Recopilación De Brujas Despiadadas Historias De Terror - REDE

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The school witch. My name is
Francis and for no less than fifteen years

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I have been teaching. I am
a master of plastic arts at a renowned

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Catholic school in Guadalajara, Jalisco.
I know all kinds of stories in schools,

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the typical story of the girl who
drowned in the bathroom and now appears

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in the last bathroom, or the
story that the school was built directly on

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an old cemetery. Currently, I
don' t think all these stories are

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lies, because every legend has its
origin and knowing which story is real or

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not very difficult. In addition,
the urbanization in its beginnings simply appropriated the

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spaces. Thus we have the origin
of the first neighborhoods, which often belonged

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to some old monastery or building of
the Viceroyalty, which were simply used to

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function as schools. I can assure
you that the account I want to share

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today is a hundred percent real,
as I lived it in my own flesh.

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When I finished my relationship with his
motto, I thought I couldn'

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t live any longer and it was
the longest relationship I' ve ever had

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and left me in deep emotional misery. This unfortunate mood forced me to consume

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alcohol too much every afternoon. As
soon as I got out of my last

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class, I was headed home to
read and get drunk. A friend of

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mine named Roberto tried to get me
out of this state of misery and started

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taking me with him to the gym
and riding a bike. He also told

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me about a project he was working
on in the municipality of Zapopan. The

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project tried to retake several buildings that
had been forgotten and one of them was

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a primary school that had been abandoned
for at least a decade. He had

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already taken up the space to offer
classes to the people of the colony in

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which he was located. He offered
classes in art, dance, music and

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regularization at the secondary level. He
offered to work there during the afternoons and

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weekends. He thought the more busy
he found me, the less time he

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' d have to suffer. So
I agreed to join your project. The

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school was located on a corner in
a fairly old colony near the basilica of

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Zapopan, just at the foot of
a high ground was not very large.

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It would have just about seven rooms
plus the address, the bathrooms and two

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playgrounds. One of these was located
down the crest by a few steps.

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The land was quite dangerous and it
did not explain to me to which architect.

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In his right mind he would have
come up with the great idea of

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putting a playground down there, because, apart from the steep stairs, just

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one side ran a stream. Either
way, we didn' t have access

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to that school area. Only three
halls had been rehabilitated and the direction of

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one of those halls, as it
was quite large, was divided by a

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rock wall. In this room.
I' d be teaching painting and drawing

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classes for teenagers I' d be
sharing the living room next door with a

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singing teacher. Soon I began to
meet the students. It' s a

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little complicated to get to control a
group where ages vary a lot, in

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addition to being all from different schools
and being at such a difficult stage as

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adolescence, it was a challenge to
be able to keep them focused on drawing

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or painting techniques, but little by
little I gained them. One day while

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I was teaching how to prepare oil
to paint, I heard screams outside as

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if they were beating a student.
Since we had no prefects, I decided

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to leave immediately to see what was
happening. Then I found that four boys

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were bothering one I didn' t
recognize as my pupil was fifteen years old.

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They were dragging him into one of
the closed baths. I defended the

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child, which cost me because the
children who bothered him did not stop before

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my authority and, on the contrary, one of them challenged me. I

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practically took the kid away from them
and warned them if they didn' t

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stop, I' d kick them
out of school. But that' s

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not how they calmed down. They
told me that they didn' t care,

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because they were there because their parents
forced them to go. That'

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s where the music teacher came out
and the two of us calmed down.

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I think this man had more tority
issues than I did. The point is,

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he took the bullies and I took
the kid they were bothering. Talking

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to him, he told me the
boys wanted to lock him up in the

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closed bathroom and that would cost him
his life. I was curious about this

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last comment. I told him that
even when it was the case, I

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would have listened to him myself and
could take him out to what he said

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to me that I didn' t
really know what was going on in that

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bathroom. I asked him to tell
me, but he didn' t want

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to tell me anything anymore. I
sent the boy back to his class.

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At the end of the classes,
when everyone left, I asked Roberto to

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leave me for a while at school, as I wanted to finish a personal

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job. Roberto told me he was
fine, but to try not to disturb

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the family who cared for the school. I had no knowledge that people lived

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in school until then, but it
was strange for me that someone wanted to

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live in such a grim place.
I kept my things and then went to

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the closed bathroom, for I was
somewhat intrigued to know what was so scary

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about the boy. The bathroom had
six cubicles and two washbasins. The floor

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was one of those classics in the
old Guadalajara of yellow paintings. At the

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bottom I saw a huge rock,
approached it and noticed that it covered a

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well. On the walls we could
read some graffiti that looked more like satanic

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symbols than anything else. In one, in particular, they had shaped the

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figure of a girl into a well. I thought I heard a cry under

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the stone. It was a matter
of a few seconds when I heard someone

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knocking on the entrance door of the
bathroom. The sound startled me and I

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turned quickly towards the door. There
was a woman no more than thirty years

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old. He was accompanied by two
dogs, one black and the other coffee.

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She showed up as the watchman'
s daughter. At that time I

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looked at her well, she had
grey eyes and, although her skin looked

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somewhat careless, she was seen with
very beautiful features. I presented myself as

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Roberto' s art teacher and friend. I told him I was about to

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leave, but I wanted to inspect
that school area, because I didn'

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t know the whole place yet.
At that time, the woman told me

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that it was best to keep that
bathroom tightly closed, because in the past

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more than two tragedies had occurred,
because under that stone there was a well

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that assured me it was deep enough
for whoever fell to die When I crashed

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into the floor, I approached and
saw that the stone did not cover the

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well in its entirety. I decided
to leave that place to talk. I

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asked the girl her name and the
name of her pets. She was called

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Marisela and her dogs were called Sparkle
and Flame. Marisela told me that she

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lived with her father, that they
both took care of the school and slept

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in a little house by the cliff. I thanked Marisela for her attention and

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invited her to take one of my
painting classes. She said she would do

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her best to come, but in
the afternoons she worked doing the toilet in

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a house. I closed the school
and went home thinking about the misfortunes that

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would have happened in that bathroom.
I imagined the same story I had heard

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so many times about the girl drowned
in a well and now appearing in the

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bathrooms. The next afternoon, my
car broke down and I had to move

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by bus. As the bus terminal
was crossing the ravine, I had to

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climb the crest on one side where
there were very steep steps. Just when

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I was halfway there, I ran
into an older man. It looked like

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it was about 70 years old.
I was lying on the floor. It

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smelled like urine and alcohol. The
man said inconsistencies, he even seemed to

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cry. I offered him help,
because I thought he fell up the stairs.

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I asked him if he wanted me
to call an ambulance, but the

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man told me to help him get
to school, which was the caregiver,

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but his drinks were out. I
tried to lift him up and he immediately

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shook. He pulled me over the
shoulder and said something very strange to me.

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He said he was lost, not
so much because of alcohol, but

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he felt a terrible fear that the
school would reopen, because according to him

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there was an evil that had already
claimed several victims and would return that until

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that moment he had fought to keep
him away, but that sometimes this evil

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clings strongly to the weakest souls and
feared to have the enemy in his own

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home. I didn' t find
any sense in his words. Besides,

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I thought anything I said would just
be raving caused by his alcohol level.

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I helped that man enter the school
and as he went up, he continued

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to say inconsistencies. When we got
to the door, I asked a couple

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of students to help him get home. Two boys who were neighbors of the

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school told me not to listen to
the gentleman because the man was very drunk

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and didn' t even take good
care of the school. Then they found

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him lying between the streets. That
day I stayed late again. On this

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occasion, not because I asked,
but because Roberto himself asked me to,

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and it was he who closed the
halls well. But on that occasion he

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had to leave in a hurry.
That day I had nothing but a class

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and the singing teacher was preparing a
group for the state- level choir competition.

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I didn' t want to waste
my time and locked myself in the

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direction and started helping with the data
capture of the students and organizing all the

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papers I found. I checked a
piece of furniture that was rumbated. I

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couldn' t open it because it
was one of those old furniture that needed

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a big key to be opened.
Using a wire I found, I managed

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to open it. Inside came a
smell like ammonia. I found several trades

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from a long time ago when school
was a primary school. I also found

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a folder with several newspaper clippings.
In each of the press reports, accidents

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related to the school could be read. At least I saw five cases in

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which the accident ended with an unfortunate
death. In particular, I was struck

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by a rather morbid photo showing the
body of a ten- year- old

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girl. I noticed that at the
bottom of the folder came a word written

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with down that said remnants. I' ve never heard or read such a

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word before. That' s where
I heard steps in the hallway. So,

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as if I felt guilty of a
trespassing offence, I blew everything up

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and slammed the furniture. At that
time he came to the office. The

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music teacher just stopped by to say
goodbye and tell me that he had already

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left his living room closed. I
said goodbye to him just by signaling,

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and behind him was Marisela coming in, along with his two dogs. She

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thanked me for helping her father come
home in the afternoon. I told him

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it was nothing, but they should
be more careful with him. But Marisela

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told me that she had already given
up on her father, that both she

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and her grandmother had already tried a
thousand remedies to stop her taking, but

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the lord no longer understood in any
way. Then he offered me some coffee.

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I accepted it willingly. At that
point he left and returned about twenty

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minutes ago. He had released the
dogs running down the school halls. I

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don' t know why, but
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she didn' t know what a
remnant was. Perhaps out of pure intuition

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to my surprise, if she gave
me an explanation, she explained to me

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that a remnant was like a sort
of image or, rather, an animation

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of the spirit of a person who
was engraved in a place where he suffered

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trauma or even where he died.
As he explained to me, this remnant

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was not the ghost, I could
not hear or hear. He only repeated

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over and over again the moment he
suffered. After giving me the explanation,

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he asked me why I doubted this
word. I lied to him and told

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him that I had heard a singing
student mention the word. She didn'

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t ask me any more questions.
We drank the coffee and then I offered

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to ask her out on the weekend. Marisela told me she needed to check

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her schedule, but that was very
likely. I noticed something strange in his

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eyes, because on this occasion they
did not look grey, but dark.

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Although I did not pay much attention
to him, at that time I thought

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I might have been wrong to notice
his eyes for the first time and believe

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they were grey. Besides, I
didn' t feel so hypnotic at the

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time. I closed everything and said
goodbye to Marisela. The day after I

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returned to work, a student told
me that in the evening I had seen

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a girl at the windows facing the
street. According to him, the girl

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invited him to play with her.
He thought the girl was a relative of

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Marisela and Don Francisco, but after
getting closer to her, he noticed that

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she was missing an eye and the
skin of her face fell to pieces.

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I told the boy that maybe it
was all the work of his imagination,

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but he swore to me that it
was not so, that what he saw

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was totally real and, moreover,
it was not the first person that had

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seen the girl, because two other
children who for a while were his neighbors

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had to see her and even one
of them pulled his leg trying to get

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him through a sewer that leads directly
to the school yard. I tried to

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convince the boys that all that was
only the work of their imagination and that

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it was common to hear stories like
that, especially in places as dark as

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school was, but that I could
assure them that nothing unusual was happening in

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there, because I myself had stayed
there late and had not seen or heard

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anything. Of course, this was
really a lie, as I myself had

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begun to believe that something in school
was not right. The boys told me

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they agreed with me, but there
were things about the school I didn'

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t know, like what happened to
Marisela' s mother. The last thing

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they said caused me a lot of
intrigue, so I asked them to tell

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me everything they knew. The boys
stared at each other, but in that

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came the master of regularization for them
and before leaving, one of the boys

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approached me and told me that I
recommended not to have much confidence with Marisela,

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because I had fame of Witch in
the neighborhood. I tried to ask

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them what they meant by Witch,
but by that time the boy was gone

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all day. I made a great
effort to teach, because I couldn’

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t concentrate on my mind. I
could only think of Marisela in the last

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class arrived. Marisela walked in with
the boys and discovered that she was very

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talented in painting and drawing. At
that time I noticed that if his eyes

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were grey apart, his gaze was
deeper. I also noticed that he was

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wearing a necklace with a strange pendant
that, if not because I am very

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observant, would have gone unnoticed.
It was a kind of amulet, a

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hexagon with six blood- red pearls
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Marisela took no interest in his pendant, so he showed it to me,

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but he gave me no explanation.
She just told me that it was a

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gift from her mother and, according
to her, it was just a simple

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ornament. I drew this figure in
a blog of notes that I always carry

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with me, because I did not
believe that the figure was a simple ornament

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the details these among the pearls attached. Besides, it seemed made in bronze

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to be just a jewel. When
the class was over, Marisela was gone

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without me noticing it. The boys
said goodbye to me. Then Roberto came

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to talk to me. He told
me that despite his efforts in this change

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of administration, he would withdraw support
for the program and it was very likely

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that we would have to leave that
school, but he was very pleased that

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I already looked much better in my
mood and hoped that it would continue.

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While we were talking, we saw
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living room. We went out to
see who he was, because at that

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time no student should be in school
anymore. Upon arrival we only saw a

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girl in a yellow dress who without
any effort opened the bathroom door that was

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closed and came in throwing a laugh. We quickly approached and entered the bathroom

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inside there was no one, but
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we saw several drops of blood.
Suddenly we heard that cry that I heard

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the first time I went into that
bathroom. Roberto and I were watching.

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Then I told him that the students
had told me that they were freaking out

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at that school and that until recently
I was beginning to believe in it.

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Roberto told me that he had also
heard a story about a girl drowning in

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that well, but that until that
moment he had not believed in these stories,

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although it seemed strange to him that
a school like that had been left

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in oblivion. Just like that,
and it was this abandonment signal that some

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tragedy happened there. We decided to
assume we were following a ghost. We

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went out of the bathroom and closed
it again. This time putting a new

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padlock. When we were closing school, we heard someone' s regret.

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As soon as we get out on
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He bled out of his head and
cried between Roberto and me. We tried

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to pick him up to see if
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He got stiff and asked us not
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he was afraid of the witch.
I asked him what he meant by the

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witch, but the lord failed to
answer, because at that moment Marisela appeared

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and took him inside the school.
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for we thought it best to take
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but ultimately it was not our responsibility. The next day I took the drawing

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of the amulet to a friend of
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He knows a lot about symbols and
that kind of thing. After analyzing my

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dib, he agreed with me that
it was not a simple ornament, but

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an amulet used in Satanism. He
asked me what I had seen him in

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and I told him that I had
seen him to a girl I knew.

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He suggested not to have much confidence
with that girl, as that type of

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talismans were only used by those sorcerers
who use corpses for divination. I also

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told him about the remnant and he
gave me the same explanation as Marisela,

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but he again mentioned his warning,
for if he had found that name,

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coupled with several cases where people died, most likely someone was taking advantage of

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the energy of those remnants for their
witchcraft. The day after I returned to

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school, I found that one of
the two dogs had died. They had

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found him by the creek coming down
the stairs. I saw the poor animal

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myself. He did not seem to
have suffered an accident, for he had

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a huge cut in his belly.
I found Marisela' s way of acting

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very strange, for she did not
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That day, after the vets took
the dog, I kept checking the

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place where the poor dog had fallen
and noticed something weird between the steps.

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It was an inscription with a man
and a date of death. They had

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used the quarry of some tombstones to
make the ladder. Strange things began to

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happen from that event. Even though
all the children were in class, the

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blackboards fell from the walls, the
lights lit themselves, and the worst of

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all was that all the children claimed
to have seen a girl in a yellow

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dress who had no eyes or mouth. This was said by several children,

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even those who did not live near
the school. These phenomena caused many children

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to stop attending. In the end, we only stay with about five children

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per living room. This led to
the withdrawal of his budget. Roberto had

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one last week left to teach the
few remaining students. One of them was

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the one who told me not to
trust Marisela and in a moment I remembered

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that that time there was something he
wanted to tell me, but for a

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matter of time, I could not
use it to question him. Then she

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told me that it was said among
the people that Marisela was a witch who

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had caused the death of her own
mother and that she was to blame for

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Don Francisco' s alcoholism, that
many people had seen her near the river

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making a pact with a demon who
seized her. I told the boy that

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I thought he had a great imagination
and that demons didn' t exist.

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He insisted that it was true and
that the best thing was wine, that

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he had no confidence. I told
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t teach anymore and I wouldn'
t see her again. That afternoon,

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while we kept everything, we heard
screams in the closed bathroom. As we

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' ve heard these kinds of sounds
lately, but we' ve linked them

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to ghosts. We did not listen, but the sounds continued with greater force

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and several screams joined them. We
approached to see what was happening and,

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to our surprise, someone had removed
a bit the rock that covered the entrance

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to the well. We approached and
although we saw nothing, because of the

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darkness of the place I recognized the
voice as that of one of the boys

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I taught. At that point we
returned for a lamp and a rope.

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We lit up down there and saw
the silhouette of one of the boys.

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He was asking us for help.
He said the kids put him in and

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now he can' t get out. We tied the rope to one of

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the window protections and I went down
the well so I could pull the boy

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out. Since I was downstairs.
I felt a terrible itch in my nose

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and I saw nowhere the boy,
whom I called several times without receiving an

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answer, which I told Roberto.
That' s where I saw the girl

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in the yellow dress approach me.
I was holding hands with someone else.

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She was a woman with gray hair, very tangled. He wore a crown

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made of barbed wire. She looked
like a woman, but she had such

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a deformed face that I couldn'
t recognize her face. I felt a

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fear so intense that it made the
adrenaline run through my veins and climbed through

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the rope immediately. Roberto, who
was panicking, was as scared as I

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was, for as I climbed,
he looked at the pair of spectra that

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were beneath me. He helped me
to his quickly, but down there we

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heard again like a boy. He
asked us for help, but we thought

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it was all the work of those
spectra that wanted to collect our souls.

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Also as I left the bathroom,
apart from closing it, I drew a

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cross at the entrance was Marisela.
He looked at us in a very strange

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way. It seemed like something possessed
her. He kept us out of the

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way and looked at us with threat. He seemed totally out of his mind.

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That' s where we heard Don
Francisco' s screams. I immediately

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began to tell Marisela to let us
pass, that we would go to see

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her father, but she did not
answer. He just stared at us.

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I immediately headed to the courtyard where
I had listened to Don Francisco. I

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found him badly hurt there. He
had a series of marks made with a

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knife all over his body. We
grabbed Francis and locked ourselves in with him

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in the direction. We called the
ambulance, because the man, apart from

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the wounds, was delirious and had
a fever. Marisela, on the other

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hand, showed erratic behavior. After
half an hour the ambulance arrived, accompanied

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by a police patrol. They took
Marisela to question her about her father'

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s condition. In her statement,
Don Francisco said that Marisela was not his

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daughter because a witch had taken over
her body, which was easy to notice,

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because she changed the color of her
eyes when this happened, because she

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did not have gray eyes, but
honey. Obviously, they did not believe

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him and thought the testimony was part
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As for Marisela, she was treated
in a psychiatric hospital where she was soon

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discharged. I never saw her again, and the last time I went through

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that old school, I noticed some
city hall offices had been built. I

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wonder if evil will continue to dwell
in the depths of the well, for

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it was indeed dangerous. Today,
I think that all that happened was because

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of that evil that refused to die
and sought a way to transform itself into

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something that was not considered dangerous as
a child. This in order to attract

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more souls or remnants to feed the
people. As the occasion of our fifth

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wedding anniversary, Gloria and I decided
to travel to meet some villages of Zacatecas

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and Durango more than anything, we
wanted to explore areas not so well known

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that were in semi- desert planes. And it is that, for some

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reason I have she and I have
always felt fascination for ghost towns, but

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until that moment we never met one
that was totally uninhabited, because, as

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a rule, ghost towns that are
advertised in travel agencies have been restored and

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there are always people who are aware, even there are those who continue to

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live in those places. So we
met many beautiful places, but in each

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of them the same thing always happened. We were disappointed, therefore, even

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when they were abandoned places, there
was always the impression that at least the

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vagrants lived there the same graffiti artists, of whom I do not explain how

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they do it to reach the most
inhospitable places. We went into a crossroads

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near a village that was exactly what
we were looking for. He was a

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man named Sergio, who told us
that his grandfather was one of the last

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inhabitants, but that the place had
been abandoned for no less than eighty years.

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He told us that the place claimed
to have been abruptly abandoned by a

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mercury leak in the water wells,
which caused the deaths of several residents.

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Sergio did not remember the name of
the town, but if the ranch on

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which his grandfather lived, which was
called the burnt one, he told us

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that it was possible that on that
ranch if there was at least one family

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living there, but if we approached
the town, we would find no one.

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The indication to arrive was not very
clear. He just told us to

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follow the road and be patient because
the place was in the middle of nowhere.

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We drove for more than noon and
didn' t take the place.

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I felt quite desperate, because at
that time of year the sun was very

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strong. We didn' t have
a problem staying half- way to sleep.

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I was about to stop and turn
around, because we really felt like

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we weren' t getting anywhere.
We haven' t seen a sign in

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hours or ran into a car.
I stepped aside and stopped. It was

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there that Gloria told me that to
the left of the road she observed a

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huge white tower of a church.
At that moment I thought I heard the

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sound of the bells far away.
We got out of the car and walked

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to where that church was. The
building, though in ruins, was still

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standing. Moreover, to my surprise, the sound of the bells was only

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the work of my imagination, as
the tower was high, austere and empty.

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We went into the building. We
saw several benches stacked paintings still visible

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on its walls, although these had
a certain strange appearance. It seemed as

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if someone had painted star- headed
angels to several of the saints with horns

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and slightly threatening eyes. Passing the
first nave of the temple, we came

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to where the altar should be this
was made of wood, but someone had

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broken it in half and a bush
of thorns that released some sort of sage

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sprouted. From the inside I made
the mistake of touching this sage. It

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stuck to my skin and burned me
as much as metallle against my clothes.

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The sage was not taken from me, Gloria. He told me that was

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known as the devil' s root, but he didn' t warn me

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in time not to catch it.
I washed myself with some water and the

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burning decreased. We continued to explore
and found very narrow stairs leading up to

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the tower, where the bell of
the place where it was placed should be.

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The bell was only hanging a thick
chain attached to a rotten wood shaft

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that would appear to collapse at any
moment. I got out of the tower

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and Gloria left the temple to admire
the architecture and take some photographs. I

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was barely leaving the temple when Gloria
called me to show me something. In

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the entrance arches of the temple were
read some symbols that had nothing to do

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with the church. Rather they gave
the appearance of being of those who use

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in sorcery and satanism. I told
Gloria that also the paintings inside the temple

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seemed too rare to me. When
we came down from the hill on which

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the temple was rising, we noticed
a road and to the distance we saw

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several houses. We went back by
the car and on the way, we

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found a house with a cow and
a horse. We stopped and I got

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out of the car. Then suddenly
a man came out pointing a rifle.

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I was scared, but I told
him that we were just looking for an

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abandoned town, that we just wanted
to take a couple of pictures and leave.

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The man told us that if we
did, he recommended that we leave

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before dark then under the gun and
told us that the town was right away.

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After climbing a hill, we had
to leave the car and continue on

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foot. We went up the hill
and then we saw the town. It

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was a group of between ten and
fifteen houses, most of them collapsed by

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the passage of time and beyond all
the houses, in the form of a

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small castle with a tower, the
remains of an old hacienda were seen.

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We checked a couple of houses that
were still almost whole. One of them

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seemed to have functioned as a shop, as there were soda containers and cans

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of food. We also found a
lot of veterinary medicine. The second house

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we checked was a bigger one.
We found more veterinary medicines, syringes,

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and a couple of books that looked
like sorcery. When we were going through

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those books, we heard the sound
of the bell. This time Gloria also

412
00:35:13.639 --> 00:35:19.280
heard it, so I could no
longer think that the sound had only been

413
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the product of my imagination. Minutes
later we heard some footsteps on the ground

414
00:35:24.679 --> 00:35:30.920
and it seemed to us that something
ran to hide in some bushes. Although

415
00:35:30.000 --> 00:35:35.679
we checked the scrub and saw no
one, I began to feel observed.

416
00:35:36.360 --> 00:35:39.920
We also did not mean that the
sound was provoked by a ghost bell,

417
00:35:40.960 --> 00:35:46.719
because the idea seemed ridiculous to us, but we thought that perhaps very close

418
00:35:47.000 --> 00:35:52.320
there was another church with a bell. It was even possible that within the

419
00:35:52.320 --> 00:35:59.480
farm there could be some small chapel
that still maintained its campaign and this was

420
00:35:59.480 --> 00:36:05.199
operated either by the air or by
someone who lived there. We then walked

421
00:36:05.199 --> 00:36:10.159
towards the hacienda. But another path
caught our attention. It was a road

422
00:36:10.280 --> 00:36:15.719
that gave a hill not so high, it had rails and approaching us,

423
00:36:15.880 --> 00:36:21.159
we could see what it was about
the remains of a mine. We got

424
00:36:21.239 --> 00:36:25.000
a couple meters inside. We saw
some salt blocks and various types of quartz.

425
00:36:25.559 --> 00:36:31.400
We also found some old machinery.
I thought it would be better to

426
00:36:31.400 --> 00:36:37.199
return, because exploration in abandoned mines
is not a very good idea, especially

427
00:36:37.320 --> 00:36:42.960
when exploring an abandoned place like that, because in case of a collapse or

428
00:36:43.079 --> 00:36:49.440
any accident, there is no one
who could save us before leaving. Gloria

429
00:36:49.639 --> 00:36:52.360
lit up on the side of the
mine road. It was like some kind

430
00:36:52.440 --> 00:36:58.840
of camera where the miners kept their
stuff. From what we found we saw

431
00:36:58.840 --> 00:37:02.280
machinery, clothes or errns, lying
and, strangest of all, an altar

432
00:37:02.320 --> 00:37:09.199
with an idol like a demon and
around many candles. In the middle of

433
00:37:09.239 --> 00:37:15.440
melting we left that place wondering if
those miners would have practiced some kind of

434
00:37:15.480 --> 00:37:20.039
cult or to help them in their
search for precious metals. As it were,

435
00:37:20.519 --> 00:37:23.880
the candles and the idol were abandoned
a long time ago, for the

436
00:37:24.000 --> 00:37:30.039
cobwebs and the earth covered them almost
entirely. Leaving the mine, we headed

437
00:37:30.079 --> 00:37:36.760
to the castle- shaped hacienda.
The place seemed to have been restored on

438
00:37:36.880 --> 00:37:42.000
several occasions, as the quarry and
bricks looked much newer in certain places.

439
00:37:43.679 --> 00:37:49.000
We entered easily, because the gate
had very rotten wood. We went in

440
00:37:49.039 --> 00:37:53.360
and immediately saw several school seats,
blackboards, broken and some children' s

441
00:37:53.480 --> 00:37:59.400
toys. Gloria and I split up
to cover most of the place. Before

442
00:37:59.519 --> 00:38:05.039
Anna got dark, I went straight
to the castle- looking tower. I

443
00:38:05.079 --> 00:38:09.119
had to cross a mountain of seats
and chairs. Then I managed to reach

444
00:38:09.159 --> 00:38:15.760
the first step, but I realized
these steps were too small, so I

445
00:38:15.119 --> 00:38:21.960
had to climb carefully. At the
top, I noticed that there were two

446
00:38:22.000 --> 00:38:28.280
rooms. One of these appeared to
have been used as a classroom, as

447
00:38:28.440 --> 00:38:34.000
the blackboard was still on the wall
There were also several maps and posters of

448
00:38:34.039 --> 00:38:37.880
the body parts. I approached the
teacher' s desk and found a couple

449
00:38:38.000 --> 00:38:44.760
of strange books. One of them
was written in Latin and had a five

450
00:38:45.280 --> 00:38:49.960
- peak star on the cover.
Another of them had the devil' s

451
00:38:49.960 --> 00:38:53.159
face. I was just flipping through
this couple of books. When I heard

452
00:38:53.199 --> 00:38:59.000
someone running in the next room,
I headed to that other room. At

453
00:38:59.800 --> 00:39:02.960
all times I found a little girl
playing with the head of a doll.

454
00:39:05.039 --> 00:39:09.920
He wore a dress and kept his
head down. I asked the girl several

455
00:39:09.960 --> 00:39:15.760
questions, but she just walked away
to a corner where she couldn' t

456
00:39:15.840 --> 00:39:20.480
tell her face. Then he threw
his wrist head at me and ran out.

457
00:39:21.119 --> 00:39:23.719
I followed her, but I couldn' t find her anymore. I

458
00:39:23.719 --> 00:39:29.400
started calling her out loud, but
this only attracted Gloria, who immediately asked

459
00:39:29.480 --> 00:39:37.159
me about what was happening. She
climbed the stairs and as soon as she

460
00:39:37.239 --> 00:39:42.440
was near me, I told her
what had just happened. Then I showed

461
00:39:42.480 --> 00:39:45.800
him the doll' s head he
threw at me. The very girl I

462
00:39:45.159 --> 00:39:52.239
had not seen until that moment,
was too horrible. His eyes were cooked

463
00:39:52.400 --> 00:39:57.880
with rusty wire. In addition,
on the plastic forehead he had been marked

464
00:39:57.920 --> 00:40:01.760
melting the plastic to form a five- pointed star and another pair of rare

465
00:40:01.840 --> 00:40:08.000
symbols. Then I showed Gloria the
books in the other room. Gloria told

466
00:40:08.039 --> 00:40:13.360
me she had just seen a ghost, but I told her that I didn

467
00:40:13.480 --> 00:40:17.599
' t think that girl was a
simple ghost, because, as she could

468
00:40:17.639 --> 00:40:22.920
explain, the doll' s head, besides, the girl looked too real.

469
00:40:22.400 --> 00:40:28.360
It wasn' t just a shadow
or something I told her that I

470
00:40:28.400 --> 00:40:34.679
could even see the dress Gloria was
wearing She didn' t want to convince

471
00:40:34.760 --> 00:40:37.719
me that the girl was a simple
apparition. We went down from the tower

472
00:40:37.800 --> 00:40:42.800
and again heard the bells, but
these sounded very far away. Gloria and

473
00:40:42.880 --> 00:40:49.519
I were watching. Then we wondered
where they might come from. We walked

474
00:40:49.599 --> 00:40:52.119
through the courtyards looking for some chapel, but we didn' t see any.

475
00:40:52.880 --> 00:40:58.320
What we did find was a fountain
in which was the same girl who

476
00:40:58.519 --> 00:41:01.519
had just seen above the tower.
The girl, without raising her face,

477
00:41:01.760 --> 00:41:07.480
told us that the witch would come, because she was very interested in what

478
00:41:07.519 --> 00:41:09.960
Gloria had in her womb. I
approached the girl, but she ran again.

479
00:41:12.199 --> 00:41:16.000
Gloria looked pretty scared, but she
insisted that girl was just a ghost.

480
00:41:19.239 --> 00:41:22.880
The afternoon was already catching up,
so we decided to get back in

481
00:41:22.960 --> 00:41:29.239
the car. I really felt too
tired to drive yet I was going to,

482
00:41:29.599 --> 00:41:34.679
because it gave us mistrust to give
us in that town. Suddenly there

483
00:41:34.800 --> 00:41:39.440
was a blowout that looked like a
sandstorm. This forced us to seek refuge,

484
00:41:40.000 --> 00:41:45.239
so we entered the first house we
found. The sandstorm passed, but

485
00:41:45.239 --> 00:41:51.679
the windstorm drew rain and we had
to wait even longer. Instead of sitting

486
00:41:51.719 --> 00:41:55.800
around waiting for the rain to end, we began to explore a little bit

487
00:41:55.880 --> 00:42:01.559
the house in which we were trapped. We discovered many forage sacks and veterinary

488
00:42:01.599 --> 00:42:07.239
medicines. When the rain calmed down, we began to hear a grunt like

489
00:42:07.320 --> 00:42:14.840
pigs. We followed that sound and
arrived at a small corral where, after

490
00:42:14.880 --> 00:42:20.320
lightning struck, we were able to
see several children lying down as if they

491
00:42:20.320 --> 00:42:23.320
had four legs. Realizing our presence, everyone turned to see us. In

492
00:42:23.360 --> 00:42:29.800
that we could see that they had
black eyes and were eating filth. The

493
00:42:29.840 --> 00:42:35.960
air smelled like dead. The children
began to make a sound like pigs instead

494
00:42:36.039 --> 00:42:42.599
of humans. At that moment we
decided to leave immediately, as this could

495
00:42:42.679 --> 00:42:46.000
only be the work of the demon
himself. Arriving at the car we found

496
00:42:46.079 --> 00:42:52.079
that someone had trotted our tires.
This made us feel lost. We couldn

497
00:42:52.199 --> 00:42:59.280
' t deny that place was cursed
anymore. Now we were trapped. Still,

498
00:42:59.519 --> 00:43:04.119
we didn' t hide in the
car, we tried to call 911,

499
00:43:04.480 --> 00:43:08.039
but there was no signal. We
were cursing for a while until we

500
00:43:08.159 --> 00:43:13.360
saw a light in the distance.
He was the man who had pointed a

501
00:43:13.480 --> 00:43:16.599
gun at me I saw him approaching
us, and I imagined the worst.

502
00:43:17.360 --> 00:43:22.199
I thought he had trotted our tires
to rob us. The man touched our

503
00:43:22.239 --> 00:43:27.079
glass. I could see he wasn' t armed. In fact, he

504
00:43:27.159 --> 00:43:31.119
carried a huge cross and a lamp
man. He told us not to be

505
00:43:31.159 --> 00:43:36.000
suspicious and to follow him. I
looked at Gloria to see what she thought,

506
00:43:37.079 --> 00:43:40.639
but she was wringing over a pain
in her stomach. At the time

507
00:43:40.719 --> 00:43:45.440
I had no choice, so I
opened the door and followed that man to

508
00:43:45.519 --> 00:43:50.039
his house. He didn' t
tell us his name, but we barely

509
00:43:50.039 --> 00:43:54.079
got in. He told us he
knew Gloria was expecting a child and because

510
00:43:54.119 --> 00:44:00.800
of this, the witch followed us. During all our exploration, Gloria and

511
00:44:00.800 --> 00:44:05.800
I were shocked, because the same
thing the girl we saw inside the farm

512
00:44:05.880 --> 00:44:08.440
told her. At the hacienda,
the man gave us a cup of hot

513
00:44:08.480 --> 00:44:14.840
tea. Then he asked us to
have confidence that while we were in his

514
00:44:15.079 --> 00:44:20.199
house, nothing bad could happen to
us, for the witch could only tread

515
00:44:20.320 --> 00:44:23.039
on profane ground and her land was
the only one that was saved from the

516
00:44:23.039 --> 00:44:29.320
infestation of evil. I asked him
several questions in a very rude tone The

517
00:44:29.519 --> 00:44:34.239
man told us a story. It
turned out that the mine was exploited by

518
00:44:34.360 --> 00:44:37.800
miners who came from China and,
thanks to the indications of a woman brought

519
00:44:37.920 --> 00:44:44.760
with them, they managed to reach
deeper than the former Spanish colonizers. They

520
00:44:44.800 --> 00:44:50.280
did not find much gold, but
they did find some diamond stones, among

521
00:44:50.320 --> 00:44:53.800
other objects, but they were not
in their natural state, but they were

522
00:44:53.840 --> 00:44:59.840
shaped like old figures. One of
those figures was shaped like the devil.

523
00:45:00.679 --> 00:45:05.840
The director of the mine did not
want to melt that figure and instead put

524
00:45:06.119 --> 00:45:08.920
it in a cabinet at the entrance
of his house, which was inside the

525
00:45:08.960 --> 00:45:15.400
estate. Both the sculpture and the
presence of that woman who gave the indications

526
00:45:15.480 --> 00:45:20.880
of where to dig were not well
seen by the people of the village,

527
00:45:21.840 --> 00:45:27.119
for they murmured that that woman was
a witch and that she was gradually convincing

528
00:45:27.159 --> 00:45:31.639
people to worship the devil. What
at first was a simple rumor ended up

529
00:45:32.079 --> 00:45:37.239
being a reality and when I least
expected it, even the children were being

530
00:45:37.440 --> 00:45:45.639
taught dark arts and witchcraft. He
knew very well, because he was one

531
00:45:45.760 --> 00:45:52.119
of those kids. As expected,
everything ended badly. There were those who

532
00:45:52.159 --> 00:45:58.920
refused to follow these people and who
defended them. One day, his father

533
00:45:59.000 --> 00:46:01.920
stole the devil- shaped idol and
threw it into the depths of the mine,

534
00:46:02.440 --> 00:46:07.880
in an area that was barely being
dynamite. From this, a disease

535
00:46:08.199 --> 00:46:13.920
was watered down in the village,
which caused the majority to flee while those

536
00:46:14.519 --> 00:46:22.320
who stayed slowly were dying victims of
the disease. The first to die were

537
00:46:22.360 --> 00:46:27.679
the children. In the end there
were only a couple of farmers who raised

538
00:46:27.679 --> 00:46:32.800
animals, but these animals were also
sick and although they were given different medicines,

539
00:46:34.519 --> 00:46:37.800
nothing freed them from a terrible death
in which the body would practically rot.

540
00:46:38.639 --> 00:46:42.800
The man and his family moved into
the house where we were, but

541
00:46:42.840 --> 00:46:49.320
they stayed away from the entrance to
that town. And he didn' t

542
00:46:49.440 --> 00:46:54.039
leave that house because he was trying
to drive away the unwary people who,

543
00:46:55.039 --> 00:47:00.400
like us, wanted to enter the
village, because we weren' t the

544
00:47:00.440 --> 00:47:01.519
first ones the Witch wanted to catch
I didn' t know what to think.

545
00:47:01.880 --> 00:47:07.400
I felt confused, my whole being
was a mixture of fear and bewilderment.

546
00:47:07.159 --> 00:47:12.800
All I did was ask Gloria if
she was pregnant to what she told

547
00:47:12.880 --> 00:47:17.519
me she didn' t really know
because she' d only been in her

548
00:47:17.639 --> 00:47:22.840
period for a couple of months.
But this was common in her, because

549
00:47:23.039 --> 00:47:28.719
she was very irregular. I also
felt more confidence with that man, because

550
00:47:29.039 --> 00:47:32.800
even though his story was most incredible, with everything we just witnessed, it

551
00:47:32.840 --> 00:47:39.119
was hard not to believe that we
asked the man how we could get out

552
00:47:39.159 --> 00:47:44.360
of there. I didn' t
have more than one spare tire and there

553
00:47:44.440 --> 00:47:49.840
was no signal anywhere. He told
us that the most important thing was to

554
00:47:49.880 --> 00:47:53.599
wait until the next day, that
he would take us in his trailer to

555
00:47:53.639 --> 00:47:59.880
an area where there was a phone, but that we should still wait,

556
00:48:00.480 --> 00:48:02.360
because it was not safe to leave
that night. I haven' t just

557
00:48:02.519 --> 00:48:07.400
said this yet. When we hear
the laughter of several children. The man

558
00:48:07.559 --> 00:48:13.679
became pale and began to pray.
Then he approached a window and closed the

559
00:48:13.719 --> 00:48:19.000
curtains all at once. He instructed
us to remain silent and cuddle in a

560
00:48:19.039 --> 00:48:23.960
corner of the room. The atmosphere
became tense and chilling, as children’

561
00:48:24.159 --> 00:48:30.440
s laughter approached more and more glory
and I looked with concern at each other

562
00:48:30.480 --> 00:48:36.440
trying to keep calm, as the
man continued with his prayers in a low

563
00:48:36.440 --> 00:48:39.440
voice. The sound of laughter became
sharper as if the children were right outside

564
00:48:39.599 --> 00:48:45.320
the window. Suddenly, a strong
blow rang out at the door of the

565
00:48:45.360 --> 00:48:51.400
house, followed by more knocks on
the windows. The man looked at us

566
00:48:51.519 --> 00:48:55.679
with eyes full of terror, indicating
with gestures that we should remain silent and

567
00:48:55.719 --> 00:49:01.119
hide as best we could. The
atmosphere took on a palpable tension, as

568
00:49:01.199 --> 00:49:07.159
the blows continued and we could hear
children' s voices whispering in the dark.

569
00:49:07.639 --> 00:49:13.480
It was as if an invisible presence
surrounded us watching us from the shadows.

570
00:49:14.679 --> 00:49:17.079
I tried to control my breathing,
but fear oppressed me. Chest.

571
00:49:17.960 --> 00:49:23.760
Gloria squeezed my hand hard for comfort
in the midst of uncertainty. The man

572
00:49:23.840 --> 00:49:29.320
kept praying quietly in the hope of
keeping at bay whatever he was stalking outside.

573
00:49:32.000 --> 00:49:37.280
The minutes seemed like hours, as
we waited silently with the heart beating

574
00:49:37.360 --> 00:49:44.639
strongly on our breasts. Finally,
after what seemed like an eternity. The

575
00:49:44.800 --> 00:49:51.320
beatings and laughter stopped abruptly, leaving
a disturbing silence in place. The man

576
00:49:51.400 --> 00:49:55.639
looked at us with relief, but
also with concern. We knew the threat

577
00:49:55.920 --> 00:50:00.239
hadn' t happened yet, but
at least I had a brief break for

578
00:50:00.239 --> 00:50:06.880
you. We decided to stay in
the house until dawn. The night slowly

579
00:50:07.000 --> 00:50:13.159
passed with us in watch attentive to
any sound indicating that the Evil Presence had

580
00:50:13.320 --> 00:50:20.280
returned. Every time the wind blew. He seemed to bring with him whispers

581
00:50:20.679 --> 00:50:24.679
and laughter, making us tremble with
fear. The man was just standing there

582
00:50:24.760 --> 00:50:30.719
doing his prayers quietly. He seemed
to fight something. I made the mistake

583
00:50:30.760 --> 00:50:35.840
of peeking out the window. There
was that damn witch, accompanied by what

584
00:50:35.880 --> 00:50:39.960
seemed to be children, but in
the form of pigs and someone else accompanied

585
00:50:40.039 --> 00:50:46.719
them by a man who was barefoot. I removed my head immediately and began

586
00:50:46.719 --> 00:50:52.280
to tremble, as the scene seemed
to me to be pure madness. Then

587
00:50:52.519 --> 00:50:55.880
the laughter of the children became grunts
of pigs and little by little, something

588
00:50:55.880 --> 00:51:01.239
began to knock on the doors and
windows. I felt desperate, but in

589
00:51:01.400 --> 00:51:07.000
a certain way, seeing that man
worried, but without panicking, I managed

590
00:51:07.000 --> 00:51:12.800
to calm down a little bit.
I don' t know how long this

591
00:51:12.800 --> 00:51:15.039
episode' s been going on.
I only remember that seconds before dawn,

592
00:51:15.239 --> 00:51:20.960
everything calmed down with the first rays
of the sun rising. The man told

593
00:51:21.039 --> 00:51:25.719
us it was safe to leave the
house. We rushed to pick up our

594
00:51:27.039 --> 00:51:31.760
things and followed the man outside where
a trailer was waiting for us to take

595
00:51:31.800 --> 00:51:37.199
us away from that cursed town.
As we slowly moved away from the place,

596
00:51:37.519 --> 00:51:42.840
I looked back, feeling a chill
running around my back. Remembering the

597
00:51:42.880 --> 00:51:47.880
horrible experiences we had experienced that night, I knew that I would never forget

598
00:51:49.320 --> 00:51:52.000
that town and that its dark secrets
will continue to haunt us in our dreams.

599
00:51:53.440 --> 00:51:58.519
The man left us about 40 kilometers
away. The place he left us

600
00:51:58.559 --> 00:52:02.880
had an emergency telephonic and this was
very convenient, because our cell phone batteries

601
00:52:02.960 --> 00:52:09.599
were dead. We managed to contact
my insurance and in the afternoon we were

602
00:52:09.639 --> 00:52:13.800
already on our way to a city. I didn' t want to go

603
00:52:13.840 --> 00:52:16.719
with the insurance company for the car. Instead, I told them what mile

604
00:52:16.760 --> 00:52:22.159
the car had stayed. They got
it back for me and once it was

605
00:52:22.159 --> 00:52:28.440
ready, we went back to our
home and stopped trying to find some ghost

606
00:52:28.440 --> 00:52:43.280
town. The unknown. The fairs
have always awakened me a certain level of

607
00:52:43.760 --> 00:52:47.280
terror and is that the sound level, the multicolored lights have something that,

608
00:52:47.360 --> 00:52:52.679
instead of seeming flashy, causes me
repudiation. It wasn' t always like

609
00:52:52.679 --> 00:52:57.559
that, though. There was a
time when I enjoyed, like any child,

610
00:52:57.920 --> 00:53:02.320
mechanical games and sweets something that always
seemed cloudy to me. They were

611
00:53:02.440 --> 00:53:08.679
those kind of shows where they showed
people with some deformity or that kind of

612
00:53:08.800 --> 00:53:14.679
museums that here in my country are
known as cabinets. My fear of these

613
00:53:14.800 --> 00:53:19.239
places. It started when I was
a teenager. At that time I lived

614
00:53:19.320 --> 00:53:23.960
in Bogotá with my maternal grandparents,
who have always raised me and in a

615
00:53:23.960 --> 00:53:29.960
certain way, they overprotected me,
forbidding me to attend parties and this kind

616
00:53:29.960 --> 00:53:34.360
of fairs. I had a lot
of friends at school and whenever they invited

617
00:53:34.360 --> 00:53:37.760
me, I didn' t even
think about it. I was making up

618
00:53:37.000 --> 00:53:42.440
some excuse to say no, and
I already knew my grandparents' answer in

619
00:53:42.480 --> 00:53:45.800
advance. If I told them I
wanted to attend a fair with my friends

620
00:53:45.800 --> 00:53:52.639
alone. My grandparents told me that
among those fairs and parties there was a

621
00:53:52.639 --> 00:53:57.760
lot of vice, which called the
devil, who would sooner or later end

622
00:53:57.760 --> 00:54:01.880
up catching me. My family used
to be very sorperstitious, while I suffered

623
00:54:01.920 --> 00:54:07.280
for their overprotection, for indeed.
I didn' t think if I went

624
00:54:07.320 --> 00:54:13.679
to a fair or party once,
I' d find something evil. One

625
00:54:13.760 --> 00:54:19.239
day we left school early and my
classmates began to ask me to accompany them

626
00:54:19.519 --> 00:54:23.559
to a fair that had just been
set up outside the city. At first

627
00:54:23.639 --> 00:54:29.599
I told them I couldn' t, but they insisted on me and I

628
00:54:29.719 --> 00:54:34.920
didn' t have any arguments to
deny myself, because even I didn'

629
00:54:35.280 --> 00:54:37.079
t expect the classes to be suspended, so I agreed to accompany them.

630
00:54:37.159 --> 00:54:42.840
The place was half empty and at
least half of the games were off.

631
00:54:44.079 --> 00:54:47.440
Still, my colleagues managed to convince
more than one operator to turn them on

632
00:54:47.559 --> 00:54:52.639
and allow us to get on at
least a couple of times. I,

633
00:54:52.880 --> 00:54:57.840
after going up to a couple of
games, separated from the group, because

634
00:54:57.920 --> 00:55:02.000
I was afraid that my grandfather would
find out, that the classes were suspended

635
00:55:02.440 --> 00:55:06.400
and instead of returning to my house, I had escaped to the fair.

636
00:55:07.400 --> 00:55:10.840
Suddenly, a man in a top
hat invited me to a free show of

637
00:55:12.000 --> 00:55:16.039
those who scared me so much.
For this I had been reached by a

638
00:55:16.039 --> 00:55:22.840
couple of my friends who began to
claim me for leaving without warning when I

639
00:55:22.840 --> 00:55:27.760
least expected it. He was already
entering the trailer of the show, which

640
00:55:27.800 --> 00:55:34.039
was named the Museum of Horrors.
The first was a grotesque puppet show.

641
00:55:35.320 --> 00:55:38.239
The man who handled them was a
foreigner and did not speak well Spanish.

642
00:55:38.760 --> 00:55:43.400
That is why we were unable to
understand what the act was all about.

643
00:55:44.679 --> 00:55:49.079
Once the show was over, we
passed through a small corridor that led to

644
00:55:49.119 --> 00:55:53.679
one of these cabinets where we saw
in a showcase three dissected human heads,

645
00:55:53.880 --> 00:55:59.400
which had been sewn up, the
mouth, eyes, nostrils and ears were

646
00:55:59.440 --> 00:56:05.400
awful and although I felt a huge
terror when I saw them, I had

647
00:56:05.440 --> 00:56:09.639
to pretend interest and silence my fear, otherwise my friends would have attacked me

648
00:56:09.679 --> 00:56:16.239
with mockery. Then, in the
second showcase I saw a collection of four

649
00:56:16.360 --> 00:56:22.360
dolls that were supposedly cursed. Finally, there was a long display case,

650
00:56:22.719 --> 00:56:28.800
with three rather frightening masks and before
leaving, a machine of those that dispensed

651
00:56:28.880 --> 00:56:34.199
gums or stuffed animals, had painted
the figure of a little devil carrying a

652
00:56:34.280 --> 00:56:42.000
sign that said desires in exchange for
souls. They all cast a coin except

653
00:56:42.000 --> 00:56:45.119
me, but one of the guys
threw it out for me and asked me

654
00:56:45.199 --> 00:56:50.559
to turn the mechanism to see what
toy or sweet touched me. I got

655
00:56:50.679 --> 00:56:54.400
some kind of ball full of symbols
that didn' t seem weird at first.

656
00:56:55.320 --> 00:57:00.480
Rather, I thought it was a
series of figures who had a printing

657
00:57:00.519 --> 00:57:05.880
error, as some showed a five- pointed star and the others lacked some

658
00:57:06.000 --> 00:57:12.519
lines. I took the toy and
kept it inside my backpack. After all,

659
00:57:12.880 --> 00:57:16.880
I didn' t think a single
ball would bring me trouble with my

660
00:57:16.880 --> 00:57:21.639
grandparents. After eating, I went
home, arrived and acted completely normal.

661
00:57:22.320 --> 00:57:27.280
My grandfather was not at home,
as he had gone to work as a

662
00:57:27.320 --> 00:57:31.119
carpenter. I sometimes helped him,
so I asked my grandmother if my grandfather

663
00:57:31.199 --> 00:57:36.159
didn' t want me to reach
him, but she said no, it

664
00:57:36.159 --> 00:57:42.320
was a simple thing I was doing. I was going to do my homework

665
00:57:42.440 --> 00:57:45.039
and when I pulled a book out
of my backpack, the ball fell.

666
00:57:45.480 --> 00:57:49.239
I took the ball in my right
hand and started throwing it against the wall.

667
00:57:49.719 --> 00:57:54.000
I remember throwing it several times when
the object made a strange sound.

668
00:57:54.480 --> 00:57:59.159
It was as if I had hit
a hollow place on the wall. Then

669
00:57:59.159 --> 00:58:02.360
the ball finally fell to the floor
and turned to the right, as if

670
00:58:02.400 --> 00:58:07.840
the object was possessed for a second. I could see how moving symbols took

671
00:58:08.079 --> 00:58:15.079
on another form, it was like
some kind of optical illusion. I took

672
00:58:15.119 --> 00:58:20.280
the ball and checked it in detail. It seemed to be made of simple

673
00:58:20.400 --> 00:58:24.119
rubber and the painting was plastic,
although looking in more detail, I could

674
00:58:24.199 --> 00:58:30.480
notice that it did not carry a
machine screen printing, but had been hand

675
00:58:30.599 --> 00:58:35.159
painted, as the marks of a
brush could be seen. I put the

676
00:58:35.360 --> 00:58:37.760
ball away, and right away,
I went to the wall, where I

677
00:58:37.760 --> 00:58:40.559
had hit. I hit him with
the bottom of my fist, but it

678
00:58:40.679 --> 00:58:45.679
didn' t sound hollow. I
pulled the ball out again and thought I

679
00:58:45.679 --> 00:58:49.360
' d throw it away, because
what had just happened had been pretty weird.

680
00:58:49.960 --> 00:58:54.159
I discarded this thought and put the
ball back in my backpack. After

681
00:58:54.159 --> 00:59:00.119
all, it was stupid to think
that a single ball was haunted. That

682
00:59:00.199 --> 00:59:06.400
night I fell asleep in a very
deep sleep. Something strange, since my

683
00:59:06.400 --> 00:59:10.679
parents died I always had a very
light sleep and suffered episodes of insomnia.

684
00:59:12.920 --> 00:59:17.039
But that night, while I was
asleep, I listened as if someone was

685
00:59:17.079 --> 00:59:23.199
hitting the wall hard This sound was
followed by a few regrets, thinking about

686
00:59:23.280 --> 00:59:28.480
what it was, that one of
my grandparents was suffering from some attack or

687
00:59:28.480 --> 00:59:34.639
illness. I tried to wake up, but a sleep paralysis occurred to me,

688
00:59:35.000 --> 00:59:39.320
for as much effort as I did
I could not wake up and this

689
00:59:39.440 --> 00:59:43.559
caused me much anguish within the dream. Before I woke up I saw myself

690
00:59:43.599 --> 00:59:50.159
locked in that horror cabinet. I
heard those stuffed heads trying to talk to

691
00:59:50.840 --> 00:59:54.559
me, but they only managed to
move violently. When I finally woke up,

692
00:59:54.840 --> 01:00:00.000
I had an asthma attack that almost
made me suffocate. I went to

693
01:00:00.119 --> 01:00:05.239
ask my grandmother for help who immediately
put the inhaler on me. When I

694
01:00:05.280 --> 01:00:08.039
managed to control myself, I told
my grandmother that I had a terrible nightmare.

695
01:00:08.599 --> 01:00:13.679
When I returned to my room,
I noticed certain cracks in the wall

696
01:00:13.800 --> 01:00:17.719
where I had hit the ball.
They looked like long legs of an insect.

697
01:00:20.000 --> 01:00:23.480
Already in the morning I went to
find my grandfather to show him the

698
01:00:23.480 --> 01:00:28.559
cracks. My grandfather used to be
pretty attentive to any damage to the house.

699
01:00:29.360 --> 01:00:32.480
My grandfather checked the wall and told
me not to walk around scratching the

700
01:00:34.119 --> 01:00:37.880
wall because the marks were not for
cracks, but for pencil or charcoal marks.

701
01:00:38.880 --> 01:00:45.440
This fact surprised me. I didn' t understand how that was possible

702
01:00:45.480 --> 01:00:47.599
if I hadn' t scratched anything. But I didn' t deny my

703
01:00:47.599 --> 01:00:52.199
grandfather anything because he was very stubborn. I asked him if he didn'

704
01:00:52.280 --> 01:00:57.079
t know if the wall would be
hollow in any area. My grandfather told

705
01:00:57.119 --> 01:01:01.679
me that if in several places there
was a gap because the house bought it

706
01:01:01.760 --> 01:01:07.679
used and very damaged. He had
remodeled it, but there were still areas

707
01:01:07.719 --> 01:01:12.079
that he could not repair completely because
he lacked money. I told my grandfather

708
01:01:12.119 --> 01:01:17.199
my nightmare. My grandfather assured me
that I had nothing to worry about and

709
01:01:17.239 --> 01:01:22.119
tried to reassure me by saying that
he would take care of checking the gaps

710
01:01:22.119 --> 01:01:25.960
in the house. Later, however, I was still with a persistent restlessness

711
01:01:27.000 --> 01:01:32.000
in my mind. I decided that, when my grandfather wasn' t around,

712
01:01:32.199 --> 01:01:37.239
I' d examine the wall on
my own to see if I could

713
01:01:37.280 --> 01:01:39.920
find something to explain what had happened
at the time. I preferred to wash

714
01:01:40.079 --> 01:01:45.920
the wall to erase the small marks. That night, before I went to

715
01:01:45.000 --> 01:01:50.280
sleep, I took the ball back
out of my backpack and watched it carefully.

716
01:01:51.199 --> 01:01:54.800
The symbols were still there, but
they seemed a little more off than

717
01:01:54.800 --> 01:02:00.599
before. I felt a strange feeling
holding it in my hand. Despite my

718
01:02:00.639 --> 01:02:06.880
skepticism, I could not deny that
something strange was happening. I thought maybe

719
01:02:07.199 --> 01:02:10.920
the ball triggered some sort of spell
by moving the symbols in some direction or

720
01:02:12.000 --> 01:02:16.360
maybe something existed. Behind the wall
that, due to the negative charge that

721
01:02:16.400 --> 01:02:22.559
lived inside the ball, was awakened. I decided it would be best to

722
01:02:22.599 --> 01:02:25.320
keep the ball in a safe place. For now, so I put it

723
01:02:25.360 --> 01:02:30.119
back in my backpack and kept it
in a corner of the closet. I

724
01:02:30.119 --> 01:02:35.079
went to sleep hoping I wouldn'
t have any more nightmares, but it

725
01:02:35.239 --> 01:02:38.719
happened again. I dreamt that the
wall would open and that from inside a

726
01:02:38.800 --> 01:02:43.000
large insect would come out with the
head of a doll with a face.

727
01:02:43.079 --> 01:02:47.679
As a baby this bug would climb
up into my bed and something would tell

728
01:02:47.760 --> 01:02:52.639
me that I wanted to get inside
me and this way take over my soul.

729
01:02:52.400 --> 01:02:57.800
I felt very real as little by
little I walked through my body up

730
01:02:57.800 --> 01:03:01.159
to my neck and just as I
walked ra through my chin, I woke

731
01:03:01.280 --> 01:03:07.239
up, shook my whole body and
screamed. At that moment I swear to

732
01:03:07.400 --> 01:03:10.559
God I saw the insect walk up
the wall and through a hole in a

733
01:03:10.639 --> 01:03:15.719
corner. I felt craving for the
whole body. After that day, in

734
01:03:16.280 --> 01:03:21.679
the house we began to suffer an
invasion of insects. What was most in

735
01:03:21.719 --> 01:03:25.400
the house were cockroaches and flies,
which was strange, because my grandmother has

736
01:03:25.440 --> 01:03:30.880
always been very obsessive with cleaning my
grandfather had the house sprayed thoroughly and we

737
01:03:30.960 --> 01:03:35.280
had to go spend a couple of
days at an aunt' s house.

738
01:03:37.079 --> 01:03:42.559
Being there, I didn' t
have nightmares or notice anything strange. We

739
01:03:42.599 --> 01:03:45.000
went back to the house and for
a couple of days there were no more

740
01:03:45.000 --> 01:03:51.760
bugs. But after a week we
had an invasion again. My grandfather began

741
01:03:51.760 --> 01:03:55.920
to open between the walls, as
he thought the problem was there. I

742
01:03:57.000 --> 01:04:00.920
helped him break some of the walls. We didn' t find anything strange,

743
01:04:01.199 --> 01:04:04.639
not even a nest of mice,
or spiders, or anything. But

744
01:04:04.800 --> 01:04:10.679
when we arrived at the wall of
my room we found that, apart from

745
01:04:11.000 --> 01:04:15.320
a hole, several bricks were loose. My grandfather drew a pair and inside

746
01:04:15.519 --> 01:04:19.000
we found a candle shaped like a
hand, some jars filled with a rare

747
01:04:19.119 --> 01:04:27.239
liquid and also a notebook with spells
and drawings of demons. These things made

748
01:04:27.280 --> 01:04:30.440
my grandfather very serious, who asked
me not to touch anything directly with his

749
01:04:30.480 --> 01:04:36.800
hands, who would wear gloves and
throw it away immediately. Then she explained

750
01:04:38.000 --> 01:04:42.400
to me that when she bought the
house, she did not check all the

751
01:04:42.480 --> 01:04:46.960
walls well and that when they just
bought it, they sent her to bless,

752
01:04:47.800 --> 01:04:51.360
for they had heard rumors about acts
of witchcraft from the lady who had

753
01:04:51.360 --> 01:04:56.760
been the original owner. Something very
strange was that inside the wall everything looked

754
01:04:56.840 --> 01:05:01.880
yellowish. Apart from showing those coal
lines similar to the legs of an insect,

755
01:05:02.119 --> 01:05:08.880
I remember hearing my grandmother say that
cockroaches and rats were direct proof that

756
01:05:08.920 --> 01:05:14.159
the demon was near, so she
started performing a series of supposedly cleansing rituals,

757
01:05:14.719 --> 01:05:23.880
but that they actually only made things
worse. If I remember correctly,

758
01:05:24.159 --> 01:05:30.360
there was a period of tranquility.
Even the invasion of insects disappeared One afternoon

759
01:05:30.679 --> 01:05:34.639
while I was reading a book of
philosophy in my room I saw as the

760
01:05:34.960 --> 01:05:39.599
ball from which I had already forgotten, bounced very close to the wall where

761
01:05:39.639 --> 01:05:44.840
the objects of witchcraft were. When
the ball stopped voting, I looked like

762
01:05:44.920 --> 01:05:50.719
a person crossed the hall outside my
room. That afternoon I was completely alone

763
01:05:50.719 --> 01:05:56.079
in the house, as my grandmother
was in the temple in some talks to

764
01:05:56.119 --> 01:06:01.320
be godmother and my grandfather was working
I left my room, thinking that maybe

765
01:06:01.360 --> 01:06:06.920
someone had come into the house to
steal. Then I walked to the back

766
01:06:08.000 --> 01:06:13.679
of the house, following this silhouette
and saw an old woman bent over like

767
01:06:13.719 --> 01:06:17.079
the door was open, I spoke
to the lady. The woman turned me

768
01:06:17.119 --> 01:06:21.360
to look at her eyes They didn' t have pupils. He didn'

769
01:06:21.480 --> 01:06:28.320
t answer me and just threw at
me a huge smile that exposed a completely

770
01:06:28.440 --> 01:06:31.840
rotten tooth. I couldn' t
help but feel afraid of that woman,

771
01:06:32.480 --> 01:06:39.400
so I backed out. Then I
saw the woman get cockroaches out of her

772
01:06:39.440 --> 01:06:45.000
feet and head. All I could
think of was persigning myself and mentioning the

773
01:06:45.039 --> 01:06:49.920
name of Jesus out loud. The
old lady threw a laugh and ran in

774
01:06:50.000 --> 01:06:55.800
the opposite direction to the one I
was in I was petrified, I didn

775
01:06:55.840 --> 01:06:59.400
' t make the slightest effort to
go after her. That' s what

776
01:06:59.440 --> 01:07:03.800
my grandmother came into, who worried
about seeing me all pale, and I

777
01:07:03.840 --> 01:07:08.519
told her about how I had seen
this strange old woman. At that moment

778
01:07:08.800 --> 01:07:13.079
I decided to confess to my grandmother
about the fair and the ball I brought

779
01:07:13.679 --> 01:07:16.840
from the trailer I showed her the
ball, placed it on the table and

780
01:07:17.079 --> 01:07:23.119
before our eyes, the rubber broke, letting out at least a dozen small

781
01:07:23.199 --> 01:07:27.719
spiders who quickly slipped into the cracks
of the table. My grandmother was persignant

782
01:07:28.039 --> 01:07:31.199
and quickly went for a bottle of
holy water that was always at hand.

783
01:07:32.119 --> 01:07:36.119
I told my grandmother that I thought
evil had broken loose in our home because

784
01:07:36.199 --> 01:07:42.599
of the ball. She, on
the other hand, was of a different

785
01:07:42.599 --> 01:07:46.280
opinion. She thought that the ball
had nothing to do with it, because

786
01:07:46.360 --> 01:07:51.280
the evil was behind the walls and
that sooner or later it would come out.

787
01:07:51.920 --> 01:07:57.679
She called that evil the unknown and
it was something witches used to play

788
01:07:57.719 --> 01:08:02.519
with, thinking they could take advantage
of it, although the result was almost

789
01:08:02.599 --> 01:08:09.440
always the same. The person ended
up absorbed by that power. It was

790
01:08:09.480 --> 01:08:15.599
something like an evil spirit nourished with
the witches' soul. My grandmother took

791
01:08:15.639 --> 01:08:18.840
the remains of the ball and began
to review some of the symbols that were

792
01:08:18.920 --> 01:08:26.000
still visible. My grandmother said those
symbols were used in black magic. We

793
01:08:26.039 --> 01:08:30.479
burned the ball' s remains inside
a trash can. The pieces of rubber

794
01:08:30.760 --> 01:08:36.159
burned and sparked. My grandmother made
prayers. While this was happening, it

795
01:08:36.279 --> 01:08:42.880
was impossible not to think that ball
was cursed. My grandmother continued to pray

796
01:08:42.960 --> 01:08:48.039
to clean the house and also got
a kitten, saying that these animals can

797
01:08:48.199 --> 01:08:55.520
cross between two planes at will and
help neutralize the energies by attacking the evil

798
01:08:55.560 --> 01:09:00.039
spirits. I became very fond of
the animal, for it really helped me

799
01:09:00.079 --> 01:09:06.640
to sleep peacefully without nightmares. When
I had nightmares, just feeling it purring

800
01:09:06.720 --> 01:09:13.960
was enough to disappear them. Unfortunately, evil is also powerful and although we

801
01:09:14.039 --> 01:09:17.199
do not realize it, there is
always a struggle between good and evil.

802
01:09:17.840 --> 01:09:23.640
While the little animal managed to neutralize
the energies for a while one day,

803
01:09:24.119 --> 01:09:30.920
it could no longer, we were
eating when we heard the animal struggling madly

804
01:09:30.920 --> 01:09:33.199
against something invisible. I quickly went
to see what was happening to him,

805
01:09:33.640 --> 01:09:38.600
but before our eyes, the cat
shook with fury until he fell dead.

806
01:09:40.279 --> 01:09:44.520
I ran to hug him while he
was crying. In that I noticed that

807
01:09:44.640 --> 01:09:48.439
under where the cat fell several cockroaches
were coming out and I knew that under

808
01:09:48.479 --> 01:09:54.520
the wooden pain was somewhat hollow.
We buried the cat in the courtyard something

809
01:09:54.560 --> 01:09:59.399
told me that under the pain was
the solution to the mystery of why the

810
01:09:59.479 --> 01:10:03.039
house was being haunted. I let
my grandfather know what I thought, but

811
01:10:03.520 --> 01:10:09.399
he refused to withdraw the pain.
He said repairing it would be quite expensive.

812
01:10:10.199 --> 01:10:14.960
I didn' t want to insist, although the truth of my grandfather

813
01:10:15.000 --> 01:10:17.319
' s attitude seemed rather petty to
me. As the days passed he came

814
01:10:17.560 --> 01:10:23.079
to visit a cousin, he stayed
in a room next to mine. On

815
01:10:23.159 --> 01:10:27.800
the second day of her sleep,
she woke up screaming and said she saw

816
01:10:27.880 --> 01:10:31.960
the same woman without pupils standing in
front of her bed, laughing showing her

817
01:10:31.960 --> 01:10:35.520
rotten teeth. According to him,
he saw the old lady running out to

818
01:10:35.600 --> 01:10:40.199
the place where we saw my cat
die. We told my grandmother what happened

819
01:10:40.279 --> 01:10:45.600
during breakfast and she promised to talk
to my grandfather to put pressure on him

820
01:10:45.960 --> 01:10:50.840
and remove the pain, because even
she was sure that the source of the

821
01:10:50.920 --> 01:10:56.880
haunt would be there. My grandfather
was always very hard on character, but

822
01:10:57.039 --> 01:11:01.560
when my grandmother ordered something, I
couldn' t say no. Then we

823
01:11:01.600 --> 01:11:06.520
began to open the pain, which
was not difficult, because nothing else was

824
01:11:06.640 --> 01:11:14.920
overlaid and below. The floor looked
totally rotten even smelled pretty bad. After

825
01:11:14.960 --> 01:11:17.720
removing another layer of rotten wood and
another layer of soil, we found a

826
01:11:17.840 --> 01:11:24.520
metal trapdoor all covered by the same
yellowish color that I found on the wall

827
01:11:24.600 --> 01:11:30.000
of my room. My grandfather thought
that the trapdoor would give direct some old

828
01:11:30.079 --> 01:11:35.159
cistern of the house and probably there
was the problem with the plague of cockroaches.

829
01:11:35.239 --> 01:11:40.119
The trapdoor had nowhere to open,
so my grandfather asked me to go

830
01:11:40.159 --> 01:11:45.079
get a metal bar from his workshop. My grandfather lifted the lid with the

831
01:11:45.199 --> 01:11:50.760
bar and we took it. In
that the aroma became even more unbearable inside.

832
01:11:53.000 --> 01:11:58.439
It was pretty dark. Then I
went for a couple of flashlights lighting

833
01:11:58.720 --> 01:12:02.319
inside it looked like a hidden habitation. My cousin and I were encouraged to

834
01:12:02.359 --> 01:12:08.239
get in and my grandfather tied a
rope, because it had to be lowered

835
01:12:08.319 --> 01:12:13.319
by three meters underground. What we
found there was horrible, especially for me.

836
01:12:14.079 --> 01:12:17.359
A statuette with the figure of the
devil, a table with strange symbology,

837
01:12:18.079 --> 01:12:23.319
thousands of candles in the middle,
consuming fetishes full of pins and,

838
01:12:23.600 --> 01:12:28.159
most frightening in the background, a
picture with the same drawing of the devil

839
01:12:28.199 --> 01:12:31.319
I saw at the fair. We
had found the Witch' s den.

840
01:12:31.520 --> 01:12:34.680
At the time I couldn' t
stand it and I had to get out

841
01:12:34.680 --> 01:12:39.760
of there. My grandfather asked me
about what was happening to me, but

842
01:12:39.800 --> 01:12:43.479
I didn' t want to tell
him anything. Then he ordered us to

843
01:12:43.600 --> 01:12:46.800
withdraw everything we found, which my
cousin did alone, because I could no

844
01:12:46.840 --> 01:12:53.000
longer come down. My grandmother sent
for a father to perform a rite and

845
01:12:53.119 --> 01:12:59.319
then a blessing. Then, my
grandfather filled the secret room with rubble and

846
01:12:59.359 --> 01:13:02.840
concrete, I fell under a disease
that weakened me to such an extent that

847
01:13:02.920 --> 01:13:08.359
I could not get out of bed. In several days, my grandparents hired

848
01:13:08.399 --> 01:13:14.600
a nurse to take care of me. That time I had hallucinations where I

849
01:13:14.840 --> 01:13:19.319
saw that fucking witch come in with
the little devil. I was shaking and

850
01:13:19.439 --> 01:13:23.920
moving a lot, so they had
to grab me to bed. My state

851
01:13:24.000 --> 01:13:29.520
of health was not improving and the
doctor was beginning to despair, because I

852
01:13:29.520 --> 01:13:34.800
could not find a rational explanation for
my constant fevers and delusions My grandmother was

853
01:13:34.880 --> 01:13:39.560
very frightened and called the priest again, because she thought I was going to

854
01:13:39.560 --> 01:13:44.479
die. The priest when he saw
me said that the cause of my evil

855
01:13:44.520 --> 01:13:47.680
went beyond the physical, that what
was happening to me was because of the

856
01:13:47.680 --> 01:13:53.199
evil of the house, of the
unknown, that I did not want to

857
01:13:53.479 --> 01:13:57.880
be banished and tried to cling to
my body. I don' t know

858
01:13:58.239 --> 01:14:01.760
what he did for my grandmother,
who performed prayers and a series of rituals

859
01:14:01.920 --> 01:14:06.359
with mirrors and water glasses, but
I don' t remember any of that.

860
01:14:06.880 --> 01:14:11.319
I was like in a limbo where, if I did not lose consciousness,

861
01:14:12.000 --> 01:14:15.359
I saw the witch beside the devil
at the foot of my bed,

862
01:14:15.039 --> 01:14:21.159
always smiling maniacally. I remember when
I improved my grandmother was by my side,

863
01:14:21.399 --> 01:14:27.239
she didn' t immediately tell me
everything that had happened, but her

864
01:14:27.319 --> 01:14:30.119
embrace comforted me. My grandfather put
the house on sale, which took a

865
01:14:30.199 --> 01:14:35.439
year to materialize, but during all
that time we never saw a single thing

866
01:14:35.479 --> 01:14:39.920
in the house, nor did we
see the witch, the witch of the

867
01:14:46.079 --> 01:14:54.520
forest. My sister used to be
my best friend. Since we were very

868
01:14:54.600 --> 01:15:00.319
young, my mother died of cancer
when I was only five years old and

869
01:15:00.359 --> 01:15:05.960
my father never met him. My
mother, fortunately, left us a good

870
01:15:06.079 --> 01:15:13.800
pension and a house. That way
we' re not helpless. I'

871
01:15:13.840 --> 01:15:16.880
m originally from Vancouver, Canada.
My mother was originally from Guatemala. That

872
01:15:16.960 --> 01:15:23.720
is why we speak well Spanish.
My father is supposed to be of Canadian

873
01:15:23.720 --> 01:15:29.720
origin, but my mother never wanted
to tell me exactly who she was,

874
01:15:30.079 --> 01:15:33.920
because after all, she never cared
about us. My sister was barely of

875
01:15:33.960 --> 01:15:42.079
age when my mother died and she
took my custody. Unfortunately, after a

876
01:15:42.159 --> 01:15:46.520
year, the house we lived in
presented many legal problems. My sister,

877
01:15:46.720 --> 01:15:50.439
instead of fighting, preferred to sell
the house and move us out of town.

878
01:15:50.880 --> 01:15:56.880
She always liked the woods, so
we ended up moving to a village

879
01:15:56.960 --> 01:16:01.039
very close to grove cathedral. I, being a child, did not feel

880
01:16:01.039 --> 01:16:06.199
like moving, because I did not
want to abandon the few friends I had,

881
01:16:06.720 --> 01:16:11.920
but my sister, just to convince
me, let me adopt a dog

882
01:16:12.439 --> 01:16:16.479
puppy of Alaska Malamut breed. The
house my sister bought was more like a

883
01:16:16.560 --> 01:16:24.199
cabin. At that time she was
studying computer engineering entirely online, in order

884
01:16:24.199 --> 01:16:28.920
to be able to take care of
me. It was a small village that,

885
01:16:29.279 --> 01:16:32.920
if you are used to big cities, may seem rather boring, but

886
01:16:32.960 --> 01:16:38.239
you don' t need anything.
It had a small cinema, a shopping

887
01:16:38.319 --> 01:16:43.479
center with shops of different kinds.
When I was twelve, my sister wanted

888
01:16:43.560 --> 01:16:46.680
to take me camping. We took
my dog, who we named a polar

889
01:16:46.720 --> 01:16:54.479
bear. We didn' t have
to go very far, because around the

890
01:16:54.600 --> 01:16:57.840
village practically everything is forest and nature. She was a little scared of it,

891
01:16:58.159 --> 01:17:00.279
but, like me or it didn' t make us feel calm,

892
01:17:00.920 --> 01:17:06.800
because it had grown quite and even
though it was very playful, whenever I

893
01:17:06.800 --> 01:17:12.479
didn' t know someone was grunting
and getting on guard mode. We were

894
01:17:12.520 --> 01:17:16.239
only a couple of nights, as
it happened that during a walk my sister

895
01:17:16.279 --> 01:17:21.119
found the body of an animal and
when we returned to the house at night,

896
01:17:21.319 --> 01:17:25.840
we listened and saw some strange men
among the trees. I don'

897
01:17:25.880 --> 01:17:30.680
t know if it would have been
because of the darkness, but I remember

898
01:17:30.800 --> 01:17:34.399
seeing those men completely gray, as
if they were made of ashes. This

899
01:17:34.479 --> 01:17:40.520
region of Canada has a low crime
rate and is not famous for misfortunes.

900
01:17:41.560 --> 01:17:46.239
Mostly people are kind. Even so, my sister always used to say that

901
01:17:46.279 --> 01:17:51.199
in the most inhospitable places it was
where evil protected what it gave. As

902
01:17:51.279 --> 01:17:58.119
a result the darkest souls were attracted, these places being the dens of ghosts

903
01:17:58.119 --> 01:18:02.720
and demons. My sister, from
that meeting, no longer wanted to take

904
01:18:02.800 --> 01:18:08.319
me back to camp, not even
to places that were protected. I,

905
01:18:08.359 --> 01:18:12.239
on the other hand, wanted to
do that activity again. Even today I

906
01:18:12.319 --> 01:18:17.600
have great taste for sleeping in the
woods feeling nature. My sister started dating

907
01:18:17.720 --> 01:18:24.800
a village boy. She was pretty
excited and it' s just that she

908
01:18:24.840 --> 01:18:29.560
never had a date before. Even
I was happy to see her happy and

909
01:18:29.600 --> 01:18:32.359
there was a couple of weekends that
I was left alone because she was dating

910
01:18:32.479 --> 01:18:38.680
him. I was locked up playing
video games. My sister felt bad that

911
01:18:38.680 --> 01:18:44.279
she put me aside for a while
and her boyfriend also noticed it then he

912
01:18:44.319 --> 01:18:46.920
started frequenting the house and taking us
both to dinner or to the movies.

913
01:18:48.319 --> 01:18:53.039
One day he arrived very excited.
He told us he was inviting us to

914
01:18:53.079 --> 01:18:57.159
go camping. Me. This got
me pretty excited. My sister. At

915
01:18:57.239 --> 01:19:01.840
first he didn' t want us
to go, but he felt a little

916
01:19:01.880 --> 01:19:06.159
safer because we were going with Neitan. Neitan had an all- terrain van.

917
01:19:06.760 --> 01:19:12.720
The place to which he would take
us was located something removed from our

918
01:19:12.800 --> 01:19:15.439
village and it is that, according
to him, the view was wonderful in

919
01:19:15.439 --> 01:19:18.920
that area. We' re carrying
a bear on this ride. The area

920
01:19:18.960 --> 01:19:26.119
was quite wooded. They looked large
slopes away. The mountains were so high

921
01:19:26.239 --> 01:19:30.000
that they made you feel tiny.
We camped near a river in a sort

922
01:19:30.039 --> 01:19:35.760
of clear Neitan said that the camps
should be erected on as clear a ground

923
01:19:35.800 --> 01:19:42.800
as possible. The place where we
built the tents was quite curious, as

924
01:19:42.840 --> 01:19:49.399
it was on a slightly elevated plain
with several sliced trunks. According to Naeitan,

925
01:19:49.600 --> 01:19:54.640
no one lived in that area,
but if one went beyond the mountains,

926
01:19:54.880 --> 01:20:00.039
he would find himself with a lumberjack
company. We picked up a couple

927
01:20:00.079 --> 01:20:06.039
of dried trees from which we made
firewood while we were cutting the firewood with

928
01:20:06.039 --> 01:20:12.199
an axe. My attention was drawn
to a huge tree that, among its

929
01:20:12.319 --> 01:20:16.159
roots, seemed to show several buried
objects. Bear. I was also sniffing

930
01:20:16.239 --> 01:20:21.359
around that tree. I began to
check well, because among all the objects

931
01:20:21.479 --> 01:20:27.239
I could see between the roots,
I noticed a chain and attached to it

932
01:20:27.680 --> 01:20:33.600
a human skull. Seeing that skull
scared me that I immediately wanted to show

933
01:20:33.680 --> 01:20:39.800
that finding to Naitán. He looked
at the supposed skull, but after taking

934
01:20:39.840 --> 01:20:44.359
his knife out of the house and
carving the forehead, we could notice that

935
01:20:44.399 --> 01:20:49.399
it was not really bone, but
a figure carved directly on the root the

936
01:20:49.399 --> 01:20:54.199
chain. Instead, if it was
totally real, I kept quiet, but

937
01:20:54.560 --> 01:20:59.199
I was still afraid. Neitan realized
the doubts that the carved skull caused me

938
01:20:59.279 --> 01:21:04.000
they used, so he explained to
me that it was very likely to be

939
01:21:04.119 --> 01:21:10.079
made by some traveling artist who had
nothing to fear. The chain may have

940
01:21:10.119 --> 01:21:15.000
been part of some camp. He
had seen ancient campaign houses chained to trees.

941
01:21:17.000 --> 01:21:21.680
I tried to believe her words,
but as a child I used to

942
01:21:21.800 --> 01:21:28.239
have a pretty creative imagination and anything
stimulated her. I raised my head and

943
01:21:28.319 --> 01:21:32.319
looked at the branches. They were
all twisted and in the shade I thought

944
01:21:32.399 --> 01:21:38.439
I saw more skulls stuck in the
same branches. I screamed and Neitan pulled

945
01:21:38.560 --> 01:21:44.000
out a small flashlight carrying it on
a cardboard box as it lit up in

946
01:21:44.119 --> 01:21:47.079
the direction of the branches. He
explained to me that it was normal to

947
01:21:47.119 --> 01:21:51.399
find human forms in the shadows,
which is a natural phenomenon, but that

948
01:21:51.439 --> 01:21:56.800
faces are not real. But he
was not right, because in several branches,

949
01:21:56.960 --> 01:22:00.000
if there were several skulls and he
himself noticed it, although he said

950
01:22:00.079 --> 01:22:06.520
nothing. Instead, he rushed me
back to camp that night. We lit

951
01:22:06.560 --> 01:22:13.479
the fire, roasted sausages and chocolates
Neitan told a story about one of the

952
01:22:13.479 --> 01:22:17.319
first colonies to settle in Canada,
which, if I recall, was a

953
01:22:17.319 --> 01:22:25.479
group of two ships coming from France. The group consisted mainly of several families,

954
01:22:26.039 --> 01:22:31.840
a priest and a lonely woman fleeing
the inquisition. They came to the

955
01:22:32.159 --> 01:22:38.840
part where they said the logging company
was located where the loggers were. They

956
01:22:38.880 --> 01:22:44.079
settled and sowed, but could not
reap anything, for everything would rot.

957
01:22:44.920 --> 01:22:49.840
They first consulted the priest, who
blessed the crops several times. Even with

958
01:22:49.920 --> 01:22:56.479
the priest' s blessing, the
harvest continued to rot. Then the priest

959
01:22:56.600 --> 01:23:00.399
told them that even though Jesus Christ
himself blessed the earth, it would not

960
01:23:00.560 --> 01:23:04.760
come to pass, because the earth
was corrupt. The biggest proof of this

961
01:23:05.199 --> 01:23:11.680
was that there were no indigenous people
in miles. Soon famine began to wreak

962
01:23:11.720 --> 01:23:15.760
havoc. At the same time as
the people died, the hunting men came

963
01:23:15.800 --> 01:23:23.800
back with stories about frog men following
him among the trees. They thought they

964
01:23:23.920 --> 01:23:30.279
were demons. The lonely woman offered
them a solution. She promised to help

965
01:23:30.279 --> 01:23:33.319
the colony prosper, but in return, they would have to give her what

966
01:23:33.399 --> 01:23:41.359
she asked without any objection. Since
many people were already dying, the leaders

967
01:23:41.359 --> 01:23:45.720
of the group decided to give the
woman what she asked for, and the

968
01:23:45.760 --> 01:23:50.479
woman' s demand was to give
her a child of arms to raise her

969
01:23:50.479 --> 01:23:55.479
own, because according to her God
never allowed her to become a mother.

970
01:23:56.039 --> 01:24:00.479
The leaders weren' t stupid to
suspect the woman, so they sent a

971
01:24:00.520 --> 01:24:04.640
couple of men to spy on her. The woman lived away from the community

972
01:24:05.119 --> 01:24:10.640
in a small hut by the lake. The men settled near there and noticed

973
01:24:11.000 --> 01:24:17.520
that at first nothing unusual happened.
The woman fed the child, cleaned it

974
01:24:17.800 --> 01:24:23.359
and even sang a lullaby, but
on the third day the woman came out

975
01:24:23.439 --> 01:24:28.079
with the first rays of the sun. The men followed her to a mountain,

976
01:24:28.720 --> 01:24:32.800
where they found a kind of portal
carved with two drawings of moose on

977
01:24:32.920 --> 01:24:38.840
each pillar. There they said they
saw the woman handing over the boy to

978
01:24:38.880 --> 01:24:44.439
one of those toad men The pair
of men tried to stop her, but

979
01:24:44.479 --> 01:24:48.319
the woman shouted at them to get
away while the toads fell on them and

980
01:24:48.920 --> 01:24:55.880
by pure miracle managed to escape.
Then it happened that the Community decided to

981
01:24:55.880 --> 01:25:00.600
burn the Witch inside her cabin.
A few days later, many of them

982
01:25:00.600 --> 01:25:04.560
returned on their ships and those who
did not succumbed to famine. I listened

983
01:25:04.600 --> 01:25:08.640
with great interest to his story,
but I didn' t believe him.

984
01:25:09.039 --> 01:25:14.359
He had already read a couple of
similar stories and could not help but think

985
01:25:14.439 --> 01:25:18.560
that such stories were invented to entertain
himself during the early days of the colony.

986
01:25:19.079 --> 01:25:26.199
Although all history carries its degree of
truth. That night we went to

987
01:25:26.279 --> 01:25:30.720
sleep. I had an individual shop
and put a bear to sleep with me

988
01:25:30.720 --> 01:25:34.840
in the morning. I heard my
dog squeal, I got up to open

989
01:25:34.920 --> 01:25:40.520
the door to my shop, because
I thought I needed to go to the

990
01:25:40.520 --> 01:25:45.439
bathroom and came out quickly, so
I left the store open, but my

991
01:25:45.479 --> 01:25:45.960
dog didn' t come back,
so I also went out to call him.

992
01:25:47.079 --> 01:25:51.920
I saw him near the fire sniffing
something later, ignoring my call,

993
01:25:53.199 --> 01:25:58.039
he ran into the darkness of the
forest. I woke up my sister and

994
01:25:58.119 --> 01:26:03.479
told Neitan that she had escaped you. They got up and started calling him,

995
01:26:03.920 --> 01:26:09.640
but the dog didn' t come
back. Several minutes passed and they

996
01:26:09.680 --> 01:26:15.960
tried to reassure me by telling me
that the dog would come back alone that

997
01:26:15.000 --> 01:26:17.680
maybe he went after a rabbit and
that if he didn' t come back,

998
01:26:17.680 --> 01:26:21.000
we would look for him. But
with the light of day, that

999
01:26:21.079 --> 01:26:27.000
night, moments before we got back
into our stores, we heard a whisper

1000
01:26:27.439 --> 01:26:33.159
that slowly began to sound closer.
It looked like a lullaby. My sister

1001
01:26:33.359 --> 01:26:39.039
and Neitan wanted to reassure me,
but when I saw their faces I realized

1002
01:26:39.119 --> 01:26:42.199
they were just as scared or as
scared as I was. Within a few

1003
01:26:42.239 --> 01:26:46.319
minutes the whisper fell. Then we
saw as if a sphere of fire crossed

1004
01:26:46.399 --> 01:26:50.560
the forest. I went into the
campaign house next to my sister and couldn

1005
01:26:50.560 --> 01:26:55.279
' t sleep the rest of the
night anymore. About nine o' clock

1006
01:26:55.319 --> 01:26:59.520
in the morning we went out looking
for a bear. Neitan knew a lot

1007
01:26:59.560 --> 01:27:04.560
about camp and survival, so I
felt safe. We didn' t take

1008
01:27:04.600 --> 01:27:09.279
long to find my dog' s
fingerprints. They were headed for the Neitan

1009
01:27:09.359 --> 01:27:15.760
lumberjack camp. He told us it
was possible that the workers had caught a

1010
01:27:15.760 --> 01:27:19.239
bear, so there would be nothing
to be afraid of. They' d

1011
01:27:19.279 --> 01:27:26.119
have him protected. Then we walked
up to the hill and from there we

1012
01:27:26.199 --> 01:27:30.199
crossed a weed barrier and soon we
saw the marks that left on the floor,

1013
01:27:30.319 --> 01:27:35.720
the transports of the loggers. We
walked following those marks and in less

1014
01:27:35.760 --> 01:27:41.039
than half an hour we had already
reached the grating. We didn' t

1015
01:27:41.079 --> 01:27:44.680
find anyone at the entrance gate and
we just got there. We saw everything

1016
01:27:44.720 --> 01:27:48.479
in silence. We don' t
hear the sound of any machine or motor

1017
01:27:48.520 --> 01:27:54.520
from any vehicle. Neitan called out
loud, but no one came to take

1018
01:27:54.520 --> 01:27:59.520
care of us, so we went
through the gate, entered and looked into

1019
01:27:59.600 --> 01:28:03.760
the entrance shed inside. There was
no one. We found a crucifix made

1020
01:28:03.880 --> 01:28:11.560
of tree branches. This one was
coming through the door. We continued walking

1021
01:28:11.640 --> 01:28:15.760
to Neitan it was quite strange that
there was no one in the entire camp,

1022
01:28:15.520 --> 01:28:20.239
because according to him, by these
dates it was the season in which

1023
01:28:20.800 --> 01:28:25.720
most Neitan fell. He told us
that perhaps the entire team was tearing down

1024
01:28:25.880 --> 01:28:30.279
trees in another area, although it
was not explained that the door was unguarded.

1025
01:28:30.279 --> 01:28:33.479
We got to the cellar area.
We didn' t find anyone either.

1026
01:28:33.960 --> 01:28:41.000
The boards were all unsettled and many
trunks were uncut. It gave the

1027
01:28:41.159 --> 01:28:45.359
impression that the winery was left unexpectedly. We walked to the next room,

1028
01:28:45.920 --> 01:28:49.640
where it seemed to be the dining
room. This one had two planks full

1029
01:28:49.720 --> 01:28:56.319
of food thrown to waste the place
really sucked. I started whistling at a

1030
01:28:56.520 --> 01:29:00.479
bear, but nothing. We walked
to other rooms. There were several desks

1031
01:29:00.560 --> 01:29:05.119
in this place. It seemed to
have worked as an office. The papers

1032
01:29:05.199 --> 01:29:12.399
were all scrambled. Neitan began to
check the desks and in that we heard

1033
01:29:12.479 --> 01:29:16.239
a blow coming from the next door. When we heard the blow, Neitan

1034
01:29:16.319 --> 01:29:19.960
stopped and looked at my sister and
me with a gesture of alertness on her

1035
01:29:19.960 --> 01:29:26.199
face. We approached the door cautiously, not knowing what to expect on the

1036
01:29:26.279 --> 01:29:30.039
other side. Neitan slowly turned the
doorknob and gently opened it inside the darkness

1037
01:29:30.119 --> 01:29:38.239
hovered over us, but we managed
to distinguish a corner illuminated by the dim

1038
01:29:38.399 --> 01:29:45.880
light leaking from a window. We
entered with hesitant steps ready to face whatever

1039
01:29:45.000 --> 01:29:53.039
we could find when our eyes became
accustomed to the shadow. We discovered that

1040
01:29:53.079 --> 01:29:58.640
the room was empty except for a
figure lying on the floor. We approached

1041
01:29:58.680 --> 01:30:02.000
with caution and thread, with Neitan' s flashlight, we discovered that it

1042
01:30:02.119 --> 01:30:06.920
was one of the lumberjacks. He
was pale and lying unconscious. On the

1043
01:30:06.960 --> 01:30:12.520
floor. With our eyes lost,
my sister and I looked at each other

1044
01:30:13.039 --> 01:30:18.319
with concern and Neitan immediately knelt beside
the man. He was quickly examined for

1045
01:30:18.359 --> 01:30:24.800
signs of injury or illness. He
found nothing obvious, but the lumberjack seemed

1046
01:30:24.840 --> 01:30:30.560
to have suffered some kind of trauma. He barely regained consciousness. He began

1047
01:30:30.560 --> 01:30:34.359
to utter a series of desperate screams. Then he started shouting the word to

1048
01:30:34.479 --> 01:30:40.239
Witch. We asked him about what
had happened and the man told us that

1049
01:30:40.600 --> 01:30:45.560
they cut down the wrong tree and
were now suffering the consequences. I asked

1050
01:30:45.640 --> 01:30:50.279
him if he had not seen or
heard a dog and the man answered me

1051
01:30:50.319 --> 01:30:55.199
yes, that in the night he
heard a dog tear his door, but

1052
01:30:55.479 --> 01:30:59.960
that he did not encourage to open
it. Then he told us that s

1053
01:30:59.960 --> 01:31:04.479
upon the camp had fallen a curse
that ended with all and only he was

1054
01:31:04.479 --> 01:31:10.039
saved, which was worse because he
had to witness without being able to do

1055
01:31:10.159 --> 01:31:15.319
anything, as each of the woodcutters
disappeared, which out of fifty people who

1056
01:31:15.600 --> 01:31:19.520
were only ten managed to flee.
The others were consumed by the power of

1057
01:31:19.640 --> 01:31:27.079
a Neitan witch laughed at the story
of the lumberjack Then he asked the man

1058
01:31:27.119 --> 01:31:30.640
to tell him the truth, but
the lumberjack shook his head and told us

1059
01:31:31.279 --> 01:31:36.039
to go out into the loading area
and see with our own eyes what had

1060
01:31:36.119 --> 01:31:42.800
happened there. Also, if we
were wise, it would be better if

1061
01:31:42.840 --> 01:31:47.680
we left immediately and took him with
us. Neitan began to get nervous,

1062
01:31:47.680 --> 01:31:51.920
but he told us to follow him
to the loading area. Everything was in

1063
01:31:51.960 --> 01:31:59.079
disarray, irrigated logs, dump trucks, I even saw some blood under a

1064
01:31:59.159 --> 01:32:03.520
mountain of trunks. For this purpose
the lumberjack reached us and with mad eyes

1065
01:32:03.760 --> 01:32:09.560
indicated us to follow him. Then
we came to a part of the forest

1066
01:32:09.680 --> 01:32:14.720
where we saw strange shapes in the
trees themselves that reminded me of the carved

1067
01:32:14.800 --> 01:32:19.079
skulls that I saw in the tree
near our camp, only that in them

1068
01:32:19.159 --> 01:32:25.199
they had carved whole bodies, even
faces, that conveyed a sense of anguish.

1069
01:32:26.800 --> 01:32:30.960
Neitan was very frightened at the time
and told us it was time to

1070
01:32:30.079 --> 01:32:35.880
leave. On it. The man
told us that these figures were not mere

1071
01:32:36.039 --> 01:32:42.840
art, but the creation of a
witch. At all times I was holding

1072
01:32:43.000 --> 01:32:46.439
on to my sister, for by
that moment I almost broke into tears.

1073
01:32:47.079 --> 01:32:51.960
I was afraid and sad that I
lost my dog. At the time I

1074
01:32:53.000 --> 01:33:00.359
told my sister to leave. Neitan
told us to come back and as we

1075
01:33:00.399 --> 01:33:04.119
walked, we heard as if the
branches of the trees complained without being able

1076
01:33:04.119 --> 01:33:08.520
to avoid it. I turned my
head and saw the figures moving and complaining.

1077
01:33:09.880 --> 01:33:14.439
It was an image of total madness
those voices and the bark of the

1078
01:33:14.560 --> 01:33:18.000
trees took the form of skin.
We started running, leaving behind the poor

1079
01:33:18.119 --> 01:33:23.760
lumberjack. We didn' t stop
until we got to the part where the

1080
01:33:23.800 --> 01:33:28.159
weed was more abundant. There Neitan
looked at us and told us that all

1081
01:33:28.239 --> 01:33:31.439
that seemed like a bad dream,
but that we would be fine. As

1082
01:33:31.520 --> 01:33:38.800
soon as we got to the camp, we' d take the truck and

1083
01:33:38.880 --> 01:33:41.880
go home by the time we reached
the camp, the sun was already falling

1084
01:33:41.880 --> 01:33:45.279
on the horizon. We passed the
tree with the skulls and below we saw

1085
01:33:45.279 --> 01:33:49.760
someone standing. She was a woman
the same age as my sister. He

1086
01:33:49.880 --> 01:33:56.760
wore old clothes and a face too
pale, almost transparent. He was accompanied

1087
01:33:56.840 --> 01:34:01.239
by two small men hiding behind his
gift. I could not stand to look

1088
01:34:01.319 --> 01:34:05.720
at that woman, for I knew
that she was not a human being,

1089
01:34:05.840 --> 01:34:11.640
but the witch in Neitan' s
account, a story that apparently proved to

1090
01:34:11.640 --> 01:34:16.560
be real. At that moment I
heard Bear barking. I ran to the

1091
01:34:16.600 --> 01:34:21.680
camp, because the dog sounded from
that direction. My sister ran after me

1092
01:34:21.760 --> 01:34:29.840
while Neitan stood still. He was
like hypnotized to the strange woman. It

1093
01:34:30.000 --> 01:34:34.520
all happened so fast that I only
remember hearing Neithan scream as my sister ran

1094
01:34:34.720 --> 01:34:42.279
after him. Then Bear stepped forward
and began to bark frantically in the direction

1095
01:34:42.359 --> 01:34:45.840
of the tree. We didn'
t even pick up the camp. Between

1096
01:34:45.880 --> 01:34:50.239
me and my sister we got Neitan
in the truck while bear jumped into the

1097
01:34:50.279 --> 01:34:57.000
trunk my sister. He drove all
the way back, for something strange happened

1098
01:34:57.119 --> 01:35:02.279
to Neithan. It seemed as if
he had lost his mind. We took

1099
01:35:02.319 --> 01:35:06.560
him to the hospital, where they
said he had suffered a nervous shock.

1100
01:35:08.119 --> 01:35:13.279
It lasted several days badly and when
he was finally discharged, he told us

1101
01:35:13.439 --> 01:35:17.880
that the witch was accompanied by non- human beings and in a reptile form

1102
01:35:18.199 --> 01:35:24.239
that, with the intention of defending
us, wanted to attack them, but

1103
01:35:24.319 --> 01:35:29.800
the witch stopped him and he,
when paralyzed, could feel as if his

1104
01:35:29.840 --> 01:35:34.159
whole body was transforming into a tree, his limbs into branches and his head

1105
01:35:34.279 --> 01:35:38.840
into leaves. He said it was
desperate, because he couldn' t breathe.

1106
01:35:40.159 --> 01:35:44.520
With the passing of days. We
tried to forget about our incident,

1107
01:35:45.119 --> 01:35:49.399
but there was always something that reminded
us. Neitan ended up receiving psychiatric help,

1108
01:35:50.520 --> 01:35:56.319
as from time to time he had
some regression and ended up convulsing with

1109
01:35:56.319 --> 01:36:00.199
terror. His father. Fortunately,
he did not meet with the loggers that

1110
01:36:00.279 --> 01:36:03.880
season, because he moved in sound, but if he believed us when we

1111
01:36:03.960 --> 01:36:09.439
told him what happened. However,
he was told at the company that what

1112
01:36:09.520 --> 01:36:15.319
happened there was that there was an
accident where many loggers died and he left

1113
01:36:15.079 --> 01:36:21.720
the only witness traumatized. At no
time did they want to relate the case

1114
01:36:21.840 --> 01:36:27.439
to a supernatural event, but still. The company decided to move out of

1115
01:36:27.439 --> 01:36:32.319
the area. The bear camp lived
many more years with us and died being

1116
01:36:32.399 --> 01:36:38.000
very old. Neitan, on the
other hand, never regained his mental health.

1117
01:36:38.880 --> 01:36:43.279
Sometimes I wonder what it was that
felt or what the witch did to

1118
01:36:43.319 --> 01:36:43.960
make him crazy.