Relatos De Conductores, Una Criatura Fuera Del Tráiler Historias De Terror - REDE

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Luces took a job transporting trucks for
a few years. At the beginning of

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the two thousand I had a lot
of deliveries where things got weird or just

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crazy. I had already made a
delivery and now technically I was on my

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way home. This was about the
midpoint of the journey. The weather was

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excellent. I felt good on that
trip. It was well advanced in time.

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I made sure I didn' t
rush or run out. I was

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very disappointed to get home after a
long journey and be too exhausted. To

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enjoy it. It is always best
to take time and maintain balance. Besides,

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I have a bit of a heart
problem, so caffeine consumption is not

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an option for me. Most of
my life has been totally natural, using

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whatever remedies I could find to maintain
my energy. To get home, I

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had to cross a considerable number of
rural stretches. That meant that he had

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to be very alert, as he
had heard stories of fellows who were stranded

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in those stretches because due to the
poor condition of the road, they were

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bursting some tires. At the bottom
of those rural stretches, civilization is more

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than 120 kilometers away in any direction
one goes. In addition, some of

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these rural sections do not see much
traffic. That night everything was supposed to

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be simple. At first, that
was how my journey through those rural stretches

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was developing smoothly until on my left
side at an impossible distance to calculate.

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I looked at some lights I'
ve never seen before. As they walked

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that stretch in seconds, those lights
went from measuring less than an inch to

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being larger than a van. But
it wasn' t that the lights had

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grown, but they were coming in
my direction at an impressive speed. My

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reaction was to slow down as fast
as I could without causing a tip.

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The trailer was not yet fully stopped. When those lights crossed the road in

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a thousandth of a second, they
passed too close to the trailer. I

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know that because I could feel the
trailer wobbly. I think I was shocked

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for about five minutes. I didn' t understand what had just happened,

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as I reacted. I came down
from the trailer to check the tires and

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everything was fine. I went up
to the trailer to get out of the

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place, but the engine didn'
t respond. I went back down to

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check the engine and took the surprise
that the engine was completely charred, but

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it wasn' t hot. In
fact, the smoke that released the engine

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was due, that it was very
freezing, it was impossible, absurd,

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but it was what was happening.
I called the company. I explained my

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situation to them, obviously not to
mention the lights, and they told me

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they would send someone, but that
they would arrive until the first hour of

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the morning the next day. I' m not staying with anyone but to

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lock everything up and get ready to
sleep. I don' t know if

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all the people who drive the trailer
make sure the same way I do,

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but I hope so, because otherwise, I think they' re not doing

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it. Good. I' ll
explain. What I do is lock the

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doors by tying them with the seat
belt. That way they can' t

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be opened, because even if they
have a rigged key, anyway, the

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door gets hooked on the seat belt. Doors can' t move. So,

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you can' t get in.
They can break the glass, but

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that makes a lot of noise and, therefore, I would wake up and

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because I have a gun, because
I would just shoot the idiots who tried

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to steal, because I got stuck, closed all the curtains and passed to

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the cabin in the back. My
cabin was very simple. A bed,

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a small table attached to the wall
and a top shelf to keep most of

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my belongings. It also had a
small improvised power cell that it used to

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load a portable DVD player with lid
that had both the player and a screen.

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I put on a movie and lay
down. I don' t know

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how long it was before I fell
asleep. Suddenly something woke me up.

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I couldn' t identify what it
was, but I knew something had shaken.

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The trailer was just straightening me out. When I heard a noise.

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The sound resembled the sound that is
made when you have two radios together that

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are on the same frequency a squeaking
inconvenient. I turned on the little light

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from the ceiling. At that time
I heard another noise. That one'

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s flat out. I wouldn'
t know how to describe it. There

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' s nothing you at least think
of as setting an example. As I

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listened to that noise, it gradually
faded away. I was completely alert,

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with a gun in my hand ready
to shoot anything I tried to get into

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the trailer, trying not to make
the slightest possible noise. I went over

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to the front and then I noticed
something weird. It looked like there was

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light outside, not like it was
daylight. It wasn' t natural light,

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it was blue light. I had
the side windows and the glass across

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the street, all covered with curtains, but still leaked some of that blue

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light. I couldn' t see
what was lighting up my trailer. Then

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the door locks threw themselves out and
the doors began to want to open.

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In fact, if it weren'
t for the reason they were stuck with

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seat belts, they would have opened
up. I was already so scared that

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I forgot to hold a gun in
my hands. Suddenly I shouted asking what

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a voice wanted from me. He
answered it sounded strange, it wasn'

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t a person' s. He
said I was confused, asked who that

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I was saying I didn' t
recognize the voice and wanted to know what

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the voice wanted. Little by little
it was starting to sound more human,

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though not completely. He informed me
his name was Alberto and asked me to

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open the door for him. I
noticed that they were trying to open both

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doors, indicating that there was more
than one person outside. Then I screamed

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again saying that I didn' t
know him and that he would stay away

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from my truck. At that time
I remembered that I had the gun and

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quickly warned that I was armed and
ready to fire if necessary. There was

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no answer anymore, but the doors
were still forced. Then I fired three

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shots through the glass on the left
door and three other shots through the glass

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on the right door. At that
time the doors stopped moving and through Bala

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' s holes I could see that, as I had thought, a powerful

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blue light was illuminating the trailer,
as the light leaked through both doors.

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I assumed the light should come from
across the street. I couldn' t

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come from behind because I had a
box. I moved the curtain a little

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bit over the glass across the street, but there was nothing there. At

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that point, the blue light went
out. At the same time, a

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kind of very powerful buzz began to
be heard, as if a cell phone

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was vibrating right next to my ear
and what happened right after. No one

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believes me when I tell it,
neither my family nor my co- workers,

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and much less the company believed me. The trailer and I started levitate.

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First the trailer took off the ground, raised maybe a meter and stopped.

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Then gravity came back and both the
trailer and I fell. The wheels

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on the right side of the trailer
burst to impact due to the small rebound

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effect. Due to the fall,
added to the fact that the only tires

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that bounced a little bit were just
the ones on one side, the trailer

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flipped over. I didn' t
leave the trailer until morning, when those

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who had sent the company arrived.
You can' t tell the company about

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my situation either, because the radio
didn' t work anymore. I had

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to tell everything because there was no
logical way to explain that the trailer would

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have turned around while it was stopped
and the engine was not running. Obviously,

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no one believed me, they didn' t fire me, because their

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logical reaction was to think that I
had gotten two substances. And so I

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went clean on the medical exam,
that' s what happened to me.

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You can believe me or not scratches, when I was much younger, I

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was driving a big truck during the
summer to earn some extra money. It

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turned out to be such a great
job that my wife was also coming with

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me. But obviously, something happened
once. Honestly, what I' m

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going to tell you was the scariest
thing that ever happened to us on the

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road as well as off the road. Nothing compares to that night. We

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' d had a routine trip.
We carried the cargo from one place to

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another and in that other place they
gave us another box to take to another

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place. We were going well over
time, but a small complication caused us

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to start delaying on the road due
to minor trailer failures. The flaws weren

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' t long enough to stop us. The truck could go slower, but

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it could go on and that'
s what we did. It was made

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at night long before we reached the
point where it should reach the night and

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since we could not go to the
speed we were used to, that made

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the trip tired, so we chose
to look for a stop to stop to

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rest. We arrived at the truck
stop and found that it was completely filled

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with semi- trailers and smaller trucks. Every space was also occupied. Even

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the lane space was filled with people
parked incorrectly. We made a turn through

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the parking lot and went back to
the road in the hope that there would

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be a space large enough to accommodate
us in the whereabouts of later. Fortunately,

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we were lucky, because there was
a big stretch just off the road.

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The only thing we could see at
the time was a wooden stand in

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the distance, as we parked,
checked the cargo and made sure everything was

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in order. We put a couple
of cones behind the trailer, just in

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case someone went fast. After that
it was time to relax. We had

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a light dinner, played a card
game and then snuggled up to get some

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sleep. At one point in the
morning I woke up My wife was shaking

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me and screaming that something was wrong. I sat down and looked around,

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but I really couldn' t see
anything. I could feel something. I

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was making the truck swing slightly from
front to back. The truck and the

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trailer weigh tons. It takes a
lot to shake a big truck. It

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felt like something big pushing the truck
around. Suddenly a kind of sound began

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to be heard, coming from the
outside like a buzz, like the wind,

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but I had this strange metallic echo
at the time I grabbed my flashlight.

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I didn' t want to remove
the light blocker from the windows.

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I just pushed the divider and looked
through the windshield. I couldn' t

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see any animals or bushes. I
couldn' t see anything moving, just

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darkness. I turned on the flashlight
and directed it through the windows, but

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I had to get closer to see
more. Beyond the reflection of the glass

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there was nothing, just scattered earth, herbs and cactus. My wife asked

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from behind if there was anything outside
and I said no, not even a

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cloud of dust, which the animals
would definitely have lifted up because of all

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the fuss we really felt seemed like
nothing was really going on outside. In

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the second I turned off the flashlight, the whole truck and the rail swinged

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too hard. My wife asked me
if we should leave. I told him

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I probably just wanted to understand what
the hell was going on. Maybe it

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sounds really stupid, but if I
didn' t try to figure out what

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was going on, I' d
have to have the doubt. Then,

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while the trailer was still rocking less
than at first, a squeaking noise was

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heard that I could not identify.
My wife did say it sounded exactly like

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claws scraping the box. When he
told me that, I couldn' t

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help but imagine that some unnatural creature
was out there trying to come in maybe

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to eat us expose my wife to
being devoured by a creature. I was

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way beyond my curiosity. I sat
down and lit the trailer and lit all

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the lights I distinguished something that moved
between the trees its po, which had

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to be what had previously been scraping
the trailer box. It was obvious that

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it was something big, which would
have made sense if we had never heard

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claws, because big animals. There
are several, but large animals with claws.

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The truth is, I didn'
t throw the long lights and I

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could see the thing more clearly.
I couldn' t see all her features

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because she was behind a bunch of
trees and branches. What was there had

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deer horns, her skin or her
flesh. It seemed more like an old,

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cracked log. The biggest problem of
all was that that thing was on

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two upright legs as if it were
a person, a monster, a gual

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I have no idea. It was
a huge thing with a human posture,

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but with no other human trait I
could see its huge claws hanging at the

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end of its long arms. I
sounded the claxson repeatedly until that creature turned

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around and walked away. I didn' t realize my wife was already sitting

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in front of the co- pilot' s place. She looked at everything

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as soon as the creature came out
of our sight. I immediately reversed myself,

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got on the road and got the
hell out of here. From there

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we discussed for a while what we
saw and whether it really was real.

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We had been doing these jobs on
summer tours for a couple of years at

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the time and we had never had
such a thing happen, as we had

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walked away about seventy kilometers and the
scare had already gotten a little off.

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Tiredness really started to affect us.
We needed to rest. We agreed we

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' d stop at a gas station
for a few hours. Anyway, gas

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stations are places where there are always
people. Nothing unusual should happen in a

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place like this. Fortunately, we
were able to sleep peacefully. Already in

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the morning, my wife and I
left the trailer to go to the bathroom

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and rinse our faces already back we
observed the trailer box was full of blows

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and huge scratches. The scratches were
at a height that immediately ruled out the

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option that those scratches would have been
caused by a feline. Those scratches had

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no logical explanation sect when I was
in seconds of high school, my dad

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bought the car of his dreams.
That year we decided to take a road

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trip to celebrate the purchase of that
car. When the summer vacation arrives,

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we pack and leave for a week. Only my father and I had a

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good idea of our destiny, as
we had been planning informally for a few

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months. Our plan was to first
go north, then west and finally go

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down the coastal road of Baja California. During the trip we listened to music

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and talked about the films that were
to be released that year. My father

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and I went to the movies every
week. Movies were always a topic of

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conversation. The stops were nice,
too. I loved eating potatoes, fries,

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dried meat, soft drinks and hamburgers
from the small restaurants that were at

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different points on the road. The
trip was nowhere in particular. The plan

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was simply to walk the road and
make stops in places that seemed interesting to

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us. Every time we stopped for
lunch, we saw google maps to see

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what was the most interesting place that
was less far away, and in those

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places that we visited we stayed a
lot or little, depending on how far

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or how close there was a hotel, because my father never liked to drive

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at night every night we stayed in
some hotel. One of those days we

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wanted to go to a place I' d rather reserve that place if we

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stayed too far away. At about
eighteen hours, my father drove for hours

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and at five o' clock in
the afternoon he took an exit leading to

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a small isolated hotel in the middle
of the stretch. That hotel was twenty

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minutes from the road in one direction
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from a small rural village. We
went to that little hotel, parked and

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went down to ask for a room. We went into the reception, asked

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for a room, and they gave
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My father immediately locked the door and
closed the curtains. I noticed him nervous.

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It was obvious that he had noticed
something strange, but I didn'

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t want to ask anything about it. My father asked me if I was

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hungry and I said yes. He
called reception and asked if they had a

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kitchen service or if they had food
machines. They told him they had a

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small kitchen and told him what they
could prepare. We asked for something and

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what we expected. I asked my
father what was going on. My father

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told me not to worry, that
everything was under control. Fifteen minutes later,

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they took us to dinner, turned
on the TV and looked for a

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channel where there were good movies.
We chose to watch a couple of horror

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movies. A few minutes after midnight
we already paid for the TV and got

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ready to sleep. I think it
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morning when I got woken up by
screams. When I straightened out I saw

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that my father was awake. He
was putting on the tennis and he also

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took his gun. Always carry one
in case of an emergency in travel.

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Until then, or he never saw
it used, he took off his insurance

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and kept it. It was obvious
that I was thinking of going out.

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I asked him what he was going
to do. He replied that something very

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strange was happening in the parking lot
and that we should remain silent. He

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also told me to put on my
tennis and in case the situation got dangerous,

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we' d have to run straight
out into the car. I intended

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to move the curtains to see what
was happening, but my father told me

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to stay away from the windows.
We both stayed awake. Listening to all

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the scandal in the parking lot.
Twenty minutes later, someone started knocking on

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the door. Whoever was on the
other side of the door kept knocking and

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started screaming for help. We could
hear voices approaching the room. Dad took

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his gun and went to the window. He took a look and didn'

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t like what he saw. The
person who was knocking on the door had

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no clothes and was bleeding from multiple
wounds. I got out of bed and

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went next to my dad and looked
outside. There was a small crowd approaching

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from behind this guy. I thought
it was criminals. My dad took a

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deep breath, unlocked the lock and
opened the door at once He didn'

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t let the guy in, he
lifted the gun and pointed him straight to

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his forehead. My father, with
a very loud tone of voice, shouted

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that it was what was happening at
the time. The group of people stopped,

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said nothing and did not show any
intention of withdrawing. My father,

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quietly, told the man that he
had to go back to those people,

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but the man didn' t want
to. He started crying and begged my

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father to help him. At that
time, I really thought my father was

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going to help the man, but
what happened was that he discovered a phase

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of my father' s that I
had never met. My father, with

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a completely cold look and still pointing
at the man with his free hand in

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a very fast movement, grabbed him
by the head and crashed him into the

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edge of the door. The man
fell to the ground stunned and my father

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put his gun away. Three people
from that group of people approached the door.

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Two of them picked up the man
and took him away. The other

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one stood in front of my father
and held his eyes for a few seconds.

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Before talking to him, turn on
the TV and turn on the whole

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volume. Five o' clock in
the morning. You can leave my father

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took a step back and locked the
door locking everything in. He took control

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of the television, turned it on
and turned it on. Then he lay

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down on his bed. I couldn' t believe what just happened. My

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father was watching TV as if nothing
had happened, as he or she drank

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delivered to that man was anything.
I intended to talk to him, but

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the TV volume was so high that
it was not possible. What I did

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was I took a bath to be
ready by 5: 00 in the morning.

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Since it' s time, we
left the hotel, got in the

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car and left. The first twenty
minutes were silent. When we joined the

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road and my father wanted to turn
on the radio, I turned it off

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and asked him for an explanation.
My father tried to put an end to

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the conversation by telling me he did
what he had to do, but obviously,

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I wasn' t going to accept
that that was the end of the

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conversation. Feeling upset, I told
him that he was responsible for what those

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people would have done to the man. My father was silent for about 20

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seconds and then told me that these
people were part of a sect. People

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wore no robes, no masks,
nothing to identify them as a sect.

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They were just people. But before
I could say anything, my father told

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me that the three guys who approached
him had the same tattoo in the same

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place, on the left arm.
In addition, in the distance he could

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see that the others also had a
tattoo on their left arm. From the

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distance, he couldn' t see
it was exactly the same tattoo, but

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my father was sure it was.
He told me that he realized that there

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was a sect meeting there, because
the man at the reception had the same

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tattoo. But my father couldn'
t say he didn' t always want

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to rent a room, because then
he' d rat out. They'

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d know he' d noticed something
weird. He also told me that if

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I hadn' t given them the
man, if I had let him into

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the room, they, anyway,
would have gone in and taken him away,

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but with the great delay that they
would also have brought us two travel

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echoes. My name is Omar,
a friend of the family, who had

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been a truck driver for years suggested
that I try my luck in transporting goods.

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At first I resisted the idea.
I was not attracted to the loneliness

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of the road or the long periods
away from home, but circumstances sometimes decide

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for one and with few options available, I decided to give it a chance

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and I have already been in this
for more than thirty years and I have

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seen everything, but what I will
never forget is the day I picked up

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a family with a rather particular situation. It happened one afternoon after delivering half

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a load in San José de Iturbide. Heading towards Toluca, it is a

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road that combines long straight sections with
closed curves that force you to be alert.

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It' s not uncommon to find
you. We find in repair or

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heavy traffic due to trucks and buses
that travel daily. In addition, it

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is a route known for the winds
that can make even the heavier trailer feel

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like it' s going to dump
On this road, every kilometer can be

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different from the previous one. You
need to know the vehicle you drive and

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how it responds to your orders,
especially in those long descents that lead you

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to test the brakes. More than
once there is no space for distractions.

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That day, in particular, was
a heavy day of work and the sun

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was burning high. As I passed
a corner near an old place known to

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all the truck drivers in the region, I saw a car stopped by the

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roadside, a man made desperate signs
to me. Next to him, a

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woman, a boy and a girl
seemed confused and tired. It was well

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known among us the trailers that,
even if it was day to stop could

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be the perfect bait for an assault. Four years earlier a day of so

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many, I saw a car stopped
on the side of the road, a

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family seemed to need help without thinking
about it, I stopped my trailer and

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came down to offer them assistance.
But instead of gratitude, what I found

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was an ambush. As soon as
I was at a vulnerable distance, two

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men came out of the car arms
in hand pointing at me. Luckily,

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I was able to react in time
and return to the trailer by starting before

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they could do anything else. That
day, seeing a family again asking for

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help, my first instinct was to
remember that assault. For a moment I

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thought of going my way, convinced
that stopping me could put myself in danger

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again every fiber of my being I
shouted that I would continue without stopping,

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that I would ignore his request.
The risk that it was a trap was

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high and I would usually have gone
on without thinking twice about something in the

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desperate way the man pointed at me
and the visible fatigue on the faces of

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the children touched something inside me.
It was a hunch, an unexplained impulse

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that made me step on the brake
and stop the truck. I wasn'

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t quite finished when the girl ran
to the truck with relief and urgency on

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her face. She was the first
to approach. I opened the door and

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helped her up. What struck me
immediately was the coldness of his hands.

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Despite the scorching sun that should have
warmed everything in his path, His hands

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were frozen as if he had touched
snow. Shortly thereafter, the woman who

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was to be his mother approached with
a more cautious step. I also helped

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her to climb up and by taking
her hand the same unexplained cold feeling crossed

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me. Both quickly settled in the
back seat, exchanging just a few glances

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and without uttering any words. Then
the boy and the man approached the truck.

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The boy, like his sister,
ran and got into the truck almost

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without my help and also went to
the back. The man, on the

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other hand, took his time and
when he got to the truck, he

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climbed into the co- pilot'
s seat. Unlike the girl and the

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woman I did not feel cold shaking
her hand, the man told me that

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they were going to Tlacomulco, which
were not far away. We agreed to

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leave them at the exit to the
village. While driving the man and I

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engaged in a conversation we talked about
the weather, the state of the road

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and, in particular, the mechanical
failure that had left his car stranded.

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According to him, it was a
problem with the fuel pump, something that

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is not uncommon in those older models. There was a moment that left me

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thinking in the middle of our talk, as we passed through a stretch of

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the road adorned with great advertisements,
one in particular showed a young girl in

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quite short summer clothes, promoting some
brand of drinks. As he passed through

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the poster, the man made a
comment on the girl' s appearance,

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something that would not normally have seemed
strange to me if we had been alone,

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but with his wife and daughter sitting
in the back, the comment seemed

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completely out of place. After a
while of travel, we arrived at the

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exit of Atlacomulco, where the man
and child were to get off. They

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expedited their departure, thanking me before
closing the door with a final sound that

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seemed to seal the normality of the
encounter. I instinctively turned back to address

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the woman and the girl to tell
them that their turn had come down,

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but I found the back seats empty. My mind couldn' t process what

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my eyes saw. I jumped out
of the truck and ran towards the man,

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who was already starting to walk away
with the boy. I yelled at

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him to wait. The man stopped
and turned to me with an expression of

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confusion and asked where his wife and
daughter were. His gaze became more confused,

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almost irritated. I don' t
understand your question. I replied by

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describing the woman and the girl how
she had helped them get into the trailer

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first, how I felt the unusual
cold of her hands. His face gradually

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transformed from annoyance to pale disbelief.
He told me he wasn' t laughing

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what I was telling him and told
me that his wife and daughter had died

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a year ago. I tried to
insist that I was sure I had seen

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them get in the truck, that
I had even felt the unusual cold of

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their hands. But he interrupted his
painful voice and began to relate what had

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happened that tragic day. He told
me that they had had an intense discussion.

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One morning a year earlier, according
to his account in the heat of

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the argument, his wife decided to
take the girl and leave the house abruptly.

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While he was trying to calm the
child he had decided to stay,

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his wife and daughter got in the
car and left. His wife was furious

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on the road there was the fatal
accident. The man told me that neither

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his wife nor daughter wore their seat
belt, which cost them their lives.

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The revelation left me speechless. After
hearing the man' s heartbreaking story,

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I was dumb. I knew you
were telling me the truth. The pain

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in his voice was too deep to
be faked. This did not change the

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fact that I had seen with my
own eyes, as the woman and the

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girl sat in the back of the
trailer and that I myself had helped them

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up. My mind was in confusion. After a few moments that seemed eternal,

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I managed to murmur a few words
of condolences to the man who received

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with a head gesture before slowly walking
away with the child. I returned to

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my trailer as I resumed my journey. Thoughts kept hovering in my head as

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the landscape paraded before me. A
detail returned over and over again to my

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mind. The unusual cold of the
girl' s and the woman' s

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hands when I helped them get into
the vehicle. At that time it had

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not given it greater importance, but
now, after knowing the tragic truth,

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that cold made sense. They were
already dead stories written and adapted by Ramiro, contreras one