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The refuge of the Nahual. Many
years ago, when I was young,

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I frequently visited my grandfather’ s
house, which was quite close to a

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ravine. He lived quietly on the
outskirts of a small town. He was

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called Jesus. He was an older
man, almost blind and deaf, but

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that did not prevent him from making
his life, despite living alone because my

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grandmother had long ago died he was
always in good spirits because of the location

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of his land. No neighbors,
no dogs, no cats. He was

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about 80 years old. He kept
everything in the same place. So he

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didn' t get too hard to
find and grab what he needed. When

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he came to visit him, which
was on average once a week, he

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was very happy to take advantage of
shopping or to make small repairs at his

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house, especially in the back fence, the one bordering the ravine that,

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for some strange reason whenever he went, was broken. On that occasion I

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would be with him for two weeks, because they gave me my vacation.

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I lived in another town like I
had nothing better to do. My grandfather

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' s house was the best option. I liked to talk to him a

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lot because he was full of interesting
stories. One of my favorites. The

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one that hit me the most was
when she told me why I was affected

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by her sight. I always listened
to him. According to his own story

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as a young man, he was
a military man who sent them to the

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mountains to inspect on a tour at
night. Your squadron was attacked by something

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that wasn' t human. He
told me that on that occasion they had

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a mission to search for forbidden plantings
in four vehicles they were moving practically through

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the mountain, carrying long weapons always
ready to repel any wrong aggression. With

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the lights off they were practically invisible
at a given moment the vehicle across the

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street stopped suddenly. This occurred when
there were signs of danger. After a

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few minutes they kept moving forward.
The tension was increasing because everyone could feel

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the presence of someone, despite going
meters away from each other. So much

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so that, after a few minutes, the four units stopped their march almost

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at the same time. The silence
itself was marked. It became disquieting and

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some sounds from among the bushes intensified. Something crawled in the middle of the

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mountain without showing up. The sergeant
got out of the first unit and stared

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into the darkness. The rest of
the military continued to aim in different directions.

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They expected members of armed groups to
appear, but that was not the

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case. Instead, something came out
of the mountain like a gust of wind

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silently. They were thrown upon them
with great force, regardless of whether they

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were soldiers prepared to kill if necessary. He attacked them. It was so

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fast the attack that everyone was taken
by surprise. They felt that something big

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happened over the military vehicles by attacking
them, only leaving in its wake cries

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of pain and surprise. There wasn' t even one shot. Seconds later

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it had all happened, one that
another element still pointed its weapon toward the

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mountain, paralyzed without being able to
believe what had just happened. While some

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soldiers went down to inspect, others
searched the wounded. No one could describe

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the attacker. They only agreed that
it was a huge shadow, with great

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strength and skill, that it did
not appear to be of this world and

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that, in a matter of seconds, it had knocked down several soldiers,

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leaving the wounded, among them my
grandfather, with a severe blow to the

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head that caused a bleeding wound.
Disconcerted with great care they searched the area,

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but finding nothing strange, they climbed
their vehicles and resumed the way back.

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My grandfather felt dizzy by the blow. Still, he watched that shadow

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continue to shine the bushes pointing to
him with his finger. The others couldn

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' t see it. That strange
figure followed him at great speed. When

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he was a few meters from the
vehicle, he jumped over my grandfather and

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disappeared. He assured me that shadow
got inside him. He shouted all the

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way to stop because he was inside, but everyone told him to calm down,

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that it was a product of his
imagination. They arrived in a village

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and attended them in a medical clinic. Most had only mild blows or some

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scratches on others, like my grandfather
Jesus, had to move them to a

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hospital in another town to be treated
after some studies. My grandfather was incapacitated

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for two weeks, not only to
recover from the head wound, but also

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because for everyone he suffered from strange
hallucinations. The doctors who attended him were

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told that this creature had gotten into
him. Obviously, that couldn' t

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be possible and the doctors less were
going to accept such a thing. When

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she was left alone and the nurses
turned off the lights, that shadow came

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out. He was yelling at the
doctors to see her. They just ordered

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him to put a tranquilizer on him. Then they withdrew. Weeks later he

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was sent with the psychologist attended therapies, sessions, treatments of everything. They

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could never take away the idea that
that creature was being carried inside. They

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gradually ignored him. From there,
he looked at that shadow everywhere and even

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within several hospitals where he was cared
for. He claimed that the shadow that

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followed him wherever he was, was
such a strange creature that it did not

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resemble any other animal. Soon that
being also invaded his dreams. He didn

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' t show himself in them either, but my grandfather knew he was himself.

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I didn' t know why,
but I could feel it. There

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were times when he woke up believing
that everything he dreamed of was a terrible

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reality and that that creature would soon
attack him. Like those hallucinations, they

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never abandoned him. He was declared
unable to do his duty. That'

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s why he was retired from the
army. Before he left, they told

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him to never tell anything about what
he had seen, neither that nor any

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night, because they would judge him
as a madman. He was sent home,

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where he was apparently in recovery.
But even many years after he retired

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and was married to my grandmother,
that creature continued to appear to him because

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of the blow. I no longer
knew if he dreamed of it, imagined

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it or was real, but it
was so common to see what scared him

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to the point of ignoring it.
When I saw him. Time passed many

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things, but what he saw coming
out of his body never changed. He

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was always the same indefinite figure that
materialized at night. When I left adolescence,

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I started to frequent it because none
of my cousins did, claiming that

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my grandfather scared them with all the
things I told them. That didn'

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t happen to me. From the
first time I visited him, I decided

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to keep doing it. It was
my turn to visit when I had an

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anxiety crisis, to walk around the
house, to look through the windows constantly

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and to assure me that someone had
been watching him. When that happened to

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him, he told me again the
story of how that night, the creature

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had gotten into him and gave me
more details. She told me that creature

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she had seen on other occasions.
Many soldiers were witnesses. He followed him

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in the distance, always trying to
hide, they were obviously afraid of him

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because they knew he had attacked other
patrols, but they were things that were

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said nothing confirmed. On one occasion
he followed a platoon before dawn he managed

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to dump one of the units,
but unexpectedly disappeared surely and this was said

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by those who were there. That
creature was just defending his territory. The

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soldiers themselves invented things. He said
that it was a herd of these animals

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and that they were preparing the ambushes, but the most serious claimed that it

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was only one animal that was doing
all the damage. But that couldn'

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t be proven either. There were
reports of military missing. Many soldiers knew

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that this creature was to blame for
taking them. It was forbidden to make

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sure that was true. Force them
to shut up. Another thing that happened

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was that in all the attacks there
was always someone affected his mind by ensuring

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that that being tormented them for a
long time. The major didn' t

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accept any of that. For that
reason, the majority suffered from a low

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level of military service. Seeing that
being my grandfather had tormented him for a

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long time. Losing his sight helped
him in something, because that creature usually

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appeared to him at night and because
of his blindness he could no longer see

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him in anything. That situation had
been a relief, but my grandfather assured

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me that I felt when that creature
came out from inside him and even that

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I could smell it when I was
around his house every night. But because

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of his inability to listen well,
he did not know where he was before

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dawn, he was put back into
his body. Sometimes I thought differently.

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I thought all that was alone in
his head and it didn' t make

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sense. That' s why I
tried to ignore it, thinking it was

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one of his many nightmares. So
everything became confused. I accept that at

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first I also believed that everything was
the product of his imagination. If there

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was something he couldn' t see
or hear manifesting at night in the backyard

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of his house, when he was
asleep something of him, which I hadn

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' t noticed. A shadow that
the first time I looked at her scared

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me. It happened one night I
couldn' t sleep. They gave me

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about four o' clock in the
morning without knowing why I felt so restless.

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I was spinning in bed pretty uncomfortable. Suddenly I heard a noise in

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the yard. It sounded dry as
if someone heavy had jumped the fence.

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I got up in plain sight.
I couldn' t see anyone. For

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several seconds I tried to find something
and nothing, but little by little I

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discovered that there was someone crouching in
the courtyard. Out of all that darkness,

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thinking that maybe some bum had gotten
into it, he was going to

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yell at him. I kept the
scream because I realized I was a strange

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figure, almost undetectable. Still,
squatting as it was, it looked huge.

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That figure moved slowly. It seemed
like I had small animals with me,

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devouring them in such a horrible way
that it left me ice cream.

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It was a grotesque and terrifying spectacle, but I don' t know why

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I couldn' t take my eyes
off him before dawn rose. So I

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checked it was too high. It
couldn' t be a person, not

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a normal person. He leapt the
fence easily, heading to the ravine,

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leaving me truly frightened and not knowing
what to do. It was that morning

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that I realized that what Grandpa told
me was true. At dawn, without

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my grandfather suspecting anything, I asked
him if he still felt the presence of

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that creature who had injured him.
He turned his eyes almost off towards me

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and told me something I don'
t forget. Of course I' m

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sorry. He' s never gonna
leave, because he' s part of

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me. It lives in my thoughts
and sometimes materializes. I asked him to

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explain that to me, but he
didn' t want to talk that way

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anymore. What appeared I no longer
saw as a shadow. Every night.

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That creature always came back with a
prey. I ate it in the backyard

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of my grandfather' s house.
Then, before dawn, he was on

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his way to the ravine and no
longer returned. I tried to talk to

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my grandfather again about what was happening, but he couldn' t hear me

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right, or at least that was
what made me understand and didn' t

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seem to care about the gravity of
the situation. Determined to protect him and

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his home without telling him anything,
I sought help in the village. It

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was very difficult to tell them my
grandfather' s story and ensure that a

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creature lived within him. It seemed
like a story. Most of the people

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I told them looked at me unbelievingly
even mockingly. There was a man who

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assured me that what visited the backyard
was a nahual intrigued by what I told

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him, he agreed to help me. He said that in a village there

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was an old man named Don Julián, known for his knowledge of herbal remedies.

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Surely he could free my grandfather from
that which pursued him. I didn

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' t think anyone, using only
herbs, could cure what doctors couldn'

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t. On the first opportunity I
had I went to that town to look

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for Mr Julian, asking myself I
knew from the same villagers that he was

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a shaman. Knowing that somewhat fearfully, I searched him until I found him

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and knocked on his door. When
he opened, I realized he was a

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serious, but simple person. Without
wasting time I talked to him, he

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didn' t question my words,
but he scared me what he told me.

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There were two possibilities. That creature
that to him was a hual.

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I was hoping to finish the animals
in the ravine and then eat my grandfather

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or expect him to die and finally
leave his body. He was jumping.

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I asked him how that was possible
without so many rodeos. He assured me

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that that night, when that animal
attacked the soldiers, something smelled in my

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grandfather that attracted him perhaps his soul, perhaps his blood, and would not

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leave him until he got it.
Practically all that time, my grandfather'

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s body had been his refuge.
Maybe he looked at me scared and desperate

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because he asked me to calm down
very calmly. He explained to me that

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he only needed strong protection, which
he had never had. That creature could

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no longer touch him and forget about
him. He warned me that it was

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simple, but it wasn' t. While preparing something with his hands,

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the shaman told me of many similar
cases where all kinds of people who had

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had an encounter with those creatures and
had not resorted to protection had suffered.

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After a few minutes, Don Julián
gave me an amulet and or rather rare

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that my grandfather should bring in day
and night. He also gave me a

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small bundle of grass called Ruda to
put on the front door. Finally,

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he asked me to be in the
care that that creature would not smell me,

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because it would also follow me coming
home. I gave him the amulet

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without actually telling him what it was
like to put it on without asking anything.

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I also put the herbs at the
door. That night I was very

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nervous about what the shaman had told
me in the morning. Again, I

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heard those noises. As I looked
out, I realized that this strange silhouette

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appeared, the fence came up,
and he was ready to eat almost in

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front of my eyes. She ate
the whole animals because she never left any

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remains in the yard. There were
also no traces of him burying them,

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as canines do. The more I
looked at her, the more scared she

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was. He was telling me the
truth. I still didn' t believe

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that came out of my grandfather,
but I hoped that, if it was

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true, I would no longer be
able to enter his body because of the

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amulet I had put him trusting that
it would work. I was a little

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calmer. That thing didn' t
show up for two nights. I could

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hear him walking around the house trying
to get in without getting it. Perhaps

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it was my nerves or my imagination, but in the middle of the silence

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of the night I could hear him
sniff the environment. I hid under the

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quilts so I wouldn' t smell. At dawn I couldn' t hear

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it anymore. On one occasion,
I went back to consult the shaman.

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I told him what was going on. Don Julián, told me that my

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grandfather was already protected and the house, but the fence was not enough to

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stop a creature of those. That' s why he gave me some special

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herbs. They were basil and Romero
prepared. He explained to me that those

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herbs placed at strategic points around the
fence, could repel the creature for at

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least a considerable time. Following his
instructions, I placed the herbs in small

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sacks that I hung at regular intervals
throughout the fence, especially in the back,

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where it used to appear. That
same night I waited in my room,

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watching from the window, I knew
I had arrived, because I felt

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a chill. For the first time
the shadow appeared as always, but this

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time it stopped. As I reached
the fence, I could see his eyes

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shining with a contained fury. He
tried to cross the wooden barrier several times,

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but failed. He tried on one
side after the other, something like

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an invisible force prevented him from even
touching it. He could have jumped her,

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but he didn' t. He
finally stood there watching the house for

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a long time. Before he disappeared
into the dark. I still had three

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nights left to be at my grandfather' s. For one more night that

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being appeared tried to tear it down
near without achieving it. It was the

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only time I heard it. Brahmar
made him so ugly so strong he even

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woke up. My grandfather was not
going to hide from him what was happening

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at the time, but it was
very difficult to explain why with Signas,

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as I could let him know that
the creature was hovering around every roar he

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made. That animal seemed to call
my grandfather, but he couldn' t

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hear it anymore. Since he didn' t have an answer. He stood

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looking between the grids towards the house
until dawn. The following nights were quiet.

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The hard maid did not appear again
and peace returned to the house,

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even though I never knew for certain. Which was what that being wanted.

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I convinced myself that I had managed
to drive him away with the help of

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the shaman, but something strange happened
from that day on. My grandfather went

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off like a force was abandoning him. He was getting weaker, he looked

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happy, but apparently he was witnessing
his death because he said he was looking

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at my grandmother. I was with
him as long as I could when the

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family found out he was dying.
The house was filled with children, daughters

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- in- law, grandchildren and
granddaughters who, without any prudence, went

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to say goodbye to him in time
My grandfather Jesus passed away. His death

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was strange to me because I realized
he wasn' t wearing his amulet and

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he never took it off. I
looked everywhere for him without finding him.

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I was brave to think that one
of my cousins would have put it on

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better. That' s how I
left him I didn' t want to

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investigate anymore. I was calm to
know that he had freed himself from all

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that and could finally rest in peace. To everyone' s discontent. He

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left that house in my name,
perhaps because I was the only one of

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all his grandchildren who tried, but
for what I lived those nights, I

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never wanted to occupy it. I
don' t think I' ll ever

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do that. If anyone thinks it' s out of fear, then yes,

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that' s why. However,
every time I visit her, I

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don' t just remember my grandfather
and his talks. I can' t

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help but remember those bright eyes at
night, watching as if the story hadn

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' t completely ended. Sometimes I
think if it was actually a which or

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something worse. I don' t
know, but I' m sure as

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long as the fence stands and the
herbs stay in place, that won'

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t bring back the transformation. What
I' m about to tell you is

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something that happened to me a few
years ago during an adventure on the Mount.

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One morning in November, along with
some friends, we decided to leave

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the city to spend a night in
nature. We were a group of five

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boys. We arrived on the Mount
from ten in the morning with a single

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tent. We prepare to enjoy the
tranquility that only the countryside can offer all

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day. We walked around, joked
and laughed. We walked so far to

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get tired, but we had also
done so to prove that we were totally

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alone without a soul around us.
We used to put together a little dry

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branches to set up a bonfire.
A little later, hours later, dragging

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a bunch of branches, we returned
We left a trail as far as we

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had the campaign house. When we
arrived we looked at each other because we

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discovered that there were strange traces that
did not belong to any of us.

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This or the size they were.
Besides, the distance from the footprints told

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us it was from a very tall
person. We started looking around the house

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a little bit. Still a little
more, we didn' t panic or

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anything like that, because nobody was
seen or stolen from us. Maybe he

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was just another camper like us.
When the afternoon began to fall, the

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mountain felt strange. There was something
in the environment that is never known to

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define what it was at the time. I didn' t want to say

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anything to my friends, but I
knew they were watching us feeling restless.

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He was constantly turning around, wanting
to discover someone, but always trying to

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keep my friends out of sight and
start planning to get together. Perhaps it

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was so much that I did so
that one of them, David, would

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not take my eyes off me until, apart from the others, he asked

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me what was wrong with me.
I told him I felt like we were

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being watched. I thought you'
d laugh to my astonishment. He also

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felt uncomfortable and had seen something run
through the bushes in the middle of the

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thick mountain. We both agreed to
tell each other and decide whether or not

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to stay. It was still about
an hour before the afternoon began to fall.

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When we got together to talk,
we told others what we felt and

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what David had seen. In the
end we voted to decide what to do.

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By a majority of votes we were
left with the argument that if something

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strange did not happen, it was
not a real adventure and we all agreed

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with that until me that night,
after having eaten and laughed a good We

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sat around the campfire, already the
last, as at midnight we touched on

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the subject of the footprints we had
found. It had been a strange situation,

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something we obviously did not expect,
but we had nothing to worry about

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when we were more entertained. I
heard a weird noise. I signaled them

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all to remain silent, but taking
it as a joke they smiled first.

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Then they started laughing and they talked
and they were talking nonsense that they wouldn

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' t let me hear. I
told them I was serious. That'

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s the only way they stopped doing
it. I got up and looked up

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at the mountain. Once again,
that noise was heard again. This time

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we all witnessed that there was something
very close to us. Most people said

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it was an animal. I told
them it might be, but we had

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to make sure what kind of animal
it was could be a dangerous one.

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We all put ourselves on alert and
even rose with the intention of going to

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investigate. One of my friends told
us to stay close to the fire because

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most animals were afraid of him as
if we had agreed. We turned our

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backs on the light and each looked
to one side of the mountain. That

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' s how we spent a few
minutes listening to that. The sounds intensified

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so much that we knew it was
a person who was apparently walking around us.

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Only he did it in the dark
of the night, because we couldn

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' t see him. The minutes
passed and we were still in tension.

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I wanted no one to show up
because we didn' t have any kind

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of weapon to defend ourselves. Maybe
that' s what I was worried about.

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Suddenly something moved that I could very
vaguely distinguish. I was trying to

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tell my friends when a man appeared
in the shadows, said good night and

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apologized for scaring us still tense.
We' ll say hello. He came

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up and asked us if we had
a piece of meat to eat. At

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first glance, he looked like a
pretty tall peasant. However, wearing worn

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clothes and a look that reflected tiredness. Without much thought, we offered him

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a little of what we had.
He accepted and sat in front of the

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campfire next to us for a moment
we talked a little with him. He

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told us he was hunting because he
was hungry. He had such a heavy

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look that he was very uncomfortable.
I found it odd that he told us

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that he lived nearby, because surely
none of us remembered seeing a house in

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two kilometers around when we walked through
the mountain. Another thing that caught my

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attention was the fact that he asked
for only meat. He didn' t

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want to eat anything else. The
questions he was asking us were weird.

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One of them was if we were
alone if we ate raw meat. He

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also asked us if we liked the
smell of dogs. I don' t

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know about the others, but it
seemed suspicious to me. I don'

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t know why I turned to see
him. His shoes were pretty big.

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He was very close to the size
of the prints we had found, I

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began to suspect that it might be
he who was stalking us. I also

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noticed his great stature. The night
was moving forward. He was still there

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sometimes without talking, just looking at
the light while eating. Perhaps he realized

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my suspicions, because soon the man
got up, thanked the food. Then

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he asked us if we would spend
the whole night there and disappeared in the

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darkness of the mountain. Most people
didn' t think much of it,

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believing he was just a man from
the field who consumed some substances. When

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we were alone, I asked who
else had found it suspicious. Only Rodrigo

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agreed with me. I told them
about the size of their shoes, but

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nobody thought it was important. We
decided to stay a little longer in the

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campfire waiting for nothing to happen anymore, because, at least to me,

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the presence of an unknown person had
made me nervous. We did not know

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who he was or with what intentions
he had approached us. We were just

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encouraging ourselves to go to bed.
When David said the man was there,

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we all turned where he pointed his
finger and it was true. There he

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stood in the middle of the mountain, staring at us without moving or making

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any gestures. Some of us said
bad words as a surprise reaction. We

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looked at it, too. It
was just a few seconds. We didn

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' t have time to say anything
because he turned around and got in the

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dark. We all got up,
we knew that wasn' t a normal

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attitude. Then my friends were scared, including me all. We' re

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out of sleep. At least I
was sorry I put it to the vote.

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If we stayed, I knew there
was enough reason for us to have

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returned by the time we found the
prints, but it was too late for

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regrets. We seemed to have lost
our speech. When we looked into our

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eyes, it became apparent that no
one knew what to do as time did

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again. There he was again looking
at us insistently. When I saw him

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in the bushes, I couldn'
t help but feel a chill. He

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wasn' t making any strange moves. He was just watching us, but

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with that we had to fill ourselves
with fear. I don' t remember

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who someone of us took courage and
yelled at him that he wanted the man

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or moved. After a while,
he turned around and again walked calmly toward

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the mountain until he disappeared. After
a few seconds passed, Rodrigo told us

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with a trembling voice if we hadn' t noticed that the man' s

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face had changed in something. Apparently, his eyes were smaller and his ears

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were bigger. Also, according to
him, he now had the longest hands.

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I got scared listening to him and
asked him not to say those things.

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I didn' t expect David to
comment that the first time he showed

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up he also noticed it differently.
Apparently, now it was higher to think

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that it was turning into something to
make us tremble. The attention was already

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too much. We would have wanted
to run out of there, but we

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knew it was impossible. Surely we
would get lost on the immense Mount there

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was the possibility that this gentleman would
only want to scare us. But as

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we know, David, who always
had a watch, told us that they

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were only going to give two in
the morning when we realized that it was

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long before dawn, and that person
had already seen it three times, always

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in a different way. We'
re looking for a way to defend ourselves.

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First we made the fire bigger so
it would light us up a little

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more and not catch us unsuspecting.
That gentleman helped by the blackness of the

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night. Then we looked for stones, sticks and showed ourselves emboldened to see

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that we were not afraid of him. Minutes later we started listening to other

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sounds. This time they weren'
t steps. It was a strange sound,

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perhaps like a grunt, but not
so definite. The most disturbing thing

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was that we heard him behind us
then across the street. Apparently, it

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was two things they did to him, just like that because it was impossible

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for him to jump from one side
to the other. In a matter of

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seconds. I didn' t dare
say anything, but I imagined that man

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transformed into a threatening, very nervous, grunting beast. We prepared ourselves with

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stones and sticks to defend ourselves,
but it seemed like he was playing with

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us. The minutes passed and nothing
appeared until, unexpectedly, it was not

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heard anymore. Keeping everything quiet.
Knowing that the light had helped us,

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we decided to spend the rest of
the night sheltered by fire. We got

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as close as we could and took
turns sleeping, one because we were all

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tired of the walk we had done, and another to grab energy, because

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nothing more dawn we would run away. Hence the youngest of us, named

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Sebastian, was the first to sleep, because his eyes were already closed.

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In the meantime, the other four
would take care of it. We'

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d only do it for an hour
each. During that hour there was no

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news. That' s not why
we were quiet at about three. The

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second one slept, the rest of
us took care of keeping the light quite

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high. The minutes were too slow. Every once in a while, you

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could hear some nocturnal birds, but
that' s all. At four o

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' clock in the morning, I
got the third shift. I remember thinking

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I couldn' t sleep thinking someone
was around us, but I fell like

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a stone. At five in the
morning I got up because I followed David

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to sleep. I noticed them scared
told me they' d been listening to

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the grunts again only closer to us. Besides, that man had been running

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far away. Apparently he was doing
it on four legs already. I stared

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at them and there was no place
not to believe them. We were in

415
00:34:40.840 --> 00:34:46.719
a pretty stressful situation for many hours
that the games and relaxation had been over.

416
00:34:47.679 --> 00:34:52.800
It' s just that listening to
that was just to get anyone'

417
00:34:52.840 --> 00:34:55.920
s skin up before the penultimate shift
was over, it wasn' t dawn

418
00:34:55.920 --> 00:35:00.760
yet. I remember David scared the
shit out of us because he got up

419
00:35:00.760 --> 00:35:07.079
screaming. Some ran meters toward the
mountain very upset, until we knew that

420
00:35:07.159 --> 00:35:10.960
he had only had a nightmare.
After calming down, he went to sleep

421
00:35:12.039 --> 00:35:16.679
last. For a long time.
We heard someone running. They heard heavy

422
00:35:16.719 --> 00:35:22.760
footprints at times I seemed to hear
someone screaming, but it could only be

423
00:35:22.880 --> 00:35:28.639
my imagination. Thank God, about
6: 30 a m it started to

424
00:35:28.639 --> 00:35:32.400
dawn. We didn' t know
how, but we did it. Only

425
00:35:32.400 --> 00:35:37.400
by getting together to agree on what
hours and where we' d go.

426
00:35:37.440 --> 00:35:44.039
We were scared to death because we
noticed Rodrigo was nowhere to be found.

427
00:35:44.599 --> 00:35:49.480
We yelled at him thinking he had
gone a little further to do his needs,

428
00:35:49.920 --> 00:35:52.960
but he never responded. David said
he might have left because of the

429
00:35:53.079 --> 00:35:59.199
fear he had, but we found
his things intact. Besides, we knew

430
00:35:59.320 --> 00:36:04.000
that he could never do that he
would never leave alone in the bush and

431
00:36:04.760 --> 00:36:07.519
without telling us that he had been
taken away. It' s been the

432
00:36:07.559 --> 00:36:10.719
scariest thing I' ve ever felt
in my whole life. Besides, I

433
00:36:10.760 --> 00:36:17.199
remembered someone screaming in the morning.
We worry terribly. We started calling him

434
00:36:17.280 --> 00:36:24.599
in desperate screams, walking around without
finding him had already dawned. That'

435
00:36:24.639 --> 00:36:30.599
s what we expected to leave,
but we wouldn' t leave our friend,

436
00:36:30.840 --> 00:36:34.119
his luck, while we were looking
for him. I couldn' t

437
00:36:34.159 --> 00:36:38.239
get out of my head the many
ways that animal ate it. I felt

438
00:36:38.320 --> 00:36:43.840
bad about those thoughts, but I
couldn' t help it. The ideal

439
00:36:44.079 --> 00:36:47.039
was to separate ourselves to cover more
ground, but we would be exposed a

440
00:36:47.039 --> 00:36:52.320
lot. So, we would become
easy company and we wouldn' t stand

441
00:36:52.400 --> 00:36:57.480
for losing someone else. We were
a long way from the campaign house.

442
00:36:57.559 --> 00:37:02.159
You barely looked at the smoke.
Suddenly we heard those strange grunts coming from

443
00:37:02.159 --> 00:37:07.960
beyond the mountain. They were disturbing
sounds like a pretty big beast, no

444
00:37:08.039 --> 00:37:13.400
matter what day it was. The
grunt was paralyzing, but this time it

445
00:37:13.519 --> 00:37:17.719
was about helping one of us.
That' s why we don' t

446
00:37:17.800 --> 00:37:22.000
get intimidated with sticks and stones.
We went further into the mountain trying to

447
00:37:22.039 --> 00:37:27.559
follow the strange noises those all of
a sudden. There was what we saw.

448
00:37:27.840 --> 00:37:30.159
I couldn' t get it out
of my head. There was a

449
00:37:30.280 --> 00:37:36.639
figure moving between the trees. What
appeared before our eyes was a terrifying creature.

450
00:37:37.920 --> 00:37:42.480
I saw him as half- man
half- beast. His appearance was

451
00:37:42.519 --> 00:37:47.239
similar to that of the man who
had visited us the night before, but

452
00:37:47.840 --> 00:37:52.000
he was transformed into four legs with
animal features. He seemed to have long

453
00:37:52.000 --> 00:37:57.719
claws. Now, if we paralyze
from fear, it was the scariest thing

454
00:37:57.800 --> 00:38:01.079
I' d ever seen. We
knew it was him, that mysterious man

455
00:38:01.159 --> 00:38:07.000
who had approached our campfire without thinking
about it. Twice we ran away leaving

456
00:38:07.039 --> 00:38:13.159
him behind. We didn' t
know how, but we had to get

457
00:38:13.159 --> 00:38:15.719
away as quickly as possible. That
strange creature, apparently, didn' t

458
00:38:15.760 --> 00:38:22.039
do to chase us, because we
ran for a mile or more and never

459
00:38:22.039 --> 00:38:25.199
caught up with us. We arrived
at the camp pulling air for our surprise.

460
00:38:25.480 --> 00:38:30.679
There was Rodrigo lying on the ground, crying so dismayed that he could

461
00:38:30.760 --> 00:38:35.920
not speak. He seemed to be
in a nervous shock. He was looking

462
00:38:36.000 --> 00:38:37.400
at us, but he wasn'
t saying anything. He didn' t

463
00:38:37.440 --> 00:38:42.719
seem to recognize us. Besides being
like that, he had his clothes torn.

464
00:38:43.199 --> 00:38:46.280
We pushed him to walk as we
could because he didn' t react.

465
00:38:47.519 --> 00:38:52.719
We ran back in a desperate way, but the minutes passed and we

466
00:38:52.760 --> 00:38:58.239
only saw mountain when I could turn
back. Fearing to see that creature come

467
00:38:58.360 --> 00:39:04.800
after us. But thank God,
it was never like that. We ran

468
00:39:04.840 --> 00:39:08.639
without stopping until we reached a road
that cut the mountain. We couldn'

469
00:39:08.679 --> 00:39:14.199
t run anymore. We stopped because
we no longer had the strength to do

470
00:39:14.199 --> 00:39:17.280
so. Luckily, about half an
hour after walking, we got help from

471
00:39:17.320 --> 00:39:22.719
some people who took us in their
truck to a nearby ranch. When we

472
00:39:22.719 --> 00:39:28.480
told them what we had seen,
some believed us and others did not,

473
00:39:29.039 --> 00:39:34.559
but they all agreed that we had
still found water. While they were healing

474
00:39:34.679 --> 00:39:38.559
Rodrigo from his wounds because he had
some scrapes and scratches. He told us

475
00:39:38.559 --> 00:39:44.440
what had happened to him. He
said he got so scared that he instinctively

476
00:39:44.480 --> 00:39:49.320
ran wherever he went. Not only
did he assure us that a few meters

477
00:39:49.480 --> 00:39:52.480
away someone else also entered the mountain. He didn' t know what happened.

478
00:39:53.159 --> 00:39:58.920
When he looked around with bushes,
he reacted and stopped. He turned

479
00:39:59.079 --> 00:40:05.559
to our camp still scared. Then
he felt that he was grabbed tightly and

480
00:40:05.599 --> 00:40:08.280
started being dragged away. It took
him a few moments to get out of

481
00:40:08.280 --> 00:40:14.000
his astonishment. By the time he
did, he had already been pulled many

482
00:40:14.000 --> 00:40:16.360
meters between the mountains. It was
with the many thorny bushes that he scratched.

483
00:40:17.960 --> 00:40:22.679
They had to be calming Rodrigo when
he told us his experience, because

484
00:40:22.800 --> 00:40:28.960
he was upset to remember the details. He also told us that he wanted

485
00:40:29.039 --> 00:40:31.559
to scream for help, but that
no sound came out of his throat.

486
00:40:32.360 --> 00:40:38.360
When he finally reacted, he began
to defend himself as he could using all

487
00:40:38.400 --> 00:40:42.679
his forces until he was released.
He rose without looking at his aggressor and

488
00:40:42.760 --> 00:40:46.880
ran, but surely he did it
to the wrong side, because he never

489
00:40:46.960 --> 00:40:53.000
looked at the light that we had
like this he walked for more than an

490
00:40:53.039 --> 00:40:57.000
hour until by chance he found the
tent when it was day. It was

491
00:40:57.079 --> 00:41:00.480
an impact for him to arrive and
not find us. He didn' t

492
00:41:00.760 --> 00:41:05.199
think we' d left him there, but looking at our backpacks was worse.

493
00:41:05.480 --> 00:41:09.239
He thought that creature that had dragged
him had already devoured us all.

494
00:41:10.320 --> 00:41:15.920
Before Rodrigo finished his experience, he
told us that, apparently, the creature

495
00:41:15.960 --> 00:41:20.079
that wanted to take him was that
man from the mountain, but transformed into

496
00:41:20.760 --> 00:41:25.320
an animal. He lifted his sleeve
off his shirt and showed us the prints

497
00:41:25.400 --> 00:41:30.719
where he had been grabbed. The
people who helped us were silent. Then

498
00:41:31.079 --> 00:41:35.480
we knew we weren' t the
first to talk about something like that.

499
00:41:35.920 --> 00:41:42.000
They had already heard other previous stories
that spoke of a man who transformed himself

500
00:41:42.039 --> 00:41:45.320
into an animal and prowled through the
mountain with features like a dog. Those

501
00:41:45.400 --> 00:41:51.000
who claimed to have seen it said
it was huge. Obviously, that'

502
00:41:51.079 --> 00:41:55.199
s not what anyone thought. Before
it got dark, we were approached by

503
00:41:55.239 --> 00:42:00.920
the city. From where they left
us. We walk Russian into our homes

504
00:42:01.000 --> 00:42:05.679
feeling safe. When I got home, I had to tell what had happened

505
00:42:05.719 --> 00:42:09.679
to me at the time. My
parents didn' t believe me. They

506
00:42:09.679 --> 00:42:15.280
thought I made something up so they
wouldn' t punish me. As this

507
00:42:15.360 --> 00:42:20.239
story I told it many times repeating
the same without changing any words. They

508
00:42:20.320 --> 00:42:24.039
finally believed me. I' ve
heard that people, when they have an

509
00:42:24.119 --> 00:42:29.519
encounter with this animal, are affected. Thank God, that' s not

510
00:42:29.559 --> 00:42:34.079
my case. Years have passed since
that night. I know what we saw

511
00:42:34.119 --> 00:42:37.719
was real. I don' t
know if you' ve ever had a

512
00:42:38.280 --> 00:42:43.400
similar experience, but what I can
tell you is that there are things in

513
00:42:43.519 --> 00:42:47.119
this world that have no explanation and
that night on the Mount is proof of

514
00:42:47.199 --> 00:43:00.079
that, at least for me.
Terror in the river. I was born

515
00:43:00.119 --> 00:43:02.960
in Chiapas exactly sixty years as a
child. I suffered from poverty. I

516
00:43:04.000 --> 00:43:07.719
was the second of eight brothers.
For the same reason, there was never

517
00:43:07.840 --> 00:43:12.239
enough for everyone, neither clothes nor
food. I grew up hungry with cravings.

518
00:43:12.599 --> 00:43:16.280
Many times I slept on an empty
stomach imagining the taste of sweet bread.

519
00:43:17.079 --> 00:43:22.039
I swore countless times that just growing
a little, I would go to

520
00:43:22.079 --> 00:43:25.800
the United States to look for work
and thus help my parents and my little

521
00:43:25.880 --> 00:43:32.880
brothers who sometimes heard them cry from
hunger the years ran some acquaintances who went

522
00:43:32.920 --> 00:43:37.480
and returned from the other side.
They fed my wish to leave for what

523
00:43:37.559 --> 00:43:42.920
they told me. They said they
lived very well there. Also, during

524
00:43:43.039 --> 00:43:46.840
the year they sent money to their
families. This encouraged me more and made

525
00:43:46.880 --> 00:43:52.719
me dream. On the contrary,
there was a particular boy who was called

526
00:43:52.800 --> 00:43:59.239
the skull because he was very thin. He was always trying to scare me

527
00:43:59.559 --> 00:44:01.599
by saying everyone. He' s
too dangerous for me, because of my

528
00:44:01.599 --> 00:44:07.880
young age. I would surely die
in an attempt to reach the United States

529
00:44:07.400 --> 00:44:13.199
and my family would never find me, as had happened with many countrymen.

530
00:44:13.840 --> 00:44:20.039
He explained to me in detail that
in some places where he had to go,

531
00:44:20.159 --> 00:44:23.480
the children were stolen or he was
traveling alone. The cause of that

532
00:44:23.559 --> 00:44:29.480
were satanic sects in search of victims
for their rituals. According to him,

533
00:44:29.960 --> 00:44:34.199
in case he managed to reach the
border, he could remain in the attempt

534
00:44:34.280 --> 00:44:38.280
to cross the river, because the
bravo waters were treacherous, full of currents

535
00:44:38.320 --> 00:44:44.880
and swirls. In some sections it
had the depth of more than two meters

536
00:44:44.960 --> 00:44:49.039
and in the bottom there were branches
and wells. The danger of this river

537
00:44:49.280 --> 00:44:53.719
was that its surface could appear to
be of little danger. As if this

538
00:44:53.760 --> 00:45:00.719
were not enough, I was even
more frightened by the fact that there were

539
00:45:00.719 --> 00:45:04.400
huge crocodiles by Tamaulipas. They fed
on the migrants when they tried to swim

540
00:45:04.880 --> 00:45:08.440
across were so big and ferocious that
they could each eat two people a day.

541
00:45:09.440 --> 00:45:15.719
When that boy managed to see me
really worried, he assured me that

542
00:45:15.760 --> 00:45:19.400
there was still something more frightening than
that. Underneath the waters of the bravo

543
00:45:19.599 --> 00:45:23.400
was a strange animal that seemed to
come out of hell, no matter whether

544
00:45:23.480 --> 00:45:28.599
it was day or night. He
grabbed the people who were trying to cross

545
00:45:29.159 --> 00:45:32.519
the river with their huge fingernails.
He sank them to the point of drowning

546
00:45:32.639 --> 00:45:37.519
them, he fed them by holding
them deep and three days later he let

547
00:45:37.519 --> 00:45:44.039
them float. These and many more
frightening things that boy told me until I

548
00:45:44.079 --> 00:45:47.800
yelled at him to shut up.
He told me he was just trying to

549
00:45:47.800 --> 00:45:52.960
prevent me. Despite the fear that
caused me to hear all that, I

550
00:45:52.000 --> 00:45:57.880
looked forward to the day I went
to follow the American dream. That day

551
00:45:58.079 --> 00:46:04.320
came when I turned sixteen, without
my parents agreeing. One morning I went

552
00:46:04.360 --> 00:46:08.079
out alone with what I was wearing, yes, with a lot of hunger,

553
00:46:08.280 --> 00:46:12.159
but also with a great desire to
achieve my goal and get ahead.

554
00:46:12.679 --> 00:46:16.800
Asking acquaintances, I understood that I
would have to ride a train to get

555
00:46:16.880 --> 00:46:23.320
to the border. Being there was
just crossing the river would step on America

556
00:46:23.480 --> 00:46:28.559
and my life and that of my
family would change. The journey was long,

557
00:46:28.679 --> 00:46:32.039
because the border, as I had
heard, would be about a thousand

558
00:46:32.079 --> 00:46:37.000
kilometers away. It would take two
or three weeks to get here, but

559
00:46:37.000 --> 00:46:39.760
it was worth it. Besides,
it was either that or stay in poverty

560
00:46:39.840 --> 00:46:45.760
forever. So I started my journey
walking and asking for rides. I must

561
00:46:45.800 --> 00:46:50.559
admit, it was a pain.
First I had to get to where I

562
00:46:50.639 --> 00:46:52.880
' d get on the roof of
a train. Then he had to endure

563
00:46:52.920 --> 00:47:00.280
tiredness, hunger, sleep, cold, thirst for rain and sun. But

564
00:47:00.400 --> 00:47:05.440
even though that was coming, I
never stopped. I failed to say that

565
00:47:05.519 --> 00:47:08.119
I would also have to dominate the
fear of walking alone. As a teenager,

566
00:47:08.760 --> 00:47:13.320
I was impressed when I was in
front of that train. I wasn

567
00:47:13.360 --> 00:47:15.239
' t the only one who'
d get on. There were a lot

568
00:47:15.280 --> 00:47:20.719
of us, maybe hundreds. There
were all kinds of people, people who

569
00:47:20.760 --> 00:47:24.239
looked like they were going to a
country day, with very smiling children and

570
00:47:24.239 --> 00:47:30.760
older people, but others were just
the opposite, they looked pretty scared,

571
00:47:30.119 --> 00:47:36.639
maybe like I was among all those
people. It was never missing who offered

572
00:47:36.679 --> 00:47:39.440
me a piece of bread. I
soon found myself riding on the train in

573
00:47:39.480 --> 00:47:44.719
the middle of a lot of unknown
people who kept talking. The journey was

574
00:47:44.800 --> 00:47:50.199
never comfortable or quiet. On the
contrary, it was pretty stressful. During

575
00:47:50.280 --> 00:47:54.679
all those days I saw things so
dreadful that they happened to many people,

576
00:47:55.440 --> 00:48:00.119
including women and children, things that
maybe at my young age, I never

577
00:48:00.199 --> 00:48:05.079
should have seen. For example,
I knew several children were missing. Family

578
00:48:05.159 --> 00:48:08.880
members would come down to look for
them and stay there screaming. Others were

579
00:48:08.920 --> 00:48:14.880
on their way. I was terrified
that the causes of the disappearances were the

580
00:48:15.000 --> 00:48:20.000
sects, as that boy assured me
that they did not know that I was

581
00:48:20.119 --> 00:48:23.159
traveling. I was just trying to
be close to someone. But if this

582
00:48:23.360 --> 00:48:29.400
were not enough, I also had
to watch when some migrants fell off the

583
00:48:29.440 --> 00:48:35.480
train and others were thrown over by
internal quarrels between them at night. If

584
00:48:35.559 --> 00:48:38.960
I had to go in a good
place, I could sleep peacefully, but

585
00:48:39.000 --> 00:48:44.079
if I was sitting on the shore, I would tie myself to the train

586
00:48:44.119 --> 00:48:49.920
with an old mecate that had found
me and avoid falling because at least the

587
00:48:49.960 --> 00:48:52.679
car would be four meters high.
He touched me one night in the rain.

588
00:48:52.119 --> 00:48:58.199
At first it was fine, because
the water quickly cooled the train blade,

589
00:48:58.360 --> 00:49:01.519
which warmed up a lot during the
day, but it was very disturbing

590
00:49:01.559 --> 00:49:07.480
to be out in the open while
lightning and thunder were at everything it gave.

591
00:49:07.159 --> 00:49:12.679
I was worried we' d be
hit by lightning. To be soaked.

592
00:49:12.960 --> 00:49:17.400
I was shaking cold. So it
took almost three weeks when I finally

593
00:49:17.440 --> 00:49:22.159
knew that we were going to get
happy by mid- morning I saw myself

594
00:49:22.400 --> 00:49:25.920
at the border, in a city
of Tamaulipas. I knew I was one

595
00:49:25.960 --> 00:49:31.199
step away from it. On the
way I met other boys who had the

596
00:49:31.239 --> 00:49:37.960
same fate as me. That'
s why we plan to cross the Bravo

597
00:49:37.000 --> 00:49:40.800
River together by asking people. We
got something to eat, then we split

598
00:49:40.880 --> 00:49:46.079
up with each other. Before nightfall
we gathered about twenty people a few meters

599
00:49:46.199 --> 00:49:52.159
from the river. Other groups did, too, but away from us,

600
00:49:52.760 --> 00:49:59.079
all far from the city. They
walked until we lost sight of them we

601
00:49:59.159 --> 00:50:02.800
waited for it to be done at
night so we could swim across without being

602
00:50:02.840 --> 00:50:07.639
seen by the green migration patrol.
In all groups there was one person who

603
00:50:07.760 --> 00:50:14.000
led in ours. There was a
boy about thirty years old. They told

604
00:50:14.039 --> 00:50:17.519
him the corduroy already had the experience
of having crossed up to three times.

605
00:50:19.159 --> 00:50:23.400
He told us not to spend all
of us together because the water would move

606
00:50:23.440 --> 00:50:30.840
a lot and that was not only
detected by the U S authorities, so

607
00:50:31.079 --> 00:50:35.199
would the crocodiles I knew again that
everything that boy told me was true.

608
00:50:35.840 --> 00:50:38.920
In my desperation to arrive, I
signed up to be one of the first

609
00:50:38.920 --> 00:50:43.320
to cross, but the corduroy,
perhaps because of my age, told me

610
00:50:43.320 --> 00:50:45.360
to wait for me. We needed
to see if the river was quiet.

611
00:50:46.360 --> 00:50:50.519
At first it didn' t look
like me and I was going to cross

612
00:50:50.519 --> 00:50:52.880
over on my own. After all, I could swim well. Besides,

613
00:50:53.039 --> 00:50:59.760
we were all independent, but then
I don' t know why I reacted

614
00:50:59.760 --> 00:51:02.440
and decided to wait. As at
1 a m the first five boys got

615
00:51:02.519 --> 00:51:07.519
ready, they went into the river
slowly trying not to move the water too

616
00:51:07.519 --> 00:51:13.639
much. Everyone else looked at them
in silence, expectant of what might happen.

617
00:51:14.840 --> 00:51:19.079
I knew it could be dangerous.
I still earned the excitement that would

618
00:51:19.199 --> 00:51:22.960
soon touch me. Crossing would go
to half a river and everything was quiet.

619
00:51:23.559 --> 00:51:30.000
We could barely distinguish their heads,
but there they were moving slowly without

620
00:51:30.000 --> 00:51:35.000
any problems. They were only a
few meters away from it. The rest

621
00:51:35.119 --> 00:51:40.000
of us were getting ready to cross
all of a sudden there was a commotion

622
00:51:40.079 --> 00:51:45.679
and with it the confusion began the
tearing screams of despair. While some were

623
00:51:45.760 --> 00:51:52.039
asking for help, others were shouting
that we were drowning from the shore we

624
00:51:52.039 --> 00:51:58.079
could do nothing. We screamed many
times that they would swim loudly With the

625
00:51:58.119 --> 00:52:01.840
screams, the emigration agents appeared,
who rose straight to the river. We

626
00:52:01.880 --> 00:52:07.239
were able to see how something took
one of them. Seconds later, only

627
00:52:07.280 --> 00:52:13.559
two of the five boys were floating. When we saw the lights of his

628
00:52:13.679 --> 00:52:19.800
powerful lamps, we ducked into the
ledges from where we were. We could

629
00:52:19.840 --> 00:52:22.800
see that the agents helped them get
out of the water and then arrest them.

630
00:52:23.199 --> 00:52:27.920
Meanwhile, of the other three boys, there was nothing or shouting.

631
00:52:28.800 --> 00:52:32.280
Only the running of the water was
heard. We couldn' t know what

632
00:52:32.280 --> 00:52:37.360
had happened. Most of us couldn' t even talk. Our friend,

633
00:52:37.440 --> 00:52:40.800
the corduroy, didn' t seem
scared. He told us very calmly that

634
00:52:40.840 --> 00:52:45.760
we had to move because that part
of the river was contaminated. I didn

635
00:52:45.800 --> 00:52:51.639
' t know if she meant animals
or why she was migrating. We walk

636
00:52:52.039 --> 00:52:54.199
about an hour along the banks of
the river. I found it strange that

637
00:52:54.519 --> 00:53:00.199
we never found any of the other
groups. We were all silent. He

638
00:53:00.199 --> 00:53:05.360
agreed that by that time I was
already thinking if I was next to get

639
00:53:05.960 --> 00:53:09.719
in the water, because I still
didn' t recover from the impression of

640
00:53:09.840 --> 00:53:14.320
hearing how the boys drowned. The
screams didn' t disappear from my mind.

641
00:53:14.920 --> 00:53:20.519
Besides, I felt that something was
following us at a short distance was

642
00:53:20.679 --> 00:53:27.599
something that posed danger to everyone.
But oddly enough, whatever it was wasn

643
00:53:27.679 --> 00:53:32.119
' t trying to reach us.
Before stopping I looked about six meters from

644
00:53:32.280 --> 00:53:37.639
us, a figure standing near a
tree, fell to the ground and entered

645
00:53:37.760 --> 00:53:44.360
the water. He did it crawling
so slowly that it wasn' t even

646
00:53:44.360 --> 00:53:47.559
heard. I found it so strange
to see one thing, so I rushed

647
00:53:47.639 --> 00:53:52.639
in to reach the corduroy and told
him what I had seen. I didn

648
00:53:52.679 --> 00:53:55.360
' t understand your attitude. He
just moved his head to say he was

649
00:53:55.360 --> 00:54:01.159
okay. Ten minutes later he asked
who that would be the other five to

650
00:54:01.159 --> 00:54:06.400
try. I took two steps back, when I thought no one would do

651
00:54:06.400 --> 00:54:09.480
it, what I had been through, I looked at the boys ready to

652
00:54:09.519 --> 00:54:13.599
get into the waters of the river. Apparently, nothing was going to stop

653
00:54:13.599 --> 00:54:20.159
them that night They did it the
same way in silence, first walking slowly.

654
00:54:20.559 --> 00:54:23.400
Then, as the water reached their
chests, they began to swim one

655
00:54:23.880 --> 00:54:29.960
after the other. Maybe this time
I was the most nervous of all,

656
00:54:30.000 --> 00:54:32.880
so I' d seen him get
in the water. Until then, he

657
00:54:32.960 --> 00:54:37.599
could not decipher what that was,
but he was sure that he was not

658
00:54:37.599 --> 00:54:43.519
a man, nor was he a
common animal. We followed them for a

659
00:54:43.519 --> 00:54:46.239
few minutes with our eyes. We
didn' t realize that something was moving

660
00:54:46.360 --> 00:54:52.039
behind them, something that seemed to
be more than two meters long when I

661
00:54:52.639 --> 00:54:57.599
yelled at them to swim faster.
The others who were with me also started

662
00:54:57.679 --> 00:55:00.400
screaming. I don' t know
if they heard us. I didn'

663
00:55:00.559 --> 00:55:06.000
t just watch one of them dive
in and never come out again. The

664
00:55:06.119 --> 00:55:13.599
others swam desperately until they reached the
shore. When they came out, something

665
00:55:13.719 --> 00:55:17.480
happened because they started screaming. They
seemed to be attacked by some animal or

666
00:55:17.480 --> 00:55:22.639
several, because they all screamed at
the same time. This time no patrol

667
00:55:22.719 --> 00:55:29.440
was seen to help them. This
was followed by several minutes of a lot

668
00:55:29.480 --> 00:55:34.079
of shouting, until everything was left
in a sinister silence. On that occasion,

669
00:55:34.519 --> 00:55:37.360
we didn' t know if any
of them managed to escape. I

670
00:55:37.400 --> 00:55:40.719
didn' t move feeling a constant
chill. I don' t know if

671
00:55:40.760 --> 00:55:44.239
I' ve been through what I' ve been through or what I could

672
00:55:44.239 --> 00:55:46.480
go through. If I got in
the water. There was no need for

673
00:55:46.599 --> 00:55:52.719
the corduroy to say anything. We
knew it wasn' t safe to go

674
00:55:52.840 --> 00:55:58.280
there We walked again for a while, perhaps disturbed by what happened. No

675
00:55:58.360 --> 00:56:01.880
one would comment on anything, or
we would swoop to the ground so that

676
00:56:01.960 --> 00:56:06.400
we wouldn' t be seen by
coyotes. In my innocence I thought they

677
00:56:06.440 --> 00:56:10.360
were animals. Then I knew they
were people who were in charge of crossing

678
00:56:10.559 --> 00:56:15.039
the migrants, but they were charged
and we had no money. I never

679
00:56:15.039 --> 00:56:19.960
knew what we were exposed to if
we had been discovered. Going through our

680
00:56:20.039 --> 00:56:24.480
count of the ten that we were
two boys who were brothers, perhaps out

681
00:56:24.480 --> 00:56:28.800
of fear, they no longer wanted
to go on. They said they'

682
00:56:28.840 --> 00:56:32.440
d be back. It was then
that the bread spoke. He told them

683
00:56:32.679 --> 00:56:37.480
that they could leave, not only
they who wanted to, but that we

684
00:56:37.519 --> 00:56:44.559
were in a dangerous area where strange
animals were attacking both inside and outside the

685
00:56:44.559 --> 00:56:49.559
river. They were the ones who
had attacked all the boys and not the

686
00:56:49.639 --> 00:56:54.760
crocodiles. Perhaps the brothers did not
believe in his words because without saying anything,

687
00:56:55.000 --> 00:57:00.480
they walked away to get lost in
the darkness. The eight of us

688
00:57:00.480 --> 00:57:04.880
who still had that uncertainty of not
knowing if what the cordon said was true,

689
00:57:05.280 --> 00:57:10.800
walked even a little further. It
should be mentioned that we were increasingly

690
00:57:10.800 --> 00:57:16.800
fearful. I wished with all my
strength that God would soon allow me to

691
00:57:16.800 --> 00:57:22.239
cross and, apart from that,
that I should not get caught by the

692
00:57:22.360 --> 00:57:29.079
migrant at about four o' clock
in the morning we stopped to rest a

693
00:57:29.400 --> 00:57:31.320
little because we had already walked a
lot, it was no longer me who

694
00:57:31.320 --> 00:57:35.599
felt that something was following us.
Two other boys commented on the same thing

695
00:57:35.639 --> 00:57:38.400
and the concern grew when we saw
each other like this, the corduroy became

696
00:57:38.400 --> 00:57:43.599
serious. He told us that one
of those creatures he had told us had

697
00:57:44.000 --> 00:57:47.760
been following us for about two hours, but he was hoping to have us

698
00:57:47.840 --> 00:57:52.599
in a place where we were vulnerable. He warned us that it was time

699
00:57:52.639 --> 00:57:59.280
to cross the river, because if
he didn' t attack us in a

700
00:57:59.400 --> 00:58:01.440
matter of minutes and we would all
surely die. That was the most terrible

701
00:58:01.519 --> 00:58:07.800
thing I could hear that night.
We all looked at each other scared of

702
00:58:07.880 --> 00:58:12.159
having to get in the water.
Almost shaking the fear I had. I

703
00:58:12.280 --> 00:58:16.079
took off my pants and shirt,
because there were lots of branches in that

704
00:58:16.079 --> 00:58:22.199
place. I could be stuck and
drowned I thought that this was the worst

705
00:58:22.280 --> 00:58:28.239
place to cross, but neither would
I be left alone while the others crossed

706
00:58:28.280 --> 00:58:32.679
the moment I had longed for had
arrived only that now, as I felt

707
00:58:32.679 --> 00:58:37.679
in danger, I wished a thousand
times better to be at home safe no

708
00:58:37.800 --> 00:58:43.480
matter if I was hungry with my
heart. Beating at a thousand an hour

709
00:58:43.559 --> 00:58:46.719
we start walking the corduroy. He
told me as if it was a secret

710
00:58:46.840 --> 00:58:52.280
that when he told me, I
would swim with all my might, because

711
00:58:52.320 --> 00:58:54.239
the speed in which I did it
depended on my life. I agreed.

712
00:58:54.920 --> 00:59:00.480
I found it strange that he only
told me. We walked through the cold

713
00:59:00.480 --> 00:59:05.679
water, dodging branches and other things
that dragged the flow. Maybe it was

714
00:59:05.719 --> 00:59:08.519
my desperation, but I felt like
we weren' t moving forward. I

715
00:59:08.559 --> 00:59:14.920
realized the current was stronger than I
thought. From time to time I would

716
00:59:14.960 --> 00:59:20.679
turn around to see the other guys
and check that we were all in one

717
00:59:20.760 --> 00:59:24.920
of those times that I turned around
and looked at that behind one of them

718
00:59:24.960 --> 00:59:28.679
was a pretty tall figure about to
reach him. I didn' t know

719
00:59:28.719 --> 00:59:32.199
what to think at the time,
but I knew that that wasn' t

720
00:59:32.239 --> 00:59:36.760
a man, let alone a crocodile. I wanted to react quickly and warn

721
00:59:36.760 --> 00:59:40.360
the corduroy, but maybe because of
fear I got stuck. The jaws hurt

722
00:59:40.440 --> 00:59:46.559
so bad, I was about to
stop. Seconds later it happened what I

723
00:59:46.679 --> 00:59:52.239
imagined and how scary it was for
me. When the boys started screaming after

724
00:59:52.280 --> 00:59:58.519
us. The corduroy told me that
nothing was strong, ventured into the water

725
00:59:58.719 --> 01:00:01.880
and moved away from me quickly.
I don' t know what it was,

726
01:00:02.239 --> 01:00:07.119
but something made me react, but
my arms got tired of swimming and

727
01:00:07.119 --> 01:00:10.360
I sank. I have no words
to describe how desperate it was. I

728
01:00:10.440 --> 01:00:16.159
knew I still needed a good stretch
to reach the shore. When I got

729
01:00:16.159 --> 01:00:22.239
out afloat, seconds later I heard
the boys screaming. I fought with all

730
01:00:22.239 --> 01:00:25.960
my might against the current, against
my fear and my weariness. I had

731
01:00:27.039 --> 01:00:32.119
already heard that despair kills, but
I could not react otherwise. Meters later,

732
01:00:32.639 --> 01:00:37.039
I couldn' t take it anymore
and I went down again. I

733
01:00:37.079 --> 01:00:40.199
thought my end had come. When
I started swallowing water. Everything turned dark

734
01:00:40.360 --> 01:00:45.000
and the sound of the water in
my ears was terrible, even though my

735
01:00:45.000 --> 01:00:51.039
eyes and throat were so burning.
I remembered everything I had suffered, not

736
01:00:51.119 --> 01:00:54.719
just on the way to get there
what I had suffered in life and what

737
01:00:54.840 --> 01:01:00.239
I suffered from my family. That
gave me strength to go out again and

738
01:01:00.360 --> 01:01:05.960
get some air. I don'
t remember screaming. I just had the

739
01:01:06.039 --> 01:01:12.199
strength to stay conscious. I turned
to shore and there was someone standing looking

740
01:01:12.880 --> 01:01:17.079
at me no matter what was anything
straight there. I was about to sink

741
01:01:17.119 --> 01:01:23.039
for the third time making a superhuman
effort and as if it were a miracle

742
01:01:23.119 --> 01:01:27.920
I reached the shore. I remember
very well that I could feel air coming

743
01:01:27.960 --> 01:01:31.760
into my lungs until I was out
of the river. I totally realized that

744
01:01:31.920 --> 01:01:37.800
the corduroy was waiting for me,
grabbed me by the hair and almost dragged

745
01:01:37.800 --> 01:01:44.840
me through Mount Corrimos, feeling that
someone was chasing us many meters later we

746
01:01:44.920 --> 01:01:49.800
threw ourselves on the earth. I
asked him in a voice cut by the

747
01:01:49.840 --> 01:01:57.360
others, but he told me that
it was just him and me lying there,

748
01:01:57.760 --> 01:02:00.000
we heard a lot of footsteps noises
as if we had walked away.

749
01:02:00.039 --> 01:02:04.920
They were looking for them might be
those of the migration, or maybe it

750
01:02:05.000 --> 01:02:09.440
was that creature that I had seen
inside the river before dawn. We walk

751
01:02:09.559 --> 01:02:15.320
across fences of private property. In
one of those properties, a family helped

752
01:02:15.360 --> 01:02:21.039
us because we were practically naked and
starved and tired. All that day.

753
01:02:21.320 --> 01:02:24.760
We were there with those people who, by the way, were American.

754
01:02:25.000 --> 01:02:30.039
Despite that, they behaved very well
with us. For a few days we

755
01:02:30.159 --> 01:02:35.480
were in Texas until some friends of
the Pana took us to another state more

756
01:02:35.559 --> 01:02:38.679
within the country in the beginning.
It wasn' t like I dreamt of

757
01:02:38.719 --> 01:02:44.719
it late, weeks of finding a
job and months of sending some money to

758
01:02:44.800 --> 01:02:46.840
my family that I was already considered
dead. The worst thing I' ve

759
01:02:46.840 --> 01:02:53.000
ever faced here is discrimination against Hispanics
themselves. They probably didn' t go

760
01:02:53.039 --> 01:02:57.119
through the same thing as many of
us did. But if I had the

761
01:02:57.239 --> 01:03:00.960
strength to get out of the bottom
of the river, nothing could tell me

762
01:03:01.000 --> 01:03:05.320
anymore and I stayed here forever.
Last time I talked to my friend,

763
01:03:05.599 --> 01:03:08.280
the Pana, I asked him what
kind of animals were the ones that attacked

764
01:03:08.360 --> 01:03:14.599
us that night. He assured me
those creatures were naguals. Those beings.

765
01:03:14.800 --> 01:03:19.199
I had many years to live on
the riverbank and apparently no one did anything

766
01:03:19.280 --> 01:03:22.840
to marry them. I thought your
answer was incredible. I don' t

767
01:03:22.880 --> 01:03:28.280
have to believe him The time has
passed. I didn' t have to

768
01:03:28.280 --> 01:03:32.440
lie to myself. Obviously, when
I tell this story, I tell my

769
01:03:32.480 --> 01:03:37.800
acquaintances that it was crocodiles that ate
all those boys that horrible night. And

770
01:03:37.840 --> 01:03:51.760
so no one questions me about the
forest animal. I want to tell you

771
01:03:51.880 --> 01:03:54.960
an experience that I lived a few
years ago when we decided to camp in

772
01:03:54.960 --> 01:03:58.639
a forest in southern Mexico. My
name is Philip. One summer afternoon,

773
01:03:59.119 --> 01:04:03.599
my wife, our two children and
I, accompanied by three dogs, decided

774
01:04:03.599 --> 01:04:10.400
to move away from the city to
spend a weekend in nature. We planned

775
01:04:10.440 --> 01:04:15.119
it for fifteen days to make everything
perfect. In the early hours of that

776
01:04:15.199 --> 01:04:19.199
morning we prepared everything at about noon. We moved to an area of forest

777
01:04:19.400 --> 01:04:25.079
that was an hour from our house. We left the car as far as

778
01:04:25.199 --> 01:04:29.119
it could have gone. The rest
of the way we' d do it

779
01:04:29.159 --> 01:04:33.119
on foot, carrying the tents and
everything necessary. We walked along several trails

780
01:04:33.199 --> 01:04:38.119
to see ourselves surrounded by large trees. After walking for a while, we

781
01:04:38.400 --> 01:04:43.760
found a perfect clearing. In less
than an hour, we set up our

782
01:04:43.840 --> 01:04:48.000
camp and were ready for our adventure. The quietness of the place was almost

783
01:04:48.000 --> 01:04:54.719
perfect. At nightfall, we lit
a fire and gathered around it to talk

784
01:04:54.840 --> 01:05:00.440
about everyday things. It was those
few times that we could all be living

785
01:05:00.480 --> 01:05:05.440
together as the family we were,
because, for one thing or another,

786
01:05:05.920 --> 01:05:10.480
we could never do it. Our
pets were so attached to us that they

787
01:05:10.519 --> 01:05:15.599
weren' t snooping or running around. They were lying next to us as

788
01:05:15.639 --> 01:05:20.360
if they were entertaining with our talk. That' s how we were until

789
01:05:20.400 --> 01:05:26.239
ten and a half p m,
agreed time to go to sleep. Everything

790
01:05:26.360 --> 01:05:30.519
was going smoothly. The wind was
cool, the atmosphere was quiet, there

791
01:05:30.639 --> 01:05:35.159
was no chance of rain. We
took refuge in the two tents. The

792
01:05:35.199 --> 01:05:41.000
dogs also entered, one with me
and my wife, the other two with

793
01:05:41.079 --> 01:05:45.159
my children. We closed the lock
in case they needed to go out during

794
01:05:45.920 --> 01:05:49.960
the night, we were just settling
in. My wife signaled me to keep

795
01:05:50.119 --> 01:05:57.639
quiet. Wanting to hear something in
between, I stopped breathing for a moment,

796
01:05:58.679 --> 01:06:02.920
but everything was calm. Just signposted. I asked him what was going

797
01:06:02.920 --> 01:06:10.039
on. He told me quietly that
an animal was around us. I asked

798
01:06:10.199 --> 01:06:13.800
her if she was sure of what
she was saying, because I didn'

799
01:06:13.800 --> 01:06:16.639
t hear anything. Besides, I
thought it was weird that dogs didn'

800
01:06:16.719 --> 01:06:21.320
t smell it. We were still
silent for a few more minutes. The

801
01:06:21.400 --> 01:06:26.599
first indication that something was not right
was a strange sound that was heard.

802
01:06:27.760 --> 01:06:30.639
It was a noise that seemed to
come from the trees. It sounded like

803
01:06:30.679 --> 01:06:38.159
someone was drowning. My wife and
I looked at each other surprised because then

804
01:06:38.320 --> 01:06:42.639
that sound seemed to come from different
directions. Knowing we weren' t alone

805
01:06:42.679 --> 01:06:46.719
in the middle of the woods was
a disturbing thing we weren' t expecting.

806
01:06:46.760 --> 01:06:51.679
Then. Dogs, usually quiet,
began to bark without ceasing. That

807
01:06:51.800 --> 01:06:56.920
' s why we let them out
of the houses. As I looked out

808
01:06:57.039 --> 01:07:01.599
I realized that they were looking into
the darkness of the forest with a defensive

809
01:07:01.639 --> 01:07:06.599
attitude, one towards one place,
the other towards another. We went out

810
01:07:06.760 --> 01:07:10.599
all four to see what was going
on. Even though the noises calmed down,

811
01:07:10.760 --> 01:07:16.639
something kept making our pets nervous.
We too feel restless. That'

812
01:07:16.639 --> 01:07:20.199
s why. Once again we entered
the tents, but the dogs refused to

813
01:07:20.280 --> 01:07:29.960
enter and remained outside vigilante having a
discomfort throughout the night. Dogs kept barking.

814
01:07:30.480 --> 01:07:35.840
Sometimes they were heard far away and
then quite close to us. It

815
01:07:35.920 --> 01:07:43.440
was like they were chasing someone or
maybe something was chasing them. We were

816
01:07:43.519 --> 01:07:46.599
so nervous that my wife asked me
to bring the boys to our campaign house.

817
01:07:48.119 --> 01:07:51.800
I agreed. When I left,
I felt someone was watching me.

818
01:07:53.239 --> 01:07:58.440
It was such a strange feeling that
it made me stop. For a few

819
01:07:58.440 --> 01:08:01.199
seconds. I looked around without being
watched. I spoke to my children.

820
01:08:01.679 --> 01:08:06.519
When they left the house. They
told me something strange was going on and

821
01:08:06.679 --> 01:08:13.079
we all took refuge in one house. As long as we' re inside,

822
01:08:13.440 --> 01:08:16.359
we' re not talking. That
rare feeling of being observed did not

823
01:08:16.880 --> 01:08:21.239
disappear as if the strong gaze passed
through the material of the campaign house and

824
01:08:21.319 --> 01:08:28.880
was deposited in us, no matter
how dark we were. My wife hugged

825
01:08:28.920 --> 01:08:32.239
my children while I thought we could
defend ourselves in case something attacked us.

826
01:08:34.079 --> 01:08:39.640
We didn' t really know the
kind of animals that inhabited that area,

827
01:08:40.079 --> 01:08:45.039
but for dogs to get that way
it was something that posed danger, not

828
01:08:45.079 --> 01:08:48.399
just to us, but to them, without knowing what to do. We

829
01:08:48.439 --> 01:08:53.560
heard the dogs were fighting someone,
only the fight lasted a long time.

830
01:08:54.720 --> 01:09:00.079
Every time we heard our pets cry. My children wanted to go out and

831
01:09:00.119 --> 01:09:03.520
help them, but I convinced them
that would be a mistake. Before dawn,

832
01:09:03.680 --> 01:09:10.000
the branches of the trees were heard
as if something large were walking in

833
01:09:10.039 --> 01:09:15.319
awe of the birds, knowing that
it was dangerous to face any animal in

834
01:09:15.319 --> 01:09:19.560
the darkness. I didn' t
even dare look out at myself imagining that

835
01:09:19.680 --> 01:09:25.840
the only animal that could face the
three dogs climb the trees and make all

836
01:09:25.840 --> 01:09:30.920
that fuss. He was a very
big feline, but those strange laments kept

837
01:09:30.960 --> 01:09:35.760
listening very close to us. We
all heard them. The next morning we

838
01:09:36.119 --> 01:09:42.039
got up to check, looked for
prints, but there was nothing. After

839
01:09:42.039 --> 01:09:45.600
a few minutes we realized that one
of our dogs, named Rocky, had

840
01:09:46.159 --> 01:09:53.560
disappeared. The other two showed some
wounds and were even bitten with what little

841
01:09:53.640 --> 01:09:58.560
we had. We cured them and
let a space of about an hour pass

842
01:09:58.600 --> 01:10:02.560
for Rocky to come back, but
time ran and it never came. The

843
01:10:02.680 --> 01:10:08.920
other two dogs were still nervous.
We decided to look around for him.

844
01:10:09.279 --> 01:10:14.319
We couldn' t lose him after
a while of looking for him together,

845
01:10:14.560 --> 01:10:17.079
my 13- year- old son
and I found a trail. My wife

846
01:10:17.399 --> 01:10:24.960
and my little son stayed at the
camp. We decided to go and investigate

847
01:10:25.039 --> 01:10:30.319
further into the forest, searching as
we shouted a man, we went through

848
01:10:30.479 --> 01:10:35.760
a good stretch, but after an
hour of searching, the trail was lost

849
01:10:35.760 --> 01:10:40.520
among some bushes and we no longer
found it. That' s why we

850
01:10:40.560 --> 01:10:43.720
decided to go back to camp.
I' ll be right back. Any

851
01:10:43.800 --> 01:10:48.640
noise seemed suspicious to us. We
stopped constantly believing that we saw animal tracks

852
01:10:48.760 --> 01:10:57.199
everywhere. We were turning up the
trees, imagining a terrible predator stalking us.

853
01:10:58.520 --> 01:11:01.560
At that moment I feel confused,
perhaps for being in my thoughts.

854
01:11:02.920 --> 01:11:06.520
I didn' t pay attention to
my son when he told me that our

855
01:11:06.600 --> 01:11:12.640
dog had been taken away. The
night before noon we arrived at the camp.

856
01:11:13.079 --> 01:11:17.119
We took the opportunity to eat something
and talk about what probably happened to

857
01:11:17.720 --> 01:11:24.319
him And my children commented that they
heard some grunts. It could also be

858
01:11:24.399 --> 01:11:29.800
the sound of pigs. According to
his experience, they were talking a little

859
01:11:29.880 --> 01:11:33.840
before bed when they heard something crawling
outside without giving them time to react.

860
01:11:34.239 --> 01:11:40.560
The dogs stopped their ears and left
the campaign house. My youngest son wanted

861
01:11:40.760 --> 01:11:44.359
to stop them, but it was
impossible for him. What was outside was

862
01:11:44.520 --> 01:11:48.920
quickly chased away by the dogs,
but apparently he was already dragging one of

863
01:11:49.039 --> 01:11:55.960
them. Suddenly we were in a
dilemma. After what happened, we couldn

864
01:11:56.079 --> 01:12:00.800
' t spend another night in that
place, but we couldn' t leave

865
01:12:00.880 --> 01:12:04.960
our pet, who was already eight
years old with us. Besides, he

866
01:12:05.039 --> 01:12:11.119
was only lost and at any moment
he could appear again. My son and

867
01:12:11.119 --> 01:12:15.880
I went out looking for him.
Now heading for another direction for half an

868
01:12:15.960 --> 01:12:19.119
hour we were whistling him and calling
him by his name, but he didn

869
01:12:19.119 --> 01:12:25.520
' t show up. Maybe we
walked a few hundred meters resigned that we

870
01:12:25.640 --> 01:12:30.520
wouldn' t see him again.
We walked back on the way back again.

871
01:12:30.680 --> 01:12:36.600
I felt watched, I was worried
because my son was with me so

872
01:12:36.600 --> 01:12:40.119
I wouldn' t scare him.
I asked him to be alert, but

873
01:12:40.199 --> 01:12:44.680
that' s all. Upon our
return we realized that another of our dogs

874
01:12:44.720 --> 01:12:51.239
had also mysteriously disappeared. They had
only heard him bark insistently. And a

875
01:12:51.279 --> 01:12:57.760
second later he was gone. My
wife and my other son were already worried

876
01:12:57.960 --> 01:13:03.159
because before that they were listening to
some grunts pretty close asked us to look

877
01:13:03.239 --> 01:13:09.560
again now. Both of you.
Before I did, I asked them to

878
01:13:09.600 --> 01:13:15.560
be careful when I left, because
it was obvious that something strange and dangerous

879
01:13:15.560 --> 01:13:18.600
was happening. At the last minute
I asked my son to stay with his

880
01:13:18.600 --> 01:13:25.399
brother and mother. I told them
I' d look for them for an

881
01:13:25.479 --> 01:13:28.479
hour or so if I found them
or not. When we got back,

882
01:13:28.479 --> 01:13:30.199
we' d leave. From there. I went into the woods and they

883
01:13:30.279 --> 01:13:33.600
started picking everything up. I wasn' t going to leave, either.

884
01:13:33.640 --> 01:13:40.000
On this occasion alone I was accompanied
by the dog that was tied to a

885
01:13:40.079 --> 01:13:44.000
leash. He was walking in front
of me. I knew that in case

886
01:13:44.079 --> 01:13:49.159
of danger, he would defend me. We move slowly, looking carefully for

887
01:13:49.239 --> 01:13:54.840
a new account. I found a
trail, unfortunately, it was blood.

888
01:13:55.520 --> 01:14:00.600
We walked and walked without finding anything
else. It seemed that our most pets

889
01:14:00.640 --> 01:14:04.720
had been swallowed up by the immense
forest already deep within a lot of weeds.

890
01:14:05.039 --> 01:14:10.319
I found the remains of an animal. His fur was the same color

891
01:14:10.439 --> 01:14:13.840
as one of our dogs. That' s why I went to check them

892
01:14:13.840 --> 01:14:18.319
out. I approached cautiously out of
fear that causer of the death of that

893
01:14:18.560 --> 01:14:25.359
animal was hidden out there. When
the German shepherd smelled those remains, he

894
01:14:25.439 --> 01:14:31.279
became nervous and soon after he showed
his teeth I noticed that he was fearful

895
01:14:31.319 --> 01:14:36.000
of the way he had his tail. He started barking in a desperate way

896
01:14:36.039 --> 01:14:40.960
to see him like this, he
also made me nervous. I turned around

897
01:14:41.000 --> 01:14:46.199
because I felt a presence, but
there was nothing. The dog turned up

898
01:14:46.279 --> 01:14:53.640
the trees like something was jumping from
top to top. Maybe he smelled the

899
01:14:54.119 --> 01:14:59.079
danger because he suddenly ran directionless,
leaving me just wanted to run after him,

900
01:14:59.520 --> 01:15:01.359
but he was going to sea fast. If I lost sight of him,

901
01:15:01.960 --> 01:15:06.479
there was a chance that I'
d stray from the road and get

902
01:15:06.479 --> 01:15:11.319
better off. I stopped. I
came back to be sure it was what

903
01:15:11.399 --> 01:15:16.159
was lying there. I was never
entirely sure. The body was so bitten

904
01:15:16.199 --> 01:15:21.319
that it could be any kind of
animal less than a meter away there were

905
01:15:21.319 --> 01:15:27.359
signs that they had dragged something large. I looked and all I found to

906
01:15:27.439 --> 01:15:32.520
defend myself was a stick. I
took it and walked following that trail was

907
01:15:32.800 --> 01:15:38.600
freshly marked. After walking about 30
meters, that mark landed on the thick

908
01:15:38.680 --> 01:15:43.479
trunk of a large tree. I
turned him around, looked at his sides,

909
01:15:43.520 --> 01:15:46.520
there was nothing. I looked a
little further, a few meters and

910
01:15:47.039 --> 01:15:51.239
as much as I searched the earth
I found nothing. I suspected that what

911
01:15:51.319 --> 01:15:58.520
they had dragged had been climbed into
the trees. I turned around hoping it

912
01:15:58.720 --> 01:16:02.439
wasn' t one of our pets. The branches were so thick that I

913
01:16:02.600 --> 01:16:09.359
could hardly see anything clearly enough.
Squinting my eyes, I made an effort

914
01:16:09.439 --> 01:16:15.239
to find out that what was up
there if it was Rocky, I can

915
01:16:15.279 --> 01:16:17.920
' t deny that fear took over
more of me. My conservation instinct told

916
01:16:18.199 --> 01:16:23.880
me to stay away from there,
because not any animal could climb my dog

917
01:16:23.920 --> 01:16:29.319
to where I was resigned to the
fact that if Rock was up there dead,

918
01:16:30.000 --> 01:16:33.880
the other dog was surely the remains
we had found meters back. At

919
01:16:33.920 --> 01:16:39.880
that moment I decided to go back
to camp, take my family and leave

920
01:16:40.000 --> 01:16:44.479
that forest. Only when I turned
around I could see a shadow to hide

921
01:16:44.520 --> 01:16:48.520
among some trees. I identified it
as a shadow because it was totally black.

922
01:16:49.119 --> 01:16:55.439
It couldn' t be anything but
that predator. But the terrible thing

923
01:16:55.479 --> 01:16:59.199
was that what I saw didn'
t have a definite human form. It

924
01:16:59.279 --> 01:17:03.920
was pretty big, but with deformed
legs I' ve never found the exact

925
01:17:04.000 --> 01:17:09.800
words to explain what I felt.
I stared at that place for a few

926
01:17:09.800 --> 01:17:14.760
seconds, because that thing seemed to
pop out of the trees. The only

927
01:17:14.800 --> 01:17:18.920
thing I could see well was that
I had big, bright eyes looking at

928
01:17:19.039 --> 01:17:25.520
me and then hiding again. Overcoming
that I felt, I tried to find

929
01:17:25.560 --> 01:17:30.800
him from a distance to know more
for sure what that was, but nothing

930
01:17:30.880 --> 01:17:35.520
could be seen with agitated breathing.
I' m sure I' d seen

931
01:17:35.560 --> 01:17:42.920
a creature more than an animal would
try to go back another way, avoiding

932
01:17:42.960 --> 01:17:45.199
getting near that place without losing sight
of those trees. First I walked slowly.

933
01:17:45.640 --> 01:17:49.399
I don' t remember any more
of a sudden I saw myself running

934
01:17:49.800 --> 01:17:54.600
around without turning anywhere, without knowing
where I was going. After running for

935
01:17:54.640 --> 01:17:58.600
a while, I tried to return
to the path that would take me back

936
01:17:58.600 --> 01:18:02.359
to the camp, but everything was
so unknown that for the first time in

937
01:18:02.439 --> 01:18:05.960
my life I knew the terror that
feels when I get lost. I remember

938
01:18:06.039 --> 01:18:11.159
that at that time I would be
about forty- five years old, but

939
01:18:11.199 --> 01:18:15.119
seeing myself alone in the middle of
the forest, I felt like an eight

940
01:18:15.119 --> 01:18:18.439
- year- old scared. There
were times when I heard a dog bark.

941
01:18:19.000 --> 01:18:24.880
I was sure he was the German
shepherd, but he couldn' t

942
01:18:24.960 --> 01:18:28.720
identify where he was supposed to go
to find him. For the same reason,

943
01:18:29.239 --> 01:18:32.479
I was just walking without an address. I knew that if I didn

944
01:18:32.479 --> 01:18:38.239
' t find the way back,
the night would soon come. I began

945
01:18:38.359 --> 01:18:44.159
to be in despair because I didn' t want to see myself in the

946
01:18:44.239 --> 01:18:48.399
middle of the forest knowing that something
unknown like what I had seen could marry

947
01:18:48.520 --> 01:18:54.239
me just like I had married the
dogs. He walked slowly down so as

948
01:18:54.279 --> 01:19:00.439
not to be discovered. Then I
got nervous. I ran desperate beating me

949
01:19:00.479 --> 01:19:04.680
with branches and trunks, but I
stopped alone until I got tired. Then

950
01:19:04.880 --> 01:19:10.720
I walked slowly again. Maybe that' s how it was two hours,

951
01:19:11.079 --> 01:19:14.960
maybe a little longer, but time
didn' t stop. I got like

952
01:19:15.000 --> 01:19:17.720
six o' clock in the afternoon. I figured because it all started to

953
01:19:17.800 --> 01:19:25.359
turn gray. I could hear the
dog barking again, but now clear enough

954
01:19:25.520 --> 01:19:30.840
to know where he was with his
heart. Beating at a thousand an hour

955
01:19:30.880 --> 01:19:33.800
and with some luck, I managed
to get to camp. I realized my

956
01:19:33.840 --> 01:19:39.640
family hadn' t picked up anything
like we' d met. I went

957
01:19:39.640 --> 01:19:45.560
into the houses just to find out
that my wife and children weren' t

958
01:19:45.640 --> 01:19:49.479
there I felt a hole in my
stomach. Imagining the worst. I walked

959
01:19:49.560 --> 01:19:54.239
around. I called them out,
but I didn' t get an answer.

960
01:19:54.840 --> 01:19:59.319
Desperately I looked for something to tell
me what had happened. They were

961
01:19:59.319 --> 01:20:03.920
the most disturbing seconds of my life. Then the German shepherd appeared. He

962
01:20:03.960 --> 01:20:10.319
began to bark frantically at the trees. I was going to run thinking that

963
01:20:10.399 --> 01:20:15.880
the predator was there when I looked
up I saw something I could never forget.

964
01:20:15.159 --> 01:20:20.000
My family was in the highest branches
shaking with fear. I didn'

965
01:20:20.079 --> 01:20:26.800
t even have time to rejoice yet
as bewildered as I could fight them,

966
01:20:27.399 --> 01:20:30.439
I managed to help them down because
they refused to do so. Once on

967
01:20:30.479 --> 01:20:35.439
the ground, everyone told me what
happened. They had been persecuted by a

968
01:20:35.560 --> 01:20:41.600
creature they had never seen before.
My wife described the animal as a mixture

969
01:20:41.680 --> 01:20:45.000
between a wolf and a pig,
but much larger and with a presence that

970
01:20:45.199 --> 01:20:50.439
iced the blood. He had big
red shining eyes and a black fur.

971
01:20:50.960 --> 01:20:57.600
His movements were fast and quiet.
The most disturbing thing was his snout.

972
01:20:58.079 --> 01:21:00.840
It came from Oreja to Oreja and
I and R la. The teeth were

973
01:21:00.920 --> 01:21:04.880
so big, they stood out.
It made that strange sound that we had

974
01:21:04.920 --> 01:21:10.520
heard at night. When I looked
at my wife crying and my frightened children,

975
01:21:10.560 --> 01:21:15.079
I had no doubt that what they
were telling me was true. Besides,

976
01:21:15.239 --> 01:21:17.840
I had also seen that animal in
the middle of the forest. He

977
01:21:17.920 --> 01:21:20.880
was himself. There were a lot
of things I didn' t understand.

978
01:21:21.239 --> 01:21:26.720
For example, he did not know
how they had climbed the tree or because

979
01:21:26.720 --> 01:21:30.359
he did not attack them. That
animal if it wanted to climb the tree

980
01:21:30.439 --> 01:21:35.520
without any difficulty, but there was
no time to find out. We decided

981
01:21:35.600 --> 01:21:42.680
to leave the camp immediately, as
I was able to calm my family because

982
01:21:42.760 --> 01:21:46.520
they were in shock. We packed
the most essential things we could, like

983
01:21:46.520 --> 01:21:53.199
water, some food and flashlights.
Then we ran through the woods looking to

984
01:21:53.279 --> 01:21:56.720
get away as quickly as possible.
Maybe it was the nerves from there,

985
01:21:57.279 --> 01:22:01.359
but I felt like we weren'
t going anywhere. The afternoon began to

986
01:22:01.479 --> 01:22:06.680
fall in despair. We were moving
forward, but the forest seemed repetitive.

987
01:22:08.319 --> 01:22:15.560
When we found a path it was
almost night, we lit the flashlights and

988
01:22:15.640 --> 01:22:20.039
everything became more scary. Soon we
got tired, but we couldn' t

989
01:22:20.039 --> 01:22:25.960
stop. My little son constantly asked
how long we needed to get there.

990
01:22:26.800 --> 01:22:30.880
I was about to tell my family
that we were lost, because I didn

991
01:22:31.000 --> 01:22:35.720
' t know where to go.
Having a strong hunch, I walked right.

992
01:22:36.720 --> 01:22:40.760
Thank God, it wasn' t
like that. I don' t

993
01:22:40.800 --> 01:22:45.239
know how long later we found our
car. For several minutes we searched for

994
01:22:45.239 --> 01:22:48.039
the keys until we found them all
the way back. We don' t

995
01:22:48.159 --> 01:22:51.800
get tired of giving it. Thank
God you' re all right. When

996
01:22:51.920 --> 01:22:57.439
we arrived home an hour later,
we did not know for sure what had

997
01:22:57.479 --> 01:23:02.760
happened to us. The only thing
clear was that something or someone quite strange

998
01:23:02.800 --> 01:23:09.720
was watching us day and night.
Besides, our dogs had disappeared in that

999
01:23:09.760 --> 01:23:15.840
forest. That night we all slept
in one room, afraid of what we

1000
01:23:15.000 --> 01:23:19.840
had seen. It was so much
fear that even the German pastor slept with

1001
01:23:19.920 --> 01:23:24.520
us that we dared not leave him
out. Some neighbors, to whom we

1002
01:23:24.600 --> 01:23:29.800
told them our experience, spoke of
the possibility that this forest animal was a

1003
01:23:29.880 --> 01:23:34.039
gual. In describing what those beings
were like, My wife, who had

1004
01:23:34.159 --> 01:23:39.479
seen them more closely, assured us
that what they looked at was very similar

1005
01:23:39.520 --> 01:23:43.760
to those creatures. He was still
in deep fear. I couldn' t

1006
01:23:43.800 --> 01:23:47.279
stop thinking about those bright eyes and
what could have happened if we hadn'

1007
01:23:47.359 --> 01:23:53.000
t escaped in time. To this
day I live in fear every time I

1008
01:23:53.039 --> 01:23:58.279
hear a noise in the dark.
I wonder if it won' t be

1009
01:23:58.319 --> 01:24:02.159
that creature in Nahual, coming back
for our dog or maybe for us.

1010
01:24:02.199 --> 01:24:06.600
But this I narrated is what I
feel. It' s the aftermath of

1011
01:24:06.600 --> 01:24:12.119
all that. My wife was scared
for a long time and don' t

1012
01:24:12.159 --> 01:24:19.279
tell my children that they suffered from
recurring nightmares, stories, written and adapted

1013
01:24:19.399 --> 01:24:19.680
by black cat