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The temple. My name is Fernando
and the story I bring today is something

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that happened to me during my years
of service. I' m not currently

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a cop anymore. I have a
couple of interesting stories, both mine and

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my friends. What I' m
going to tell you next is, in

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my opinion, the most shocking of
all I' ve ever lived. It

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was a Easter afternoon. Everyone was
celebrating and even at the police station we

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had a little party. We were
celebrating when we got a call about a

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missing boy in the woods. According
to his father' s statements, he

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said that he was seeing him and
that as soon as he turned his back

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on him to pick up a ball, the boy had disappeared. That story

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was very strange no child could disappear
from that way so quickly. We knew

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we didn' t have much time
to lose. If the boy was really

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in the woods, we had to
find him before the night fell It was

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too dangerous for anyone to wander the
woods at that time, so we started

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a search. I knew that forest
like the palm of my hand. I

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was gonna play there for all my
summers. That was long before the parents

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overprotected their children and since I knew
the area very well, I was in

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charge of leading the search. The
more hours passed, the more I was

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convinced that the child could not be
in the forest. Although the forest was

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a little large, his legs would
not allow him to walk far away in

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such a short time. We still
don' t give up on our quest.

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When the night fell, most had
come home, but I, for

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one, did not want to give
up. I really wanted to find that

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child and since he was the one
who knew those woods best, I decided

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that even after everyone went home,
I could take one last turn just to

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make sure I had looked well.
That was a serious mistake. I walked

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along the marked path, called the
child and tried to encourage myself by saying

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that I would soon find him.
After a while, I knew that wasn

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' t going to happen, so
something discouraged. I decided to turn around

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and return, but in doing so
I realized that I did not recognize any

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path. I tried to calm down
and see better. I knew I couldn

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' t be lost. I'
d been in that forest a thousand times

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in the dark I thought maybe I
could have taken the wrong path. I

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remember being held in that same place
for almost twenty minutes trying to orient myself

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and know where I was, but
nothing I saw was known to me and

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panic gripped me. With every second
passing, I could hardly believe I was

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looking for someone and now it turned
out that it was me who needed to

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be found. Finally, trying to
convince me that I had found the right

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way, I decided to take it, but after walking a few meters,

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I realized that I was just going
further into an area that I was completely

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unaware of. I think my ego
was bigger than my fear because, despite

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not being able to recognize anything,
I continued walking, thinking that I would

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soon find something familiar and then I
could leave the forest. Not only did

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that not happen, but it was
really lost. I was scared and quite

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disoriented. I had no idea what
to do. Then a part of me

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thought that the suggestion to stay in
one place until found no longer applied at

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that time to me and that perhaps
it would be better to look for a

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good place to spend the night and
with some luck, When the first rays

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of the sun came out, I
could find the way back. I have

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no idea how long I walked.
I just know that while I was doing

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it I could see a light in
the distance I was excited, as I

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knew that some people had cabins in
the woods and if I could find one

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of them, maybe I could use
their phone to ask for help or ask

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to be taken to town. Without
much thought, I ran straight into the

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light. When I was finally close
enough I saw that it was not a

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cabin, but a temple. It
was very small, but the strangest thing

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was that it was fully functioning with
people inside. I thought it wasn'

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t time to have doubts, so
I knocked on the doors and, for

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my fortune, I was taken care
of by a nun. She was a

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little old and asked me what she
was doing there. I told her all

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my situation and also asked her if
she could lend me a phone. She

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looked at me a little strange and
told me that there was no phone,

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but that I was more than welcome
to spend the night, as I looked

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very tired and that the next day
they would help me return. On my

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own I did not wish to contradict
her or anything like that, so I

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simply accepted her proposal and entered the
temple. Everything looked so old inside it

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was as if time had not passed
there. I assumed that, though a

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little strange, temples used to be
like this and I didn' t give

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it much importance. The nun asked
me if I had eaten something and by

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denying myself she took me to a
dining room where she served me some bread

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and milk, telling me that they
had no more, but that they could

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share it with me. I thanked
you for your kindness and hospitality. I

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was very tired, so as soon
as a little cot pointed out to me

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where I could sleep, I fell
down almost immediately, although something woke me

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up in the morning. They looked
like songs coming from some adjoining rooms where

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I was. I didn' t
know what time it was. This happened

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long before everyone had a phone with
me and I didn' t have a

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watch, so I found myself completely
alien to the time at that time,

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so I could see through the window
I could see it was still night.

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I knew those songs weren' t
going to let me sleep, so after

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thinking about it a little bit,
I decided to get up to see what

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all the fuss was about. My
steps led me to the origin of the

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songs, which seemed to come from
a small room. I opened the door

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with a little caution so as not
to interrupt and in tonces. Then I

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saw a lot of nuns, all
turning their backs on me and hinging as

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they sang in unison. I don' t know why, but that scared

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me a lot. I' ve
never seen anything like it. One of

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the nuns who was in the back
was the nun who had received me to

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spend the night there. So I
decided to call their attention to question them

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if it would take too long or
if I could stay there until they were

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done, as I knew I couldn' t sleep until they did. It

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was up to that moment that,
trying to get the nun' s attention,

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I took his shoulder and at that
moment, almost as if it were

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a single voice, the songs stopped
leaving the place in total silence and something

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disturbing. This lasted for almost a
whole minute. It was then that the

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nun turned to me and when she
did, I could see with horror the

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most dreadful thing ever seen in my
life. That was no longer the same

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sweet old lady who had opened the
door for me. Rather it seemed like

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a walking skeleton from which she was
still falling pieces of her rotting skin.

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The nun rose up with difficulty.
He looked at me almost like I was

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a complete stranger and began to recite
a few words in Latin, which I

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think were prayers. While I was
doing so, she was walking towards me

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and I could see how the rest
of the nuns had turned to see me

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and their faces looked exactly the same. They didn' t say anything,

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they just stared at me I didn' t know what to do. I

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was completely terrified and it wasn'
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my body reacted to get out,
running as fast as I could. I

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left the temple and ran no matter
if I was getting deeper into the forest

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or not. I just wanted to
get away from that temple and those nuns.

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It was up to that moment that, as I entered one of the

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paths of the forest, I could
recognize something. I recognized one of the

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trails, which I immediately took and
did not stop until I finally left the

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forest. I was stunned and still
couldn' t believe what had happened.

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It would be six o' clock
in the morning when I got out,

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because the first rays of the sun
began to appear. There were already people

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outside their homes, so I got
a lot of attention. I counted everything

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without omitting anything. Some looked at
me with skepticism and others with concern.

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So, to show that my story
was true, I decided to take them

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to the temple. But when we
finally found him, we only found a

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ruinous construction I knew long after that
had been a temple since colonial times,

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which was only inhabited by nuns,
who were murdered in a very cruel way

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over time. That construction had simply
been forgotten. I' m pretty sure

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what I lived that night. I
know that I was inside that temple and

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that what I lived was real,
even though many try to make me believe

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otherwise. Today I still have nightmares
and I question a lot about my apartment

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eight experience. My name is Mario
and what I' m going to tell

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you next is one of the many
paranormal experiences I' ve been living since

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I became a cop. Before this
I could consider myself a completely septic man

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to any subject that could not be
explained by logical reasoning. So many things

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have happened to me that I have
become completely believer in any errant situation that

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you can tell me. One of
the most shocking stories I' ve ever

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experienced so far and I doubt any
other experience can ever overcome it is this

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story of Department number eight. It
all started one night in one of November.

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It was quite quiet and my companions
and I had put up a small

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altar to commemorate and remember our faithful
deceased as it is usually done, it

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seemed to be a fairly quiet night, like the one that was very difficult

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to get for those years. One
call changed everything immediately. This was attended

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by my colleague Edgar, who immediately
informed me that we should go because of

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a small domestic disturbance. It didn' t seem anything unusual, so we

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didn' t ask for any more
reinforcements and we went to the place.

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When we arrived, we realized that
it was an apartment complex and outside a

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mother was waiting for us with her
son, who was not more than seven

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years old. She informed us that
the neighbors of department eight had been fighting

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and that, although that was not
so strange in them. This time the

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fight had escalated too much and suddenly
it had gone into a rather strange silence.

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As I said before, those calls
for riots were quite common, so

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we just calmed the mother by telling
her we were going to investigate, go

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back to her house, and not
worry anymore. So we' re both

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headed to the apartment. We knocked
on the door a couple of times without

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having any answers. Everything inside seemed
to be almost gravely silent and that gave

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us a bad thorn. As we
discussed how we should proceed, we heard

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loud screams from inside the department.
Those screams didn' t sound like the

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typical ones in a couple' s
fight. They looked like agonizing screams from

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a woman who seemed to be asking
for help. That was reason enough for

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us to enter that department without permission. So that' s what we did.

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We forced the door and when it
gave way, we ran into nothing

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but absolute darkness, and I say
absolute because all the windows they could give

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to the street were covered with newspaper
so as not to let even a single

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ray of light leak into the apartment. That was quite clear cause for alarm

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and we knew that this could be
more than just a domestic dispute. We

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walked cautiously through the department trying to
get whoever was causing the harm to that

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woman to surrender and hopefully we could
rescue the woman still alive no matter what

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we said. The silence had again
made everyone and the atmosphere in that place

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began to become quite suffocating, so
much so that at one point I felt

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the need to run out of that
apartment. I knew I couldn' t

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do it, because I was on
duty and it didn' t matter what

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I needed. At that time,
I knew that the priority was to rescue

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that woman, who was surely living
in hell. Both my partner and I

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realized after a while that we were
walking too much and that the apartment didn

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' t look too big. It
looked like we' d been walking for

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almost five minutes in a straight line
without getting anywhere. Still, we continued

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walking Finally we arrived at what seemed
to be the end of that dark hallway.

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We reached a room that was closed
and we were both convinced that behind

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the door was the attacker or at
least the woman. We didn' t

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know exactly what scenario we were going
to run into, so it took us

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a minute to get mental so we
could open the door. When we did

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it there was nothing, but there
was a rotten smell. It seemed as

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if dead animals were found inside that
room. Although we tried to find the

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origin of that smell with the flashlights, we never managed to find out where

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it came from, as the room
was completely empty. We were both getting

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pretty nervous, as the place seemed
to be completely deserted and we still couldn

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' t even explain the screams we
had heard. A few moments ago,

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none knew what to say to the
other to try to comfort us and we

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simply remained silent with our own thoughts. After we gave up on finding whatever

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it was you borrowed. That way, we' d better get out of

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that room. Before we threw up, we walked around the house a little

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bit more trying to find the person
responsible for all that. But, as

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I said before, we seemed to
be the only people in the place and

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that silence was so overwhelming that it
could drive anyone crazy. I don'

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t have many memories of what the
last word I exchanged with my partner was.

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I just know I tried to tell
you something, but I didn'

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t get an answer from him.
I knew he was behind me. In

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that silence his steps could be heard. I stopped dry and could hear clearly

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how he stopped. I also turned
to see him, but when I did,

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I realized there was no one behind
me. That was shocking. I

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tried to call him. He used
to make jokes and I told him it

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wasn' t funny, since we
were on duty. But my threats to

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tell you something didn' t seem
to work. Tired of the whole situation,

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I decided to take the radio to
speak directly to him. My calls

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were never answered. That' s
when I knew my partner might be in

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real danger, since, while he
was a joker, he was also a

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person who knew exactly when to stop
and the one who didn' t let

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me know that something was really wrong, so I started coming back to my

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steps so I could find him.
I called him by name and was attentive

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to any strange movement or noise that
I could hear leading me to him,

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but I couldn' t find him. I remember noticing something from the corner

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of my eye. It was a
shadow that seemed to run very fast down

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the hall from one room to another. I was lighted up right away,

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but there was nothing there anymore.
When the light reached the place, I

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went immediately to him. If he
wasn' t my partner, I knew

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he had to be responsible for that
more than scared moment, I was somewhat

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angry that that guy was playing with
me that way. In the darkness I

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could see someone peeking through one of
the rooms just to hide again very quickly,

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I pointed out my flashlight and rushed
through to that room. The door

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was locked and seemed to be locked. In the first attempt to open it,

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the door didn' t open.
I forced the door until it finally

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opened. When he did, I
could see how my flashlight blinked once leaving

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me for brief seconds in complete darkness. When I turned on again I could

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see how that room was also completely
empty, but this time, right in

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the corner of it, a man
was sitting back and looking straight at the

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wall. The moment I saw that
man, my flashlight started flashing intermittently.

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So much so that he couldn'
t tell who it was and no matter

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how much he talked to him or
ordered him to turn around. The man

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simply stood still looking at the wall, completely ignoring my words. That'

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s when I decided that I had
to approach, my flashlight kept flashing and

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when I was finally right behind I
touched his shoulder, that' s when

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he turned around and in horror I
could realize that it was Edgar. Only

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he had a lost look. It
was like the famous look of the thousand

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yards, but that was not the
worst, but his mouth was completely open

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in an impossible way, and I
say it is impossible because he had it

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dislocated. I couldn' t even
understand how my partner wasn' t twisting

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in pain because of that ugly fracture. On the contrary, he didn'

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t even seem to notice. I
was just looking into the void with my

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mouth open. That' s a
scene that every time I remember it,

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it gives me a chill all over
my body. For my fortune, at

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that moment the flashlight went out completely
and in this way I could avoid seeing

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my partner' s face. That' s when I knew that whatever Edgar

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had seen couldn' t have been
about something in this world. That'

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s when I decided we both had
to get out of there. At that

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time I managed to raise Edgar,
although he did not seem to be very

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cooperative, even in a moment as
we walked towards the exit, I could

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notice that I wanted to stay,
but I could not leave him there,

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so I put all my effort to
get him out of that place and call

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for emergencies. My superiors questioned me
about what had happened and I told everything.

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When they saw the reports, they
said that apartment eight had been uninhabited

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for months and that the reason why
the person who made the call did not

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know that it was abandoned was because
he had moved. Recently. Researching further,

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I found that in that apartment lived
a couple in which the groom was

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a Satanist, who mistreated his wife
a lot. There were many allegations of

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ill- treatment she had raised,
but none had reached anywhere. Unfortunately,

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one day this man had ended his
wife' s life and then he had

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taken his own life in a rather
bizarre ritual. That had happened many years

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ago. That apartment had been occupied
by many Persians, although none seemed to

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stay for more than a few days, which was why the owner had decided

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to stop renting it. I still
don' t know what it was that

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my partner and I lived in that
apartment that day, since Edgar never spoke

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again, even though he was healed
in his entirety. Nor did he return

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to service, since he had to
be admitted to a psychiatric hospital because at

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his time he was not completely lost, he acted erratically and attacked anyone near

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him. Until today I still have
more questions than answers, but, as

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I said at the beginning, I
know this world has no answers for all

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the pig hello. My name is
Eduardo and what I want to tell today

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is one of the many stories that
have happened to me throughout my service as

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a police officer. I am convinced
that any officer has lived some kind of

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experience that we cannot explain to ourselves
and that, no matter how hard we

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try to get away or not believe
in these things, the world always shows

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us that it is far more complex
than human beings can even understand. I

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come from a whole line of cops, my great- great- grandfather.

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My grandfather was, and so was
my father. It was more than obvious

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what my vocation would be since I
was a child and to tell the truth,

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to do so to make my father
and the rest of my family proud

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was something I wanted very much.
I have so many paranormal stories, both

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those that happened to my grandparents and
my father. I am convinced that one

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of the worst was the one that
happened to me, even about others that

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have happened to me, is that
it still creates nightmares for me some nights

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and has made me think about the
evil creatures that can house this world.

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This happened when I had already been
in service for three years and by that

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time I was very desensitized about some
situations. Which many of you would surely

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disturb for life. That is the
way the trade is and, unfortunately,

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the human being can become very evil. You learn that almost immediately. That

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night had been a bit agitated.
We were back from a domestic violence alert.

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It was always harder when there were
children involved and that time I was

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a little sensitive. Just a few
months ago I had just become the father

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of twins, who had become the
greatest treasure and could not even conceive that

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there were parents capable of harming their
own children. I was still trying to

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digest and recover from everything I had
to live. Just a few moments before,

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when we received another call this came
from a nearby town, which,

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being very small, did not have
its own police office, which is why,

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when they needed help, they used
to call us to go there.

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Commonly, they were rather boring things, like animals coming out of their pens

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and we had to catch them or
things of no importance, like one drunk

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who caused small riots and we had
to control ourselves by being somewhat sensitive about

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what he had lived before. I
figured going there would calm me down a

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little bit. As I said before, calls to this place used to be

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pretty quiet. I offered to go
I saw it as the perfect opportunity to

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relax a little with that in mind
I left only that village the call had

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not been very specific. They had
just given the address of a house where

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it was said that they had been
listening to a lot of fuss, without

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specifying exactly what kind of fuss,
so I figured it might be a little

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quarrel or that they might be young
people past drinks throwing a party at that

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place. I got to the place
that was pretty quiet. I didn'

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t expect to run into that.
Disturbation and disturbance had been mentioned. I

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questioned one of the neighbors outside in
his garden, and they confirmed to me

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that, in fact, screams had
been heard inside the property. And the

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strange thing was that the man who
lived there had gone away for a couple

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of days to visit his children in
the city and had even left another neighbor

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in charge to feed his animals.
So they were convinced that the house should

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be alone for those hours. I
figured maybe someone right might have gone in

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to steal, though I thought it
was a little improbable. That town was

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quite quiet and had never called for
theft or anything like that. The neighbors

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seemed really dismayed and sure to have
heard something, so I decided to come

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in and have a look. The
person in charge of feeding the animals of

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the owner of the house was responsible
for opening the door with the key that

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he had given me. I thought
maybe he' d come in with me

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too, but he seemed very afraid
to. That seemed a little strange to

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me, but I figured maybe he
just didn' t feel comfortable with a

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stranger. As I entered the house
and was barely taking a few steps inside

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when I could hear the door slammed
shut. That made me exalt a well.

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There were no currents of air so
that that could happen. I tried

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not to give it more importance and
continued to walk looking for the source of

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the strange sounds that the neighbors said
were happening. I walked for a while

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without finding anything out of the ordinary
and thought that whatever was causing the noises

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maybe they were already gone as soon
as I had heard coming or maybe even

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the screams could come from another side
and the neighbors had thought it was that

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house. I was about to turn
around and leave when suddenly something caught my

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attention, and this was what seemed
like a scream coming from the area where

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the animal pens were, although at
first I thought it might well be the

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sound of one of them. When
I heard the scream, for the second

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time I realized that it couldn'
t be an animal. That scream sounded

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quite human. That' s when
I thought that probably someone, seeing the

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house alone, had thought it was
very easy to go in and steal something

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and might have had an accident and
now he was injured somewhere in the pens,

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so I decided to go to that
place to check my theory. I

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walked through the pens with nothing but
the moonlight, as I had forgotten my

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flashlight in the patrol and there was
no electric light there. Even so,

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the moon offered enough light to be
able to walk without further problems. As

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much as I looked. I couldn' t find anyone in the pens.

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I only saw sheep, cows and
chickens. At one point I came to

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the pigs' pens. If I' m more specific, there was only

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one pig and this was the biggest
pig I' ve ever seen. It

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was so huge that I couldn'
t even conceive that an animal could grow

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to that size. Not even a
pig stared at him. I was really

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impressed by its size and as I
tried to get closer I kicked a can

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of beer that was on the floor. It was then that the pig noticed

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my presence and stared at me his
gaze made me have a chill that ran

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all over my back. His eyes
were too similar to those of a human.

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The pig looked me right in the
eye and even though I wanted to

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take my eyes off, it was
something I couldn' t do. It

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was like I didn' t have
control over my own eyes. Suddenly I

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could see how the pig started to
smile and I know how that sounds.

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But the pig was really smiling while
I saw him. Smile did something extremely

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unexpected. He screamed in the same
way that both the neighbors and I had

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heard. This made me take a
couple of steps back and that' s

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when he started laughing. He laughed
just like a person sounded like a very

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old person who had smoked a lot
throughout his life. All this distorted in

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a way that made it sound even
more gloomy and diabolical. That' s

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when I could see how the pig
started trying to get on two legs.

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Every fiber of my being begged me
to run out of there, but my

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legs didn' t respond. It
was like they were literally nailed to the

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ground. I could only stand there
watching as finally, that big pig stood

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up and still laughing almost seemed as
if he was delighting in my absolute panic

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trying to talk. His voice was
deep and rough, just as that of

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an older person. He wasn'
t understood at all. That' s

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when I got control of my legs
and I could turn around and run away

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from there. I didn' t
stop until I was out of the house.

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The few people who were on the
street at the time could notice the

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fear on my face. I couldn' t tell you what happened. I

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didn' t want to make you
more nervous, so trying to look like

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a pretty fake calm and which I' m completely convinced you didn' t

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cheat. I told no one that
the house was fine and that I had

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to drive away from that town and
parked at a gas station, where I

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stayed for almost the rest of the
night. I didn' t want to

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go back and tell what had happened
and I knew that my face denoted something

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was very wrong, so I just
stayed there until I could calm down a

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little bit. I did not tell
many about it, but those who did

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told me that probably that pig was
a hual or it could be an even

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more evil entity. From that day
he did not return to that town.

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Whenever they called or asked for help, he used to make some excuse and

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they ended up sending someone else.
To my luck, I never had to

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do it again. I don'
t know what I saw that day.

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All I know is that that thing
can' t be a good thing.

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The man, my name is Jorge. It all started on a summer night.

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At that time I was serving as
a policeman in a town from which

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I will omit the name to preserve
the privacy of the same being a policeman

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in it. It was a very
quiet job. Nothing used to happen beyond

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some other quarrel or minor disturbance.
That night we would receive a call quite

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unusual and certainly somewhat disturbing. The
call came from a neighboring village, which

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was so small that it did not
have its own police office. Although it

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was unusual to receive calls from them, this time they called for sightings of

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a strange man of whom the only
characteristic that everyone repeated was that he smiled

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a lot. When we questioned the
reason why they suspected that man and decided

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to call the police, they said
that no one knew where he came from,

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that he only appeared at night and
that every time someone caught the attention

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of that man, the person disappeared. It had already happened with three people.

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This certainly caught our attention. The
disappearance of three people. It wasn

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' t a regular thing at all, it wouldn' t even be a

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regular thing for the city' s
cops. So I, along with two

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other colleagues, decided to go do
some research on what they were talking about.

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Although Martin, the youngest of us, said that he would probably be

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some kind of joker and that surely
the missing would be just people who would

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just appear soon. Despite Martin'
s theory, we already knew that we

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should go and investigate about it.
After all, it was our job.

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The village was almost an hour away, so it was a pretty quiet trip.

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It was like our subconscious was preparing
us for what we were going to

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meet there. We finally got to
town. This one seemed a little more

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off than usual. There were no
children on the street playing as before,

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and the people who used to gather
in the corner corner or just go talk

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outside their homes, were not there
either. Everyone seemed to be locked up.

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Given an aspect of a ghost town, we came to the house of

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the person who had made the call
was someone known at the headquarters. This

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man was in charge of most of
the law imparted in that people. He

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was something like the person everyone comes
to if there' s a problem,

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and this man always tried to get
everything in order. I guess every village

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has one. When he came out, he seemed a little scared and worried.

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At the same time he began to
tell us that the sightings of that

416
00:36:30.320 --> 00:36:34.239
man had begun just over a month
ago. At first it did not seem

417
00:36:34.360 --> 00:36:39.039
to be someone aggressive or harmful to
his community, although it was a bit

418
00:36:39.159 --> 00:36:45.440
strange, as it used to be
separated for hours, completely motionless in the

419
00:36:45.480 --> 00:36:50.760
dark and anyone who passed could assure
that he was smiling from Ear to ear.

420
00:36:52.039 --> 00:36:55.360
We asked him if they could recognize
the man. The man explained to

421
00:36:55.679 --> 00:37:00.199
us that, as he had commented
on the call, no one could recognize

422
00:37:00.320 --> 00:37:06.159
him or know where he was going
during the day, as he simply appeared

423
00:37:06.159 --> 00:37:10.079
at night. That was very strange. It was almost impossible for anyone in

424
00:37:10.360 --> 00:37:15.840
that town to live without anyone else
knowing or seeing it, as it was

425
00:37:15.920 --> 00:37:22.360
very small. There were no villages
around but ours. Going and coming every

426
00:37:22.559 --> 00:37:28.199
day to just show up a few
hours at night and scare the citizens didn

427
00:37:28.239 --> 00:37:35.599
' t seem feasible. We began
to speculate that he was probably camping somewhere,

428
00:37:36.800 --> 00:37:40.480
but that left us with the missing
persons' questions. It was when

429
00:37:40.519 --> 00:37:46.719
we learned that those three people had
been children, who literally just got rid

430
00:37:46.800 --> 00:37:53.159
of their beds. No one understood
why they were completely randomly chosen and did

431
00:37:53.159 --> 00:37:59.159
not know how to protect them.
The parents of the children had assured that

432
00:37:59.199 --> 00:38:04.119
a little before his disappearance they could
see the man prowling around their houses or

433
00:38:04.760 --> 00:38:09.239
simply had to pass by them as
they returned at night, saying that the

434
00:38:09.360 --> 00:38:15.280
man saw the child especially and did
not turn away his cold gaze until they

435
00:38:15.360 --> 00:38:21.119
completely lost sight of him. That
was the proof that everyone needed to think

436
00:38:21.320 --> 00:38:25.760
that man was responsible for the disappearances
of those children, but we had more

437
00:38:25.840 --> 00:38:31.960
doubts about it. Actually, no
one had seen him do it and they

438
00:38:32.000 --> 00:38:37.840
only thought it was him because of
his strange appearance. We interviewed all the

439
00:38:37.960 --> 00:38:43.559
parents, who really seemed affected.
When we asked why they had not called

440
00:38:43.599 --> 00:38:49.519
the appropriate authorities since the disappearance of
the first child, they assured us that

441
00:38:49.599 --> 00:38:54.960
they had tried to call only that
all the telephone lines in the village seemed

442
00:38:55.000 --> 00:39:00.000
to have fallen, so they could
not communicate with us. Most of them

443
00:39:00.119 --> 00:39:05.360
did not have a car or a
means of transport, so it was also

444
00:39:05.400 --> 00:39:09.800
very difficult for them to even think
about going to our village. We found

445
00:39:09.800 --> 00:39:15.480
that very strange. We decided to
get into the main problem, which was

446
00:39:15.519 --> 00:39:21.360
the disappearance of those children, as
we did not have much information about the

447
00:39:21.360 --> 00:39:27.159
man. What we decided was to
wait for him to show up and then

448
00:39:27.559 --> 00:39:30.599
look for him and give him an
interrogation. I think that was the first

449
00:39:30.679 --> 00:39:37.960
dumbest decision we could have made.
We waited a long time for the man

450
00:39:37.960 --> 00:39:44.039
to appear, but despite our travels
throughout almost the whole town, we were

451
00:39:44.079 --> 00:39:47.239
not able to find him. We
thought maybe he' d seen the police

452
00:39:47.440 --> 00:39:53.480
and that scared him. We were
almost about to surrender for that day,

453
00:39:54.440 --> 00:40:00.280
when Martin pointed the way, asking
if that was our subject. When we

454
00:40:00.280 --> 00:40:04.320
turned, we could see it was. We were a little far away,

455
00:40:04.880 --> 00:40:07.719
but we could see its rarity in
its ultimate splendour. I was standing without

456
00:40:07.840 --> 00:40:13.159
moving a single muscle. It almost
looked like a statue. The only thing

457
00:40:13.239 --> 00:40:17.840
that differentiated him from a statue was
that the closer we found each other,

458
00:40:19.440 --> 00:40:22.960
we could see that his chest was
moving. Breathing. I didn' t

459
00:40:22.039 --> 00:40:28.119
know what we were seeing. The
villagers had forgotten to tell us that their

460
00:40:28.239 --> 00:40:34.039
skin was gray. It almost seemed
to be painted, and in fact,

461
00:40:34.280 --> 00:40:37.679
I thought it was. As soon
as we got even closer I could see

462
00:40:37.679 --> 00:40:43.280
what they meant when they said that
man smiled and that his smile was not

463
00:40:43.360 --> 00:40:49.840
at all human or even reassuring.
He showed the teeth of which, due

464
00:40:49.880 --> 00:40:54.119
to their grayish skin, they were
very contrasting and very white. He also

465
00:40:54.199 --> 00:40:59.440
seemed not to blink at all times
when I looked at his face, he

466
00:40:59.559 --> 00:41:02.000
didn' t. I don'
t know if he ever did. While

467
00:41:02.039 --> 00:41:07.440
I wasn' t watching, we
all got off the patrol and got close

468
00:41:07.440 --> 00:41:09.960
to the man. I could not
deny or hide my displeasure before this person.

469
00:41:10.199 --> 00:41:15.239
Like my colleagues, we all considered
ourselves professionals and knew what we had

470
00:41:15.320 --> 00:41:21.960
to do when we were in front
of him. The man was still completely

471
00:41:22.079 --> 00:41:27.159
still. And smiling. It was
then that Martin, trying to seem braver

472
00:41:27.199 --> 00:41:31.920
and more mature than he really was, first spoke to him that he was

473
00:41:32.519 --> 00:41:37.599
the main suspect in the case of
missing children. That information was again completely

474
00:41:37.639 --> 00:41:44.599
ignored by that man, who still
stood still. Like I said before,

475
00:41:45.119 --> 00:41:47.760
it almost looked like a statue.
We didn' t know exactly what to

476
00:41:47.760 --> 00:41:53.039
do. And that' s when
Eriberto, my superior, decided to take

477
00:41:53.079 --> 00:41:58.039
control and approach him with the handcuffs
in hand, told him not to resist

478
00:41:58.079 --> 00:42:02.519
and that maybe he better collaborate with
us as soon as he touched it.

479
00:42:04.280 --> 00:42:09.199
That state of stillness faded in an
instant. That man looked directly at Heriberto,

480
00:42:09.559 --> 00:42:14.440
who, seeing him straight into his
eyes, went into psychosis almost as

481
00:42:14.480 --> 00:42:19.920
if all his greatest fears were present
at the same time, forcing him to

482
00:42:19.960 --> 00:42:24.440
scream and cry as if he were
a little boy. What seemed more gloomy

483
00:42:24.519 --> 00:42:30.280
to me is that that man never
stopped smiling. It was almost as if

484
00:42:30.320 --> 00:42:35.719
it was impossible for him to stop. Heriberto was on the ground and began

485
00:42:35.719 --> 00:42:39.719
to try to tear his eyes out, so he had to be stopped by

486
00:42:39.840 --> 00:42:45.159
me and Martin. The man kept
smiling, just turned his back on us

487
00:42:45.199 --> 00:42:52.079
and started walking. I tried to
follow him. Heriberto begged me not to.

488
00:42:52.119 --> 00:42:55.079
He was screaming at me in sobs
that that man was the devil.

489
00:42:55.599 --> 00:43:00.280
I wasn' t any kind of
believer, I did any religion at the

490
00:43:00.840 --> 00:43:05.480
time, but still. That comment
lifted every hair on my skin. The

491
00:43:05.599 --> 00:43:12.119
man walked normally and without any concern. We barely lost sight of him.

492
00:43:12.559 --> 00:43:16.320
Heriberto began to convulse. He was
taken care of by the village doctor,

493
00:43:17.519 --> 00:43:21.480
but we finally decided to go back
to take him to a good hospital.

494
00:43:22.079 --> 00:43:25.039
We didn' t talk to anyone
about it, not even Heriberto. When

495
00:43:25.079 --> 00:43:30.880
we were questioned, we said that
he had separated and we had found him

496
00:43:30.880 --> 00:43:34.920
like this. We didn' t
want them to take us for crazy or

497
00:43:35.000 --> 00:43:37.719
think we could have done something to
him. That' s all we could

498
00:43:37.760 --> 00:43:44.159
think of at the time. In
time, I told that story to some

499
00:43:44.159 --> 00:43:49.599
people and there were as many who
believed me as those who took me for

500
00:43:49.599 --> 00:43:53.679
crazy. That town had at least
six disappearances of children. After our last

501
00:43:53.800 --> 00:44:00.599
visit, parents and other inhabitants left
the place. P p pons a little

502
00:44:00.239 --> 00:44:07.000
and now it is truly a ghost
town. No one lives there. If

503
00:44:07.119 --> 00:44:10.000
you go a certain time of night, you can meet the same demon.

504
00:44:17.639 --> 00:44:25.559
The biker called me Julio. On
one occasion I was assigned to a neighborhood

505
00:44:25.599 --> 00:44:30.599
which, while not the quietest in
the area, was not that bad about

506
00:44:30.719 --> 00:44:37.159
crime either. We had received reports
about a motorcyclist who seemed to be passing

507
00:44:37.239 --> 00:44:43.679
at full speed during certain periods of
the early morning bothering the people around.

508
00:44:43.719 --> 00:44:46.920
He didn' t care if someone
was crossing the street or if there were

509
00:44:46.960 --> 00:44:52.079
children playing in it. That neighborhood
wasn' t very bad, and while

510
00:44:52.119 --> 00:44:57.119
I was waiting to see that biker, something boring was going on inside the

511
00:44:57.119 --> 00:45:02.400
patrol. They spent two days where
nothing really happened and I thought it could

512
00:45:02.519 --> 00:45:07.920
be just a person who, seeing
the patrol, had been scared and decided

513
00:45:07.199 --> 00:45:15.199
to go do his nonsense elsewhere.
By the fourth day I had decided to

514
00:45:15.239 --> 00:45:21.320
get away from that area. I
was convinced that that biker had already stopped

515
00:45:21.400 --> 00:45:25.639
stalking the neighborhood, so I decided
to take a couple of laps to make

516
00:45:25.800 --> 00:45:30.360
sure I hadn' t gone to
another neighborhood to do the same thing.

517
00:45:30.320 --> 00:45:34.599
It was around eleven o' clock
at night. The first time I heard

518
00:45:34.679 --> 00:45:39.440
it was a motorcycle that seemed to
approach at full speed right where I was.

519
00:45:39.960 --> 00:45:45.400
It happened so fast before I could
get in and start the patrol.

520
00:45:45.719 --> 00:45:51.960
This one was almost completely out of
my sight. I was surprised by the

521
00:45:52.039 --> 00:45:55.360
speed with which he was going and
the only thing I could think of at

522
00:45:55.440 --> 00:46:00.480
that time was that he was not
only a danger to himself, but a

523
00:46:00.559 --> 00:46:05.800
danger to society itself. From that
moment on, I set out to catch

524
00:46:05.880 --> 00:46:08.639
him so he couldn' t hurt
anyone. The first thing I did was

525
00:46:08.679 --> 00:46:12.920
try to see him through one of
the security cameras in the area. I

526
00:46:13.000 --> 00:46:17.199
found that none of the cameras actually
served and the few that did did did

527
00:46:17.239 --> 00:46:22.519
not point to the streets where the
biker had passed, so I had absolutely

528
00:46:22.519 --> 00:46:31.119
nothing to identify him. I returned
to the place of events a little earlier

529
00:46:31.199 --> 00:46:35.880
and yet prepared so that this time, when I saw him, he could

530
00:46:35.960 --> 00:46:39.840
not escape, but the first night
I had the same fate as the previous

531
00:46:39.840 --> 00:46:45.360
ones. Before the incident, I
thought I might be changing areas to do

532
00:46:45.440 --> 00:46:51.159
that and wondering at the same time
why I was doing it. Both my

533
00:46:51.199 --> 00:46:55.000
colleagues and the relatives I told told
me that maybe I was just a crazy

534
00:46:55.079 --> 00:47:02.960
person who had fun causing faces.
The second time I saw him was a

535
00:47:04.039 --> 00:47:08.519
week after my search. By that
time I was almost giving up seeing him

536
00:47:08.599 --> 00:47:15.519
again. I thought I' d
even completely changed the place where I was

537
00:47:15.639 --> 00:47:19.440
doing it so I wouldn' t
run into him. One day while I

538
00:47:19.480 --> 00:47:23.400
was patrolling the same area, I
could hear the sound of the bike again,

539
00:47:23.679 --> 00:47:30.800
moving at full speed just where I
was at that time I was already

540
00:47:30.840 --> 00:47:35.679
inside the vehicle, so even before
the biker could get there this one was

541
00:47:35.760 --> 00:47:39.920
already on the move, I saw
it again, passed at full speed and

542
00:47:40.000 --> 00:47:47.119
went straight after it. It was
a rather strange pursuit for that moment of

543
00:47:47.119 --> 00:47:53.199
service. He had already faced chases
on both motorcycles and cars, but this

544
00:47:53.280 --> 00:47:58.679
was completely different. It didn'
t matter how fast it was. He

545
00:47:58.719 --> 00:48:04.239
always seemed to go a considerable distance
from my patrol. He turned around an

546
00:48:04.320 --> 00:48:07.760
alley and I thought he had it, but when I got around the same

547
00:48:07.760 --> 00:48:14.719
alley, I found that the biker
wasn' t there. It was almost

548
00:48:14.920 --> 00:48:19.880
as if the earth had swallowed it
up and couldn' t even hear the

549
00:48:20.800 --> 00:48:24.639
motorcycle pull that away, made me
stop the patrol dry and question if I

550
00:48:24.760 --> 00:48:31.760
had seen it right. I was
patrolling the area for about two hours trying

551
00:48:31.880 --> 00:48:37.480
to run into the biker. Until
that moment I had not realized that,

552
00:48:37.960 --> 00:48:42.920
as much as I tried, I
could not remember how I dressed or even

553
00:48:42.960 --> 00:48:46.880
the color of the motorcycle. One
thing he could remember was that he had

554
00:48:46.920 --> 00:48:52.599
a red helmet, which had the
viewfinder, so he couldn' t see

555
00:48:52.679 --> 00:48:59.679
his face. Again I tried to
order the security videos. I found again

556
00:48:59.800 --> 00:49:06.400
that the cameras didn' t work, which was very strange. I was

557
00:49:06.480 --> 00:49:12.159
completely confused about what had happened the
night before, no matter what logical explanations

558
00:49:12.199 --> 00:49:17.159
I tried to give my mind,
I could only always come to the conclusion

559
00:49:17.679 --> 00:49:23.719
that the biker had simply vanished,
but my rational part did not allow me

560
00:49:23.800 --> 00:49:30.960
to believe that at all. The
next night he fell and had been asking

561
00:49:31.039 --> 00:49:36.880
some questions to the people around to
see if those could give me a more

562
00:49:36.880 --> 00:49:42.360
accurate description of that biker. I
had a bit of luck, since,

563
00:49:42.719 --> 00:49:47.320
in addition to the red helmet that
I remembered, these told me that the

564
00:49:47.400 --> 00:49:52.119
bike was black and that it was
wearing a leather jacket and some slightly worn

565
00:49:52.159 --> 00:49:59.039
jins. I was also told that
the motorcycle had no license plate. As

566
00:49:59.039 --> 00:50:01.960
for the night fell, I set
out again to go to the same place

567
00:50:02.000 --> 00:50:08.039
the night before. I was hoping
that that biker would be bold enough to

568
00:50:08.079 --> 00:50:14.559
try to do it again even though
I was there and for my fortune,

569
00:50:14.800 --> 00:50:21.039
it was. While I was attentive, I heard that sound again. This

570
00:50:21.119 --> 00:50:25.079
time he was accompanied by a constant
beep of his horn. It was almost

571
00:50:25.280 --> 00:50:30.840
like he was making fun of me
and that really made me angry. I

572
00:50:30.880 --> 00:50:36.559
lit the patrol this time with all
intent to block the road so that it

573
00:50:36.679 --> 00:50:42.280
would have to stop. I could
see him coming so I knew it had

574
00:50:42.280 --> 00:50:45.480
to happen. That' s where
I blocked the road. This one didn

575
00:50:45.599 --> 00:50:50.719
' t seem to stop. Despite
seeing me, I tried to stay on

576
00:50:50.840 --> 00:50:53.800
the road as long as I could, but I soon realized it wouldn'

577
00:50:53.800 --> 00:50:59.559
t stop, so I had to
go back so it wouldn' t crash

578
00:50:59.559 --> 00:51:05.400
into the patrol. Again I saw
how this one continued along and tried to

579
00:51:05.400 --> 00:51:08.639
follow him again. When he went
around the same alley, he just vanished.

580
00:51:09.760 --> 00:51:14.199
I knew there was no way that, in just the few seconds I

581
00:51:14.239 --> 00:51:19.440
had the advantage over me, he
could walk away so far that I couldn

582
00:51:19.440 --> 00:51:24.440
' t even see the lights or
hear the sound of the motorcycle It was

583
00:51:24.679 --> 00:51:30.119
just as if it evaporated into the
wind, and that really generated a lot

584
00:51:30.119 --> 00:51:36.199
of intrigue. I didn' t
want my fear or irrational thinking to stop

585
00:51:36.280 --> 00:51:40.639
me from doing my job properly,
so still completely willing to catch him,

586
00:51:42.320 --> 00:51:45.519
I decided to come up with a
better plan. This consisted of completely blocking

587
00:51:45.599 --> 00:51:51.440
the alley where it turned around.
This way, when I turn around,

588
00:51:52.400 --> 00:51:57.760
I' d be completely trapped and
then I could arrest him. I carried

589
00:51:57.760 --> 00:52:01.000
out my plan in the hope that
it would work and all I could do

590
00:52:01.039 --> 00:52:07.159
for that night was wait. The
time has come when, commonly, the

591
00:52:07.280 --> 00:52:14.400
biker used to spend. The more
the minutes passed, the more I was

592
00:52:14.519 --> 00:52:17.760
convinced that maybe I had seen the
blockade somehow and that night I would not

593
00:52:17.760 --> 00:52:22.599
go. It was almost two o' clock in the morning and there was

594
00:52:22.639 --> 00:52:27.519
no trace of that man. I
got to the point of even getting some

595
00:52:27.519 --> 00:52:30.800
sleep. My attention was getting less
and less. Part of me was afraid

596
00:52:31.000 --> 00:52:36.960
that at least for that night I
wouldn' t see the biker. I

597
00:52:37.039 --> 00:52:40.440
was about to retire when I could
hear the horn on the bike, just

598
00:52:40.480 --> 00:52:46.840
like that sound heading at full speed, right where I was standing it was

599
00:52:46.840 --> 00:52:52.400
him. I had no doubt about
that. Soon it was within my sight

600
00:52:52.719 --> 00:52:58.480
it was approaching at full speed.
I lit the patrol immediately and I could

601
00:52:58.599 --> 00:53:01.280
see it happen again so weird I
asked that I could barely notice his red

602
00:53:01.280 --> 00:53:07.559
helmet. I followed him this time
a little more confident, knowing that he

603
00:53:07.679 --> 00:53:14.320
had no way to escape he was
still at that distance that, no matter

604
00:53:14.559 --> 00:53:17.639
how fast, seemed to not change. Suddenly he went around the alley and

605
00:53:17.639 --> 00:53:22.760
at that moment I knew he had
it. I also turned around and found

606
00:53:22.880 --> 00:53:29.559
that, in fact, the biker
had stopped at the barricade. I wasn

607
00:53:29.679 --> 00:53:34.280
' t trying to move things or
anything. He seemed to have just stopped

608
00:53:34.320 --> 00:53:38.119
and turned his back on me.
It was almost as if I had accepted

609
00:53:38.199 --> 00:53:44.559
that I had lost or at least
that I thought at first, I approached

610
00:53:44.559 --> 00:53:49.039
him. Something confident and if I
am completely honest, with some superiority and

611
00:53:49.199 --> 00:53:54.320
some sarcastic comments that I had finally
caught him and that he was no longer

612
00:53:54.440 --> 00:54:00.480
so rude. He received no response
from the bicycle engine, which still remained

613
00:54:00.760 --> 00:54:07.960
with its helmet on and on the
bike. I ordered him to get off

614
00:54:07.079 --> 00:54:13.119
the bike He took off his helmet
and again I was ignored. That bothered

615
00:54:13.239 --> 00:54:16.840
me a bit, so when I
was right next to him, I told

616
00:54:16.840 --> 00:54:22.000
him again this time with a more
serious tone, trying to get him to

617
00:54:22.079 --> 00:54:27.920
understand that I had no absolute control
over the situation. The biker didn'

618
00:54:27.960 --> 00:54:31.760
t even seem to change before my
tone of voice, he raised his hands

619
00:54:31.760 --> 00:54:34.639
to take off his helmet, although
he didn' t get off the bike.

620
00:54:35.920 --> 00:54:38.960
As soon as he removed his helmet, I could see that there was

621
00:54:39.000 --> 00:54:43.840
nothing on his shoulders. The man
literally didn' t have a head.

622
00:54:44.400 --> 00:54:49.480
That disturbed me so much and it
was so shocking that I fainted. When

623
00:54:49.519 --> 00:54:53.800
I regained consciousness, I was still
lying in that alley, but the biker

624
00:54:53.840 --> 00:54:59.159
was gone. I ran back to
my patrol and left there as fast as

625
00:54:59.239 --> 00:55:01.960
I could. I didn' t
tell anyone what I saw that night,

626
00:55:02.760 --> 00:55:08.679
except my partner, who agreed with
me that I couldn' t tell anyone

627
00:55:08.760 --> 00:55:16.199
without being considered crazy. I didn' t get reports about that biker again,

628
00:55:16.800 --> 00:55:21.760
and so I didn' t go
back to that area and I'

629
00:55:21.760 --> 00:55:24.960
m really relieved. That' s
why that memory is still fresh in my

630
00:55:25.000 --> 00:55:31.840
memory. It still torments me every
night and I wish I had never experienced

631
00:55:31.840 --> 00:55:45.519
that. The man in the firebomb. My name is Gerardo. I was

632
00:55:45.559 --> 00:55:50.559
barely a couple of months old from
coming in as a police officer, that

633
00:55:50.599 --> 00:55:54.840
he had always been my dream and
I was very happy that he finally made

634
00:55:54.840 --> 00:56:00.800
it. For the first few days, everything was quite normal and it was

635
00:56:00.840 --> 00:56:06.800
exactly how I imagined it. He
had a rather annoying partner who claimed to

636
00:56:06.920 --> 00:56:12.320
have gone through many paranormal situations during
the service. He used to bother me

637
00:56:12.400 --> 00:56:16.480
by saying that he would soon touch
me and that probably when it happened to

638
00:56:16.559 --> 00:56:19.960
me, he would wet the pants
of fear. I didn' t believe

639
00:56:20.039 --> 00:56:23.679
in any of that. I always
imagined that if you thought logically and always

640
00:56:23.760 --> 00:56:30.760
thought of the simplest explanation, then
you would get the answer to almost everything

641
00:56:30.800 --> 00:56:37.360
in life. Paranormal themes had never
interested me too much to listen to my

642
00:56:37.480 --> 00:56:43.519
partner all day talk about the subject
I found somewhat annoying. One night we

643
00:56:43.599 --> 00:56:49.039
met as much my partner as I
was doing a little routine round. Everything

644
00:56:49.119 --> 00:56:52.440
seemed to be quiet and without much
to do. It all took a turn

645
00:56:52.760 --> 00:56:58.199
when on the radio we were told
of an armed robbery that was only a

646
00:56:58.360 --> 00:57:05.000
few blocks from where we were,
which is why we headed there. I

647
00:57:05.039 --> 00:57:08.480
was a little excited, as it
would be my first job in something like

648
00:57:08.599 --> 00:57:14.480
an armed robbery. As soon as
we arrived, the thieves, who were

649
00:57:14.519 --> 00:57:17.800
two, ran immediately with everything they
could carry in their hands. I was

650
00:57:17.880 --> 00:57:22.920
surprised how incredibly quick they were,
but my astonishment didn' t last long.

651
00:57:23.639 --> 00:57:29.199
My partner started yelling at me to
start following them. I was a

652
00:57:29.280 --> 00:57:34.360
good runner, so I knew that
if I tried, I could reach at

653
00:57:34.440 --> 00:57:39.519
least one of them, so I
started running. The race was quite extensive

654
00:57:39.599 --> 00:57:45.119
and tired. Neither of us seemed
to want to stop and I was getting

655
00:57:45.159 --> 00:57:50.719
more and more tired. I didn' t want to let them get away,

656
00:57:51.320 --> 00:57:54.400
so I forced my body to keep
running. The race ended as soon

657
00:57:54.519 --> 00:58:00.159
as we reached an area that had
a building, which was still in black

658
00:58:00.280 --> 00:58:06.360
construction. This one was huge,
but it had not been going on for

659
00:58:06.360 --> 00:58:12.079
many years, so it had become
known as haunted. Some claimed that the

660
00:58:12.159 --> 00:58:16.480
reason it had been left half-
built was because all the masons who tried

661
00:58:16.519 --> 00:58:23.599
to do so were killed or seriously
injured. Others said that screams could be

662
00:58:23.679 --> 00:58:30.719
heard during the night and the wildest
people said that the devil himself lived in

663
00:58:30.760 --> 00:58:35.880
that building. You know all those
stories that are told about places, which

664
00:58:35.960 --> 00:58:40.199
take on a chilling atmosphere as soon
as night falls, as soon as I

665
00:58:40.360 --> 00:58:46.679
saw them enter that building I knew
we' d really have a chance to

666
00:58:46.679 --> 00:58:51.440
catch them. There was no other
way out than the main one, unless

667
00:58:51.559 --> 00:58:57.159
they wanted to jump from a second
floor. Both my partner and I agreed

668
00:58:57.199 --> 00:59:02.760
that those two were completely trapped and
with that same confidence we entered that building.

669
00:59:07.280 --> 00:59:12.039
We were walking inside that building.
For a long time without being able

670
00:59:12.159 --> 00:59:15.159
to hear or see any of the
men we were looking for. We knew

671
00:59:15.239 --> 00:59:20.960
we had to be close, they
had no way of coming back without us

672
00:59:20.960 --> 00:59:24.119
seeing them. We' re on
our way. My partner, from time

673
00:59:24.159 --> 00:59:30.920
to time, made certain jokes about
the paranormal subject, which made me even

674
00:59:30.000 --> 00:59:37.159
more in a bad mood. Under
the circumstances. His comments ended when we

675
00:59:37.199 --> 00:59:43.079
heard the hasty steps of a person
who seemed to be approaching us directly at

676
00:59:43.199 --> 00:59:47.159
full speed. We quickly noticed that
this was one of the thieves, who

677
00:59:49.039 --> 00:59:54.039
seemed terrified. It was as if
he had seen something that had made him

678
00:59:54.480 --> 01:00:00.079
think that prison was a much better
option than staying there. My partner acted

679
01:00:00.159 --> 01:00:07.239
quickly by holding him and immobilizing him
with the handcuffs and then beginning to question

680
01:00:07.280 --> 01:00:09.760
him about where the other was.
The man couldn' t talk. His

681
01:00:09.880 --> 01:00:16.880
voice was shaky and his hands trembled
unwittingly. We quickly knew that the man

682
01:00:16.880 --> 01:00:21.840
would say nothing to us, so
my partner asked me to stay with him

683
01:00:21.880 --> 01:00:25.960
to keep an eye on him as
he went further into the building, as

684
01:00:27.239 --> 01:00:30.639
he was sure he would not be
far away. I thought it was a

685
01:00:30.639 --> 01:00:35.639
good idea, so I stayed with
the man while my partner got lost in

686
01:00:35.800 --> 01:00:43.079
the dark of the building. Time
passed faster than one would expect. It

687
01:00:43.119 --> 01:00:47.159
had been almost forty minutes and my
partner was not back and, if that

688
01:00:47.239 --> 01:00:52.360
were not enough, I had left
my radio on the patrol, so I

689
01:00:52.480 --> 01:00:55.559
had no way of contacting him.
I knew I couldn' t leave the

690
01:00:55.559 --> 01:01:00.679
criminal. I could only escape,
but I was beginning to take care of

691
01:01:00.719 --> 01:01:05.039
my partner' s well- being. That' s just getting bigger.

692
01:01:05.119 --> 01:01:07.719
When I heard three shots, I
didn' t know what to think.

693
01:01:08.119 --> 01:01:13.400
It was the first time I had
ever faced that situation. I looked at

694
01:01:13.400 --> 01:01:16.800
the man, who seemed to have
wide- open empty eyes, as if

695
01:01:17.000 --> 01:01:23.159
he could not rationalize everything that was
happening around him. I knew I had

696
01:01:23.280 --> 01:01:29.480
to go with my partner, so
I cuffed him to a building stand and

697
01:01:29.519 --> 01:01:34.639
decided to go to his help.
I ran through the building quickly, calling

698
01:01:34.719 --> 01:01:38.920
my partner by his name and trying
to get him to answer me so I

699
01:01:38.960 --> 01:01:45.639
could know his location, but my
screams and calls had no answer. I

700
01:01:45.679 --> 01:01:52.159
was still thinking about what I should
do. When, as I was passing

701
01:01:52.239 --> 01:01:57.599
through one of the many half-
built rooms, I could see someone in

702
01:01:57.679 --> 01:02:02.679
one of those visions laughingly made me
come back immediately thinking that it might be

703
01:02:02.719 --> 01:02:08.199
my partner. As soon as I
lit up inside the room, I realized

704
01:02:08.280 --> 01:02:13.400
it wasn' t about my partner
and it wasn' t about the criminal

705
01:02:13.400 --> 01:02:17.880
either. He was an elegantly dressed
young man, even wearing a bonbon hat.

706
01:02:19.800 --> 01:02:24.239
He smiled as he stared at me
and did nothing but smile. His

707
01:02:24.320 --> 01:02:30.679
smile seemed normal, but at the
same time it made you feel pretty uncomfortable.

708
01:02:30.440 --> 01:02:35.159
I questioned him a couple of times
what he was doing there or if

709
01:02:35.159 --> 01:02:38.639
he was okay, but all my
questions were ignored and he just stayed there.

710
01:02:38.760 --> 01:02:45.519
Smiling that seriously, it gave me
a very bad spine at one point.

711
01:02:45.559 --> 01:02:49.880
I stopped approaching something inside of me. He was telling me that if

712
01:02:49.960 --> 01:02:55.599
I came a little closer, something
very bad was going to happen I asked

713
01:02:55.719 --> 01:02:59.599
him again who he was and also
if I had seen my partner. But

714
01:02:59.559 --> 01:03:06.280
not again, silence was his only
answer. Suddenly something disturbed the silence completely,

715
01:03:06.480 --> 01:03:12.280
as that well- dressed young man
began to laugh in an unnatural manic

716
01:03:12.639 --> 01:03:17.079
manner. His laughter was crazy and
it didn' t matter what he said

717
01:03:17.159 --> 01:03:21.840
or how long it was going to
be. This one kept laughing I didn

718
01:03:21.880 --> 01:03:27.400
' t know what to do or
even think about it. A deep fear

719
01:03:27.480 --> 01:03:31.519
invaded me as long as that young
man kept laughing that way. I thought

720
01:03:31.599 --> 01:03:36.559
I' d shoot or something.
The only thing my body continued to do

721
01:03:36.639 --> 01:03:40.000
was to start running in the opposite
direction. Even though he seemed to be

722
01:03:40.039 --> 01:03:46.039
driving me away from that room where
the man was laughing, it seemed to

723
01:03:46.119 --> 01:03:51.440
be happening right next to my ear, as it sounded loud. I kept

724
01:03:51.480 --> 01:03:55.480
running until I stumbled upon something.
When I lit up, I could see

725
01:03:55.559 --> 01:04:00.280
that it was my partner, who
was lying with the completely white utro role.

726
01:04:00.760 --> 01:04:04.320
It was like there wasn' t
a single drop of blood all over

727
01:04:04.320 --> 01:04:09.079
his body. He no longer had
a pulse, but what stood out most

728
01:04:09.199 --> 01:04:13.880
in him was that his face showed
a grimace of a huge smile. It

729
01:04:13.960 --> 01:04:18.559
was almost like he laughed to death. I knew there was nothing I could

730
01:04:18.639 --> 01:04:25.559
do for my partner, so I
just kept running still listening behind me to

731
01:04:25.679 --> 01:04:31.320
that awful mad laugh. I arrived
where I had left the thief, who

732
01:04:31.360 --> 01:04:36.679
was still there completely motionless. I
took his handcuffs off and took him out

733
01:04:36.679 --> 01:04:41.679
of the building. The laughter continued
to drill my ears until we got far

734
01:04:41.760 --> 01:04:45.880
enough away from the property. I
called more reinforcements and they arrived in a

735
01:04:45.920 --> 01:04:50.599
matter of minutes. I told everything
that had happened from when we had come

736
01:04:50.960 --> 01:04:56.159
in to that well- dressed young
man. When the others came in to

737
01:04:56.239 --> 01:05:00.039
capture that man. They never found
him, though without finding the body of

738
01:05:00.159 --> 01:05:04.800
the second thief, who, like
my companion, was completely white and his

739
01:05:04.880 --> 01:05:11.480
face was twisted in a huge smile. Like my partner' s, I

740
01:05:12.199 --> 01:05:15.320
couldn' t continue in the police. After that it was too much for

741
01:05:15.320 --> 01:05:19.920
me. An investigation was launched against
me, as it was believed that I

742
01:05:20.039 --> 01:05:25.800
might have been responsible. The lack
of evidence absolved me in a short time.

743
01:05:26.480 --> 01:05:29.440
I don' t know what I
saw or what inhabits that building.

744
01:05:30.480 --> 01:05:35.000
All I know is that it'
s an evil entity that I hope will

745
01:05:35.039 --> 01:05:48.679
never see again in life the mannequin. My name is Luis Estrada. Before

746
01:05:48.719 --> 01:05:55.360
this experience I always used to say
that the officers who told their paranormal stories

747
01:05:55.400 --> 01:05:59.960
really only wanted to draw attention,
because in so many years of serving me

748
01:06:00.599 --> 01:06:04.840
nothing had ever happened to me and
I used to say that the real monsters

749
01:06:04.920 --> 01:06:10.639
were the flesh and blood. This
happened on a March 23rd of a thousand

750
01:06:10.679 --> 01:06:14.039
nine hundred and ninety- eight.
It was almost two o' clock in

751
01:06:14.119 --> 01:06:19.239
the morning and the whole shift seemed
to be quite quiet, except for some

752
01:06:19.519 --> 01:06:25.079
calls for family disputes or some minor
quarrels or robberies, to which I was

753
01:06:25.119 --> 01:06:29.079
already completely accustomed. That day,
who was supposed to be my shift mate

754
01:06:29.199 --> 01:06:33.840
had had a family emergency, which
was why he had to be absent and

755
01:06:33.880 --> 01:06:41.880
I was left alone. That was
not so strange and if I am completely

756
01:06:42.000 --> 01:06:45.719
honest, many times I would prefer
it to be so, as I have

757
01:06:45.920 --> 01:06:50.920
always been a person who enjoys doing
things his way and having a partner made

758
01:06:51.039 --> 01:06:58.559
that a little difficult. Everything seemed
so quiet until a sudden rain, which

759
01:06:58.559 --> 01:07:02.920
I had eaten like a slight breeze, had ended in almost a storm I

760
01:07:03.039 --> 01:07:09.960
was inside the patrol, which had
parked outside a self- service store so

761
01:07:10.039 --> 01:07:15.280
I could have a coffee and eat
something while waiting for the storm to pass.

762
01:07:16.079 --> 01:07:21.199
I was so relaxed with the sound
of the falling water that at one

763
01:07:21.199 --> 01:07:26.920
point I began to fall asleep,
but my dream was interrupted by the sound

764
01:07:26.920 --> 01:07:30.199
of my radio, which informed me
that there was a thief, who was

765
01:07:30.320 --> 01:07:35.599
very close to where I was located. The rain was still strong, so

766
01:07:35.719 --> 01:07:41.119
inside the patrol it was a little
difficult for me to find the person they

767
01:07:41.199 --> 01:07:46.199
were referring to. I got off
the patrol and that' s when I

768
01:07:46.239 --> 01:07:50.559
could see a man running through the
streets at full speed. I hastened to

769
01:07:50.599 --> 01:07:56.440
start the car, as it was
not the best runner, so I knew

770
01:07:56.800 --> 01:08:00.440
that to continue on foot I would
have no chance to tie up. Cover

771
01:08:00.119 --> 01:08:05.480
him with the sirens on, I
started following him, thinking he would be

772
01:08:05.559 --> 01:08:12.480
afraid and stop or else he would
let go of what he had stolen to

773
01:08:12.480 --> 01:08:15.119
have more chance of escape. That
man looked completely attached to what he had

774
01:08:15.159 --> 01:08:19.760
stolen. I followed him to a
very ugly part of town. That place

775
01:08:19.800 --> 01:08:25.720
had been very prosperous in past years, because of the shopping mall and convenience

776
01:08:25.760 --> 01:08:30.760
stores that had been put in the
area had almost completely disappeared, leaving only

777
01:08:30.920 --> 01:08:36.000
premises and shops empty. I could
see the man entering one of the premises,

778
01:08:36.560 --> 01:08:42.439
so I descended from the patrol and
proceeded on foot to catch him.

779
01:08:43.279 --> 01:08:46.000
Before I entered, I could see
that the place I had entered was a

780
01:08:46.079 --> 01:08:51.680
small clothing store. Now it was
just one more abandoned place because of the

781
01:08:51.680 --> 01:08:57.760
city' s progress. I walked
around the abandoned place, realizing that they

782
01:08:57.840 --> 01:09:03.560
had abandoned a lot of things there, such as shelves of clothes, some

783
01:09:03.760 --> 01:09:09.479
furniture and even clothes, but some
of the most there were were mannequins.

784
01:09:09.520 --> 01:09:14.800
They were everywhere and because of the
abandonment, they had taken on a rather

785
01:09:14.800 --> 01:09:21.159
gloomy appearance. They were covered in
dust and some were vandalized trying to ignore

786
01:09:21.159 --> 01:09:26.359
all that, I decided to focus
on catching the criminal. The place was

787
01:09:26.399 --> 01:09:30.720
a pretty big place. I had
to be completely attentive so that that man

788
01:09:30.800 --> 01:09:36.279
wouldn' t take me by surprise. I found myself walking cautiously through the

789
01:09:36.319 --> 01:09:43.279
abandoned mannequins and furniture, illuminating all
possible places where I believed that man could

790
01:09:43.520 --> 01:09:49.239
hide, but I was not lucky
to find him. I don' t

791
01:09:49.319 --> 01:09:56.119
know exactly how long I was walking
around the place, but while I was

792
01:09:56.119 --> 01:10:00.560
still listening to the storm, I
understood that the criminal was probably already gone,

793
01:10:01.039 --> 01:10:05.000
so it wasn' t worth continuing
to look for. I started walking

794
01:10:05.039 --> 01:10:10.960
back to get out right where I
had entered. While I was doing something,

795
01:10:11.119 --> 01:10:15.199
it caught my attention. A mannequin
was no different than any other mannequin

796
01:10:15.239 --> 01:10:18.880
in the store. Like everyone else, he was completely white and didn'

797
01:10:19.000 --> 01:10:23.760
t have a face. What caught
my attention was that I didn' t

798
01:10:23.880 --> 01:10:28.800
remember seeing him the first time I
went through that place. I decided not

799
01:10:28.840 --> 01:10:32.399
to think too much about it and
continue my way out. When I started

800
01:10:32.439 --> 01:10:39.399
walking, I also started to feel
like someone was behind me, I turned

801
01:10:39.439 --> 01:10:45.560
immediately, but I saw nothing strange, so I kept walking. I felt

802
01:10:45.560 --> 01:10:51.560
exactly the same feeling again. I
turned quickly and this time, if I

803
01:10:51.680 --> 01:10:57.680
noticed anything, the same mannequin had
turned his head towards me and I could

804
01:10:57.800 --> 01:11:02.119
notice that I had also moved his
arms and one of his legs lightly as

805
01:11:02.159 --> 01:11:06.760
if I was about to step in
my direction. That seemed strange to me.

806
01:11:08.920 --> 01:11:14.199
At that time, my brain could
not ration that inert figure had moved

807
01:11:14.319 --> 01:11:19.760
on its own. I turned again
to walk to the exit, this time

808
01:11:19.920 --> 01:11:25.359
rushing a little bit further, telling
myself that this could not be real.

809
01:11:27.720 --> 01:11:31.760
This time not only did the feeling
that someone was behind me occur, but

810
01:11:31.760 --> 01:11:41.239
I could clearly hear steps approaching me. I turned immediately just to see with

811
01:11:41.359 --> 01:11:47.079
horror how the mannequin was back completely
still. It was turned in my direction

812
01:11:47.399 --> 01:11:55.159
and was only a few meters away. That scared me so much that by

813
01:11:55.199 --> 01:12:00.319
abandoning any rational thinking I might have
at that moment I started running. While

814
01:12:00.399 --> 01:12:04.920
I was doing so I could clearly
hear the steps of that mannequin, which

815
01:12:04.960 --> 01:12:11.119
were heard closer and closer. I
turned around again just to run into the

816
01:12:11.359 --> 01:12:15.159
mannequin just a couple of feet behind
me. He was completely still. I

817
01:12:15.239 --> 01:12:21.000
didn' t have the courage to
get close to him, although I thought

818
01:12:21.079 --> 01:12:23.680
I' d throw him out and
run so I' d have a little

819
01:12:23.680 --> 01:12:27.880
more advantage. This only remained in
one thought, as my legs did not

820
01:12:27.960 --> 01:12:31.640
allow me to move towards that mannequin. I took a couple of steps,

821
01:12:31.920 --> 01:12:36.520
but on my back this time without
ever seeing the mannequin and I realized that

822
01:12:36.560 --> 01:12:42.920
it didn' t move or at
least not while I was watching it.

823
01:12:42.960 --> 01:12:46.199
And despite what many must think it
was supposed to be like I should have

824
01:12:46.319 --> 01:12:50.920
walked away from her back without looking
away until I got to the exit.

825
01:12:51.680 --> 01:12:57.960
You must understand that I did not
know that place very well and was so

826
01:12:58.000 --> 01:13:01.680
full of things that it was very
easy that I could fall and continue to

827
01:13:02.119 --> 01:13:06.000
walk on my back, so that
was not a very viable option. If

828
01:13:06.119 --> 01:13:12.800
I could walk back enough to put
a considerable distance between that thing and I

829
01:13:12.920 --> 01:13:18.920
was shaking, I couldn' t
even rationalize everything that was happening and my

830
01:13:19.000 --> 01:13:24.840
brain could only have the idea of
getting out of there as quickly as possible.

831
01:13:26.319 --> 01:13:30.600
Then, taking air and all the
courage I managed to gather into my

832
01:13:30.640 --> 01:13:33.760
body, I turned my back again
and ran again with all my might.

833
01:13:34.760 --> 01:13:40.720
I could hear the steps back,
but this time a lot faster it was

834
01:13:40.880 --> 01:13:45.399
almost as if I had bothered to
get away from that way from him it

835
01:13:45.399 --> 01:13:51.520
seemed even faster than I could.
The fear was such that I stumbled and

836
01:13:53.079 --> 01:13:58.000
fell I turned around just in time
for that mannequin to stop less than a

837
01:13:58.279 --> 01:14:03.199
meter from me. My breathing was
agitated both by running and by the fear

838
01:14:03.279 --> 01:14:09.600
I felt. I wanted to kick
the mannequin, but a part of me

839
01:14:09.640 --> 01:14:14.319
was very afraid that, in doing
so, it would move even when I

840
01:14:14.319 --> 01:14:18.560
was watching it, I walked away
a little bit, crawling down the floor

841
01:14:18.560 --> 01:14:21.119
and still seeing it, I wanted
to get up. I knew the exit

842
01:14:21.159 --> 01:14:27.279
was very close, that there was
very little left for me to achieve it,

843
01:14:27.680 --> 01:14:30.760
but a part of me knew that
by turning his back on him again.

844
01:14:30.279 --> 01:14:34.960
This one would catch up with me. While I was still on the

845
01:14:35.000 --> 01:14:41.359
ground I could feel an aluminum hanger
and without even thinking about it, I

846
01:14:41.479 --> 01:14:45.159
took it and hit it on one
of the mannequin' s legs, as

847
01:14:45.239 --> 01:14:47.880
fast and loud as I could before
I stood up and started running. I

848
01:14:47.920 --> 01:14:51.880
didn' t stop until I was
already on the side of my patrol.

849
01:14:53.399 --> 01:14:57.960
I don' t even remember how
I got out. The adrenaline in my

850
01:14:58.000 --> 01:15:02.760
body was at its peak and all
I could think of was wrapping to make

851
01:15:02.840 --> 01:15:08.439
sure that thing hadn' t left
the store. But, for my fortune,

852
01:15:08.840 --> 01:15:13.600
this was not so. I realized
that the storm had stopped and everyone

853
01:15:14.159 --> 01:15:19.000
seemed to remain exactly the same.
I remember sitting on my patrol outside that

854
01:15:19.119 --> 01:15:25.680
store for hours yet not being able
to explain everything I had lived. I

855
01:15:25.920 --> 01:15:30.079
even thought it had all been a
dream, but I knew that it had

856
01:15:30.159 --> 01:15:34.600
been real and no matter how much
I wanted it not to be. That

857
01:15:34.880 --> 01:15:42.159
had really happened. I didn'
t tell the story to many people,

858
01:15:42.319 --> 01:15:48.279
just my daughter and two coworkers,
who just laughed about it. I think

859
01:15:48.520 --> 01:15:54.920
that' s what led me not
to share it too much, since the

860
01:15:54.960 --> 01:15:59.439
last thing I wanted was for them
to take me for crazy. To this

861
01:15:59.520 --> 01:16:04.199
day I cannot see a mannequin without
feeling chills. I recently passed that place

862
01:16:04.279 --> 01:16:09.720
and saw it demolished, so I
don' t know where that dummy is.

863
01:16:11.319 --> 01:16:15.479
Now I don' t know what
that thing was, but I'

864
01:16:15.560 --> 01:16:28.960
m completely grateful to have survived their
encounter and I hope I will never experience

865
01:16:28.960 --> 01:16:33.239
anything similar to the rapture again.
My name is Oliver. I' m

866
01:16:33.319 --> 01:16:38.199
forty- five years old and the
story I' m going to tell you

867
01:16:38.279 --> 01:16:43.000
next is kind of amazing, so
many don' t believe it and they

868
01:16:43.000 --> 01:16:45.560
' re in all their right.
The only thing I can say about it

869
01:16:45.600 --> 01:16:49.760
is that this world holds secrets which
many times the human being is not even

870
01:16:49.840 --> 01:16:56.880
able to understand a little from a
very young age I knew what my vocation

871
01:16:57.119 --> 01:17:01.600
would be and this was being a
cop admired them very much and being a

872
01:17:01.800 --> 01:17:06.600
person of very low resources made me
seriously want to help the most vulnerable people,

873
01:17:08.279 --> 01:17:11.479
which is why I tried twice as
hard every day to get my dream.

874
01:17:11.920 --> 01:17:16.640
In this way, I became part
of the police I can remember how

875
01:17:16.680 --> 01:17:23.560
many of my colleagues used to tell
their paranormal experiences, which had happened to

876
01:17:23.600 --> 01:17:28.680
them throughout their service as policemen.
To be honest, at that time I

877
01:17:28.720 --> 01:17:33.560
considered myself a rather skeptical man about
the whole subject, because I had never

878
01:17:33.640 --> 01:17:41.760
experienced anything and considered that the people
who claimed to have done it were actually

879
01:17:41.800 --> 01:17:47.279
just people who wanted to believe that
was real. All that changed a Christmas

880
01:17:47.319 --> 01:17:53.760
Eve night. I didn' t
mind taking the Christmas Eve shift. My

881
01:17:53.800 --> 01:17:59.239
parents had died since I was nineteen
years old and had no brothers or other

882
01:17:59.319 --> 01:18:03.079
family. I had no one to
spend those parties with, so having something

883
01:18:03.119 --> 01:18:08.520
to do and not thinking about it. It made me feel a little better.

884
01:18:10.000 --> 01:18:15.239
That night was quite agitated hundreds of
people alcoholized and driving, putting the

885
01:18:15.359 --> 01:18:20.560
life even of their children at risk, made me a little angry. I

886
01:18:20.600 --> 01:18:27.399
was still doing my job optimally when
I suddenly received a warning from a person

887
01:18:27.439 --> 01:18:31.479
who said he was in trouble,
as his car had fallen into a ditch.

888
01:18:33.560 --> 01:18:39.039
As soon as I received the news, I immediately thought that he was

889
01:18:39.079 --> 01:18:43.800
an alcoholized boy, who, by
not being in his five senses and driving,

890
01:18:44.399 --> 01:18:47.319
had gotten into that problem. And
since I was the person who was

891
01:18:47.359 --> 01:18:51.520
closest to the incident, they asked
me to go see the situation, they

892
01:18:51.600 --> 01:18:59.279
gave me the exact location where the
boy claimed to be. When I got

893
01:18:59.439 --> 01:19:02.800
to this one, I didn'
t run into anything or anyone. I

894
01:19:02.840 --> 01:19:08.359
walked a little across the ditch and
the car, which was stuck in it.

895
01:19:09.399 --> 01:19:13.640
The car seemed to have been months, if not years in that ditch,

896
01:19:14.119 --> 01:19:17.760
as it looked very old and mistreated
by the passage of time. Besides,

897
01:19:17.920 --> 01:19:24.840
there was no trace of that kid
anywhere. I called my colleagues to

898
01:19:24.920 --> 01:19:30.920
question whether I had been given the
right location and they claimed that the boy

899
01:19:30.159 --> 01:19:35.920
had given that address. I walked
a little around trying to find the one

900
01:19:36.000 --> 01:19:41.279
who needed my help. After a
while of not finding anyone, I assumed

901
01:19:41.640 --> 01:19:48.079
that most likely the boy was just
playing a joke. That was quite common

902
01:19:48.560 --> 01:19:54.119
and because of what my colleagues had
told me it was even more common at

903
01:19:54.159 --> 01:19:58.640
that time, so I set out
to return to the patrol. I was

904
01:19:58.720 --> 01:20:03.359
nowhere near where my vehicle was.
When I received another call on my radio,

905
01:20:04.239 --> 01:20:10.840
it was my colleagues who said that
the boy had called again this time

906
01:20:10.920 --> 01:20:15.840
even more in panic, saying that
if we would still take a long time,

907
01:20:15.239 --> 01:20:20.279
since things were getting really strange.
The caller did not specify what was

908
01:20:20.279 --> 01:20:26.479
strange, but according to my companions
he was quite agitated and genuinely frightened.

909
01:20:28.640 --> 01:20:32.079
But that didn' t make much
sense, as I was in the place

910
01:20:32.279 --> 01:20:36.520
and there was no one there.
My colleagues encouraged me to take another look

911
01:20:36.600 --> 01:20:43.840
around for that point. I was
a little upset, because I knew it

912
01:20:43.920 --> 01:20:46.960
was impossible for me to really be
in trouble or be there. Otherwise,

913
01:20:47.199 --> 01:20:53.079
I' d have seen it by
now. But still, I decided to

914
01:20:53.159 --> 01:20:58.560
listen to them and take a second
round. This second round I made it

915
01:20:58.640 --> 01:21:03.239
a little slower and paying a lot
more attention to anything strange. I seemed

916
01:21:03.359 --> 01:21:09.760
to be the only person miles away
in that place. Then I could see

917
01:21:09.760 --> 01:21:15.279
from a distance what seemed to be
a bonfire, but from a distance it

918
01:21:15.359 --> 01:21:20.840
would have to be a very huge
bonfire, which could quickly turn into a

919
01:21:20.840 --> 01:21:27.279
forest fire. I thought it might
help prevent a fire, so I decided

920
01:21:27.640 --> 01:21:33.119
to head for that place. I
walked about seven minutes and although I thought

921
01:21:33.199 --> 01:21:38.800
I was moving forward, it seemed
almost like I was just walking in the

922
01:21:38.800 --> 01:21:44.800
same place. That fire seemed to
always be the same distance. Suddenly something

923
01:21:45.119 --> 01:21:48.920
changed. It was like a blink
like a flash. That' s as

924
01:21:48.960 --> 01:21:54.600
much as I can describe about it. It was a great glow, which

925
01:21:54.840 --> 01:21:58.760
interfered with the sounds of my radio
as well as with all my senses.

926
01:21:59.439 --> 01:22:04.079
It was almost like my whole body
went out in just a second. The

927
01:22:04.199 --> 01:22:10.359
last thing I can remember from that
is that I felt my legs falter and

928
01:22:10.399 --> 01:22:15.399
then I fell on the lawn.
The flash was dwindling again, but when

929
01:22:15.520 --> 01:22:18.800
I opened my eyes again, I
was in the deepest part of the forest.

930
01:22:19.359 --> 01:22:25.600
I had no idea how I got
there. I was so disoriented,

931
01:22:25.960 --> 01:22:30.720
stunned and weak, besides being in
my torn and muddy uniform, I couldn

932
01:22:30.760 --> 01:22:38.600
' t understand what had happened.
I remembered perfectly what had happened just before

933
01:22:38.640 --> 01:22:43.720
I passed out, but none of
it told me why I was where I

934
01:22:43.720 --> 01:22:46.880
was. It took me almost an
hour to achieve total control over my body

935
01:22:46.920 --> 01:22:51.279
and my mind stood up and after
a while of walking without a specific direction,

936
01:22:51.479 --> 01:22:57.960
I could place myself in that forest
and in this way I could leave

937
01:22:58.039 --> 01:23:02.199
right in the place where I remembered
having been the last time. My vehicle

938
01:23:02.359 --> 01:23:08.039
was no longer where I had left
it and I had no way of communicating

939
01:23:08.079 --> 01:23:13.159
with anyone, so I chose to
start walking to the nearest road so I

940
01:23:13.600 --> 01:23:18.960
could ask someone for help for my
fortune, I didn' t take too

941
01:23:18.960 --> 01:23:24.239
long to get it. A car
took me to police headquarters. As soon

942
01:23:24.279 --> 01:23:27.520
as I got in there, I
didn' t get the welcome I was

943
01:23:27.520 --> 01:23:31.159
waiting for. While I was hoping
that people would be worried, as I

944
01:23:31.199 --> 01:23:36.000
had disappeared for almost the whole night, I was not expecting the expression of

945
01:23:36.079 --> 01:23:42.119
amazement from all the people, who
immediately approached me and questioned where I had

946
01:23:42.159 --> 01:23:46.920
been or what had happened to me. The questions were so many that I

947
01:23:47.039 --> 01:23:54.359
couldn' t answer any of them
I felt my head, as if a

948
01:23:54.399 --> 01:23:58.119
huge drill was drilling my head and
I couldn' t give any answers at

949
01:23:58.119 --> 01:24:02.560
the time. It all ended when
my boss was as surprised as everyone there

950
01:24:02.600 --> 01:24:08.560
and took me away from all the
people around me, took me to his

951
01:24:08.680 --> 01:24:14.039
office. I tried to understand everything
that was going on, but I couldn

952
01:24:14.199 --> 01:24:17.479
' t even mediate a word.
Although I could well formulate the prayers in

953
01:24:17.520 --> 01:24:21.359
my head, I could not get
my mouth to move to express them.

954
01:24:23.000 --> 01:24:26.880
My boss was very sympathetic to me. I had no idea what had happened

955
01:24:26.920 --> 01:24:31.079
to me, but I could tell
he was the worst. He was trying

956
01:24:31.199 --> 01:24:35.319
to talk to me calmly and told
me that everything would be fine and that

957
01:24:35.439 --> 01:24:40.560
he would have everyone' s support. There he mentioned something about days of

958
01:24:41.119 --> 01:24:45.000
absence and it was then that I
could say something. I asked him what

959
01:24:45.039 --> 01:24:48.960
he meant by days of absence,
since I had only been lost for one

960
01:24:49.039 --> 01:24:57.399
night. That seemed to miss him
too much and he told me not without

961
01:24:58.079 --> 01:25:00.039
trying to calm me first that I
had not disappeared for a night. He

962
01:25:00.159 --> 01:25:05.720
' d been missing for a whole
week. His words were too much for

963
01:25:05.720 --> 01:25:10.520
me. I had no idea what
I was talking about. I hadn'

964
01:25:10.600 --> 01:25:15.319
t disappeared for a whole week.
I was sure of that. It had

965
01:25:15.399 --> 01:25:20.920
only been a few hours. He
seemed to be very serious. I felt

966
01:25:20.960 --> 01:25:27.479
dizzy when I received that news.
My boss kept talking, but I couldn

967
01:25:27.520 --> 01:25:32.199
' t pay attention anymore. After
that, thousands of blurry and somewhat abstract

968
01:25:32.279 --> 01:25:39.079
memories came to my mind one after
another in a disorderly manner. I remember

969
01:25:39.119 --> 01:25:44.600
being in a completely white room.
I also remember a scalpel cutting my abdomen.

970
01:25:45.239 --> 01:25:48.039
I don' t have any scars
or anything like that. I have

971
01:25:48.079 --> 01:25:53.359
the memory of a pair of hands. I also remember what seems to be

972
01:25:53.399 --> 01:25:58.720
conversations, but I don' t
remember it very well I don' t

973
01:25:58.720 --> 01:26:00.560
know what happened that day. I
have not returned to him to experience anything

974
01:26:00.560 --> 01:26:06.520
similar. I still have nightmares about
it and the memories are sometimes more specific,

975
01:26:06.560 --> 01:26:12.000
but none of them seem to have
a sequence of more than a few

976
01:26:12.000 --> 01:26:15.640
seconds. If I' m absolutely
certain of something, it' s that

977
01:26:15.760 --> 01:26:19.359
what I lived that night is something
I don' t think I can ever

978
01:26:19.359 --> 01:26:27.439
see. An explanation of stories written
and adapted by Aurora. Escalante