PERROS NAHUALES Nos Acechan Por El Monte Historias De Terror - REDE

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Black as night. My name is
marten. Now I am an older woman,

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but I have never forgotten what happened
that summer of one thousand nine hundred

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and forty- five, when I
was barely eight years old. At that

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time we lived in a small ejido
very close to Barroterán, in Coahuila,

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Mexico, without electricity or key water
to wash or bathe. We were going

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to the stream that ran about a
hundred meters away. At that time we

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were at home with my grandmother,
an aunt and her two little daughters,

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because my mom had separated from my
dad years ago. Although we were very

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poor, I didn' t feel
that way, because all the people we

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knew were poor. There were occasions
when we only ate onions with tomatoes and

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Chile all from our own vegetable garden. We used to be happy to consume

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that. We were just drinking water
from the wheelhouse, even though we were

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small. That didn' t stop
us from helping with the housework. When

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night fell, we would light up
with fives of oil. My grandmother kept

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telling us scary stories at the time. Listen to witches who showed up after

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seeing a fireball. It was most
common. They were told of other creatures

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that lived in the middle of the
vast mountain, not only at night,

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but also during the day. Those
strange things were human dogs howling in a

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way that scared all the animals.
One afternoon my mom, my grandmother,

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my aunt, along with my cousins
and I decided it would be a good

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idea to go and collect some synopal
herbs from nearby ranches to prepare a meal.

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This despite the warnings of Grandma who
always told us how dangerous that was,

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especially for us, being two girls. My mother also told us that

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on the lost paths of the mountain, apart from the dangerous snakes and spiders,

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she was lurking around a strange animal. He described it as black as

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coal, with big legs and dog
snout. That hideous animal some called a

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human dog was called a nahual.
According to the beliefs of the whole ejido,

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he owned the night. He fed
on everything that moved through the mountain

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and those who dared to face it
disappeared forever. That animal was out of

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hell. It was enough to see
him from his snout, he had big

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fangs on his four legs. He
had huge claws and his eyes, bigger

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than those of a human, shone
in the dark. Ever since that being

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appeared the mountain looked like a desert. The larger animals fled or disappeared and

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no one walked alone at any time
of the day, much less of the

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night. These and many scary stories
had left us sleepless years ago. In

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addition, they frightened us by telling
us that shadows and whispers invaded the roads,

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especially in the cold mornings. But
since we' ve never seen or

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heard anything. We didn' t
believe in that, being excited and carefree

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girls, because we were going under
my aunt' s safety, we moved

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on with the idea of our little
ride. Before noon we went into the

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mountain playing and running along the paths
already known. Despite the heat, we

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were still enjoying ourselves without caring about
time. We did it for over two

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hours. My aunt told us we' d only be a little longer.

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Trying to get back. After walking
through the mountain collecting herbs, we realized

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that something was wrong. The roads
didn' t look the same and there

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should be a walk back to our
house. Soon it became a confused and

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tired walk through the thick mountain.
As time passed. We were hungry and

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thirsty because we walked the trails without
getting anywhere. My aunt didn' t

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tell us anything, she just turned
everywhere. I grabbed one sidewalk, then

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another, and it was the same
thing. Even as children, we knew

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without asking that we were lost,
used to those lands. We moved on,

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ate some things, mesquites and tunas, still unripe that we found,

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but we hadn' t loaded with
water. In the evening, the first

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shadows appeared with them the cool wind
of the mountain. My cousin, the

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youngest, began to cry because she
was tired of so much walking, but

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my aunt, in her desperation to
find the way, did not stop.

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It is not necessary to say that
the nights on the mountain were a dark

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world apart to no longer be able
for us, as children, it was

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the time when the witches came out. That' s how they taught us.

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Obviously, we were worried that it
would be done at night. As

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the sun was completely hidden, the
shadows appeared and everything familiar became threatening.

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The tall trees were like silent giants. His branches full of thorns seemed to

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assault us. On purpose there were
sections with larger trees that formed a roof

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that barely allowed the first rays of
the moon to pass. The wind whistled

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through the leaves, carrying with it
earth mixed with the penetrating smell of the

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mountain. The hot road under our
feet was barely visible by the scant light.

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There were leaves and dried branches that
creaked at every step, reminding us

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that each movement was an announcement of
our presence in that place. We knew

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that was not good, because the
animals of the mountain could hear us,

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like vipers or wild boars, and
they could react by attacking us as far

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away as they could at once.
We could hear the sounds of the mountain,

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the cricket of insects or the sudden
fluttering of a night bird. This

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made us scared to walk hand in
hand. But beyond these natural sounds there

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were others that were difficult to identify. We heard the grunt of a big

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animal, making us wonder if we
were really alone. During that night,

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something followed us. For the same
reason, my aunt wouldn' t stop

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for a moment. We could hear
footsteps and creaks around us. Several times

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we saw in the distance truly black
shadows, darker than the same night,

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figures jumping the bushes without any problem. My frightened cousins said they were naguals

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that my grandmother, my aunt,
was talking so much about. All he

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did was change course and keep walking
without telling us anything. I was trying

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not to get scared even so I
remembered what my mom and grandma were talking

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about. Beings were spirits in the
form of animals that, in most cases,

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were solitary. They said the legends
that punished humans according to their actions.

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With every noise, with every movement
among the thorny bushes, fear grew.

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We hugged each other trying to console
ourselves with the idea that at dawn

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everything would be clear and we'
d be safe. But the nights on

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the mountain were long and that particularly
seemed the worst, because the sounds did

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not stop. Also, feeling the
cold, thirst and tiredness was worse.

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One of my cousins stumbled upon a
trunk that was pierced along the way.

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Just like that. My aunt stopped
and told us that we would rest for

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a moment I dropped into the ground
and recharged on the trunk, I asked

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her how long we needed to get
to the house. He didn' t

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even answer me. A few minutes
later it was all silence. I realized

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my aunt and cousins were asleep,
thinking it would be nice to rest.

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I closed my eyes a little bit. I don' t know if it

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' s been a minute or an
hour. I woke up because I had

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a strange feeling I' d never
felt before. I could assure you that

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someone was watching me from the darkness
hidden among the many bushes whatever it was.

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He had a very strong look,
because he could feel it even without

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seeing it. In addition, his
breathing could also be heard and made a

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sound with his mouth, as if
he had a lot of saliva. I

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don' t know if by instinct
I didn' t move or was paralyzed

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by the fear I had. The
point is, just by looking at it,

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I was trying to find out what
was hiding there. I was on

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alert so much that any noise scared
me. At that moment I forgot how

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tired I was, how hungry I
was, and how thirsty I was.

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I didn' t run because that
would be abandoning my aunt, along with

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my cousins, who were sloppy.
So, in that situation it was spending

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the night before dawn. I heard
something was coming crawling. I didn'

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t know what kind of animal it
could be. It was heard on one

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side after the other. I didn' t understand how he moved so fast.

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Surely it was two animals that were
stalking us without moving me I called

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repeatedly my aunt and cousins, but
they were so asleep that they didn'

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t listen to me. Meanwhile,
the thing that came to us was being

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heard closer and closer. The only
thing I found at hand was a stone.

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I decided to give it to her
when she was close enough to me,

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I remember how my hand trembled.
The minutes went by for our good

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luck. Nothing and no one ever
showed up. When the sun finally rose,

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gradually dissipating the darkness, tension and
fear decreased, but hunger and thirst

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were already very strong. When my
aunt got up, no one said anything.

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We just keep walking. We start
a new day more lost than ever.

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The sun was very strong. The
same air felt suffocating hard to breathe

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in the morning. We ate what
we found, but it wasn' t

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enough to regain strength before the evening
fell. I was already wearing dry lips

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because of the lack of water.
Not just me, we were all the

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same. It was obvious that we
would not endure like this for long.

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When it started to get dark again
my uncle already started yelling at my grandmother

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and my mom in a desperate way. Listening to her was a shock to

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me, as well as to my
cousins, because we all started crying.

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We also screamed until we got tired. No one listened to us with sore

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legs and feet. We were moving
slowly in the midst of that terrible heat

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that felt increasingly unbearable. The night
fell again We walked fast, but the

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mountain was always the same. It
looks like we were doing it in a

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circle. We knew we' d
never get anywhere. After walking for a

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while, something my aunt looked at
because she cried a prayer or something.

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He grabbed his daughters by the hand
and almost dragged them out running. I

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didn' t have time to see
that I scared her. I ran behind

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her in the darkness dead of fear
and despair in my career to reach them,

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scratched my face, arms and legs. The branches pulled my hair,

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but I didn' t even stop. When my legs weren' t enough

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for more, I stopped running and
had no more energy. I was listening

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in the distance how my aunt was
walking away while my cousins were crying,

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but I couldn' t see them. When her crying got lost, I

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knew she was alone in the bush. I imagined a lot of horrible things,

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because for my aunt to have been
scared what she looked at, it

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would have to be something as awful
as the devil or worse, and it

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would surely come after me. Suddenly
I felt the whole chest hardening. I

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had difficulty breathing when I heard a
loud and clear grunt coming from all the

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darkness turning to the sides. I
didn' t know what to do,

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because I no longer had the strength
to run, much less to defend myself.

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Suddenly in front of me. About
three meters away, a couple of

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eyes appeared and I took a few
steps back, looking at them. Next

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to them, others appeared. At
that moment I didn' t realize,

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but today I can assure you that
they were red and bright as they were

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getting closer and closer by instinct,
perhaps, but I ran again aimlessly wherever

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I went. This time I felt
persecuted, not by a simple animal.

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I was sure he was a monster
and he was about to catch up with

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me. Suddenly, I lost the
floor and fell into a well. I

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stood still, not even breathing so
that that being wouldn' t find me.

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I could hear his steps approaching and
his strong breath very close to me

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as he got closer, my heart
accelerated. I was sure if I met,

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I' d eat in terror.
I watched him pass surrounded the well

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where I had fallen and continued along. It was a figure of a grotesque

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animal that walked on two legs too
high for me had the smell that dogs

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fire after they died. It was
that animal the nahual had an imposing presence,

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a terrible silhouette. Its size was
greater than that of any known animal

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in our region. The most disturbing
thing was his eyes, shining like burning

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coals staring, trying to find me
in the dark. His body seemed to

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be covered in a rather thick black
fur that moved with the wind as if

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it were smoke dragged by the breeze. His limbs were long and ended in

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what seemed to be claws, giving
him an even more fearsome appearance. Every

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time he moved between the bushes,
he could hear the rustling of the leaves

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and branches under his great weight,
although sometimes it was only a fleeting shadow

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in those brief moments when the moon
lit up his figure or ra. Terror

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paralyzed me because I wasn' t
just a mountain animal. It was something

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sinister that could scare anyone away.
I had no doubt about it anymore.

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All the stories my grandmother told us
were true not to see it anymore.

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I closed my eyes hard and I
didn' t move It dawned again until

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then I came out of the well, I realized that the ants were biting

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me but I didn' t feel
them. Maybe she was disconnected by fear,

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no choice where to go. I
walked aimlessly. I was already feeling

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very weak. My head hurt.
My eyes were closed with sleep and tiredness,

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but I couldn' t stay there. My lips hurt a lot because

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I already had them cracked. Hours
after walking under the rays of the sun,

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I felt dizzy. I closed my
eyes for a moment and didn'

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t hear from me anymore. When
I reacted, I realized I was on

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the ground without gaining any strength to
get up. So I was a long

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time without tears to cry. I
got up as I could. My whole

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body hurt. I barely took a
few steps. I stopped because two big,

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drooling black dogs shut me down.
I can' t say how much

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they were measuring, but they seemed
monstrous to me. Maybe I didn'

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t process it right now because I
didn' t freak out or maybe I

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didn' t have the strength to
scare myself. I looked them in the

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eye first one, then the other
one. Hate and hunger were evident in

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their eyes. At that moment I
understood that I was about to die.

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Devoured by those huge animals. I
stood there waiting for his attack, but

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those animals were just looking at me. I opened and closed my eyes to

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make them disappear, if I was
imagining them, but there they kept grunting.

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I tried walking, but one of
them grunted at me in a threatening

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way. He stopped at me without
taking his fierce gaze off me. The

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other one just smelled me from a
distance. It seemed not to his liking,

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although they were not standing on two
legs as I had seen them the

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previous nights I knew they were Nahuales, because that kind of dogs had never

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seen them. I walked to the
opposite side, without turning, without giving

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importance to his presence. As I
looked up, I looked at a lump

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lying at a considerable distance. When
I looked at them well they were my

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aunt and my cousins were lying on
the ground, very exhausted as I could,

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I ran to hug them. I
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the strength. I looked for a
stick willing to defend myself against that or

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any other animal, no matter how
terrifying it was. Those big black dogs

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kept looking at me from afar.
I thought they weren' t attacking us

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because they were waiting for others,
maybe their whole pack. When I turned

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to see them again, they were
gone. As I could, I got

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up to see better and be sure
they weren' t in that anymore when

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I heard they yelled at us in
the distance. Some people were looking for

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us I tried to scream, but
my despair choked my screams, drawing my

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last strength. I screamed. It
was so much the effort I made that

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I fell to the ground. Finally, after what seemed like an eternity,

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some of my grandmother' s known
peasants found us. We were disoriented,

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hungry and scared, but without serious
injuries. I remember they gave us water.

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It was so much our despair that
we almost drowned. When they took

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it, they told us that they
had been looking for us since day one.

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They toured the Mount to Horse several
times, but found no trace.

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They wondered among themselves how it was
possible that we had survived three days and

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two nights in the mountain, not
because we had no food or water.

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They didn' t understand that they
didn' t eat us dogs or Nahuales

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in a hurry in a donkey-
drawn cart. They took us to a

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ranch pretty close to our house.
Apparently we were only a mile away from

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her. There, little by little
we were fed a watered soup. I

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remember it well, until we finally
feel better. My grandmother and mom came

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scolding my aunt. They said so
many things, but the only thing I

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remember clearly that already made us dead
devoured by the dark creatures of the mountain.

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We returned to the ejido with a
story that many did not believe,

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attributing it to the imagination of frightened
children and dehydration. I know what I

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saw how my aunt and cousins felt
They tell their story how they lived it.

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Days later, my cousins and I
were taken with a lady to be

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horrified, because we were scared of
everything, especially at night. We went

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to live in Acuña city. Even
so, putting land in between, I

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could forget the terrible moments of looking
at myself lost alone about to die of

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thirst or, which is worse attacked
by hideous beings left from the same hell,

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still married and with children, I
had to see a psychologist because those

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terrible memories have persecuted me wherever I
have gone. I think those Nahuales will

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always do it, those presences at
night were too real. Today, some

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of my own family could explain it
as simple fear or hallucinations caused by panic.

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Every time I finish telling this story, I wonder what would have happened

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if those shadows that chased us were
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I' ll always remember those days
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The estate of the stones occurred when
I was barely twelve years old.

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At that time he lived in a
small town in central Mexico. This situation

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touched me to live it together with
my two best friends, Raúl and Miguel,

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both of my own age. There
wasn' t much to do in

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that town. That' s why
it was very common to sit down in

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the afternoons and chat with our parents
or grandparents until late at night. In

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the end we always ended up listening
to what was going on in an old

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hacienda where they told us they were
scared, because there was an old sorcerer

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who was called nahual who could not
deny that some time ago. That did

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scare me a lot and take it
as true. When some pot was heard

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at night, I ran to hide, thinking I was that sorcerer, and

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I even had nightmares. But already
at that age of twelve, I knew

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that they told us those things so
that we would not walk so far away

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from the house and much less that
we would approach the old hacienda where something

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could happen to us, the Hacienda
de las Piedras. That wasn' t

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her real name, but we told
her that because much of it was built.

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It was on the outskirts of the
village in the middle of which one

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day there were vast fields used for
the planting of corn. At least I

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' d only seen her from afar. I was so looking forward to going

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inside and meeting her. My two
friends said the same thing. It was

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pretty big. A good part of
it was still in good condition. It

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had been abandoned several decades ago.
Since then people had come from other places,

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searching for treasures hidden in the walls
and the floors were digging or hole

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- making. So they were destroying
it little by little, but one day

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all that changed. People passing by
the place told of strange sounds coming from

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within. Besides, they looked like
big flares. It was not known who

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was responsible for lighting them up,
until someone discovered that the sorcerer of the

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village had made the hacienda the perfect
place to do his witchcraft. That'

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s where he took out diseases,
in addition to all sorts of bad vibes.

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He did or removed black jobs,
performed rituals and invocations. All that

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was pervading the estate of strange phenomena
that occurred mostly at night. So,

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soon it became a cursed place,
at least for people who claimed to see

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spirits wandering around. But in addition, many people said that dog and other

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animals entering the old farm never went
out. That wasn' t all.

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At least once a month I had
witches and witches meetings until late at night.

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Some witnesses claimed that people were entering
the farm, but only animals,

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grotesques and fireballs came out. This
and other things began to be rumored by

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the people. From there, people
stopped entering that construction and even avoided passing

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by for fear of being victims of
the sorcerer. This was what they told

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us and as a story it was
all right, What intrigued most was the

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rumor that the sorcerer was transformed into
various hideous animals, never seen to drive

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out the intruders, whether it was
to be scary or to have nightmares.

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That sorcerer was well known in the
village. His name was Braulio, but

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they all called him the one erased
by the color of his eyes. He

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also had his story, one that
was terrifying. Supposedly, when the Braulio

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Witch entered the estate for the first
time, he met the Devil, who

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told him it was time for his
death. So that the Devil would not

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take his soul to hell forever,
the sorcerer made a covenant with him from

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now on he would take care of
the estate, because there the evil one

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had hidden a figure that he did
not want anyone to find. From that

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day and for all eternity, the
Braulio Witch never left the estate again.

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During the night, the Devil,
anyway, took his body to Hell.

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That is why he became some animal
in order to fulfill his commission. In

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addition, it was said that only
thus transformed into pig or dog was it

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how he could eat for us was
it no longer enough to know from memory

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that story. Someday we wanted to
go check on a summer afternoon. That

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day I was talking to my friends
about who still believed in that witch tale.

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Suddenly out of nowhere, someone came
up with going to know the estate,

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because none of the three of us
had been inside it any way they

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wanted. We thought a little bit
about going through all the things we'

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d heard so we wouldn' t
look scared. In the end we encouraged

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ourselves to do so that same afternoon, armed with a flashlight in case we

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were made at night and a couple
of sticks to defend ourselves. We ventured

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into the estate of the stones without
telling anyone. Along the way we planned

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what we would do until we escaped
if the sorcerer appeared to us. Everything

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seemed so easy. Although it started
as a game as we walked, it

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became an experience. We crossed anxiously
the great terrain surrounding the old hacienda,

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the sun set when we arrived as
soon as the shadows began to grow.

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When we were across the street,
we could see how big that construction was.

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Without thinking about it. Twice we
went into the main courtyard, which

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was opposite, where the weeds had
claimed their space and the vines covered what

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was once a fountain of stone.
Despite the abandonment. For the first time

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we were there, it seemed like
a good place to frequent from that day

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forward at the first door we found, we stopped, we looked inward.

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There was nothing. That' s
why we got in the way of the

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afternoon. The place was gloomy,
the smell of moisture was evident. On

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top of that, I smelled a
lot of candlestick and other strange things.

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We went through that room when we
got in another room. We heard someone

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ran. We were about to run
away, but we held back. Miguel

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got nervous and told me to come
back and come back another day earlier.

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We walked a little more on the
ground were appearing the remains of some animals

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already quite dry. We didn'
t really care about that. Suddenly.

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We heard a creak, we stopped
and looked at each other, we asked

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each other who had been we all
responded negatively. We walked more carefully because

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we didn' t know what or
who could have made that noise. The

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creaking was heard again. That was
enough to pay attention to him. Seconds

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later we learned a few steps that
someone was approaching. My friend Miguel stepped

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forward raising the stick he was wearing. In front of us. A gentleman

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appeared already with many years on him, perhaps eighty or more. He was

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dressed in a very strange way.
He had necklaces and amulets on his neck.

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Looking at us insistently, he asked
us what we were looking for.

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When I looked into his eyes,
I noticed that he had them in color.

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That' s why I knew it
was Don Braulio the Witch. Moreover,

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it was very much in line with
the description given to us at that

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time. I thought the Witch did
exist. Then it was true all the

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awful things that were told about that
place. I couldn' t stop my

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nerves from beating me. Titubing a
little bit, I told him we were

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just getting to know the estate,
but we were just leaving. That gentleman

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looked at us from top to bottom
with a distasteful face. He asked us

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our names and ages, but we
didn' t answer him as we didn

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' t move. He ran us
in bad words. He yelled at us

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that it was about evening and that
the devil appeared in that place with threats.

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He assured us that if we didn' t leave, that demon would

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lead us to hell. After asking
ourselves very angry that if that' s

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what we wanted, he spoke to
a dog, he was black and he

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was huge, he didn' t
have a necklace. Nothing more to see

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him. He was noticing all the
inns of biting us, perhaps because of

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the fear caused us by that animal. We were wrong to go back because

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the next room we entered was very
dark. At that moment all the noises

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disappeared. I felt as if we
had entered another dimension until my ears were

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covered. When we realized we hadn' t gotten there, we walked back,

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but we ran into a wall There
was no door. That couldn'

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t be possible. We touched and
pushed the walls, but they were solid.

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We turn on the flashlight with the
little light. We' re looking

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for a way out without finding her
trying not to panic. We had to

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walk deeper. In the end there
was the entrance to another room. We

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knew that the road was not that
way, only that there was nowhere else

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to go we allused inwards everything looked
so sinister that, at least to me

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I almost had the ability to speak. Although I was alone in the whole

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room. You heard an altered breath. I was so scared I wanted to

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run, but one of my friends
was holding on to my shirt. We

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began to despair and asked quietly what
we were going to do, but we

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had no answers. We had to
cross that room and we did so dominating

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our fears. We walked around with
just the little flashlight, listening to that

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strange breath that seemed to come from
everywhere, but we never managed to look

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at anyone. The next room we
arrived at was just as dark. Maybe

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the windows had been blocked. I
didn' t tell my friends anything not

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to scare them, but I started
to feel that someone or something sinister was

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following us closely. I was turning
back, but it was all loneliness,

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silence and darkness. I was afraid
to accept that, although it seemed like

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Lie was lost within the estate.
In our desperation to find a way out,

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we got deeper. Every time I
knew by the time we arrived,

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it had already been made at night. Then I remembered what they told us

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about the sorcerer, who was transformed
into an animal when the sun was hiding.

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I only began to torment myself because
they came to my mind not only

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what they told us so much at
home. I also remembered the horrible nightmares

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where I looked at the sorcerer with
a dog head chasing me through a place

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as dark as the one I was
at the time. We walked a little

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longer in the distance. A few
barks were heard were quite strong, surely

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from a very large animal. It
occurred to Raúl that the sorcerer had surely

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already transformed himself into a dog and
was looking for us to eat. I

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remember holding him by the arm and
in a very serious tone, I told

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him to shut up. The dog
barked again, but this time it was

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heard closer as if it came running
straight to us. We instinctively run by

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pushing each other trying to move faster
after a while. It seemed that we

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had achieved it because the barking of
that dog was no longer heard. Still

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we walked through the darkness and the
most important thing was to find the way

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out, which was nowhere to be
counted again. It occurred to Raul to

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say another of his nonsense. He
told us that maybe we were in hell

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and if we didn' t find
a way out soon, we' d

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stay there forever. To say that
really scared me not only to me,

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but also to Michael my mind betrayed
me thinking that maybe we were in hell

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and if we were, soon it
would appear to us. The devil.

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I was about to yell at him
to shut up when I said something in

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front of us. I do not
exaggerate when I said that when I looked

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at him and I didn' t
know what an animal or demon was,

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I was crouched, confused in the
darkness, waiting for us to approach.

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His eyes had a strange glow and
his fur was quite black. Its legs

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were disproportionately large, with claws that
surely tore the ground. As his snout

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passed, sharp teeth were protruding.
The sound of every breath seemed like a

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roar. Besides, he was throwing
off a stinking smell, like he had

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a lot of dead days. The
worst part was that he was a few

411
00:34:37.000 --> 00:34:40.880
meters away from us. We just
took a few steps back and what we

412
00:34:40.960 --> 00:34:45.079
looked at was lost in the dark. Thinking he was gone, we wanted

413
00:34:45.119 --> 00:34:51.840
to move forward again, but at
that moment the animal appeared again staring at

414
00:34:51.920 --> 00:34:58.519
us. That made me feel chills. My friends were also unable to move

415
00:34:58.559 --> 00:35:02.320
because of the fear of repo.
The dog let escape a grunt that resonated

416
00:35:02.360 --> 00:35:07.880
in the silence of the room where
we were. That more than alerting us,

417
00:35:07.400 --> 00:35:12.960
made us feel like weak prey.
I don' t know how Raul

418
00:35:12.960 --> 00:35:15.159
could speak. He almost screamed to
tell us that there was the exit.

419
00:35:15.719 --> 00:35:22.639
He pointed his finger at the hideous
dog. I understood that maybe that'

420
00:35:22.760 --> 00:35:27.320
s why that creature was there so
we wouldn' t get away. I

421
00:35:27.360 --> 00:35:30.840
admit I couldn' t stop looking
at the dog or whatever that thing was.

422
00:35:30.480 --> 00:35:36.400
I wasn' t even looking out. At a time when I looked

423
00:35:36.440 --> 00:35:38.760
right at the dog, I noticed
it was weird. At first I thought

424
00:35:39.199 --> 00:35:45.199
that animal had its eyes blank.
Then, in horror, I discovered that

425
00:35:45.239 --> 00:35:49.719
they were the very eyes erased from
the Witch Braulio. There was no doubt

426
00:35:49.840 --> 00:35:54.519
he was transformed into a dog.
Knowing that more scared gave me thinking that

427
00:35:54.679 --> 00:36:00.480
that being had come out of hell. With the sticks we brought, my

428
00:36:00.519 --> 00:36:05.800
friends formed a cross to try to
chase that creature away. At first it

429
00:36:05.880 --> 00:36:08.519
seemed not to affect him at all. Thank God that when we saw him

430
00:36:08.559 --> 00:36:15.320
we had not run back inside,
because seconds later, that strange animal was

431
00:36:15.360 --> 00:36:19.559
lost in the darkness, leaving us
the free passage without thinking about it.

432
00:36:19.679 --> 00:36:23.280
Twice we started running towards the exit, but before I could react, I

433
00:36:23.360 --> 00:36:30.639
felt a pain in my leg.
The animal wasn' t gone. It

434
00:36:30.679 --> 00:36:36.639
was hidden, submerged in the darkness
and had reached its claws. He scratched

435
00:36:36.760 --> 00:36:38.719
me so hard, he left me
a wound that burned me so bad.

436
00:36:39.800 --> 00:36:44.760
As I was a few steps away
from the door, I was about to

437
00:36:44.800 --> 00:36:47.960
fall from despair to arrive, but
I managed to get over it. When

438
00:36:49.280 --> 00:36:54.360
we finally went out to the central
courtyard, I felt like I had come

439
00:36:54.360 --> 00:36:58.519
out of hell itself. It was
already totally dark. Outside the night it

440
00:36:58.519 --> 00:37:04.280
felt very heavy. I had that
feeling as if many eyes looked at us

441
00:37:04.360 --> 00:37:09.719
from everywhere I looked up down.
I never looked at anyone, although we

442
00:37:09.800 --> 00:37:15.079
were relieved to have escaped. There
was still a big problem. Now we

443
00:37:15.159 --> 00:37:19.039
were in the middle of the whole
estate. To get out of there we

444
00:37:19.119 --> 00:37:22.199
would have to go back to the
construction and find a door to the main

445
00:37:22.320 --> 00:37:28.639
entrance. We looked and looked for
another way out, but there was no

446
00:37:28.639 --> 00:37:31.800
other way out. Our concern was
greater by understanding that we would have to

447
00:37:31.880 --> 00:37:37.480
go back in and face the animal
that was surely waiting for us at the

448
00:37:37.480 --> 00:37:39.880
farm. If we wanted to go
back to our homes. That was the

449
00:37:40.039 --> 00:37:46.920
only solution. After a lot of
searching we found a large living room where

450
00:37:46.960 --> 00:37:51.360
to get out to the opposite grounds
we would not have to go through more

451
00:37:51.360 --> 00:37:55.480
rooms. We all talked to each
other to agree. We' d run

452
00:37:55.639 --> 00:38:00.280
after each other so if we didn' t get out of sight, we

453
00:38:00.320 --> 00:38:02.039
' d do it nonstop until we
were on that side. We don'

454
00:38:02.079 --> 00:38:07.519
t think much, look ourselves in
the eyes, persignate ourselves, breathe deeply

455
00:38:07.519 --> 00:38:12.760
and enter, first Miguel, then
Raúl and the last. That' s

456
00:38:12.760 --> 00:38:15.280
all I have to say. In
doing so, the air became so suffocating

457
00:38:15.440 --> 00:38:19.800
that it was hard to breathe.
In addition, the nose was burning a

458
00:38:19.840 --> 00:38:24.800
lot, as if we were breathing
bad energies or negative vibrations that surely abounded

459
00:38:24.840 --> 00:38:30.079
in the entire interior of the hacienda. We couldn' t even run because

460
00:38:30.239 --> 00:38:34.679
the atmosphere was so heavy that it
wouldn' t let us move forward,

461
00:38:34.679 --> 00:38:38.440
breathe all that. Maybe it made
us have terrible hallucinations because my friends were

462
00:38:38.480 --> 00:38:44.079
shivering at every step they took.
I don' t know what they were

463
00:38:44.079 --> 00:38:47.840
looking at, they didn' t
feel, but I saw frights everywhere trying

464
00:38:47.840 --> 00:38:52.519
to grab me. I also heard
a snoring and dry voice behind me screaming

465
00:38:52.639 --> 00:38:55.480
at me in a tone very similar
to a bark, as I came to

466
00:38:55.599 --> 00:39:00.760
the last one. I felt it
was that animal the nahual that was following

467
00:39:00.880 --> 00:39:07.239
us perhaps waiting for the moment to
lie on us. I didn' t

468
00:39:07.320 --> 00:39:14.920
dare turn around for fear of meeting
those eyes again Nothing more coming out of

469
00:39:15.400 --> 00:39:19.119
the environment changed as if we had
freed ourselves from something we had carried.

470
00:39:19.679 --> 00:39:22.880
The animal here, he didn'
t give us time to breathe it.

471
00:39:22.920 --> 00:39:28.039
We hear running towards us, surely, to get on us. We ran

472
00:39:28.159 --> 00:39:32.039
until we were safe outside the confines
of the hacienda. When we passed the

473
00:39:32.159 --> 00:39:37.599
forgotten fields of corn and looked back
the dog was not there it seemed that

474
00:39:37.719 --> 00:39:45.199
it had disappeared, because we could
hear its fierce barking a sound that I

475
00:39:45.199 --> 00:39:47.920
could never forget. We ran as
far as we could until we got home.

476
00:39:49.400 --> 00:39:53.519
I came pulling air and very scared. I thought I' d be

477
00:39:53.639 --> 00:40:00.239
scolded for how late it was,
but strangely they were barely past eight o

478
00:40:00.239 --> 00:40:01.920
' clock at night. I couldn' t believe it. I had to

479
00:40:01.960 --> 00:40:07.079
confess to my parents where we were
walking because they looked at the wound I

480
00:40:07.119 --> 00:40:10.719
was carrying as expected. They didn' t believe everything I told them that

481
00:40:10.760 --> 00:40:16.280
I' d probably been beaten up. When they took me to the doctor,

482
00:40:16.800 --> 00:40:22.320
I told him I had cut myself
with a sheet. The wound on

483
00:40:22.360 --> 00:40:27.199
my leg healed over time, but
there was a scar that reminds me that

484
00:40:27.320 --> 00:40:30.639
night every time I see it.
I still don' t understand what happened

485
00:40:31.079 --> 00:40:36.880
and ask myself a thousand questions.
How could we have been lost inside the

486
00:40:37.000 --> 00:40:42.039
estate? I also wonder to this
day, because we were not attacked by

487
00:40:42.079 --> 00:40:45.280
the sorcerer, the dog, the
nahual or whatever that horrifying thing was.

488
00:40:46.639 --> 00:40:51.440
He could have done it if he
wanted to, but he let us out.

489
00:40:52.119 --> 00:40:55.920
Obviously, we never went back to
the farm and every time someone mentioned

490
00:40:57.039 --> 00:41:01.119
the Nahual, I couldn' t
help but think of those bony, bright

491
00:41:01.119 --> 00:41:05.960
eyes that that dog had, just
like Don Braulio' s. I'

492
00:41:06.039 --> 00:41:08.480
ve always tried to tell this story
as it is, without exaggerating anything.

493
00:41:09.159 --> 00:41:15.199
Those who listen to me tell me
that maybe it was just a wild dog,

494
00:41:15.480 --> 00:41:20.440
or maybe my childish imagination altered the
details. The feeling of being observed

495
00:41:20.559 --> 00:41:24.280
by something more than a common animal
is something that continues to haunt me until

496
00:41:24.840 --> 00:41:30.280
today and although I can never be
completely sure of that, I prefer to

497
00:41:30.400 --> 00:41:36.719
stay away from places like that old
farm of stones, where grandparents' tales

498
00:41:36.800 --> 00:41:42.159
ultimately proved true. That hacienda exists
to this day and the Brujo Braulio,

499
00:41:42.639 --> 00:41:49.280
that of the erased eyes is surely
still there becoming that hideous animal every devouring

500
00:41:49.400 --> 00:42:02.719
night. My name is Nicholas.
This story happened to me in September of

501
00:42:02.840 --> 00:42:06.920
the year one thousand nine hundred and
eighty- two. At that time I

502
00:42:07.000 --> 00:42:09.360
had twenty years. That' s
why, along with my girlfriend Erica,

503
00:42:10.199 --> 00:42:15.000
as well as Juliana and Edgar,
a couple of friends, we went on

504
00:42:15.039 --> 00:42:19.679
a weekend of hikers. We chose
a place very close to a well-

505
00:42:20.239 --> 00:42:23.920
known wooded area, where they rented
cabins. This in Mexico. We run

506
00:42:24.000 --> 00:42:30.800
our own tents to spend three days
and two nights in nature. It wasn

507
00:42:30.840 --> 00:42:35.079
' t the first time we did
it. Friday morning. Another couple who

508
00:42:35.119 --> 00:42:38.639
at the last moment could not accompany
us, approached us as much as he

509
00:42:38.679 --> 00:42:44.280
could in his truck to our destination
would be around ten in the morning.

510
00:42:45.599 --> 00:42:50.360
Loading our backpacks. We entered the
forest along a very marked path that we

511
00:42:50.440 --> 00:42:54.480
had taken on previous occasions. After
walking for three hours, we liked a

512
00:42:54.519 --> 00:43:00.000
place. I was at the foot
of a small hill. That' s

513
00:42:59.639 --> 00:43:02.239
where we stopped as soon as I
started the afternoon breathing the fresh air.

514
00:43:02.519 --> 00:43:07.199
We set up our camp already with
the armed houses. We walked around for

515
00:43:07.320 --> 00:43:14.760
a while to make sure there weren' t any animals. We left marks

516
00:43:14.800 --> 00:43:17.480
on the trees so we wouldn'
t get lost. We always did it

517
00:43:17.639 --> 00:43:22.400
this way for our safety between laughs. The afternoon passed. Before the sun

518
00:43:22.440 --> 00:43:28.880
was completely hidden, we were back
in our camp. When night fell,

519
00:43:29.239 --> 00:43:34.559
we lit a small fire. It
wasn' t to warm us up,

520
00:43:34.920 --> 00:43:38.400
just for coffee. Besides, we
knew that it was forbidden to light fire

521
00:43:38.400 --> 00:43:45.719
in that area. Also the light
served us to chase away the annoying insects.

522
00:43:45.760 --> 00:43:49.480
After a few hours of talk,
we were about to go to sleep.

523
00:43:49.960 --> 00:43:53.800
Edgar asked us to wait. He
started asking us if we already knew

524
00:43:53.840 --> 00:43:59.480
what had happened near there where we
were camping. He was very much given

525
00:43:59.519 --> 00:44:05.000
to tellerist of all kinds, but
especially of fear. That' s why

526
00:44:05.039 --> 00:44:07.920
we' re following the game.
It was all part of the adventure and

527
00:44:07.960 --> 00:44:12.760
fun of the moment we settled back
for more than an hour. He told

528
00:44:12.840 --> 00:44:17.239
us about strange disappearances of people,
all very close to that area of the

529
00:44:17.360 --> 00:44:22.599
forest, where we were at the
time, some of them leaving no trace.

530
00:44:22.320 --> 00:44:29.400
Others found their belongings, but it
was all Both relatives and authorities searched

531
00:44:29.639 --> 00:44:34.920
for them for weeks without finding them. This meant that not only were they

532
00:44:34.960 --> 00:44:39.119
mysteriously lost, they had disappeared from
the face of the earth. He assured

533
00:44:39.280 --> 00:44:45.559
us that he knew of a whole
family that had disappeared. They were searched

534
00:44:45.679 --> 00:44:52.079
with dog trackers for days. Almost
all family members were found. They were

535
00:44:52.760 --> 00:44:55.960
buried in the same way as any
dog on the ground their bones. When

536
00:44:57.039 --> 00:45:01.320
they were checked, they were all
bitten and scratched. Two situations as terrible

537
00:45:01.400 --> 00:45:07.000
as this had happened for years.
What edgar wanted to tell us had happened

538
00:45:07.079 --> 00:45:13.400
just a few weeks ago something in
the forest had killed a camper and his

539
00:45:13.400 --> 00:45:19.480
two dogs because of the way they
were found. His devourer was a rather

540
00:45:19.559 --> 00:45:23.320
large and strong animal, able to
crush the bones of an adult without any

541
00:45:23.400 --> 00:45:28.880
problems. My friend told the story
in a way that gave him chills.

542
00:45:30.360 --> 00:45:34.039
When he finished talking, it was
time to go to sleep. It was

543
00:45:34.079 --> 00:45:37.760
past 12 o' clock at night. We agreed to get up early and

544
00:45:37.800 --> 00:45:43.239
went into the tents that weren'
t so far removed from each other.

545
00:45:44.559 --> 00:45:49.079
Before she slept, talking to ERICAA, I noticed that she was still very

546
00:45:49.079 --> 00:45:52.960
nervous. I reminded him that Edgar
was very fanciful. I asked him not

547
00:45:53.079 --> 00:45:59.719
to take his stories as a hundred
percent true and try to rest for now

548
00:45:59.760 --> 00:46:04.840
by the drudgery hand. I woke
up with a feeling of oppression that made

549
00:46:04.880 --> 00:46:09.400
me uncomfortable. The constant sound of
insects came and went. They did it

550
00:46:09.519 --> 00:46:16.639
in a strange way, as if
a major predator walked around us. I

551
00:46:16.679 --> 00:46:21.360
lowered the close of the campaign house
a little to see what kind of animal

552
00:46:21.559 --> 00:46:25.679
surrounded me outside for a few minutes. I tried to see something in the

553
00:46:25.760 --> 00:46:30.559
darkness of the forest. Like I
didn' t see anything. I thought

554
00:46:30.599 --> 00:46:32.239
I didn' t have a case
of letting myself out, and I went

555
00:46:32.239 --> 00:46:37.960
to bed again. It wasn'
t long ago when some noises put me

556
00:46:37.079 --> 00:46:42.840
on alert again, they looked like
footprints of an adult person or a large

557
00:46:42.840 --> 00:46:46.360
animal. I woke up startled and
woke my girlfriend to realize what was going

558
00:46:46.440 --> 00:46:53.639
on. We both heard clearly what
was walking outside was a creature that made

559
00:46:53.679 --> 00:46:59.599
a different sound than any other.
He shrieked like a buffalo and grunted like

560
00:46:59.679 --> 00:47:05.239
a wolf. I was doing it
in such a terrible way that we were

561
00:47:05.239 --> 00:47:08.719
probably pale. We were awake for
a long time, afraid that what was

562
00:47:08.800 --> 00:47:14.599
snooping outside would get too close,
but, fortunately, none of that happened.

563
00:47:15.760 --> 00:47:20.039
My girlfriend also had that weird feeling
like we were all in danger.

564
00:47:21.360 --> 00:47:24.760
We held hands looking at each other
in silence, we said a lot of

565
00:47:24.760 --> 00:47:30.440
things to each other. So we
stayed for a long time until we fell

566
00:47:30.440 --> 00:47:34.159
asleep the next morning, that we
met with our friends. We talked about

567
00:47:34.159 --> 00:47:37.920
what was heard by the couple who
were with us. They also showed up

568
00:47:38.039 --> 00:47:43.760
listening to strange footsteps and noises.
According to them we had to be very

569
00:47:44.360 --> 00:47:47.800
careful, because what was around us
could be a hungry bear. We soon

570
00:47:47.880 --> 00:47:54.159
forgot about that. The activities of
the day passed normally. After eating something,

571
00:47:54.480 --> 00:48:00.719
we did a tour of about two
hours. We' re getting tired

572
00:48:00.719 --> 00:48:05.599
back to the country houses. After
noon, already on Saturday night, being

573
00:48:05.639 --> 00:48:09.679
around a campfire, my friend Edgar
insisted on finishing the story he had started

574
00:48:09.760 --> 00:48:17.719
the night before. We all agreed
to hear it. He began by saying

575
00:48:17.760 --> 00:48:22.280
that some of the bodies of the
victims, those recovered, were found at

576
00:48:22.360 --> 00:48:27.519
the top of the trees. In
those cases it was thought that he might

577
00:48:27.559 --> 00:48:31.239
be a cat or a big snake. Only not one or the other thing

578
00:48:31.519 --> 00:48:37.320
could be checked, but if so, the burrow of any of those animals

579
00:48:37.360 --> 00:48:43.239
would be a few meters away from
us. Listening to that was to make

580
00:48:43.280 --> 00:48:49.519
anyone nervous, especially my girlfriend and
my friend Juliana. Then they began to

581
00:48:49.559 --> 00:48:57.559
constantly turn around, perhaps imagining horrible
things. Edgar kept talking. In the

582
00:48:57.559 --> 00:49:02.280
case of the camper and his two
recently found dogs, the forest managers reported

583
00:49:02.320 --> 00:49:08.360
dog tracks, but of great proportions. Apparently, one or two huge animals

584
00:49:08.440 --> 00:49:15.199
dragged the lord and his pets for
more than 200 meters to devour them and

585
00:49:15.280 --> 00:49:21.760
leave them abandoned. Only a few
remains were made among the recurrent hikers to

586
00:49:21.760 --> 00:49:27.880
that sector of the forest. The
reports were sightings of animals quite large,

587
00:49:28.559 --> 00:49:35.159
standing on two legs that at night
fiercely hunted everything they found. The rangers

588
00:49:35.360 --> 00:49:40.639
claimed they were bears, but there
were other people who were not heard because

589
00:49:40.719 --> 00:49:45.440
their stories were moving away from reality. They were talking about dogs, the

590
00:49:45.440 --> 00:49:50.920
size of them, a black human
and big snout that took people away in

591
00:49:51.000 --> 00:49:55.440
the early morning. They were so
horrible that the companions of the victims did

592
00:49:55.559 --> 00:50:00.840
nothing to defend them, because the
mere sight of them paralyzed them with fear.

593
00:50:01.480 --> 00:50:06.800
Some did not dare to return to
the forest again, claiming that what

594
00:50:06.840 --> 00:50:12.000
had taken their family or friends was
so terrifying that they could not bear to

595
00:50:12.079 --> 00:50:16.480
see it. For the second time, Edgar raised his hand and with his

596
00:50:16.760 --> 00:50:22.079
finger pointed up. We turned around
to see what he was going to tell

597
00:50:22.079 --> 00:50:27.119
us. He looked at us assuring
us that the Nahual attacked the campers when

598
00:50:27.199 --> 00:50:31.840
the moon was full, as at
that time. Then he screamed, scaring

599
00:50:31.840 --> 00:50:37.719
us all. My Erica girlfriend asked
him to shut up. Edgar said we

600
00:50:37.800 --> 00:50:43.480
were precisely where they had found that
person' s remains. Better, I

601
00:50:43.519 --> 00:50:49.000
asked her to stop because the women
were already scared. I can' t

602
00:50:49.119 --> 00:50:52.679
deny it. I was also getting
nervous about the talk. He looked at

603
00:50:52.800 --> 00:50:57.719
us for a few seconds. Then
he laughed saying it was all a joke,

604
00:50:57.960 --> 00:51:01.519
but he had counted it so true
that at least I didn' t

605
00:51:01.639 --> 00:51:07.079
believe him. It was still early
to go to sleep. That' s

606
00:51:07.119 --> 00:51:12.039
why we decided to change the subject. I didn' t expect my girlfriend

607
00:51:12.079 --> 00:51:16.719
to stand up and make sure that
something black like a big shadow had passed

608
00:51:16.840 --> 00:51:22.280
very quickly near us, maybe about
15 meters from where we were. Juliana

609
00:51:22.599 --> 00:51:28.239
told her not to make a joke
like that. As I thought she was

610
00:51:28.320 --> 00:51:34.239
scared, I was going to tell
her that she was probably suggested by Edgar

611
00:51:34.239 --> 00:51:37.480
' s stories. When I saw
it, too, it was the silhouette

612
00:51:37.599 --> 00:51:40.360
of a large animal that gave huge
strides. On the move. His legs

613
00:51:40.400 --> 00:51:45.000
in the distance seemed long and skinny
like those of a spider. I can

614
00:51:45.039 --> 00:51:51.159
' t say he climbed the trees, but he did disappear between them.

615
00:51:51.280 --> 00:51:54.639
When I realized that it was true
whatÉrika was saying, I was filled

616
00:51:54.639 --> 00:51:58.840
with chills. I asked them not
to move so as not to get the

617
00:51:58.880 --> 00:52:01.760
attention of that creature I had seen. Maybe it was a mistake to say

618
00:52:01.960 --> 00:52:07.159
it, because the girls were so
scared that they were crying out to us

619
00:52:07.320 --> 00:52:13.519
that at that moment we left there
and made the attempt to run calmly,

620
00:52:14.199 --> 00:52:19.280
because we all knew that we shouldn' t do that because of how dangerous

621
00:52:19.360 --> 00:52:23.119
it was to walk Dark through the
forest we risked losing edgar. I was

622
00:52:23.239 --> 00:52:29.119
trying by all means to convince us
that everything was a story, but I

623
00:52:29.239 --> 00:52:32.840
was sure what I had seen was
an unknown animal. Not even in my

624
00:52:32.880 --> 00:52:37.599
worst nightmares have I ever seen anything
like this. I knew we were in

625
00:52:37.719 --> 00:52:44.760
real danger. I had already lowered
the temperature and the fog appeared. We

626
00:52:44.800 --> 00:52:49.800
argued with the women so we wouldn' t move, trying to convince them

627
00:52:50.320 --> 00:52:53.800
how that would lead to unwiseness.
Still, at their insistence, we had

628
00:52:54.119 --> 00:52:59.679
to pick up the tents in a
hurry to go somewhere else. In three

629
00:52:59.679 --> 00:53:05.159
we all soon picked up the camp. We had only two flashlights with which

630
00:53:05.320 --> 00:53:10.599
we poorly used the way to get
more into the mysterious forest. I never

631
00:53:10.639 --> 00:53:17.000
thought we' d find ourselves in
a situation like that, walking scared at

632
00:53:17.119 --> 00:53:24.679
midnight, probably lost, thinking a
creature or an unknown and dangerous animal could

633
00:53:24.679 --> 00:53:30.360
attack us, eat us or disappear. Forever we walk in haste along the

634
00:53:30.400 --> 00:53:34.760
paths without having any sense of time. The mist became so thick that we

635
00:53:35.079 --> 00:53:40.559
could barely see about two meters away
looking for a safe place we were going

636
00:53:40.599 --> 00:53:45.639
unconsciously more and more into that unknown
area, in a small clearing that we

637
00:53:45.679 --> 00:53:52.800
found far away from where we had
our previous camp. We stopped in that

638
00:53:52.920 --> 00:53:57.119
area of the forest, the trees
were higher and the atmosphere felt colder.

639
00:53:57.679 --> 00:54:02.519
After mors stores again we agreed to
enter and no longer leave until dawn.

640
00:54:05.679 --> 00:54:07.880
Edgar' s been looking for some
sticks to have something to defend us with.

641
00:54:08.599 --> 00:54:14.199
Maybe because of how nervous we were, we thought about it better and

642
00:54:14.320 --> 00:54:17.639
decided to take refuge all in one
campaign house. Everything was very quiet,

643
00:54:17.960 --> 00:54:23.719
too much to be normal. I
had heard that when that happened it was

644
00:54:23.880 --> 00:54:31.159
because the animals knew that a predator
was on the loose and kept quiet we

645
00:54:31.199 --> 00:54:35.679
were still not finished getting in.
When loud roars were heard. As we

646
00:54:35.760 --> 00:54:39.599
turned to the trees, the environment
felt heavier and a strange cold enveloped us.

647
00:54:42.760 --> 00:54:46.599
I was too nervous thinking about my
girlfriend' s safety. One thing

648
00:54:46.639 --> 00:54:52.119
that terrified me was to discover that
that creature that was walking through the woods

649
00:54:52.239 --> 00:54:58.360
was an entity out of hell.
We got in pretty fast I was just

650
00:54:58.360 --> 00:55:00.599
going to close the store. We
realized that edgar was missing. I looked

651
00:55:00.639 --> 00:55:05.760
out into the woods, but his
girlfriend wasn' t there. He started

652
00:55:05.760 --> 00:55:09.559
to get upset. I didn'
t dare yell at him, feeling that

653
00:55:09.719 --> 00:55:15.360
what we heard wasn' t just
an animal and I could alert him without

654
00:55:15.360 --> 00:55:16.840
knowing what to do. I went
into the store and closed. The only

655
00:55:16.920 --> 00:55:21.840
thing I could think of was telling
them to wait and see if I could

656
00:55:21.840 --> 00:55:27.920
make it. Juliana disagreed. He
told us he' d go out and

657
00:55:28.000 --> 00:55:32.079
find Edgar until he found him.
We were discussing that when we suddenly started

658
00:55:32.199 --> 00:55:38.000
to hear footprints don' t sound
like they' re human or like common

659
00:55:38.000 --> 00:55:43.280
forest animals. They were heavy and
came from all directions. I was terrified

660
00:55:43.320 --> 00:55:47.679
that we were surrounded by a herd
of what those sinister animals were. If

661
00:55:47.800 --> 00:55:52.239
they decided to attack us, there
was no way we could stop them.

662
00:55:52.360 --> 00:55:59.000
For the same reason, I was
trying to stop Juliana so she wouldn'

663
00:55:59.079 --> 00:56:01.360
t leave suddenly We heard our friend
Edgar scream. He did it in a

664
00:56:01.440 --> 00:56:07.920
desperate and terrifying way. At once
we went out to help him without thinking

665
00:56:07.920 --> 00:56:12.159
of danger. It was then that, among the immense trees and through the

666
00:56:12.199 --> 00:56:16.639
fog I began to see sinister figures
They were tall, much taller than a

667
00:56:16.719 --> 00:56:23.199
normal man, and their forms changed
constantly. His black fur was confused with

668
00:56:23.239 --> 00:56:29.159
the darkness of the forest. One
of those figures approached me only a little

669
00:56:29.199 --> 00:56:32.880
bit, but enough for the light
of my flashlight to illuminate part of it.

670
00:56:36.159 --> 00:56:39.039
What I saw iced me. Blood
was not a human face or completely

671
00:56:39.119 --> 00:56:45.679
animal. I had big, bright
eyes that seemed to see me, not

672
00:56:45.679 --> 00:56:51.280
just me, but through me.
His fur was long and he seemed to

673
00:56:51.320 --> 00:56:57.320
move as if something under him was
twisting. His teeth were long and pointed,

674
00:56:57.880 --> 00:57:02.480
protruding from between lips that did not
seem to have life. The creature

675
00:57:02.519 --> 00:57:08.599
looked at me curiously. Then he
aired a strange sound, some sort of

676
00:57:08.800 --> 00:57:14.960
grunt that resonated in the cold air
and made us shudder. At that moment

677
00:57:15.239 --> 00:57:20.679
it seemed like he was smelling us
as if he had recognized in us the

678
00:57:20.760 --> 00:57:25.800
deepest fear that each one carried.
Suddenly I reacted without thinking I yelled at

679
00:57:25.800 --> 00:57:30.880
the girls who ran. We started
to do it pointless, trying not to

680
00:57:30.920 --> 00:57:36.519
hit each other with trunks or lose
sight of each other, but because of

681
00:57:36.639 --> 00:57:43.679
the fog so thick it was impossible
to move forward without hitting us or scratching

682
00:57:43.679 --> 00:57:45.159
us about a hundred meters away.
In the middle of darkness and fog,

683
00:57:45.599 --> 00:57:52.079
we suddenly found Edgar. He was
recharged in a suffocating and very frightened tree.

684
00:57:52.639 --> 00:57:57.320
He couldn' t even talk to
tell us what happened. His eyes

685
00:57:57.400 --> 00:58:02.679
were so open that they were scary. Juliana hugged him crying, but Edgar

686
00:58:02.960 --> 00:58:07.360
didn' t react. Like the
seconds went by in a desperate way.

687
00:58:07.840 --> 00:58:13.840
Grabbed all hands, we ran till
we got tired. Not only did we

688
00:58:13.920 --> 00:58:20.079
get lost in the woods listening to
the girls crying. Looking at Edgar'

689
00:58:20.159 --> 00:58:25.440
s face, I thought we'
d have a tragic ending. We walk

690
00:58:25.559 --> 00:58:30.840
by the hour without getting anywhere,
always afraid to be found by those sinister

691
00:58:30.880 --> 00:58:37.480
creatures. Every now and then we
heard some sounds, but we didn'

692
00:58:37.480 --> 00:58:40.960
t look at anyone. If those
beings did not follow, they would do

693
00:58:42.519 --> 00:58:45.639
so in perfect silence or above the
trees. It' s never known how

694
00:58:45.639 --> 00:58:50.960
to explain it. We couldn'
t see them, but we felt they

695
00:58:51.039 --> 00:58:54.480
were there somewhere in the thick forest. I still don' t understand where

696
00:58:54.519 --> 00:59:00.079
we get the strength to walk all
night, because I don' t remember

697
00:59:00.199 --> 00:59:05.519
running out of energy to stop.
On the contrary, the hope that we

698
00:59:05.559 --> 00:59:10.199
would leave alive from there impelled me
to continue. We thanked God. When

699
00:59:10.239 --> 00:59:15.880
it began to dawn, the tranquility
returned to us and until then we were

700
00:59:15.960 --> 00:59:20.400
able to talk a little bit about
what happened. The girls had been with

701
00:59:20.400 --> 00:59:24.800
me, so we had experienced something
similar. All that was missing was Edgar

702
00:59:25.280 --> 00:59:30.280
' s version of why he had
walked away from us without saying anything like

703
00:59:30.280 --> 00:59:35.280
it was one of his many stories. He started by saying that he didn

704
00:59:35.360 --> 00:59:37.800
' t care if we believed him
or didn' t take a deep breath.

705
00:59:37.280 --> 00:59:42.639
Then he told us he was standing
right behind us. Before entering the

706
00:59:42.679 --> 00:59:49.760
campaign house. He felt someone pulled
him to the ground. It was so

707
00:59:49.960 --> 00:59:52.559
surprising that he didn' t react
at the moment. He didn' t

708
00:59:52.599 --> 00:59:55.280
have time to see who attacked him, because they grabbed him from one of

709
00:59:55.400 --> 01:00:00.159
his feet and started dragging him through
the woods. Edgar stopped talking for a

710
01:00:00.239 --> 01:00:04.800
moment His voice was almost shaking just
listening to him. There was no doubt.

711
01:00:05.360 --> 01:00:08.199
I knew he was telling the truth. Visibly frightened, he narrated to

712
01:00:08.320 --> 01:00:13.960
us the terror he felt when he
discovered who was taking him. As he

713
01:00:14.000 --> 01:00:17.480
told us, he was a huge
beast that confused with the night as if

714
01:00:17.599 --> 01:00:22.119
at times he became invisible. The
few times he could see it he was

715
01:00:22.559 --> 01:00:28.400
frightened because apparently, that animal was
a dog walking on two legs. He

716
01:00:28.440 --> 01:00:34.400
dragged him as he grunted, when
he was aware of what was happening to

717
01:00:34.400 --> 01:00:37.000
him and what could happen to him, he shouted with all his might.

718
01:00:37.079 --> 01:00:42.800
He did not know why that creature
released him, but as he felt free,

719
01:00:43.000 --> 01:00:45.599
he ran dismayed to hide among the
trees. Helped also by the dense

720
01:00:45.719 --> 01:00:52.760
fog recharged in a large trunk,
he listened as that animal sought him sniffing

721
01:00:52.800 --> 01:00:58.079
out the environment, assuring that it
was not just one had, at least

722
01:00:58.079 --> 01:01:02.039
another. That' s when we
walked in we still walked for long hours

723
01:01:02.039 --> 01:01:07.760
until we got back to the camp
we found everything shattered, confirming that what

724
01:01:07.800 --> 01:01:13.840
we had seen was not the product
of our imagination. There was no time

725
01:01:13.880 --> 01:01:17.239
to investigate. Besides, it would
do us no good to pick up what

726
01:01:17.280 --> 01:01:22.199
was left of our things. We
grabbed a few bottles of water and walked

727
01:01:22.320 --> 01:01:25.679
back on track looking for the way
out for nothing was easy. We went

728
01:01:25.800 --> 01:01:34.079
through different paths praying that it would
not catch us the night again began to

729
01:01:34.119 --> 01:01:38.440
dark on Sunday. When we found
the road, we walked disoriented until someone

730
01:01:38.480 --> 01:01:45.480
helped us back home. I told
them my experience, but apparently, it

731
01:01:45.559 --> 01:01:49.559
' s so amazing that no one
believed me at all, not just in

732
01:01:49.559 --> 01:01:52.280
my house. None of my friends
took it as true. It' s

733
01:01:52.280 --> 01:01:57.800
easier for them to say that maybe
it was just animals from the forest,

734
01:01:58.480 --> 01:02:04.159
maybe bears, or our imagination played
us a bad run, fed by the

735
01:02:10.360 --> 01:02:15.960
stories Edgar made up a different animal. It happened to me when I was

736
01:02:16.000 --> 01:02:20.920
still a minor. If only I
was eleven years old. At that time

737
01:02:21.000 --> 01:02:24.760
I was about to leave elementary school. Arthur called me at that age.

738
01:02:25.000 --> 01:02:30.519
I loved riding a bike on the
banks of the hills. I was allowed

739
01:02:30.599 --> 01:02:36.320
to do it alone near home.
He was always looking for challenges, new

740
01:02:36.360 --> 01:02:38.719
paths, hard to walk. According
to me, to test myself every day

741
01:02:38.840 --> 01:02:44.000
I went a little further. That' s what led me to venture into

742
01:02:44.000 --> 01:02:46.519
the mountain range, which was very
close to the city where I lived.

743
01:02:47.079 --> 01:02:52.320
Without my parents' permission. I
decided to take an unknown course, trying

744
01:02:52.400 --> 01:02:59.320
to look at maybe other things and
break the routine. I remember that day

745
01:02:59.360 --> 01:03:04.280
was still early when I rode my
mountain bike. Sometimes I would walk with

746
01:03:04.320 --> 01:03:08.760
my friends, but that day I
had to leave alone because they were afraid

747
01:03:08.880 --> 01:03:15.159
to disobey their parents. After pedaling
for almost two hours, I got to

748
01:03:15.280 --> 01:03:20.559
where I had never gone before.
Still, I decided it wasn' t

749
01:03:20.559 --> 01:03:24.519
enough, because what I found wasn' t what I expected. That day

750
01:03:24.800 --> 01:03:30.960
was very clear. Surely the sun
would warm up after ten o' clock

751
01:03:30.960 --> 01:03:34.840
in the morning. I thought it
was ideal to go a little further with

752
01:03:34.880 --> 01:03:38.280
the walk through the hills. I
had in mind an hour longer tour that

753
01:03:38.440 --> 01:03:44.559
would make me pass through a rather
thick wooded area and also where the terrain

754
01:03:44.639 --> 01:03:50.000
was pure rock. As I was
moving forward, the road was getting braver.

755
01:03:50.480 --> 01:03:53.280
Only the birds and the creaking leaves
under the wheels of my bike were

756
01:03:53.320 --> 01:03:59.440
heard. For the first time I
was glad that no one accompanied me on

757
01:03:59.480 --> 01:04:03.119
that long walk. First I walked
a path along the banks of the forest.

758
01:04:03.639 --> 01:04:06.679
That' s where I breathed the
fresh air. I heard all kinds

759
01:04:06.719 --> 01:04:12.079
of birds, as well as other
animals without losing sight of the road.

760
01:04:12.320 --> 01:04:15.280
I was going to pass that stretch, but at one point I had the

761
01:04:15.360 --> 01:04:19.840
rare feeling that someone was watching me
in the distance. From inside the forest.

762
01:04:20.760 --> 01:04:25.199
I' ve never felt a look
like that before. I felt her

763
01:04:25.239 --> 01:04:30.280
so strong that I turned around hoping
to see a person, but I missed

764
01:04:30.360 --> 01:04:34.119
seeing no one. I slowed down
the bike to see more carefully. For

765
01:04:34.199 --> 01:04:40.559
a few minutes I looked through the
trees without finding anything. I went my

766
01:04:40.559 --> 01:04:44.320
way, but I kept feeling that. I didn' t look at anyone.

767
01:04:44.519 --> 01:04:47.440
I got nervous. After a good
time of pedaling, I arrived at

768
01:04:47.480 --> 01:04:53.920
the rocky area. The road became
much more difficult even apart from the hot

769
01:04:54.000 --> 01:04:59.360
environment. It started to take my
energies away, but I didn' t

770
01:04:59.440 --> 01:05:01.599
stop pedaling faster until I hurried to
run out. When the sun was already

771
01:05:01.679 --> 01:05:06.840
high. I knew I' d
gone too far in time. It was

772
01:05:06.960 --> 01:05:14.039
probably around noon. I stopped to
recover a little. I looked at the

773
01:05:14.119 --> 01:05:16.760
horizon and I don' t know
why I was a little scared to be

774
01:05:17.440 --> 01:05:24.400
there alone, away from everything and
everyone, quite far from people I looked

775
01:05:24.440 --> 01:05:28.239
for both sides. But you didn' t even look at the last houses

776
01:05:28.239 --> 01:05:30.760
in the city. Like I'
ve never been filled with pessimism. I

777
01:05:30.800 --> 01:05:35.239
thought something bad could happen to me
in the desolate saw and no one would

778
01:05:35.840 --> 01:05:39.599
know, because I was walking around
without my parents' permission. Through those

779
01:05:39.679 --> 01:05:45.280
places and I started pedaling slowly back. Like now, the road was down.

780
01:05:46.400 --> 01:05:51.639
The bike itself grabbed more speed.
Maybe because of my nervousness, I

781
01:05:51.719 --> 01:05:55.920
didn' t take a good look. Suddenly the front rim hit a rock.

782
01:05:57.079 --> 01:06:00.920
The rear tire rose so high that
I flew, and then fell in

783
01:06:00.960 --> 01:06:04.960
front of the bike in a clever
way. In doing so, I scraped

784
01:06:05.079 --> 01:06:11.199
my arms and hit my head.
Within a few seconds I got up I

785
01:06:11.320 --> 01:06:16.519
was stunned, I heard a buzz
inside my ears, but it was fine

786
01:06:16.559 --> 01:06:19.960
when I checked the bike. For
my bad luck, the front ring had

787
01:06:19.960 --> 01:06:24.639
been plugged in with the blow and
all the air had come out of the

788
01:06:24.719 --> 01:06:29.400
tire. So I couldn' t
stay in it. At the time it

789
01:06:29.480 --> 01:06:32.400
was impossible to fix it. All
I could do was hit the wheel with

790
01:06:32.480 --> 01:06:39.440
a stone. When I managed to
turn the tire without difficulty, I took

791
01:06:39.559 --> 01:06:45.280
the handlebars and started walking down that
hard path. After the minutes, I

792
01:06:45.280 --> 01:06:49.159
knew it would take me a long
time to get back, but I wasn

793
01:06:49.159 --> 01:06:54.920
' t leaving my bike. I
walked a little disoriented. After a few

794
01:06:54.960 --> 01:06:59.599
more minutes, my beatings started to
hurt. The scrapes I had in my

795
01:06:59.679 --> 01:07:04.880
arms burned me. I began to
overwhelm one leg and feel tired. I

796
01:07:05.000 --> 01:07:10.440
overcame all that. I kept pushing
the bike I was starting. Despite.

797
01:07:11.559 --> 01:07:15.360
I didn' t expect that as
I walked I heard a voice that looked

798
01:07:15.440 --> 01:07:20.519
like a very old person. He
screamed in despair for help. Then everything

799
01:07:20.599 --> 01:07:27.400
remained silent. I left the rocks
behind and after a long walk, I

800
01:07:27.400 --> 01:07:31.280
reached the wooded area. I decided
to stop for a while to rest,

801
01:07:32.079 --> 01:07:35.719
because, apart from feeling sore,
I was also a little dizzy. Besides,

802
01:07:35.800 --> 01:07:40.519
I had a long way to go
home. It was a place where

803
01:07:40.559 --> 01:07:45.320
the forest opened. As I looked
at all that shadow, I walked toward

804
01:07:45.360 --> 01:07:48.760
the trees without letting go of my
bicycle as I approached. I realized that

805
01:07:48.880 --> 01:07:56.000
whole part of the forest was very
quiet. Not all those birds were heard

806
01:07:56.159 --> 01:08:00.239
as when it had passed earlier.
It seemed to me that someone had frightened

807
01:08:00.360 --> 01:08:06.599
them all and the trees were alone. I' d have a few feet

808
01:08:06.639 --> 01:08:12.239
to get to the shade. That' s when I saw something in the

809
01:08:12.239 --> 01:08:15.600
distance. There was a different animal
that moved very strangely. I' ve

810
01:08:15.720 --> 01:08:19.399
never seen anything like it. It
didn' t look like an animal that

811
01:08:19.439 --> 01:08:24.560
' s usually in the woods.
He had the size and shape of a

812
01:08:24.560 --> 01:08:28.840
huge cat, but he moved like
a human. I looked at it well

813
01:08:28.920 --> 01:08:30.720
to define what it was, but
I couldn' t find a precise way.

814
01:08:31.399 --> 01:08:35.960
He seemed to change his appearance,
because sometimes he looked more like a

815
01:08:36.079 --> 01:08:41.479
dog than anything else. Meanwhile,
the strange animal walked among the trees,

816
01:08:42.000 --> 01:08:46.720
literally on two legs, without any
difficulty. Picked something up from the floor.

817
01:08:47.039 --> 01:08:50.119
Then he took it to his mouth
when he looked at it. To

818
01:08:50.159 --> 01:08:56.359
do that gave me some sort of
cramp all over my body, not knowing

819
01:08:56.439 --> 01:09:00.159
what, to think I took out
an instant camera that I had borrowed from

820
01:09:00.640 --> 01:09:04.560
my dad thinking about getting a little
closer to take a picture. With every

821
01:09:04.680 --> 01:09:10.000
step he took, the animal made
those strange moves. Apparently, she was

822
01:09:10.119 --> 01:09:15.079
shaking all over her body even without
seeing the figure. He seemed to realize

823
01:09:15.159 --> 01:09:17.800
that I was getting closer and he
was going a little further. At first

824
01:09:17.920 --> 01:09:23.840
I thought he might be a hunter, someone lost and even someone in disguise.

825
01:09:25.159 --> 01:09:29.520
The strange figure stopped and for a
moment, I came to see its

826
01:09:29.560 --> 01:09:33.760
dimensions, it seemed like two meters. Maybe a little more, I tried

827
01:09:33.840 --> 01:09:38.439
to take a picture of her,
but by focusing on her, she was

828
01:09:38.439 --> 01:09:42.920
gone. The safest thing was that
he would have climbed a tree. I

829
01:09:43.039 --> 01:09:46.720
looked insistently for him, but I
couldn' t see him anymore. Inadvertently.

830
01:09:47.920 --> 01:09:51.399
I went a few more meters to
where I was. I could hear

831
01:09:51.479 --> 01:09:58.479
that I was breathing very hard At
the moment I realized my recklessness, I

832
01:09:58.479 --> 01:10:01.439
was going back, knowing that it
might be very dangerous to stay there longer.

833
01:10:02.479 --> 01:10:08.520
He suddenly showed up again. Apparently
he had fallen from somewhere standing on

834
01:10:08.600 --> 01:10:12.920
his four legs. He didn'
t look that big. It was a

835
01:10:13.000 --> 01:10:16.920
long way from where I first saw
her. It appeared to have moved quickly

836
01:10:17.039 --> 01:10:21.479
through the branches of the trees.
That animal or whatever it was got up

837
01:10:21.520 --> 01:10:27.399
on two legs and started giving big
strides. I hid in some weeds.

838
01:10:27.560 --> 01:10:30.800
When that strange creature walked towards me, I threw myself on the ground.

839
01:10:31.199 --> 01:10:36.239
After a few seconds I could see
him about eight meters away and he stopped

840
01:10:36.359 --> 01:10:42.119
and looked for me. So it
was until he turned around, and when

841
01:10:42.159 --> 01:10:45.479
he was a little closer to me
I could see that I didn' t

842
01:10:45.560 --> 01:10:49.319
have a long tail. The front
legs were bigger than the back legs.

843
01:10:49.840 --> 01:10:56.239
He had tall ears and his snout
always kept him open. I couldn'

844
01:10:56.279 --> 01:11:00.960
t believe there was such a terrible
thing as that. My heart was beating

845
01:11:00.039 --> 01:11:04.840
a thousand an hour I was afraid
of some curiosity. I kept lying there

846
01:11:05.279 --> 01:11:11.680
without moving. That figure had vanished, as if the forest itself had swallowed

847
01:11:11.800 --> 01:11:18.319
it for nothing. I trusted myself
from where I was looking because I could

848
01:11:18.359 --> 01:11:23.920
be hiding between the branches or behind
so much trunk for a few meters.

849
01:11:24.119 --> 01:11:29.520
I crawled slowly stretching my bike when
there was no more weed. I got

850
01:11:29.640 --> 01:11:32.560
up as slow as I could when
I heard some sort of grunt. In

851
01:11:32.680 --> 01:11:38.720
the distance I knew it was time
to get away from there I turned around

852
01:11:38.760 --> 01:11:42.239
and decided to go back where I
had come from. I took the trail

853
01:11:42.319 --> 01:11:46.520
that would take me home. I
walked slowly trying not to make noise,

854
01:11:47.479 --> 01:11:53.600
constantly turning towards the trees because every
noise in the forest made me nervous.

855
01:11:54.239 --> 01:11:58.960
I wasn' t even halfway to
the wooded area yet. When I saw

856
01:11:58.960 --> 01:12:02.720
that, in the distance something was
standing in the middle of the road,

857
01:12:03.000 --> 01:12:06.439
it looked like the same strange animal
that wanted to obstruct my passage. I

858
01:12:06.479 --> 01:12:12.399
stopped to see him well, it
was a black lump looking precisely where I

859
01:12:12.479 --> 01:12:16.279
was. It was not necessary to
verify that what he saw was true.

860
01:12:16.920 --> 01:12:21.000
I instinctively felt that the bike was
getting in my way to get me safe.

861
01:12:21.680 --> 01:12:26.760
I dropped it, and I started
to go back and see that figure.

862
01:12:27.640 --> 01:12:30.359
When I turned around, I didn' t know what to do if

863
01:12:30.600 --> 01:12:33.479
I ran down the trail or went
into the woods to hide. That'

864
01:12:33.520 --> 01:12:39.159
s how I got frozen for a
few seconds. Without further thought, I

865
01:12:39.199 --> 01:12:42.640
ran down the road. I felt
like I was going at high speed.

866
01:12:43.159 --> 01:12:46.159
I wasn' t making any progress. Everything seemed to me to be going

867
01:12:46.239 --> 01:12:50.319
on in slow motion. I didn' t dare turn around to see if

868
01:12:50.399 --> 01:12:55.880
that animal had stayed or come after
me. I ran as far as I

869
01:12:55.920 --> 01:13:00.800
could what the forces gave me.
When I got to the rocks again I

870
01:13:00.840 --> 01:13:04.199
was breathing with difficulty. I turned
back that I wasn' t being chased

871
01:13:04.199 --> 01:13:09.560
by anyone. Then I thought I
had done wrong, because it was so

872
01:13:09.600 --> 01:13:13.840
late that I would probably get at
night to come back if I walked in

873
01:13:13.840 --> 01:13:17.920
the day. I was nervous to
walk through the shadows knowing that animal was

874
01:13:18.039 --> 01:13:24.279
hidden. That way it would become
a horrible experience that I didn' t

875
01:13:24.359 --> 01:13:28.239
know if I was going to get
over it. Maybe it was half an

876
01:13:28.520 --> 01:13:30.760
hour and I still didn' t
know what I was going to do.

877
01:13:30.399 --> 01:13:34.439
It took me a long time to
decide to walk back. The ideal thing

878
01:13:34.520 --> 01:13:39.760
was to do the most removed from
the trees so I wouldn' t run

879
01:13:39.760 --> 01:13:44.079
into that creature. Again I walked
off the path and walked through the mountain

880
01:13:44.159 --> 01:13:48.239
I could hardly move forward. I
was making a bigger effort. The pain

881
01:13:48.279 --> 01:13:55.079
of the blows, the nerves and
the fear were torturing me, but I

882
01:13:55.159 --> 01:14:00.000
had to walk as fast as I
could or I would win the night still

883
01:14:00.000 --> 01:14:01.960
not laugh. He' d come
a long way. When I heard the

884
01:14:02.359 --> 01:14:08.279
man' s voice again, he
spoke a lot, but he was shouting.

885
01:14:08.399 --> 01:14:12.800
I looked everywhere without finding him in
the distance, about 200 meters away.

886
01:14:13.840 --> 01:14:16.439
I looked at the Boscose area.
I didn' t even want to

887
01:14:17.119 --> 01:14:21.720
turn there, but I had to
go with her to find out where I

888
01:14:21.720 --> 01:14:25.319
was going and not get lost.
Despite living my whole life in that place,

889
01:14:25.560 --> 01:14:29.720
I didn' t know how difficult
it was to walk through the mountain

890
01:14:29.800 --> 01:14:32.920
during the night. I had a
terrible fear, but I couldn' t

891
01:14:32.920 --> 01:14:36.479
let myself be defeated. I was
sure if I stopped it would be worse.

892
01:14:38.920 --> 01:14:43.600
As I walked away from the place
where I had seen that strange animal,

893
01:14:43.920 --> 01:14:47.119
the atmosphere of the mountain became even
denser. The course I had chosen

894
01:14:47.239 --> 01:14:51.399
to return I had never traveled far
away from my home, but at that

895
01:14:53.079 --> 01:14:58.199
time it was my only choice.
When the whole mountain fell in the night,

896
01:14:58.760 --> 01:15:03.680
it seemed the same bush and thicker
as if it did not advance or

897
01:15:03.720 --> 01:15:09.159
was spinning in the same place,
my thoughts revolved around what I had seen.

898
01:15:09.720 --> 01:15:13.439
That' s why every shadow in
the bushes seemed suspicious to me.

899
01:15:14.119 --> 01:15:18.520
I imagined animals jumping in front of
me and hands coming out between the dry

900
01:15:18.640 --> 01:15:24.520
branches trying to grab me, but
I was trying to ignore all that I

901
01:15:24.520 --> 01:15:27.720
had to go on. I was
looking for a sign to tell me that

902
01:15:27.840 --> 01:15:31.760
everything was in order and going the
right way, but that night I couldn

903
01:15:31.840 --> 01:15:39.359
' t even find the moon.
I took it because I was already feeling

904
01:15:39.359 --> 01:15:43.880
very hurt. It was the only
way to walk without jamming or scratching me,

905
01:15:44.279 --> 01:15:47.199
but I did it almost blindly.
I knew I had been lost because

906
01:15:47.279 --> 01:15:53.479
when considerable time passed, I was
surrounded by large trees. I wanted to

907
01:15:53.520 --> 01:15:58.640
go back and get back to the
road I was taking was so dark that

908
01:15:58.640 --> 01:16:00.640
it would be impossible for me to
do so. I had no notion of

909
01:16:00.760 --> 01:16:03.680
time or distance. I wouldn'
t gain anything from the fear I had.

910
01:16:03.960 --> 01:16:08.840
I wanted to yell at my parents
or friends, but before I did,

911
01:16:09.359 --> 01:16:12.680
I felt that look again. I
tried to ignore how I felt,

912
01:16:13.880 --> 01:16:17.640
but after a few seconds I began
to tremble in fear. That' s

913
01:16:17.640 --> 01:16:23.119
when, passing through a bunch of
logs, I noticed a presence that made

914
01:16:23.199 --> 01:16:27.239
me stop dry in front of me. In the middle of the trees and

915
01:16:27.359 --> 01:16:32.279
all that darkness, there was a
big silhouette. At first it seemed to

916
01:16:32.399 --> 01:16:38.399
me that it could be a large
fallen trunk or another shadow of the forest

917
01:16:38.439 --> 01:16:43.239
that deceived my mind, I made
an effort to distinguish well what it was

918
01:16:43.319 --> 01:16:47.079
as my eyes got used to the
darkness. The shape began to be defined

919
01:16:47.159 --> 01:16:51.399
and I saw it moving slightly.
He looked like he was breathing. They

920
01:16:51.399 --> 01:16:56.199
ran in distress. With the help
of my fear, perhaps I began to

921
01:16:56.279 --> 01:17:00.640
shape that which was in front of
me. The silhouette was shaped like a

922
01:17:00.680 --> 01:17:03.560
dog, but much larger than any
dog I' d ever seen in my

923
01:17:03.640 --> 01:17:09.880
entire life. I didn' t
believe what I was seeing. I could

924
01:17:09.920 --> 01:17:15.079
see that he was squatting on a
thick trunk. His snout was real big.

925
01:17:15.880 --> 01:17:19.000
It was open that even seemed to
be smiling in a macabre way.

926
01:17:19.520 --> 01:17:24.800
The coat was so black that it
was very difficult to see it because of

927
01:17:24.840 --> 01:17:28.119
the little light there was and its
posture was that of an animal. About

928
01:17:28.199 --> 01:17:32.039
to jump out of fear he walked
me from head to toe I didn'

929
01:17:32.119 --> 01:17:34.800
t have saliva to swallow. I
wanted to scream, but the scream stayed

930
01:17:34.840 --> 01:17:40.520
in my throat. I wanted to
run, but something inside me told me

931
01:17:40.880 --> 01:17:45.600
that could cause the creature to attack
me. So, with my breath cut

932
01:17:45.680 --> 01:17:50.439
short, I stood still watching.
I looked at that creature for what seemed

933
01:17:50.520 --> 01:17:57.000
like hours, but it was probably
just a few seconds. Then I began

934
01:17:57.039 --> 01:18:01.960
to slowly retreat behind it, and
my parents' warnings came to mind so

935
01:18:02.000 --> 01:18:08.600
that I would not go further from
where they gave me permission. I always

936
01:18:09.079 --> 01:18:14.600
told them nothing happened. Now I
was checking that it did happen. I

937
01:18:14.600 --> 01:18:18.119
was a teenager, but I understood
that my life was in danger. I

938
01:18:18.199 --> 01:18:23.119
was taking one step and stopping for
a few seconds then I was taking the

939
01:18:23.119 --> 01:18:28.439
other. That animal didn' t
make any noise or even try to move,

940
01:18:29.199 --> 01:18:33.439
but it was so horrible that just
seeing it terrified me as if it

941
01:18:33.479 --> 01:18:40.600
were part of my imagination. As
silently as the silhouette had appeared, it

942
01:18:40.640 --> 01:18:45.560
began to fade before my eyes,
receding into the thickness of the forest,

943
01:18:45.960 --> 01:18:50.720
until only darkness and silence remained.
I turned to the sides, believing it

944
01:18:50.840 --> 01:18:55.439
would appear elsewhere, but that was
not the case. Trusting my instinct,

945
01:18:56.000 --> 01:19:00.319
I went back where I had come
to that place. If I was ever

946
01:19:00.359 --> 01:19:04.319
going to be strong, I had
no doubt that was the time. I

947
01:19:04.359 --> 01:19:10.600
walked a long time, already had
a terrible thirst when I took everything for

948
01:19:10.640 --> 01:19:14.079
granted, I found a way as
I was already disoriented. I had the

949
01:19:14.279 --> 01:19:17.479
doubt whether to walk to the right
or to the left. I went my

950
01:19:17.560 --> 01:19:21.960
way with my heart still beating hard. From time to time it was very

951
01:19:23.039 --> 01:19:28.439
clear that someone came after me moving
the bushes, but turned around without looking

952
01:19:28.479 --> 01:19:32.079
at anyone. I walked without the
assurance that what was following me was real

953
01:19:32.359 --> 01:19:38.039
or not. But that' s
true. I had no doubt the fear

954
01:19:38.439 --> 01:19:43.000
that that caused me if it was
for real. Before dawn, I heard

955
01:19:43.039 --> 01:19:46.600
them yelling at me. First I
doubted it was true because of the voices

956
01:19:46.640 --> 01:19:51.000
I had heard before until I met
the silhouettes. In the distance it was

957
01:19:51.039 --> 01:19:57.119
my parents and some friends who had
found me. It became eternal for me

958
01:19:57.159 --> 01:20:00.520
to reach them. I' m
not ashamed to say I cried for happiness.

959
01:20:01.159 --> 01:20:04.960
I don' t remember how much
they told me the only thing I

960
01:20:05.319 --> 01:20:11.000
wanted at the time was to get
home. After telling me everything that had

961
01:20:11.079 --> 01:20:15.119
happened to me, I was taken
to get checked by a doctor because my

962
01:20:15.399 --> 01:20:19.439
dad said he was delirious at the
heavy blow I hit when I fell off

963
01:20:19.520 --> 01:20:25.920
the bike. They did some studies
and we went home. I took a

964
01:20:25.960 --> 01:20:29.399
pill before I went to bed to
sleep, but that' s all.

965
01:20:29.399 --> 01:20:32.079
As I closed my eyes, it
came to mind. The figure of that

966
01:20:32.079 --> 01:20:38.840
grotesque animal was so real that I
was scared. I closed it again and

967
01:20:38.920 --> 01:20:45.000
it happened again. How many times
I tried. That strange animal appeared as

968
01:20:45.039 --> 01:20:48.720
if it were waiting for me at
the time. I realized it wouldn'

969
01:20:48.800 --> 01:20:53.039
t be so easy to get rid
of him that day or the next.

970
01:20:53.199 --> 01:20:57.960
I was able to sleep, because
I no longer only saw his image when

971
01:20:58.079 --> 01:21:01.039
I closed my eyes, I heard
him grunting as well. I never went

972
01:21:01.079 --> 01:21:04.680
back to that place. Maybe it
was out of fear, out of caution

973
01:21:04.800 --> 01:21:10.239
or whatever, but I' m
sure what I saw wasn' t the

974
01:21:10.319 --> 01:21:15.880
product of my imagination. Tale written
and adapted by Black Cat