NAHUALES, El Terror De Los Militares Historias De Terror - REDE

0:04 The refuge of the Nahual. Many years ago, when I was young, I frequently visited my grandfather’ s house, which was quite close to a ravine. He lived quietly on the outskirts of a small town. He was called Jesus. He was an older man, almost blind and deaf, but that did not prevent him from making his life, despite living alone because my grandmother had long ago died he was always in good spirits because of the location of his land. No neighbors, no dogs, no cats. He was about 80 years old. He kept everything in the same place. So he didn' t get too hard to find and grab what he needed. When he came to visit him, which was on average once a week, he was very happy to take advantage of shopping or to make small repairs at his house, especially in the back fence, the one bordering the ravine that, for some strange reason whenever he went, was broken. On that occasion I would be with him for two weeks, because they gave me my vacation.

1:11 I lived in another town like I had nothing better to do. My grandfather ' s house was the best option. I liked to talk to him a lot because he was full of interesting stories. One of my favorites. The one that hit me the most was when she told me why I was affected by her sight. I always listened to him. According to his own story as a young man, he was a military man who sent them to the mountains to inspect on a tour at night. Your squadron was attacked by something that wasn' t human. He told me that on that occasion they had a mission to search for forbidden plantings in four vehicles they were moving practically through the mountain, carrying long weapons always ready to repel any wrong aggression. With the lights off they were practically invisible at a given moment the vehicle across the street stopped suddenly. This occurred when there were signs of danger. After a few minutes they kept moving forward. The tension was increasing because everyone could feel the presence of someone, despite going meters away from each other. So much so that, after a few minutes, the four units stopped their march almost at the same time. The silence itself was marked. It became disquieting and some sounds from among the bushes intensified. Something crawled in the middle of the

2:43 mountain without showing up. The sergeant got out of the first unit and stared into the darkness. The rest of the military continued to aim in different directions. They expected members of armed groups to appear, but that was not the case. Instead, something came out of the mountain like a gust of wind silently. They were thrown upon them with great force, regardless of whether they were soldiers prepared to kill if necessary. He attacked them. It was so fast the attack that everyone was taken by surprise. They felt that something big happened over the military vehicles by attacking them, only leaving in its wake cries of pain and surprise. There wasn' t even one shot. Seconds later it had all happened, one that another element still pointed its weapon toward the mountain, paralyzed without being able to believe what had just happened. While some soldiers went down to inspect, others searched the wounded. No one could describe the attacker. They only agreed that it was a huge shadow, with great strength and skill, that it did not appear to be of this world and that, in a matter of seconds, it had knocked down several soldiers, leaving the wounded, among them my grandfather, with a severe blow to the head that caused a bleeding wound. Disconcerted with great care they searched the area,

4:15 but finding nothing strange, they climbed their vehicles and resumed the way back. My grandfather felt dizzy by the blow. Still, he watched that shadow continue to shine the bushes pointing to him with his finger. The others couldn ' t see it. That strange figure followed him at great speed. When he was a few meters from the vehicle, he jumped over my grandfather and disappeared. He assured me that shadow got inside him. He shouted all the way to stop because he was inside, but everyone told him to calm down, that it was a product of his imagination. They arrived in a village and attended them in a medical clinic. Most had only mild blows or some scratches on others, like my grandfather Jesus, had to move them to a hospital in another town to be treated after some studies. My grandfather was incapacitated for two weeks, not only to recover from the head wound, but also because for everyone he suffered from strange hallucinations. The doctors who attended him were told that this creature had gotten into him. Obviously, that couldn' t be possible and the doctors less were going to accept such a thing. When she was left alone and the nurses turned off the lights, that shadow came out. He was yelling at the doctors to see her. They just ordered

5:49 him to put a tranquilizer on him. Then they withdrew. Weeks later he was sent with the psychologist attended therapies, sessions, treatments of everything. They could never take away the idea that that creature was being carried inside. They gradually ignored him. From there, he looked at that shadow everywhere and even within several hospitals where he was cared for. He claimed that the shadow that followed him wherever he was, was such a strange creature that it did not resemble any other animal. Soon that being also invaded his dreams. He didn ' t show himself in them either, but my grandfather knew he was himself.

6:34 I didn' t know why, but I could feel it. There were times when he woke up believing that everything he dreamed of was a terrible reality and that that creature would soon attack him. Like those hallucinations, they never abandoned him. He was declared unable to do his duty. That' s why he was retired from the army. Before he left, they told him to never tell anything about what he had seen, neither that nor any night, because they would judge him as a madman. He was sent home, where he was apparently in recovery. But even many years after he retired and was married to my grandmother, that creature continued to appear to him because of the blow. I no longer knew if he dreamed of it, imagined it or was real, but it was so common to see what scared him to the point of ignoring it. When I saw him. Time passed many things, but what he saw coming out of his body never changed. He was always the same indefinite figure that materialized at night. When I left adolescence, I started to frequent it because none of my cousins did, claiming that my grandfather scared them with all the things I told them. That didn' t happen to me. From the first time I visited him, I decided to keep doing it. It was my turn to visit when I had an anxiety crisis, to walk around the house, to look through the windows constantly

8:09 and to assure me that someone had been watching him. When that happened to him, he told me again the story of how that night, the creature had gotten into him and gave me more details. She told me that creature she had seen on other occasions. Many soldiers were witnesses. He followed him in the distance, always trying to hide, they were obviously afraid of him because they knew he had attacked other patrols, but they were things that were said nothing confirmed. On one occasion he followed a platoon before dawn he managed to dump one of the units, but unexpectedly disappeared surely and this was said by those who were there. That creature was just defending his territory. The soldiers themselves invented things. He said that it was a herd of these animals and that they were preparing the ambushes, but the most serious claimed that it was only one animal that was doing all the damage. But that couldn' t be proven either. There were reports of military missing. Many soldiers knew that this creature was to blame for taking them. It was forbidden to make sure that was true. Force them to shut up. Another thing that happened was that in all the attacks there was always someone affected his mind by ensuring that that being tormented them for a long time. The major didn' t

9:39 accept any of that. For that reason, the majority suffered from a low level of military service. Seeing that being my grandfather had tormented him for a long time. Losing his sight helped him in something, because that creature usually appeared to him at night and because of his blindness he could no longer see him in anything. That situation had been a relief, but my grandfather assured me that I felt when that creature came out from inside him and even that I could smell it when I was around his house every night. But because of his inability to listen well, he did not know where he was before dawn, he was put back into his body. Sometimes I thought differently.

10:26 I thought all that was alone in his head and it didn' t make sense. That' s why I tried to ignore it, thinking it was one of his many nightmares. So everything became confused. I accept that at first I also believed that everything was the product of his imagination. If there was something he couldn' t see or hear manifesting at night in the backyard of his house, when he was asleep something of him, which I hadn ' t noticed. A shadow that the first time I looked at her scared me. It happened one night I couldn' t sleep. They gave me about four o' clock in the morning without knowing why I felt so restless.

11:09 I was spinning in bed pretty uncomfortable. Suddenly I heard a noise in the yard. It sounded dry as if someone heavy had jumped the fence. I got up in plain sight. I couldn' t see anyone. For several seconds I tried to find something and nothing, but little by little I discovered that there was someone crouching in the courtyard. Out of all that darkness, thinking that maybe some bum had gotten into it, he was going to yell at him. I kept the scream because I realized I was a strange figure, almost undetectable. Still, squatting as it was, it looked huge.

11:52 That figure moved slowly. It seemed like I had small animals with me, devouring them in such a horrible way that it left me ice cream. It was a grotesque and terrifying spectacle, but I don' t know why I couldn' t take my eyes off him before dawn rose. So I checked it was too high. It couldn' t be a person, not a normal person. He leapt the fence easily, heading to the ravine, leaving me truly frightened and not knowing what to do. It was that morning that I realized that what Grandpa told me was true. At dawn, without my grandfather suspecting anything, I asked him if he still felt the presence of that creature who had injured him. He turned his eyes almost off towards me and told me something I don' t forget. Of course I' m sorry. He' s never gonna leave, because he' s part of me. It lives in my thoughts and sometimes materializes. I asked him to explain that to me, but he didn' t want to talk that way anymore. What appeared I no longer saw as a shadow. Every night.

13:05 That creature always came back with a prey. I ate it in the backyard of my grandfather' s house. Then, before dawn, he was on his way to the ravine and no longer returned. I tried to talk to my grandfather again about what was happening, but he couldn' t hear me right, or at least that was what made me understand and didn' t seem to care about the gravity of the situation. Determined to protect him and his home without telling him anything, I sought help in the village. It was very difficult to tell them my grandfather' s story and ensure that a creature lived within him. It seemed like a story. Most of the people I told them looked at me unbelievingly even mockingly. There was a man who assured me that what visited the backyard was a nahual intrigued by what I told him, he agreed to help me. He said that in a village there was an old man named Don Julián, known for his knowledge of herbal remedies.

14:07 Surely he could free my grandfather from that which pursued him. I didn ' t think anyone, using only herbs, could cure what doctors couldn' t. On the first opportunity I had I went to that town to look for Mr Julian, asking myself I knew from the same villagers that he was a shaman. Knowing that somewhat fearfully, I searched him until I found him and knocked on his door. When he opened, I realized he was a serious, but simple person. Without wasting time I talked to him, he didn' t question my words, but he scared me what he told me. There were two possibilities. That creature that to him was a hual.

14:50 I was hoping to finish the animals in the ravine and then eat my grandfather or expect him to die and finally leave his body. He was jumping. I asked him how that was possible without so many rodeos. He assured me that that night, when that animal attacked the soldiers, something smelled in my grandfather that attracted him perhaps his soul, perhaps his blood, and would not leave him until he got it. Practically all that time, my grandfather' s body had been his refuge. Maybe he looked at me scared and desperate because he asked me to calm down very calmly. He explained to me that he only needed strong protection, which he had never had. That creature could no longer touch him and forget about him. He warned me that it was simple, but it wasn' t. While preparing something with his hands, the shaman told me of many similar cases where all kinds of people who had had an encounter with those creatures and had not resorted to protection had suffered.

15:56 After a few minutes, Don Julián gave me an amulet and or rather rare that my grandfather should bring in day and night. He also gave me a small bundle of grass called Ruda to put on the front door. Finally, he asked me to be in the care that that creature would not smell me, because it would also follow me coming home. I gave him the amulet without actually telling him what it was like to put it on without asking anything. I also put the herbs at the door. That night I was very nervous about what the shaman had told me in the morning. Again, I heard those noises. As I looked out, I realized that this strange silhouette appeared, the fence came up, and he was ready to eat almost in front of my eyes. She ate the whole animals because she never left any remains in the yard. There were also no traces of him burying them, as canines do. The more I looked at her, the more scared she was. He was telling me the truth. I still didn' t believe that came out of my grandfather, but I hoped that, if it was true, I would no longer be able to enter his body because of the amulet I had put him trusting that it would work. I was a little calmer. That thing didn' t show up for two nights. I could hear him walking around the house trying to get in without getting it. Perhaps it was my nerves or my imagination, but in the middle of the silence

17:30 of the night I could hear him sniff the environment. I hid under the quilts so I wouldn' t smell. At dawn I couldn' t hear it anymore. On one occasion, I went back to consult the shaman. I told him what was going on. Don Julián, told me that my grandfather was already protected and the house, but the fence was not enough to stop a creature of those. That' s why he gave me some special herbs. They were basil and Romero prepared. He explained to me that those herbs placed at strategic points around the fence, could repel the creature for at least a considerable time. Following his instructions, I placed the herbs in small sacks that I hung at regular intervals throughout the fence, especially in the back, where it used to appear. That same night I waited in my room, watching from the window, I knew I had arrived, because I felt a chill. For the first time the shadow appeared as always, but this time it stopped. As I reached the fence, I could see his eyes shining with a contained fury. He tried to cross the wooden barrier several times, but failed. He tried on one side after the other, something like an invisible force prevented him from even touching it. He could have jumped her,

19:00 but he didn' t. He finally stood there watching the house for a long time. Before he disappeared into the dark. I still had three nights left to be at my grandfather' s. For one more night that being appeared tried to tear it down near without achieving it. It was the only time I heard it. Brahmar made him so ugly so strong he even woke up. My grandfather was not going to hide from him what was happening at the time, but it was very difficult to explain why with Signas, as I could let him know that the creature was hovering around every roar he made. That animal seemed to call my grandfather, but he couldn' t hear it anymore. Since he didn' t have an answer. He stood looking between the grids towards the house until dawn. The following nights were quiet.

19:57 The hard maid did not appear again and peace returned to the house, even though I never knew for certain. Which was what that being wanted. I convinced myself that I had managed to drive him away with the help of the shaman, but something strange happened from that day on. My grandfather went off like a force was abandoning him. He was getting weaker, he looked happy, but apparently he was witnessing his death because he said he was looking at my grandmother. I was with him as long as I could when the family found out he was dying. The house was filled with children, daughters - in- law, grandchildren and granddaughters who, without any prudence, went to say goodbye to him in time My grandfather Jesus passed away. His death was strange to me because I realized he wasn' t wearing his amulet and he never took it off. I looked everywhere for him without finding him.

20:56 I was brave to think that one of my cousins would have put it on better. That' s how I left him I didn' t want to investigate anymore. I was calm to know that he had freed himself from all that and could finally rest in peace. To everyone' s discontent. He left that house in my name, perhaps because I was the only one of all his grandchildren who tried, but for what I lived those nights, I never wanted to occupy it. I don' t think I' ll ever do that. If anyone thinks it' s out of fear, then yes, that' s why. However, every time I visit her, I don' t just remember my grandfather and his talks. I can' t help but remember those bright eyes at night, watching as if the story hadn ' t completely ended. Sometimes I think if it was actually a which or something worse. I don' t know, but I' m sure as long as the fence stands and the herbs stay in place, that won' t bring back the transformation. What I' m about to tell you is something that happened to me a few years ago during an adventure on the Mount.

22:11 One morning in November, along with some friends, we decided to leave the city to spend a night in nature. We were a group of five boys. We arrived on the Mount from ten in the morning with a single tent. We prepare to enjoy the tranquility that only the countryside can offer all day. We walked around, joked and laughed. We walked so far to get tired, but we had also done so to prove that we were totally alone without a soul around us. We used to put together a little dry branches to set up a bonfire. A little later, hours later, dragging a bunch of branches, we returned We left a trail as far as we had the campaign house. When we arrived we looked at each other because we discovered that there were strange traces that did not belong to any of us.

23:07 This or the size they were. Besides, the distance from the footprints told us it was from a very tall person. We started looking around the house a little bit. Still a little more, we didn' t panic or anything like that, because nobody was seen or stolen from us. Maybe he was just another camper like us. When the afternoon began to fall, the mountain felt strange. There was something in the environment that is never known to define what it was at the time. I didn' t want to say anything to my friends, but I knew they were watching us feeling restless.

23:51 He was constantly turning around, wanting to discover someone, but always trying to keep my friends out of sight and start planning to get together. Perhaps it was so much that I did so that one of them, David, would not take my eyes off me until, apart from the others, he asked me what was wrong with me. I told him I felt like we were being watched. I thought you' d laugh to my astonishment. He also felt uncomfortable and had seen something run through the bushes in the middle of the thick mountain. We both agreed to tell each other and decide whether or not to stay. It was still about an hour before the afternoon began to fall.

24:34 When we got together to talk, we told others what we felt and what David had seen. In the end we voted to decide what to do. By a majority of votes we were left with the argument that if something strange did not happen, it was not a real adventure and we all agreed with that until me that night, after having eaten and laughed a good We sat around the campfire, already the last, as at midnight we touched on the subject of the footprints we had found. It had been a strange situation, something we obviously did not expect, but we had nothing to worry about when we were more entertained. I heard a weird noise. I signaled them all to remain silent, but taking it as a joke they smiled first.

25:26 Then they started laughing and they talked and they were talking nonsense that they wouldn ' t let me hear. I told them I was serious. That' s the only way they stopped doing it. I got up and looked up at the mountain. Once again, that noise was heard again. This time we all witnessed that there was something very close to us. Most people said it was an animal. I told them it might be, but we had to make sure what kind of animal it was could be a dangerous one. We all put ourselves on alert and even rose with the intention of going to investigate. One of my friends told us to stay close to the fire because most animals were afraid of him as if we had agreed. We turned our backs on the light and each looked to one side of the mountain. That ' s how we spent a few minutes listening to that. The sounds intensified so much that we knew it was a person who was apparently walking around us.

26:32 Only he did it in the dark of the night, because we couldn ' t see him. The minutes passed and we were still in tension. I wanted no one to show up because we didn' t have any kind of weapon to defend ourselves. Maybe that' s what I was worried about. Suddenly something moved that I could very vaguely distinguish. I was trying to tell my friends when a man appeared in the shadows, said good night and apologized for scaring us still tense. We' ll say hello. He came up and asked us if we had a piece of meat to eat. At first glance, he looked like a pretty tall peasant. However, wearing worn clothes and a look that reflected tiredness. Without much thought, we offered him a little of what we had. He accepted and sat in front of the campfire next to us for a moment we talked a little with him. He told us he was hunting because he was hungry. He had such a heavy look that he was very uncomfortable. I found it odd that he told us that he lived nearby, because surely none of us remembered seeing a house in two kilometers around when we walked through the mountain. Another thing that caught my attention was the fact that he asked for only meat. He didn' t want to eat anything else. The questions he was asking us were weird.

28:00 One of them was if we were alone if we ate raw meat. He also asked us if we liked the smell of dogs. I don' t know about the others, but it seemed suspicious to me. I don' t know why I turned to see him. His shoes were pretty big. He was very close to the size of the prints we had found, I began to suspect that it might be he who was stalking us. I also noticed his great stature. The night was moving forward. He was still there sometimes without talking, just looking at the light while eating. Perhaps he realized my suspicions, because soon the man got up, thanked the food. Then he asked us if we would spend the whole night there and disappeared in the darkness of the mountain. Most people didn' t think much of it, believing he was just a man from the field who consumed some substances. When we were alone, I asked who else had found it suspicious. Only Rodrigo agreed with me. I told them about the size of their shoes, but nobody thought it was important. We decided to stay a little longer in the campfire waiting for nothing to happen anymore, because, at least to me, the presence of an unknown person had made me nervous. We did not know who he was or with what intentions he had approached us. We were just encouraging ourselves to go to bed. When David said the man was there,

29:32 we all turned where he pointed his finger and it was true. There he stood in the middle of the mountain, staring at us without moving or making any gestures. Some of us said bad words as a surprise reaction. We looked at it, too. It was just a few seconds. We didn ' t have time to say anything because he turned around and got in the dark. We all got up, we knew that wasn' t a normal attitude. Then my friends were scared, including me all. We' re out of sleep. At least I was sorry I put it to the vote. If we stayed, I knew there was enough reason for us to have returned by the time we found the prints, but it was too late for regrets. We seemed to have lost our speech. When we looked into our eyes, it became apparent that no one knew what to do as time did again. There he was again looking at us insistently. When I saw him in the bushes, I couldn' t help but feel a chill. He wasn' t making any strange moves. He was just watching us, but with that we had to fill ourselves with fear. I don' t remember who someone of us took courage and yelled at him that he wanted the man or moved. After a while, he turned around and again walked calmly toward the mountain until he disappeared. After a few seconds passed, Rodrigo told us

31:03 with a trembling voice if we hadn' t noticed that the man' s face had changed in something. Apparently, his eyes were smaller and his ears were bigger. Also, according to him, he now had the longest hands. I got scared listening to him and asked him not to say those things. I didn' t expect David to comment that the first time he showed up he also noticed it differently. Apparently, now it was higher to think that it was turning into something to make us tremble. The attention was already too much. We would have wanted to run out of there, but we knew it was impossible. Surely we would get lost on the immense Mount there was the possibility that this gentleman would only want to scare us. But as we know, David, who always had a watch, told us that they were only going to give two in the morning when we realized that it was long before dawn, and that person had already seen it three times, always in a different way. We' re looking for a way to defend ourselves.

32:08 First we made the fire bigger so it would light us up a little more and not catch us unsuspecting. That gentleman helped by the blackness of the night. Then we looked for stones, sticks and showed ourselves emboldened to see that we were not afraid of him. Minutes later we started listening to other sounds. This time they weren' t steps. It was a strange sound, perhaps like a grunt, but not so definite. The most disturbing thing was that we heard him behind us then across the street. Apparently, it was two things they did to him, just like that because it was impossible for him to jump from one side to the other. In a matter of seconds. I didn' t dare say anything, but I imagined that man transformed into a threatening, very nervous, grunting beast. We prepared ourselves with stones and sticks to defend ourselves, but it seemed like he was playing with us. The minutes passed and nothing appeared until, unexpectedly, it was not heard anymore. Keeping everything quiet. Knowing that the light had helped us, we decided to spend the rest of the night sheltered by fire. We got as close as we could and took turns sleeping, one because we were all tired of the walk we had done, and another to grab energy, because nothing more dawn we would run away. Hence the youngest of us, named Sebastian, was the first to sleep, because his eyes were already closed.

33:42 In the meantime, the other four would take care of it. We' d only do it for an hour each. During that hour there was no news. That' s not why we were quiet at about three. The second one slept, the rest of us took care of keeping the light quite high. The minutes were too slow. Every once in a while, you could hear some nocturnal birds, but that' s all. At four o ' clock in the morning, I got the third shift. I remember thinking I couldn' t sleep thinking someone was around us, but I fell like a stone. At five in the morning I got up because I followed David to sleep. I noticed them scared told me they' d been listening to the grunts again only closer to us. Besides, that man had been running far away. Apparently he was doing it on four legs already. I stared at them and there was no place not to believe them. We were in a pretty stressful situation for many hours that the games and relaxation had been over.

34:47 It' s just that listening to that was just to get anyone' s skin up before the penultimate shift was over, it wasn' t dawn yet. I remember David scared the shit out of us because he got up screaming. Some ran meters toward the mountain very upset, until we knew that he had only had a nightmare. After calming down, he went to sleep last. For a long time. We heard someone running. They heard heavy footprints at times I seemed to hear someone screaming, but it could only be my imagination. Thank God, about 6: 30 a m it started to dawn. We didn' t know how, but we did it. Only by getting together to agree on what hours and where we' d go.

35:37 We were scared to death because we noticed Rodrigo was nowhere to be found. We yelled at him thinking he had gone a little further to do his needs, but he never responded. David said he might have left because of the fear he had, but we found his things intact. Besides, we knew that he could never do that he would never leave alone in the bush and without telling us that he had been taken away. It' s been the scariest thing I' ve ever felt in my whole life. Besides, I remembered someone screaming in the morning. We worry terribly. We started calling him in desperate screams, walking around without finding him had already dawned. That' s what we expected to leave, but we wouldn' t leave our friend, his luck, while we were looking for him. I couldn' t get out of my head the many ways that animal ate it. I felt bad about those thoughts, but I couldn' t help it. The ideal was to separate ourselves to cover more ground, but we would be exposed a lot. So, we would become easy company and we wouldn' t stand for losing someone else. We were a long way from the campaign house.

36:57 You barely looked at the smoke. Suddenly we heard those strange grunts coming from beyond the mountain. They were disturbing sounds like a pretty big beast, no matter what day it was. The grunt was paralyzing, but this time it was about helping one of us. That' s why we don' t get intimidated with sticks and stones. We went further into the mountain trying to follow the strange noises those all of a sudden. There was what we saw. I couldn' t get it out of my head. There was a figure moving between the trees. What appeared before our eyes was a terrifying creature.

37:37 I saw him as half- man half- beast. His appearance was similar to that of the man who had visited us the night before, but he was transformed into four legs with animal features. He seemed to have long claws. Now, if we paralyze from fear, it was the scariest thing I' d ever seen. We knew it was him, that mysterious man who had approached our campfire without thinking about it. Twice we ran away leaving him behind. We didn' t know how, but we had to get away as quickly as possible. That strange creature, apparently, didn' t do to chase us, because we ran for a mile or more and never caught up with us. We arrived at the camp pulling air for our surprise.

38:25 There was Rodrigo lying on the ground, crying so dismayed that he could not speak. He seemed to be in a nervous shock. He was looking at us, but he wasn' t saying anything. He didn' t seem to recognize us. Besides being like that, he had his clothes torn. We pushed him to walk as we could because he didn' t react. We ran back in a desperate way, but the minutes passed and we only saw mountain when I could turn back. Fearing to see that creature come after us. But thank God, it was never like that. We ran without stopping until we reached a road that cut the mountain. We couldn' t run anymore. We stopped because we no longer had the strength to do so. Luckily, about half an hour after walking, we got help from some people who took us in their truck to a nearby ranch. When we told them what we had seen, some believed us and others did not, but they all agreed that we had still found water. While they were healing Rodrigo from his wounds because he had some scrapes and scratches. He told us what had happened to him. He said he got so scared that he instinctively ran wherever he went. Not only did he assure us that a few meters away someone else also entered the mountain. He didn' t know what happened.

39:53 When he looked around with bushes, he reacted and stopped. He turned to our camp still scared. Then he felt that he was grabbed tightly and started being dragged away. It took him a few moments to get out of his astonishment. By the time he did, he had already been pulled many meters between the mountains. It was with the many thorny bushes that he scratched. They had to be calming Rodrigo when he told us his experience, because he was upset to remember the details. He also told us that he wanted to scream for help, but that no sound came out of his throat. When he finally reacted, he began to defend himself as he could using all his forces until he was released. He rose without looking at his aggressor and ran, but surely he did it to the wrong side, because he never looked at the light that we had like this he walked for more than an hour until by chance he found the tent when it was day. It was an impact for him to arrive and not find us. He didn' t think we' d left him there, but looking at our backpacks was worse.

41:05 He thought that creature that had dragged him had already devoured us all. Before Rodrigo finished his experience, he told us that, apparently, the creature that wanted to take him was that man from the mountain, but transformed into an animal. He lifted his sleeve off his shirt and showed us the prints where he had been grabbed. The people who helped us were silent. Then we knew we weren' t the first to talk about something like that. They had already heard other previous stories that spoke of a man who transformed himself into an animal and prowled through the mountain with features like a dog. Those who claimed to have seen it said it was huge. Obviously, that' s not what anyone thought. Before it got dark, we were approached by the city. From where they left us. We walk Russian into our homes feeling safe. When I got home, I had to tell what had happened to me at the time. My parents didn' t believe me. They thought I made something up so they wouldn' t punish me. As this story I told it many times repeating the same without changing any words. They finally believed me. I' ve heard that people, when they have an encounter with this animal, are affected. Thank God, that' s not my case. Years have passed since that night. I know what we saw was real. I don' t know if you' ve ever had a

42:38 similar experience, but what I can tell you is that there are things in this world that have no explanation and that night on the Mount is proof of that, at least for me. Terror in the river. I was born in Chiapas exactly sixty years as a child. I suffered from poverty. I was the second of eight brothers. For the same reason, there was never enough for everyone, neither clothes nor food. I grew up hungry with cravings. Many times I slept on an empty stomach imagining the taste of sweet bread. I swore countless times that just growing a little, I would go to the United States to look for work and thus help my parents and my little brothers who sometimes heard them cry from hunger the years ran some acquaintances who went and returned from the other side. They fed my wish to leave for what they told me. They said they lived very well there. Also, during the year they sent money to their families. This encouraged me more and made me dream. On the contrary, there was a particular boy who was called the skull because he was very thin. He was always trying to scare me by saying everyone. He' s too dangerous for me, because of my young age. I would surely die in an attempt to reach the United States and my family would never find me, as had happened with many countrymen.

44:13 He explained to me in detail that in some places where he had to go, the children were stolen or he was traveling alone. The cause of that were satanic sects in search of victims for their rituals. According to him, in case he managed to reach the border, he could remain in the attempt to cross the river, because the bravo waters were treacherous, full of currents and swirls. In some sections it had the depth of more than two meters and in the bottom there were branches and wells. The danger of this river was that its surface could appear to be of little danger. As if this were not enough, I was even more frightened by the fact that there were huge crocodiles by Tamaulipas. They fed on the migrants when they tried to swim across were so big and ferocious that they could each eat two people a day.

45:09 When that boy managed to see me really worried, he assured me that there was still something more frightening than that. Underneath the waters of the bravo was a strange animal that seemed to come out of hell, no matter whether it was day or night. He grabbed the people who were trying to cross the river with their huge fingernails. He sank them to the point of drowning them, he fed them by holding them deep and three days later he let them float. These and many more frightening things that boy told me until I yelled at him to shut up. He told me he was just trying to prevent me. Despite the fear that caused me to hear all that, I looked forward to the day I went to follow the American dream. That day came when I turned sixteen, without my parents agreeing. One morning I went out alone with what I was wearing, yes, with a lot of hunger, but also with a great desire to achieve my goal and get ahead.

46:12 Asking acquaintances, I understood that I would have to ride a train to get to the border. Being there was just crossing the river would step on America and my life and that of my family would change. The journey was long, because the border, as I had heard, would be about a thousand kilometers away. It would take two or three weeks to get here, but it was worth it. Besides, it was either that or stay in poverty forever. So I started my journey walking and asking for rides. I must admit, it was a pain. First I had to get to where I ' d get on the roof of a train. Then he had to endure tiredness, hunger, sleep, cold, thirst for rain and sun. But even though that was coming, I never stopped. I failed to say that I would also have to dominate the fear of walking alone. As a teenager, I was impressed when I was in front of that train. I wasn ' t the only one who' d get on. There were a lot of us, maybe hundreds. There were all kinds of people, people who looked like they were going to a country day, with very smiling children and older people, but others were just the opposite, they looked pretty scared, maybe like I was among all those people. It was never missing who offered me a piece of bread. I soon found myself riding on the train in the middle of a lot of unknown people who kept talking. The journey was

47:44 never comfortable or quiet. On the contrary, it was pretty stressful. During all those days I saw things so dreadful that they happened to many people, including women and children, things that maybe at my young age, I never should have seen. For example, I knew several children were missing. Family members would come down to look for them and stay there screaming. Others were on their way. I was terrified that the causes of the disappearances were the sects, as that boy assured me that they did not know that I was traveling. I was just trying to be close to someone. But if this were not enough, I also had to watch when some migrants fell off the train and others were thrown over by internal quarrels between them at night. If I had to go in a good place, I could sleep peacefully, but if I was sitting on the shore, I would tie myself to the train with an old mecate that had found me and avoid falling because at least the car would be four meters high. He touched me one night in the rain.

48:52 At first it was fine, because the water quickly cooled the train blade, which warmed up a lot during the day, but it was very disturbing to be out in the open while lightning and thunder were at everything it gave. I was worried we' d be hit by lightning. To be soaked. I was shaking cold. So it took almost three weeks when I finally knew that we were going to get happy by mid- morning I saw myself at the border, in a city of Tamaulipas. I knew I was one step away from it. On the way I met other boys who had the same fate as me. That' s why we plan to cross the Bravo River together by asking people. We got something to eat, then we split up with each other. Before nightfall we gathered about twenty people a few meters from the river. Other groups did, too, but away from us, all far from the city. They walked until we lost sight of them we waited for it to be done at night so we could swim across without being seen by the green migration patrol. In all groups there was one person who led in ours. There was a boy about thirty years old. They told him the corduroy already had the experience of having crossed up to three times.

50:19 He told us not to spend all of us together because the water would move a lot and that was not only detected by the U S authorities, so would the crocodiles I knew again that everything that boy told me was true. In my desperation to arrive, I signed up to be one of the first to cross, but the corduroy, perhaps because of my age, told me to wait for me. We needed to see if the river was quiet. At first it didn' t look like me and I was going to cross over on my own. After all, I could swim well. Besides, we were all independent, but then I don' t know why I reacted and decided to wait. As at 1 a m the first five boys got ready, they went into the river slowly trying not to move the water too much. Everyone else looked at them in silence, expectant of what might happen.

51:14 I knew it could be dangerous. I still earned the excitement that would soon touch me. Crossing would go to half a river and everything was quiet. We could barely distinguish their heads, but there they were moving slowly without any problems. They were only a few meters away from it. The rest of us were getting ready to cross all of a sudden there was a commotion and with it the confusion began the tearing screams of despair. While some were asking for help, others were shouting that we were drowning from the shore we could do nothing. We screamed many times that they would swim loudly With the screams, the emigration agents appeared, who rose straight to the river. We were able to see how something took one of them. Seconds later, only two of the five boys were floating. When we saw the lights of his powerful lamps, we ducked into the ledges from where we were. We could see that the agents helped them get out of the water and then arrest them.

52:23 Meanwhile, of the other three boys, there was nothing or shouting. Only the running of the water was heard. We couldn' t know what had happened. Most of us couldn' t even talk. Our friend, the corduroy, didn' t seem scared. He told us very calmly that we had to move because that part of the river was contaminated. I didn ' t know if she meant animals or why she was migrating. We walk about an hour along the banks of the river. I found it strange that we never found any of the other groups. We were all silent. He agreed that by that time I was already thinking if I was next to get in the water, because I still didn' t recover from the impression of hearing how the boys drowned. The screams didn' t disappear from my mind.

53:14 Besides, I felt that something was following us at a short distance was something that posed danger to everyone. But oddly enough, whatever it was wasn ' t trying to reach us. Before stopping I looked about six meters from us, a figure standing near a tree, fell to the ground and entered the water. He did it crawling so slowly that it wasn' t even heard. I found it so strange to see one thing, so I rushed in to reach the corduroy and told him what I had seen. I didn ' t understand your attitude. He just moved his head to say he was okay. Ten minutes later he asked who that would be the other five to try. I took two steps back, when I thought no one would do it, what I had been through, I looked at the boys ready to get into the waters of the river. Apparently, nothing was going to stop them that night They did it the same way in silence, first walking slowly.

54:20 Then, as the water reached their chests, they began to swim one after the other. Maybe this time I was the most nervous of all, so I' d seen him get in the water. Until then, he could not decipher what that was, but he was sure that he was not a man, nor was he a common animal. We followed them for a few minutes with our eyes. We didn' t realize that something was moving behind them, something that seemed to be more than two meters long when I yelled at them to swim faster. The others who were with me also started screaming. I don' t know if they heard us. I didn' t just watch one of them dive in and never come out again. The others swam desperately until they reached the shore. When they came out, something happened because they started screaming. They seemed to be attacked by some animal or several, because they all screamed at the same time. This time no patrol was seen to help them. This was followed by several minutes of a lot of shouting, until everything was left in a sinister silence. On that occasion, we didn' t know if any of them managed to escape. I didn' t move feeling a constant chill. I don' t know if I' ve been through what I' ve been through or what I could go through. If I got in the water. There was no need for the corduroy to say anything. We knew it wasn' t safe to go

55:52 there We walked again for a while, perhaps disturbed by what happened. No one would comment on anything, or we would swoop to the ground so that we wouldn' t be seen by coyotes. In my innocence I thought they were animals. Then I knew they were people who were in charge of crossing the migrants, but they were charged and we had no money. I never knew what we were exposed to if we had been discovered. Going through our count of the ten that we were two boys who were brothers, perhaps out of fear, they no longer wanted to go on. They said they' d be back. It was then that the bread spoke. He told them that they could leave, not only they who wanted to, but that we were in a dangerous area where strange animals were attacking both inside and outside the river. They were the ones who had attacked all the boys and not the crocodiles. Perhaps the brothers did not believe in his words because without saying anything, they walked away to get lost in the darkness. The eight of us who still had that uncertainty of not knowing if what the cordon said was true, walked even a little further. It should be mentioned that we were increasingly fearful. I wished with all my strength that God would soon allow me to cross and, apart from that, that I should not get caught by the migrant at about four o' clock in the morning we stopped to rest a

57:29 little because we had already walked a lot, it was no longer me who felt that something was following us. Two other boys commented on the same thing and the concern grew when we saw each other like this, the corduroy became serious. He told us that one of those creatures he had told us had been following us for about two hours, but he was hoping to have us in a place where we were vulnerable. He warned us that it was time to cross the river, because if he didn' t attack us in a matter of minutes and we would all surely die. That was the most terrible thing I could hear that night. We all looked at each other scared of having to get in the water. Almost shaking the fear I had. I took off my pants and shirt, because there were lots of branches in that place. I could be stuck and drowned I thought that this was the worst place to cross, but neither would I be left alone while the others crossed the moment I had longed for had arrived only that now, as I felt in danger, I wished a thousand times better to be at home safe no matter if I was hungry with my heart. Beating at a thousand an hour we start walking the corduroy. He told me as if it was a secret that when he told me, I would swim with all my might, because the speed in which I did it depended on my life. I agreed.

58:54 I found it strange that he only told me. We walked through the cold water, dodging branches and other things that dragged the flow. Maybe it was my desperation, but I felt like we weren' t moving forward. I realized the current was stronger than I thought. From time to time I would turn around to see the other guys and check that we were all in one of those times that I turned around and looked at that behind one of them was a pretty tall figure about to reach him. I didn' t know what to think at the time, but I knew that that wasn' t a man, let alone a crocodile. I wanted to react quickly and warn the corduroy, but maybe because of fear I got stuck. The jaws hurt so bad, I was about to stop. Seconds later it happened what I imagined and how scary it was for me. When the boys started screaming after us. The corduroy told me that nothing was strong, ventured into the water and moved away from me quickly. I don' t know what it was, but something made me react, but my arms got tired of swimming and I sank. I have no words to describe how desperate it was. I knew I still needed a good stretch to reach the shore. When I got out afloat, seconds later I heard the boys screaming. I fought with all my might against the current, against my fear and my weariness. I had

1:00:27 already heard that despair kills, but I could not react otherwise. Meters later, I couldn' t take it anymore and I went down again. I thought my end had come. When I started swallowing water. Everything turned dark and the sound of the water in my ears was terrible, even though my eyes and throat were so burning. I remembered everything I had suffered, not just on the way to get there what I had suffered in life and what I suffered from my family. That gave me strength to go out again and get some air. I don' t remember screaming. I just had the strength to stay conscious. I turned to shore and there was someone standing looking at me no matter what was anything straight there. I was about to sink for the third time making a superhuman effort and as if it were a miracle I reached the shore. I remember very well that I could feel air coming into my lungs until I was out of the river. I totally realized that the corduroy was waiting for me, grabbed me by the hair and almost dragged me through Mount Corrimos, feeling that someone was chasing us many meters later we threw ourselves on the earth. I asked him in a voice cut by the others, but he told me that it was just him and me lying there,

1:01:57 we heard a lot of footsteps noises as if we had walked away. They were looking for them might be those of the migration, or maybe it was that creature that I had seen inside the river before dawn. We walk across fences of private property. In one of those properties, a family helped us because we were practically naked and starved and tired. All that day. We were there with those people who, by the way, were American. Despite that, they behaved very well with us. For a few days we were in Texas until some friends of the Pana took us to another state more within the country in the beginning. It wasn' t like I dreamt of it late, weeks of finding a job and months of sending some money to my family that I was already considered dead. The worst thing I' ve ever faced here is discrimination against Hispanics themselves. They probably didn' t go through the same thing as many of us did. But if I had the strength to get out of the bottom of the river, nothing could tell me anymore and I stayed here forever. Last time I talked to my friend, the Pana, I asked him what kind of animals were the ones that attacked us that night. He assured me those creatures were naguals. Those beings.

1:03:14 I had many years to live on the riverbank and apparently no one did anything to marry them. I thought your answer was incredible. I don' t have to believe him The time has passed. I didn' t have to lie to myself. Obviously, when I tell this story, I tell my acquaintances that it was crocodiles that ate all those boys that horrible night. And so no one questions me about the forest animal. I want to tell you an experience that I lived a few years ago when we decided to camp in a forest in southern Mexico. My name is Philip. One summer afternoon, my wife, our two children and I, accompanied by three dogs, decided to move away from the city to spend a weekend in nature. We planned it for fifteen days to make everything perfect. In the early hours of that morning we prepared everything at about noon. We moved to an area of forest that was an hour from our house. We left the car as far as it could have gone. The rest of the way we' d do it on foot, carrying the tents and everything necessary. We walked along several trails to see ourselves surrounded by large trees. After walking for a while, we found a perfect clearing. In less than an hour, we set up our camp and were ready for our adventure. The quietness of the place was almost

1:04:48 perfect. At nightfall, we lit a fire and gathered around it to talk about everyday things. It was those few times that we could all be living together as the family we were, because, for one thing or another, we could never do it. Our pets were so attached to us that they weren' t snooping or running around. They were lying next to us as if they were entertaining with our talk. That' s how we were until ten and a half p m, agreed time to go to sleep. Everything was going smoothly. The wind was cool, the atmosphere was quiet, there was no chance of rain. We took refuge in the two tents. The dogs also entered, one with me and my wife, the other two with my children. We closed the lock in case they needed to go out during the night, we were just settling in. My wife signaled me to keep quiet. Wanting to hear something in between, I stopped breathing for a moment, but everything was calm. Just signposted. I asked him what was going on. He told me quietly that an animal was around us. I asked her if she was sure of what she was saying, because I didn' t hear anything. Besides, I thought it was weird that dogs didn' t smell it. We were still silent for a few more minutes. The

1:06:21 first indication that something was not right was a strange sound that was heard. It was a noise that seemed to come from the trees. It sounded like someone was drowning. My wife and I looked at each other surprised because then that sound seemed to come from different directions. Knowing we weren' t alone in the middle of the woods was a disturbing thing we weren' t expecting. Then. Dogs, usually quiet, began to bark without ceasing. That ' s why we let them out of the houses. As I looked out I realized that they were looking into the darkness of the forest with a defensive attitude, one towards one place, the other towards another. We went out all four to see what was going on. Even though the noises calmed down, something kept making our pets nervous. We too feel restless. That' s why. Once again we entered the tents, but the dogs refused to enter and remained outside vigilante having a discomfort throughout the night. Dogs kept barking.

1:07:30 Sometimes they were heard far away and then quite close to us. It was like they were chasing someone or maybe something was chasing them. We were so nervous that my wife asked me to bring the boys to our campaign house. I agreed. When I left, I felt someone was watching me. It was such a strange feeling that it made me stop. For a few seconds. I looked around without being watched. I spoke to my children. When they left the house. They told me something strange was going on and we all took refuge in one house. As long as we' re inside, we' re not talking. That rare feeling of being observed did not disappear as if the strong gaze passed through the material of the campaign house and was deposited in us, no matter how dark we were. My wife hugged my children while I thought we could defend ourselves in case something attacked us.

1:08:34 We didn' t really know the kind of animals that inhabited that area, but for dogs to get that way it was something that posed danger, not just to us, but to them, without knowing what to do. We heard the dogs were fighting someone, only the fight lasted a long time. Every time we heard our pets cry. My children wanted to go out and help them, but I convinced them that would be a mistake. Before dawn, the branches of the trees were heard as if something large were walking in awe of the birds, knowing that it was dangerous to face any animal in the darkness. I didn' t even dare look out at myself imagining that the only animal that could face the three dogs climb the trees and make all that fuss. He was a very big feline, but those strange laments kept listening very close to us. We all heard them. The next morning we got up to check, looked for prints, but there was nothing. After a few minutes we realized that one of our dogs, named Rocky, had disappeared. The other two showed some wounds and were even bitten with what little we had. We cured them and let a space of about an hour pass for Rocky to come back, but time ran and it never came. The other two dogs were still nervous. We decided to look around for him.

1:10:09 We couldn' t lose him after a while of looking for him together, my 13- year- old son and I found a trail. My wife and my little son stayed at the camp. We decided to go and investigate further into the forest, searching as we shouted a man, we went through a good stretch, but after an hour of searching, the trail was lost among some bushes and we no longer found it. That' s why we decided to go back to camp. I' ll be right back. Any noise seemed suspicious to us. We stopped constantly believing that we saw animal tracks everywhere. We were turning up the trees, imagining a terrible predator stalking us.

1:10:58 At that moment I feel confused, perhaps for being in my thoughts. I didn' t pay attention to my son when he told me that our dog had been taken away. The night before noon we arrived at the camp. We took the opportunity to eat something and talk about what probably happened to him And my children commented that they heard some grunts. It could also be the sound of pigs. According to his experience, they were talking a little before bed when they heard something crawling outside without giving them time to react. The dogs stopped their ears and left the campaign house. My youngest son wanted to stop them, but it was impossible for him. What was outside was quickly chased away by the dogs, but apparently he was already dragging one of them. Suddenly we were in a dilemma. After what happened, we couldn ' t spend another night in that place, but we couldn' t leave our pet, who was already eight years old with us. Besides, he was only lost and at any moment he could appear again. My son and I went out looking for him. Now heading for another direction for half an hour we were whistling him and calling him by his name, but he didn ' t show up. Maybe we walked a few hundred meters resigned that we wouldn' t see him again. We walked back on the way back again.

1:12:30 I felt watched, I was worried because my son was with me so I wouldn' t scare him. I asked him to be alert, but that' s all. Upon our return we realized that another of our dogs had also mysteriously disappeared. They had only heard him bark insistently. And a second later he was gone. My wife and my other son were already worried because before that they were listening to some grunts pretty close asked us to look again now. Both of you. Before I did, I asked them to be careful when I left, because it was obvious that something strange and dangerous was happening. At the last minute I asked my son to stay with his brother and mother. I told them I' d look for them for an hour or so if I found them or not. When we got back, we' d leave. From there. I went into the woods and they started picking everything up. I wasn' t going to leave, either.

1:13:33 On this occasion alone I was accompanied by the dog that was tied to a leash. He was walking in front of me. I knew that in case of danger, he would defend me. We move slowly, looking carefully for a new account. I found a trail, unfortunately, it was blood. We walked and walked without finding anything else. It seemed that our most pets had been swallowed up by the immense forest already deep within a lot of weeds. I found the remains of an animal. His fur was the same color as one of our dogs. That' s why I went to check them out. I approached cautiously out of fear that causer of the death of that animal was hidden out there. When the German shepherd smelled those remains, he became nervous and soon after he showed his teeth I noticed that he was fearful of the way he had his tail. He started barking in a desperate way to see him like this, he also made me nervous. I turned around because I felt a presence, but there was nothing. The dog turned up the trees like something was jumping from top to top. Maybe he smelled the danger because he suddenly ran directionless, leaving me just wanted to run after him, but he was going to sea fast. If I lost sight of him, there was a chance that I' d stray from the road and get

1:15:06 better off. I stopped. I came back to be sure it was what was lying there. I was never entirely sure. The body was so bitten that it could be any kind of animal less than a meter away there were signs that they had dragged something large. I looked and all I found to defend myself was a stick. I took it and walked following that trail was freshly marked. After walking about 30 meters, that mark landed on the thick trunk of a large tree. I turned him around, looked at his sides, there was nothing. I looked a little further, a few meters and as much as I searched the earth I found nothing. I suspected that what they had dragged had been climbed into the trees. I turned around hoping it wasn' t one of our pets. The branches were so thick that I could hardly see anything clearly enough. Squinting my eyes, I made an effort to find out that what was up there if it was Rocky, I can ' t deny that fear took over more of me. My conservation instinct told me to stay away from there, because not any animal could climb my dog to where I was resigned to the fact that if Rock was up there dead, the other dog was surely the remains we had found meters back. At that moment I decided to go back to camp, take my family and leave

1:16:40 that forest. Only when I turned around I could see a shadow to hide among some trees. I identified it as a shadow because it was totally black. It couldn' t be anything but that predator. But the terrible thing was that what I saw didn' t have a definite human form. It was pretty big, but with deformed legs I' ve never found the exact words to explain what I felt. I stared at that place for a few seconds, because that thing seemed to pop out of the trees. The only thing I could see well was that I had big, bright eyes looking at me and then hiding again. Overcoming that I felt, I tried to find him from a distance to know more for sure what that was, but nothing could be seen with agitated breathing. I' m sure I' d seen a creature more than an animal would try to go back another way, avoiding getting near that place without losing sight of those trees. First I walked slowly.

1:17:45 I don' t remember any more of a sudden I saw myself running around without turning anywhere, without knowing where I was going. After running for a while, I tried to return to the path that would take me back to the camp, but everything was so unknown that for the first time in my life I knew the terror that feels when I get lost. I remember that at that time I would be about forty- five years old, but seeing myself alone in the middle of the forest, I felt like an eight - year- old scared. There were times when I heard a dog bark. I was sure he was the German shepherd, but he couldn' t identify where he was supposed to go to find him. For the same reason, I was just walking without an address. I knew that if I didn ' t find the way back, the night would soon come. I began to be in despair because I didn' t want to see myself in the middle of the forest knowing that something unknown like what I had seen could marry me just like I had married the dogs. He walked slowly down so as not to be discovered. Then I got nervous. I ran desperate beating me with branches and trunks, but I stopped alone until I got tired. Then I walked slowly again. Maybe that' s how it was two hours, maybe a little longer, but time didn' t stop. I got like six o' clock in the afternoon. I figured because it all started to

1:19:17 turn gray. I could hear the dog barking again, but now clear enough to know where he was with his heart. Beating at a thousand an hour and with some luck, I managed to get to camp. I realized my family hadn' t picked up anything like we' d met. I went into the houses just to find out that my wife and children weren' t there I felt a hole in my stomach. Imagining the worst. I walked around. I called them out, but I didn' t get an answer. Desperately I looked for something to tell me what had happened. They were the most disturbing seconds of my life. Then the German shepherd appeared. He began to bark frantically at the trees. I was going to run thinking that the predator was there when I looked up I saw something I could never forget.

1:20:15 My family was in the highest branches shaking with fear. I didn' t even have time to rejoice yet as bewildered as I could fight them, I managed to help them down because they refused to do so. Once on the ground, everyone told me what happened. They had been persecuted by a creature they had never seen before. My wife described the animal as a mixture between a wolf and a pig, but much larger and with a presence that iced the blood. He had big red shining eyes and a black fur. His movements were fast and quiet. The most disturbing thing was his snout.

1:20:58 It came from Oreja to Oreja and I and R la. The teeth were so big, they stood out. It made that strange sound that we had heard at night. When I looked at my wife crying and my frightened children, I had no doubt that what they were telling me was true. Besides, I had also seen that animal in the middle of the forest. He was himself. There were a lot of things I didn' t understand. For example, he did not know how they had climbed the tree or because he did not attack them. That animal if it wanted to climb the tree without any difficulty, but there was no time to find out. We decided to leave the camp immediately, as I was able to calm my family because they were in shock. We packed the most essential things we could, like water, some food and flashlights. Then we ran through the woods looking to get away as quickly as possible. Maybe it was the nerves from there, but I felt like we weren' t going anywhere. The afternoon began to fall in despair. We were moving forward, but the forest seemed repetitive.

1:22:08 When we found a path it was almost night, we lit the flashlights and everything became more scary. Soon we got tired, but we couldn' t stop. My little son constantly asked how long we needed to get there. I was about to tell my family that we were lost, because I didn ' t know where to go. Having a strong hunch, I walked right. Thank God, it wasn' t like that. I don' t know how long later we found our car. For several minutes we searched for the keys until we found them all the way back. We don' t get tired of giving it. Thank God you' re all right. When we arrived home an hour later, we did not know for sure what had happened to us. The only thing clear was that something or someone quite strange was watching us day and night. Besides, our dogs had disappeared in that forest. That night we all slept in one room, afraid of what we had seen. It was so much fear that even the German pastor slept with us that we dared not leave him out. Some neighbors, to whom we told them our experience, spoke of the possibility that this forest animal was a gual. In describing what those beings were like, My wife, who had seen them more closely, assured us that what they looked at was very similar

1:23:39 to those creatures. He was still in deep fear. I couldn' t stop thinking about those bright eyes and what could have happened if we hadn' t escaped in time. To this day I live in fear every time I hear a noise in the dark. I wonder if it won' t be that creature in Nahual, coming back for our dog or maybe for us. But this I narrated is what I feel. It' s the aftermath of all that. My wife was scared for a long time and don' t tell my children that they suffered from recurring nightmares, stories, written and adapted by black cat