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Don Alfredo' s farm. Every
time I try to remember or look back,

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I can say with certainty that I
would have liked to make better decisions.

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I know that many of those bad
decisions were not completely within my control,

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since I was very young. Anyway, what I want to tell today

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is a story that' s a
little long. It all started long before

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I set foot in that town.
I used to live with my mother,

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who was a little uncompromising about me. It' s still a mystery to

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everyone how I managed to survive in
their care. I have very few memories

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of that stage of my life,
for which I am grateful. Without a

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doubt, one of the things I
remember the most is the blows I used

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to give myself to the head every
time I asked for something to eat or

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any other basic need. I have
some scars, of which I have no

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memory. The specialists and psychologists I
have dealt with have said that my brain

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has blocked much of those memories to
keep me safe. I find it truly

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surprising what the brain is able to
do only to keep us sane. At

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eight years of age I was a
complete expert in leaving my body and getting

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lost in my thoughts. Every time
my mother lost her mind I could forget

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full days. That was my defense
mechanism, or at least that' s

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what they told me for my fortune
At that age, my father came back

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from abroad. He had gone to
offer us a better life and although he

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believed he was succeeding. She was
very surprised to see that my mother had

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not done her part. His arrival
marked the beginning of a new stage in

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my life. He immediately took me
out of that place and began proceedings to

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obtain my full custody. My mother
did not do that easy task, but

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after a lot of money and lawyers, my father finally accomplished his task.

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I was quite aware that I was
in very bad physical and mental condition,

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and when I asked the specialists,
I finally came to the conclusion that I

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needed to start again in a quieter
place. With that thought in mind,

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my father decided that it would be
best to go to his hometown, in

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which, despite having no family,
he remembered it with great affection. I

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thought it would be very good,
both for him and for me, as

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I believed that, having had a
very good childhood in that place, I

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could have it. So one good
day we packed all our things and set

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out for that town. This one
was very far from the city and as

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far as we arrived, I could
feel how all the inhabitants of that town

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looked at my father' s car, some curiously and others in a more

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derogatory way. My father assured me
that everything was fine, that maybe they

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would find us strange for a few
days, but that as soon as they

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got used to it, they would
stop looking at us that way. He

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also told me that' s how
small towns used to be. I had

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lived my whole life in the city. I never left home and even when

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I started living with my father,
I used to lock myself up most of

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the day and be completely alone.
By that time, my father had put

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a lot of effort into learning the
basics about what is expected of a child

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my age in educational matters, but
he was not a teacher and knew that

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I had to go to school,
although I was not sure how I would

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adapt, as well as being convinced
that it would help me to start socializing

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with other children. It took me
about a month to get ready enough to

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get into first grade. My father
made a lot of effort to make sure

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he was. He was the biggest
kid in the first year. That,

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not to mention my extreme shyness and
fear of almost anyone. That immediately triggered

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the children to see me as a
fairly easy target. Far from what my

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father thought about the people' s
children being more friendly and understanding, it

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was quite the opposite. You'
ve heard the phrase. Children can be

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very cruel. That stage of my
life describes it perfectly. I wish my

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brain had helped forget those bad times, but for my bad luck, I

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have quite a few memories of that
stage. I don' t think there

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was a day when I didn'
t get a hit from one of the

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kids. They used to call me
a crybaby and other insults. It was

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no surprise that almost in most breaks
I tried to sneak away to some remote

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place where I could be, even
a few minutes, in complete tranquility and

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feel safe. It was on one
of those occasions that I went to one

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of those places that I ran into
Aldair. Aldair was a third grader.

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He was famous at school for being
very poor and this could be noticed a

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lot in his clothes, although we
all wore the same, as we dressed

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in uniform, Aldair' s used
to be old, to the point that

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there could be quite a lot of
rivets everywhere. I don' t think

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there was a single place in his
clothes that wasn' t cooked. His

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shoes were older. It almost seemed
that he had taken them out of a

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garbage dump to the Dayr was the
son of seven brothers. I can remember

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very well that day, because it
was the first time I had a friend,

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although I found myself somewhat scared that
he wanted to hit me. Like

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the rest of the children, this
one seemed to like my lunch box,

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which was spitting. That lunch box
helped start a little conversation about it.

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I shared my lunch with him,
as he had nothing and that was the

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beginning of a very good friendship,
although the harassment did not stop. If

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there was a change about school,
I was excited to talk to him.

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He was my first friend and we
used to have a lot in common.

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We liked the same cartoons, hobbies
and, apparently, he was also bothered

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by the children of his class.
I guess that brought us even closer together.

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Many times. He went to my
house to play with the Nintendo and

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my cell phone that my father had
given me on my birthday. We could

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talk for hours and never run out
of food. He was the first person

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I could tell about my mother'
s life and why we moved into town.

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In turn, he told me how
lonely and forgotten he sometimes felt,

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as well as really hated being the
middle child. We both seemed quite grateful

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to have met each other. Time
quickly advanced to October, almost at the

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end of October. To be more
accurate, the atmosphere about the feast of

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the day of the dead became present
throughout the town and the school. It

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was no exception for that moment.
I was almost used to bullying and all

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this involved, so by those days
the school was quite normal. It was

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exactly October 30 on a Friday and
we were quite anxious for our weekend,

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which was going to be a little
longer because for the holidays on Monday we

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would not have classes. So we
were pretty excited about that. We were

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only an hour from the end of
school. When Professor Marcos, who was

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our arts teacher moved by the essence
of the festivities of the dates, told

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us that we could tell some horror
story that we knew. Many children raised

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their hands eager to step forward to
tell some stories. There is not much

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to say about these, as they
are all common stories that children tell,

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so after a while of hearing several
of these stories, the teacher said it

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was his turn before telling that story. He warned us that he was very

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strong and that if any of us
really could have a problem with that or

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he was very scary. The best
thing was to leave the classroom because there

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was very little left. Many of
the children came out not so much because

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they were afraid, but because they
liked the idea of going out better.

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A little earlier, me and five
other children decided to stay and listen to

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the teacher' s story. As
soon as we were alone, the professor

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closed the door and getting comfortable in
a chair in front of us, he

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began by saying that if any of
us knew Don Alfredo' s farm.

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Most of the children nodded. I
didn' t know what they were talking

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about. I knew there was a
farm almost at the beginning of the village,

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because when we got there, but
even though it looked abandoned, I

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didn' t ask any questions about
it. For my fortune, the professor

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saw my clear confusion and this confirmed
to me that it was the same farm

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that was at the beginning of the
village. He also questioned whether any of

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us knew why no one lived on
that farm. Some said they were scared

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and others said that their owners had
just one day gone or that their parents

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had told them. The professor,
very serious, said he knew the truth.

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He told that when he was just
a child, that farm was still

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in operation and that he himself came
to see. Don Alfredo was an old

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man, very antisocial and he was
quite grumpy with all the people who approached

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him. Some people who had come
to work with him said that he used

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to wander all over the ground,
reciting incomprehensible words and prayers, as in

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an ancient language that no one could
decipher. He was said to be a

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sorcerer or something. Some told how
in the evenings animal screams could be heard,

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which were heard with a great deal
of panic. Others claimed to hear

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people and those who liked to invent
more stories used to say that you did.

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Out there, very late at night
you could see a lot of people

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on the ground. Which, the
more you saw them, the more you

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could realize that they were not human
beings, although in reality no one had

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proof of anything, so many just
said he was a lonely old man.

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Back then, the professor was nine
years old. He was a pretty curious,

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naughty kid. He told us that
he had a group of friends,

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who used to get into trouble all
the time and knowing all the things that

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were told about Don Alfredo, the
intrigue of seeing what was happening in the

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Farm with their own eyes, shored
them to plan to go in just to

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see. They knew Don Alfredo used
to go to town once a month.

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No one knew exactly what it was
for, but they did know that he

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paid a person in the village to
feed his animals in his absence. The

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person he paid for it was the
wine, father of one of his friends

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and that was why they had that
information. They also had the keys,

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which were a key piece to be
able to enter and leave without being discovered.

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For them it was just a game
and they thought it was a perfect

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plan. The teacher told us that
they planned everything so their parents wouldn'

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t notice, saying that they would
stay in different houses and that night they

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left for the farm. This account
he had his doubts, but he didn

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' t want to look cowardly before
his friends, so he didn' t

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say anything about it and then they
came The place seemed pretty normal. There

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were no spectra or animal screams or
anything the stories told about that place.

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It relaxed him a lot between the
darkness and the resounding silence that hovered over

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the place. The children began to
make different bros and to tell their theories

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of the farm and the different versions
that they had heard. To the adults

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to say about that place, it
seemed that none of them were realizing the

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great danger they were running with just
the fact that they were walking around.

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After a while of walking through the
barn and near Don Alfredo' s house,

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they decided to go see the animals
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out of the ordinary. They were
just farm animals, with nothing more exciting

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than that. This changed when they
arrived with the horses, although everything seemed

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in order and seemed calm, when
they entered the stable more one noticed a

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gate covered by the hay, which
was on the ground and was closed with

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a thick chain with padlock. It
was clear that they did not want anyone

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to go down there and that was
more than enough reason for them to want

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to do so. They tried the
keys that they took from the father of

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one of the friends, but,
to their misfortune, none of the keys

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to that game seemed to be the
one that opened that lock. They were

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very disappointed in that, as they
were really curious to know what they were

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hiding, as much as to protect
it. That way. It was then

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that another of his friends, who
always used to be the one who put

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them in the most trouble, proposed
to enter the house of Don Alfredo.

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I was completely convinced they' d
find the keys inside. That didn'

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t seem like it to everyone else. Entering the farm was one thing,

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but entering his house directly seemed too
much to them. But in the end,

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with many doubts they were encouraged to
enter the house. The professor says

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there was a lot of moisture inside. That' s what he remembers most

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from inside the house. Everything looked
very old and everyone started searching in different

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places. The search ended when the
youngest of his friends found a key,

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which looked as old as the lock. They were all surprised because they had

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really found the key and without losing
a single second, they returned to the

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stable. It took them a little
while to remove all the hay, but

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finally they were able to open that
padlock and when opening the door it hit

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us a rather unpleasant scent, like
animals, dead and dirt. All intertwined.

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That discouraged much of them, for
they thought that there should be some

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decomposing animal below, but this meant
that they had entered a foreign house and

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had done absolutely everything for nothing.
So, encouraged by the most troubled child,

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one by one, those old steps
went down. The professor counts s

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s NS. Everything there was very
similar to mine tunnels. They looked very

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long and dark. There seemed to
be no light of any kind, but

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that was no problem, as they
had their flashlights. In this way,

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they began to walk through those tunnels
that at that time seemed endless. Everything

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was very dirty, full of dust
and there wasn' t much to look

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at. The smell was getting fainter
and fainter and despite being quite nervous to

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meet in that place, most of
them seemed a little excited. They walked

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for a long time without seeing anything
but a tunnel. Some of them were

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already proposing to come back, as
they were tired, but their friend had

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proposed to walk just a little longer
and if he didn' t see anything

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interesting, then they would leave.
As they argued about it, his friend

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pointed to stairs descending even further.
That seemed very strange to them, since

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they already thought they were down enough
so that there would be still more to

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come down. The professor says he
didn' t want to walk anymore.

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He wanted to come back, but
his friends started to descend and he only

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had the option of going down with
them or going back down the dark road

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completely just to leave. And in
this way he would not only be a

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complete coward in front of all his
friends, but he would probably also be

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discovered, as he would have no
choice but to return home. So he

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went down with them. Once down, the atmosphere began to feel very heavy,

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there were no more laughter or comments
that had accompanied them all their way.

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So far everyone seemed to feel it, but no one seemed to want

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to say anything. The atmosphere was
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point he had difficulty breathing. Still, they continued to walk trying to find

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something interesting to see more than long
tunnels. The professor paused a long time

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after saying that, almost as if
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at the time, his gaze became
somewhat gloomy at that moment in history and

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almost for a moment we thought he
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not. He only continued after a
couple of minutes in silence. He said

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it wasn' t long before they
found something, because the first thing they

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saw was the candlelight. In the
distance they walked in that direction and came

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across an altar. Everyone was already
familiar with one. That altar was completely

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different from what they had seen before. In that people there was always talk

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of belief in God and seeing any
other different belief was not good and that

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altar did not seem to be destined
for the God they believed in. There

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were plenty of fruit and offerings that
looked quite appetizing at first sight, but

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there were also very strange symbols and
figures. They seemed a little sacred,

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but at the same time satanic.
None of them knew what to say or

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say about those things. In fact, they all seemed pretty terrified. Looking

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at that altar. Right in the
center was the largest statuette. He seemed

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like a demon or something. He
had many legs all around his body.

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He had a lot of mouths,
too. It was pretty explicit and grotesque.

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None of the children could keep their
eyes open for a long time That

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' s when everyone thought they had
had enough and it was really time to

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come back. When they were about
to turn around, they could hear what

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was very similar to the screams of
a pig or that they thought at first,

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because when they tried to listen,
they seemed to be interspersed between the

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cries of different animals and, at
the same time, screams of human beings,

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who shouted in a hideous way.
It was almost as if they were

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torturing them as sadistically as possible,
so much so that their little minds could

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not even conceive. And as if
that wasn' t enough, everyone'

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s flashlights began flashing intermittently, until
finally they all went out, leaving them

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in complete darkness. Fear caused none
of them to stay together to run in

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different directions. He just ran trying
to follow everyone' s voices, but

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very soon he realized that he no
longer listened to any, didn' t

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know where they were and tried to
call them. He couldn' t see

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anything, not even his hand in
front of his own face. Then he

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stopped running. He knew he had
to think of something, but fear had

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already invaded him completely and prevented him
from reasoning. While I was walking still

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without knowing where to go or even
where I was. He found some stairs.

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That' s a lot of relief. He imagined that they were the

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same stairs they had descended from,
so without thinking about it he began to

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climb. I thought maybe his friends
were already upstairs that they might even have

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gone out and left him there.
When he finally got upstairs, he realized

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that climbing up was one of the
worst things he could do. At one

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point, the flashlight he wore,
which was hanging from his pants, began

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to flash again and lit up lighting
the place. That far from reassuring him,

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since he had back light and visibility, filled him completely with terror,

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since that place was not of ura
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It was a completely different place.
It looked like a cave and the worst

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thing was that, from one moment
to the next, those awful screams began

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to sound again, but this time
I was sure they came from inside that

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cave. He wanted to go down
again, but the fear at that time

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was so intense that he couldn'
t move a single muscle. I could

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only look straight into the cave.
As he listened to those awful sounds and

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at one point something more emerged,
he could see something moving inside the cave,

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something that seemed to be walking slowly
to where he was. And soon

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he realized that it was not only
one thing, but several, which were

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walking in his direction. When they
were close enough for the light in his

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flashlight to illuminate them, he realized
they were people or at least he believed

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so. They were very bent and
long strands of dirty hair covered their faces,

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dressed in very old clothes that more
than anything looked like nightdresses, which

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fired a horrible smell of urine.
They were crawling. The feet were less

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than a meter from him and he
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It was when one of those people
raised his face the most and the

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hair stopped covering him with horror that
he could see that it was a dog,

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or that it seemed as if a
horrible cross between dog and human had

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become present in front of him.
His eyes were quite human and he had

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an almost human nose, although his
snout was long and he showed the teeth

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just like those of a can He
shouted echoing all over the place and at

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that time the other creatures who came
behind raised their faces just to let them

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see almost the same thing. But
they all looked like different animals with human

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traits. There were pigs goats and
horses At that time he managed to have

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some mobility in his legs and although
he felt like they wanted to bend,

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he had enough courage to get out
of that place and run away. He

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ran very fast and felt that he
had gone into the hospital. Even more

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so, he saw other stairs.
He thought that maybe those could now be

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the ones he had come down the
first time. These were much bigger and

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he knew he hadn' t come
down so much for them. Any doubt

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dissipated when he heard those screams and
those dragged steps again, which seemed to

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be walking straight towards him, he
decided to go up They were very long,

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but he did not want to come
down again to run into those creatures

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again, so he continued to climb. Finally, he was found with a

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door just above his head, which, after some blows, opened and realized

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that he was outside. He greatly
relieved him, though he did not see

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his friends anywhere, and decided to
go to the stable to see if anyone

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was there. When he came back
to the stable, he realized that almost

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all his friends were outside, except
for one, who was always in trouble.

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The professor paused for a moment it
was almost as if he blamed himself

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for not doing more for his friend
or for not returning for him. Next

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in the story was that everyone left
and didn' t even wait any longer.

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They thought that eventually their friend would
go out and go back to their

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house or reach them where everyone had
said they would spend the night. That

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didn' t happen. Your friend
never got out of there. When they

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were questioned about their whereabouts, they
had to confess everything they had done,

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which triggered a search on the farm. The search turned the place upside down.

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They even went into the basement the
children were talking about. The cops

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couldn' t find even the altar
they were talking so much about. The

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professor says that he had not dared
to tell about those hybrid animals, since

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none of his friends seemed to have
run into them and the mere fact of

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mentioning them led him to believe that
it would make him lose the little sanity

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that remained in his search. They
found a couple of bodies, but none

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of them belonged to their friend or
other children or people in town. They

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looked very small like babies. That
was enough to arrest Don Alfredo and since

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then the Farm has not been operated. Don Alfredo seemed to have children or

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what they didn' t seem to
want or have anything to do with him,

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so the Farm, little by little, was falling into total abandonment.

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That was the end of the story. The professor added that his friend was

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never found for that moment in history. We all found ourselves quite intrigued to

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learn more about it. The professor
said that' s all he ever went

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back to, and he didn'
t want to. Everyone began to keep

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their things after that and the atmosphere
was quite tense and somewhat quiet. Still,

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it had been a shocking story and
I wasn' t sure whether to

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believe it. My father had always
assured me that such things did not exist.

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They were beliefs that people said only
to scare the little ones, but

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my teacher' s words seemed genuine
and I didn' t know what to

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think. I waited until all the
children were out of the room to address

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my teacher directly and question him about
the authenticity of the story. He told

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me he didn' t want or
have any reason to lie to me.

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That was a true story or at
least what I could remember when I told

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him my concerns and what my father
thought about the paranormal issue. He said

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that people will simply believe what they
want and that they will remain unbelieved until

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something happens to them. That'
s where the talk ended and I left

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the living room. That afternoon I
wanted to see Aldair. I wanted to

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tell you the professor' s story
and I also wanted to know his opinion

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about it. It was very important
for me to know this and I thought

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it would give me a broader perspective. His father had him working and that

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meant he couldn' t talk to
him in at least two days. So

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those two days were hard enough for
me, because I not only had to

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deal with loneliness, but now I
also had to stay with the intrigue of

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that story, which had even given
me some nightmares thinking about what those hybrid

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creatures that the professor had talked about
would be like. I didn' t

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tell my father anything, because I
already knew what I' d say about

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it. Besides, I didn'
t want to get the professor into trouble

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for telling us that story and I
knew my father would be upset if he

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knew that the professor was filling our
heads with what he considered nonsense and a

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total waste of time, even more
coming from a study classroom. Finally,

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for the third day I was able
to talk to Aldair. I shared the

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whole story as I remembered it,
without omitting any details. I wanted him

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to experience the same fear I did. He listened attentively to every thing he

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had to say. When I finished
he said it sounded pretty fanciful, especially

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about hybrid animals, it couldn'
t happen in real life. I also

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told him about how the professor seemed
to be quite convinced about it and I

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think that really changed his mind.
Aldair told me how he had heard his

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older brothers say that there was a
rumor on that farm that there was a

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lot of money buried and even one
of them had suggested going after him.

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Those plans never materialized and the Dairy
believed that the reason was because there was

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no such money and if there was, he was almost certain that someone would

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have already taken it. We were
talking about it for a long time and

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we came to the conclusion that perhaps
Don Alfredo could be in a sect or

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something similar and what the professor had
seen might not be hybrids, but rather

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people with masks, which were at
some meeting of his satanic sects. That

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was more of Aldair' s idea
than mine. I still didn' t

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know if his explanation was more credible
than the professor' s story, but

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we finally decided to put the issue
aside. The days continued with their manrmarity.

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I, from time to time,
still used to remember that story.

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It was something that had been etched
in my brain and I wasn' t

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thinking of leaving. Nightmares used to
be a little constant, but I still

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resisted telling my father about it.
I thought if I waited long enough,

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nightmares would just disappear. Christmas finally
came that was my first Christmas, away

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from that toxic environment I had lived
with my mother and I was really excited

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for the first time. Who didn' t look very excited about the whole

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Christmas thing was Aldair, because his
family didn' t usually celebrate it.

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They used to work very hard on
those dates and he used to be in

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charge of always having wood in his
house so he could warm up during the

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winter. I think that was what
I hated most and sometimes I accompanied him

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to find wood and it was one
of the most unpleasant moments I' ve

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ever lived. His father used to
take him very far almost to the limits

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of the village, ensuring that there
he would find a lot of good wood,

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and leave him in the cold for
hours until he returned. For him

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I couldn' t even imagine having
to do it every day. It was

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December 22nd when the real nightmare began. That day he had accompanied him to

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gather firewood and we met his younger
sister named Anna. This was a pretty

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adorable, gentle girl. Apparently,
he was in charge of taking care of

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her that day and that did not
seem to please her much. Not only

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did he have to carry all that
wood to his house, but now he

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also had to watch his sister not
get too far away. While we were

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talking about nonsense, we could hear
some noises from a distance. They were

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voices from other children and as we
searched more for that sound source, we

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ran into a small group of children
on their bikes These were older than me

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than Aldair' s age. I
make it clear that those weren' t

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my stalkers, but they seemed to
be his stalkers. This one seemed to

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see them with a lot of discontent. We couldn' t hear the conversation,

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but at one point they got off
their bikes and started walking off the

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marked road. Al Dair assured me
that they would probably go to smoke because

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they used to do it one way
or another. His face lit up like

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he had a pretty Machiavellian idea.
He told me he could do something to

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his bikes and then they' d
have to walk back. The very idea

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of that made Aldair laugh almost with
laughter and I couldn' t find the

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grace. I guess it was because
those guys never did anything to me.

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He didn' t even let me
give him my opinion. He told me

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to keep an eye on his sister
while he was taking the machete with which

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he cut the wood and began to
approach the boys' bicycles. I wanted

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to go after him and stop him, but I couldn' t leave his

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little sister alone in that place,
so I just saw what she was doing

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from a distance. He started cutting
the tires off all the bikes. When

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he met the last one, I
could hear a cry from a distance.

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He was one of the boys,
who had clearly recognized him. That alert

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caused everyone to start running straight to
where he was. He had no choice

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but to run back. Those kids
were really angry and they were coming straight

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to where I was. Aldair arrived
and carrying his sister, told me we

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had to run. I couldn'
t think much. We ran out when

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I asked him what we were going
to do, as those guys didn'

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t seem to want to forget what
had happened and wanted to catch up with

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us. Al Dayr hadn' t
thought much about the details when he did

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that action and just told me to
keep running. We ended up hiding behind

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a big fallen log. Aldair'
s sister looked really scared and he just

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told her she had to keep quiet. We could still hear the voices of

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00:35:55.239 --> 00:36:02.159
the boys in the distance, who
cursed and called us derogatoryly both Aldair and

415
00:36:02.360 --> 00:36:07.639
me, for our fortune, we
could stop listening to them, and that

416
00:36:07.679 --> 00:36:14.639
' s when we knew that they
had probably already gone elsewhere. We left

417
00:36:14.719 --> 00:36:19.840
our hideout and walked a little longer, wishing we wouldn' t meet the

418
00:36:19.920 --> 00:36:23.639
boys again and be safe until Aldair' s father came back for us as

419
00:36:25.440 --> 00:36:30.119
soon as we were about to get
back on the road. When we could

420
00:36:30.199 --> 00:36:34.360
hear the scream of one of the
boys, who gave out our location,

421
00:36:35.360 --> 00:36:38.079
we had to re- start the
escape. I think that was the fastest

422
00:36:38.320 --> 00:36:44.599
time I ran I didn' t
even care where we were going. I

423
00:36:44.760 --> 00:36:50.280
only knew that we had to get
away and suddenly we knew that we were

424
00:36:50.360 --> 00:36:53.960
almost on the edge of the village, because right in front of us was

425
00:36:54.039 --> 00:36:59.960
the Farm of Don Alfredo. At
that moment we ran into only two options

426
00:37:00.840 --> 00:37:04.960
to come back and face the beating
that awaited us by those kids or hide

427
00:37:05.519 --> 00:37:09.400
on the farm. We thought that, because of all the stories that were

428
00:37:09.480 --> 00:37:15.239
told about it, they would not
dare to look for us there and with

429
00:37:15.519 --> 00:37:19.360
enough luck, they would simply put
it aside. So we took the option

430
00:37:19.559 --> 00:37:23.679
of hiding at the farm. When
we crossed the old wooden fence of the

431
00:37:23.800 --> 00:37:29.920
farm, I could still hear the
insults of the boys. Approaching, we

432
00:37:30.039 --> 00:37:34.400
ran through the place. Everything was
in ruins almost in such abandonment. We

433
00:37:34.480 --> 00:37:38.719
wanted to find a good place to
hide, a place where they couldn'

434
00:37:38.960 --> 00:37:44.000
t easily see us in case they
dared enter the farm. We wanted to

435
00:37:44.079 --> 00:37:49.000
enter the house, but the door
was blocked with lots of boards, so

436
00:37:49.360 --> 00:37:55.239
we knew it would be impossible.
We continue to search until finally reaching the

437
00:37:55.239 --> 00:38:00.679
stables. All that made me completely
forget the main reason we were there and

438
00:38:00.800 --> 00:38:07.000
I could only think about my teacher' s story. That made me go

439
00:38:07.000 --> 00:38:12.159
back. All my nightmares started the
same way and I certainly didn' t

440
00:38:12.280 --> 00:38:15.480
want to live what was going on. Later. Aldair told me not to

441
00:38:15.519 --> 00:38:20.320
be a coward and that if we
didn' t get in there, then

442
00:38:20.320 --> 00:38:22.880
they' d beat us pretty ugly. So, encouraged by Aldair, I

443
00:38:22.199 --> 00:38:28.639
went into those stables. Clearly they
were all empty and the ceiling was broken,

444
00:38:29.400 --> 00:38:32.239
which allowed some of the rays of
the afternoon sun to pass away.

445
00:38:35.000 --> 00:38:38.239
It was a mixture of moisture and
a lot of dirt. My heart was

446
00:38:38.360 --> 00:38:42.960
beating so fast and I really didn' t want to be there. It

447
00:38:43.039 --> 00:38:47.440
was as I was completely immersed in
the memories of history, that the Dayr

448
00:38:47.719 --> 00:38:54.880
cursed aloud that those words were approaching. They took me completely out of my

449
00:38:55.000 --> 00:38:59.760
thoughts and I could hear that it
was true. The voices of the boys

450
00:39:00.039 --> 00:39:05.440
were being heard closer and closer.
I didn' t know what to fear

451
00:39:05.559 --> 00:39:09.880
more if those kids or the story. That' s when the Dair pointed

452
00:39:10.000 --> 00:39:15.239
that door on the floor, I
flatly refused. I didn' t want

453
00:39:15.400 --> 00:39:21.000
to go down for any circumstances,
but he told me that we had no

454
00:39:21.159 --> 00:39:25.000
choice, that it was the only
way, besides those guys probably wouldn'

455
00:39:25.239 --> 00:39:28.480
t come down and if they did, I didn' t think they could

456
00:39:28.480 --> 00:39:31.440
find us down there. I refused
a couple of times, but without taking

457
00:39:31.519 --> 00:39:36.880
my opinion into account, he almost
pulled me towards that door, which had

458
00:39:36.960 --> 00:39:42.400
no lock or anything. Rather,
it looked completely dusty, as if no

459
00:39:43.000 --> 00:39:49.559
one had descended in years. He
opened it very easily and almost dragged me

460
00:39:49.559 --> 00:39:52.599
down, made me descend along with
him and his sister and made sure the

461
00:39:52.679 --> 00:39:59.000
door was locked. Once we were
both down and stood in complete darkness.

462
00:40:00.199 --> 00:40:07.320
Still listening to the voices from above, which seemed not to have reached the

463
00:40:07.320 --> 00:40:12.519
stable. I couldn' t quite
tell what they were saying, but I

464
00:40:12.519 --> 00:40:16.719
could imagine. Upon dair he only
signaled me to remain silent while with his

465
00:40:16.840 --> 00:40:22.840
other hand he would cover his sister' s mouth. While we were still

466
00:40:22.960 --> 00:40:29.760
trying to figure out what they were
saying, we could clearly understand how one

467
00:40:29.960 --> 00:40:34.679
of the boys mentioned the floor door. Aldair started pushing me to walk further

468
00:40:34.800 --> 00:40:39.679
down that tunnel. When we were
far enough away from the door, we

469
00:40:39.760 --> 00:40:44.960
could see the light. When this
one opened, the boys discussed the possibility

470
00:40:45.079 --> 00:40:49.719
of us being downstairs. None of
them seemed to dare to come down.

471
00:40:50.320 --> 00:40:54.199
We were in total silence and suddenly
one of the boys screamed something that made

472
00:40:54.280 --> 00:41:00.599
us freeze our blood. What he
said indicated that they would leave us locked

473
00:41:00.639 --> 00:41:07.159
up before they heard the door door
slam. We heard as if something very

474
00:41:07.440 --> 00:41:13.199
heavy was pushed into it. We
both ran straight up the stairs and climbed

475
00:41:13.280 --> 00:41:16.239
up as fast as possible. We
tried to push the door a couple of

476
00:41:16.960 --> 00:41:22.679
times, but this one was stuck
with something from above. I quickly pulled

477
00:41:22.679 --> 00:41:25.760
out. A little cell phone my
father had given me for emergencies, but

478
00:41:27.000 --> 00:41:30.599
I didn' t have any signal
just in town. I was arriving a

479
00:41:30.599 --> 00:41:37.000
little now, in some underground tunnels, it would be impossible. I was

480
00:41:37.079 --> 00:41:40.000
in complete panic. I didn'
t know what else to do or think.

481
00:41:40.599 --> 00:41:45.679
We got off the ladder and got
into a little discussion. I was

482
00:41:45.760 --> 00:41:51.639
claiming from the Dayr for having made
that silly joke and telling him that now

483
00:41:51.719 --> 00:41:57.360
we would stay there forever and his
little sister started crying. That' s

484
00:41:57.360 --> 00:42:00.840
when, remembering the professor' s
story more, I realized that there was

485
00:42:01.000 --> 00:42:08.039
another way out. Only that meant
getting deeper into that place. I told

486
00:42:08.079 --> 00:42:13.599
Aldair about the departure my teacher had
mentioned in his story, and this one

487
00:42:13.840 --> 00:42:20.599
seemed really relieved. Without hesitation.
One second, he said we should go

488
00:42:20.639 --> 00:42:25.840
get her. He asked me for
my cell phone to light the way by

489
00:42:25.920 --> 00:42:29.639
giving it to him, turned on
the flashlight and started walking. I stood

490
00:42:29.719 --> 00:42:34.159
still in my place. I didn' t want to take another step,

491
00:42:34.840 --> 00:42:37.960
though I knew that might be the
only way out. I also knew that

492
00:42:38.039 --> 00:42:45.280
if that exit existed, that would
mean everything else as well. Al Dayr

493
00:42:45.559 --> 00:42:51.559
noticed my fear, but simply said
that we were not cowards and that surely

494
00:42:51.719 --> 00:42:59.480
those things had already starved to death. It' s been a long time

495
00:42:59.639 --> 00:43:05.280
since anyone came down there to feed
them, or anything like that, and

496
00:43:05.280 --> 00:43:07.440
they probably didn' t even exist. Only the professor was trying to tell

497
00:43:07.519 --> 00:43:13.800
a good story and he invented something
more terrifying than what really happened down there.

498
00:43:14.440 --> 00:43:17.159
I wasn' t sure what he
was saying. Yeah, I was

499
00:43:17.360 --> 00:43:22.519
sure I didn' t want to
stay in that place and I knew he

500
00:43:22.639 --> 00:43:28.519
would go along with his sister,
so I had no choice but to start

501
00:43:28.639 --> 00:43:32.599
walking along with him. It just
seemed like a long tunnel and nothing seemed

502
00:43:32.719 --> 00:43:37.599
to inhabit that place more than insects
and many spiders. I don' t

503
00:43:37.719 --> 00:43:44.719
know how long we walked I'
m convinced that it was for a long

504
00:43:44.760 --> 00:43:50.360
time, because I was even beginning
to despair and I came to think that

505
00:43:50.360 --> 00:43:52.400
those tunnels might not even have an
end. I also thought my teacher'

506
00:43:52.480 --> 00:43:58.760
s story might be an exaggeration,
but that also meant that there was no

507
00:43:58.880 --> 00:44:02.000
other way out and we wouldn'
t stay there forever. I think that

508
00:44:02.239 --> 00:44:08.000
scared me a lot more than the
idea of finding those hybrid beings. For

509
00:44:08.079 --> 00:44:14.559
his part, the day did not
seem to want to give up on finding

510
00:44:14.559 --> 00:44:17.400
that way out. I believe now
that it was more than anything to keep

511
00:44:17.440 --> 00:44:24.679
his little sister safe, that even
himself kept silent all the time. I

512
00:44:24.719 --> 00:44:30.480
was about to tell you that we
should better go back and try to push

513
00:44:30.599 --> 00:44:35.280
much harder the entrance through which we
had entered. When the Dayr exclaimed something

514
00:44:35.400 --> 00:44:40.480
euphoric that there were stairs, he
could not believe it seriously. They were

515
00:44:42.119 --> 00:44:47.039
there the story now had something more
true. Without wasting time, Aldair began

516
00:44:47.079 --> 00:44:52.239
to descend and I thought a little
bit more and did it or not,

517
00:44:52.239 --> 00:44:58.440
but finally I did it too After
all, I wasn' t going to

518
00:44:58.559 --> 00:45:04.920
stay there waiting for those creatures to
find me there once. At the bottom,

519
00:45:05.239 --> 00:45:09.960
I remember looking everywhere where the flashlight
was able to illuminate. He wanted

520
00:45:09.960 --> 00:45:15.639
to see that altar that the professor
had mentioned in his story. I couldn

521
00:45:15.760 --> 00:45:19.679
' t see anything. The altar
wasn' t there. I also recalled

522
00:45:19.840 --> 00:45:23.880
that the professor had commented that the
police had not found him either, so

523
00:45:24.000 --> 00:45:29.960
I thought the altar might have been
removed shortly after they managed to leave.

524
00:45:30.920 --> 00:45:36.880
I didn' t say anything about
it and went on with Aldair, who

525
00:45:36.920 --> 00:45:37.920
was still lighting up trying to find
those stairs so I could get out.

526
00:45:38.000 --> 00:45:44.000
From there he questioned me if the
professor had said anything else, but I

527
00:45:44.119 --> 00:45:49.119
could only tell him that he said
he ran much further inside and that'

528
00:45:49.239 --> 00:45:52.599
s where he had found those stairs. The place was pretty scary and the

529
00:45:52.679 --> 00:45:58.719
lack of visibility made us feel like
someone would jump out of the dark to

530
00:46:00.199 --> 00:46:06.519
hurt our environment. Once down was
much worse than when we were walking in

531
00:46:06.639 --> 00:46:10.880
a straight line. I remembered the
teacher' s feeling when he said he

532
00:46:12.000 --> 00:46:15.880
was having trouble breathing, because exactly
the same thing was happening to me.

533
00:46:15.559 --> 00:46:22.679
I tried to calm down, thinking
that I was suggesting and that if I

534
00:46:22.960 --> 00:46:27.599
kept calm, maybe we could even
get out and forget all this. So,

535
00:46:27.960 --> 00:46:31.880
the Dair decided that we had to
go a little further. While we

536
00:46:31.880 --> 00:46:36.039
were walking. My mind couldn'
t stop thinking about each of the professor

537
00:46:36.119 --> 00:46:42.119
' s words, but at the
same time it also asked me questions of

538
00:46:42.199 --> 00:46:49.000
how we hadn' t heard any
sort of supernatural scream or our flashlight had

539
00:46:49.039 --> 00:46:52.440
not presented any kind of problem,
as it had done in its history.

540
00:46:53.559 --> 00:47:00.440
That made me think that maybe they
just got lost in those tunnels and it

541
00:47:00.559 --> 00:47:05.920
might be that their fear had made
him imagine everything else, we weren'

542
00:47:06.000 --> 00:47:09.840
t walking for long. It came
to the point where I really thought that

543
00:47:09.880 --> 00:47:16.119
there was nothing down there and that
we would be fine as long as we

544
00:47:16.360 --> 00:47:20.880
could find that exit the professor had
said he came out of. The roads

545
00:47:20.960 --> 00:47:28.000
seemed quite intertwined and for a moment
I thought we were just walking in circles.

546
00:47:28.480 --> 00:47:31.960
I didn' t want to say
anything, because the dayr was already

547
00:47:32.119 --> 00:47:37.440
quite dismayed on his own. Her
little sister seemed to have entered into a

548
00:47:37.519 --> 00:47:43.440
sort of denial or something like that, because not only did she not speak

549
00:47:43.559 --> 00:47:47.199
or cry, she was simply looking
lost. I was trying to remember more

550
00:47:47.280 --> 00:47:52.199
details about his story. I wanted
to try to remember something, maybe a

551
00:47:52.320 --> 00:47:58.639
sign that might indicate that we were
near those stairs, but nothing I could

552
00:47:58.719 --> 00:48:04.079
remember was useful. Not to mention
that, whenever I tried, all my

553
00:48:04.159 --> 00:48:08.639
memories were diverted directly to those creatures
that the professor had said he had seen.

554
00:48:10.000 --> 00:48:15.000
Then it happened. The flashlight of
the cell phone began to give small

555
00:48:15.079 --> 00:48:22.239
flashes intermittently and that made me erect
every hair of the body and the cell

556
00:48:22.280 --> 00:48:27.760
phone went out completely, leaving us
in total darkness. I could hear Aldair

557
00:48:27.840 --> 00:48:31.599
' s little sister speak again and
call him by name, saying she was

558
00:48:31.719 --> 00:48:37.559
very afraid. He also said he
couldn' t see anything. The darkness

559
00:48:37.639 --> 00:48:42.360
was absolute and we couldn' t
even see who was standing in front of

560
00:48:42.360 --> 00:48:46.559
us. I could hear Aldair'
s voice, which asked me where he

561
00:48:46.800 --> 00:48:52.239
was and said if I could feel
his hand, he told me that we

562
00:48:52.320 --> 00:48:55.840
should hold hands so we could make
sure we stayed together. I thought it

563
00:48:55.920 --> 00:49:00.800
was a good idea. So,
spanking LII, finally our hands met and

564
00:49:00.880 --> 00:49:07.039
we started walking. I think that' s the deepest fear I' ve

565
00:49:07.119 --> 00:49:13.239
ever experienced in my life, and
I think that' s where my fear

566
00:49:13.800 --> 00:49:17.280
of darkness was born, and even
though we didn' t know where we

567
00:49:17.360 --> 00:49:21.800
were headed, I was pretty quiet
that we were at least together. I

568
00:49:21.880 --> 00:49:25.239
remember the first scream, or rather
it was like a squealing, a mixture

569
00:49:25.400 --> 00:49:30.760
between a squealing pig and a dog, and it seemed to come from one

570
00:49:30.840 --> 00:49:35.639
side of us, as it heard
so loud that it even hurt my ears.

571
00:49:36.199 --> 00:49:39.400
But listening to it well, it
was not only a cry, but

572
00:49:39.639 --> 00:49:45.920
it was several who flooded the whole
place at the same time that a pestilent

573
00:49:46.039 --> 00:49:50.400
aroma began to be made. Present. Aldair told me what happened next,

574
00:49:50.920 --> 00:49:55.360
as he did remember everything. Aldair
said that in a moment, the screams

575
00:49:55.440 --> 00:50:00.119
became so intense that he couldn'
t help but release both me and his

576
00:50:00.239 --> 00:50:05.679
sister' s to cover his ears. He felt that whatever was causing those

577
00:50:05.800 --> 00:50:12.360
screams and squeals was a few meters
away from us and that maybe they were

578
00:50:12.480 --> 00:50:17.360
just getting closer, as they were
hearing louder and louder. He asked me

579
00:50:17.440 --> 00:50:22.639
what to do, for he had
no idea, but he did not receive

580
00:50:22.719 --> 00:50:29.599
any reply from me. That'
s when he felt something touch his shoulder.

581
00:50:30.159 --> 00:50:34.679
First he thought it was me,
but the hand he felt was bigger

582
00:50:34.760 --> 00:50:39.079
than mine and something bonier and the
awful smell became stronger now and despite mentioning

583
00:50:39.199 --> 00:50:46.400
my name a couple of times he
didn' t get any answers. He

584
00:50:46.480 --> 00:50:52.800
could hear the characteristic sound of pigs. Fear swept through it completely and that

585
00:50:52.079 --> 00:51:00.599
time we began to run apart and
stay on our own. It was completely

586
00:51:00.760 --> 00:51:06.079
alone walking in the dark and groping
around the walls, trying not to hit

587
00:51:06.239 --> 00:51:12.320
anything. As I walked, I
remember feeling a lot of fear, that

588
00:51:12.480 --> 00:51:17.000
deep fear that permeates even the bones, and prevents you from thinking rightly or

589
00:51:17.079 --> 00:51:22.320
even breathing correctly. For its part, the day. She remembers perfectly that

590
00:51:22.440 --> 00:51:27.800
shortly after she stopped, she could
hear her sister’ s voice, which

591
00:51:27.880 --> 00:51:32.320
seemed to be crying and calling her
in despair. He followed the voice to

592
00:51:32.400 --> 00:51:37.559
meet her and keep her safe,
but no matter how much she walked.

593
00:51:38.159 --> 00:51:44.679
It always seemed like his sister was
exactly the same distance. That' s

594
00:51:45.000 --> 00:51:50.039
when he felt some stairs. He
thought he' d found the stairs that

595
00:51:50.119 --> 00:51:52.880
would take him out, but he
didn' t want to leave me or

596
00:51:52.880 --> 00:51:58.960
his sister. So he started shouting
our names saying that he had found his

597
00:51:59.079 --> 00:52:05.000
way out and that we should follow
his voice, but he didn' t

598
00:52:05.000 --> 00:52:08.480
get any kind of answer. Walking
still gently, I managed to see a

599
00:52:08.559 --> 00:52:14.000
light in the distance, which I
thought was Aldair, who had managed to

600
00:52:14.079 --> 00:52:19.320
run the cell phone but when I
got there I could see an altar which

601
00:52:19.440 --> 00:52:23.719
had candles on it. I can' t guarantee that this memory is real

602
00:52:23.840 --> 00:52:29.280
or that my mind is simply entwining
it with the professor' s story and

603
00:52:29.360 --> 00:52:31.880
what he saw. But I have
always believed that I really saw that altar,

604
00:52:32.559 --> 00:52:37.599
for I remember it quite well.
It was almost like someone just put

605
00:52:37.719 --> 00:52:43.280
it on. I did not see
that multi- legged figure that the professor

606
00:52:43.400 --> 00:52:49.280
said he had seen, but I
could see some satanic figures, as well

607
00:52:49.400 --> 00:52:52.880
as symbols and what seemed to be
blood vessels. I could feel a breath

608
00:52:52.960 --> 00:52:59.360
in my neck, a very heavy
and warm breath. How I wish I

609
00:52:59.400 --> 00:53:04.639
had been in the dark at that
time, for in this way I could

610
00:53:04.760 --> 00:53:07.519
not have seen what I saw.
When I turned I came face to face

611
00:53:07.719 --> 00:53:13.280
with one thing I was not a
person at all, because I had a

612
00:53:13.280 --> 00:53:17.559
horse face, I was quite cheeky, to tell the truth, and I

613
00:53:17.559 --> 00:53:22.239
had very big eyes. He wore
a very dirty nightgown and had long hair,

614
00:53:22.800 --> 00:53:28.840
which was more like that of people
than of an animal. From there

615
00:53:28.920 --> 00:53:32.480
it is the last memory that I
have more clear, because the others are

616
00:53:32.559 --> 00:53:38.960
only small scenarios where I run crying
screaming the name of Aldair and his sister.

617
00:53:43.480 --> 00:53:47.480
I have a vague memory of Aldair
rising from the ground up some stairs,

618
00:53:49.360 --> 00:53:52.119
and I also have the memory of
when I went out with Aldair,

619
00:53:52.360 --> 00:53:55.000
but not with his sister. Al
Dair, for his part, has a

620
00:53:55.079 --> 00:54:00.079
clearer and more horrible memory, having
found the stairs that he believed would lead

621
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him to the exit and after not
receiving any response from me or his sister,

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thought of going up and finding someone
who could help him so that they

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wouldn' t get out of there. But when he decided to climb the

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stairs, he ran into a cave. From this cave there seemed to be

625
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much more shouting. He describes it
as if there was a slaughterhouse in there

626
00:54:25.599 --> 00:54:30.320
and also says how the cell phone
worked out of nowhere again and by lighting

627
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up inside the cave, he could
see his sister in the background. He

628
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immediately called her to return to him, as he seemed to be getting deeper

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into the cave, but his sister
was not even turning. He thought of

630
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going after her, but immediately realized
that his sister would never do anything like

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that. She was obedient and,
even if she wasn' t, she

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was sure she would be afraid enough
not to prefer going into a dark new

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rope rather than going back to him. One last scream came from his sister,

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who turned her head just to let
a horrible hybrid creature see between a

635
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human and what seemed to be a
cow or something. All he knows is

636
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he had horns the moment he saw
her. That thing ran to him so

637
00:55:19.519 --> 00:55:23.559
fast that he could barely feel when
the creature' s hands pushed him and

638
00:55:23.679 --> 00:55:29.039
he fell a couple of meters beating
on the ground, He wasn' t

639
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sure if it was the fear or
adrenaline of the moment. He doesn'

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t even remember feeling pain. He
immediately got up to start running how he

641
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ran for a long time until he
could see someone in the distance on the

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ground. He first thought it was
his sister, but then, as he

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00:55:46.480 --> 00:55:52.320
got closer, he could see that
it was me. I was in a

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00:55:52.440 --> 00:55:57.119
fetal position and my face was scratched. We still don' t know if

645
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something was who scratched it on me
or I was myself. Because of the

646
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nerves and the fear I felt at
the time. He picked me up and

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we both ran. We just ran
until we finally could see other stairs.

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The experience lived moments before made him
hesitate to want to go up, but

649
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he knew we didn' t have
many options, so we did. That

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' s how we got out,
but we still lacked his sister. We

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00:56:28.000 --> 00:56:31.159
both ran straight for his father.
Which he was looking for, too.

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Aldair was very frightened, but still
he was able to tell vaguely everything that

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had happened to his father. For
my part, I remained completely mute.

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His father ran to the farm and
quickly went down, although he was not

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down for long. He immediately called
the authorities, who quickly undertook a search

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to find Aldair' s sister.
I don' t remember that quest.

657
00:56:59.639 --> 00:57:02.880
I don' t even want to
have been in the interrogation that Aldair says

658
00:57:02.920 --> 00:57:07.920
the cops did to us and,
to anyone' s surprise, Aldair'

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00:57:07.920 --> 00:57:13.000
s sister was never recovered. For
my part, as soon as I was

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handed over to my father and informed
of the situation, he tried to make

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00:57:16.719 --> 00:57:20.519
me speak, but I could not. My father sent me with countless specialists,

662
00:57:21.400 --> 00:57:25.719
but we finally ended up leaving that
town, because I thought it could

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no longer be a place where I
could be well. The years went by

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and I lost any kind of contact
with Aldair or anyone in that town.

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00:57:38.400 --> 00:57:43.320
In time I was able to speak
again, although, as I said before,

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the memories of that experience at the
Farm had been blocked in my brain,

667
00:57:47.639 --> 00:57:52.480
like many others, so any question
or doubt was never going to be

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00:57:52.519 --> 00:57:58.159
answered, at least not from me. My father thought it was best,

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since this way he would not grow
traumatized or blame me for the disappearance of

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that child. And indeed, so
it was, with the help of many

671
00:58:08.840 --> 00:58:14.920
psychologists and with the passage of time. Even the memories I told them below

672
00:58:15.039 --> 00:58:21.559
had become quite vague and had almost
been buried completely, although some nights I

673
00:58:21.639 --> 00:58:27.000
could still see that creature, half
human, half horse, or there could

674
00:58:27.079 --> 00:58:31.880
be between dreams that altar, but
those dreams were becoming less and less frequent

675
00:58:32.480 --> 00:58:38.159
and I came to think that they
were simple nightmares, that that in reality

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had not happened and that it had
only been the fruit of my imagination.

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After all, he was just a
scared kid. In time I became a

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00:58:49.800 --> 00:58:53.199
teacher, I managed to leave behind
the traumas of my past and, to

679
00:58:53.280 --> 00:58:59.039
be completely honest, I was doing
pretty well in life for my twenty-

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six years. Everything lived in the
past had already stayed there and now my

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00:59:02.800 --> 00:59:09.360
life was turning towards a good future. The truth I no longer knew about

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Aldair O from his family, I
no longer returned to that town since what

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happened and I have had no interest
in returning. A story written and adapted

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by Aurora. Escalante