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He hates being looked at. I' d like to keep my name anonymous

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for security reasons. I think this
story is quite worthy to be told,

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even if it is not very long. When I was thirty, something happened

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to me that makes me question the
reality of things. I hadn' t

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been working as a taxi driver for
long and I knew that some of my

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colleagues were hired even to be a
private taxi for a whole day. So

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when a man asked me if I
could do something like that for him,

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I said yes, not knowing what
I was getting into that day I was

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cleaning my taxi. When suddenly this
man arrived, he looked like a humble

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- looking peasant. He asked me
if I could hire myself for five days

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to take and bring some of his
workers from a place where they were working.

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To me, this seemed very lucrative, in addition to the fact that

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the work sounded very easy, because
as he explained to me, the gentleman

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told me that it was only a
question of waking up very early and going

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for the workers and then going up
to a hill and waiting there until their

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day ended, and then bringing them
down back and returning them to their homes.

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This seemed very simple and I would
have to do almost nothing. And

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if that were not enough, the
pay I was offering was even higher than

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I or any of my colleagues charged
for a private taxi service. I remember

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saying yes at first, though when
I told one of my colleagues. He

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told me to be careful because that
gentleman did not seem to have the ability

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to pay for something like that,
and not only that, but, not

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knowing his intentions well could be bad, as the whole situation was quite suspicious.

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I didn' t want to hear
it. At that point, I

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didn' t think he could do
something like that to me, so I

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accepted the deal and after that we
agreed on an hour in which we would

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meet at that place and then go
to the house of each of his workers.

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And I even remember that by the
time the agreed day came and just

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walked into my taxi after giving me
the good morning, he paid me with

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a wad of tickets for the five
days in advance. In my view,

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there was no way to back out. Everything was quite normal. That man

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was kind enough and very respectful.
He didn' t look anything unusual about

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him. It is worth mentioning that
everything seemed to indicate that the place where

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they were working was owned by a
very wealthy person, who had the belief

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that vegetables would be grown better in
that place, so he was paying them

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a great deal to work there.
As soon as we got to the place,

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everything was fine. They dedicated themselves
to their work and I only waited

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for them in the vicinity all the
time. It should be noted that that

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was the time when there were no
cell phones available to the public, so

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everything was very good boring. I
even thought I' d bring some distractions

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for the next day. But when
it finally came time to leave, it

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was around six o' clock and
it was too soon to get dark.

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And even though I thought everyone would
be normal by the time we left,

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the truth was that all the workers
seemed pretty nervous, picked up everything very

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quickly and seemed to be totally anxious
to leave. In fact, I remember

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that, even though I was driving
at a normal speed, everyone was very

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determined to increase the speed by telling
me that we had to get out of

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the hill before the night reached us. At first I only let them know

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that I wasn' t going to
do that, because when we went down

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we could crash going so fast with
the pressure that they gave me, as

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well as the fact that all those
adult men, who in my view,

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seemed too rude people, seemed to
be very scared, so without questioning much,

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I listened to them and speed in
a reasonable way to get out of

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there without having accidents and before it
was dark and once already out of the

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hill, they all seemed relieved and
began to make jokes and behave in a

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normal way, as they had done
in the morning. All this puzzled me

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quite a bit and I even remember
asking them what had been the reason why

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everyone had been so scared. Moments
ago, none of them wanted to tell

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me they were just trying to lighten
the mood with jokes and there came a

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point where I assumed it was just
a hazing or a joke that they were

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making me out to be new to
their group, so I just took it

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as a joke and decided not to
give it more importance. The next morning

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it all happened again. I saw
the lord at the station, we went

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to each of them' s house
and we went back up to the hill.

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I was waiting for them until their
day was over and again at six

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o' clock, everyone started to
climb things up in a very fast way

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and demanded me to leave and leave
the hill before dark. They all seemed

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very upset because this was so and
even though I listened to them again this

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time, as soon as we were
out of the hill, I asked them

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again this time with more insistence what
was the problem and what was happening,

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if we stayed a little after dark, since the car worked perfectly and had

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lights, so that we would have
no problem. They kept trying to downplay

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it and trying to make it forget
it. I was not willing to do

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it and my curiosity was so strong
that I decided internally that on the next

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day' s trip I would pretend
that the car broke down that the brakes

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didn' t work, so that
it would slow down and could grab us

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the night while on that hill and
in that way if they didn' t

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laugh at me saying what was going
on I would see it with my own

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eyes. Actually, I didn'
t think there was anything there, I

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just wanted them to stop making that
joke, because I felt like I wasn

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' t having any fun, if
whatever they wanted to get with it was

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to scare me. So, without
telling them anything, the next morning I

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carried out my plan, I took
them and waited until their day was over

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and when everyone was up already anxious
for me to start the taxi and leave,

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I started pretending that the car didn' t start and although I thought

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that no one would give it more
importance, the truth is that all of

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them broke up very quickly and started
panicking in a way that looked almost ridiculous

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in men their age. They started
saying we had to get him up at

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all costs. Some even started trying
to push it. Others said that if

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it didn' t start, they
would run downhill to try to get out

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of the hill, but they wouldn' t stay there and at that moment

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a little more worried, I asked
them what the problem was. None of

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them wanted to tell me openly and
I, seeing them so upset, decided

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to pretend that the car had miraculously
returned to work and told them to go

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up in a matter of seconds.
They were all inside the car telling me

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to increase speed to get out as
soon as possible. So I started driving,

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even though I did what I was
asked to do. For all the

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time we' d lost trying to
make the car work, he grabbed us

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the night when we were about halfway
there. They were all a bunch of

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nerves constantly looking around and I even
remember a couple of them praying already a

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little upset. I asked again what
the problem was and one of them became

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honest with me. He told me
if I heard a creak on the roof,

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nothing in the world would stop me
and try to stay calm. He

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also told me that if I saw
the creature peeking out of the side of

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the window, it didn' t
matter how tempting it was. I didn

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' t think I' d turn
around and see her,' cause that

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would bother him. I was about
to ask him what the hell he meant

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by that, when I suddenly felt
it was like something had landed on the

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roof of my cab. It wasn' t a small thing. I had

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already heard things landing before like birds, insects and even some, and that

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another cat never resulted in a big
problem. This was much bigger. He

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seemed to have big claws scraping the
ceiling, and not only that, but

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he was so big and strong that
with his movement he managed to shake the

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car through the rearview mirror he could
see how all men had their eyes closed.

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Everyone was praying that that thing would
just go away. I was trying

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to stay as calm as possible so
we wouldn' t crash, because every

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time that thing moved, it caused
the car to lose direction and I had

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to get back on course. I
think it was only about five minutes.

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It seemed like an eternity and after
that time it flew away. I can

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' t describe it any other way. I even heard the fluttering I tried

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to look out the window. The
man who had hired me held me by

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the arm and told me not to
see him, so I only kept my

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eyes on the front and drove until
we left that hill and once I was

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gone, I asked him what that
thing was. He told me that the

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truth is that no one knew,
but that they had already had other taxi

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drivers, who resigned shortly after being
hired. He said that thing really didn

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' t do anything, it just
stood on the roof of cars for a

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while and then flew away. But
the person who had hired them had told

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them that long ago he had had
a problem with another group of people.

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He said that when one of them
saw that thing went crazy today, it

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caused them to have an accident,
completely overturning the car and only three people

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had survived. They described it as
some sort of giant bat, but with

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legs like any bird' s,
only with long claws, which looked like

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they could stand anyone out. I
asked them if everyone already knew that,

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why they had accepted that job.
They answered me that because of the need

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to work, because that man paid
very well, not to mention that as

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long as they were out of the
hill before it darkened that creature did not

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bother them. I was very puzzled, but although they told me they understood

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if I no longer wanted to take
them, I continued with the work until

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the five days ended and after that
I lost track of them. The truth.

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I don' t know what'
s on that hill and I don

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' t mean its location for obvious
reasons, but it makes me wonder what

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kind of creatures inhabit this world we
completely don' t know. Memories of

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a taxi driver. My grandfather worked
as a taxi driver from the age of

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fourteen until he died, and I
had always been someone very attached to him,

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and he always told me many stories
about everything he had lived through his

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life. But especially, there are
two stories that to this day cause me

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to shiver. They' re not
very long, but I really think it

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' s worth being told and remembered
forever. The first is when, on

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one occasion he was working on his
shift in the morning when, suddenly,

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a lady he describes as a very
pretty person, approached his taxi and asked

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him to, please, take her
to a place. He said yes and

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opened the door. As soon as
the woman was inside, she told him

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that she had no money to pay
her, but that she could exchange it

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for an appointment with her. My
grandfather was already married to my grandmother and

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they even had my dad At the
time, my grandfather didn' t think

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much about it and he replied that
he was fine, so he took her

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to the place she wanted to reach
and, after that, they agreed on

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a place to meet after his shift
ended. My grandfather did it and she

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left. He was really excited about
this date and he says that when the

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time came, he even went out
a couple of hours earlier to go see

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her. He says that the moment
he was driving something very strange happened to

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him, he began to feel a
lot of fear and guilt. It was

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like a feeling that something very serious
was going to happen. However, he

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decided not to heed these thoughts and
went on his way, thinking that it

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was most likely only his fault.
But, according to his words, at

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that time the thought was very different
from now and he believed that there would

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be no problem as long as he
continued to fulfill his role as a provider

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in his home and remained a more
or less decent parent. He says that

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at some point he began to feel
something strange in the environment at first he

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wanted to attribute it to the fact
of how guilty he was feeling. Very

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soon he realized that it was not
so, since there was something that was

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strange and there was no cars or
pedestrians on the street, which was strange,

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since although it was around nine o' clock at night, it was

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Mexico City and there was always movement
in it. It was an extremely rare

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thing to be totally alone, but
at the time he was like this and

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he says that they started giving him
a lot of chills, but again he

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tried to just keep driving to find
more people until he stopped by the traffic

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light, although he knew that it
could happen well, since there was no

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one. My grandfather told me that
during the time he was waiting for the

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light to change green, he began
to try to calm down and looked in

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the mirror to make sure that he
was going to present himself well for his

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appointment, when suddenly he heard something
very strange. It was a sound quite

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similar to that of a supermarket cart. You could clearly hear his wheels gnashing.

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He began to look at different places, but could not see the origin

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of the sound. He tells me
that, in fact, if it was

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heard too close to be able to
see it, he says that this was

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beginning to make him feel very fearful. When suddenly the traffic light changed to

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green, it was about to start
when it saw someone who started crossing the

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street at the time. At first, he was going to whistle as he

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was passing through when the traffic light
was already green for him, he quickly

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realized something that would torment him until
the last of his days. My grandfather

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tells me that by giving him,
even a little more attention, he quickly

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realized that this man had no head. I was walking like anyone pushing that

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supermarket cart. He says it was
full of what seemed to be a bunch

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of blankets or something like that.
He says he didn' t have a

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head. My grandfather tells me that
he stayed a few minutes in shock because

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of all the impact that scene was
causing him. He says that when that

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thing was about halfway down the road, he stopped and turned his body towards

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my grandfather' s cab. My
grandfather tells me that at that very moment

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he couldn' t take it anymore
and accelerated trying to dodge it. He

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drove straight home. He always counted
it as a kind of intervention so that

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he would not be unfaithful and,
in fact, he has always told me

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that after that he never again tried
to be unfaithful to my grandmother, since

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he was very afraid that that man
would appear to him again and that,

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for his fortune, he never saw
him again. The following story is something

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that I consider even more shocking than
the previous one. My grandfather told me

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that on one occasion, while waiting
for passage in his designated place, he

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heard someone open the door and without
saying anything to him, my grandfather quickly

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turned around fearing that they would jump
him. As soon as he turned around,

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he clearly saw that he was a
motorcyclist. I knew it because he

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was dressed in a leather jacket gloves
and he was still wearing his helmet.

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That was very strange to my grandfather, so he asked him what he wanted.

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The passenger told him that his bike
had broken down and that he had

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to get to the hospital urgently to
see his mother, who was sick.

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So my grandfather, without wasting time, started the taxi and started driving to

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the hospital. He says the more
I saw him, the more. He

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realized that the man was very strange, since he was not only still dressed

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in the entire motorcycle suit, but
he also seemed to have fallen, as

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his helmet was all scraped up,
just like his jacket. He seemed to

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have many tears and, moreover,
could realize that he had blood on his

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right arm, which led him to
think that the man had fallen. My

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grandfather even told me he tried to
joke with him about it, asking him

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if he had fallen off the bike, but the man did not answer him.

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He just seemed to be looking at
the window. And even though my

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grandfather tried to follow the conversation and
asked him if he needed medical help,

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just as he offered him some gauze
and alcohol in his glove box, that

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man didn' t answer him,
so my grandfather, thinking he had messed

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up, just kept moving forward when
he suddenly came to a corner where there

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seemed to be an accident and since
he couldn' t get around all the

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cars were going too slow and he
didn' t seem to see the big

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chance of getting out of that jam. My grandfather told that man that he

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didn' t have much time to
get to the hospital and that perhaps it

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would be best if he continued on
foot. Even my grandfather says he was

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seriously considering not charging him, as
it looked like that man was really having

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a hard time. That man didn' t answer my grandfather just kept looking

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out the window, so he assumed
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My grandfather tried to start a conversation
with him again, as that day was

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too hot and he believed that that
man might well be suffocating with that helmet,

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since he told him that if he
wanted to, he could take off

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his helmet. But still the man
didn' t answer him. My grandfather

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was a little upset, because that
man didn' t want to engage in

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any word with him, so he
just turned his eyes to the front and

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kept trying to advance through all that
tumult of bottling that had originated from causes

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unknown to him. At least at
the time. My grandfather told me that

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about ten minutes passed when they had
made very little progress, when, suddenly,

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that man finally turned his head and
told my grandfather that he needed me

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to give something to his mother.
My grandfather, surprised, asked him what

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he meant by that to what that
man told him that his mother was called

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Julia Esquivel and so he told him
the room number he was in. After

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that, he stretched out his hand
and gave him an envelope full of money

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and told him he had to give
it to him. And my grandfather,

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surprised, did not receive it and
asked him why it had to be he

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who gave it to his mother and
at that moment that man looked out the

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window again, so my grandfather turned
his head and saw how. It'

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s just that, apparently, there
had been an accident and lying there in

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the middle of the street, was
the same man dressed exactly the same way

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and with the same torn clothes,
as well as the same stems on the

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helmet he was wearing. Position.
This made my grandfather shudder and he tells

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me that he quickly turned back towards
the back seats, just to realize that

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the man was gone, but what
was there was the envelope with money in

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the back seat. My grandfather says
he drove to the hospital and handed it

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over to his mother after receiving his
thanks. He just left and never had

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contact with that lady again, and
he didn' t see that boy again.

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But every time she told me this
story, she reminded me how much

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a child could come to love her
mother so she wouldn' t leave her

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alone, even if she was no
longer in the world of the living.

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My best friend when I was a
child, I was a very lonely person,

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the reasons I was born with a
complication in my heart, which basically

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forbids me from making a great physical
effort. I can' t run or

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altar without getting tired within a few
minutes and I couldn' t go out

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and play with the other kids in
my neighborhood. The truth is they didn

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' t want to try either,
so, being such a lonely person,

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I never made a greater effort to
try to make them my friends and even

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though I managed to spend every afternoon, trying to have fun alone in the

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background if I wanted someone to play
with. On one occasion I asked my

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parents if I could adopt a dog, but they told me no, since

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I was a puppy and I needed
to go for a walk, run and

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play, so it wouldn' t
be fair for him to take him to

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a house where I couldn' t
give him any of that. But what

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they did give me was a cat, although it wasn' t exactly what

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I had qualified as a pet,
as it was quite bitter and only came

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to you when I wanted food,
so I almost didn' t interact with

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him. I remember one time,
while I was in my backyard trying to

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play alone with my wrists, suddenly
I saw someone was a girl with very

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pale hair, chestnut and skin.
I was standing outside my entrance and carrying

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my cat. This surprised me very
much, as, as I said before,

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he never let himself be caught and
much less carried by someone, but

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at that time he seemed very meek
and pleased that they were carrying him.

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I got up and greeted her telling
her how bitter the cat was and that

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she was very surprised that she let
herself be touched by it. She told

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me she had always had a special
charisma with animals, so I opened the

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door and invited her through. She
was a little strange, I don'

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t know how else to write it, but she was really pale and besides

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that, she had some arm wounds
that looked like big bruises. I asked

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her what had happened to her and
she replied that she was sick. I

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couldn' t help but smile at
him, and I told him I was

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sick, too. And like that' s a seal of approval waiting.

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Since then she went almost daily to
my house and we played with all the

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games my parents had bought me in
an attempt not to feel so different from

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the others. I remember well that
on one occasion I asked him where he

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lived since maybe we could go home
next time. She did not answer me,

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only wandered for a moment and finally
changed the subject and intrigued. That

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’ s why I asked her what
her parents were working on, since,

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even though we had been friends for
several months, the more she thought about

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it. She was a complete stranger
to me, so I asked her and

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she replied that her mother did not
work, since she had to accompany her

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to all her appointments with the doctor, but that her dad was a taxi

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driver and that, in fact,
she worked at the base, that she

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was not far away. From there
he also told me that sometimes I accompanied

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him and that' s why he
came to my house to play. As

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the weeks passed, I kept wondering
where I lived or why I didn'

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t want to get over seeing where
her house was, as she knew perfectly

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where mine was. So I tried
to insist on it from time to time,

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but she always managed to change the
subject, until at some point already

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a little frustrated, I started to
bombard her with the same question over and

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over again telling her that she needed
to know where she lived so she could

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go home when she turned age.
Then she looked at me with those eyes

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off and told me that I had
already forgotten. The truth. At that

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time I no longer had the slightest
idea of how to answer her, so

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I just kept playing with her asking
myself inside what she meant by what she

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had just told me. It seems
to me that also at that moment I

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began to think that she had never
talked about her illness. She just mentioned

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to me that she was sick,
but she never really told me what she

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had and why. His arms were
always this hot. I remember at some

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point I dared to ask her what
exactly she had and she looked at her

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arms and told me that she wasn' t really sure, because she had

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a name I couldn' t remember, but that what they were doing was

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putting some very big needles in her
arm and that after that she was very

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nauseous and very disoriented. She also
mentioned to me that she didn' t

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like to go to the doctor at
all and that I wish very much that

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I wasn' t sick and that
I was a child like any other.

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I told her that I too would
like to be a child like any other

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and I even remember letting her know
that at least she was in treatment to

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try to get her completely cured.
For me, however, there was no

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hope at all. I would always
have this heart problem that prevented me from

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being a normal person. At that
moment. She looked at me with very

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sad eyes and told me that she
would never get better, that she had

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heard the doctors tell her parents and
although they had not yet wanted to tell

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her anything, the reality was that
she would never get better. I replied

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that all that was very horrible and
that I wish I didn' t have

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to go through that alone to what
she looked at me a little happier and

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told me that that would be the
best idea in the world that we could

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both leave and so neither of us
would ever have to be alone anymore.

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I asked her what she meant and
she told me she just had to go

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with her so we could be together
forever. At that moment everything gave me

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a very bad spine, because she
held me by the arm and started pulling

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me harder and harder. His hand
was cold and it seemed to me that

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his strength was enormous, considering that
he was someone who looked too weak and

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very pale. But she still started
pulling me by telling me that if I

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didn' t want to leave her
alone, then go with her. At

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that time, I couldn' t
do that, as that whole situation was

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scaring me and I didn' t
know what to do. When suddenly an

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idea came to my mind and I
started screaming again and again to call my

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mom and see what was going on. My mother' s hasty steps began

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to be heard very worried about all
the screams the girl was throwing. As

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soon as she heard that the door
opened, she let me go and then

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she ran out of the house and
though I tried to explain to my mom

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everything that had happened and she told
me that I would take matters into account,

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the truth is that nothing ever happened
and besides that, I never saw

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her again. Honestly, throughout my
life, this was something I remembered very

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vividly because this child had been my
best friend, at least until that time

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and had basically been the only one
I had had during my childhood. As

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soon as I was older and about
eighteen years old, I was preparing to

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go to college. I remember well
that on one occasion I found a table

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jeluego that perfectly remembered that it was
the favorite of that child. As I

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watched him with a certain nostalgia,
I remembered what had happened that day,

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my mom came into my room and
asked me what I was doing. I

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answered him by telling him that I
was remembering that girl who had been my

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friend. She looked at me strangely
and told me that it was very strange

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that I was remembering an imaginary friend, but I replied that it was not

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imaginary. She told me she was, because, even though I was talking

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about her, all the time.
They never could see her either my mom

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or my dad and that I was
sitting in the garden all alone now talking

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to this little girl. I remember
at that time I even had a little

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anxiety attack. I know that I
remembered that all that was quite real,

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but my mom and dad were completely
agreed that what I remembered was nothing more

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than an invention, a way to
be rarra, to get out of my

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loneliness, something that a girl without
friends had invented. This story doesn'

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t end there. Although, it
was something that was very shocking to me

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and that I could not stop thinking
about in several days. Very soon I

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recovered. After that I was admitted
to a university in Mexico City, so

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I had to go. I remember
when I was about to leave, I

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had to take a taxi from those
who were relatively close to my house and

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once there something quickly caught my attention. That taxi driver had a picture hanging

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in his mirror, and not only
that, but this photo was the same

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girl I claimed to have seen years
ago. I remember I couldn' t

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help but ask who that girl was. He replied that the girl had been

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his daughter, who had long since
passed away, even before I was born.

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He told me he fought leukaemia for
many years, but he finally won

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the disease. At that time I
didn' t have the courage to say

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anything to that man and I just
kept quiet and to tell the truth until

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today. I don' t know
if what I saw that girl or just

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something else that took its shape somewhere. I read that children' s ghosts

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don' t usually stay because they' re innocent. Take me home.

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I wouldn' t like to say
my name or the name of the company

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for security reasons, but I'
m a 30- year- old woman

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and I work as a taxi driver
exclusively for women. I guess it won

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' t be a surprise for anyone
to know that women in Mexico City,

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as well as basically throughout the country, face a lot of dangers as they

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leave. When I finished college,
I tried to get a job. I

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desperately didn' t make it and
eventually I was forced to work as a

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taxi driver. I assumed that if
I worked only with women, it could

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significantly reduce the risk of that profession. Although this did diminish something, I

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am not exempt from any kind of
danger. In fact, by the time

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this story took place, about two
years ago, we were facing a problem

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all of us working on this taxi
app, and it was that more than

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one of us had been hit by
some woman asking for the service just to

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then take her some remote area and
raid her. And for obvious reasons,

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we should take all necessary precautionary measures
and beg that this not happen to us.

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That day I was waiting for my
passenger, who had made a reservation

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over the phone. While I was
waiting for her, another girl touched my

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window. At first I thought it
was her, since honestly I hadn'

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t taken the time to check the
profile or anything like that. But very

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soon I realized it wasn' t
her, since she asked me if the

416
00:32:01.799 --> 00:32:07.079
taxi was unemployed. I replied kindly
that I did not. She didn'

417
00:32:07.160 --> 00:32:12.400
t look threatening or anything like that, so I just told her she was

418
00:32:12.480 --> 00:32:17.200
away and I thought that would be
the whole conversation. She looked different ways

419
00:32:17.240 --> 00:32:22.559
and told me if I could take
her home. I smiled kindly and told

420
00:32:22.640 --> 00:32:28.119
him I couldn' t because the
taxi was already reserved for someone else and

421
00:32:28.160 --> 00:32:30.559
that it would arrive in a few
minutes. But she insisted, so thinking

422
00:32:30.640 --> 00:32:36.079
that maybe there was no other taxi
service and that she felt confident precisely because

423
00:32:36.240 --> 00:32:42.599
I was a woman. I asked
him nicely where his house was, as

424
00:32:42.680 --> 00:32:45.599
they might as well share a taxi. She gave me the location almost immediately

425
00:32:45.640 --> 00:32:51.039
and I assumed it was one of
these thieves we had been dealing with,

426
00:32:51.480 --> 00:32:53.319
as the area where she told me
she was home was too dangerous a neighborhood.

427
00:32:57.599 --> 00:33:00.319
I knew I couldn' t risk
something like that and so I told

428
00:33:00.359 --> 00:33:05.960
her I couldn' t do it, but she insisted and told me I

429
00:33:06.039 --> 00:33:08.680
really needed to get home. I
told her I was sorry I couldn'

430
00:33:09.160 --> 00:33:13.839
t help her, although at the
same time I was also a little sorry

431
00:33:14.319 --> 00:33:19.079
to be doing that, because it
might well be all my assumptions, although

432
00:33:19.119 --> 00:33:24.160
the truth was tied up on that
subject. We were exchanging words. She

433
00:33:24.279 --> 00:33:29.480
was trying to convince me, telling
me she' d pay me twice as

434
00:33:29.480 --> 00:33:31.920
much and that kind of thing,
but I stood firm and didn' t

435
00:33:31.920 --> 00:33:36.759
let her get in the cab.
A short time later the real girl who

436
00:33:36.799 --> 00:33:42.039
ordered the taxi arrived and I thought
that would be all. That girl looked

437
00:33:42.039 --> 00:33:45.599
at the one who had asked for
the taxi and told her that they could

438
00:33:45.039 --> 00:33:50.279
share it, since she needed to
get home. That girl turned to see

439
00:33:50.279 --> 00:33:53.960
me and I just exchanged eyes with
her. I was trying to tell her

440
00:33:54.000 --> 00:33:58.880
with my eyes that it didn'
t give me a good spine and for

441
00:33:58.920 --> 00:34:01.400
my luck it worked, as that
girl looked at her and told her that

442
00:34:01.559 --> 00:34:04.880
the truth is that she didn'
t feel comfortable doing that and then afterwards.

443
00:34:05.319 --> 00:34:08.800
He got in the cab and we
both went on the road. We

444
00:34:08.920 --> 00:34:14.599
had a conversation about how she hadn' t given me a good spin and

445
00:34:14.639 --> 00:34:21.159
what we had been suffering from some
taxi drivers for that kind of people and

446
00:34:21.320 --> 00:34:25.239
even she told me that she had
also felt something like some kind of weird

447
00:34:25.360 --> 00:34:30.119
vibe from that girl. And after
that I left her at her destination and

448
00:34:30.199 --> 00:34:32.760
went back to my base. But
just as I was passing by the same

449
00:34:32.840 --> 00:34:37.800
place where I had picked it up, I saw it again was standing there.

450
00:34:37.400 --> 00:34:43.559
She seemed kind of alone and worried. For a moment seriously, I

451
00:34:43.599 --> 00:34:47.400
considered stopping and taking her to where
she was asking me. I remembered everything

452
00:34:47.400 --> 00:34:51.800
that had been going on, so
I didn' t. I thought if

453
00:34:51.920 --> 00:34:57.960
I was really as desperate as I
was told moments ago, then I would

454
00:34:58.039 --> 00:35:00.840
have gotten another cab driver by now. She would have moved from there to

455
00:35:00.960 --> 00:35:06.800
find another way to go home,
but she was still there, which made

456
00:35:06.840 --> 00:35:10.719
me think she might well be waiting
for any other taxi driver to accomplish her

457
00:35:10.719 --> 00:35:15.719
task. So I kept my eye
on the front when I passed right next

458
00:35:15.000 --> 00:35:17.639
to her to make it look like
I hadn' t seen her. Although

459
00:35:17.679 --> 00:35:23.000
I still felt clearly as she was
looking at me. I think it was

460
00:35:23.079 --> 00:35:27.639
a few miles away before I finally
got to my base. When all of

461
00:35:27.800 --> 00:35:30.320
a sudden I started feeling something strange
in the cab. It was as if

462
00:35:30.400 --> 00:35:35.440
the temperature was dropping from one moment
to the next. It was so fast

463
00:35:35.639 --> 00:35:40.239
that I couldn' t help but
notice it and it even gave me the

464
00:35:40.320 --> 00:35:43.760
chills and my breath started to come
out steamy due to the sudden cold.

465
00:35:45.159 --> 00:35:49.760
I was looking out, but out
of the cab. Everything seemed perfectly normal,

466
00:35:50.239 --> 00:35:54.000
so I decided to take a moment
to look for a jacket that I

467
00:35:54.039 --> 00:35:59.920
always kept in the back for any
emergency. I parked the cab on the

468
00:36:00.079 --> 00:36:02.440
side of the road to do this. As soon as my hand was in

469
00:36:02.480 --> 00:36:08.079
the back looking through the hoodie,
I felt something horrible. A very cold

470
00:36:08.159 --> 00:36:13.000
hand squeezed my arm and pulled me
so hard that it hurt me I screamed

471
00:36:13.119 --> 00:36:19.760
thinking that someone might have hidden in
the bottom of the cab. I managed

472
00:36:20.199 --> 00:36:22.079
to free myself and get out.
From there I realized that the taxi was

473
00:36:22.199 --> 00:36:29.639
completely empty I couldn' t explain
what was going on and after a few

474
00:36:29.880 --> 00:36:34.440
minutes where I could calm down,
I thought maybe I was probably scared myself.

475
00:36:36.360 --> 00:36:38.840
Maybe my arm had stuck with the
mesh that was in the back seat

476
00:36:38.920 --> 00:36:45.199
and my brain had done the rest. So, feeling like a real fool,

477
00:36:45.639 --> 00:36:51.280
I got back in the cab and
kept driving until I got to the

478
00:36:51.320 --> 00:36:55.480
station and remember once there I told
my classmates what had happened to that strange

479
00:36:55.519 --> 00:37:04.199
woman and how I thought I'
d dodged one of those situations. They

480
00:37:04.280 --> 00:37:08.880
agreed with me that he looked too
suspicious and after that I set out to

481
00:37:08.920 --> 00:37:15.719
clean the taxi. I was vacuuming
the armchairs when suddenly I felt a strong

482
00:37:15.800 --> 00:37:21.960
chill run my back. I couldn' t help but turn towards the rearview

483
00:37:22.039 --> 00:37:25.920
mirror and there I was was that
girl who asked me to get in the

484
00:37:27.000 --> 00:37:30.559
taxi to take her home. I
was sitting in the back seats staring at

485
00:37:31.440 --> 00:37:36.320
me scared I came out of the
cab screaming. This alerted my colleagues,

486
00:37:37.039 --> 00:37:40.840
who ran to help me, but
after hearing what I had to tell them

487
00:37:40.920 --> 00:37:46.519
and checking the taxi, they realized
that there was no one there. They

488
00:37:46.599 --> 00:37:52.840
tried to reassure me by telling me
that I might have seen something wrong or

489
00:37:52.840 --> 00:37:55.199
had been a reflection. No one
could take from my head what I had

490
00:37:55.199 --> 00:38:00.840
seen. I remember well, that
at that time things stayed, I was

491
00:38:00.920 --> 00:38:05.079
born and went home. I think
it was like two days before that girl

492
00:38:05.159 --> 00:38:09.280
started showing up in all my roommates' cabs. Everything was very rare,

493
00:38:09.760 --> 00:38:15.199
as when someone requested taxi services and
we were going to pick them up.

494
00:38:15.360 --> 00:38:20.480
The person claimed that we never arrived
and that he had only seen a taxi

495
00:38:20.960 --> 00:38:24.000
there, but as they approached they
had realized that he was already occupied by

496
00:38:24.760 --> 00:38:30.840
someone, not only that, but
he also appeared in our station wandering and

497
00:38:30.840 --> 00:38:36.159
crying. And in fact, one
of my colleagues reported that on one occasion,

498
00:38:36.599 --> 00:38:40.679
while she was cleaning her taxi,
she heard a girl crying and asking

499
00:38:40.760 --> 00:38:45.719
her again and again if she could
take her home, as she had to

500
00:38:45.840 --> 00:38:51.280
arrive or her brother was going to
worry a lot. None of us had

501
00:38:51.360 --> 00:38:54.599
anything to do about it, until
the mother of one of my companions suggested

502
00:38:55.000 --> 00:39:00.719
that it was best to perform a
mass in honor of that girl who believed

503
00:39:00.800 --> 00:39:04.719
that she could be a soul in
sorrow, who refused to accept that she

504
00:39:04.840 --> 00:39:07.440
had died. So that' s
what we did and even though we didn

505
00:39:07.480 --> 00:39:13.599
' t know exactly his name,
we went to the place where he remembered

506
00:39:13.719 --> 00:39:19.039
seeing her for the first time and
made some prayers for his soul, trying

507
00:39:19.079 --> 00:39:22.599
to tell him that he no longer
belonged to this world and that he should

508
00:39:22.599 --> 00:39:25.159
rest in peace. After that we
did a Mass in his honor and,

509
00:39:25.199 --> 00:39:30.199
for our fortune, the truth was
no longer presented with any of us.

510
00:39:30.360 --> 00:39:35.679
I am very grateful for that,
although very often I cannot help but think

511
00:39:35.760 --> 00:39:40.039
that poor girl had a horrible death
and the only thing her spirit wanted was

512
00:39:40.079 --> 00:39:51.199
to come home one last time.
He wasn' t God' s help.

513
00:39:52.760 --> 00:39:58.960
My name is Lucia Fernanda and when
I was nineteen, something happened to

514
00:39:59.000 --> 00:40:02.159
me that has left a mark on
me to this day because I can'

515
00:40:02.320 --> 00:40:07.639
t understand what happened or at least
why. Something like that had to happen

516
00:40:07.719 --> 00:40:12.320
to me. Back then I was
a person who loved to live life to

517
00:40:12.440 --> 00:40:16.519
the fullest. The parties, the
bars, the concerts, any place where

518
00:40:16.599 --> 00:40:22.000
there was a chance to have a
good time was like my second home.

519
00:40:22.519 --> 00:40:27.239
I thought there was only one life
and I had to live it to the

520
00:40:27.280 --> 00:40:30.119
fullest always, although at the time
I had a job, I always had

521
00:40:30.119 --> 00:40:34.360
time for the holidays. And when
I found out that my favorite group would

522
00:40:34.440 --> 00:40:38.280
go to Mexico City, I was
very excited. I put together as much

523
00:40:38.360 --> 00:40:42.440
money as possible so I could go
see them. I know perfectly well that,

524
00:40:42.719 --> 00:40:46.880
while there are inexplicable things in this
world, I remember well that on

525
00:40:46.960 --> 00:40:52.599
the very day of the concert,
I was already fully ready since I opened

526
00:40:52.599 --> 00:40:55.639
my eyes in the morning. As
the hours began to pass, each of

527
00:40:55.679 --> 00:41:01.880
my friends began to cancel their excuses
to claim to be fully valid. I

528
00:41:01.960 --> 00:41:07.079
was pretty upset because it was just
me and I felt like I couldn'

529
00:41:07.119 --> 00:41:10.960
t go to that concert alone.
After spending practically all day trying to beg

530
00:41:12.039 --> 00:41:16.519
my friends so they could go with
me and not get it, I gathered

531
00:41:16.559 --> 00:41:22.000
the courage and decided to go alone, because I thought that with my sparkling

532
00:41:22.079 --> 00:41:27.480
personality I would have no problem mixing
with some group of people that was already

533
00:41:27.559 --> 00:41:31.039
there I could even get some company
or something like that. I must say

534
00:41:31.079 --> 00:41:37.239
that at that age I was a
very reckless person and often did not measure

535
00:41:37.280 --> 00:41:40.559
the danger completely. I remember I
got to the concert, I was alone

536
00:41:40.559 --> 00:41:45.639
for a while until I eventually got
along with a group of friends that was

537
00:41:45.639 --> 00:41:49.719
nearby. They accepted me and,
in fact, the whole concert was quite

538
00:41:49.800 --> 00:41:55.079
wonderful. I was having an amazing
time until the end of it came and

539
00:41:55.119 --> 00:42:00.079
as soon as it ended, they
started saying that they weren' t tired

540
00:42:00.119 --> 00:42:04.639
yet and that we could go to
follow the party elsewhere. Likewise, I

541
00:42:04.679 --> 00:42:07.840
was invited to see if I wanted
to go with them. I accepted and

542
00:42:07.840 --> 00:42:13.400
we left. It was to be
moving from one place to another drinking alcohol

543
00:42:13.519 --> 00:42:16.760
and having a good time, it
should be noted that I was not Ebria,

544
00:42:16.920 --> 00:42:22.480
since, despite my young age,
I had already developed a very good

545
00:42:22.039 --> 00:42:25.679
resistance to alcohol and by the time
it was finally over, it was around

546
00:42:25.760 --> 00:42:30.280
five in the morning, so I
had to find a way to return to

547
00:42:30.360 --> 00:42:35.039
my house, since I had work
within a few hours and although I tried

548
00:42:35.079 --> 00:42:37.960
to get someone to take me,
I did not get it and as it

549
00:42:38.000 --> 00:42:40.159
seemed that it was not long before
dawn. The most logical thing that occurred

550
00:42:40.239 --> 00:42:45.000
to me at the time was walking
straight to find a bus station, which

551
00:42:45.000 --> 00:42:51.039
I was told I could return.
So I did, and although at first

552
00:42:51.119 --> 00:42:54.960
I was quite determined, the truth
is that after about ten minutes I was

553
00:42:55.039 --> 00:43:00.559
very sorry. The road was too
lonely and at dawn, it looked too

554
00:43:00.800 --> 00:43:07.079
dangerous. I wasn' t afraid
of ghosts or appearances. I' ve

555
00:43:07.119 --> 00:43:13.800
never considered myself a true believer in
those issues. I have always said that

556
00:43:13.800 --> 00:43:17.280
we must be more afraid of the
living than of the dead, although whenever

557
00:43:17.320 --> 00:43:22.519
I said this, I mentioned that
I respected the beliefs of everyone without mentioning

558
00:43:22.559 --> 00:43:27.400
that I believed in God, perhaps
not in a God as religion paints it,

559
00:43:27.599 --> 00:43:31.079
but I did feel that there was
something bigger than us that occasionally took

560
00:43:31.119 --> 00:43:35.599
care of us, so I remember
that night, having no one else to

561
00:43:35.639 --> 00:43:38.840
turn to, the only thing that
occurred to me at that time was to

562
00:43:39.119 --> 00:43:46.039
start talking to him. I didn' t say any prayers or anything specific

563
00:43:46.079 --> 00:43:51.880
it was like I just knew I
was talking to him and even though I

564
00:43:51.880 --> 00:43:54.239
don' t remember exactly what I
said to him, I know it was

565
00:43:54.320 --> 00:43:59.400
something like at the time I really
needed his help and I needed to get

566
00:43:59.400 --> 00:44:02.760
back home safely. It seems to
me that I kept walking around another five

567
00:44:02.840 --> 00:44:07.880
minutes when suddenly a car was heard, and not only that, but before

568
00:44:07.119 --> 00:44:14.679
I could turn around, it was
already parked right next to me. I

569
00:44:14.760 --> 00:44:17.880
quickly noticed that it was a taxi
and that the one driving it was a

570
00:44:17.880 --> 00:44:23.239
woman. It looked very clean and
with very nice wavy hair. He didn

571
00:44:23.360 --> 00:44:28.199
' t seem to have makeup.
Her skin was beautiful by nature. He

572
00:44:28.239 --> 00:44:31.320
looked a little young, maybe not
the guy who would drive a cab.

573
00:44:31.920 --> 00:44:37.760
She lowered the window of the car
and worried asked me what I was doing

574
00:44:37.840 --> 00:44:42.079
on such an empty road at night. I told her about the concert and

575
00:44:42.119 --> 00:44:45.800
the party we had after and I
also told her that I had to get

576
00:44:45.840 --> 00:44:50.599
to my job and when I saw
it was a taxi, I asked her

577
00:44:50.639 --> 00:44:53.440
if she could take me and I
would pay her whatever she said she would

578
00:44:53.519 --> 00:44:59.039
never forgive me if I left a
girl in the middle of the road and

579
00:44:59.519 --> 00:45:04.559
she would take me wherever I wanted. This made me very happy, so

580
00:45:04.559 --> 00:45:08.440
without thinking twice I got in the
taxi and once inside I was invaded by

581
00:45:08.480 --> 00:45:13.599
a strong aroma of Hilas, which
made me very pleasant and at the same

582
00:45:13.679 --> 00:45:17.440
time relaxing. I really felt like
I had won the lottery for having been

583
00:45:17.519 --> 00:45:23.639
so lucky that that kind woman had
found me. He even offered me some

584
00:45:23.679 --> 00:45:29.679
water. I didn' t accept
it because by that time I felt like

585
00:45:29.719 --> 00:45:34.679
anything was ingesting or drinking and I
really didn' t want to do that

586
00:45:34.760 --> 00:45:38.239
kind of rudeness to that nice woman, so all I did was refuse and

587
00:45:38.320 --> 00:45:43.519
settle for the long journey ahead of
us, once we had been driving for

588
00:45:44.159 --> 00:45:51.000
about ten minutes. She started talking
to me, although I would have liked

589
00:45:51.079 --> 00:45:55.760
to sleep for a moment to arrive
when suddenly a thought invaded my mind.

590
00:45:57.880 --> 00:46:00.800
The first was what my mother told
me and it was what had prompted me

591
00:46:00.880 --> 00:46:06.400
to talk to what I called God. At that moment. My mother always

592
00:46:06.480 --> 00:46:09.400
told me that when you were in
serious trouble and asked God for help,

593
00:46:09.920 --> 00:46:15.000
then he would answer you by helping
you in the best way, giving you

594
00:46:15.079 --> 00:46:19.199
the tools so that you could solve
it. What my grandmother said was a

595
00:46:19.239 --> 00:46:23.119
little different. My grandmother told me
that while God would listen to you,

596
00:46:23.599 --> 00:46:30.559
the reality was that sometimes evil could
respond. First, I remember once,

597
00:46:30.800 --> 00:46:35.599
after my mother told me that,
my grandmother quickly completed it by telling me

598
00:46:35.639 --> 00:46:39.079
that while that might be real,
if the first offer they gave me to

599
00:46:39.119 --> 00:46:45.599
solve my problem was too good to
be true, then that meant that God

600
00:46:45.679 --> 00:46:50.719
really wasn' t the one who
had listened to me and that what I

601
00:46:50.760 --> 00:46:55.599
had responded to my call was nothing
but evil. Taking advantage of my situation

602
00:46:55.679 --> 00:47:00.239
and if it was entirely realistic,
the reality, that is, everything that

603
00:47:00.280 --> 00:47:05.360
had been happening to me so far
was too good to be true. I

604
00:47:05.400 --> 00:47:10.079
thought the situation was too good to
be true. A very pretty female taxi

605
00:47:10.079 --> 00:47:15.840
driver, alone late at night,
came just for me. This started to

606
00:47:15.920 --> 00:47:21.400
make me worried and a little nervous. I tried to ignore these feelings because

607
00:47:21.480 --> 00:47:24.199
that woman didn' t seem to
be evil. I thought I was just

608
00:47:24.280 --> 00:47:30.400
being suggested by something my grandmother had
told me, so I decided to ignore

609
00:47:30.440 --> 00:47:34.000
it and I don' t know
to date if that was some kind of

610
00:47:34.000 --> 00:47:37.320
trigger. I started to notice a
couple of things. The first was that

611
00:47:37.400 --> 00:47:42.480
the conversation with this woman was becoming
a little more twisted and I would dare

612
00:47:42.519 --> 00:47:47.360
say strange. He started talking to
me about eating meat that wasn' t

613
00:47:47.360 --> 00:47:52.079
exactly animal meat. I' m
not sure I can say it openly on

614
00:47:52.639 --> 00:47:54.239
this platform, so I' ll
just say it that way. I guess

615
00:47:54.320 --> 00:47:59.000
you all know what I mean,
and not only that, but the more

616
00:47:59.079 --> 00:48:01.719
she talked about it, the more
I realized that the car no longer smelled

617
00:48:01.800 --> 00:48:07.559
like it used to, but quite
the opposite. Now it seemed to smell

618
00:48:07.599 --> 00:48:12.559
decomposing meat and something inside me told
me it wasn' t exactly animal.

619
00:48:13.760 --> 00:48:17.119
I was getting more and more nervous, thinking about the terrible mistake I had

620
00:48:17.280 --> 00:48:22.639
made when I got into the car
of a total stranger. I really thought

621
00:48:22.800 --> 00:48:28.280
that would be my last day.
I remember that at some point I even

622
00:48:28.280 --> 00:48:31.320
heard as if someone hit the back
of the trunk, I tried to ignore

623
00:48:31.360 --> 00:48:35.880
it, because I believed that if
she realized that I heard it, then

624
00:48:36.000 --> 00:48:42.719
I would go in the back.
I was also trying to find a way

625
00:48:42.760 --> 00:48:45.079
out of there, when she suddenly
told me that if I wanted everything in

626
00:48:45.239 --> 00:48:50.880
this world I could be mine all
I wanted, I just had to stop

627
00:48:50.920 --> 00:48:55.280
being afraid of power. But at
that moment I was so scared that as

628
00:48:55.320 --> 00:49:00.679
for that woman, I stroked my
terrified arm and without measure the danger,

629
00:49:00.320 --> 00:49:05.800
opened the door of that taxi and
ventured several meters on the asphalt that,

630
00:49:06.400 --> 00:49:09.760
for my fortune, although I scraped
myself, the wounds were not so serious.

631
00:49:09.920 --> 00:49:14.079
But that wasn' t the scariest
thing, but, at the time

632
00:49:14.159 --> 00:49:20.119
of raising my gaze, I realized
that the taxi had disappeared. It had

633
00:49:20.159 --> 00:49:22.760
been very short the time I fell
and looked up so that I would have

634
00:49:22.800 --> 00:49:30.000
disappeared on a straight road. It
wasn' t there anymore It was like

635
00:49:30.000 --> 00:49:34.159
it evaporated. I remember, as
I could, I got up and kept

636
00:49:34.280 --> 00:49:38.239
walking and about five minutes later,
another car came up to me and it

637
00:49:38.239 --> 00:49:42.320
was a patrol. It was a
group of four cops. One of those

638
00:49:42.400 --> 00:49:45.880
four was a woman. I told
them my situation a little bit and they

639
00:49:45.960 --> 00:49:51.280
helped me take me home. The
truth is that if that woman didn'

640
00:49:51.360 --> 00:49:54.400
t go with those three cops or
joke, she would encourage me to get

641
00:49:54.400 --> 00:49:59.360
on the patrol. I was already
too scared, but she was calming me

642
00:49:59.599 --> 00:50:04.800
down the road. Whenever I tell
this story, people don' t believe

643
00:50:04.840 --> 00:50:08.079
me, but I know what I
saw that night and I' m absolutely

644
00:50:08.199 --> 00:50:22.840
sure it was real a strange passenger. I' d like to tell a

645
00:50:22.880 --> 00:50:25.159
story that I think about very often, as I' m not so sure

646
00:50:25.239 --> 00:50:30.599
it was some ghost or appeared.
My name is Fernando and I' ve

647
00:50:30.719 --> 00:50:37.039
been working as a taxi driver basically
since I was old enough to do it

648
00:50:37.079 --> 00:50:40.840
over all my years working as a
taxi driver, clearly I' ve come

649
00:50:40.840 --> 00:50:44.800
across a lot of strange things.
You already know people who don' t

650
00:50:44.880 --> 00:50:50.280
know how to interact well or behave
in society or who are just rude to

651
00:50:50.320 --> 00:50:53.519
be paying a service regardless of the
situation they faced with any of these people.

652
00:50:54.519 --> 00:51:00.119
I was always sure of something they
were human. On one occasion,

653
00:51:00.639 --> 00:51:05.000
the person who boarded my taxi was
someone who I am not really convinced was

654
00:51:05.119 --> 00:51:10.559
a human being like you or me. It all started one night, it

655
00:51:10.639 --> 00:51:15.400
was about ten o' clock and
I was parked in my designated place.

656
00:51:15.960 --> 00:51:21.320
I had put on the sign that
the taxi was unemployed and basically just expected

657
00:51:21.360 --> 00:51:24.840
some customer to arrive, although I
was already getting some sleep and was seriously

658
00:51:24.960 --> 00:51:31.320
considering going home. While I was
in the car answering a crossword puzzle to

659
00:51:31.400 --> 00:51:36.480
keep me a little awake. I
heard someone start banging my window lightly.

660
00:51:37.800 --> 00:51:42.599
I turned a little startled because I
had not heard steps or even felt.

661
00:51:43.320 --> 00:51:47.079
His presence. It was like he
just came out of nowhere. I was

662
00:51:47.119 --> 00:51:52.880
too attentive to see if anyone was
interested in boarding the taxi, but for

663
00:51:52.920 --> 00:51:58.840
some strange reason I hadn' t
seen that man come anywhere. Still,

664
00:51:59.039 --> 00:52:01.719
I lowered the window and asked him
where he was going. He stood for

665
00:52:01.760 --> 00:52:07.760
a moment staring at me and there
was something in his gaze and face that

666
00:52:07.800 --> 00:52:10.559
troubled me. I didn' t
know exactly what it was. This man

667
00:52:10.639 --> 00:52:16.119
was very ordinary, had no imperfection
or wrinkle at all. Her lips were

668
00:52:16.119 --> 00:52:21.119
too perfect, just like the shape
of her nose. What was a little

669
00:52:21.199 --> 00:52:24.559
different was his look and I couldn' t see this man blinking just staring

670
00:52:24.639 --> 00:52:31.719
at me. I asked him where
he was going again. Trying to sound

671
00:52:31.840 --> 00:52:37.519
quite normal and casual about it,
as if his appearance didn' t intimidate

672
00:52:37.639 --> 00:52:42.960
me at all he kept seeing me
for a few more seconds and after that

673
00:52:42.960 --> 00:52:45.599
he answered me, but it wasn' t an answer as such. Rather

674
00:52:45.679 --> 00:52:50.519
he said exactly what I had said. I could only cast a look of

675
00:52:50.760 --> 00:52:53.679
confusion so I had responded and almost
immediately corrected it and told me that I

676
00:52:53.760 --> 00:52:57.880
was going to the angel of independence. But the way he said it was

677
00:52:57.920 --> 00:53:01.679
strange, as I could see that
he used exactly the same tone of voice.

678
00:53:02.119 --> 00:53:07.400
Even though that gave me a little
distrust. I didn' t really

679
00:53:07.480 --> 00:53:10.960
have a real reason to refuse the
trip, only that the guy looked strange,

680
00:53:12.079 --> 00:53:15.079
although, to be honest, his
complexion was pretty weak, it was

681
00:53:15.119 --> 00:53:20.079
very thin and it wasn' t
very high, so I thought if I

682
00:53:20.119 --> 00:53:22.920
tried to do anything easily I could
subject it. So, trying to ignore

683
00:53:23.000 --> 00:53:28.400
the whole situation before, I told
him that he was fine and that he

684
00:53:28.400 --> 00:53:30.480
would come up. He looked at
me for a moment as if he didn

685
00:53:30.519 --> 00:53:34.880
' t know what to do,
so, a little strange, I told

686
00:53:34.920 --> 00:53:37.320
him to open the door, but
still, he stared at me. He

687
00:53:37.400 --> 00:53:43.679
was already a little confused about this
situation, I turned from my seat and

688
00:53:43.840 --> 00:53:47.039
opened the door for him to enter
and he did so and just the moment

689
00:53:47.360 --> 00:53:52.920
he came in, I realized that
I had something else with him. I

690
00:53:52.960 --> 00:53:54.920
noticed something in my hand, but
I didn' t see it well.

691
00:53:55.519 --> 00:54:00.280
I thought it was a briefcase or
something. As I went up I realized

692
00:54:00.320 --> 00:54:06.280
that it was a transporter box and
inside it there seemed to be a cat

693
00:54:06.719 --> 00:54:12.159
although even inside that transporter, which
was of considerable size, that cat looked

694
00:54:12.239 --> 00:54:16.559
too big. I think if someone
carried him, he could easily go through

695
00:54:16.639 --> 00:54:22.360
a baby just over a year old. It was orange in color and it

696
00:54:22.400 --> 00:54:27.039
was darkened and had large green eyes. That man' s way of sitting

697
00:54:27.119 --> 00:54:31.559
was also very strange. He was
like straight, with his legs completely together

698
00:54:31.599 --> 00:54:36.599
and his hands on his lap.
I don' t know, it just

699
00:54:36.639 --> 00:54:40.440
wasn' t the way someone would
usually sit down, though it wasn'

700
00:54:40.480 --> 00:54:44.480
t such a strange posture either,
so I didn' t give it much

701
00:54:44.480 --> 00:54:49.360
importance either. I guess by that
time I was just seeing the weirdness of

702
00:54:49.440 --> 00:54:53.559
that man. I started driving by
looking from time to time through the rearview

703
00:54:53.639 --> 00:54:58.239
mirror to make sure that strange man
didn' t try to do anything.

704
00:54:58.599 --> 00:55:02.840
As I said before, I acted
in a strange way and thought maybe I

705
00:55:02.880 --> 00:55:07.719
could have some plan. I wanted
to be ready for anything. I think

706
00:55:07.760 --> 00:55:13.239
we were already halfway there and everything
was in total silence. The cat was

707
00:55:13.280 --> 00:55:17.079
lying also staring at me, just
like the man, and that was causing

708
00:55:17.119 --> 00:55:22.840
me a lot of discomfort. I
didn' t know how to deal with

709
00:55:22.079 --> 00:55:24.320
it, so I decided to try
to talk to him. The guy.

710
00:55:24.880 --> 00:55:29.719
I asked him what he was going
to do to the angel, but he

711
00:55:29.760 --> 00:55:32.679
just kept looking at me. I
tried to joke with him asking him if

712
00:55:32.719 --> 00:55:37.880
he was going to see his girlfriend, but he didn' t answer me

713
00:55:37.960 --> 00:55:43.559
either, so I was quiet again, although a couple of seconds later I

714
00:55:43.599 --> 00:55:46.119
heard the cat mauled but, like
that guy, he didn' t do

715
00:55:46.119 --> 00:55:52.119
it in a normal way, it
wasn' t so loud and it seemed

716
00:55:52.119 --> 00:55:53.079
more like he whispered his mauling.
It was almost as if he wanted only

717
00:55:53.159 --> 00:55:59.159
that man to hear it and in
fact, he turned quickly towards the cage

718
00:55:59.239 --> 00:56:05.320
and the cat mauled again very low. He listened carefully. It was almost

719
00:56:05.360 --> 00:56:09.440
as if he was saying something to
her and after that he turned his attention

720
00:56:09.480 --> 00:56:13.960
to me and almost yelled at me, he told me that he would not

721
00:56:13.960 --> 00:56:15.559
go to see anyone in particular.
This puzzled me so much that I even

722
00:56:15.639 --> 00:56:21.920
gave a slight flounce because of how
loud he spoke, although I quickly regained

723
00:56:21.960 --> 00:56:25.280
control and apologized. I told him
I was scared and he quickly looked back

724
00:56:25.320 --> 00:56:30.280
at the cat. Which scared me
again, though this time in a more

725
00:56:30.320 --> 00:56:35.000
normal way. And after that I
swear on my children' s lives that

726
00:56:35.119 --> 00:56:38.840
I saw him shake his head almost
like he was disappointed. After that,

727
00:56:39.280 --> 00:56:44.320
the man turned his gaze forward and
told me, with a calmer tone of

728
00:56:44.360 --> 00:56:47.159
voice, that he had no girlfriend, but that he wanted to go to

729
00:56:47.280 --> 00:56:52.760
the angel to walk, like any
normal person, although by that moment I

730
00:56:52.800 --> 00:56:57.880
was already quite upset. I remember
even putting the speed to leave it in

731
00:56:58.000 --> 00:57:01.440
the angel as fast as possible and
that all that experience was left behind.

732
00:57:01.480 --> 00:57:06.840
But by that time he looked more
nervous. It was as if everything we

733
00:57:06.880 --> 00:57:12.400
had talked about a moment ago left
him rather stunned. He probably thought I

734
00:57:12.480 --> 00:57:15.400
realized how unusual it was, and
I guess that made him that nervous.

735
00:57:19.280 --> 00:57:22.920
I looked everywhere as if I wanted
to get out of the car, trying

736
00:57:22.960 --> 00:57:27.280
to lighten the atmosphere, both for
him and for me. I tried to

737
00:57:27.360 --> 00:57:30.920
joke about it, telling him to
calm down, that nothing was happening,

738
00:57:31.599 --> 00:57:37.719
and I even remember that for a
moment I came to think that maybe that

739
00:57:37.840 --> 00:57:40.239
man was drunk or under some effect, of some substance. That could be

740
00:57:40.320 --> 00:57:45.400
a logical explanation why he was acting
so strange and that, in fact,

741
00:57:45.760 --> 00:57:50.239
was reassuring me, although after I
told him that, he started to answer

742
00:57:50.280 --> 00:57:54.920
me. That man quickly looked back
at his cat, who turned his eyes

743
00:57:54.960 --> 00:58:00.719
as if he was sick of this
whole situation. I think by that time

744
00:58:00.199 --> 00:58:04.840
the animal was much more afraid of
me than the man himself, as that

745
00:58:04.960 --> 00:58:09.760
animal looked too conscious. It was
like I was as smart as a person.

746
00:58:12.000 --> 00:58:15.599
He turned around and laughed, but
it was stranger than everything I'

747
00:58:15.599 --> 00:58:19.679
ve ever told. I don'
t know, it' s hard for

748
00:58:19.800 --> 00:58:21.519
me to describe it, because I' ve never heard anything like it.

749
00:58:21.719 --> 00:58:24.039
Actually, I guess it was a
laugh, because what I threw was a

750
00:58:24.119 --> 00:58:29.199
joke. But to tell you the
truth, I couldn' t be 100

751
00:58:29.400 --> 00:58:32.760
% sure that was an attempt to
laugh. It was like someone laughed using

752
00:58:32.960 --> 00:58:39.440
only the throat, if that makes
some kind of sense. We finally got

753
00:58:39.519 --> 00:58:44.400
to the Angel. I braked in
the first available place and told him that

754
00:58:44.400 --> 00:58:47.159
we had already arrived to get him
down, but still, he sat there.

755
00:58:49.119 --> 00:58:52.719
One moment I told him again that
everything was all right and that I

756
00:58:52.800 --> 00:58:57.159
could come down, but he wasn' t doing it and I was already

757
00:58:57.199 --> 00:59:00.639
beginning to despair, so I told
him a little more serious that we had

758
00:59:00.760 --> 00:59:06.360
already arrived and that I had to
go pick up more customers. At that

759
00:59:06.480 --> 00:59:09.440
time he was, in fact,
so committed to getting him down that he

760
00:59:09.559 --> 00:59:14.079
hadn' t even told him the
fare or anything. I didn' t

761
00:59:14.079 --> 00:59:16.559
care about that. I just wanted
him out of my cab. The man

762
00:59:16.800 --> 00:59:22.079
looked back at his cat and then
looked at me asking how much he was

763
00:59:22.159 --> 00:59:28.400
going to do, and I looked
at the meter I told him the amount,

764
00:59:28.519 --> 00:59:31.960
but he just stared at me as
if he didn' t understand wanting

765
00:59:32.280 --> 00:59:35.199
all that to end, I told
him that that was okay and that he

766
00:59:35.199 --> 00:59:37.920
paid. Then, when he opened
the door, he got off with the

767
00:59:38.039 --> 00:59:43.320
cat and though I thought that would
be all, he walked towards my window,

768
00:59:43.719 --> 00:59:47.199
he threw money at me and then
he left and at that moment I

769
00:59:47.199 --> 00:59:50.960
just tore up and left. But
once at the station, being a little

770
00:59:51.079 --> 00:59:53.599
quieter, I could see that the
amount of money he left me was extremely

771
00:59:53.639 --> 01:00:00.840
high. I don' t know
why he did it, but it was

772
01:00:00.960 --> 01:00:04.320
more than triple I never saw that
man again and I really hope I never

773
01:00:04.320 --> 01:00:17.360
see him again. Last wish.
My name is Augustine. I am now

774
01:00:17.400 --> 01:00:23.039
forty- six years old and about
twenty- five years ago something happened to

775
01:00:23.119 --> 01:00:28.360
me that torments me too much to
this day. I' d dare say

776
01:00:28.400 --> 01:00:32.280
it' s something that totally changed
my perspective on how the world moves or

777
01:00:32.280 --> 01:00:37.360
what' s real or not.
I must begin by saying that for practically

778
01:00:37.480 --> 01:00:39.920
my entire life I have worked as
a taxi driver and, of course,

779
01:00:40.480 --> 01:00:44.639
that some things have happened to me
that I could not give you such a

780
01:00:44.639 --> 01:00:47.559
logical explanation. I' ve always
believed that if I really started looking very

781
01:00:47.559 --> 01:00:52.800
carefully to go through every detail of
that day, maybe I could give you

782
01:00:52.880 --> 01:00:58.199
some kind of logical explanation. But
what I' m about to tell no

783
01:00:58.280 --> 01:01:02.079
matter where you see it just doesn' t have one and I want to

784
01:01:02.119 --> 01:01:06.480
clarify that this is a very real
thing. That day was about nine o

785
01:01:06.559 --> 01:01:09.679
' clock at night and I was
in my area waiting for some passenger to

786
01:01:09.760 --> 01:01:15.480
arrive that day, I had had
a very bad run, since I had

787
01:01:15.559 --> 01:01:19.559
had very few passengers and the worst
was that it was only my case in

788
01:01:19.559 --> 01:01:23.760
particular, since the rest of my
colleagues had had a lot of work that

789
01:01:23.760 --> 01:01:28.920
day. As proof of this,
it is enough to say that I was

790
01:01:29.079 --> 01:01:31.880
the only taxi in that area,
since everyone had left and having nothing else

791
01:01:32.000 --> 01:01:37.159
to do, then I decided to
clean my taxi. I thought at any

792
01:01:37.280 --> 01:01:42.440
moment some client might arrive and wanted
to receive it in the best way.

793
01:01:43.000 --> 01:01:45.960
When I finally finished cleaning the whole
taxi in a lot of detail, I

794
01:01:46.039 --> 01:01:51.039
realized that probably no one was coming, so I just went back into the

795
01:01:51.119 --> 01:01:55.840
taxi and started reading a book I
had been reading at the time. I

796
01:01:55.880 --> 01:02:00.320
was already very amused with the plot
when, suddenly, someone started hitting my

797
01:02:00.360 --> 01:02:05.960
driver window right where I was and
for obvious reasons, this surprised me so

798
01:02:06.039 --> 01:02:08.719
much that I almost jumped out of
my seat, as it was not common

799
01:02:08.760 --> 01:02:14.719
for someone to do that. He
looked very distressed, he was sweating and

800
01:02:14.800 --> 01:02:17.639
he was derided. At first I
hesitated to open the door or not because

801
01:02:17.639 --> 01:02:23.440
it might well be some kind of
assailant having such a slow day. The

802
01:02:23.480 --> 01:02:28.559
truth is, I didn' t
have much to be robbed of, and

803
01:02:28.599 --> 01:02:30.480
there was a chance that I would
be one of the few clients I would

804
01:02:30.480 --> 01:02:35.119
have that day. So I went
down the window and asked him what he

805
01:02:35.159 --> 01:02:39.760
wanted. He was pretty worried and
almost voiceless about how upset he was.

806
01:02:40.840 --> 01:02:45.440
He told me that his family had
had an accident and that he needed me

807
01:02:45.519 --> 01:02:49.920
to take him to the area to
help them. Truth be told, at

808
01:02:50.000 --> 01:02:53.760
that moment the same man infected me
with his fear. Then I didn'

809
01:02:53.840 --> 01:02:58.159
t even ask him where. And
in fact, whenever I remember right on

810
01:02:58.199 --> 01:03:01.400
this piece, I don' t
remember him opening the door just one moment

811
01:03:01.440 --> 01:03:07.360
to another already sitting in the back
seat. I started and it was a

812
01:03:07.400 --> 01:03:10.960
very strange thing, because it was
almost like I was in some sort of

813
01:03:12.039 --> 01:03:15.960
trance or something like that, because
I was driving without even having that man

814
01:03:15.000 --> 01:03:21.639
tell me exactly where the accident had
been. I remember well that at some

815
01:03:21.760 --> 01:03:25.400
point I did notice this, as
I slightly slowed down and asked him where

816
01:03:25.480 --> 01:03:30.760
we were going, but his answer
was that we were fine and he kept

817
01:03:30.840 --> 01:03:35.159
driving. This got weird, but, like I said before, it was

818
01:03:35.199 --> 01:03:38.000
like I was in a trance and
I kept doing it. It seems to

819
01:03:38.000 --> 01:03:42.639
me that the reason I came out
of that trance was because at some point

820
01:03:42.639 --> 01:03:46.159
I looked through the rearview mirror and
saw something that seemed quite strange to me,

821
01:03:46.519 --> 01:03:51.280
and that man now had blood on
his forehead. It looked like he

822
01:03:51.400 --> 01:03:54.360
' d hit himself. I couldn' t see exactly if it was a

823
01:03:54.360 --> 01:03:58.960
very serious wound, but it was
at least ninety percent. I' m

824
01:03:59.079 --> 01:04:01.159
sure that man didn' t have
any kind of wound. When he got

825
01:04:01.199 --> 01:04:06.719
into my taxi, of course if
he was sweaty and worried, but so

826
01:04:06.880 --> 01:04:12.679
far I remember well I made him
notice asking him if he had crashed into

827
01:04:12.800 --> 01:04:15.280
some sudden movement that I had done
or something like that man. All he

828
01:04:15.320 --> 01:04:20.199
told me was that he didn'
t matter, that what was important was

829
01:04:20.239 --> 01:04:26.159
his family and that he had to
keep driving to help them. At that

830
01:04:26.199 --> 01:04:30.519
point, I was already somewhat more
aware of the whole situation. Everything seemed

831
01:04:30.639 --> 01:04:34.480
to indicate that, when I realized
the wound of that man, I had

832
01:04:34.599 --> 01:04:40.199
also caused that I no longer knew
exactly where to drive. So I looked

833
01:04:40.239 --> 01:04:44.880
through the rearview mirror again and asked
him where, and at that moment I

834
01:04:45.000 --> 01:04:47.760
realized that not only was his head
bleeding, but he also had his lip

835
01:04:47.800 --> 01:04:55.679
broken. That was impossible, but
the most logical thing was to think that

836
01:04:55.719 --> 01:05:00.480
it was like this from the beginning
and for some reason, I hadn'

837
01:05:00.519 --> 01:05:04.239
t noticed it, perhaps because of
all the fuss I had caused because of

838
01:05:04.559 --> 01:05:09.119
the concern that he had put me
in alarm over the state in which his

839
01:05:09.119 --> 01:05:13.079
family could be found. I kept
driving when he told me where, but

840
01:05:13.119 --> 01:05:15.800
still, while I was doing it, I couldn' t get out of

841
01:05:15.840 --> 01:05:18.679
my head that that man wasn'
t hurt. When he got into my

842
01:05:19.159 --> 01:05:25.039
taxi and almost instinctively looked back at
the rearview mirror and now it looked like

843
01:05:25.159 --> 01:05:29.400
he had a cheekbone wound. It
wasn' t serious, but it seemed

844
01:05:29.440 --> 01:05:32.920
like he was too bruised. Just
like the right eye. That man kept

845
01:05:33.000 --> 01:05:39.000
ordering me to stop looking at him
and keep driving to help his family.

846
01:05:39.880 --> 01:05:45.119
It should be noted that during all
this time I assumed that he learned of

847
01:05:45.199 --> 01:05:50.159
the accident that had been called by
the police when he suddenly told me to

848
01:05:50.360 --> 01:05:55.360
stop we were practically in the middle
of a somewhat abandoned road, and it

849
01:05:55.480 --> 01:05:58.280
was not seen that there had been
any accident there, but quite the opposite.

850
01:05:58.480 --> 01:06:02.280
Everything was very quiet and for a
moment I thought that I had been

851
01:06:02.360 --> 01:06:06.280
tricked and that I had been taken
there to storm or worse. That didn

852
01:06:06.280 --> 01:06:12.480
' t explain what I' d
been seeing all along. I turned back

853
01:06:12.519 --> 01:06:15.000
and he was no longer what was
another strange thing, as at no time

854
01:06:15.079 --> 01:06:19.400
did I hear him open or close
the door. I started turning everywhere,

855
01:06:19.800 --> 01:06:25.119
but I couldn' t see anything
or anyone, so a little upset I

856
01:06:25.159 --> 01:06:30.920
got out of the taxi I took
a few steps looking around and when I

857
01:06:30.960 --> 01:06:34.719
started walking slowly towards my taxi to
get out of there, when I had

858
01:06:34.840 --> 01:06:39.639
barely taken just two steps, I
heard the man' s voice. At

859
01:06:39.719 --> 01:06:44.119
first I didn' t see him
just said his family was down there.

860
01:06:44.920 --> 01:06:48.280
He screamed at it in such a
pitiful tone that I could feel every bone

861
01:06:48.360 --> 01:06:54.280
inside me freezing. I turned and
that man was just standing in the protection

862
01:06:54.400 --> 01:06:59.480
fence looking down, so, fearful
I started walking towards the edge of the

863
01:06:59.519 --> 01:07:02.760
race, just to realize that,
in fact, there was a car overturned

864
01:07:02.800 --> 01:07:10.159
to below it. It could hardly
be distinguished, for the large number of

865
01:07:10.320 --> 01:07:15.000
shrubs and bushes covered it almost entirely. At that moment I saw that man

866
01:07:15.639 --> 01:07:20.639
without thinking twice he jumped the protection
fence of the road and began to go

867
01:07:20.719 --> 01:07:27.639
down towards the truck. This was
something I also did practically automatically. I

868
01:07:27.679 --> 01:07:31.800
guess it' s just something people
do without really questioning wanting to help.

869
01:07:32.599 --> 01:07:38.039
I remember I went down to tell
that man that it was best to call

870
01:07:38.119 --> 01:07:43.679
the police to do their job.
I wasn' t even wondering how he

871
01:07:43.679 --> 01:07:46.840
found out. All I wanted at
the time was to help, so I

872
01:07:46.960 --> 01:07:51.119
managed to get down. As soon
as I arrived, I no longer saw

873
01:07:51.199 --> 01:07:56.320
that man anywhere. I even called
him, but he didn' t answer.

874
01:07:56.920 --> 01:08:00.320
It should be noted that, in
the time of this story, telephones

875
01:08:00.719 --> 01:08:03.760
were not as common as they are
today. Of course they already existed,

876
01:08:04.199 --> 01:08:09.360
but it was very rare that someone
had one and the signal was horrible.

877
01:08:09.480 --> 01:08:13.719
Almost everywhere. Personally, I didn' t have one, but believe me,

878
01:08:14.199 --> 01:08:17.840
if I had, it would have
been hard to mark the police or

879
01:08:17.840 --> 01:08:21.439
any emergency service. Being in an
area where there was no telephone signal,

880
01:08:23.319 --> 01:08:27.279
all I could do at the time
was try to see if that man'

881
01:08:27.319 --> 01:08:31.239
s family was okay. So that' s what I did. When I

882
01:08:31.239 --> 01:08:36.439
just started opening the car door to
check, I realized something horrible. In

883
01:08:36.439 --> 01:08:42.760
the back were two children, but
they were no longer alive. I went

884
01:08:42.880 --> 01:08:45.920
to the seats across the street hoping
to find who I was driving still alive.

885
01:08:46.920 --> 01:08:50.880
But to my terror there were two
people in the seats, one on

886
01:08:50.960 --> 01:08:55.880
the driver' s side and the
other on the co- pilot. The

887
01:08:55.920 --> 01:09:00.399
one in the co- pilot'
s seat was a woman, who was

888
01:09:00.479 --> 01:09:03.640
also dead. The worst thing was
to see the driver, who had been

889
01:09:03.720 --> 01:09:09.479
the same man I had taken to
that place. He had exactly the same

890
01:09:09.520 --> 01:09:13.439
wounds that I had seen, the
ones that had begun to form. The

891
01:09:13.560 --> 01:09:17.800
closer we got to the crash site, the more he had died. At

892
01:09:17.840 --> 01:09:23.960
that moment I was so impressed that
my stomach was turned. Honestly, I

893
01:09:24.079 --> 01:09:27.960
remember very soon after that I know
that I went back up and went into

894
01:09:27.960 --> 01:09:31.680
the taxi and drove away from there
to the nearest police station and informed them

895
01:09:31.720 --> 01:09:38.039
about what I had found. After
that they made me give a statement because

896
01:09:38.159 --> 01:09:43.880
they actually found that family dead from
a road accident. I' m not

897
01:09:44.000 --> 01:09:48.079
really sure what happened to them after
that. I like to believe that some

898
01:09:48.199 --> 01:09:54.319
relative of yours claimed the bodies or
something like that. Personally. I never

899
01:09:54.319 --> 01:09:58.359
saw that man again and whenever I
remember this story, I get a lot

900
01:09:58.439 --> 01:10:01.439
of chills. But I am also
a bit nostalgic about thinking that the man

901
01:10:01.479 --> 01:10:05.640
' s last wish had been that
his family wouldn' t stay there forever.

902
01:10:09.319 --> 01:10:12.640
And he did everything he could to
get someone to at least find them

903
01:10:12.760 --> 01:10:27.479
dolls at the gas station. Technically, I' m not a taxi driver,

904
01:10:27.920 --> 01:10:30.479
but an uber driver, although I
guess it ends up being the same

905
01:10:30.479 --> 01:10:32.039
thing at the end of the day. Anyway, this is something that happened

906
01:10:32.079 --> 01:10:38.800
to me when I was twenty-
five when I finished college, I couldn

907
01:10:38.920 --> 01:10:42.439
' t find work in the area
I specialized in. So, trying to

908
01:10:42.479 --> 01:10:45.960
survive on my own, I ended
up driving Uber As part of my job,

909
01:10:47.439 --> 01:10:53.880
I wanted to raise enough money so
I could at least rent something of

910
01:10:53.920 --> 01:10:56.000
my own and finally get out of
my parents' house. In fact,

911
01:10:56.000 --> 01:11:00.520
the job was quite normal and relaxed. Of course, you come across a

912
01:11:00.560 --> 01:11:04.920
lot of people who are abusive or
rude and also weird people. I guess

913
01:11:04.960 --> 01:11:08.800
there' s a little bit of
everything in this world. This is not

914
01:11:08.800 --> 01:11:12.680
something that happened to me with any
passenger or person. Rather, it was

915
01:11:12.720 --> 01:11:16.920
something that I cannot find a logical
explanation for to this day. I had

916
01:11:17.000 --> 01:11:21.600
been working for Uber for about half
a year and, as I mentioned earlier,

917
01:11:23.119 --> 01:11:26.000
I was trying to raise as much
money as possible, so I usually

918
01:11:26.039 --> 01:11:30.560
didn' t reject anything and once
a very close friend of my mom wanted

919
01:11:30.640 --> 01:11:36.199
me to take her too far away. It was about forty minutes on the

920
01:11:36.199 --> 01:11:41.079
road, but not only that,
but it was at eleven thirty at night,

921
01:11:41.560 --> 01:11:45.199
so it would be coming back to
my house practically in the morning.

922
01:11:45.560 --> 01:11:49.520
This lady insisted very much. She
said that, given the insecurity at the

923
01:11:49.600 --> 01:11:54.039
time in the country, she could
not trust anyone else to take her.

924
01:11:55.239 --> 01:12:00.079
Besides, he offered me a pretty
generous paycheck to do it, so I

925
01:12:00.159 --> 01:12:04.079
decided he would. At first everything
was normal. We got very little traffic,

926
01:12:04.199 --> 01:12:09.960
so it took us exactly about forty
minutes to get to the destination and

927
01:12:10.000 --> 01:12:14.279
once I was there, I helped
her bring down all the things she was

928
01:12:14.319 --> 01:12:17.800
carrying and after she paid me,
I started driving back to my house as

929
01:12:17.880 --> 01:12:24.399
soon as possible. I was listening
to music when I suddenly realized I was

930
01:12:24.439 --> 01:12:29.479
almost out of gas. This seemed
a little strange to me, because I

931
01:12:29.520 --> 01:12:33.680
was more than sure that I still
had enough left to go and come back

932
01:12:33.800 --> 01:12:38.720
without any trouble from that place.
But since I had no other explanation,

933
01:12:39.279 --> 01:12:44.640
I assumed that I had probably overspent
without realizing it and that I would stand

934
01:12:44.680 --> 01:12:48.000
at the next gas station to fill
the tank and perhaps buy something to drink,

935
01:12:48.399 --> 01:12:54.279
as I was also starting to feel
a little tired. But the really

936
01:12:54.319 --> 01:12:58.359
strange thing started to happen when I
didn' t see any gas stations in

937
01:12:58.359 --> 01:13:01.960
sight. I think I drove like
five kilometers without seeing any and there was

938
01:13:02.079 --> 01:13:08.199
also no sign indicating that there was
any nearby one. I was beginning to

939
01:13:08.399 --> 01:13:13.800
despair thinking that maybe the car would
shut me down and I would be stranded

940
01:13:13.840 --> 01:13:16.079
almost half way out of nowhere,
since the place I had gone to leave

941
01:13:16.119 --> 01:13:21.680
that woman was quite retired. I
was thinking about how awful that possibility is.

942
01:13:23.439 --> 01:13:27.560
When all of a sudden, I
saw a gas station a few meters

943
01:13:28.159 --> 01:13:31.840
away, it looked like it was
working, since everything was on, so

944
01:13:31.880 --> 01:13:36.479
I sighed relieved and turned around to
park in the bomb, although once I

945
01:13:36.479 --> 01:13:41.159
was there, I realized the first
weird thing, and it' s just

946
01:13:41.199 --> 01:13:45.239
that no one came to take care
of me for a moment I thought that

947
01:13:45.279 --> 01:13:49.159
the employees might be distracted and that
they hadn' t noticed me, since

948
01:13:49.199 --> 01:13:54.800
I was the only one there and
as the road I was on was too

949
01:13:54.840 --> 01:13:55.880
deserted, it might well not be
common to see so many cars. So

950
01:13:55.960 --> 01:14:00.159
late I got out of the car
to make them realize that there was someone

951
01:14:00.720 --> 01:14:04.920
there, although I quickly realized that
the place seemed completely empty as if there

952
01:14:05.039 --> 01:14:10.199
was no one. I started walking
around the gas station bombs a little bit

953
01:14:10.279 --> 01:14:15.279
to see if I found any employees, but there was no one. I

954
01:14:15.319 --> 01:14:19.359
turned to the self- service store
and, although I could not see very

955
01:14:19.439 --> 01:14:26.680
well I could distinguish some silhouettes inside, I assumed that maybe everyone was in

956
01:14:26.720 --> 01:14:29.720
there for some reason so I started
walking there. The closer I got,

957
01:14:30.039 --> 01:14:32.880
I realized that those silhouettes I saw
were not moving at all, but I

958
01:14:32.920 --> 01:14:38.720
could also notice that they were not
exactly human, because when I was close

959
01:14:38.760 --> 01:14:44.239
enough I realized that in fact,
there were not people inside, but dolls.

960
01:14:45.720 --> 01:14:49.720
They were like many stuffed animals and
dolls of different shapes, colors and

961
01:14:49.920 --> 01:14:55.279
sizes, all scattered throughout different parts
of the store. They weren' t

962
01:14:55.560 --> 01:15:00.439
moving or anything. But it was
still quite disturbing to look. It looked

963
01:15:00.520 --> 01:15:04.119
something like the island of the dolls, only in a store many of these

964
01:15:04.239 --> 01:15:11.000
dolls were not exactly new. It
was more like they' d been picked

965
01:15:11.079 --> 01:15:15.119
up from anywhere, including the trash. Many of them were either getting stuffed

966
01:15:15.239 --> 01:15:23.680
or had no limbs or were damaged
in some way. I tried to look

967
01:15:23.760 --> 01:15:27.359
at someone in charge, but I
couldn' t see her. Actually,

968
01:15:27.720 --> 01:15:31.600
this scene became so strange to me
that I just started backing back hoping that

969
01:15:31.720 --> 01:15:35.680
everything was maybe some kind of joke. I didn' t really care to

970
01:15:35.680 --> 01:15:40.399
know. I just wanted to get
out of there. As soon as I

971
01:15:40.399 --> 01:15:44.960
turned it around, first I saw
it were more dolls were lying everywhere,

972
01:15:45.439 --> 01:15:47.800
even some were in the chest of
my car. And even though by that

973
01:15:48.079 --> 01:15:53.039
time I kept trying to get to
the idea that it might well be a

974
01:15:53.159 --> 01:15:58.159
very elaborate joke, I could only
think that there was no way they would

975
01:15:58.199 --> 01:16:02.479
put all that without me realizing it
and in such a short time, but

976
01:16:02.520 --> 01:16:08.239
still I tried to act the quietest
thing about it and walk towards my car

977
01:16:08.359 --> 01:16:12.479
trying not to step on any doll. I don' t know exactly how

978
01:16:13.079 --> 01:16:15.680
to say this, but from what
I remember, every time I turned my

979
01:16:15.800 --> 01:16:20.760
eyes and looked back to anywhere there
were more dolls. It was like they

980
01:16:20.800 --> 01:16:25.880
showed up out of nowhere and I
just started running towards the car. I

981
01:16:25.920 --> 01:16:30.239
closed the door and drove making all
the stuffed animals on the car fall off

982
01:16:30.319 --> 01:16:34.600
and once far enough away, I
saw the sign from another gas station,

983
01:16:34.960 --> 01:16:41.399
so I drove over there. That
was an ordinary gas station I was seriously

984
01:16:41.439 --> 01:16:46.199
too disturbed yet and the people at
the gas station noticed it almost instantly as

985
01:16:46.680 --> 01:16:50.920
they asked me if something had happened
to me trying to get someone to talk

986
01:16:50.960 --> 01:16:55.800
me into it. I told them
what happened to me. A few moments

987
01:16:55.880 --> 01:17:00.640
ago. They looked at each other
and I couldn' t help but ask

988
01:17:00.760 --> 01:17:04.199
them what was going on. They
told me that I was not the first

989
01:17:04.279 --> 01:17:10.439
person to come to that gas station, with very strange stories about that place,

990
01:17:10.520 --> 01:17:13.319
but that, to tell you the
truth, the story was never the

991
01:17:13.319 --> 01:17:18.479
same. Sometimes it could be dolls, mannequins, or even ghosts. They

992
01:17:18.520 --> 01:17:23.960
told me that on one occasion a
family arrived at that gas station and that

993
01:17:24.000 --> 01:17:28.960
there were people staring them in the
eye and smiling. Besides, it seemed

994
01:17:29.000 --> 01:17:32.479
like they were teleporting from moment to
moment. I asked them if there really

995
01:17:32.560 --> 01:17:36.119
was a gas station there and they
said no and that, in fact,

996
01:17:36.279 --> 01:17:43.399
in the place where they indicated that
everything had happened, there was only one

997
01:17:43.399 --> 01:17:45.399
big completely empty lot. I remember
that at that time I was impressed by

998
01:17:45.520 --> 01:17:49.800
everything that happened, so I just
filled in the gas tank and went my

999
01:17:49.800 --> 01:17:55.680
way. Days later. I couldn' t stop thinking about it, so

1000
01:17:55.760 --> 01:18:00.800
I went back to the place and, indeed, in the place I remembered

1001
01:18:00.880 --> 01:18:03.159
there was only one big completely empty
lot. To this day I don'

1002
01:18:03.199 --> 01:18:08.520
t know what happened that night or
that place. Some people I' ve

1003
01:18:08.560 --> 01:18:12.840
told are of the opinion that this
place could be a kind of portal,

1004
01:18:13.359 --> 01:18:15.600
a failure in reality or something.
Although I' ve looked into it.

1005
01:18:16.239 --> 01:18:20.600
There' s never been a gas
station there. The only thing that all

1006
01:18:20.640 --> 01:18:27.560
the stories have in common is that
a gas station is always mentioned, very

1007
01:18:27.600 --> 01:18:31.119
different things always happen in it.
I suppose it' s a mystery that

1008
01:18:31.199 --> 01:18:39.359
harbors this world. Stories written and
adapted by Lisa Hernández