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First testimony was an too hot afternoon
of a summer day in the year two

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thousand nineteen. At that time I
worked driving a car to uber. It

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was almost a year since I was
driving for aquato and nearby places. During

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those months I thought I' d
seen everything. I had seen people coming

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back from parties very late at night, also people traveling for work who looked

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very tired, as if they carried
a lot of problems on them from time

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to time. I also had to
take some scary people. It was almost

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midnight and I had just left a
client at his house. That client had

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drunk a lot of alcohol somewhere in
the city center. Although it was too

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late, I decided I was going
to make a few more trips before I

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finished my job for that day.
That afternoon I had had less work than

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usual and needed to make sure I
made enough money to be able to pay

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my bills by the end of the
month. Suddenly my phone rang was a

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new travel request. Without wasting time, I accepted the trip because I wanted

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to make a little more money that
day. The streets were completely dark that

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night and only the headlights in my
car made it possible to have something on

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the road while following what the GPS
told me. After a while, the

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GPS told me that I had already
arrived where I had to pick up my

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next passenger. The place didn'
t look anything nice. It was a

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warehouse that looked like no one had
used in many years. Located in a

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part of the city where there was
nothing else. The windows of the building

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were all broken and the walls filled
with drawings and words made with spry.

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I stopped the car right in front
of the warehouse and started to rer my

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phone to see the details of the
trip. Again I remember the passenger'

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s name very well. His name
was José García. The place where I

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had to take Joseph was almost two
hours away from where we were. That,

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along with the lonely and ugly part
of the place where I had to

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pick it up, made me feel
a little scared. I took a deep

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breath trying to calm down and waited
for Joseph to appear. I found it

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very strange that someone asked for a
huber for a journey so long and more

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from that place that it looked so
scary. Although he missed me, I

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thought maybe this passenger came from some
party and had to go back to his

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house, which was a long way
from there. To be sure, I

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decided to send a quick message over
my phone to confirm that the address was

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the right one. So I just
sat there in my car waiting. The

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minutes were passing very slowly. I
was sitting there with the car engine still

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on and every second seemed longer than
the previous one. The noise of the

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engine was the only thing heard in
the silence of the night. I was

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beginning to think about canceling the trip, almost doing so to return to parts

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of the city where there were more
people, more light and less danger.

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But right then I saw a figure
coming from afar. I noticed that the

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figure I thought was my passenger was
tall and thin. He was wearing a

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long dark coat that made no sense
for a summer night as hot as that.

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When he got closer, I saw
something even weirder in how he looked.

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His skin was very pale, almost
of an unnatural color and although it

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was night, he wore very dark
sunglasses that covered his eyes. Finally,

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the man came to the car and
opened the back door without saying anything.

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His movements were very slow, as
if he had to think long before doing

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everything. It almost seemed that he
was not a person, but rather a

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machine, as I always welcomed him
with a friendly tone, hoping that he

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would say something or, even if
it were, make a gesture, but

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there was no answer. He sat
there quietly and didn' t even close

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the car door, something I had
to do before I started driving. It

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is not very common to have passengers
who say nothing and act so strangely.

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In spite of that, I tore
up the car and started moving. While

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driving. I tried several times to
talk, to say something about the weather

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or about how dark the night was, but he didn' t respond,

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there was no sound, apart from
the engine of the car and the air

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hitting the windows. As we entered
more into the darkness of the road.

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I thought maybe the passenger was too
tired or maybe in a bad mood.

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I decided that it was best to
give him his space and I focused only

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on driving where he told me we
were going. The journey went on without

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hearing almost anything, only the noise
of the tires as they rolled down the

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asphalt. From time to time I
looked at my passenger through the rearview mirror.

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Every time I did it, I
felt a chill that swung my back

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around his face. He didn'
t show any emotion and he was still

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wearing those sunglasses that he never took
off. I couldn' t see his

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eyes, but something about how he
sat and how he filled. The space

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in the car felt heavy as if
carrying something else I couldn' t see.

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During the trip I tried to talk
to him several times. I asked

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him how his night had been and
where he was going exactly, but he

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never answered me his silence was disturbed, though not completely weird. In all

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these years driving I had encountered many
passengers who preferred silence during the journey,

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so I convinced myself that the best
thing was to focus, to drive and

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simply finish the trip as per.
We were further away from the center of

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the city, the streets became darker
and the atmosphere around it felt darker.

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I couldn' t help thinking something
was deeply wrong. It wasn' t

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just the silence of my passenger that
made me uncomfortable. It was as if

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he brought with him a feeling of
evil that was beginning to fill the car.

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My heart was beating faster every time
I thought about it and I accidentally

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looked back through the rearview mirror again. This time, when I looked in

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the mirror, I realized that he
was staring at me. Although his eyes

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were covered by dark glasses, he
could see the reflection of the dim brightness

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of the lights inside the car in
his lenses. That image made me even

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more nervous. I tried to hide
how I felt. I adjusted the mirror

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a little bit and kept driving,
trying to ignore the feeling that someone was

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watching me all the time as I
followed the way. The atmosphere inside the

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car felt more and more tense.
I was making a big effort to concentrate

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on the road, but it was
hard not to think about that weird passenger.

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I still knew it was my job
to take him as far as he

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' d asked. So I kept
driving, trying not to let myself be

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dominated by fear as I walked down
that dark, lonely road. Suddenly I

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was overwhelmed by a very strange feeling
and without being able to contain myself I

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asked him if everything was okay,
with a voice that shook me a little

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at first, the passenger said nothing. Instead of responding he began to lean

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slowly forward. He got closer and
closer to the back of my seat.

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It felt like the air inside the
car was getting colder as if the temperature

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had dropped suddenly. I noticed my
own breath tarnished in the cold air of

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the car. A clear sign that
the temperature inside had dropped suddenly. An

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intense fear began to fill my chest. I was caught up in a dilemma

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about what to do. I knew
I couldn' t just stop the car

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in the middle of nowhere, especially
with a passenger as strange as the one

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I had at the time. To
complicate things. My cell phone had no

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signal so I couldn' t ask
for help. With my eyes stuck on

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the road, I grabbed the wheel
harder than usual, so much so that

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my knuckles became white. The minutes
passed extremely slow. Every second seemed an

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eternity, as the passenger continued to
approach me silently and threateningly. The attention

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became increasingly difficult to bear and I
finally reached my limit. I couldn'

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t hold back anymore and burst into
questions yelling at him what he wanted.

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That' s when the passenger finally
spoke his voice. It made me shudder

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It was cold It completely lacked any
human emotion. He just said it was

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me asking the passenger to explain exactly
what he wanted me to tell me why

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he had decided to get in my
car that night. However, instead of

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giving me a clear and direct answer, he only repeated enigmatically. You'

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re, you didn' t understand
anything that was happening, but the fear

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that invaded me was enough to keep
me pushing the throttle, not knowing what

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fate was waiting for me. At
the end of that disquieting journey, the

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minutes passed slowly, so slow that
each one seemed an entire hour. As

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I kept driving deeper and deeper in
the darkness of the night. Around me.

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The landscape had changed completely. The
constant and bright lights of the city

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had been replaced by an almost total
darkness that is only found in the countryside

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where there is almost no light.
I had long since stopped looking through the

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rearview mirror, but I could still
feel his eyes nailed to my back.

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I didn' t need to see
him to know he was there. Looking

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at me, I could hear his
breathing, which became heavier with every kilometer

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we walked, as if somehow he
was absorbing the fear I felt. I

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wanted to find some way out of
the situation I was in, but I

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didn' t dare stop. The
car was completely alone in the middle of

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nowhere and the pointless things the passenger
had murmured. Before they made me think

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that any sudden movement or attempt to
flee could make this man, who was

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clearly nothing normal, do something wrong
to me. The road became even more

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lonely and abandoned. The only light
present was that of the lighthouses in my

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car, which lit up a route
flanked by a wooded environment. The trees

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seemed increasingly dense and closed on the
road. From time to time some signs

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appeared on the sides of the road, lighted fleetingly by the headlights of my

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car. It was in one of
those moments of relative silence that the passenger

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decided to break his silence again.
His low voice and a threatening tone said

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I am you could not understand what
he meant by those words, but every

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time he spoke, fear increased within
me. The only thing I could think

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of was the possibility that this man
at any moment could do something wrong to

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me. I felt increasingly nervous and
fearful. With a shaky movement, I

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looked at my phone, which was
placed on the board stand. The screen

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clearly showed that there was no signal. But still, driven by panic,

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I decided to try to make a
call. Marking the emergency number. I

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activated the speaker in the hope that
somehow the call could connect. Despite the

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lack of signal. The phone rang
once later, a second time and to

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my surprise, someone on the other
side answered what my emergency was. Right

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then, the passenger made a sudden
move. It wasn' t to attack

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me, but to grab my hands
and keep them away from the wheel.

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This caused the car to begin to
deviate dangerously along the narrow road, while

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I was struggling to regain control of
the vehicle. I fought hard to regain

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control of the steering wheel, but
the guy was incredibly strong as much as

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he tried to move it It was
like he was struggling with a concrete wall.

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It just didn' t move an
inch. Meanwhile, the car started

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zigzagging along the road in a dangerous
way. The passenger, with a laugh

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that sounded almost inhuman, repeated over
and over again with a strange and distorted

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tone of voice. You' re
me. His laughter and repetitive words made

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the situation even more chilling. Suddenly
I saw the brightness of headlights coming from

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the front or another year coming quickly
in the opposite direction. At that point

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I realized that I had to act
fast, or this man could do something

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like turn the wheel and cause a
frontal shock with despair. I pressed the

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brake with all my strength. The
car swerved to the side. We were

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shot off the road, as the
terrain next to the road was uneven and

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full of bumps. The car started
to overturn was so sudden and violent that

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I lost count of how many times
we turned. I think we took at

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least two full laps before the car
finally stopped staying upside down. This guy,

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despite everything that was going on,
kept laughing. At that point I

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realized something wasn' t right.
He wasn' t wearing his seat belt,

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but he was still hanging headlong on
the seat like nothing else. That

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didn' t make sense. The
car had gone around several times, should

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have been thrown or at least moved
from its seat if it was not secured

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with the belt. I convinced myself
that what was sitting there couldn' t

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be human. I quickly let go
of my seatbelt, opened the car door

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and ran away without daring to look
back. As I was running towards the

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road, I noticed that the other
vehicle I had seen approaching had stopped.

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After watching my car get out of
the way and roll out of the car

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under a couple watching me with an
expression of concern on their faces. Without

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wasting time, I began to tell
them what had happened, talking quickly and

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almost unable to breathe as I begged
them to help me. They didn'

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t hesitate for a moment and immediately
called the police. While we were waiting

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for the authorities to arrive. The
couple tried to calm me down. They

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assured me I was safe now that
I didn' t have to worry anymore.

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However, I could not stop shaking
not only because of the blows or

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pieces of glass that I had embedded
in my left arm and face, but

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also because of the laughter of that
being whatever was in my car. He

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was chasing me in the mind.
When the police arrived, they immediately went

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to look for the passenger, but
when inspecting my car they found no one

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inside. At that point I checked
my pockets to get my cell phone out,

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but then I remembered that I should
have been wrecked in the accident inside

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the car. Desperate. I asked
the couple who had helped me to borrow

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their phone. I knew the number
to contact Uber in emergency cases. I

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called immediately to report the accident and
ask for information about the last passenger I

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had taken. When the information reached
the whatsapp of the cell phone I had

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borrowed, what I saw left me
very confused. It was the information of

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a passenger, but not of the
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me When the accident occurred, I
called again to uber to clarify the situation,

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but they insisted that the information they
had sent me corresponded to the last

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passenger registered with my driver number.
This didn' t make sense. I

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knew there was someone else in my
car, someone who wasn' t on

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his records. While trying to understand
what was going on, the ambulance arrived.

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The paramedics quickly approached me and started
checking me out. I thanked the

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couple who had helped me and returned
their cell phone before heading to the ambulance.

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Although I had no serious injuries,
the pieces of glass that I had

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embedded in my left arm and on
my face needed to be removed, so

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it was necessary to go to the
hospital until today I still do not understand

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exactly what happened that night. I
don' t know who that passenger was

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or why he didn' t show
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situation remains a mystery that I have
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I' ve been driving UBER for
years and honestly I' ve seen

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almost everything from passengers getting in the
car completely drunk and making a lot of

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noise to people who just want to
talk for a while. I thought I

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was used to all kinds of situations
and nothing could really surprise me. However,

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what happened to me one night in
New Laredo was completely different from anything

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I had experienced before. Something truly
disconcerting. It was a Friday afternoon when

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it just happened I had left a
passenger who smelled too bad. The smell

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had been almost unbearable during the trip
and after leaving, I felt the urgent

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need to take a break to get
some air. I decided to park in

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a poorly lit alley near the godfather, a restaurant well known in the area

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for its burgers and because it is
open at 24 hours. It was a

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place where I used to stop sometimes
a familiar point that gave me some peace

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of mind. I laid down my
seat a little bit to be more comfortable

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and took out my phone to check
the uber app waiting to see if there

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were any new travel requests. It
didn' t take long for a notification

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to appear on the screen without turning
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The directions on the app led me
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so I tore the car off and
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When I got to the point where
I was dialing the GPS, I noticed

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a young man I calculated was about
20 years old. He looked nervous,

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he was constantly looking back as if
he expected someone to be following him or

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stalking him. He was wearing a
hoodie that seemed to have seen better days,

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quite worn out and his face was
partially hidden under the shadow that had

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given him a mysterious and somewhat disturbing
look. I walked in the car and

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lowered the window to talk to him
I asked him if it was Juan.

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I wasn' t sure what to
expect from this meeting. The young man

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’ s apparent anxiety was beginning to
spread with nervousness. He seemed to hesitate

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for a moment, but finally nodded
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You can notice clearly that he was
really upset, as his hands were

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shaking as he tried to fasten his
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I decided to start a conversation.
I asked him where he was going making

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an effort to sound as friendly and
calm as possible. Just drive there tells

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you the app. It was John' s response with a nervous voice.

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Clearly something disturbed him, but I
decided it was not wise to push him

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with more questions, so I just
tore the car off the sidewalk and started

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following the route that the app marked. The atmosphere inside the car felt tense.

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The silence was only broken from time
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breathing of John, who kept throwing
anxious glances through the window like looking for

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something or someone in the street.
The attention increased at every minute and I

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couldn' t keep quiet and ono. I expressed my concern for the state

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of John, who, with a
deep sigh, seemed to be abruptly free

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from the burden of his anguish.
He confessed that something was after him.

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Through the rearview mirror he tried to
understand John' s expression partially hidden under

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his hood. The confusion and concern
took over me. Faced with his revelation,

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John struggling to find the right words, explained with difficulty that it was

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not something human and that he had
followed him from his apartment. His words

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filled me with unexpected fear. During
a simple journey moved by a mixture of

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fear and intrigue, I inquired more
about what was after him. Juan,

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panicking, admitted he couldn' t
believe it if he explained it. His

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voice and hands trembled. Despite the
growing fear. My curiosity as a driver

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used to listening to all kinds of
stories, drove me to India more.

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He hesitated for a moment whether he
should share his secret or not. He

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finally told me he was some kind
of creature that wasn' t from this

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world. He could change shape and
he didn' t know why he was

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chasing him. I couldn' t
stay in a place for long as he

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told his story, my mind worked
at full speed trying to make sense of

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his words a creature capable of changing
shape and chasing him tirelessly. It sounded

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something out of a science, fiction
or terror movie, more than reality.

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I wondered if I wouldn' t
be under the effect of some substance.

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He didn' t seem violent rather
the kind that might have consumed something hallucinogenic

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that makes you see things that aren' t there. Although part of me

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thought that everything was a product of
his imagination, I decided to follow the

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game and just keep driving. Suddenly,Án became even more tense. He

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' s here. He whispered in
such a low voice that I could hardly

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hear it quickly. I looked in
the rearview mirror and only saw the road

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behind us. I pointed it out
to him trying to calm him down and

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waiting for him to calm down.
However, John' s breathing became faster

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and began to shakyly point toward the
corner of the block of one of the

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blocks ahead. I followed John'
s gaze and, indeed there, in

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the distance, a dark figure was
moving towards us at a surprising, almost

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unnatural speed. It was creepy.
As he moved, he didn' t

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seem to have a normal walk.
More like floating on the pavement. Its

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shape was constantly contorted and changed,
as if it were composed of smoke or

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shadows, something that it could not
clearly define. Never in my life had

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I witnessed something so disturbing or r
and out of the ordinary, without stopping

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to think more, I stepped on
the accelerator thoroughly, pushing my car to

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the limit of its capacity. The
creature quickly gained ground, getting closer and

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closer to each passing second. Juan
would hold on to the seats with a

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lot of force and yell at me
to make it faster. I yelled at

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him that I was trying. While
my heart was pounding against my chest,

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I accelerated even more trying to distance
us from that terrifying entity. Although I

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knew I should keep my attention on
the road, I couldn' t help

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but throw poaching glances into the rearview
mirror. From time to time, the

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creature was now only a few meters
away behind us and its shape became clearer

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and clearer was a monstrosity, a
kind of grotesque mixture of crooked limbs and

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its skin had a grayish and sickening
tone. You couldn' t say he

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had a definite face. Instead,
it only showed huge open jaws, filled

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with rows of sharp teeth like blades. In a desperate attempt to escape,

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I took a detour to a less
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That' s when, suddenly,
the creature stopped following us disappeared as abruptly

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as it had appeared. However,
while I was still driving at high speed

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trying to get as far away as
possible from the last place where we saw

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that abomination, a black van gave
me the high lights. Anyone who'

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s back up will know that that' s usually not a good sign,

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so I had no choice but to
stop. The van stopped right in front

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of my car and several armed men
came down from it. We were ordered

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out of the vehicle to and by, counting on their weapons. They asked

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me why we were going at that
speed with our hands up. I explained

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to them that I was trying to
take Juan to the hospital, because he

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had had a bad trip that was
hallucinating intensely. The man looked at me

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with great doubt. I insisted that
I ask John about what he had been

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chasing us, assuring him that he
would realize that John was under the influence

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of something. The armed man addressed
John and asked him what was going on.

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John still affected by terror. He
told him the truth about the incomprehensible

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creature that had persecuted us. Although
I knew it was true because I had

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seen it with my own eyes,
I realized that it sounded crazy and that

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we were unlikely to be believed.
The armed guy. He turned his attention

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to me, wondering what substance he
had consumed. Juan told him that he

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didn' t know exactly what he
had gotten into, that when I got

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to pick him up, he was
already in that state and that' s

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why he wanted to take him to
the hospital. Fortunately, the armed man

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believed all the explanations I gave him
and finally let us go, but not

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without warning me to slow down.
I thanked him relieved. I went back

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to the car, where Juan was
expecting me just as nervous and we got

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going again. Throughout the journey to
the hospital, both John and I remained

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extremely alert, watching in case the
creature who had persecuted us decided to appear

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again. However, the rest of
the trip took place without incident. There

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were no more signs of the monster. When I arrived at the hospital,

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I helped Juan get out of the
car and made sure he got into the

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emergency room. After seeing that I
was in the hands of the doctors,

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I walked away from the place reflecting. As I walked away, there was

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no doubt that this had been the
strangest and scariest journey I had ever experienced

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as a driver of written and adapted
stories. Ramiro contreras