed

1001
01:16:26.199 --> 01:16:30.039
into an animal and that the ghost
bird was actually a witch and it was

1002
01:16:30.159 --> 01:16:35.199
she who caused the terrible storm to
recover her cat, because after the cat

1003
01:16:35.319 --> 01:16:50.039
disappeared, everything was calm the Sea
Witch made great friends. During my time

1004
01:16:50.079 --> 01:16:58.159
at the University, I worked to
cover my expenses and occasionally went on a

1005
01:16:58.319 --> 01:17:02.119
trip to a nearby location. Like
my colleagues, they also had a part

1006
01:17:02.520 --> 01:17:08.560
- time job or were interns in
some company. We were in the last

1007
01:17:08.640 --> 01:17:12.960
semester of the bachelor' s degree, so we started organizing a trip to

1008
01:17:13.000 --> 01:17:16.600
finish school. Several from the group
of friends suggested that we go to Cancun

1009
01:17:16.600 --> 01:17:21.159
or Acapulco. I told them that
if we wanted to be on the beach

1010
01:17:21.159 --> 01:17:26.840
for a week, we had to
find a place that was not so touristy

1011
01:17:26.880 --> 01:17:30.279
so it would be less expensive.
My friends agreed, although I was entrusted

1012
01:17:30.319 --> 01:17:34.680
with the task of finding a place
where we could make camping. We had

1013
01:17:34.760 --> 01:17:39.880
never slept in a cottage by the
sea and wanted it to be an unforgettable

1014
01:17:39.960 --> 01:17:45.680
experience. I started looking for few
known places in the State of Jalisco.

1015
01:17:45.199 --> 01:17:49.680
I found a beach named Boca de
Iguanas. According to the information I found,

1016
01:17:50.039 --> 01:17:55.920
it said it was south of Jalisco, very close to tenacatita. On

1017
01:17:55.960 --> 01:18:00.319
this beach camp and motor homes were
allowed, so I thought it was the

1018
01:18:00.399 --> 01:18:03.439
ideal place. As soon as I
saw my schoolmates, I shared with them

1019
01:18:03.520 --> 01:18:09.399
the beach I had liked. Just
like me. My friends didn' t

1020
01:18:09.840 --> 01:18:13.279
know him either They hadn' t
even heard of this place. Five months

1021
01:18:13.359 --> 01:18:18.119
to finish college, the time needed
to raise money and implements to be able

1022
01:18:18.159 --> 01:18:24.000
to travel and camp. We went
on a trip in the year two thousand

1023
01:18:24.560 --> 01:18:28.560
five, At the end of September, one of my friends was not able

1024
01:18:28.640 --> 01:18:34.239
to accompany us because her mother had
become serious and was hospitalized. The rest

1025
01:18:34.319 --> 01:18:39.920
of the group of friends left on
a very early Monday morning. My friend

1026
01:18:39.960 --> 01:18:44.520
Alejandro was with whom he had the
best relationship, although he was also very

1027
01:18:44.640 --> 01:18:48.479
close to his and Araceli. When
we got to the mouth of iguanas and

1028
01:18:48.560 --> 01:18:53.399
saw the beach, we didn'
t regret choosing that place. It was

1029
01:18:53.520 --> 01:18:58.119
a bay that allowed the waves not
to be so intense. A tropical estuary

1030
01:18:58.199 --> 01:19:01.760
where we were told he had coconutd. In addition, the large strip of

1031
01:19:01.800 --> 01:19:08.000
Palmeras was ideal for camping. The
beach was almost alone. In the distance

1032
01:19:08.119 --> 01:19:12.920
I could see some local people,
as well as fishermen. We were all

1033
01:19:12.960 --> 01:19:16.800
pleased by the desolateness of the place
and how beautiful it was. That day

1034
01:19:16.840 --> 01:19:20.680
we dedicated ourselves to walking around the
village and getting to know a little bit

1035
01:19:20.680 --> 01:19:24.800
about the place. In a funda
where we had breakfast, they told us

1036
01:19:24.840 --> 01:19:29.680
that if we went up the hill
we would find a cave that was very

1037
01:19:29.760 --> 01:19:31.279
large and inside it was heard the
water that ran from a river. In

1038
01:19:31.359 --> 01:19:36.039
the afternoon we set out to set
up our tents. It was a bit

1039
01:19:36.119 --> 01:19:39.880
of a complicated task, because it
was the first time we did it.

1040
01:19:40.399 --> 01:19:44.960
After a while of trying to connect
the tubes, we did it. The

1041
01:19:45.039 --> 01:19:48.600
resting place was ready. I went
with my friends to the shore of the

1042
01:19:48.680 --> 01:19:55.840
beach. We stayed there drinking beers
and talking anecdotes about when we were younger

1043
01:19:56.880 --> 01:20:00.600
while we were talking. I thought
I saw something moving inside the sea.

1044
01:20:00.880 --> 01:20:05.319
Maybe I was wrong, but I
looked like a person Swimming I told my

1045
01:20:05.319 --> 01:20:12.359
friends they stayed for a second watching
without seeing anything. They didn' t

1046
01:20:12.399 --> 01:20:15.960
pay much attention to me. They
said they were very tired. It had

1047
01:20:15.000 --> 01:20:19.600
been a very agitated day and they
went to sleep. I' ve been

1048
01:20:19.640 --> 01:20:23.800
looking at the darkness of the sea
for a while. I was almost sure

1049
01:20:23.800 --> 01:20:27.560
that I had seen something in the
waves, although I was not certain.

1050
01:20:28.760 --> 01:20:31.840
Later Alexander arrived and sat next to
me. He told me that it was

1051
01:20:31.920 --> 01:20:36.399
most normal that I had seen movement
between the water, especially because it was

1052
01:20:36.439 --> 01:20:42.560
night and the marine animals felt more
confident to walk on the shore. It

1053
01:20:42.600 --> 01:20:45.760
was when they went out to get
their food. I didn' t stay

1054
01:20:45.880 --> 01:20:50.279
any longer. I went into the
campaign house to rest. My friends had

1055
01:20:50.319 --> 01:20:56.439
stayed together, so I left with
my friend. Tiredness overcame us very soon.

1056
01:20:57.079 --> 01:21:02.079
We fell asleep. Soon I was
asleep. When I heard noises outside

1057
01:21:02.119 --> 01:21:06.760
the campaign house. I looked at
Alejandro and he was asleep. For a

1058
01:21:06.880 --> 01:21:11.760
moment I thought it might be one
of my friends who had gone to the

1059
01:21:11.840 --> 01:21:15.479
bathroom. I opened the lock and
looked outside. There was no one.

1060
01:21:16.000 --> 01:21:20.560
However, he kept hearing that the
vegetation was moving. I thought it could

1061
01:21:20.680 --> 01:21:25.640
be a wild animal, so I
immediately shut down the campaign house and lay

1062
01:21:25.680 --> 01:21:33.119
down trying to identify what produced that
noise was lying down. The silence of

1063
01:21:33.119 --> 01:21:39.920
the night allowed me to hear any
external sound. I clearly heard some footsteps

1064
01:21:39.960 --> 01:21:43.159
around the house. It was as
if that animal or whatever it was,

1065
01:21:43.279 --> 01:21:48.119
was prowling around and then attacking.
Suddenly I heard he started scratching the ground,

1066
01:21:48.319 --> 01:21:53.000
like he was trying to make a
hole under the house so he could

1067
01:21:53.079 --> 01:21:59.000
get in. That' s when
I woke Alejandro up I signaled him to

1068
01:21:59.359 --> 01:22:04.039
remain silent and to pay attention and
my friend was unexpectedly attentive. That animal

1069
01:22:04.159 --> 01:22:09.880
tore the campaign house without thinking about
it. He dropped a blow that he

1070
01:22:10.000 --> 01:22:14.279
surely gave him somewhere in that animal' s body, because we heard when

1071
01:22:14.319 --> 01:22:17.680
he complained, so he soon left. The rest of the night. We

1072
01:22:17.760 --> 01:22:21.880
almost didn' t sleep We were
alert to any noise. We thought that

1073
01:22:21.920 --> 01:22:28.239
at any moment the wild animal could
return. It was about dawn. When

1074
01:22:28.319 --> 01:22:31.960
I decided to leave the house,
I checked everywhere around. I saw the

1075
01:22:32.000 --> 01:22:36.399
campaign house damaged by the scratch that
the animal made, as well as its

1076
01:22:36.399 --> 01:22:43.000
footprints marked on the sand. It
was strange because they didn' t look

1077
01:22:43.000 --> 01:22:45.760
like footprints of an animal, but
of a person. I no longer wanted

1078
01:22:45.760 --> 01:22:50.359
to find explanations for the event.
Later we walked towards rocks that were on

1079
01:22:50.399 --> 01:22:54.960
the other side. From there it
was possible to admire the sea and the

1080
01:22:55.079 --> 01:23:00.359
sunrise. Suddenly I saw someone swimming
deep into the sea. I pointed to

1081
01:23:00.239 --> 01:23:06.520
Alejandro. He also saw when that
person plunged. I' ve been watching

1082
01:23:06.560 --> 01:23:13.000
for over ten minutes. I was
hoping he' d come out for air,

1083
01:23:14.039 --> 01:23:16.760
but that being didn' t happen
again. I thought I had confused

1084
01:23:16.840 --> 01:23:21.680
him with some fish, although I
had the doubt because clearly I saw that

1085
01:23:21.680 --> 01:23:28.079
he had long hair. We went
to town for breakfast while we waited for

1086
01:23:28.079 --> 01:23:30.680
our food. I asked the waitress
if there were wild animals on the beach.

1087
01:23:31.159 --> 01:23:34.279
She said yes, but when they
came down from the hill, they

1088
01:23:34.319 --> 01:23:40.319
usually stayed in the estuary, because
it not only housed crocodiles, but because

1089
01:23:40.319 --> 01:23:45.319
of the marsh conditions it could protect
a biodiversity of aquatic and terrestrial animals.

1090
01:23:47.439 --> 01:23:51.880
I asked the waitress insistently if,
for any reason, any animal could be

1091
01:23:51.920 --> 01:23:57.840
near the camping area. I think
the girl was overwhelmed with such a question.

1092
01:23:58.319 --> 01:24:01.760
Why he shrugged his shoulders and ran
away. My friends told me to

1093
01:24:01.840 --> 01:24:08.119
relax and maybe it won' t
happen again. Yeah. I didn'

1094
01:24:08.199 --> 01:24:11.680
t want to discuss the matter.
I' d rather not say anything and

1095
01:24:11.760 --> 01:24:15.840
try to forget what happened at the
funda. Again we were told that we

1096
01:24:15.880 --> 01:24:18.720
could climb the hill to see the
cave. Without hesitation, we went to

1097
01:24:18.800 --> 01:24:25.800
know the place so commented on in
the village. We walked towards the cave.

1098
01:24:26.119 --> 01:24:29.399
As soon as we got to her, I felt a weird feeling.

1099
01:24:29.760 --> 01:24:33.000
It was like I felt watched.
I was under the impression that there was

1100
01:24:33.079 --> 01:24:38.119
someone inside the cave. I wanted
to tell my friends, but I didn

1101
01:24:38.399 --> 01:24:42.079
' t because they already said I
imagined things. As soon as we enter

1102
01:24:42.119 --> 01:24:45.000
the cave, we feel the change
in temperature. Perhaps it was because it

1103
01:24:45.079 --> 01:24:47.880
was a place where the sun did
not enter, so it remained wet and

1104
01:24:47.920 --> 01:24:54.560
cool all the time. I could
hear the sound of the river running to

1105
01:24:54.680 --> 01:24:59.319
the bottom Araceli told me to go
swimming in the river. I told him

1106
01:24:59.399 --> 01:25:02.680
not to go deep into the cave
anymore. Maybe we could get the wild

1107
01:25:02.840 --> 01:25:08.359
animal out again. The best thing
was to leave and be safe. My

1108
01:25:08.399 --> 01:25:11.239
friends didn' t even listen to
me. They went to bathe in the

1109
01:25:11.279 --> 01:25:15.159
underground river. I went after them, though I had no intention of getting

1110
01:25:15.239 --> 01:25:18.960
in while I was waiting for them, sitting on a stone. I saw

1111
01:25:19.079 --> 01:25:23.880
someone on the other side of the
cave moving in the dark. I told

1112
01:25:23.920 --> 01:25:28.960
my friends to get out right away
because there was someone on the other side,

1113
01:25:29.239 --> 01:25:32.439
his yes screamed loudly, because something
had grabbed his foot. He didn

1114
01:25:32.479 --> 01:25:36.479
' t finish saying it. When
he sank, Alexander plunged to look for

1115
01:25:36.479 --> 01:25:41.680
her. My friends took a while
to emerge. I was about to get

1116
01:25:42.000 --> 01:25:45.159
in when I saw Alejandro bringing his
between Aracel and I helped them out.

1117
01:25:46.319 --> 01:25:50.680
We started giving him first aid.
When he poured water and began coughing,

1118
01:25:51.159 --> 01:25:55.960
I noticed that his leg and neck
had red marks. It was like they

1119
01:25:56.039 --> 01:26:00.000
wanted to suffocate her. When she
got her breath back or we asked her

1120
01:26:00.119 --> 01:26:04.359
what had happened, she couldn'
t answer us because she had no idea

1121
01:26:04.439 --> 01:26:09.239
what happened. He just felt a
hand pull her off his foot. He

1122
01:26:09.239 --> 01:26:12.159
thought he wasn' t going to
get out alive anymore. Then he lost

1123
01:26:12.199 --> 01:26:17.000
consciousness and leaned on Alexander to get
out of the cave. Before we all

1124
01:26:17.119 --> 01:26:21.720
left, we heard a strange lament. It seemed as if someone were inside

1125
01:26:21.840 --> 01:26:27.640
and wanted us not to leave that
cry, it was heard louder again,

1126
01:26:28.319 --> 01:26:32.720
which meant that the animal was closer. We almost ran out of the place.

1127
01:26:33.000 --> 01:26:36.239
When I saw the entrance to the
cave, I was relieved. However,

1128
01:26:36.640 --> 01:26:41.880
before I left, I felt someone
holding my arm. I didn'

1129
01:26:41.960 --> 01:26:45.039
t even try to turn around I
snuck out as I could, and I

1130
01:26:45.039 --> 01:26:46.920
didn' t turn back. Until
I was out on my arm, there

1131
01:26:47.039 --> 01:26:50.600
were a few holes left. He
had no religious belief whatsoever, but Alexander

1132
01:26:50.680 --> 01:26:56.119
and Aracel and Yes, as they
passed through the altar of the Virgin of

1133
01:26:56.199 --> 01:27:00.840
Guadalupe, asked him to take care
of them and protect them. We went

1134
01:27:00.880 --> 01:27:04.079
to one of the country houses trying
to understand what had happened to us,

1135
01:27:04.399 --> 01:27:09.199
but none of us could know what
was trying to hurt us. I told

1136
01:27:09.239 --> 01:27:13.840
them it was probably a wild animal
that had its lair inside the cave,

1137
01:27:14.239 --> 01:27:17.960
but Alexander said it was not a
wild animal, but another kind of creature,

1138
01:27:18.600 --> 01:27:24.279
one he didn' t know because
it caught up with him to see

1139
01:27:24.399 --> 01:27:27.720
his face under the water. We
asked him more about that savage being,

1140
01:27:28.600 --> 01:27:32.399
but he couldn' t see it
clearly because it was very dark. That

1141
01:27:32.479 --> 01:27:38.239
day we stayed on the beach trying
to assimilate what happened. We ordered food

1142
01:27:38.279 --> 01:27:42.800
in a restaurant near the sea and
a fisherman who accommodated his boat and decided

1143
01:27:42.960 --> 01:27:46.840
to approach. I asked him how
much he knew about the wild animals in

1144
01:27:46.920 --> 01:27:51.560
the estuary. The fisherman, with
some distrust, told me that very little.

1145
01:27:53.039 --> 01:27:56.760
I showed him my arm hurt.
He just told me to be very

1146
01:27:56.760 --> 01:28:00.479
careful because at night the crocodiles went
out to get their food, although what

1147
01:28:00.520 --> 01:28:04.359
attacked us in the cave was perhaps
not a crocodile, but another kind of

1148
01:28:04.520 --> 01:28:10.880
creature. I explained to the fisherman
that we were camping. I pointed him

1149
01:28:11.000 --> 01:28:15.800
at our tents. I just wanted
to know if we could stay for the

1150
01:28:15.800 --> 01:28:19.119
night, if we could be sure. The fisherman told me that if we

1151
01:28:19.239 --> 01:28:24.439
didn' t bother the creature,
she wouldn' t do anything to us

1152
01:28:24.560 --> 01:28:29.880
either, but that we should be
very careful at night because she was a

1153
01:28:29.920 --> 01:28:31.800
lover of darkness and went out for
a walk every night. She continued to

1154
01:28:31.840 --> 01:28:35.560
say that there was a woman who
waited for her husband. He was also

1155
01:28:35.640 --> 01:28:41.560
a fisherman who went out in the
early morning to fish when all the fishermen

1156
01:28:41.600 --> 01:28:45.880
arrived on their boats with nets loaded
with fish. She waited for her partner,

1157
01:28:45.439 --> 01:28:49.640
but he never came back. He
asked the other fishermen about him.

1158
01:28:50.279 --> 01:28:56.159
The fishermen told her that her husband
did not go fishing that morning, that

1159
01:28:56.279 --> 01:28:59.960
maybe he went to the other side
of the sea or some other beach,

1160
01:29:00.199 --> 01:29:03.399
but with them he was not.
The woman stayed all day waiting for her

1161
01:29:03.439 --> 01:29:10.159
husband. Her two sons were with
her, and several men told her that

1162
01:29:10.399 --> 01:29:14.479
it was best for her to go
to rest. Perhaps her husband was already

1163
01:29:14.520 --> 01:29:17.960
at home, but she never left
the beach, after being insisted many times

1164
01:29:18.039 --> 01:29:23.520
that she take her children to rest
she did not want to leave the sea.

1165
01:29:25.000 --> 01:29:28.039
They left her alone. The next
day, no one knew about her.

1166
01:29:28.640 --> 01:29:33.359
Fishermen entered the sea as usual.
People said that they found their two

1167
01:29:33.399 --> 01:29:38.319
children drowned in the sea, but
her body did not appear, nor did

1168
01:29:38.319 --> 01:29:43.960
they hear anything about her husband.
Some said he had abandoned her because she

1169
01:29:44.000 --> 01:29:47.319
was a witch. Others said her
husband went fishing elsewhere and also drowned.

1170
01:29:50.399 --> 01:29:55.399
That' s why he never came
back. As soon as the fisherman finished

1171
01:29:55.479 --> 01:29:59.560
his story, I asked him if
it was just a legend or really had

1172
01:29:59.560 --> 01:30:02.680
happened. He replied that many people
said that it was not true, that

1173
01:30:02.800 --> 01:30:08.960
it was only stories invented by people. However, he had seen her walk

1174
01:30:09.079 --> 01:30:15.359
along the beach several times while on
the sea fishing. I thanked the fisherman

1175
01:30:15.560 --> 01:30:19.640
and left as soon as I arrived
with my friends, I told them everything

1176
01:30:19.680 --> 01:30:25.640
the fisherman told me, but they
didn' t believe me, arguing that

1177
01:30:25.680 --> 01:30:29.840
legends were like that. As they
passed the information orally, they became deformed

1178
01:30:29.880 --> 01:30:33.760
and each person added to their own
imagination and that what attacked us in the

1179
01:30:33.800 --> 01:30:38.640
cave was nothing more than an animal
that felt invaded as it entered their den.

1180
01:30:40.800 --> 01:30:43.119
I didn' t want to go
into the fisherman' s account.

1181
01:30:43.800 --> 01:30:47.039
I only warned them that if at
night the same animal was hanging around the

1182
01:30:47.079 --> 01:30:51.319
country houses, the next day we
were going to stay in a hotel.

1183
01:30:51.920 --> 01:30:56.720
They agreed and we stayed the rest
of the afternoon on the beach we saw

1184
01:30:58.359 --> 01:31:02.319
the sunset until that one. The
darkness of the night came. Very late

1185
01:31:02.359 --> 01:31:08.359
we went to rest again I slept
next to Alexander. He had taken more

1186
01:31:08.399 --> 01:31:13.239
alcohol and was drunk as soon as
he lay down. He fell completely asleep,

1187
01:31:13.640 --> 01:31:16.479
snoring in a noisy way. With
everything and the noise my friend made,

1188
01:31:17.319 --> 01:31:23.159
I fell asleep immediately. I didn' t know how long it was,

1189
01:31:23.359 --> 01:31:27.479
but the sound of a lament woke
me up was identical to the one

1190
01:31:27.479 --> 01:31:29.800
I had heard in the cave.
I kept an eye out to see what

1191
01:31:29.800 --> 01:31:32.840
was going on. Then I started
to hear footsteps around my friends' campaign

1192
01:31:32.920 --> 01:31:38.760
house. It looked like he was
looking for someone and not finding them right

1193
01:31:38.760 --> 01:31:40.920
away. He went to the house
where he slept with my friend Alejandro.

1194
01:31:42.199 --> 01:31:45.359
He was going around several times until
he stopped and started scratching on the ground,

1195
01:31:45.800 --> 01:31:49.119
doing the same thing as the night
before. I started moving my friend

1196
01:31:49.159 --> 01:31:55.880
trying to wake him up, but
he was deep asleep. I shook him

1197
01:31:55.960 --> 01:31:59.680
hard until he could get out of
sleep. With a very low voice,

1198
01:31:59.760 --> 01:32:05.039
I told him that the wild animal
was again outside the campaign house. Just

1199
01:32:05.119 --> 01:32:11.039
as I told you, we heard
the sinister lament as if you were warning

1200
01:32:11.079 --> 01:32:14.960
that you had already found your prey. I was afraid more wild animals would

1201
01:32:15.039 --> 01:32:18.720
come to our homes. I heard
when they tore the tent cloth. I

1202
01:32:18.760 --> 01:32:25.600
saw a bony hand with long nails
dragging Alejandro. He had a huge force.

1203
01:32:26.399 --> 01:32:29.800
He was trying to get away without
getting it. He yelled at me

1204
01:32:29.840 --> 01:32:33.199
to help him. I went after
him. His and Araceli peeked out to

1205
01:32:33.239 --> 01:32:39.079
see what was happening. I asked
them to help me pull Alejandro so the

1206
01:32:39.119 --> 01:32:43.439
animal wouldn' t take him,
but they were paralyzed with fear and didn

1207
01:32:43.840 --> 01:32:47.800
' t even try to get up. I couldn' t see what kind

1208
01:32:47.880 --> 01:32:53.039
of animal took my friend until we
passed the Palmeras area and the moonlight lit

1209
01:32:53.119 --> 01:32:59.119
up his face, which I saw
puzzled me. She was a very thin,

1210
01:32:59.399 --> 01:33:02.600
tall woman. His long hair moved
in the wind. He had his

1211
01:33:02.640 --> 01:33:09.319
arms and his bony legs with very
long hands. It was disturbing to see

1212
01:33:09.319 --> 01:33:13.680
his face. When he lifted his
face, I saw a sinister smile on

1213
01:33:13.680 --> 01:33:17.159
him. His eyes were two dark
basins with a white glow. He had

1214
01:33:17.279 --> 01:33:20.840
no nose, his hair was straight
and covered a part of his face.

1215
01:33:21.560 --> 01:33:27.359
Then he moved his head sideways and
opened his mouth wide. At the same

1216
01:33:27.399 --> 01:33:32.079
time he again uttered that lament that
was disturbing and sinister. He just stopped

1217
01:33:32.199 --> 01:33:38.039
for a few seconds, long enough
to see her. While she was holding

1218
01:33:38.039 --> 01:33:41.960
Alejandro' s legs, I wasn' t letting go of his arms,

1219
01:33:42.319 --> 01:33:45.279
my friend shouted that he wouldn'
t let go. That monster pulled Alexander

1220
01:33:45.359 --> 01:33:51.159
so hard that I could no longer
hold him. I let him go while

1221
01:33:51.159 --> 01:33:55.560
he tried to hold on to any
bush. He could have grabbed a log,

1222
01:33:56.319 --> 01:33:59.600
but the monster fit his long fingernails
into his forearms. He either did

1223
01:33:59.640 --> 01:34:02.600
it or caused him to let go. The worst thing happened when he got

1224
01:34:02.720 --> 01:34:06.960
to the beach. She started contorting
and walking backwards like a giant spider.

1225
01:34:10.199 --> 01:34:13.920
I never understood why he did it. Even though he didn' t release

1226
01:34:13.960 --> 01:34:17.359
my friend at any moment. Then
he joined and took his normal posture to

1227
01:34:17.439 --> 01:34:21.560
bring my friend Alejandro into the sea. Little by little I saw them disappear

1228
01:34:21.600 --> 01:34:27.079
in the water. When I came
out of my terror I ran after him.

1229
01:34:27.520 --> 01:34:30.760
Sussy and Araceli did the same.
They didn' t try to get

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into the sea. I did try
to catch up with that woman. He

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could still see his head with his
hair floating in the water. He went

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in until he disappeared with my friend. It was seconds or minutes that I

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stayed at sea with the wave swing
until one of them rolled me over and

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pushed me to the beach. Only
in that way could I react because I

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had run out of thoughts and words. Araceli and his were coming to meet

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me. They cried in anguish and
fear. I thought I' d go

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report to the civil protection guys so
they could help us get my friend Araceli

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out. He wanted to do the
best thing was for one of us to

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stay on the beach to see if
Alejandro was coming out of the sea.

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I told them to go both to
ask anyone who could support us for help.

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They ran to the village. I
sat desolate in the sand. I

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knew my friend wasn' t going
out anymore because it had been several minutes

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before that moment he would already be
drowned. In a short time people from

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the village came to support us.
Among the men who came to the sea,

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he recognized the fisherman. He didn' t even try to get into

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the sea. The rest of the
men told them that the boy would no

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longer be found. The woman from
the sea had taken him away. Most

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of the men who came to support
us were fishermen. Another of them told

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us that his son had also laughed
the sea witch. Surely it was a

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curse that had passed time. Stories
written and adapted by Adriana Cuevas