Llamadas Imposibles Al 911 Historias De Terror - REDE

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My family, like many others,
lived in a small town in Mexico,

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where poverty was measured not only in
the lack of material resources, but also

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in the absence of hope. We
lived day by day from hard work in

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the fields, and not just us, I mean, all people worked the

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same thing. There was no other
source of work for families. Today it

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is different, but at that time
it was the field or the field My

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father, a man of few words, but of immense determination, I saw

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a future that was caught up with
every failed harvest and my mother, whose

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smile, was able to illuminate our
darkest nights, shared that concern. The

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decision to leave our home was not
sudden before they told me what we were

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going to do. My parents had
been thinking about it for nine months.

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Violence and fear had become frequent visitors
in our region, with stories of families

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torn apart by the war on trafficking. My parents, seeking security and a

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better future, decided to emigrate to
the United States, leaving everything known behind.

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The journey guided by a coyote and
financed by family savings was exhausting,

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but we finally reached our destination.
My history in the United States is summed

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up in intense personal adaptation and growth. My parents, untiring, worked in

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various jobs looking for a better future
for me. The cultural shock and the

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language barrier marked my beginning Here,
pushing me to mature quickly, sacrificing the

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university for work, I focused on
supporting my family and learning from every work

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experience guided by the ideal of contributing
to society. This search led me to

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become an operator of the nine hundred
and eleven thanks to a friend with connections.

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Although I initially doubted my ability to
handle such great responsibilities, I realized

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that it was my vocation. I
was able to pass aptitude tests, psychological

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evaluations and crisis management trainings. I
took on the role I would hold for

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almost eleven years in this position.
I faced daily the harsh reality of emergencies

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of all kinds, from accidents and
overdoses to situations of domestic violence and mental

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crises. These experiences required a mixture
of calm, rapid decision- making and

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empathy, which forced me to stand
firm regardless of the nature of the call,

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without judging those seeking help. My
engagement became an obsession, leading me

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to extend my days up to sixteen
hours a day, which eventually billed my

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personal life. Despite my partner'
s attempts to make me see the damage

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this addiction to work caused me,
I persisted believing that my constant effort was

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crucial. The decision to resign was
not easy, but necessary. The impossibility

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of maintaining a balance between my working
and personal life, coupled with the extreme

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fatigue of sleeping just five hours,
led me to realize my limits, but

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having given up does not mean that
everything I lived during those nearly eleven years

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has simply come out of my mind. Things don' t work that way.

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After quitting, I had countless sleepless
nights, countless visits to state-

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appointed therapists, but neither the therapies
could erase from my mind. Some of

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the more calls I don' t
know impossible. Maybe it would be the

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right term. Those impossible calls aren' t easy to forget. Obviously,

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there are always calls involving horrible crimes, but over time you learn to prosecute

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him. Let' s just say
the same job trains you. But what

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no one definitely prepares for is to
answer calls which, even though you are

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listening to the person on the other
side, you cannot process what he is

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telling you, because simply and simply
what he is telling you cannot be possible.

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The first impossible call I had to
attend to occurred on a particularly quiet

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night. It was about to end
the fall. The context is always important

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in this case. The context is
that on that day, upon arrival from

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work, the topic of conversation was
that for almost a week a series of

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sightings of strange lights had been reported
in the sky. It wasn' t

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an exaggerated amount of calls either.
I didn' t have to take any,

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but I did have other colleagues and
they were maybe about eight or ten

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calls. To say that in the
last week at least one person had called

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to report those lights and some days
had called two. At first, it

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can' t sound too interesting.
Of course, the important detail is that

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all those eight or ten calls had
been made from the same area by matching

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the calls. All those sightings had
been in a range of three miles.

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All those reports were generally identical three
lights flying in formation and making turns that

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an aircraft could not perform, at
least not those we knew in those years.

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Those lights were reported as green,
changing to water colour to return to

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green. And so, after having
that brief conversation, I took a seat

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and started my work. It was
early in the morning when I received the

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call across the line, a shaky
voice clearly from an elderly woman, pleading

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for help whispering with a terror that
was more than obvious. What she was

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telling me was that someone or something
was trying to force her entry into her

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home to hear the fear in her
voice, sparked an emergency spark in me

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I immediately sent a patrol to her
address trying to keep her calm and assuring

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her that help was on the way. The officers arrived at the scene in

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minutes, inspecting the property for signs
of intrusion. However, his search was

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in vain. They found nothing out
of the ordinary, no evidence that anyone

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had tried to enter the house.
After talking to the woman, they felt

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a concern that they could not ignore, although they had no tangible evidence of

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an immediate danger something in their account
or perhaps in the way they told it

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made them believe that something was wrong. They decided then to continue patrolling the

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nearby streets just in case. The
first call the old lady made was about

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2: 00 in the morning.
About an hour later, at three o

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' clock, the woman called back
that call. It didn' t touch

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me anymore, but a partner.
The despair in his voice had escalated.

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He was talking about strange noises outside
his field of vision, soft but persistent

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blows against the windows, as if
something wanted to let him know he was

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there. My partner, following protocol, notified the same patrol that he had

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visited the house earlier. When the
officers returned to the house, which did

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not take even a minute, they
knocked down the door and entered ready to

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shoot at anyone other than the old
woman, but there were no signs of

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the old woman. The search on
the property revealed no trace of his presence.

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It was as if the earth had
swallowed him up, leaving behind only

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the echo of his distress call.
The house, with all its belongings apparently

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intact, offered no clue as to
the whereabouts of the woman. What is

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done with these cases is now completely
out of our reach. However, in

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this work you meet people and so
you can follow the trail of some calls.

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In this case I knew that there
was someone specialized in missing persons and

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when conducting a more thorough review,
they found some strange marks of burn on

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the floor of the courtyard of the
property were very suspicious three circular marks arranged

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in such a way that they formed
an equilateral triangle. That was the only

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thing out of the ordinary they found. Obviously, I can' t offer

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any answers or anything like that.
What I can say is that it is

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extremely strange the whole context in which
the disappearance of the old woman took place.

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Perhaps the most disconcerting thing is that, after that day, the calls

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reporting the lights completely ceased, as
if the event that provoked them had come

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to an end or somehow their purpose
had been completed. Among other calls that

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still resonate in my mind, there
is one that stands out for its disturbing

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nature and the unanswered questions that he
left behind occurred on a seemingly ordinary night,

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when the tranquility of my turn was
interrupted by the desperate sound of a

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child crying across the line. His
voice consumed by panic, recounted an event

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as terrifying as absolutely impossible. What
the boy said was that he was playing

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with his brother. When hands with
claws came out from under the bed and

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took their brother immediately, I moved
the police to the given direction, trying

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to keep the boy calm and assuring
him that the help was on the way.

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I asked him to stay away from
the room, but fear kept him

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paralyzed, unable to move from his
hiding place. When the parents arrived at

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the place, they met with the
police already inspecting the house in search of

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the brother of the child who had
made the call. Of course the parents

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were questioned because perfectly they could have
orchestrated everything to do something to the child

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and then convince his son to call
nine hundred and eleven to do everything.

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That circus marriage. Hearing that a
child had called to report that something had

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taken his little brother, they reacted
surprisingly. They frowned and turned to see

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before telling the officers that they only
had one child that after his birth,

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the master had performed the basectomy,
so there was no such brother that the

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child said. At that time,
the cops were as baffled as the parents,

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so both the officers and the marriage. They went into the house and

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went to the living room to talk
to the child. At that time the

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marriage remained at all shock and they
assured the police that the child that was

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there was not their son. The
police faced an enigma that challenged all logic,

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a child that existed but did not
belong to those who claimed to be

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their family and a missing brother who
never existed. I asked my police friend

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to please keep me informed about that
case, because it was very rare.

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That' s why I know that
case turned into a headache for the police.

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On the one hand, there was
the lost son of the marriage.

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What they testified to was that they
left the house to go buy dinner.

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The police were able to corroborate his
fourth on the purchase ticket, as well

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as on the branch security cameras.
They were telling the truth. In addition,

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the call that this strange child made
to the nine hundred and eleven was

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at the exact minute and second when
the marriage crossed the branch door. On

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the other hand, there was the
boy who made the call. It was

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confirmed that he had no kinship with
marriage, he was not the son of

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any friend, nor of any neighbour. The child claimed to be called the

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same as the child of the marriage
and all the time remained in the position

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that they were his parents, which
was definitely not true. That child must

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have had another family, but no
child in the missing persons database matched his

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profile. The mystery child' s
family never showed up and neither did the

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child of the marriage. That was
too weird. A third call, which

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I also remember with a lot of
uncertainty, was the one I received from

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a man saying something so strange that
it seems absurd. It was an afternoon,

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like any other, at the call
center, when suddenly, the phone

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rang the man on the other side
of the line. He told me that

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he was confined in a small room
of three meters by three meters, a

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claustrophobic space that inexplicably lacked doors or
windows. There was no visible outlet for

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any entry through which he could have
accessed. My reaction, of course,

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was to proceed according to standard protocol. It was crucial to do so,

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to maintain the seriousness so that he
could think as clearly as possible. Under

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such circumstances, with as calm a
voice as possible, I asked him to

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try to remember any detail, no
matter how small or insignificant it might appear.

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The man swore to me that he
had no memory of how he ended

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up there. His last clear memory
was that of his routine walk home after

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one more day of work. As
the conversation spread, the tone of his

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voice became more agitated, reflecting the
escalation of his despair. He described to

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me the parts that surrounded him surfaces, smooth and devoid of any distinctive characteristic,

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without marks, without grabs, absolutely
nothing. The idea that there was

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no escape from that box of concrete
was taking root in his mind the call.

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He stayed with me trying to calm
him down and assure him that we

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were doing everything we could to find
him. What followed, however, was

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an abrupt silence. The line was
suddenly cut leaving behind only the buzz of

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a missing connection. The strangest thing
of all was that just a thousandth of

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a second before the call was cut
off he could trace where he was calling

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from. The call was made from
San Diego, from a mountainous area,

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specifically from the peninsular mountain range.
That' s a natural area. There

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are no constructions. That person couldn' t have been locked in a three

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- by- three room, unless
that room was under the mountains. But

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without a doubt, the most absolutely
impossible call I had to attend was from

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my own cell phone number. I
explained to them my turn had begun as

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usual, I had settled in with
a cup of coffee. When the phone

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rang. Looking at the call ID, I was confused that it came from

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my own number I touched my phone, which was face up on my desk

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to see that it was well active. On the lock screen there was no

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outgoing call, so hesitate a moment
before answering the call. When I answered

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the call, what I heard on
the other side, I was confused by

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a voice that sounded inhuman robotic.
He encouraged me about opening an accident on

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the corner of a few streets.
He gave me the address the call ended

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abruptly before I could fully process the
situation, leaving me with a whirlwind of

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emotions and doubts. My training as
dispatcher prompted me to act according to the

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information provided, Despite the strangeness of
the situation and the unanswered questions that besieged

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me, I coordinated the sending of
emergency services to the indicated location. This

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decision was accompanied by a persistent sense
of concern. When the emergency services arrived.

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The accident was just one or two
seconds after it happened It was too

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weird. The restlessness was just beginning
to sit when the phone rang once again,

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showing again my own ode number on
the screen with the heart beating fast

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and a mixture of fear and anxiety. Invading me, I prepared to respond

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with a trembling hand. I listened
to the call the same robotic and inhuman

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voice. He called me by my
name and told me that in less than

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five minutes the call from a woman
who would be locked in a closet was

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coming in. As I assimilated the
information, I asked him who he was.

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But at that point the communication was
abruptly cut. As the seconds passed,

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my anxiety grew. Feeling the attention
in the environment. I looked at

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my colleagues wondering if they would be
experiencing something similar. Then, after what

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seemed to be the three longest minutes
of my life, the woman' s

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call came in just like the robotic
voice. He told me. The situation

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women were in is not important to
history. Just let them know that I

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was able to solve the emergency that
the woman was going through. The arrival

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of the third call soon took place. My heart accelerated when I saw my

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own number on the screen again.
I doubted for a moment, however,

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I could not ignore it. I
took the phone off and prepared for what

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would come the voice on the other
side of the phone. He told me

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to call my wife and tell her
to get out of the house because someone

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was going to get in that the
best thing was that there was no one

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in the house. When that person
got in. That said, the call

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was cut off. This was too
much. It made no sense and yet,

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as the previous two calls had been
unequivocal predictions, what I did was

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get out of my seat and take
my rest. In five minutes I went

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to the area that is for breaks
and I called my wife. I don

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' t even remember exactly what I
told him. The moment I confirmed that

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she was out of the house with
ta, I didn' t tell a

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cop friend and asked him to go
take a look at my house. It

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took about ten minutes to get there
He found a thief inside who was armed.

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I never got calls on my own
number again. I honestly have no

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idea what happened at this point.
I must make a leap in time to

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when I had already resigned. What
I did was go into the academy and

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become a cop. That didn'
t last long because at eight months I

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accidentally made the swear it was accidental. I stopped a tripicante. He didn

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' t make the full stop and
I stopped him. His attitude was very

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rare. He was nervous, he
didn' t bring any ID or vehicle

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documents, so I asked him to
open the trunk. He refused. He

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made a move that was clearly to
pull out a gun, so I shot

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him and killed him. I notified
the central sa and proceeded to open the

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trunk. There was coquina. It
was the largest illegal substance seizure of that

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year in that city. I was
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I got a medal, they were
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The problem was that one day when
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my family macta was somewhat ironic.
I went to the United States because trafficking

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organizations had taken over the people in
which I lived in Mexico and there another

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organization of the same category took my
family from me and it was all by

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pure chance. Feb and got in
touch with me to offer me protection,

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but I turned it down. I
told them that without my family, I

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don' t care. If anything
happened to me, I gave up so

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much that I left the United States
and went back to live in the village

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where I was born and had police
experience. In addition to taking many courses

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and two operators of the nine hundred
and eleven, I decided that I would

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work as a private investigator. When
I began my service, I only offered

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them in small towns, not only
in the village where I lived, but

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also in nearby villages. This is
because, even though people in those places

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don' t usually have much money, they never get help there either from

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police or government. My first year
was quite difficult, as I tried to

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adjust to work, but having a
couple of friends in the field who gave

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me advice here and there definitely helped. Eventually I started to find my pace

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and as my reputation grew, so
did my customer base. Not being specific

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about where I live or using real
names as a private investigator. People come

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to me with pretty personal business.
They tend to reach me many cases of

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paranoid spouses and most accept them no
matter how absurd they may be. The

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first case I want to talk to
you about was creepy enough to definitely make

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me think a little bit more about
what to accept and what to decline from.

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About two years ago he received an
unexpected call from what seemed to be

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an older man. He asked me
to confirm if he had called the right

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place and when I confirmed to him
that he was, he immediately began a

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long monologue about how his wife was
conspiring against him and how he planned to

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eliminate him. I tried to calm
him down and ask him when he could

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come to the office to discuss things
with a coffee. He wanted to clarify

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whether his case was legitimate and thus
wish to negotiate an honorarium. He insisted

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he needed to see me as soon
as possible, so he arrived a couple

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of hours later. Since I had
no case at the time, I had

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no convenient nuno. The client was
fifty to sixty years old and visibly altered.

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When he arrived we talked for a
while and by that time he had

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already calmed down, but he was
still clearly frightened. He told me that

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his wife had been going out to
meet other older women in a sort of

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reading club and that he was sure
that all of them wanted to hurt him.

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The situation became really interesting when he
revealed that every morning, around 4

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a m, he woke up with
an abnormally loud sound like dogs, barking

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and grunting frantically. He told me
that he always woke up and saw his

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wife standing at the door of the
bedroom and that two other older women similar

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to some of her friends were always
standing motionless behind her. They didn'

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t make any moves, they just
stared at him. The chilling step is

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that his wife was still in bed
with him sleeping. They didn' t

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move while he didn' t.
But he told me that, as soon

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as he did something notorious, they
would walk away before he had the opportunity

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to put on his glasses to see
better the few times he had gone to

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check. He found his back door, open, but never anything out of

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place. I felt a little bewildered
and at first I thought it might be

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sleep paralysis, but the fact that
a previously closed door was open and he

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could move effortlessly. I was ruling
that out. I asked him a few

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things, including his address when his
wife used to leave, when he left.

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The location of the reading club pictures
of his wife, her friends,

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that kind of thing. We made
a deal and took the case. That

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night I went to his house and
parked my car in the street, in

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a place from which I could see
his front door and the gate leading to

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his backyard. I prepared my camera
and put on a podcast, since I

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had to be there before he went
to sleep, to make sure I didn

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' t miss anything. I was
out for about six hours without any sign

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of any activity. The streets were
dark. There was an almost penetrating sensation

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of silence and isolation at three thirty
o' clock and almost as if it

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were a sign. The sound of
a barking dog broke the silence. The

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worst part is like every dog on
the block starts barking. At that moment

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I see them in the rearview mirror, two small, wrinkled figures and a

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taller, slender figure, both slowly
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The polarization of my windows made sure
they didn' t notice me in

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the past, but I still remained
silent. The echo of his steps resonated

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there I noticed that they were two
old ladies dragging a white inert mannequin like

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rigid lime like a corpse fresh out
of the tomb and dressed as the old

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man' s wife. I started
taking some pictures with one camera and recording

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them with another. Indeed, they
turned towards the entrance of my client'

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s house, carrying the mannequin with
them, and one of them unlocks the

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gate. Ass, I check the
photos and video to make sure they'

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re clear. I tried to think
of something since obviously, it' s

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not a good idea to leave the
old man alone with a couple of creepy

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old women who probably suffer from dementia
or something like that. I pulled out

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my cell phone and called her phone
hoping to get her out. A few

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minutes later they went out and walked
down the street wobbly down the handle and

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dragged it against the pavement. The
next day, when I showed him the

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photos and the video, he became
pale. He smiled a little melancholy and

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thanked me saying that he had to
apologize to his wife for not trusting her

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and not talking to her about it. First, the man, on the

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one hand, was bewildered by those
old women, but at the same time

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he was calmer because he could rule
out that his wife was involved in what

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was going on. The man told
me he wouldn' t need my services

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anymore. I recommended that the best
thing was to confront the old women to

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keep them from getting into the house. But the man told me he'

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d trade the door lock for a
safer one. When we agreed on the

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price he gave me half the payment
and at that time he gave me the

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other half giving up the job.
However, I was not calm. My

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intuition came to me that something else
was going to happen and that would be

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a bad thing and I couldn'
t leave things like that. The next

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night, I had every intention of
going on a stakeout to put an end

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to the old ladies, but there
was an inconvenience to me and I couldn

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' t go on a stakeout.
The next day I found out something had

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happened. At dawn. The man' s wife was in the town square

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impaled. Obviously, they went looking
for him for explanations, being the prime

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suspect, but when they knocked down
the door of the house, they found

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him in the dead room in such
a violent way that I can' t

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even say it. The strangest thing
of all was that next to the man

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' s body was sitting a mannequin, the same mannequin that I saw the

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two old ladies wearing. I have
no idea what happened. I have some

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other stories the same today, even
more strange than this. First I tell

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you a summer. I don'
t remember what year, but it was

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before this first I told them.
I was sitting in my office finishing one

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of my previous cases. There were
only general reports, lots of paperwork and

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boring things left. Suddenly my phone
started ringing I picked it up just to

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hear the voice of a municipal police
sergeant from a city that was about eight

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hours away by road. He explained
that he was handling a case of a

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missing person, a young boy about
four years old. His mother and father

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had divorced a few months ago.
The father had taken custody when the child

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disappeared. The main suspect was the
mother, who believed she was in the

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village where I lived and if she
wasn' t there, it was possible

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that she was in some other town
near the area. There were a couple

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of testimonies that said that the child
was seen getting into a vehicle that coincided

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with the vehicle the mother had.
The background was that the father had left

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the child alone at home for half
an hour to go out and buy something

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to eat, and when the boy
returned, he was gone. The father

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was not a suspect because he had
fought a great deal to keep custody,

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so the father was not likely to
be responsible. The police sergeant told me

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that the child' s father was
a lot of money and that if I

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found the child I could get a
good compensation. I agreed to do the

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woman' s search. He e- mailed me a picture of the mother

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' s child and the mother'
s vehicle. First I went around town

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and that vehicle definitely wasn' t
in place. As of today, that

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town is a little more modern,
but when this happened there were barely twenty

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vehicles. I know exactly because in
the village there were forty- six houses,

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so it wasn' t hard to
know data like this. When I

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got rid of the village where I
lived, I started to look at other

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villages in the area and started with
the village that was most difficult to access.

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To reach that village, one had
to cross a gravel road that crossed

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several kilometres through the forest. That
town has always had a bad reputation because,

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as you get closer, the trees
start to get weird. I wouldn

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' t know exactly how to explain
it. When I was in that town,

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I parked my car and started walking, but I hadn' t been

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walking for a minute. When I
saw a vehicle that matched the woman'

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s vehicle, so, as discreetly
as possible, I took a photograph.

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After that I was walking in the
village, buying some things, never losing

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sight of the vehicle. It was
done at night and nothing. The vehicle

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followed him in his place without anyone
coming near him and no one moving him.

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I returned to my vehicle and,
even though I hadn' t really

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planned it, I had to stay
on guard. Of course everything had to

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be perfectly camouflaged, so while there
were still people on the streets, I

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pretended that the car was failing me. This way I could stay inside the

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vehicle all night without anyone getting it. Suspect. The hours passed, it

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was three o' clock in the
morning and there was still no movement,

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so I got out of the car
and made sure that no one saw me

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from the window of his house,
I gradually got closer to the vehicle in

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question. The windows weren' t
polarized, so what I did was look

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inside. In there were both the
mother and the child. They were both

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lying in the back, so well- off that it was impossible to see

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them from afar. They were both
dead, but it was clear that someone

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had given them, because the two
had figures of Christ crucified nailed to their

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hearts. I' ve never seen
such a terrible thing before in my life.

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I had to take pictures. I
went back to my car, I

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saw my office. I passed the
pictures to the computer. I mailed them

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to the police sergeant and called him
to inform him of the situation. I

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didn' t know what happened next, and so I have a couple more

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weird stories, but they' re
already very strong things that I' m

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sure YouTube wouldn' t take well. Tale written and adapted by Ramiro. Contreras