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The Witch House called me Brandon.
I' ve gone to countless therapies,

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and I' ve taken a lot
of medications. I don' t talk

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much about it with people about it, because every time I tell it I

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usually take it for granted or they
just think that what really happened that day

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was too much for my brain to
prosecute that he was the verdict of the

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authorities and many, including my parents, took it as a fact. Although

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no one has taken from my head
what I lived that day. I know

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it wasn' t part of my
imagination. My childhood was quite normal.

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I was born into a good middle- class family. I don' t

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usually talk about it much, but
I had a twin brother named Bruno.

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We were both practically inseparable. We
did everything together and my mother says that

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we used to be very scavenging when
we got together, but if they had

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us individually we were pretty quiet.
I think I agree with her at that

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point, because since she' s
gone, I haven' t been the

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same again. We were both eight
years old when this happened, it was

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vacation and my parents decided that we
needed some fresh air, which is why

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they wanted to send us to our
grandparents, who lived in the province and

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had a small farm. They assumed
it was okay to spend part of the

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vacation. So we could live with
nature and animals and, by the way,

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they could have a little rest to
take care of us. We were

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both quite excited to go with the
grandparents we did not know them very well,

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as they visited us very little in
the city, but every time they

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visited us, they both filled us
with gifts and treats. We had been

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mentioned a side where we could swim
and play. So as soon as the

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school finished, we took the first
bus home to the grandparents when we arrived.

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Everything went pretty well. In fact, the first few days I remember

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them as one of the happiest days
of my entire life. Grandparents loved us

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very much and very rarely used to
deny us any request. There was a

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slightly strict rule about not going to
the woods. My grandfather said that we

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could get lost very easily and that
there were animals and things that could hurt

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us. At first follow this rule. It was pretty simple. Everything was

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new and we could play on the
farm at our disposal. After a few

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days we had already explored everything and
we had swam a lot. And like

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all the children, we found ourselves
at a dull point, and I found

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ourselves playing that day when something distracted
our attention. It was a whole black

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rabbit was beautiful. I was right
on the edge of the forest and seemed

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to look at something curious. We
got close enough before my grandfather screamed a

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little upset that we were getting too
close to the forest. His scream caused

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the rabbit to run into the woods
and lose sight of him. We got

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a little scolding about the rules of
not entering the forest and made us swear

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not to do it. Many times. If you tell a child not to

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do one thing, be sure he' ll want to do it more than

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anything. Bruno was the most enthusiastic
when he entered the forest. I wanted

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to see that rabbit again that had
left him completely amazed. For my part,

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I wanted to obey Grandpa, but
Bruno always knew how to convince me.

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He told me how the forest was
an unexplored place and that it probably

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wasn' t so dangerous to go
in there, as he had seen children

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in three and leave all the time
and that we were missing out on the

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fun in all my time. There
I had never seen children enter the forest,

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but Bruno said it so convincingly that
I really believed him so we both

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came up with a plan to go
into the woods looking for that black rabbit.

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The plan was very simple. In
fact, it was a question of

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waiting for Grandma to take her nap
and my grandfather to start his work of

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milking cows, as it was the
time when we were practically unsupervised. When

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we were alone, then we'
d come in. I managed to convince

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Bruno that we would only go deep
enough not to have the chance to get

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lost, to which he assured me
that we would only go a little bit,

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look for the rabbit and, if
we did not find it, we

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would turn around and leave. So
that left me more relaxed about disobeying.

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I thought no one had to know
and as we returned home soon it seemed

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like that would be the way to
get into the woods. It was something

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I certainly enjoyed. While I was
looking at and enjoying the nature of the

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forest, Bruno was more interested in
finding that rabbit, which, for obvious

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reasons, was nowhere to be found. I mentioned to Bruno that he could

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probably have his burrow deeper into the
forest, but for no reason would we

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go looking for it. That'
s when a scream scared me. Bruno

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pointed to the rabbit, which was
only a couple of meters from us.

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He started walking without caring about anything
and with all the intention of touching the

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rabbit or at least being able to
see it more closely. As soon as

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he got closer, the rabbit ran. This is where everything is ruined.

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Well, Bruno, instead of stopping, took up a race behind the rabbit.

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I screamed his name to stop him. I thought I' d come

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back to alert my grandfather, but
I knew that would get us into a

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lot of trouble, so I just
started running after Bruno too, telling him

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to stop and we should go back. But all my pleas and recommendations were

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ignored. There came a point in
it that the rabbit was faster than him,

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and we both ended up tired and
completely lost in the woods, as

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wherever we looked, everything looked exactly
the same. I was very upset with

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him, as he blamed him and
he just felt ashamed and told me everything

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would be fine. We just had
to find our tracks that would lead us

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to the exit. We were completely
at night in the woods We were scared,

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hungry and tired. We didn'
t know what to do to get

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out of the problem we had gotten
into and the more we walked the more

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I was sure we were missing even
more. At that time, the forest

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was beginning to look dangerous and I
felt like someone was stalking us, although

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that might have just been my suggestion
and fear. As we walked, bruno

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stopped dry and pointed forward. I
was totally surprised, because right in front

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of us was a house was like
a small wooden room with a sheet roof

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despite its appearance, it looked as
if someone had been living out there there

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was a fire that was off,
but it still released a little smoke,

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which made us think that maybe the
person who had lit it was in or

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would come back soon and then we
would be safe. Bruno knocked on the

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door of the house, but we
received no reply. Instead, we saw

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how it opened, as it was
not secured with anything. It gave me

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very bad spine, but Bruno just
pushed the door and started going in.

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I told him not to, that
maybe it would be better to wait for

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the owner to come back and ask
for help. But he told me it

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would be best to wait inside.
So we finally chose to go in the

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two of us that house was very
dirty, there were frets and things everywhere

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and there was a very strong aroma
of herbs. It looked more like an

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oil or something. I never knew
it was everything. It was strangely silent,

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which was rare, as outside the
house noises like the wind could be

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heard, blowing the leaves, some
insects and that sort of thing. Soon

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we both could hear something It was
a heavy breath that wasn' t from

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any of us. I was behind
the bruno and told him it would be

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better to go out, but he
kept walking. He was very curious and

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wanted to know what that sound was. It was when he opened a door,

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which looked like a closet just to
run into something awful in a fetal

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position. There was a woman,
or I think she was a woman,

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because she was completely covered by a
viscous and reddish liquid, especially her hair,

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which was quite scarce. He found
his face between his knees as if

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he were crying. He hadn'
t even noticed our presence until Bruno stepped

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back from the impression and moved a
chair. It was when she raised her

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face, which was completely disfigured.
He had no nose, no teeth,

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and only one eye. She was
so wrinkled and awful. That woman screamed

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very loudly. It looked like he
was trying to be threatening and both s

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r. We didn' t start
running to get away I took a look

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back. I wish I hadn'
t, but I did, that'

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s when I saw that old lady
didn' t stay inside the closet.

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Rather, he was following us on
all fours. His entire body was quite

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contorted. I could hear my brother
screaming for help and I turned around and

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wanted to help him. The creature
was dragging him and no matter how fast

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I ran I ended up losing him
in the darkness of the forest. I

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could hear my brother' s screams
for a long time before I didn'

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t hear them anymore. While I
was completely immobile, not knowing what to

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do, I could hear my grandfather' s voice, which seemed to be

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very close. Then I saw the
lights some flashlights had been found and I

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could only say that the woman had
taken him. Those were the only words

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I could conjugate in that way.
They searched for him for days, but

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he was never found. I went
back to my parents and we had a

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little funeral. No body. To
this day I feel guilty. I feel

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like I should have done more,
even though I was just a kid.

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I' m sure that what we
saw was a witch who took him and

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I have no idea what he did
to her. My name is Damian and

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what I' m going to tell
you. It is an experience that,

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by remembering it today, generates a
rather uncontrollable fear for me. I was

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eighteen when this happened. It was
my eighteenth birthday. Unlike other kids my

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age, I didn' t enjoy
going to parties or spending time with friends.

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What I really enjoyed was nature and
there was a very specific one that

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called me the desert one. Since
I was very young, I had enjoyed

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going and could just sit and watch
it for hours, something that I certainly

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also enjoyed doing a lot When I
grew up a little bit more, it

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was shooting that was one of my
favorite hobbies. As I grew up for

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my eighteenth birthday, I wanted to
do something really special, which consisted of

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spending all day in the desert.
My father had given me a new weapon

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and I was quite anxious to try
it. I told my parents I'

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d be back in time for the
little meeting they' d arranged for me.

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They both really wanted me to socialize
more and by not wanting to argue

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with them, I had accepted that
meeting, although I did more to get

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them to accept the idea of going
almost all day into the desert. After

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I got up very early. I
wanted to go out with the sun.

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I also wanted to avoid the talk
about safety that my mother used to give

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me every time I waved out into
the desert. I know he cared about

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me, but after so many years
I considered myself a complete expert at taking

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care of myself there and it really
bothered me a little bit to listen to

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the same advice every time I decided
to go out, which was quite often

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in those times. I packed enough
water and some snacks, but what I

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was most interested in was bringing water
instead of food. I always knew that

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water was very important on the way
to the desert, as it could get

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hot and a dehydration or heat stroke
could be fatal being so far from civilization.

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So just with enough water I decided
to leave The one- way trip.

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It was quite peaceful and relaxing.
The deeper I went into the desert,

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the more I felt it would be
a great day. I saw some

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animals and among them I could see
a coyote, which caught my attention quite

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a bit. He wasn' t
that big and he looked pretty young,

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but he lacked much of his left
ear and the tip of his tail was

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completely white. It was pretty flashy. Soon I completely lost sight of that

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coyote had called my attention enough to
have it in my mind for a few

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meters further. But I finally ended
up going back to my thoughts and focused

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more on the music I would put
in, as I was starting to lose

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the radio signal. As usual,
I liked getting too deep. Many said

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it was dangerous to do that.
I could run into some dangerous gangs and

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men going into the desert to engage
in lawless activities. I thought they were

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exaggerations, because in so many years
that I had done that, I had

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never encountered anyone but some vans that
passed by. It was good daylight.

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I knew that as soon as the
sun began to set, I had to

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return, as at night it was
another completely different story. I knew there

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were people who could really hurt me
a lot in case I saw myself there.

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This was why I used to put
an alarm on my phone to remind

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me that it was time to leave, as many times I was so immersed

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that time was just going away.
That afternoon I could say it was the

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most perfect afternoon I ever had in
the desert. It was great and quiet.

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I was shooting most of the day, but when I got bored,

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I just sat down and started reading
one of the books I had taken.

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The wind wasn' t so strong
and the heat didn' t seem so

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annoying. Everything seemed fine. Everything
was so perfect that at one point I

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fell asleep while reading him and as
if that wasn' t bad enough,

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that day I had completely forgotten to
put the reminder on my phone that it

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was time to leave. I fell
asleep until the sun had completely hidden.

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As soon as I woke up,
I realized it was too late. At

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that time I didn' t care
much about gangs or the danger I could

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run in the desert at night.
I cared more that I was too late

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for the meeting that my parents had
planned for me. So, picking up

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absolutely everything as fast as I could, I turned on the truck and accelerated.

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I was going very fast and I
think that was why I took the

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wrong path. Without realizing that or
that I had never driven around at night

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I didn' t want to accept
that I had taken the wrong path.

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Moreover, I strongly refused to believe
it and because I was claiming to know

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that place as the palm of my
hand, that stupid pride. He did

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not want to go back and I
continued to move forward until, according to

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me, something became familiar to me. To my misfortune, this was never

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the case. The road began to
become so bad that at one point my

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truck was stuck between rocks and sand. I did everything trying to get my

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truck out, but all my efforts
were in vain. I couldn' t

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call my parents, as I didn' t have coverage at the time.

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It was pretty bad and I didn' t know what to do. I

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didn' t even know where I
was. I knew walking was completely useless

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and dangerous. Besides, I knew
my parents would worry if I didn'

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t get there, so they'
d probably be looking for me by now.

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I decided to just get in my
truck and wait for help or at

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least wait for it to dawn so
I could think things over in the light

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of day. That night was watched, very difficult to sleep Any noise or

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movement made me immediately wake up.
It was almost three o' clock in

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the morning. When I could hear
something run I woke up right away.

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I had no idea what it could
be. I knew that desert animals and

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predators used to be pretty quiet,
but whatever I heard, it didn'

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t seem to be. That didn' t give me a good feeling.

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I looked in every direction trying to
see something, but there was no sign

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of life, except for some rodents
or animals that seemed harmless. At first

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glance, I thought as long as
I was inside the truck. Everything would

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be fine. Every time I nodded
or drowsy I listened to those steps again

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or felt really observed only that I
could not see what it was and that

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started to make me pretty paranoid from
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Finally when I saw the rays of
the sun, I felt completely grateful to

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have survived one night I tried to
untie my truck again, but that was

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useless again. I knew I had
to do something, because he seemed to

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be a pretty remote path and it
was very unlikely that anyone would pass by.

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My parents knew my route, daughter. The more you would imagine that

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I could enter a place like that, so I thought it would be best

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to go back. I had enough
water and I felt good enough to do

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it. The more I walked,
the more I felt more and more watched.

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I didn' t know exactly where
it didn' t matter, where

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to turn. I couldn' t
see anything but sand and weed everywhere.

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The road had been much heavier than
I had anticipated and the water I had

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taken was beginning to run out before
I could even recognize something of the road.

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I was thinking about the possibility that
the water would run out before it

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could be found. When I heard
a noise, it was pretty weird.

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It was nothing I' d heard
before. It seemed something similar to a

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cat’ s purring at first,
but the more I heard it the more

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it felt like the sound of a
very big rat. I started rushing through.

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I wanted to end everything as quickly
as possible. When I heard again

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the same thing I had heard all
night before, only this time it seemed

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to run directly towards me, I
could feel it behind me and I didn

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' t have the courage to turn
around and confront it, so all I

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could do at that time was start
running. I wasn' t interested in

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knowing what was following me. I
was just interested in losing him. I

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ended up falling down a small ravine, rolling and scraping a lot. When

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I got up, I could see
just a few meters away what seemed to

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be the body of a dead coyote. It caught my attention, as I

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could see it was the same coyote
I had seen the day before. He

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knew it was the same, because
he was missing an ear and the tip

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of the tail was white. I
knew that the chances of it having exactly

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those similarities were virtually impossible. I
touched it a little bit with my foot

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and realized it seemed completely empty.
It was as if someone had drained all

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his blood and organs and left only
his skin and hair. When I looked

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more closely, I realized that that
coyote was not the only animal that was

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there. There were more foxes,
snakes, all kinds of animals that didn

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' t seem to have any injuries
or reason why they might have died.

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I couldn' t understand. I
didn' t want to see any more

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and I decided to get out of
there. When I was finally upstairs,

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I realized that in the fall I
had lost the rest of my water.

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I knew I was lost. If
I didn' t find the way soon.

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To my fortune, I still kept
my gun. I heard that distinctive

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running again. I turned around and
what I saw haunts me to this day.

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It looked like a spider, or
at least its almost eight legs looked

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like a spider. They were very
thin, but it was as big as

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a dog' s size. I
couldn' t take a lot of shape.

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The rest of his body was like
a whole body of flesh, which

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didn' t seem to have a
head. It seemed to run very fast

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in my direction, which made me
begin to run again the pain of the

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wounds caused by the fall They were
quite painful, but they did not stop

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me from running to save my life. As I ran, I could hear

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that strange sound similar to that of
a rodent, it seemed annoying. I

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can' t say for sure.
When I fell, because of the pain

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in my foot, I remembered that
I still had my gun with me,

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so without thinking twice I shot,
I did it like three times and I

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think one of them did. I
heard a shout before I ran out in

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the opposite direction, I was able
to continue my way, although it wasn

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' t for long, because for
my fortune I found a van. They

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weren' t looking for me,
but they were passing by, helping me

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and taking me back. Apparently,
they had been looking for me, only

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somewhere else I told what I lived, but I was taken by a madman,

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someone who had suffered hallucinations from dehydration
and intense heat. But I'

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m sure what I saw even today. I feel that thing is still there

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waiting for anyone to venture into their
territory. The man in the woods.

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The world is a complex place,
full of riddles, which is often better

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not to investigate. Every time I
look back, I can remember the face

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perfectly. I know what I saw
that day wasn' t a human being

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and I' m completely convinced it' s still there. Sometimes I feel

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like he didn' t walk away
from me, he keeps looking for me

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and he' s gonna find me
someday. I' m callingÁlvaro.

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I' ve always been a very
strange boy to everyone. I didn'

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t used to hang out with kids
my age or anyone. He was the

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classic shy boy who sat to the
bottom of the living room and was practically

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invisible. I wasn' t upset
about that. On the contrary, I

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enjoyed being here. Alone. I
was sixteen when this happened. My school

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had organized an excursion to one of
the woods. It made me pretty dumb.

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I didn' t used to go
on those excursions. I always had

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excuses or just didn' t introduce
myself. Most of the time. No

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one noticed it, but that time
there was no escape. We were going

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to do some tests on trees or
something. I don' t remember it

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well. The point was that I
had to go, as it counted as

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qualification. The trip was just as
expected. Boring as we walked with a

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group that was not interested in learning
about trees. Or how old I could

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become a protected tree I thought it
was a waste of time, so I

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barely had the chance. I put
on my hearing aids and put on the

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music too loud to make that trip
a little more comfortable. A moment later,

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we were told that we could explore
a little, not without warning that

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we could not get too far away. I didn' t think it was

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such a bad idea. I wanted
to draw something from nature, so I

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set out to look for something good
and by the time I realized I had

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gone far enough away from the group. I didn' t care at first.

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I knew that as soon as I
turned around and walked a little in

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the opposite direction, then I would
find them. I was still looking for

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that thing so perfect to draw and
I finally found it. It was an

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orchid was beautiful. So I got
comfortable on a rock and started drawing.

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I still had pretty high hearing aids
and I didn' t even hear anyone

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say my name looking for me or
something, although, to be honest,

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I doubt anyone even noticed my absence
at the time. When I finished a

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little bit and took off my hearing
aids, there was no sound to follow

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to get back with the gro At
first I got scared, I thought I

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was in a lot of trouble.
I tried to calm down and thought so.

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I would walk a little over my
own steps and then continue the marked

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path. I' d find them
pretty soon and if I was lucky enough,

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they wouldn' t even have noticed
I wasn' t with them,

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so I could integrate before they realized
it. I started walking. The paths

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in the forest can be quite similar
to each other and instead of following my

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own steps, I started to get
lost. After walking, almost half an

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hour I realized I was really lost. I had no idea where I was

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or where to go. I only
saw trees and nature. I didn'

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t know what to do or I
could even think. The only thing I

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thought about was those chapters I'
d seen about people getting lost in the

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woods and never coming out again.
Those thoughts were not comforting at all,

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but I couldn' t help but
think about it. I tried to call

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someone, but my phone didn'
t have coverage in that place. Which

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made it completely useless. It was
obvious that I had to move only that

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I didn' t know where.
I didn' t know if the path

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I decided to take would take me
further inside or get me out of there,

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but I also knew that if I
just stood there I would end up

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being easy prey to some animal.
The sun was starting to hide and I

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had to make a decision, so
I decided to start walking, at least

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to find a good place to hide. By that time I had resigned myself

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to having to spend the night.
That' s where I came to a

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big tree, which looked comfortable enough
to curl up and get some rest.

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I had some sandwiches my mom had
put up for lunch and half a bottle

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of water. I knew it wasn' t enough and I didn' t

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even want to think about when that
was over. I didn' t want

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to eat or drink anything. While
I was sitting there, I thought it

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would be better to keep it for
when I really needed it. As time

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passed, tiredness began to overcome me. Even though I didn' t want

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to sleep in that place, my
eyes began to feel heavy and I began

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to fall asleep. That was the
first time I saw him at a time

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when I woke up a little agitated
because of a noise. I realized that

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a few meters stood a man who
seemed to be turning his back on me.

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I got excited instantly. I thought
my savior was there, maybe even

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looking for me, even though I
couldn' t recognize him, I didn

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' t care. I stood up, started yelling at him and running towards

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him to get his attention, but
it didn' t matter how much he

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screamed. The man seemed to stand
without even realizing my presence. I finally

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got to him and touched his back. By that time I hadn' t

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noticed how strange it was that I
hadn' t turned around to see.

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I just wanted to get out of
that place. As soon as I touched

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his back, he turned around and
what I saw was nothing I expected.

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He looked like an almost normal human
being, at least he had the shape,

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but as for the face, he
was nothing like a human. It

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had only black holes where the eyes
were supposed to be and also the nose

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and what should be the mouth was
deformed. The first thing I did was

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run in the opposite direction to that
man or what looked like a man,

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but he didn' t follow me
because when I turned to see he just

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seemed to be standing in the same
place, he started turning towards me looking

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at me as I walked away.
I went deeper into the woods, but

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I didn' t care. I
just wanted to get away from that thing.

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As soon as I completely lost sight
of him and nearly an hour passed

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without even a hint of him,
I began to relax and try to find

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rational explanations of what I had just
seen. I attributed it to a dream,

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to a hallucination, or maybe I
just saw it wrong, and I

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just got confused. I was trying
to give an explanation to everything I could

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think of, but whatever it was, I always ended up throwing away the

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idea and coming back to the fact
that what I had seen had been real.

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I felt like I was going crazy. I still couldn' t get

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out of that shock because I saw
that thing. When I saw him again

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in the distance, he seemed to
be the same distance as the first time.

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I couldn' t be sure if
he was turning his back on me

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or facing me with what I was
sure was that he knew I was there

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looking at him and that filled me
with terror. I stood up immediately and

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stepped back. That' s when
I knew he was looking at me straight

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ahead and he moved his head to
one side almost similar to when a dog

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seems confused and from one moment to
the next he started to run towards me

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I screamed and ran in the opposite
direction. I didn' t care where

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I was going, I just wanted
to get away from that man. It

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was getting closer and faster. I
don' t know how yet, but

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I managed to lose him. Or
so I thought since I stopped listening to

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his footsteps, although that did not
give me confidence to stop, as I

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continued to run until my legs could
no longer and my lungs were burning.

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I knew I had to hide I
found a safe place, especially because the

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night had already covered everything and I
could not see clearly. The light on

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my phone wasn' t going to
last forever and I knew I had to

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save the battery in case I got
coverage again. I didn' t know

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anything about survival or sheltering, so
I finally chose to stay behind a couple

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of downed trunks. I figured they' d cover me long enough not to

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be seen by that man. I
thought it was working well, because for

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about two hours I didn' t
see that man or anything like that.

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I found myself relaxing a little more
and I was so tired that back the

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tiredness seemed to take control of my
body again, although every fiber of my

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being wanted to be awake, I
could not do it. There came a

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point where I fell asleep and was
awakened to feel like a pair of hands.

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They took me by the feet and
pulled me very hard. I woke

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up just to have right in front
of my face that nightmare being. His

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smile was immutable and he seemed to
enjoy my fear, which had paralyzed me

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at the time. He looked at
me with those black, empty eyes like

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I was a really fascinating creature.
I could feel one of his hands touching

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my head and soon felt a very
strong pain, as he seemed to be

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burying one of his nails, which
he cut like a blade. That made

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me scream very loud, but he
didn' t stop almost seemed to want

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to rip my face off I struggled, but he was much stronger than I

416
00:34:30.760 --> 00:34:35.159
was. I felt it was my
end, but for my fortune, my

417
00:34:35.199 --> 00:34:39.159
screams were heard. Apparently there were
people looking for me and thanks to my

418
00:34:39.199 --> 00:34:45.679
screams they had found me. I
could hear some dogs barking and then see

419
00:34:45.679 --> 00:34:50.320
flashlights. At that moment, that
man took off from me and from moment

420
00:34:50.400 --> 00:34:54.800
to moment. He just vanished into
the night, leaving me lying on the

421
00:34:54.800 --> 00:35:00.159
ground. I was taken to the
hospital that same night. No one could

422
00:35:00.199 --> 00:35:04.119
understand the severity of the wound,
since it was very deep and I still

423
00:35:04.239 --> 00:35:08.239
keep that scar until today it hurts
me sometimes, although I don' t

424
00:35:08.320 --> 00:35:13.880
know if it' s your management. I told what happened to my parents

425
00:35:14.000 --> 00:35:19.639
and the police, who discredited my
story as soon as they asked me for

426
00:35:19.679 --> 00:35:21.760
the man' s description. I
don' t blame them. So,

427
00:35:22.039 --> 00:35:25.639
if someone described me to that guy, I wouldn' t believe his existence

428
00:35:25.679 --> 00:35:31.400
was possible. Some nights I think
I see him by the reflexes or with

429
00:35:31.559 --> 00:35:36.039
the corner of his eye in the
darkest places. It might as well be

430
00:35:36.159 --> 00:35:50.400
just my brain playing a very macabre
joke on me. The rabbit man'

431
00:35:50.440 --> 00:35:53.039
s name is Nicholas. And what
I' m going to tell you next

432
00:35:53.079 --> 00:36:00.679
is the most vivid example of how
some urban legends tend to be much more

433
00:36:00.679 --> 00:36:04.800
than that was the 1990s. I
was 23 years old and I was a

434
00:36:04.880 --> 00:36:08.599
pretty ordinary kid. To tell the
truth, like anyone else, I really

435
00:36:08.639 --> 00:36:14.440
liked spending time with my friends,
who always had hobbies very similar to mine,

436
00:36:14.840 --> 00:36:19.360
and one of the ones we enjoyed
most was camping in forests, which

437
00:36:19.440 --> 00:36:24.840
were not necessarily places or tourist spots. We liked nature in its utmost splendor

438
00:36:24.880 --> 00:36:30.280
and, at the same time,
being completely alone, away from the disturbance

439
00:36:30.320 --> 00:36:36.199
of the city and people. It
was just like the summer break. My

440
00:36:36.239 --> 00:36:40.639
college friends decided we' d go
to a forest in Arkansas. This one

441
00:36:40.719 --> 00:36:47.480
had the peculiarity of being quite dense
and completely surrounded by urban legends. They

442
00:36:47.519 --> 00:36:51.639
knew I was a big fan of
everything that had to do with the paranormal

443
00:36:51.719 --> 00:36:57.559
issue. So they thought I'
d really like to camp in a place

444
00:36:57.639 --> 00:37:00.599
like that. At first I wasn' t very excited about the idea.

445
00:37:01.159 --> 00:37:07.840
My friends said that the legend of
the rabbit man had originated in that place.

446
00:37:07.880 --> 00:37:13.360
I' m not sure if anyone
here already knows this legend, so,

447
00:37:13.920 --> 00:37:17.880
to be on the same page,
I' ll share a somewhat short

448
00:37:17.880 --> 00:37:22.800
version of this one. Outside a
small farming village, a lonely man suffering

449
00:37:22.840 --> 00:37:27.559
from a mental illness lived in a
cabin on the edge of a forest.

450
00:37:29.119 --> 00:37:34.159
This man had an obsession with rabbits
and spent most of his time watching them

451
00:37:34.280 --> 00:37:42.039
and studying them in their natural habitat. One day, the man mysteriously disappeared

452
00:37:42.599 --> 00:37:47.440
and legends about a rabbit man began
to emerge among the locals. It was

453
00:37:47.639 --> 00:37:53.280
said that they had seen him wandering
through nearby fields and forests with a sloppy

454
00:37:53.440 --> 00:38:00.960
appearance and erratic behavior. Some claimed
to have seen him with one day rabbit

455
00:38:00.960 --> 00:38:07.599
figures, thus feeding rumors about his
transformation into a half- man creature half

456
00:38:07.599 --> 00:38:12.360
- rabbit. It was later discovered
that the man had died tragically in the

457
00:38:12.440 --> 00:38:19.440
forest due to complications related to his
illness. The supposed sightings of the rabbit

458
00:38:19.880 --> 00:38:23.440
man were attributed to the exaggerated imagination
and fear of the inhabitants of the village.

459
00:38:24.000 --> 00:38:30.199
Although the story of the rabbit man
persisted as an urban legend, some

460
00:38:30.239 --> 00:38:36.119
residents of the village remembered the lonely
man with compassion, recognizing that his illness

461
00:38:36.199 --> 00:38:42.480
had been misinterpreted and exploited to fuel
local myths and fears. There are many

462
00:38:42.559 --> 00:38:45.920
versions of this story, but the
one I just told is the most popular,

463
00:38:46.480 --> 00:38:51.079
or at least the one I'
ve heard the most in that town

464
00:38:51.079 --> 00:38:55.159
of Arkansas. It used to be
also said that if you were in the

465
00:38:55.360 --> 00:39:00.719
woods during the night and you had
the unfortunate luck to deal with him,

466
00:39:00.920 --> 00:39:01.840
then it would be the last thing
you' d ever see in your life.

467
00:39:02.480 --> 00:39:07.360
It was never very clear what the
rabbit was doing with his victims or

468
00:39:07.960 --> 00:39:13.679
what he wanted or what his motivations
were. It was an urban legend,

469
00:39:14.320 --> 00:39:17.320
quite simple, which, more than
anything, served to keep children away from

470
00:39:17.360 --> 00:39:22.480
the forest and prevent them from getting
lost. It was a little different to

471
00:39:22.559 --> 00:39:29.840
me. I had read about whether
that case had been true or at least

472
00:39:30.159 --> 00:39:36.320
a bit of it. There were
real testimonies and even a police investigation about

473
00:39:36.400 --> 00:39:39.760
a man dressed in rabbit, although
this happened in the early eighties and after

474
00:39:39.880 --> 00:39:45.400
that nothing had been known about among
many urban legends, stories about ghosts and

475
00:39:45.480 --> 00:39:50.800
apparitions, the story of the rabbit
man became one of the most credible,

476
00:39:51.199 --> 00:40:00.519
one that could really happen at any
time. Anyone could well say dress up

477
00:40:00.599 --> 00:40:05.079
like a rabbit and scare people away. So when I was told that place

478
00:40:05.159 --> 00:40:09.320
was the cradle of that legend,
I was immediately moved by the idea of

479
00:40:09.320 --> 00:40:15.199
camping there, so we left.
It was a pretty nice camp. There

480
00:40:15.280 --> 00:40:19.159
was nothing out of the ordinary.
The time came when we were all pretty

481
00:40:19.199 --> 00:40:24.400
drunk, so I can remember it
was pretty fun, but what I can

482
00:40:24.440 --> 00:40:29.400
' t remember at all is how
I got to where I woke up.

483
00:40:29.880 --> 00:40:34.000
I was awakened by the rays of
the sun. Hitting directly on the face.

484
00:40:34.679 --> 00:40:40.440
I got up pretty quiet thinking I
was still at camp. I soon

485
00:40:40.519 --> 00:40:46.280
realized that I did not recognize the
place and was surrounded by nature without any

486
00:40:46.400 --> 00:40:52.920
trace of my friends. I thought
maybe I had just separated a little bit

487
00:40:52.599 --> 00:40:59.079
and if I walked, then I
would easily get back to my friends or

488
00:40:59.079 --> 00:41:05.000
camp. I was still quite dizzy
about everything I ingested the night before and

489
00:41:05.079 --> 00:41:10.000
I wasn' t very sure where
to go so I started walking and by

490
00:41:10.039 --> 00:41:15.760
the time I realized it I was
missing. I spent a day and a

491
00:41:15.079 --> 00:41:20.079
half walking and trying to reach out. Time was passing very fast as I

492
00:41:20.119 --> 00:41:23.559
tried to find my way back,
but I quickly realized that I was walking

493
00:41:23.599 --> 00:41:30.239
in circles, as many trees really
looked alike and could not understand how I

494
00:41:30.280 --> 00:41:35.079
was going to get out. It
was the night of the second day.

495
00:41:35.559 --> 00:41:40.920
I was very hungry and thirsty.
By that time I felt I would probably

496
00:41:40.960 --> 00:41:45.360
die in that place. I remembered
all the programs I' d seen about

497
00:41:45.440 --> 00:41:51.920
people dying in the woods from animal
attacks or poison bug bites, and I

498
00:41:52.000 --> 00:41:58.159
thought that would sooner or later happen
to me. I was immersed in my

499
00:41:58.760 --> 00:42:02.239
thoughts almost about to fall asleep.
When I first saw him, even though

500
00:42:02.280 --> 00:42:07.119
he was almost closing my eyes,
I could distinguish a rather strange silhouette,

501
00:42:07.679 --> 00:42:13.480
which was a couple of meters hidden
behind a tree trying to see me and

502
00:42:13.559 --> 00:42:20.079
then again hiding behind it. The
more I saw that strange silhouette, the

503
00:42:20.159 --> 00:42:23.280
more I was made to take the
particular form of a rabbit. I had

504
00:42:23.360 --> 00:42:30.559
big ears, which were the most
striking thing to see I was very puzzled.

505
00:42:30.599 --> 00:42:36.239
I even thought I was hallucinating because
of hunger and thirst but after a

506
00:42:36.280 --> 00:42:39.639
while of looking at it, I
knew I was really there and I wasn

507
00:42:39.719 --> 00:42:45.320
' t imagining anything. That'
s when I knew something really had to

508
00:42:45.320 --> 00:42:51.199
be wrong. I stood up slowly. I didn' t want to make

509
00:42:51.719 --> 00:42:55.480
a sudden move, but at the
same time, I wanted to run away

510
00:42:55.480 --> 00:42:59.599
as quickly as possible that situation.
It really gave me the creeps and it

511
00:42:59.679 --> 00:43:02.920
wasn' t because of the rabbit
man legend. It was more because I

512
00:43:04.119 --> 00:43:08.599
felt that, far from being a
ghost or a supernatural entity, it might

513
00:43:08.719 --> 00:43:15.159
well be a psychopath who had seen
me as an easy prey. As soon

514
00:43:15.280 --> 00:43:20.280
as I took a couple of steps
back while looking at him, he seemed

515
00:43:20.280 --> 00:43:23.639
to be upset, as he came
out completely from behind the tree and let

516
00:43:23.719 --> 00:43:28.519
himself be seen only for almost immediately. Start running in my direction running so

517
00:43:28.599 --> 00:43:32.719
fast and nimble that I couldn'
t understand how I could do it with

518
00:43:32.760 --> 00:43:37.719
that rabbit costume. I didn'
t want to stand there and wait for

519
00:43:37.880 --> 00:43:44.320
him, so I just turned around
and also started to run I felt that

520
00:43:44.360 --> 00:43:49.159
nothing I did or how fast I
ran was of much use, as this

521
00:43:49.239 --> 00:43:52.039
one seemed to be getting closer and
closer. I couldn' t understand how

522
00:43:52.159 --> 00:43:55.480
agile he was with that. Put
it on and finally this one knocked me

523
00:43:55.480 --> 00:44:00.280
down. We both fell to the
ground and struggled ns a little. He

524
00:44:00.320 --> 00:44:07.360
didn' t emit any kind of
sound, he just seemed to want to

525
00:44:07.400 --> 00:44:09.039
subdue me I started hitting him and
hurting him. I don' t know

526
00:44:09.079 --> 00:44:14.880
how long we' ve been struggling. I don' t remember very well

527
00:44:15.000 --> 00:44:17.239
all the details of what happened.
Then, I will never be able to

528
00:44:17.280 --> 00:44:22.400
take it out of my mind,
given my frustration, when I thought that

529
00:44:22.480 --> 00:44:29.559
the suit protected him against my beatings, I began to have the sole purpose

530
00:44:29.559 --> 00:44:34.039
of taking his head off the costume
So, at least I could see who

531
00:44:34.159 --> 00:44:38.719
he was and if he was alive
I could give a better testimony to the

532
00:44:38.760 --> 00:44:44.880
police about my attacker, for when
I finally managed to take my head off

533
00:44:45.679 --> 00:44:49.800
a blow, I looked in horror
at how under the suit there was no

534
00:44:49.840 --> 00:44:54.239
one the impression of that, along
with that being separated from me to pick

535
00:44:54.239 --> 00:44:55.559
up his head and made me get
up and run away completely terrified. I

536
00:44:55.639 --> 00:45:00.159
didn' t hear him following me
at all, and I was pretty relieved

537
00:45:00.159 --> 00:45:05.920
about it. I ran for a
long time until I finally got to a

538
00:45:05.960 --> 00:45:09.079
road that was a little familiar to
me. I was very far from the

539
00:45:09.079 --> 00:45:15.239
camp, but I could recognize one
of the signs, so I knew I

540
00:45:15.360 --> 00:45:22.280
had made it out. I looked
back one last time just to make sure

541
00:45:22.320 --> 00:45:25.519
that thing wasn' t following me
and for my fortune, it wasn'

542
00:45:25.519 --> 00:45:30.599
t. I came to a house, which was a pretty nice man'

543
00:45:31.159 --> 00:45:36.519
s and he let me use his
phone, so I managed to be rescued.

544
00:45:37.199 --> 00:45:40.239
I never went back to that place
or camping. That certainly ended for

545
00:45:40.400 --> 00:45:45.960
me. Even today. I can
perfectly remember that rabbit suit, pretty sun

546
00:45:47.199 --> 00:45:53.239
- weared and dirty by the ground
and dry leaves. Sometimes I want to

547
00:45:53.400 --> 00:45:58.719
convince myself that it was just a
dream because of all the stories I had

548
00:45:58.800 --> 00:46:02.280
heard about the rabbit man and also
because of the fact that I was very

549
00:46:02.360 --> 00:46:16.119
weak in a rather stressful situation.
The Devil' s cave called me Leo

550
00:46:16.239 --> 00:46:21.559
and what happened to me that day
was an event that had an impact on

551
00:46:21.559 --> 00:46:27.039
everything I believed. I would even
dare to say that it continued to affect

552
00:46:27.039 --> 00:46:30.280
my life today. I was twenty- nine years old when it all happened.

553
00:46:30.800 --> 00:46:36.880
He was a reporter who wished with
all his might to become someone relevant

554
00:46:36.920 --> 00:46:40.639
in the industry. He had many
good colleagues who wanted what I wanted and

555
00:46:40.639 --> 00:46:46.760
since the position was quite demanding.
Commonly, our bosses took advantage of it

556
00:46:47.360 --> 00:46:52.039
and put us to compete with each
other in order, according to them,

557
00:46:52.280 --> 00:46:57.360
to show who wanted it most.
I don' t remember the endless hours

558
00:46:57.480 --> 00:47:02.119
I spent trying to please those people
who wouldn' t raise their hand to

559
00:47:02.239 --> 00:47:05.159
vote because I lived or didn'
t give them enough of the same.

560
00:47:05.639 --> 00:47:09.280
But at that time I really wanted
the job and I didn' t care

561
00:47:09.320 --> 00:47:15.719
about anything but getting it. That
was my goal at the beginning of October

562
00:47:15.760 --> 00:47:20.599
and the reports that caught the most
attention at the time were those that had

563
00:47:20.679 --> 00:47:24.719
to do with spirits or ghosts,
so they asked us to investigate one and

564
00:47:24.760 --> 00:47:30.440
that at the end of the month
they would choose the best. I thought

565
00:47:30.480 --> 00:47:34.840
it would be a great opportunity to
show them that I was capable. He

566
00:47:34.880 --> 00:47:38.800
was a big fan of the paranormal
subject and knew he could do a good

567
00:47:38.800 --> 00:47:45.599
job. I spent a lot of
hours looking for the perfect topic on which

568
00:47:45.159 --> 00:47:51.639
to do my report and finally came
across a small article about a rural village

569
00:47:51.679 --> 00:47:55.880
in which many inhabitants claimed that there
was a cave that was the entrance to

570
00:47:55.880 --> 00:48:01.920
hell. That cave was better known
as the Devil' s Cave. Looking

571
00:48:01.960 --> 00:48:07.760
into it a little bit further,
I saw that there was a lot of

572
00:48:07.039 --> 00:48:10.519
material that would make the report something
very interesting. There were countless testimonies from

573
00:48:10.599 --> 00:48:16.400
people who claimed that if you went
to the hill where the cave was located

574
00:48:16.480 --> 00:48:22.239
at some time of the night,
you could see creatures leave there. Others

575
00:48:22.280 --> 00:48:27.519
said that anyone who dared enter could
no longer leave. No doubt, they

576
00:48:27.599 --> 00:48:32.880
were testimonies quite similar to any other. I thought it was interesting enough to

577
00:48:32.920 --> 00:48:37.360
make a report about that. I
wanted to make it a little more personal.

578
00:48:37.639 --> 00:48:44.039
So, instead of simply gathering testimonies
to do that report, I decided

579
00:48:44.679 --> 00:48:49.559
to go straight to the village to
take my own shots of the cave and

580
00:48:49.599 --> 00:48:53.360
maybe go a little further to record
the inside. At that time I wasn

581
00:48:53.719 --> 00:48:58.800
' t even able to dimension into
what I was getting into. I went

582
00:48:58.880 --> 00:49:01.880
to town with just a handheld camera
and wanted to do a good job.

583
00:49:02.559 --> 00:49:07.960
The first few hours in town I
spent talking to people, trying to get

584
00:49:07.000 --> 00:49:12.760
them to tell their stories and that
kind of thing. Many did not want

585
00:49:12.800 --> 00:49:16.559
to talk about it. I assumed
it was normal, because small towns used

586
00:49:16.599 --> 00:49:22.480
to be like this and I didn' t want to force anyone to do

587
00:49:22.599 --> 00:49:27.280
it, so I didn' t
manage to get many new testimonies. After

588
00:49:27.320 --> 00:49:32.000
that failed attempt to get testimonies,
I decided better to go to the hill

589
00:49:32.199 --> 00:49:37.400
to visit the Devil’ s famous
cave. When I got to this one

590
00:49:37.480 --> 00:49:40.280
it seemed a fairly common cave.
I could not see the bottom in plain

591
00:49:40.880 --> 00:49:45.960
sight and, according to what the
inhabitants of the village had told, it

592
00:49:45.039 --> 00:49:52.159
had no end, which seemed impossible
to me. I decided that as soon

593
00:49:52.239 --> 00:49:57.280
as it got darker, I would
come in being honest, I wasn'

594
00:49:57.360 --> 00:50:02.760
t very sure to enter, not
so much because I believed in all those

595
00:50:02.840 --> 00:50:09.000
islands, but because it really looked
deep and I had heard cases of people

596
00:50:09.079 --> 00:50:15.039
getting lost going into caves, so
I didn' t plan on going in

597
00:50:15.079 --> 00:50:20.719
too much, just a little bit
to tell more about the history of the

598
00:50:20.760 --> 00:50:22.519
cave and then going out were about
two in the morning and I felt it

599
00:50:22.519 --> 00:50:23.920
would be a good time to get
in. Most sightings of those things occurred

600
00:50:24.000 --> 00:50:31.719
around 2 a m, so I
approached the entrance cautiously. I didn'

601
00:50:31.840 --> 00:50:37.840
t see a demon coming out of
the cave or anything, and I decided

602
00:50:37.880 --> 00:50:39.199
to go a little further into the
cave. I didn' t have a

603
00:50:39.280 --> 00:50:44.559
good set to record in the dark, so I tried to do what I

604
00:50:44.760 --> 00:50:52.719
could with the camera and a flashlight
kept telling stories and I got as far

605
00:50:52.800 --> 00:50:55.679
as the mysterious symbols many mentioned were. They didn' t seem satanic or

606
00:50:55.760 --> 00:51:01.159
significant to me. They looked like
scribbles, made of teenagers who had nothing

607
00:51:01.199 --> 00:51:06.519
better to do and, in fact, I remember mentioning it. There came

608
00:51:06.599 --> 00:51:12.239
a time when I thought I'
d gone too far, so I decided

609
00:51:12.239 --> 00:51:15.840
to come back. I turned off
the camera and turned around. When I

610
00:51:15.960 --> 00:51:17.679
did, I saw I couldn'
t see the way out. To the

611
00:51:17.800 --> 00:51:22.719
naked eye. That didn' t
make sense. I was sure I hadn

612
00:51:22.800 --> 00:51:25.039
' t come in enough so I
couldn' t see the way out.

613
00:51:25.559 --> 00:51:30.800
He had only taken about forty or
fifty steps inward. I walked a little

614
00:51:30.840 --> 00:51:36.840
in the hope of seeing the exit
soon, but after a few minutes I

615
00:51:36.920 --> 00:51:40.960
started to panic. I got to
the point of running, but I could

616
00:51:42.039 --> 00:51:46.039
see nothing but rocks and darkness.
I really wanted to stay calm and think

617
00:51:46.119 --> 00:51:52.360
clearly, but the situation was not
conducive to that. Tired of feeling lost,

618
00:51:52.599 --> 00:51:55.719
I wanted to clear my ideas and
think of the best way out of

619
00:51:55.760 --> 00:52:00.760
the cave. That' s when
my flashlight started giving slight flashes until it

620
00:52:00.840 --> 00:52:07.760
finally went out. When this happened, I was in complete darkness. Because

621
00:52:07.760 --> 00:52:12.079
of the panic this caused me,
I had no idea what to think or

622
00:52:12.159 --> 00:52:15.559
what to do. I couldn'
t even see my hand in front of

623
00:52:15.559 --> 00:52:19.039
my face. Because of the darkness
so deep around me, I got up

624
00:52:19.800 --> 00:52:24.639
and began to grope. I thought
if I sat there, I wouldn'

625
00:52:24.679 --> 00:52:30.320
t find myself, so I should
try to get out. I don'

626
00:52:30.400 --> 00:52:32.880
t know how long I' ve
been walking like that. I wasn'

627
00:52:32.960 --> 00:52:38.639
t sure if I was dating or
going further, although I was quite convinced

628
00:52:38.679 --> 00:52:44.239
it was the second. I walked
a little longer before I heard the first

629
00:52:44.239 --> 00:52:47.480
noise. It was like when they
hit two little sticks over and over again.

630
00:52:49.119 --> 00:52:52.880
I think that' s the closest
sound I can describe that noise with.

631
00:52:53.159 --> 00:52:59.199
I didn' t know exactly where
it came from, because because because

632
00:52:59.280 --> 00:53:02.400
of the darkness I could only be
guided by my ear and, given the

633
00:53:02.880 --> 00:53:07.239
echo the cave had, the sound
could come from anywhere. I didn'

634
00:53:07.280 --> 00:53:12.280
t even know where to look or
what to do, so I put my

635
00:53:12.320 --> 00:53:17.599
back against the wall and tried desperately
to turn my flashlight back on in one

636
00:53:17.639 --> 00:53:22.119
of those desperate blows. Suddenly one
would think I was relieved about it,

637
00:53:22.719 --> 00:53:29.360
but it was quite the opposite,
because now I could see what caused the

638
00:53:29.480 --> 00:53:35.559
strange noise. I' m not
sure it was like smoke, a very

639
00:53:35.599 --> 00:53:40.480
black cloud of smoke that also sparked
a strong rotting smell, which almost made

640
00:53:40.599 --> 00:53:45.960
me throw up that cloud. Or
whatever it was, it was coming straight

641
00:53:45.000 --> 00:53:50.559
at me. I wanted to start
running, but my feet didn' t

642
00:53:50.559 --> 00:53:54.280
answer. You may have enough strength
to lift one of my arms and try

643
00:53:54.360 --> 00:54:00.639
to push it away. Touch wasn' t like smoke or something. It

644
00:54:00.760 --> 00:54:05.679
felt more like touching meat. I
don' t know what happened next,

645
00:54:06.119 --> 00:54:09.360
since I lost consciousness and before I
closed my eyes. I remember my last

646
00:54:09.440 --> 00:54:14.800
thought was that I was going to
die in that cave. I woke up

647
00:54:14.880 --> 00:54:19.079
in a hospital. Apparently, one
person had found me and from what they

648
00:54:19.119 --> 00:54:22.400
told me, found me lying at
the entrance of the cave. I had

649
00:54:22.440 --> 00:54:27.440
my vital signs very weak. I
don' t have any idea what I

650
00:54:27.559 --> 00:54:30.559
saw that day, but I'
m 100% sure it was real.

651
00:54:31.679 --> 00:54:37.119
Unfortunately, I lost my camera and
everything I had recorded, although I never

652
00:54:37.440 --> 00:54:42.440
actually recorded that thing, so it
wouldn' t be worth anything. As

653
00:54:42.559 --> 00:54:47.599
proof from that day I have many
dreams, strange dreams of hell. I

654
00:54:47.639 --> 00:54:52.400
think I' m destined to end
up there no matter what he does to

655
00:54:52.480 --> 00:54:55.719
me, he tells me. It
took me a long time to get out

656
00:54:55.719 --> 00:55:00.440
of the hospital. Many consider it
a miracle I' ve known there are

657
00:55:00.519 --> 00:55:04.360
days when I wake up and feel
like I' m still in the cave.

658
00:55:04.880 --> 00:55:08.440
I don' t know why the
place could be the entrance to hell

659
00:55:08.480 --> 00:55:14.079
or at least a portal, something
that the human being isn' t even

660
00:55:14.119 --> 00:55:28.360
able to understand. The town.
Human beings. We think we know the

661
00:55:28.440 --> 00:55:32.599
answer for almost everything. Some of
us are so bold that we dare call

662
00:55:32.800 --> 00:55:37.880
lies to things we can' t
even understand. And I was like this

663
00:55:37.039 --> 00:55:43.360
last group. I used to make
fun of people' s beliefs and used

664
00:55:43.480 --> 00:55:49.679
to be the classic skeptic who was
looking for a logical explanation for anything and

665
00:55:49.679 --> 00:55:52.440
it worked very well for me,
because most of the time there was.

666
00:55:52.039 --> 00:55:57.559
But this changed a good day in
November. I was thirty years old at

667
00:55:57.920 --> 00:56:01.679
the time and was quite excited to
take a road trip. It wasn'

668
00:56:01.800 --> 00:56:06.960
t my first trip, but if
it was going to be the longest,

669
00:56:07.239 --> 00:56:10.480
I said I was going to have
adventures and live things I would never experience

670
00:56:10.480 --> 00:56:15.559
in the city. He planned to
do it alone and had been planning it

671
00:56:15.559 --> 00:56:17.480
for a long time. I was
planning on going in my car for a

672
00:56:19.039 --> 00:56:23.599
whole month, getting to know many
places and, in general, having fun,

673
00:56:24.320 --> 00:56:28.960
the trip was perfect and met all
my expectations for the first two weeks.

674
00:56:29.079 --> 00:56:32.400
Like I said, everything was going
pretty well for that point in the

675
00:56:32.400 --> 00:56:37.440
trip. I already considered myself a
complete expert in fixing my car when I

676
00:56:37.519 --> 00:56:42.760
had any faults or when it came
to finding a place to sleep. If

677
00:56:42.840 --> 00:56:49.000
I couldn' t find rooms available
in some passing hotel at the time there

678
00:56:49.119 --> 00:56:53.719
were no things like GPS or smartphones, which is why it was very easy

679
00:56:53.760 --> 00:56:59.400
to change the route and although I
couldn' t read a map perfectly,

680
00:56:59.719 --> 00:57:04.679
that never discouraged me, as I
was always on the way back. That

681
00:57:04.760 --> 00:57:08.920
day was almost eight o’ clock
at night when I began to notice that

682
00:57:08.960 --> 00:57:13.760
the path I had taken was not
the right one. As planned, he

683
00:57:14.079 --> 00:57:17.119
was supposed to arrive at a place
around eight o' clock at night,

684
00:57:17.679 --> 00:57:23.039
but the only thing he could see
around was earth and desert nature. I

685
00:57:23.079 --> 00:57:28.840
stopped the car for a moment to
think better and check the map, and

686
00:57:29.039 --> 00:57:32.719
that' s when I realized that
I had the wrong route and that it

687
00:57:32.800 --> 00:57:37.000
was advisable to return. When I
wanted to, I realized my car didn

688
00:57:37.079 --> 00:57:42.559
' t start again. It didn' t make sense, I had the

689
00:57:42.559 --> 00:57:46.639
tank full and before I left I
made sure it was okay, I decided

690
00:57:46.719 --> 00:57:51.800
to get off to check what was
wrong. I spent a lot of time

691
00:57:51.800 --> 00:57:57.039
checking and moving, but no matter
what I did, I couldn' t

692
00:57:57.719 --> 00:58:02.960
get the car on That started worrying
that I knew that if I couldn'

693
00:58:04.039 --> 00:58:05.800
t get it on, I would
soon have to spend the night in that

694
00:58:05.800 --> 00:58:09.599
place. At one point I gave
up turning it on. I started looking

695
00:58:09.639 --> 00:58:15.159
around more than anything to make sure
I didn' t stand somewhere dangerous.

696
00:58:17.400 --> 00:58:22.880
That' s when I got to
see some lights were a little far away,

697
00:58:23.719 --> 00:58:28.239
but they were perfectly visible. I
thought they might as well be from

698
00:58:28.239 --> 00:58:31.719
some house, which might help me. So I didn' t think twice

699
00:58:31.760 --> 00:58:37.199
before I started walking there. It
didn' t take too long to walk.

700
00:58:37.519 --> 00:58:40.079
I' d say about 20 minutes
when I got to the entrance of

701
00:58:40.079 --> 00:58:45.719
a town. This one didn'
t have a name, it just had

702
00:58:45.719 --> 00:58:47.960
a sign that said welcome. The
town looked pretty old and many of the

703
00:58:49.000 --> 00:58:55.639
houses seemed to be Adobe with roofs
mostly of sheets. So I just walked

704
00:58:55.679 --> 00:59:00.480
into town thinking that if I couldn' t get there from someone, I

705
00:59:00.840 --> 00:59:07.320
could at least get a phone to
call a crane. As I walked through

706
00:59:07.320 --> 00:59:12.960
the streets of that town, I
came across some strange looks. I felt

707
00:59:13.280 --> 00:59:16.239
I wasn' t very welcome in
that place. Soon I ran into a

708
00:59:16.440 --> 00:59:22.480
man who seemed willing to talk to
me. I told him what happened to

709
00:59:22.559 --> 00:59:27.599
my car and that' s when
he told me they couldn' t help

710
00:59:27.599 --> 00:59:31.880
me. When I asked for a
phone this told me that there was no

711
00:59:31.880 --> 00:59:37.679
phone there, I was a little
tired to even think about walking back to

712
00:59:37.719 --> 00:59:43.719
the point where my car was.
I asked if there was somewhere I could

713
00:59:43.760 --> 00:59:46.679
spend the night. He said yes
and gave me the name of a woman

714
00:59:46.760 --> 00:59:52.880
who seemed to have some rooms for
rent and who could probably rent one for

715
00:59:53.039 --> 00:59:59.519
one night. Thankful, I set
out to walk where I had been told

716
00:59:59.639 --> 01:00:05.000
that woman lived. That' s
when I noticed something strange. As I

717
01:00:05.000 --> 01:00:09.559
walked, I heard a donkey snorting
was very strong and no matter where I

718
01:00:09.639 --> 01:00:15.119
turned, I didn' t see
any donkey. There were some dogs and

719
01:00:15.119 --> 01:00:17.840
chickens, but I didn' t
see that animal. Even though that squawking

720
01:00:19.199 --> 01:00:24.800
was heard very close to me I
decided not to give it much importance and

721
01:00:24.840 --> 01:00:30.800
continue walking, but the more the
sound did it seemed to get stronger and

722
01:00:30.800 --> 01:00:36.000
stronger, as if it was getting
closer to me. Instead of moving away,

723
01:00:37.000 --> 01:00:42.400
I began to rush the pace,
as I really began to get restless

724
01:00:42.400 --> 01:00:46.960
and the further I went, I
realized that I was going into a part

725
01:00:47.000 --> 01:00:52.000
of town where there were no people
and the few lights were non- existent.

726
01:00:52.599 --> 01:00:55.280
The only thing I had to light
the way was the moonlight and all

727
01:00:57.360 --> 01:01:04.679
that was getting quite restless, but
I kept walking the more I walked the

728
01:01:05.000 --> 01:01:08.920
more I watched. I felt like
someone was watching every step I took and

729
01:01:09.000 --> 01:01:15.239
soon I began to hear steps behind
me. That' s when I turned

730
01:01:15.400 --> 01:01:20.920
around to see who it was and
then I saw him a few meters away.

731
01:01:20.960 --> 01:01:24.119
There was a donkey, but it
wasn' t any donkey. This

732
01:01:24.320 --> 01:01:30.519
one was standing on two legs.
He seemed to be seeing me directly and

733
01:01:30.599 --> 01:01:36.400
although he couldn' t see the
factions in his face, I was pretty

734
01:01:36.440 --> 01:01:42.079
sure he was looking at me with
a lot of hate at the impact of

735
01:01:42.199 --> 01:01:43.840
seeing a thing like that It'
s really something I don' t wish

736
01:01:43.840 --> 01:01:47.880
anyone. The donkey was fully upright
at the same time that it was very

737
01:01:47.880 --> 01:01:52.079
large, bigger than any other donkey
I' ve ever seen. He rebuzzed

738
01:01:52.159 --> 01:01:57.440
again, but this time he was
stronger to the point of making me tremble.

739
01:01:58.679 --> 01:02:01.719
I picked up control of my legs
and started running. I don'

740
01:02:01.800 --> 01:02:07.599
t think I' ve ever run
so fast in my life and while I

741
01:02:07.679 --> 01:02:12.679
was doing so I can almost swear
that I heard him laugh as he ran,

742
01:02:13.079 --> 01:02:15.280
I could see almost at the end
of the street that there was a

743
01:02:15.280 --> 01:02:16.519
woman watching the whole scene from the
door of his house. I screamed for

744
01:02:16.559 --> 01:02:22.679
her help, but the woman remained
completely immutable until I got to where she

745
01:02:22.679 --> 01:02:27.400
was. He let me through to
his house and locked the door, not

746
01:02:27.440 --> 01:02:30.960
before pouring some salt into his entrance. It took me a while to catch

747
01:02:31.000 --> 01:02:37.280
my breath, but the woman was
quite patient. It seemed like I understood

748
01:02:37.360 --> 01:02:43.079
what was happening to me, so
I just let it take my time before

749
01:02:43.119 --> 01:02:49.639
I could talk again. The only
thing I could ask was that it was

750
01:02:49.639 --> 01:02:53.119
that, to which she replied that
it was only the sorcerer. It was

751
01:02:53.199 --> 01:02:59.280
not very clear to me when she
said that and I think she could see

752
01:02:59.320 --> 01:03:02.880
it, since without me asking anything, she began to say that from time

753
01:03:04.199 --> 01:03:08.159
to time there was a sorcerer who
went to town and chose some people,

754
01:03:08.480 --> 01:03:14.760
who were never seen again. That
didn' t have any logic or sense

755
01:03:15.239 --> 01:03:20.679
for me and for a moment I
thought they were trying to make a joke

756
01:03:20.719 --> 01:03:24.639
on me, but seeing his face
seriously, I quickly realized that this wasn

757
01:03:24.639 --> 01:03:29.840
' t so. Even with some
disbelief. I questioned why they didn'

758
01:03:29.840 --> 01:03:32.599
t call the police if that was
true, or why they didn' t

759
01:03:32.639 --> 01:03:38.039
do anything about it, but she
just told me they didn' t even

760
01:03:38.039 --> 01:03:42.320
know who I was. In fact, this one only appeared from time to

761
01:03:42.519 --> 01:03:45.320
time and took the people without anyone
noticing and that the only thing they had

762
01:03:45.440 --> 01:03:52.039
as a warning were those donkey sounds, which were suddenly heard throughout the town.

763
01:03:53.519 --> 01:03:58.880
He told me that he had been
very lucky, since apparently he had

764
01:03:58.960 --> 01:04:02.239
not liked it at all and that, otherwise, he would not have even

765
01:04:02.280 --> 01:04:09.639
had the opportunity to come with her
and that probably the only thing he wanted

766
01:04:09.719 --> 01:04:13.639
was to scare me. I didn' t know how to feel about it.

767
01:04:14.320 --> 01:04:18.679
All that was too much to process
and no matter how hard I tried,

768
01:04:19.079 --> 01:04:24.599
I couldn' t find a logical
explanation for all that. The woman

769
01:04:24.639 --> 01:04:28.559
told me she couldn' t get
out of there anymore, she had already

770
01:04:28.599 --> 01:04:32.079
put the grain salt in the entrance
and that breaking it could have consequences.

771
01:04:32.119 --> 01:04:36.639
I didn' t question your methods
to drive that animal away. I just

772
01:04:36.679 --> 01:04:41.840
sat down and thanked myself for letting
me be there. I questioned a little

773
01:04:41.880 --> 01:04:45.719
bit more about it, but the
woman seemed not to tell me exactly what

774
01:04:45.719 --> 01:04:50.199
she was. He was just telling
me he was a sorcerer and whatever he

775
01:04:50.280 --> 01:04:58.679
did to the people he took away. These were never seen again. I

776
01:04:58.760 --> 01:05:02.880
couldn' t sleep that night I
spent the night dreaming about that donkey,

777
01:05:03.599 --> 01:05:09.760
listening to his squawking and even at
one point in the night, I was

778
01:05:09.800 --> 01:05:14.400
sure that animal was trying to get
into the house, but fortunately it didn

779
01:05:14.400 --> 01:05:18.760
' t. When the first rays
of the sun began to appear, the

780
01:05:18.840 --> 01:05:23.840
woman told me that it was safe
to leave and that it would be best

781
01:05:24.320 --> 01:05:27.480
if I left, since that place
was not a place for me. They

782
01:05:27.559 --> 01:05:31.960
didn' t have to say it
twice I went straight to my car and,

783
01:05:32.760 --> 01:05:36.079
for my fortune after a couple of
attempts, I managed to get it

784
01:05:36.079 --> 01:05:41.519
on. That was an event I
could never explain, and I don'

785
01:05:47.599 --> 01:05:53.400
t think anyone will be able to
explain the island. Sometimes I wish I

786
01:05:53.440 --> 01:05:56.599
hadn' t lived what I lived. Every time I close my eyes,

787
01:05:56.840 --> 01:06:02.880
the memory is there, it persists
no matter how hard I tried to forget

788
01:06:02.920 --> 01:06:04.840
it, trying to convince myself that
it wasn' t real. Many tell

789
01:06:04.920 --> 01:06:10.760
me that it was only the fruit
of my imagination, that I did not

790
01:06:10.840 --> 01:06:15.039
think clearly given the circumstances in which
I was at that time. But I

791
01:06:15.119 --> 01:06:17.159
know it was real. There'
s a part of me that knows,

792
01:06:17.840 --> 01:06:23.320
a part of me that refuses to
let me forget. I hope you don

793
01:06:23.440 --> 01:06:26.519
' t mind if I don'
t tell you my name. I'

794
01:06:26.599 --> 01:06:29.960
d rather stay anonymous. What I
want to tell you today is a part

795
01:06:29.960 --> 01:06:34.559
of my life that if I hadn' t lived it I probably wouldn'

796
01:06:34.559 --> 01:06:40.199
t believe it. No one who
told me would think that he has a

797
01:06:40.400 --> 01:06:44.599
lot of imagination or that he got
it out of some horror movie, but

798
01:06:44.639 --> 01:06:47.400
it was my turn to live it
I was twenty years old. She was

799
01:06:47.480 --> 01:06:53.320
a bit of a smug person,
since I always had all my hands full

800
01:06:53.360 --> 01:06:57.440
and because I didn' t have
much parental supervision. It was not much

801
01:06:57.559 --> 01:07:00.960
surprise when I became a young man
who I thought I could do what I

802
01:07:01.039 --> 01:07:06.719
wanted when I wanted and there would
be no consequences. It was Easter season.

803
01:07:08.280 --> 01:07:13.239
Many of us were on vacation with
a group of friends who were just

804
01:07:13.280 --> 01:07:16.800
as spoiled as I was. We
had decided to celebrate it big. We

805
01:07:16.960 --> 01:07:21.159
took one of the father' s
boats from one of my friends and decided

806
01:07:21.239 --> 01:07:25.519
to have a little party in the
middle of the sea. We didn'

807
01:07:25.559 --> 01:07:30.159
t have the necessary security to do
something like that. Moreover, only one

808
01:07:30.280 --> 01:07:34.719
of us knew how to handle that
huge ship and, to be Francos at

809
01:07:34.719 --> 01:07:38.559
all, it is not that he
knew how to do it well either.

810
01:07:39.119 --> 01:07:43.199
I' d only done it a
couple of times. We didn' t

811
01:07:43.320 --> 01:07:47.760
care much about that we just wanted
to have a good time and we did.

812
01:07:47.800 --> 01:07:51.960
It was almost midnight, when the
alcohol was coming to an end and

813
01:07:53.000 --> 01:07:57.719
we were all in a rather deplorable
state. The only friend who knew how

814
01:07:57.800 --> 01:08:00.840
to drive that boat was so bad
that he could barely stand up. We

815
01:08:00.840 --> 01:08:06.519
didn' t care. On the
contrary, we found a storm funny.

816
01:08:06.639 --> 01:08:11.840
He took us by surprise. An
hour later. It seemed like a slight

817
01:08:11.920 --> 01:08:15.559
breeze at first and we didn'
t want to take on the importance we

818
01:08:15.559 --> 01:08:20.520
owed. That slight breeze soon turned
into a very ugly storm. We were

819
01:08:20.560 --> 01:08:25.920
on a little boat that we had
no idea how to drive, and that

820
01:08:26.079 --> 01:08:31.039
triggered in the worst possible scenario.
We ended up in the water. I

821
01:08:31.159 --> 01:08:35.359
remember screaming and crying, but I
don' t remember very well the moment

822
01:08:35.439 --> 01:08:40.960
I managed to take a Lifeguard,
which managed to keep me afloat even with

823
01:08:41.000 --> 01:08:45.159
my alcohol level very high. The
current dragged me away from my friends,

824
01:08:45.840 --> 01:08:49.560
who didn' t make it.
I was the only survivor of that reckless

825
01:08:49.680 --> 01:08:57.640
party. I was dragged to an
island. I thought I was lucky enough

826
01:08:57.640 --> 01:09:00.600
as soon as I touched the earth. I felt grateful. I had no

827
01:09:00.760 --> 01:09:05.199
idea how he would survive there,
but I thought anything would be better than

828
01:09:05.279 --> 01:09:11.119
going on in the water. The
first thing I did was try to get

829
01:09:11.159 --> 01:09:15.680
something to eat, because I was
hungry. I managed to find something,

830
01:09:15.079 --> 01:09:19.399
which was some fruit. They weren' t very mature, but at the

831
01:09:19.439 --> 01:09:24.800
time I didn' t care much
I was eating. When I heard the

832
01:09:24.920 --> 01:09:28.439
first voice it was pretty scratchy and
I couldn' t understand what he said.

833
01:09:29.000 --> 01:09:31.680
I turned right away to see who
it was. I felt even a

834
01:09:31.760 --> 01:09:38.119
little relieved to think there were people
there, but when I turned around I

835
01:09:38.159 --> 01:09:41.600
couldn' t see anyone. I
got up right away and headed where I

836
01:09:41.720 --> 01:09:46.560
thought I heard the voice, calling
whoever was hiding and telling him a little

837
01:09:46.640 --> 01:09:51.239
bit about what had happened to me. But when I got where I thought

838
01:09:51.399 --> 01:09:56.920
there was no one, I got
a little confused. I was pretty convinced

839
01:09:56.960 --> 01:10:01.279
I' d heard someone, but
I thought it might be my imagination.

840
01:10:01.800 --> 01:10:08.279
After all, I haven' t
listened to anyone for a long time and

841
01:10:08.319 --> 01:10:12.079
any noise could get my brain confused, or that' s what I thought.

842
01:10:12.800 --> 01:10:15.039
I was on that island for several
hours without listening or seeing anyone.

843
01:10:15.479 --> 01:10:20.279
I was thinking about every stupid decision
that had taken me to that place.

844
01:10:20.880 --> 01:10:25.840
You think a lot of things when
you find yourself in that kind of situation.

845
01:10:26.439 --> 01:10:30.199
I was thinking if anyone could be
looking for me or in the well

846
01:10:32.439 --> 01:10:35.720
- being of my friends the night
fell. I was completely at the mercy

847
01:10:35.760 --> 01:10:41.359
of the weather. It was very
cold and not to mention the thirst I

848
01:10:41.479 --> 01:10:45.079
had at the time, even though
the fruit had a little water, it

849
01:10:45.079 --> 01:10:48.640
was not enough to be able to
moisturize me completely. I could get some

850
01:10:48.640 --> 01:10:54.000
sleep. While I was doing so, I felt watched, though I thought

851
01:10:54.039 --> 01:10:58.079
it was a dream. I also
heard some voices. This time I could

852
01:10:58.239 --> 01:11:03.840
hear well enough to understand them.
I could only hear laughter, several steps

853
01:11:04.039 --> 01:11:10.319
and one and another whispering. That
opened my eyes, but all I saw

854
01:11:10.439 --> 01:11:15.840
around me were three wild pigs,
who seemed to be staring at me and

855
01:11:15.920 --> 01:11:21.279
as soon as they noticed that I
was awake, they ran out and hid

856
01:11:21.319 --> 01:11:28.119
in the bush of the island.
That took me by surprise. I'

857
01:11:28.239 --> 01:11:34.039
ve never seen wild animals before,
and I thought maybe they thought it was

858
01:11:34.039 --> 01:11:38.439
pretty curious or something. I thought
about what I had heard, but I

859
01:11:38.479 --> 01:11:43.640
came to the conclusion that that had
been a dream and that I had confused

860
01:11:43.680 --> 01:11:46.239
the sounds of those pigs I could
not sleep the rest of that night.

861
01:11:46.760 --> 01:11:53.399
I felt watched all the time and
even sometimes when I turned my head too

862
01:11:53.439 --> 01:12:00.479
fast to look somewhere, I could
see how those pigs hid quickly. I

863
01:12:00.560 --> 01:12:04.399
had no idea if that was normal
behavior in pigs, but I decided not

864
01:12:04.479 --> 01:12:10.680
to worry too much. After all, they were just pigs and I didn

865
01:12:10.720 --> 01:12:14.600
' t think they could do anything
to me. The day came again,

866
01:12:15.319 --> 01:12:18.800
I decided to go a little further
into the island, as I thought that

867
01:12:18.920 --> 01:12:25.279
if there were wild pigs there there
should be a source of water, so

868
01:12:25.359 --> 01:12:29.159
I set out to look for it. I started getting deeper and deeper.

869
01:12:29.319 --> 01:12:32.720
This was a place that never seemed
to have been stepped on by the man.

870
01:12:33.319 --> 01:12:38.720
Everything was full of plants, although
it was a little strange to me

871
01:12:39.000 --> 01:12:44.319
that the only animals I saw all
that time were only those pigs. But,

872
01:12:44.520 --> 01:12:47.920
as I said before, I didn' t know much about anything,

873
01:12:48.239 --> 01:12:54.239
so I thought it might be normal. There came a point where I was

874
01:12:54.279 --> 01:12:59.479
very tired and I still couldn'
t find water anywhere. I stopped to

875
01:12:59.479 --> 01:13:04.199
rest so I could regain strength.
While I was resting I could hear a

876
01:13:04.279 --> 01:13:09.239
voice, which, although I could
not understand everything, if I could understand

877
01:13:09.359 --> 01:13:14.079
the tone of voice, which was
surprising and if I had to guess this

878
01:13:14.199 --> 01:13:17.680
one, said that I had found
myself. When I heard that voice,

879
01:13:18.279 --> 01:13:23.880
I knew that it couldn' t
be my imagination so I stood up and

880
01:13:23.880 --> 01:13:28.560
started screaming towards the direction where I
had heard the voice to ask for help

881
01:13:28.640 --> 01:13:31.000
and as I didn' t get
an answer, I decided to walk in

882
01:13:31.000 --> 01:13:35.279
that direction. I had a stick
in my hand and I started hitting the

883
01:13:35.479 --> 01:13:41.039
plants where I thought the person who
was following me and talking was hiding.

884
01:13:41.479 --> 01:13:45.479
That' s when I felt like
I hit something and I also heard a

885
01:13:45.600 --> 01:13:49.680
whining with a voice that sounded really
annoying. That' s when one of

886
01:13:49.760 --> 01:13:53.960
the pigs came out. It was
the first and last time I could see

887
01:13:54.000 --> 01:13:59.840
the look of an angry pig.
He stared at me and talked about what

888
01:14:00.199 --> 01:14:05.239
many are thinking, but that pig
really spoke to me with a voice like

889
01:14:05.359 --> 01:14:10.279
a person who barely knew how to
speak. He told me he loved me

890
01:14:10.319 --> 01:14:14.319
and that he hadn' t eaten. I didn' t want to stop

891
01:14:14.359 --> 01:14:16.760
for a second to reflect on the
words he said. Lumping a scream,

892
01:14:17.079 --> 01:14:23.840
I ran as fast as I could
hear it behind me. I was so

893
01:14:23.880 --> 01:14:28.880
scared that I didn' t stop
for a moment I jumped in the water.

894
01:14:29.079 --> 01:14:33.079
That might sound a little irrational.
I didn' t even think about

895
01:14:33.079 --> 01:14:36.680
it at the time. I just
wanted to get away from that island,

896
01:14:39.199 --> 01:14:42.760
from those pigs. While I was
swimming, I turned around to see that

897
01:14:42.800 --> 01:14:46.319
they were at the edge of the
island watching me walk away. I'

898
01:14:46.359 --> 01:14:50.399
m not going to lie saying that
I swam for hours, maybe forty minutes

899
01:14:50.439 --> 01:14:55.760
at a time and I didn'
t even get far from the island until

900
01:14:55.840 --> 01:15:00.319
I found a fishing boat, which
pulled me out of the water and put

901
01:15:00.319 --> 01:15:01.760
me to safety. I didn'
t tell them what I saw on that

902
01:15:01.760 --> 01:15:06.399
island. The last thing I wanted
was for them to think I was crazy

903
01:15:06.479 --> 01:15:11.760
and that I could hurt them somehow. Some time later I told some relatives

904
01:15:11.840 --> 01:15:17.079
and my doctors, but no one
believed me. They always had the perfect

905
01:15:17.079 --> 01:15:23.880
explanation, the thirst for sunshine,
the hunger, or maybe it had been

906
01:15:23.960 --> 01:15:27.399
a dream for some time. I
wanted to make myself believe the same thing,

907
01:15:27.560 --> 01:15:29.680
but as I said at the beginning, I could never convince myself.

908
01:15:30.199 --> 01:15:33.199
I know what I saw that day
on that island was real and I'

909
01:15:33.359 --> 01:15:36.560
m sure they' re still there. I have no idea what they were

910
01:15:36.560 --> 01:15:42.439
planning to do to me, as
between memories, they seemed to have a

911
01:15:42.439 --> 01:15:45.800
plan with me. I think it' s best not to think about it

912
01:15:45.840 --> 01:15:50.279
and just thank you that I managed
to escape. I don' t tell

913
01:15:50.279 --> 01:15:54.439
the story much. When I do, they call me crazy, but I

914
01:15:54.720 --> 01:16:00.159
hope there' s someone who believes
me and maybe knows what those things were,

915
01:16:00.159 --> 01:16:09.239
which will live forever in my memories.