Un Demonio En El Campanario Poseé A Mi Amigo Historias De Terror - REDE

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Many people have had experiences with spirits
from beyond, from girls or boys who

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hear each other running and playing,
women who see each other on the street

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and then disappear, men who walk
through a tunnel, old women who approach

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asking for a favor and countless demonstrations
that have no explanation. Science has sought

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to give a rational sense to these
kinds of phenomena by saying that human sensitivity

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goes beyond consciousness or that suggestion is
sufficient for the mind to react with much

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fear. However, there are many
personal experiences that are not limited to seeing

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spectral or ghostly appearances, but that
some people have lived with spirits from another

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world without even realizing until someone or
something tells them that that being is no

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longer of this world. The following
stories are a sample of this. The

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cursed bell tower. In the village
in which I was born there was talk

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of a legend of the church bell
tower. People said ghosts appeared in that

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place. No one could explain with
certainty what it was about, so the

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bell tower remained closed. The church
had two large towers, which were not

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used for fear of any of the
ghosts appearing. Yeah. It was customary

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that, when it was time for
Mass, the bells of the bell tower

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did not ring, but an additional
bell that had been installed outside the church.

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I was fifteen years old when I
lived closely strange events in the church.

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My family was large. We were
four brothers and five sisters. My

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father lived off bean and corn farming. In the village. Most people were

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sowing. It wasn' t such
a prosperous village, but people were trying

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to keep the place decent. Most
of the houses were made of red tile.

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The façade of all the houses was
painted white. The benches and the

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paving were in good condition. It
was a place where it felt good to

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walk in its streets, because of
the picturesque and quiet in front of the

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temple. There was a park with
his kiosk. Its trees were springs that

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adorned the whole place with yellow color. Sometimes a carpet of flowers was made.

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I liked to live in this town, although we didn' t have

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enough economy to get ahead at home
there were many mouths to keep My mom.

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It was barely enough with the housework
and the care of my brothers.

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My mother spoke to the priest of
the church to ask him to allow me

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to work within the parish. At
first, the priest did not like the

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idea, but my mother insisted.
He asked the father to help us.

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Giving me a job. I started
working at the temple on Monday March.

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My job was to keep the inside
and outside of the church clean. He

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swept and moped the floor, cleaned
the wooden benches. Then he swept the

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atrium. The father was kind and
cordial, so I felt comfortable working in

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that place. On Saturdays there was
catechism and the father told me that first

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it was God and then the work. Sundays were my day off. He

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worked in the morning and went to
school in the afternoon. I was about

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to finish high school and I wanted
to continue my studies, although it was

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complicated because there was no high school
in the village. I had to go

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to the city and at that time
it was not possible to do so.

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I liked to see when they were
preparing the children to be acolytes. The

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catechist explained to them the name of
each utensil that was used during the Mass,

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also each of the rituals that had
to be performed and how they should

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attend the priest. I told the
catequil I wanted to be an acolyte,

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but I couldn' t be because
it was just an activity for children.

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The girls did not attend the father
in any way As he cleaned the temple,

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he learned everything about being an acolyte. It was five children who were

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preparing. One of them was my
neighbor and my friend was called Daniel.

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When I had any doubts about the
names of the sacred objects, I asked

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him and explained everything I learned with
the catechist. In the temple a large

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bell had been fitted, which had
a long rope to be able to touch

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it from below and that there was
no need to climb the bell tower.

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Making the calls to Mass was also
part of the activities of the acolytes,

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so when one of them had a
Mass, he had to arrive half an

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hour earlier to start playing the first
call to Mass. At fifteen minutes he

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played the second and the other fifteen, the last call Cuan, when I

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read dan and to assist the father, helped him to ring the bell and

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to keep in order the items needed
during the Mass. After Danny finished helping

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the father, we liked to climb
the closed bell tower. We didn'

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t go in because we couldn'
t, but we sat on the nearby

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steps. Sometimes others of the acolytes
went with us. We were doubting what

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was seen in that place and why
we were forbidden to be there. There

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was a time when Danny put his
arm through the fence. He told me

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he felt colder inside the bell tower. I didn' t believe him and

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I went to put my arm in. It was true. There was a

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dramatic change in temperature. I told
Danny, maybe it was because on top

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of the tower the wind was colder. Although my mom asked me not to

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go up to the bell tower for
anything in the world, because something bad

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could happen to me, I didn' t believe her and I kept doing

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it in secret. It was a
secret I had with the acolytes, because

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we all did it and nobody said
anything. We were going down. When

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I thought of screaming loudly, Dany
got so scared that he fell off the

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stairs. I wanted to pick him
up, but I couldn' t.

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He was complaining about a severe pain
in the leg. Unfortunately, his left

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leg was fractured. Father asked us
what we were doing in that part of

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the temple. If he had told
us on many occasions not to go up

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to the bell tower. We kept
quiet. We knew we transgressed the indication

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of the father and our parents.
Danny stopped going to the temple for over

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a month, it took him longer
to recover from his leg. Since that

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time I did not climb the bell
tower again, not because I was afraid,

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but because no one else wanted to
accompany me. I only did it

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the last day I worked at the
temple. It was almost six o'

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clock in the afternoon and it was
starting to get dark. I went up

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very carefully not to slip so that
the same thing as Adam would not happen

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to me. By way of farewell. I stayed for a few seconds looking

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inside the bell tower. There was
nothing strange about it. He was only

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dirty and forgotten because no one went
up to clean the bell. It was

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in very good condition, because it
was almost new. When they closed the

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bell tower, it still had a
little shine left, although most of it

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was covered by the dust of time. I was just about to get off.

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When I saw someone reflecting on the
tarnished bell, it gave me the

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impression that I was a man,
although I didn' t stay to find

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out because it gave me a little
fear. I came down quickly and went

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to find the father. I thanked
the father for the time I was working

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in the church, because I could
help with the economy of my home,

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but I was no longer going to
work in that place. They had opened

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a small restaurant that was still side
by side in front of the garden.

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I started working as a waitress.
At the end of the day. It

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also helped clean up the place.
As the days went by, the owner

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trusted me and gave me the cashier' s post. It was a job

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with greater responsibility, but with less
physical wear and tear. In the hours

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when there were no people, I
would entertain myself by watching people pass by.

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From there I could see the church
and the bell tower. On the

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10th of May, the restaurant was
filled more than usual, because many children

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took their mothers for lunch or dinner. On that occasion I left later from

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work. It was almost eleven o' clock at night. When I was

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walking towards my house, there was
no risk that I would leave alone at

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that time, because the village was
very quiet. It was strange that light

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rain usually rained that afternoon. The
rains began in June, but that day

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was raining persistently As I walked slowly, I heard some steps coming after me.

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I walked faster. I turned around
to see who it was. He

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was a man dressed in black.
He brought a long coat and a flap

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hat. I stopped by and got
home. I opened the door and stood

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behind it. I was almost certain
that the man had stood at the door

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of my house. Then I heard
his footsteps. When she left, my

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mother felt scared. He asked me
what was wrong with me. I didn

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' t want to worry her,
because I wasn' t even sure that

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man wanted to hurt me. I
told him everything was fine. I just

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ran so I wouldn' t get
wet. After that night I began to

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see the man dressed in black in
the park. He sat on a bench

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for a long time looking at the
restaurant, although he was not sure where

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he was looking, because his hat
covered almost all his face. There were

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days Danny was visiting me at the
restaurant. I was waiting for you at

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the exit and we were going to
the house together. I told him that

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the man dressed in black already had
several days that gave me the feeling that

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he was following me for a while. Then he disappeared and didn' t

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see him again for a few days. My friend turned around and the man

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was gone. It didn' t
matter much. I remember it was dan

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' s birthday and I invited him
to dinner at the restaurant. He stayed

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until we closed. Before we left
our homes, we entered the temple court.

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We stayed for a while talking about
the time he fell off the bell

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tower ladder. I asked him why
he had been so frightened if we had

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never seen anything, if it was
only ancient rumors that we heard and that,

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with the exception of the father who
said he saw something disturbing, no

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one else spoke of the bell tower. Dan remained silent for a few seconds

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after he told me that he did
come to see a sinister shadow moving not

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only in the bell tower, but
also in some remote parts of the temple,

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as in the church' s backyard
and in the halls of the upper

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floors of the boardrooms. He rarely
came to see him in the parish atrium.

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It was always when it was dark
during the day he didn' t

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get to see it. I reproached
him because he barely told me. We

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could' ve done more digging.
Dany told me that she did think about

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telling me and doing something about it, but she didn' t want to

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get me involved because I knew she
was too stubborn. We stayed longer talking

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about the father who was before and
the strange way he died. After I

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' ve seen the devil. In
the atrium of the temple there were only

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three lamps that illuminated the entrance of
the temple. The rest of the atrium

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was almost in darkness. We weren' t afraid to be there, because

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we' ve been around that place
since we were kids. Suddenly I heard

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a whisper very close to my ear. I didn' t understand what I

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was told, because it was in
a language I didn' t know.

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I raised her off the bench.
While Danny was asking me what was going

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on, I told him there was
someone in the atrium. He had said

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a few words in my ear.
My friend got up scared turning around.

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Something motivated us to look up at
the church bell tower. There was the

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shadow of a person or spirit.
I asked Dan if he saw him too.

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My friend answered with a trembling voice
that yes, it was best to

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leave there, although something prevented us
from leaving the court. I felt my

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legs as if they were two heavy
rocks that I couldn' t move dan.

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He also told me the same thing. At the same time I heard

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the same murmur again Laster Niri Rsuman
egon Go Sara. We left the temple

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immediately. We stayed in the park
for a few seconds. From there I

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could see, through the moonlight,
the black silhouette of a man. It

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was true there was someone in the
bell tower. For a moment I thought

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it might be someone curious who had
decided to go up, but I remembered

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that the place was locked and the
key only had it the parish priest,

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so it was a being from another
world who was in that place. We

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ran to my house. We don' t stop till we get there.

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I stopped suffocated by the effort I
made in running. Dan was shaking.

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I told him to calm down,
we were already in a safe place,

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but he said no, no place
was safe. Faced with that sinister being,

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He had the ability to move everywhere
and that I had time to pursue

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Him, I could not believe what
Danny had just told me. I asked

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him to explain to me what was
going on and why he said he was

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following him. Dani turned around before
he began to tell me what was happening

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to him right away, telling me
that the day he fell off the ladder

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was because he saw behind me an
entity smiling grotesquely. From that day on

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he saw him in his dreams and
spoke to him in an unknown language.

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Then he started showing up at night
in his room. Even today he slept

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in the living room of his house
because his mother had an altar to the

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Virgin of Guadalupe, which gave him
security, because the entity did not dare

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to appear in that part of his
house, although it still burst into his

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dream told him the same thing every
time. After Danny told me what was

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happening to him, he felt better
about giving him the confidence to talk about

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it. He told me that he
was afraid, very afraid that the entity

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would hurt him, because every day
he took more powers, he was no

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longer only in his dreams, but
also in his real life. It was

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the first time I paid attention to
my friend' s physical appearance. He

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looked pale and thinner. I told
him he' d be in the house.

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My mom knew more about what had
happened in the tower. Dani said

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no, because I was going to
reproach him for entering the bell tower.

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I looked at Dan and with my
eyes wide open, I was very scared.

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I insisted on trying to talk to
my mom, but he didn'

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t dare. He told me it
would be another time. I went into

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my house confused and afraid. My
mom was just finishing up cleaning the kitchen.

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I approached her to ask her what
she knew about the bell tower legend

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and why she was considered cursed.
My mom stopped washing the frets and stared

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at me. He asked me a
question. You went into that bell tower.

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He stared at me. I said
no. He told me never to,

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because when the previous priest did,
he had an unknown illness and soon

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died just by entering the bell tower
and seeing something disturbing that he never revealed.

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He got older out of the place
and died. My mom' s

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words scared me. I thought about
what might happen to Danny and tell him

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what happened, but one of my
brothers fell and started crying. My mom

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told me that talk wasn' t
over and she went to take care of

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my brother. That night I was
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him. I was up late thinking
about the man in black we saw in

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the morning. I left earlier than
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Maybe he could give me some hints
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I opened the door, I saw
my friend outside my house, sitting on

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the sidewalk, with his legs picked
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I saw him more obnoxious and pale
than the day before. I asked him

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what had happened since what time he
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That' s when I noticed that
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dan covered that part of his body. I took his hands off. He

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had a violent color on his neck, as well as red marks on different

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parts of his body. My friend
couldn' t do it anymore, and

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he started crying. He told me
that as soon as he came to the

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dark, a disturbing being became present, he followed him everywhere. Sometimes he

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heard his breathing, as well as
a murmur that he could not tell.

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I thought it was in another language, although I wasn' t sure what

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I heard. I didn' t
go to church anymore. I asked my

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friend to come into my house.
He resisted. He told me he didn

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' t want anyone to see him
in that state, because he was responsible

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for what was going on. He
had been warned very often not to enter

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the bell tower and ignored. He
thought that it was all a legend,

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that it had passed from generation to
generation and that the reality was that people

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exaggerated what happened, so it made
it easy for him to enter and deny

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everything that was said. But now
he realized it was true. My mom

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went out to meet my friend on
his face I saw his surprise when he

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saw him He helped him lie down
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While she was asking me what had
happened, I answered her what Dany had

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told me. He put on a
fear face. When I told her with

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my hand, I asked her to
calm down. I thought my mom was

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the right person to help us.
My mom asked us intrigued if we had

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entered the bell tower, I replied
that Danny did. She sat on the

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couch and sighed. He told us
that things alone weren' t going to

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work out. If Danny had entered
and the entity that lived in the bell

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tower also saw him, he was
going to follow him until he achieved his

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goal. My friend asked what he
meant. My mom preferred not to continue.

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He realized the fear he generated in
Danny because he started shaking. My

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mom sat next to my friend and
hugged him. He told her he'

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d find a way to help him. He also told us that there was

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something to tell us. My grandfather, my mother' s father, was

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sacristan for a while in church and
was very close to the priest who entered

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the bell tower. My grandfather saw
when he came out with his hair tinted.

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Before falling into a coma, he
said that the demon who lived in

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the bell tower spoke in Euskera,
an ancient language of Spain. The father

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knew how to speak that language because
he was of Spanish origin. He was

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one of the few priests who came
to exercise his ministry in Mexico. He

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never mentioned what it was like to
be living in that place, because he

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said that there were no words to
describe it, that with his presence alone

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it made you tremble with fear,
because around him many disturbing things were generated.

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I didn' t quite understand him. My mother was icy when she

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said the words in Euskera that phrase
in an unknown language contained a very big

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meaning. You' ll soon be
in my challenge in the instant. When

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Danny heard the warning, he covered
his face with his hands. He was

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on the verge of crying. I
asked my mom how she knew all that.

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She replied that my grandfather did the
same. Curiosity and skepticism won him

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over. He went in to see
what was inside the bell tower. My

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mom didn' t want to continue
her talk because my grandfather died shortly after

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she entered the bell tower. Damn
it, he told Dany to lie down

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right away. I' d bring
you some tea to calm your nerves in

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the kitchen. My mom told me
that if we didn' t do something

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about it, Danny would die,
because his grandfather got on. Like my

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friend, he claimed that he saw
a dark being following him everywhere until he

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died the entity disappeared. I asked
my mom if she saw him too.

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He replied that not only did the
people entering the bell tower, because the

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little my grandfather talked about there was
an entrance to the underworld and that the

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demon guarding the portal was powerful.
Everything my mom told me didn' t

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know. He never told me the
reason for my grandfather' s death.

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I always thought it was natural death. It hurt me to think my friend

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would run the same luck because I
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My mom told me I was too
small. When his grandfather died. He

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had some vague memories of what his
grandmother did, but surely they were in

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vain, because his grandfather died saying
that he was there. I approached my

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friend to have a tea Only until
that moment did I see the degree of

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nervousness that I had, because when
I gave him the cup in his hands,

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it moved intensely with Danny' s
trembling movement. My mom put a

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rosary around my friend' s neck. He told her he was blessed and

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exorcised. The Christ would take care
of him. Suddenly. Dani started screaming

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trying to get away. The rosary
pulled it so hard that the blue crystal

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beads rolled out everywhere. His neck
was bleeding. My friend told us he

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felt the rosary burning like it was
burning fire. That' s why he

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couldn' t keep it. He
asked my mom for an apology for breaking

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it. When I wanted to pick
up the beads from the rosary to put

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it back together. I was scared
of what I saw Every Crystal account was

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black as if it had gone through
the fire and my friend' s neck

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had burns. My mother thought of
going after the parish priest of the Church,

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although she told me that no one
had been able to help her grandfather.

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Neither the anointing of the sick nor
the sacred elements of the Church could

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be against that demon. It was
time for me to go to work.

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I didn' t know what to
do. I went to the restaurant to

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say I couldn' t go to
work that day, but the owner asked

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me to stay. One of the
waiters had crashed and the other was ill.

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I was going to ask for my
support to be a waitress. As

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the other workers returned. I had
no choice. I came back to warn

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Dan and my mom that I would
go to work by then, my friend

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had fallen asleep. I asked my
mom to take care of him before I

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left for the restaurant. My mom
told me she' d go talk to

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the church priest to guide her about
what to do. He asked me to

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come to the notary to talk to
the priest and to ask him what time

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he could receive my mother. I
did what my mom asked, but the

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secretary of the notary told me that
Monday was the father' s day of

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rest and that that day a priest
from another parish would come to give the

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Mass. I got a little disappointed. The father knew my family, so

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my mother thought of him. Either
way. I spoke on the phone to

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my mother to go to the end
of her Mass or to talk to the

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priest who would officiate the Mass.
There were more people than usual at the

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restaurant because a truck of tourists came
to visit the village. I wanted to

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talk on the phone with my mom
to hear on my break to see how

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my friend was, but it wasn' t possible because the job didn'

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t stop. As soon as I
finished my shift, I immediately went home.

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As I turned the corner of the
street, it caught my attention that

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there were several people gathered in my
house. I saw the ambulance, too.

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I ran to find out what was
going on. My brothers were outside.

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The little ones were crying on a
stretcher. They took my mom out.

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She saw me and asked me to
take care of my brothers. I

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asked him what happened. He didn' t answer me. She was taken

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to the ambulance because she was beaten
from everywhere and bled a little from her

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head. I remembered Dany I wanted
to get into the house. One of

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the paramedics wouldn' t let me. He told me it was better if

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I didn' t come in.
My father stopped me and asked me to

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calm down what happened. I asked
him. You didn' t have to

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answer me. The semepho took my
friend. I wanted to find out his

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face, but they wouldn' t
let me. I felt like my stomach

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was spinning, I couldn' t
with the emotions and I went to throw

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up. One of my older brothers
told me that Dani started throwing things around

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with the vase. He hit my
mom in the head. My dad didn

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' t let him go on anymore. He asked me to calm down,

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but that wasn' t possible.
My best friend was dead. When my

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mom left the hospital, she told
us that Danny was asleep all afternoon,

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but as soon as the night turned
up, she woke up with a lot

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of fear. He screamed no.
On several occasions he went crazy and tried

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to protect himself with my mom.
She stopped his story. He told us

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he couldn' t help himself.
He tried to help Danny, but in

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front of that damn entity, nothing
could be done. I asked him if

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he' d seen it. She
nodded crying. He told us it was

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a very tall being, bigger than
the common one. He had extreme thinness

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and was dressed in black. Two
horns protruded on his head. The worst

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was not his appearance, but the
look and the sinister laughter he had.

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He didn' t know when it
all happened. He only heard Danny'

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s terrified screams. My mom couldn' t go on anymore. He let

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go of the crying. My dad
told me not to make him talk anymore.

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The best thing was to leave her
alone. My friend' s death

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affected me a lot, especially the
way the events happened. My mom was

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very nervous, too. I preferred
not to harass her with so many questions.

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It hurt so much that I couldn' t do anything to help my

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friend. Many times I' ve
wondered why I didn' t stay home

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with Dan and my mom and that
maybe everything would have been different. Every

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night I pray for him and light
a candlestick to my friend with the idea

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of giving him the light necessary for
him to find the right way, for

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surely that demon took his soul,
for he made the warning in Euskera.

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Now I am also afraid that that
being will pursue me, because I was

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in the bell tower. I didn' t see him directly, but I

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could see his reflection in the bell
and in some parts of the park.

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Every day I pray that it will
not happen to me the same as to

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my friend Dan the Damn house.
I lived next to my parents and brothers,

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in a colony that we had become
accustomed to. The landlord. He

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told my parents he wasn' t
going to rent their house anymore because he

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needed to sell it. My dad
tried to convince the owner of the house

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to let us live in it until
there was already a buyer, because in

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many hours it was not so easy
to sell a house so quickly. However,

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the landlord told my dad that he
could not do it because before selling

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the house it was necessary to make
many repairs. We had no choice but

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to find another place to live.
My mom sent me in the afternoons to

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comb the area to find a rental
home. The idea was to find another

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house in the same colony. For
the first few days I was looking in

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the afternoon for an unoccupied house without
success, until after fifteen days I saw

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a house that caught my attention because
of the color it had on its facade.

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Besides, he had an altar to
the Holy Death in his garage.

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I stopped for a moment to see
him closely. As I looked around,

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I saw that the dwelling that was
opposite. He had the serrenta sign.

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I quickly left to tell my mother
that I had finally found a rental house.

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I memorized the phone. My mom
immediately phoned and made an appointment with

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the landlord. That afternoon, after
my parents met with the landlord, they

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were happy. We were told it
had been achieved. We already had another

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place to live. I didn'
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I wasn' t interested. I
was happy because it was me who got

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the place. The move was complicated. There were a lot of furniture and

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items we had to move. We
did it for a weekend. First Saturday.

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We carry most of the furniture,
but we stay to sleep until Sunday.

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I remember feeling strange in that new
place we would live in. Besides,

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all the furniture and things were in
complete disarray. I put a blanket

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on the floor to sleep. My
sister and brother were younger than me.

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They stayed in the same room as
my parents because they were afraid to go

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to sleep alone. The house had
three bedrooms, the one I chose had

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a window facing the street. I
fell asleep for a while because I was

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very tired from moving. They were
going to do 4: 00 in the

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morning. When I woke up,
as I could no longer sleep, I

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looked out at the window at the
house that caught my attention in front of

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ours. I was watching for a
few seconds the altar they had in the

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garage the Holy Death that was very
large, like that of a two-

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year- old boy. Around him
were several candlelights lit, which gave him

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a somewhat gloomy look, because the
light illuminated the Holy Death very little.

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I didn' t know why the
people who lived in that house gave up

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that kind of cult that was unknown
to me. I' ve been looking

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out for a while. Suddenly I
saw a person jump the doorbell of the

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house, crept in before the altar. It was like this for a few

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minutes. He left right away.
It was a fact that I became very

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strange ecto, but it was hardly
my first night in that place and I

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didn' t know people' s
customs. The next day, the routine

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was the same. I was getting
up early to go to high school,

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while my mom was fixing my brothers
to go to elementary school. That was

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why my parents wanted to rent in
the same colony, because the school was

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very close to us and my parents' work also in high school. One

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of my friends pointed at another student. He told me that he lived on

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the same street that he had changed
me to. I could make it my

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friend to tell me more about the
house across the street. I had a

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good idea, but I didn'
t dare do it. I didn'

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00:31:42.119 --> 00:31:45.880
t know why. I was waking
up at a certain time of night.

415
00:31:45.400 --> 00:31:49.359
My dream went away in the previous
house I lived in. It wasn'

416
00:31:49.519 --> 00:31:52.319
t the same for me. I
told my mom what was happening to me

417
00:31:52.880 --> 00:31:56.880
She told me it was about the
change of house. She and my dad

418
00:31:56.000 --> 00:32:01.200
were doing the same thing, too. The only ones who had not resented

419
00:32:01.279 --> 00:32:07.359
the change were my brothers. On
another of the nights when I had insomnia,

420
00:32:07.000 --> 00:32:13.400
I noticed a person getting back into
the garage across the street. He

421
00:32:13.480 --> 00:32:16.880
would stay a few seconds zincated to
pray and then he would leave. That

422
00:32:17.000 --> 00:32:22.680
time I could see a little more
of that boy I assumed was young because

423
00:32:22.759 --> 00:32:25.119
of the way he skipped the ring
and his way of dressing. Although I

424
00:32:25.240 --> 00:32:30.680
couldn' t see him clearly in
the face. That boy started smoking a

425
00:32:30.759 --> 00:32:36.599
cigarette. He was turning around like
he was waiting for someone else. A

426
00:32:36.680 --> 00:32:40.039
few minutes later another young man arrived. Between them they talked for a few

427
00:32:40.160 --> 00:32:45.799
minutes and left from that night.
I was intrigued by what the two boys

428
00:32:45.880 --> 00:32:50.519
were doing at that time of night. I started paying attention to the people

429
00:32:50.599 --> 00:32:53.079
who lived in the house across the
street. They looked like normal people,

430
00:32:53.880 --> 00:32:58.920
except for their clear devotion to the
Holy Death, because before leaving anywhere,

431
00:32:59.400 --> 00:33:04.680
they bowed and prayed for an instant. Then they left something at his altar

432
00:33:04.920 --> 00:33:09.319
and left for their daily labors.
I saw two adults who I assumed were

433
00:33:09.440 --> 00:33:14.799
the parents, a girl and a
girl, who went to school together next

434
00:33:14.839 --> 00:33:20.000
to their mother. I heard my
mom scream because I was getting late to

435
00:33:20.119 --> 00:33:24.079
go to high school. I had
been watching the neighbors that I forgot to

436
00:33:24.119 --> 00:33:29.720
put on my uniform right away.
I got dressed and went to high school.

437
00:33:30.000 --> 00:33:34.599
When I saw that high school buddy
who also lived on the same street,

438
00:33:34.960 --> 00:33:37.599
I didn' t hesitate to approach
him. My friend Javier accompanied me.

439
00:33:38.839 --> 00:33:43.680
I told him I was new in
the neighborhood and that I lived very

440
00:33:43.759 --> 00:33:46.000
close to his house. He immediately
smiled at me. He told me he

441
00:33:46.079 --> 00:33:52.480
' d seen me. From that
day on we became friends. There were

442
00:33:52.599 --> 00:33:54.960
times when Diego was going to pick
me up at my house and we were

443
00:33:55.039 --> 00:34:00.000
talking outside his house or mine.
Without further ado, I asked him what

444
00:34:00.079 --> 00:34:04.799
he knew about the people who lived
in front of my house. He replied

445
00:34:04.880 --> 00:34:09.239
that they were very strange people,
they were very little related to the neighbors

446
00:34:09.320 --> 00:34:14.880
and that their beliefs, as I
had surely already realized, were very different

447
00:34:14.920 --> 00:34:19.639
from ours. Diego told me that
there was no need for them to have

448
00:34:19.719 --> 00:34:22.800
an altar in the garage of his
house. They could do it inside the

449
00:34:22.880 --> 00:34:28.679
house. Instead, they liked to
see the rest of the neighbors. This

450
00:34:28.760 --> 00:34:32.960
had caused them several problems with people
who were very believers of God. For

451
00:34:34.039 --> 00:34:37.119
this reason they were not well seen
on the street. In addition, they

452
00:34:37.199 --> 00:34:42.639
believed that Satanic rituals were performed in
that house, as every end of the

453
00:34:42.760 --> 00:34:46.840
month several people came to their homes
and stayed very late. My friend told

454
00:34:46.920 --> 00:34:52.599
me that there was little time left
for the end of the month when people

455
00:34:52.679 --> 00:34:55.079
came to meet with the neighbors.
I asked him to come with me to

456
00:34:55.239 --> 00:34:58.800
keep an eye on them when that
happened. To get out of doubt once

457
00:34:58.920 --> 00:35:04.559
and for all, Diego said yes. We would do it together, it

458
00:35:04.880 --> 00:35:09.360
was not possible to do it because
that morning I was awakened by the red

459
00:35:09.360 --> 00:35:12.519
and blue lights of the police car, as well as the ambulance siren.

460
00:35:13.079 --> 00:35:15.880
I got up right away. Many
of the neighbors came out to see what

461
00:35:16.000 --> 00:35:21.519
was happening. My parents also entered
my room to see from the window of

462
00:35:21.599 --> 00:35:25.559
my room. The ambulance didn'
t take anyone from the family. I

463
00:35:25.599 --> 00:35:30.719
thought there was no accident, but
the police weren' t leaving until the

464
00:35:30.800 --> 00:35:37.679
semepho van arrived. We realized someone
had died. After they conducted the test

465
00:35:37.800 --> 00:35:42.559
survey, VI when they took out
the four bodies covered with a white sheet

466
00:35:42.719 --> 00:35:46.639
on stretchers, I was very impressed. I didn' t think all the

467
00:35:46.679 --> 00:35:52.800
family members had died for several days, the news didn' t stop talking

468
00:35:52.880 --> 00:35:57.440
about the family' s murder.
For many days, the street was full

469
00:35:57.559 --> 00:36:01.639
of reporters, researchers, curious people
who wanted to meet the house outside.

470
00:36:02.400 --> 00:36:07.559
They even dared to get inside.
The altar of the Holy Death was broken

471
00:36:07.639 --> 00:36:13.079
in the garage. Many pieces of
the clay figure were left at the entrance

472
00:36:13.239 --> 00:36:16.519
of the house. Some of the
curious people who entered the house mocked the

473
00:36:16.599 --> 00:36:22.440
beliefs of the people who lived in
the house. They even said that it

474
00:36:22.719 --> 00:36:27.119
had happened to them as God’
s punishment. The neighbors who lived near

475
00:36:27.320 --> 00:36:30.920
the house were questioned by the police
to see if they could find a clue

476
00:36:31.079 --> 00:36:37.119
and find the killers. I was
anxious to tell you what I saw On

477
00:36:37.199 --> 00:36:42.360
several nights in the early morning about
those boys getting into the garage, but

478
00:36:42.480 --> 00:36:45.159
I didn' t dare tell you. I told my parents, but they

479
00:36:45.320 --> 00:36:49.800
didn' t want to say anything
about it. They told me that,

480
00:36:50.000 --> 00:36:54.760
in any case, those people were
already dead and any information we could give

481
00:36:54.880 --> 00:37:00.199
would not serve to bring them back
alive. I told Diego and Javier about

482
00:37:00.239 --> 00:37:04.280
what I saw They made me a
suggestion to talk to the police, but

483
00:37:04.360 --> 00:37:08.039
I thought they wouldn' t believe
me and I kept quiet. It had

484
00:37:08.199 --> 00:37:14.079
been a few days since my neighbors
died. When one night I heard noises

485
00:37:14.119 --> 00:37:16.639
on the street, I looked at
the clock at two and a half in

486
00:37:17.000 --> 00:37:21.320
the morning, the dogs barked a
lot, I got up and looked out

487
00:37:21.320 --> 00:37:24.920
the window. Everything was quiet at
least what I could see because the dogs

488
00:37:25.079 --> 00:37:30.679
wouldn' t stop barking all of
a sudden. I saw one man skipping

489
00:37:30.760 --> 00:37:35.960
the doorbell at the front house later
or two others did the same. I

490
00:37:36.039 --> 00:37:38.599
figured they forced the plate in the
house to get in. Because I started

491
00:37:38.679 --> 00:37:44.639
to see that the light of a
lamp moved inside the house. I thought

492
00:37:44.719 --> 00:37:49.480
about waking up my parents to tell
them what was going on, but I

493
00:37:49.679 --> 00:37:52.199
stopped there was no one inside the
house. They could no longer do more

494
00:37:52.280 --> 00:37:55.519
harm than they had done. I
went to bed to try to sleep,

495
00:37:55.920 --> 00:38:00.280
without getting it again, I looked
up at the window. The light inside

496
00:38:00.360 --> 00:38:07.199
the house followed. After a few
minutes the three boys came out. One

497
00:38:07.280 --> 00:38:12.079
thing that surprised me a lot and
that I could see with difficulty was that

498
00:38:12.159 --> 00:38:15.239
the three of them had their faces
painted in a strange way. I was

499
00:38:15.280 --> 00:38:17.599
a little disturbed to see them.
One of them stopped looking at my house.

500
00:38:19.719 --> 00:38:22.320
I felt discovered, I stood by
the window so they wouldn' t

501
00:38:22.480 --> 00:38:27.039
see me, but I think they
didn' t even notice my presence,

502
00:38:27.280 --> 00:38:32.239
because they pointed to a higher part
of my house. I didn' t

503
00:38:32.360 --> 00:38:37.800
know what they saw, but between
them, their hands crashed and they left

504
00:38:38.039 --> 00:38:44.280
making a lot of fuss. When
they left, the dogs began to calm

505
00:38:44.280 --> 00:38:50.000
down, stopped barking and the street
was again in absolute silence. I was

506
00:38:50.119 --> 00:38:52.639
just about to go to bed.
When I saw someone else coming out of

507
00:38:52.679 --> 00:38:58.599
the house, I was surprised because
I had seen three men come in and

508
00:38:58.719 --> 00:39:00.639
the same came out, but r
r but the neo when I paid more

509
00:39:01.159 --> 00:39:06.519
attention, I could not believe what
was in front. It was a dark

510
00:39:07.159 --> 00:39:12.159
shadow completely black, moving erratically.
I was going out to the garage.

511
00:39:12.480 --> 00:39:15.920
Then he got in. It looked
like he wanted to go out onto the

512
00:39:15.920 --> 00:39:20.519
street without getting it. He did
the same for several minutes. Suddenly he

513
00:39:20.880 --> 00:39:25.519
went through the ring and vanished.
What came was someone else. It was

514
00:39:25.599 --> 00:39:31.480
a black vaporous spectrum that suddenly disappeared. I was scared and went to bed

515
00:39:31.519 --> 00:39:36.960
trying to understand what had happened and
what had been what I saw was like

516
00:39:37.079 --> 00:39:43.400
a black spot. The next day
I didn' t want to say anything

517
00:39:44.000 --> 00:39:45.480
to my parents in high school.
As soon as I saw Javier and Diego,

518
00:39:45.920 --> 00:39:50.800
I told them what had happened.
Diego immediately told me that they could

519
00:39:50.840 --> 00:39:53.760
be the souls of the family that
died, like everything happened in an abrupt

520
00:39:53.840 --> 00:39:59.679
way. Their spirits had not yet
pierced the hereafter. I told my friend

521
00:39:59.760 --> 00:40:02.920
that maybe it wasn' t the
soul of those people, because what I

522
00:40:04.239 --> 00:40:08.039
saw was a very dark black silhouette. Javier joked that it was because they

523
00:40:08.119 --> 00:40:14.480
had his dirty spirit and Diego no
longer allowed him to continue. He told

524
00:40:14.599 --> 00:40:17.280
him that not even he who knew
them longer, knew what they were like,

525
00:40:17.960 --> 00:40:22.199
because they remained very far from all
the neighbors. I told him that

526
00:40:22.320 --> 00:40:24.880
maybe it could be because of the
cult they were giving to Holy Death.

527
00:40:25.440 --> 00:40:30.119
Diego nodded to me that the following
weekend he wanted to stay at my house

528
00:40:30.199 --> 00:40:35.639
to see what else was going on. I said yes, if his parents

529
00:40:35.679 --> 00:40:39.360
didn' t forbid him, he
could stay in my room. However,

530
00:40:39.760 --> 00:40:45.320
events at night continued to occur.
I don' t really know what was

531
00:40:45.440 --> 00:40:51.760
going on or why certain people were
interested in entering that house, because almost

532
00:40:51.880 --> 00:40:57.800
every morning more people came into the
house. Neighbors' dogs were in charge

533
00:40:57.840 --> 00:41:01.679
of warning that something was happening on
the street. They were restless and barking

534
00:41:01.719 --> 00:41:07.679
unceasingly, as if they realized the
presence of the spirits. On more than

535
00:41:07.800 --> 00:41:10.360
one occasion, my grandfather had told
me that animals had the ability to see

536
00:41:10.480 --> 00:41:19.199
beings of other dimensions and could also
smell death. Dogs primarily possessed an extraordinary

537
00:41:19.280 --> 00:41:24.880
sense to realize that beings of the
spiritual world were present. That' s

538
00:41:24.960 --> 00:41:30.000
why I was so upset when I
listened to them bark so desperately. That

539
00:41:30.079 --> 00:41:35.440
night again people entered the house,
but before they went out, I could

540
00:41:35.559 --> 00:41:39.800
see again the shadow that ran between
the garage. But this time he was

541
00:41:39.920 --> 00:41:44.719
able to leave the house and move
down the street. I was afraid he

542
00:41:44.880 --> 00:41:46.880
might see me. I walked away
from the window and got into bed.

543
00:41:49.280 --> 00:41:53.000
The scandal continued on the street,
which made me think that spectrum was still

544
00:41:53.159 --> 00:42:00.519
present. I was in the blankets
for a while, and everything was quiet

545
00:42:00.639 --> 00:42:06.199
and I could sleep. My mom
felt when she shook me hard to get

546
00:42:06.280 --> 00:42:10.000
me up, because I was getting
late to go to high school. Very

547
00:42:10.079 --> 00:42:15.760
little sleep. I was wreaking havoc
on my early rising discipline. My mother,

548
00:42:16.000 --> 00:42:20.440
before leaving my room, told me
that a neighbor had died during the

549
00:42:20.559 --> 00:42:25.440
night immediately I joined. I asked
him who it was. He replied that

550
00:42:25.559 --> 00:42:30.960
he knew the neighbors very little,
but that an elderly man was dead at

551
00:42:30.039 --> 00:42:36.960
dawn. Apparently. He died during
the night because his family did not realize

552
00:42:37.079 --> 00:42:39.519
that he had been given a cardiac
arrest. Until his daughter got him up.

553
00:42:40.360 --> 00:42:45.639
He realized he' d been dead
for several hours. I snuck out

554
00:42:45.719 --> 00:42:49.840
the window outside one of the houses
that were further to the corner. Several

555
00:42:49.880 --> 00:42:54.599
people had come together to support the
bereaved relatives. I didn' t mean

556
00:42:55.360 --> 00:43:00.800
to think wrong, but I sensed
that that black spectrum could have been responsible

557
00:43:00.920 --> 00:43:05.400
for the Lord' s death because
as my friend told me, the spectra,

558
00:43:06.079 --> 00:43:09.119
being incorporeal, seek souls to feed
on them. In high school I

559
00:43:09.199 --> 00:43:15.119
met my two friends. Diego was
very upset. He told me that he

560
00:43:15.199 --> 00:43:19.199
too had woken up in the morning
and had seen a shadow moving around the

561
00:43:19.320 --> 00:43:22.800
center of the street. We both
agreed that the neighbor who died was because

562
00:43:22.920 --> 00:43:28.519
the spectrum had taken his soul.
Javier was the one who suggested we go

563
00:43:28.639 --> 00:43:30.960
into the house. I told him
I wouldn' t. Diego also answered

564
00:43:31.039 --> 00:43:36.360
the same thing. On our street. They said that people entered that house

565
00:43:36.480 --> 00:43:40.840
to perform satanic rituals and that the
spirits of the family that died were still

566
00:43:40.920 --> 00:43:45.440
present. That was why there was
much morbidness about it, especially by those

567
00:43:45.559 --> 00:43:51.199
who believed in Holy Death, as
she was able to bring anyone back to

568
00:43:51.320 --> 00:43:57.199
life. Javier insisted on entering the
house, although realizing that Diego and I

569
00:43:57.239 --> 00:44:00.679
would not, he gave up.
I told them it was best not to

570
00:44:00.760 --> 00:44:05.679
talk about death anymore, because I
felt it was a way to attract her.

571
00:44:07.039 --> 00:44:10.400
The noises and demonstrations in that house
did not cease every night. Dogs

572
00:44:10.519 --> 00:44:16.280
were very upset, although that time
was the worst. I still didn'

573
00:44:16.760 --> 00:44:22.119
t sleep when I started to hear
dogs howling in a pitiful way. There

574
00:44:22.199 --> 00:44:25.440
was a time when several cats passed
through the roof of my house making so

575
00:44:25.599 --> 00:44:30.440
much fuss that my parents got up. One of my brothers woke up crying

576
00:44:30.559 --> 00:44:36.920
because the sound made by cats was
similar to many babies. Crying at the

577
00:44:36.960 --> 00:44:40.119
window I saw in the front house
two dark shadows floating on the roof of

578
00:44:40.159 --> 00:44:46.039
the house. On this occasion no
one had entered the house. Those spectra

579
00:44:46.119 --> 00:44:51.239
moved towards the center of the street
and remained static for a few seconds,

580
00:44:51.719 --> 00:44:57.400
while the fuss of dogs and cats
increased. By that time, my parents

581
00:44:57.599 --> 00:45:01.400
had already entered my room with the
l The very open eyes looked to the

582
00:45:01.519 --> 00:45:06.800
place where those bodyless beings were as
they moved and I lost sight of them.

583
00:45:07.480 --> 00:45:13.079
Dogs and cats calmed down. There
was a time when calm came into

584
00:45:13.199 --> 00:45:17.440
the neighborhood. My parents were very
upset about what they had seen They went

585
00:45:17.519 --> 00:45:24.079
to their room. The temperature had
dropped quickly I closed the window, but

586
00:45:24.119 --> 00:45:29.079
the cold continued. I' d
put my bed in to cover myself with

587
00:45:29.079 --> 00:45:31.880
a blanket. It was strange because
it wasn' t winter. Suddenly I

588
00:45:32.400 --> 00:45:37.280
heard noises in the closet. The
hooks began to move and the doors opened.

589
00:45:38.840 --> 00:45:43.800
That dark shadow came out of my
clothes. He prostrated at the feet

590
00:45:43.880 --> 00:45:47.159
of my bed for a few seconds. Right away, he started flitting all

591
00:45:47.239 --> 00:45:52.199
over the place. Several objects in
his path began to fall My parents.

592
00:45:53.199 --> 00:45:57.440
When they heard the noise, they
went to the room. As he opened

593
00:45:57.559 --> 00:46:01.199
the door abruptly, that Dark One
entered my father' s body He fell

594
00:46:01.239 --> 00:46:07.599
to the floor and began to convulse. My mom hugged me tight. We

595
00:46:07.719 --> 00:46:13.679
did not know what we could do
while my father was on the ground was

596
00:46:13.800 --> 00:46:17.000
so afraid that for a brief moment
we were hugged by my mother and I,

597
00:46:17.239 --> 00:46:22.079
but suddenly she reacted. He took
the blessed rosary that my grandmother had

598
00:46:22.199 --> 00:46:27.039
given him many years ago. He
put it in my dad' s chest

599
00:46:27.159 --> 00:46:31.920
and began to pray, but rather
they were desperate screams with his hand asked

600
00:46:32.000 --> 00:46:37.679
me to face and pray next to
her. At first I couldn' t

601
00:46:37.679 --> 00:46:40.800
do it. I was so afraid
of what was happening. My father was

602
00:46:40.920 --> 00:46:46.079
still convulsing. His hands twisted in
a very strange way. My mother told

603
00:46:46.199 --> 00:46:51.679
me to close my eyes and pray. I started doing it and my dad

604
00:46:51.719 --> 00:46:57.239
calmed down. He stopped convulsing and
went unconscious as much as my mom talked

605
00:46:57.360 --> 00:47:00.639
to him. He didn' t
react. Both of you. We all

606
00:47:00.719 --> 00:47:04.199
thought he was dead, even though
we noticed he still had vital signs.

607
00:47:05.280 --> 00:47:08.840
My mom called the ambulance service.
It was necessary to wait for more than

608
00:47:09.119 --> 00:47:14.239
half an hour for my dad to
be helped. The black shadow had disappeared,

609
00:47:14.679 --> 00:47:17.679
although the feeling of cold was still
present. My mom went to the

610
00:47:17.760 --> 00:47:21.840
hospital with my dad. I stayed
with my brothers to take care of them.

611
00:47:22.360 --> 00:47:25.440
They woke up to hear so much
fuss. I went to sleep in

612
00:47:25.480 --> 00:47:30.599
their room to make them quieter.
The cold in the house slowly disappeared,

613
00:47:30.960 --> 00:47:36.840
but it was impossible for me to
sleep. I had the feeling that at

614
00:47:36.880 --> 00:47:42.760
any moment that dark shadow would return
any sound coming from the outside. I

615
00:47:42.840 --> 00:47:45.599
thought it was about her, although
the dogs and cats had already calmed down.

616
00:47:49.559 --> 00:47:52.199
The next day I didn' t
go to high school, nor did

617
00:47:52.199 --> 00:47:54.320
I raise my brothers. It was
going to be nine in the morning.

618
00:47:54.519 --> 00:47:59.519
When I heard my mother was coming
home, I felt safe, although I

619
00:47:59.519 --> 00:48:02.519
was surprised to see my dad different. I couldn' t explain how I

620
00:48:02.519 --> 00:48:07.599
felt. When I saw him,
he stared at me. It didn'

621
00:48:07.760 --> 00:48:13.239
t separate my eyes in any movement
I had. He was watching me I

622
00:48:13.519 --> 00:48:15.840
came over to give him a hug. I told him I was glad to

623
00:48:15.960 --> 00:48:21.719
see what was right, as he
scared us out. My dad hugged me

624
00:48:21.800 --> 00:48:23.719
very hard, he wanted me off
his side and I couldn' t.

625
00:48:24.159 --> 00:48:29.119
I also felt that it was very
cold. He finally let me go while

626
00:48:29.280 --> 00:48:32.280
he smiled in an extremely strange way
I turned away from his side. He

627
00:48:32.320 --> 00:48:37.599
went to rest. When I was
alone with my mom, I asked her

628
00:48:37.679 --> 00:48:42.360
what happened to my dad. She
replied that the doctors couldn' t know

629
00:48:42.440 --> 00:48:45.440
what she had. He was told
that it had been an isolated event and

630
00:48:45.519 --> 00:48:51.760
that, should the seizures return,
he would be given appropriate studies. My

631
00:48:51.880 --> 00:48:54.920
mom told me that they stayed in
the hospital the rest of the night to

632
00:48:55.039 --> 00:48:59.599
keep my dad under observation but that
everything was fine from s s s s.

633
00:48:59.679 --> 00:49:02.199
Spurs. After what happened that night, the neighbors joined together to bring

634
00:49:02.280 --> 00:49:07.519
a priest to bless the house.
I wasn' t present, but my

635
00:49:07.679 --> 00:49:12.039
friend Diego did tell me he wasn' t allowed into the house, but

636
00:49:12.159 --> 00:49:15.000
he stayed out. But from the
place where he was, he got to

637
00:49:15.079 --> 00:49:22.239
hear wild screams coming from inside and
he had a strange feeling as if someone

638
00:49:22.320 --> 00:49:25.800
was looking at him. It was
so much his fear that he withdrew from

639
00:49:25.800 --> 00:49:29.440
the place. That' s why
he couldn' t give me any more

640
00:49:29.440 --> 00:49:34.159
details. The house was shut down
and they put wood nailed to the door

641
00:49:34.280 --> 00:49:38.000
and the window so that no more
people would want to do rituals. Since

642
00:49:38.039 --> 00:49:44.800
those measures were taken, the street
was quieter at night. The dogs stopped

643
00:49:44.880 --> 00:49:49.519
barking with such insistence, although there
have been times when they get very upset

644
00:49:49.639 --> 00:49:53.800
for no apparent reason. However,
my dad has had strange behaviors, such

645
00:49:54.239 --> 00:49:59.800
as getting up late at night and
going out for a cigarette when he was

646
00:50:00.079 --> 00:50:04.679
a person who was against doing it. The moment you go out on the

647
00:50:04.760 --> 00:50:08.760
street, dogs get very upset.
I think it all has to do with

648
00:50:08.880 --> 00:50:14.519
that night when the black shadow entered
my dad' s body. I'

649
00:50:14.599 --> 00:50:24.559
m not sure, but I think
something' s inside him. The portal.

650
00:50:28.719 --> 00:50:31.800
My mother told me that before I
was born I had complications at the

651
00:50:31.800 --> 00:50:37.960
time of delivery. Since the contractions
were very spaced, the delivery took a

652
00:50:37.119 --> 00:50:43.039
long time. That caused him to
have fetal suffering, which did not allow

653
00:50:43.119 --> 00:50:47.639
him to receive adequate oxygenation. Those
difficulties complicated my health. My brain was

654
00:50:47.719 --> 00:50:52.280
also affected by the lack of oxygen, so I began to convulse. When

655
00:50:52.400 --> 00:50:57.599
I was a year old, I
lived in a town near Guadalajara. Although

656
00:50:57.679 --> 00:51:01.079
it was an hour and a half
from the city, it was not so

657
00:51:01.159 --> 00:51:05.440
easy to go because of the lack
of financial resources. The village doctor sent

658
00:51:05.599 --> 00:51:08.639
us to the boat to take care
of me. In that hospital there were

659
00:51:08.719 --> 00:51:14.519
a little more specialties, but not
enough for the health problem he suffered in

660
00:51:14.639 --> 00:51:21.920
the village. There were people who
practiced traditional medicine. His medications were natural

661
00:51:22.000 --> 00:51:28.760
through medicinal plants. Traditions of the
native peoples were still preserved, so they

662
00:51:28.800 --> 00:51:32.840
made clean with a bouquet of alcoholous
plants, while praying for the person to

663
00:51:32.920 --> 00:51:39.760
leave the evil spirits. I was
in medical treatment for most of my childhood

664
00:51:39.880 --> 00:51:44.719
with doctors in the boat, but
I wasn' t entirely relieved. They

665
00:51:44.800 --> 00:51:49.079
only managed to control my illness.
My mother, desperate, took me with

666
00:51:49.199 --> 00:51:52.239
a healer who was very reliable in
the village. From the beginning, she

667
00:51:52.360 --> 00:51:57.800
said she was frightened by everything I
lived through during the gestation period and the

668
00:51:57.880 --> 00:52:01.119
entrances and exits to the hospital.
The healer put alcohol in her mouth and

669
00:52:01.320 --> 00:52:07.599
started spraying it over my body.
I mumbled prayers and asked different saints to

670
00:52:07.719 --> 00:52:12.559
take away my fear for my health
to return. I don' t know

671
00:52:12.719 --> 00:52:19.000
if it was superstition or coincidence,
but the convulsions spread much more and less

672
00:52:19.360 --> 00:52:22.639
frequently, so my mom kept taking
me to the village healer, who was

673
00:52:22.679 --> 00:52:27.599
called Hortensia, although they called her
Tencha as a way to shorten her name.

674
00:52:28.800 --> 00:52:32.079
One of the last times my mom
took me to Tencha. When we

675
00:52:32.159 --> 00:52:37.559
arrived at the house, I began
to hear laughter from a girl was normal,

676
00:52:37.199 --> 00:52:40.639
because she had two brothers and two
sisters. I didn' t give

677
00:52:40.639 --> 00:52:45.760
it any importance. I thought they
were playing. We had a large backyard,

678
00:52:45.880 --> 00:52:50.719
which had several fruit trees. I
saw my brothers playing ball in the

679
00:52:50.840 --> 00:52:55.000
yard. Another of my sisters was
taking a bath and my younger sister was

680
00:52:55.159 --> 00:52:59.920
watching a children' s show on
TV. I didn' t lend to

681
00:53:00.639 --> 00:53:06.039
you, even though I kept hearing
a girl laughing, I also heard her

682
00:53:06.119 --> 00:53:07.800
footsteps running all over the house.
I asked my mom if she heard a

683
00:53:07.920 --> 00:53:13.679
girl playing too. My mother paid
very little attention to me. He told

684
00:53:13.920 --> 00:53:17.440
me they were my brothers. I
knew they always made a lot of noise

685
00:53:17.440 --> 00:53:21.400
when they played. It was true
what my mom said, but this time

686
00:53:21.480 --> 00:53:25.480
it was different. It was a
very peculiar laugh. Without saying anything else,

687
00:53:27.119 --> 00:53:30.440
I checked the rooms, the yard, the bathroom, but I didn

688
00:53:30.519 --> 00:53:34.559
' t find anyone. I thought
it had all been the product of my

689
00:53:34.679 --> 00:53:37.440
imagination and I forgot about it.
I slept in the same room as my

690
00:53:37.440 --> 00:53:42.840
sisters. My other brothers did it
in another room. That night I was

691
00:53:42.960 --> 00:53:49.559
asleep all of a sudden, with
no apparent cause. I woke up abruptly

692
00:53:49.639 --> 00:53:52.679
as I opened my eyes, I
saw a girl about seven years old who

693
00:53:53.199 --> 00:53:57.639
was staring at me, standing attentive
to my dream. She didn' t

694
00:53:57.719 --> 00:54:00.519
even immutate, she kept seeing me
in a strange way. I was so

695
00:54:00.599 --> 00:54:05.400
scared that I crept in and walked
to the corner of my bed, as

696
00:54:05.519 --> 00:54:07.400
long as that little girl didn'
t take my eyes off. I looked

697
00:54:07.480 --> 00:54:12.000
for my sisters in their beds.
They slept without realizing what was happening to

698
00:54:12.079 --> 00:54:16.079
me. The girl stared at me
for a few more seconds after she left

699
00:54:16.199 --> 00:54:21.239
and disappeared. Because of the scare
she gave me and the darkness of the

700
00:54:21.360 --> 00:54:24.079
night, I couldn' t see
it clearly. I only saw his face.

701
00:54:24.760 --> 00:54:30.280
I stayed awake until dawn. I
think it wasn' t long before

702
00:54:30.400 --> 00:54:35.840
dawn. As soon as I heard
the sound of the frets in the kitchen,

703
00:54:36.960 --> 00:54:39.440
I got up was my mom who
had started cleaning work in the house.

704
00:54:40.239 --> 00:54:43.920
I got close. I told her
what I had seen at night,

705
00:54:44.119 --> 00:54:47.760
but my mother didn' t take
the proper importance. She told me she

706
00:54:47.840 --> 00:54:52.320
must have been one of my sisters
who wanted to scare me. I insisted

707
00:54:52.440 --> 00:54:55.039
that they were asleep in their beds. He wouldn' t let me finish.

708
00:54:55.199 --> 00:55:00.119
He ended the talk by telling me
that I surely had a bad dream

709
00:55:00.199 --> 00:55:04.320
of those who looked real, and
he went on with his activities. I

710
00:55:04.400 --> 00:55:07.400
couldn' t tell you any more. I went to the yard to hang

711
00:55:07.480 --> 00:55:09.079
out with my dog for a while. There was a swing on one of

712
00:55:09.280 --> 00:55:13.960
the trees. My dad did it
with a rope and a piece of board.

713
00:55:14.480 --> 00:55:17.199
I' ve been walking for a
few minutes. Suddenly my dog started

714
00:55:17.280 --> 00:55:22.360
barking for no apparent reason. He
ran behind me and kept barking insistently.

715
00:55:23.679 --> 00:55:27.599
I asked him to shut up,
but my dog didn' t understand.

716
00:55:28.199 --> 00:55:34.199
I sat on the swing without walking
all of a sudden I felt when someone

717
00:55:34.239 --> 00:55:37.119
pushed me on my back. I
turned right away to see who it was,

718
00:55:37.840 --> 00:55:43.440
but there was no one. It
wasn' t the product of my

719
00:55:43.480 --> 00:55:46.599
fantasies and I looked around, although
there was no one. I saw one

720
00:55:46.719 --> 00:55:52.199
of my sisters who had already risen, greeted me with her hand and went

721
00:55:52.320 --> 00:55:54.880
on her way to the kitchen.
She didn' t even realize what was

722
00:55:54.920 --> 00:55:59.920
happening to me. I got into
the house right away. From the inside

723
00:56:00.079 --> 00:56:02.960
he could see towards the courtyard.
I closed the door and stayed for a

724
00:56:04.000 --> 00:56:07.960
few seconds looking out. They weren' t false ideas. I clearly saw

725
00:56:07.079 --> 00:56:12.239
that the swing was still moving.
My mom touched my shoulder. The instant

726
00:56:12.320 --> 00:56:15.920
he did it, I jumped back. She asked me what scared me so

727
00:56:15.920 --> 00:56:20.159
much. I told him there was
someone in the yard, a girl.

728
00:56:20.519 --> 00:56:24.159
The same one from the night before, she looked at me as if with

729
00:56:24.280 --> 00:56:28.199
her gaze she could enter my mind
and discover that she was lying to her.

730
00:56:29.039 --> 00:56:30.760
He told me he' d take
me with a mat to talk to

731
00:56:30.760 --> 00:56:35.559
him. What was happening to me. In the afternoon. She took me

732
00:56:36.239 --> 00:56:39.920
to a different ritual, sat me
on the floor around, set several candles

733
00:56:40.000 --> 00:56:46.239
on fire and continued to pray her
prayers to St Benedict and St Michael Archangel,

734
00:56:46.440 --> 00:56:50.320
as well as other saints, of
whom I could no longer remember their

735
00:56:50.320 --> 00:56:53.639
names. As soon as the ritual
ended, Tencha told me it was true.

736
00:56:53.840 --> 00:56:58.159
What I saw was an angel who
didn' t want to hurt me.

737
00:56:58.679 --> 00:57:02.079
On the contrary, I just didn' t mean to take care of

738
00:57:02.079 --> 00:57:06.559
myself and provide her protection. He
didn' t believe Tencha what he was

739
00:57:07.039 --> 00:57:08.920
saying, because if it had been
true, he wouldn' t have to

740
00:57:08.920 --> 00:57:13.320
be afraid. I' ve never
seen an angel before, but I think

741
00:57:13.400 --> 00:57:16.639
the least that would make me feel
was fear, and that' s exactly

742
00:57:16.800 --> 00:57:21.280
what I felt with that little girl. I had some doubts because after Tencha

743
00:57:21.320 --> 00:57:24.039
did that ritual to me, I
never saw the girl again. For a

744
00:57:24.119 --> 00:57:30.239
while, more than two years passed
without the same thing ever happening again.

745
00:57:30.679 --> 00:57:34.280
I was confident that I would no
longer see that child, but one day

746
00:57:34.400 --> 00:57:37.800
I was playing in the courtyard of
my house. It was starting to get

747
00:57:37.800 --> 00:57:40.800
dark. My brothers got in for
dinner. I stayed for a while watching

748
00:57:40.880 --> 00:57:46.239
the stars. I liked to do
it because I sometimes saw some shooting star

749
00:57:46.360 --> 00:57:51.559
or some firefly. Although it happened
very rarely, I noticed that at the

750
00:57:51.599 --> 00:57:53.559
bottom of the courtyard, in the
part where my mom had the laundry,

751
00:57:54.000 --> 00:57:59.239
I saw a light that slipped between
the dirty clothes had the fixation to catch

752
00:57:59.280 --> 00:58:02.519
a snag light and put it inside
a jar to have its light. Every

753
00:58:02.639 --> 00:58:07.199
day I took a surprise when,
pulling the clothes I saw under the laundry

754
00:58:07.320 --> 00:58:13.079
room the same hidden girl. She
was crouched with her face between her knees.

755
00:58:13.559 --> 00:58:16.480
This time I could see it a
little better because the light of the

756
00:58:16.559 --> 00:58:22.199
lamp that was near the door reached. The girl had big, dark eyes.

757
00:58:22.239 --> 00:58:28.159
Extreme paleness. He stared at me. At the same time he outlined

758
00:58:28.320 --> 00:58:31.960
a slight smile that I did not
find friendly. On the contrary, she

759
00:58:31.960 --> 00:58:36.280
was disturbing. I fell down the
same time I screamed. My mother and

760
00:58:36.360 --> 00:58:40.039
my brothers ran away. They asked
me what was going on without saying anything.

761
00:58:40.199 --> 00:58:45.239
I pointed my finger at them and
covered my face because I didn'

762
00:58:45.360 --> 00:58:46.679
t want to see her again.
My mom took me to the kitchen,

763
00:58:47.239 --> 00:58:52.760
sat in the dining room and asked
me to explain what had happened. I

764
00:58:52.840 --> 00:58:55.519
said crying that I was the same
girl I saw a long time ago,

765
00:58:55.840 --> 00:59:00.440
but that I was not an angel, because the angels were not ugly nor

766
00:59:00.440 --> 00:59:06.960
frightened. My mom told me she' d take me home again, but

767
00:59:07.000 --> 00:59:09.679
I told her not to. I
didn' t want to go with that

768
00:59:09.800 --> 00:59:13.400
lady, because she didn' t
believe me. Besides, I couldn'

769
00:59:13.519 --> 00:59:17.000
t get that girl to disappear and
by the way, she said she was

770
00:59:17.000 --> 00:59:20.920
an angel who looked after me.
When it was the opposite. It made

771
00:59:21.239 --> 00:59:24.679
me very afraid. My mom didn' t take me to the healer,

772
00:59:25.039 --> 00:59:29.159
but she told me if I saw
her again, she wouldn' t take

773
00:59:29.239 --> 00:59:32.360
me into account. I' d
be happy. As I grew up.

774
00:59:32.480 --> 00:59:37.440
The child saw her less and less. There were times when I thought I

775
00:59:37.559 --> 00:59:40.519
was going to disappear, but again
I was coming back. The bad thing

776
00:59:40.599 --> 00:59:45.239
happened when I started seeing more brazen
beings. I was just about to finish

777
00:59:45.360 --> 00:59:49.960
high school. When I started seeing
a man and a woman who dressed very

778
00:59:50.039 --> 00:59:54.880
old. She was combed with her
hair picked up. He brought a long

779
00:59:55.320 --> 01:00:00.519
- sleeved blouse with wavers and a
long skirt. The man dressed in a

780
01:00:00.639 --> 01:00:05.599
long shirt, trousers in suspenders and
a hat I saw them while I was

781
01:00:05.719 --> 01:00:07.960
in front of the mirror. I
was combing my hair. When I saw

782
01:00:08.039 --> 01:00:12.599
the woman' s reflection it was
like she was seeing me, too.

783
01:00:13.760 --> 01:00:16.440
Then his face was transformed, his
eyes shone and his mouth grew, sketching

784
01:00:16.559 --> 01:00:22.679
a macabre smile that showed sharp teeth. He walked fast toward me. When

785
01:00:22.800 --> 01:00:25.599
I turned around, there was no
one. I started to feel like I

786
01:00:25.599 --> 01:00:30.000
was missing. The air was breathing
quickly and I felt that as much as

787
01:00:30.159 --> 01:00:34.639
I pulled air was not enough.
My sister was also in the room.

788
01:00:35.280 --> 01:00:38.199
He ran for my mom. They
gave me some water. I was relaxing

789
01:00:38.400 --> 01:00:45.039
little by little until I was calmer. I looked back in the mirror without

790
01:00:45.280 --> 01:00:51.239
seeing anyone. My sisters and my
mom turned to the mirror too. They

791
01:00:51.320 --> 01:00:53.679
asked me what I had seen because
they saw the fear in my eyes.

792
01:00:54.280 --> 01:00:59.320
I told them about the man and
the woman. My little sister asked me

793
01:00:59.400 --> 01:01:02.280
about the girl. I told them
that I kept seeing her and that over

794
01:01:02.360 --> 01:01:06.599
the years I had understood that I
would still see her for my whole life.

795
01:01:07.159 --> 01:01:10.280
However, I was very afraid to
see other people by that time I

796
01:01:10.440 --> 01:01:15.119
was very sick, I no longer
gave consultations, I had become sick with

797
01:01:15.119 --> 01:01:19.000
cancer, so my mom didn'
t take me with her anymore. We

798
01:01:19.039 --> 01:01:22.719
went to the boat. We got
family from my dad. When I was

799
01:01:22.800 --> 01:01:28.159
in another house, I had the
feeling that the appearances of the brazen beings

800
01:01:28.199 --> 01:01:31.039
were no longer going to happen.
I didn' t know why, but

801
01:01:31.159 --> 01:01:36.639
I thought it was because they were
parked at my parents' house. My

802
01:01:36.760 --> 01:01:39.599
aunt told my mom to drop me
off at her place. She would take

803
01:01:39.639 --> 01:01:45.280
me for all the studies the doctor
indicated that I could go to the village

804
01:01:45.360 --> 01:01:50.159
to take care of my brothers.
My mom thanked my aunt' s offer

805
01:01:50.480 --> 01:01:53.400
and left at my aunt Letti'
s house. I felt different, I

806
01:01:53.480 --> 01:01:58.320
felt calmer because I stopped seeing the
girl as well as the man and the

807
01:01:58.400 --> 01:02:01.239
woman. Little by little I began
to come into confidence with the idea that

808
01:02:01.320 --> 01:02:06.880
I had left the apparitions behind.
My aunt had two children who were a

809
01:02:07.000 --> 01:02:09.880
little older than me. I stayed
most of the day at my aunt'

810
01:02:09.960 --> 01:02:15.800
s. My cousins went out to
have fun with their friends. On one

811
01:02:15.960 --> 01:02:20.400
occasion, my aunt went out to
a meeting next to her husband. My

812
01:02:20.480 --> 01:02:23.679
cousins came out, too. I
was left alone in the house, prepared

813
01:02:23.760 --> 01:02:30.280
popcorn and set out to watch a
movie. She was fun. When I

814
01:02:30.360 --> 01:02:32.840
heard a noise. I put the
sound down to the movie. I heard

815
01:02:34.159 --> 01:02:37.719
footsteps running again. I immediately got
out of the chair. As he turned

816
01:02:37.880 --> 01:02:42.280
around. I couldn' t believe
it. At the bottom of one of

817
01:02:42.400 --> 01:02:45.920
the rooms, I saw the same
man and the woman. She tried to

818
01:02:45.920 --> 01:02:49.840
catch up with me. I ran
out of the house screaming. I stayed

819
01:02:49.920 --> 01:02:53.800
outside in the garage. Every moment
I looked at the door because I thought

820
01:02:53.920 --> 01:02:59.480
some of those beings would come looking
for me. It didn' t happen,

821
01:02:59.639 --> 01:03:01.760
but I didn' t encourage myself
to go back into the house until

822
01:03:01.760 --> 01:03:05.360
my aunt arrived. As soon as
she saw me, she got out of

823
01:03:05.360 --> 01:03:07.639
the car. He asked me what
had happened because I was still crying.

824
01:03:08.280 --> 01:03:12.079
I told him everything that had happened
to me. Ever since I was little.

825
01:03:12.480 --> 01:03:15.280
My aunt didn' t say anything. She kept an eye on my

826
01:03:15.280 --> 01:03:19.440
story. When I finished telling her
everything I hugged her, I told her

827
01:03:19.519 --> 01:03:22.000
I didn' t want to see
those beings anymore. I thought when I

828
01:03:22.079 --> 01:03:24.760
came to his house they were going
to disappear completely, but it wasn'

829
01:03:24.760 --> 01:03:30.000
t. They were chasing me anywhere
I went. My aunt didn' t

830
01:03:30.079 --> 01:03:32.639
doubt what I told her, but
she asked me a strange question. He

831
01:03:32.719 --> 01:03:37.880
told me if I had ever tried
to talk to any of those beings to

832
01:03:37.920 --> 01:03:42.440
find out what their intention was.
I replied that I wasn' t so

833
01:03:42.840 --> 01:03:45.159
afraid I wasn' t even trying
to talk to them. On the contrary,

834
01:03:46.119 --> 01:03:50.360
I was trying to get them out
of my sight because I was afraid

835
01:03:50.360 --> 01:03:52.960
to see them. He asked me
when it was the first time I saw

836
01:03:52.079 --> 01:03:57.320
the girl. I tried to remember, but I couldn' t find an

837
01:03:57.400 --> 01:04:00.920
exact date without her still answering my
aunt and she told me that she had

838
01:04:00.119 --> 01:04:04.639
been aware that I had been sick
since when I was born. It took

839
01:04:04.719 --> 01:04:09.320
several years for me to recover my
health. At the time she made that

840
01:04:09.679 --> 01:04:13.599
comment to me, I remembered that
the first time I started seeing that girl

841
01:04:13.679 --> 01:04:18.480
was when my mom took me with
her because she believed that I had been

842
01:04:18.559 --> 01:04:24.400
watched or that I was scared.
That' s why the drugs were no

843
01:04:24.920 --> 01:04:28.360
good to me, because my problem
was because the spirits had made me sick.

844
01:04:29.639 --> 01:04:32.360
When I finished telling my aunt what
my mother and bilge believed, she

845
01:04:32.360 --> 01:04:35.800
didn' t doubt it. He
told me he' d find someone to

846
01:04:35.880 --> 01:04:41.159
help me. For the time being, he had to wait, but he

847
01:04:41.199 --> 01:04:45.000
was going to seek support with his
family and friends so that they would recommend

848
01:04:45.119 --> 01:04:47.280
him to a person who knew about
beings from another world. I had no

849
01:04:47.360 --> 01:04:50.800
idea what my aunt was going to
do, although I no longer wanted to

850
01:04:50.920 --> 01:04:55.159
go to another healer and told my
aunt, she asked me to calm down.

851
01:04:56.280 --> 01:05:00.400
I was gonna find the right person. I went to sleep a little

852
01:05:00.440 --> 01:05:04.800
restless. It took me a while
to fall asleep. I was beginning to

853
01:05:04.800 --> 01:05:09.880
feel sleepy. When I heard a
noise under the bed. I thought it

854
01:05:10.000 --> 01:05:14.760
might be some creeping animal. I
lay still waiting for that noise to be

855
01:05:14.840 --> 01:05:18.559
of normal origin, but it wasn' t. I noticed that the sound

856
01:05:18.639 --> 01:05:23.639
was getting more intense I heard in
the footsteps of someone inside the room,

857
01:05:23.840 --> 01:05:28.639
as well as the gnashing of bones. I was just gonna get in to

858
01:05:28.679 --> 01:05:31.280
see what it was about. When
I felt someone lying in my bed,

859
01:05:31.480 --> 01:05:38.159
I slowly felt the sinking and moving
of the mattress. Then I sensed a

860
01:05:38.280 --> 01:05:42.880
foul smell. One of the spirits
had laid down in my bed. I

861
01:05:43.000 --> 01:05:46.480
tried to get up, but a
bony hand stopped me, grabbed my arm

862
01:05:46.599 --> 01:05:49.840
and wouldn' t let me out. I wanted to scream without getting it.

863
01:05:50.280 --> 01:05:55.039
My voice got stuck in my throat. I thought that entity was gonna

864
01:05:55.119 --> 01:05:58.960
kill me. However, he did
not. I wanted to get out of

865
01:05:59.039 --> 01:06:03.360
bed and run, but I couldn' t move that being either He started

866
01:06:03.480 --> 01:06:06.719
to crawl on my bed, he
sat on my body and approached me his

867
01:06:06.719 --> 01:06:13.239
face. Husband seemed to keep a
disturbing smile all the time. He stayed

868
01:06:13.360 --> 01:06:15.960
watching me for a few seconds.
It was the worst moments of my life,

869
01:06:16.639 --> 01:06:21.440
because through those huge dark eyes,
I could feel all kinds of negative

870
01:06:21.599 --> 01:06:27.320
feelings, as if that entity transmitted
its evil to me. All those sins

871
01:06:27.440 --> 01:06:31.320
for which the devil took the souls
of humans. The entity stopped looking at

872
01:06:32.119 --> 01:06:35.800
me the instant it did. The
images I had put in my mind were

873
01:06:35.920 --> 01:06:42.320
erased, because I saw many spirits
floating aimlessly, fixed with lamentations and weeping

874
01:06:42.440 --> 01:06:46.960
then separated from my body and began
Olerme put his face on every part of

875
01:06:47.079 --> 01:06:51.719
my skin, sniffing at every moment
as if trying to keep my scent.

876
01:06:54.599 --> 01:06:59.360
Then he got out of bed and
started walking around the room. He did

877
01:06:59.559 --> 01:07:03.000
not have a straight pruning machine,
he was bent and walked with great difficulty.

878
01:07:03.480 --> 01:07:09.079
His bones thundered every move he made. He prostrated himself in front of

879
01:07:09.079 --> 01:07:14.239
the mirror. Many more spirits were
reflected in him as if many beings with

880
01:07:14.320 --> 01:07:19.920
disfigured faces were behind him. The
moment that entity moved away from my bed,

881
01:07:20.199 --> 01:07:27.360
I recovered the movement. I started
to get up slowly trying to keep

882
01:07:27.559 --> 01:07:31.039
that being from realizing that I wanted
to leave the room. The brazen spirit

883
01:07:31.280 --> 01:07:36.280
kept looking at the rest of the
beings in the mirror as it walked,

884
01:07:36.639 --> 01:07:42.400
frightened that at any moment it would
see me and hurt me. I was

885
01:07:42.480 --> 01:07:45.519
taking a slow step. When I
heard the crackling of a bone, it

886
01:07:45.639 --> 01:07:51.000
was his head that turned. He
started walking slowly towards me. I wanted

887
01:07:51.000 --> 01:07:56.440
to run, but again I was
paralyzed as soon as the entity was close.

888
01:07:56.559 --> 01:07:59.920
I started to lose consciousness. I
didn' t know what was happening

889
01:07:59.920 --> 01:08:02.559
to me anymore. When I woke
up, my aunt was sitting next to

890
01:08:02.679 --> 01:08:05.320
my bed. He told me he' d slept more than a day.

891
01:08:05.800 --> 01:08:10.039
I asked him what had happened to
me. He told me he didn'

892
01:08:10.079 --> 01:08:14.719
t know what happened. She was
awakened by distant laments that she could hear.

893
01:08:15.280 --> 01:08:18.439
As he approached the room, he
realized something was going on. He

894
01:08:18.560 --> 01:08:23.199
called insistently at the door. Since
he didn' t get an answer,

895
01:08:23.199 --> 01:08:26.920
he opened it. He found my
throat unconscious on the floor. It hurt

896
01:08:27.039 --> 01:08:30.000
so much. I felt like he
hurt me when I wanted to talk.

897
01:08:30.319 --> 01:08:33.119
I still did. I explained to
my aunt what happened. I told him

898
01:08:33.199 --> 01:08:39.640
that demon or entity was trying to
take me with him and that I was

899
01:08:39.800 --> 01:08:42.920
trying to get behind a mirror.
I didn' t finish telling my aunt

900
01:08:43.079 --> 01:08:45.319
because they knocked on the door.
He was the doctor who was going to

901
01:08:45.319 --> 01:08:48.479
check me out. My aunt told
me I didn' t know what happened

902
01:08:48.479 --> 01:08:51.960
to me. That' s why
he called the doctor. I interrupted my

903
01:08:53.159 --> 01:08:58.119
story for the doctor to do his
job. He listened carefully to me,

904
01:08:58.239 --> 01:09:01.520
concluding that I had stress and that
I needed a lot of rest and calm.

905
01:09:02.079 --> 01:09:08.359
He prescribed me some pills so I
could sleep and relax as soon as

906
01:09:08.439 --> 01:09:11.960
the doctor left. I told my
aunt to help me. I couldn'

907
01:09:12.079 --> 01:09:15.479
t live like this anymore. Every
time the time passed, the spirits took

908
01:09:15.560 --> 01:09:20.199
more powers, because at first I
only saw a girl who never wanted to

909
01:09:20.319 --> 01:09:26.960
hurt me. Then I started seeing
a man and a woman. He was

910
01:09:27.039 --> 01:09:30.760
indifferent to my presence, but she
wanted to hurt me. The worst happened

911
01:09:30.800 --> 01:09:35.039
yesterday. He kept talking nonstop.
My aunt stopped me. He told me

912
01:09:35.159 --> 01:09:40.399
he already knew where to take me. I told my aunt about pitch and

913
01:09:40.720 --> 01:09:44.239
that I no longer believed in those
people, but she asked me to try,

914
01:09:44.800 --> 01:09:48.159
that I had to do something about
it, because every time those spirits

915
01:09:48.359 --> 01:09:54.000
went further, which put my life
at risk. Or worse my soul.

916
01:09:55.840 --> 01:09:59.479
We went with a man who was
known in the boat, with an elderly

917
01:09:59.560 --> 01:10:04.039
man. His house was covered with
images of angels and saints. I thought

918
01:10:04.119 --> 01:10:09.039
it wouldn' t do me any
good being in that place. The man

919
01:10:09.159 --> 01:10:12.640
stretched out his hand to greet me. The moment he did, I saw

920
01:10:12.880 --> 01:10:16.560
many beings of light hovering around him. As soon as he let me go,

921
01:10:16.800 --> 01:10:19.720
I stopped seeing them. The gentleman
asked me why I came with him.

922
01:10:20.479 --> 01:10:25.560
I told him I was only doing
it because I wanted him to clean

923
01:10:25.720 --> 01:10:28.199
me up because I was sick and
the man wouldn' t let me finish.

924
01:10:29.199 --> 01:10:30.600
He told me if I didn'
t believe in him, it was

925
01:10:30.680 --> 01:10:34.319
best if I left. I was
surprised what he said to me because he

926
01:10:34.399 --> 01:10:36.520
seemed to know why he was coming
with him. I didn' t doubt

927
01:10:36.520 --> 01:10:40.640
it anymore. I told him everything
that happened to me. The man listened

928
01:10:40.720 --> 01:10:44.600
attentively to everything he said. When
I finished talking, he told me that

929
01:10:44.680 --> 01:10:47.800
he had the power to make contact
with beings from another world. If he

930
01:10:47.800 --> 01:10:51.279
wanted to, he could teach me
how to use that power. He also

931
01:10:51.399 --> 01:10:55.880
told me that from the moment I
entered his house, he could see many

932
01:10:56.119 --> 01:11:00.520
spirits coming after me. Among them
he knew deaf, two demons and souls

933
01:11:00.680 --> 01:11:05.920
who purged a sentence. The man
asked me if I had always seen those

934
01:11:06.039 --> 01:11:11.439
spirits. I said no, I
started seeing them. When I was eight

935
01:11:12.039 --> 01:11:15.279
years old after I got a clean, the lord nodded right away. He

936
01:11:15.399 --> 01:11:19.359
told me that when I was cleaned, they opened one of the many portals

937
01:11:19.439 --> 01:11:24.840
in hell and that it was possible
for demons to come out through that portal,

938
01:11:25.119 --> 01:11:30.039
but also for others to enter.
I told the man that one of

939
01:11:30.159 --> 01:11:33.239
them tried to hurt me if it
wasn' t for my aunt. Maybe

940
01:11:33.319 --> 01:11:40.239
she was already dead. Mr Smile
told me that I could teach myself to

941
01:11:40.359 --> 01:11:45.479
deal with those beings because I had
the ability to see them or that I

942
01:11:45.159 --> 01:11:48.319
could also close the portal so that
they could not come out and find me

943
01:11:48.319 --> 01:11:51.560
without hesitation. I didn' t
say for a second that I didn'

944
01:11:53.000 --> 01:11:55.399
t want to know more about demons
or trapped souls than to close the portal.

945
01:11:56.680 --> 01:12:00.079
The man did a completely different ritual
than he did before I retired,

946
01:12:00.239 --> 01:12:04.239
he told me that if a demon
ever came back, I would not hesitate

947
01:12:04.319 --> 01:12:11.279
to come with him immediately, because
the demons were persistent. They didn'

948
01:12:11.319 --> 01:12:15.039
t give in that easily. The
man my aunt took me with helped me

949
01:12:15.399 --> 01:12:18.600
a lot. He had the power
to close the portal through which demons and

950
01:12:18.760 --> 01:12:24.640
souls went out in sorrow. Since
that time I went with him I never

951
01:12:24.680 --> 01:12:38.439
saw any spirit Hotel California again.
I went to live at the San Lucas

952
01:12:38.560 --> 01:12:43.760
corporals because of work. He taught
English online. Not many hours were allocated

953
01:12:43.800 --> 01:12:48.439
to me, so my income was
not enough. The manager called me to

954
01:12:48.560 --> 01:12:53.399
tell me they' d open new
offices in that place. They offered me

955
01:12:53.520 --> 01:12:57.720
a chance to take up the position
of manager, only I' d have

956
01:12:57.840 --> 01:13:00.600
to get to the corporals. It' s been a while since I'

957
01:13:00.720 --> 01:13:03.039
ve separated from my partner. I
wasn' t having a very good time.

958
01:13:03.520 --> 01:13:06.680
My dad told me I could go
back to living with him. I

959
01:13:06.760 --> 01:13:11.399
didn' t want to because I
had a lease for a year. However,

960
01:13:11.760 --> 01:13:15.239
there was an extraordinary situation that made
me make the decision. My friend

961
01:13:15.359 --> 01:13:18.840
Joel told me he was coming to
town to try his luck. He was

962
01:13:18.920 --> 01:13:23.319
a friend of the people. I
explained my situation to him. I told

963
01:13:23.359 --> 01:13:26.600
him he could stay in the apartment
if he took care of the rent.

964
01:13:27.279 --> 01:13:30.880
Joel liked the idea and by the
way, if for some reason I wasn

965
01:13:30.960 --> 01:13:34.079
' t doing well in Cape St
Luke, on my return I would have

966
01:13:34.079 --> 01:13:38.920
a place to live. At first, it was difficult to adapt to a

967
01:13:39.039 --> 01:13:43.239
new way of life. I was
born in a coastal village, but long

968
01:13:43.520 --> 01:13:46.159
ago I had left my village to
look for luck in the city, so

969
01:13:46.279 --> 01:13:50.800
the humid heat. I didn'
t love it, although the place was

970
01:13:50.880 --> 01:13:55.920
very nice on weekends I used to
go to the beach and get to know

971
01:13:55.920 --> 01:13:59.520
more places. One of my colleagues
recommended that I go to the town of

972
01:13:59.600 --> 01:14:03.600
Todos Santos. He told me that
he was forty minutes from the corporals on

973
01:14:03.680 --> 01:14:08.840
Saturday morning I got up very early
to take advantage of the day. I

974
01:14:08.880 --> 01:14:12.880
hadn' t made friends with my
colleagues yet, so I went to Todos

975
01:14:12.960 --> 01:14:17.520
Santos alone. The village was very
nice. He was considered a magical coastal

976
01:14:17.640 --> 01:14:23.359
town. I went through every space, which had a great cultural richness.

977
01:14:24.079 --> 01:14:28.760
A taxi driver suggested that I go
to the beach of Cerritos I could not

978
01:14:28.760 --> 01:14:31.880
walk, so the man offered to
take me for a good price. I

979
01:14:31.960 --> 01:14:36.159
stayed for most of the day on
the beach, I still had more places

980
01:14:36.279 --> 01:14:42.399
to know, so I decided to
stay that night in the village and return

981
01:14:42.479 --> 01:14:46.600
on Sunday afternoon to the corporals.
I waited to see the sunset. Then

982
01:14:46.720 --> 01:14:51.279
I went back to town. The
taxi driver recommended me to visit some of

983
01:14:51.399 --> 01:14:56.840
the landmarks, such as the California
Hotel. The man told me that the

984
01:14:56.920 --> 01:15:00.960
Eagles group had been inspired at that
hotel to compose the California Hotel song.

985
01:15:01.199 --> 01:15:04.960
With the comment you made to me
it caused me more expectation. I was

986
01:15:05.159 --> 01:15:09.520
starting to get dark when I got
to the California Hotel. It was a

987
01:15:09.600 --> 01:15:14.239
place of tourist attraction because of the
relationship that was made with the American musical

988
01:15:14.239 --> 01:15:18.600
group. I wanted to visit the
cultural centers of all Santos, but they

989
01:15:18.720 --> 01:15:23.319
were already closed. The next day
would be the first thing I' d

990
01:15:23.319 --> 01:15:26.680
go through. I went to a
restaurant that had some tables on the sidewalk.

991
01:15:27.239 --> 01:15:31.319
It seemed like a great opportunity to
appreciate the place better, whose street

992
01:15:31.399 --> 01:15:36.920
was adorned with ties of colors that
gave it a spectacular picturesque tint. A

993
01:15:38.039 --> 01:15:41.399
woman came up to give me the
menu as soon as I saw her,

994
01:15:42.000 --> 01:15:45.119
her long black hair caught my attention, as well as how beautiful the waitress

995
01:15:45.119 --> 01:15:49.159
was. He was attentive to giving
me excellent service all the time. Before

996
01:15:49.199 --> 01:15:53.760
I retired, I asked him if
he could direct me to which hotel to

997
01:15:53.760 --> 01:15:57.079
stay in. I asked him to
suggest one with a not- so-

998
01:15:57.520 --> 01:16:00.680
high cost. The waitress smiled and
told me that a hotel with an affordable

999
01:16:00.800 --> 01:16:05.039
price was just blocks away from the
restaurant and was very comfortable. The woman

1000
01:16:05.159 --> 01:16:10.079
had captivated me, so I asked
her to show me some places in the

1001
01:16:10.199 --> 01:16:15.319
village. She apologized. He told
me he didn' t rest on Sundays,

1002
01:16:15.560 --> 01:16:17.000
he only had one day a week. Again I asked her, even

1003
01:16:17.039 --> 01:16:20.680
if it was a little bit before
she went to work, she agreed.

1004
01:16:21.199 --> 01:16:25.920
He told me he was going to
work at noon. If I wanted to

1005
01:16:26.000 --> 01:16:29.880
know other places, it had to
be very early. She arrived at the

1006
01:16:29.920 --> 01:16:32.279
hotel at eight in the morning.
He took me to different places that I

1007
01:16:32.359 --> 01:16:36.239
hadn' t been recommended. Those
places were best known to the locals.

1008
01:16:38.319 --> 01:16:41.720
Before we went to work at the
restaurant, we went to a place that

1009
01:16:41.880 --> 01:16:45.279
had a legend about eternal love.
It was similar to the kiss alley in

1010
01:16:45.359 --> 01:16:50.239
Guanajuato. It was a space with
a bench in which the lovers. They

1011
01:16:50.319 --> 01:16:54.640
sealed their love with a kiss and
a lock, so there were many locks.

1012
01:16:55.279 --> 01:17:00.840
We sat on the bench and took
a photograph of the company right away.

1013
01:17:00.880 --> 01:17:03.720
I asked the restaurant for her phone
number, but she told me that

1014
01:17:03.800 --> 01:17:09.319
I had no cell phone situation that
was made strange. I thought you didn

1015
01:17:09.359 --> 01:17:12.520
' t like my company and you
didn' t want to know about me

1016
01:17:12.520 --> 01:17:15.199
anymore. I didn' t mean
to insist. I thanked her for her

1017
01:17:15.319 --> 01:17:19.000
time and said goodbye to her thinking
that I would never see her again,

1018
01:17:19.359 --> 01:17:24.319
because that day I had to go
back to the corporals at the company.

1019
01:17:24.680 --> 01:17:29.000
The job wasn' t that simple. There were many issues to be resolved

1020
01:17:29.079 --> 01:17:31.159
and I was just beginning to learn
how to serve in that position. The

1021
01:17:31.279 --> 01:17:36.439
following days were chaotic and heavy.
I was arriving at the office very early

1022
01:17:36.560 --> 01:17:42.760
and I was leaving at night until
the next Friday I was able to reflect

1023
01:17:42.880 --> 01:17:45.560
on Mercedes, the girl from the
restaurant. I had the anxiety to return

1024
01:17:45.680 --> 01:17:48.039
to all Santos, but something stopped
me. I didn' t want to

1025
01:17:48.159 --> 01:17:51.159
go back to town and make her
feel like she was harassing her. I

1026
01:17:51.279 --> 01:17:56.199
stayed to rest and go to the
beach to see the sunset that I enjoyed

1027
01:17:56.479 --> 01:18:00.319
so much for two weekends. I
didn' t go to all Santos.

1028
01:18:00.800 --> 01:18:05.239
However, on the third weekend I
could not contain myself and returned to the

1029
01:18:05.359 --> 01:18:11.880
village. I went straight to the
restaurant. This time, Mercedes didn'

1030
01:18:12.000 --> 01:18:15.880
t do me any good. She
smiled at me as soon as she saw

1031
01:18:15.880 --> 01:18:18.039
me I approached. I told her
I' d stay at the same hotel

1032
01:18:18.359 --> 01:18:23.000
as last time, that I'
d love to see more places again.

1033
01:18:24.079 --> 01:18:29.199
She agreed to arrive earlier at the
hotel. I told him it wasn'

1034
01:18:29.199 --> 01:18:31.960
t necessary. I could go home
and then we' d leave. Mercedes

1035
01:18:32.039 --> 01:18:36.199
told me we' d better meet
in the hotel lobby. From that time

1036
01:18:36.279 --> 01:18:41.800
on we began to see each other
more often. Mercedes went to the ends

1037
01:18:41.920 --> 01:18:45.840
of his rest days on the weekends. I was going to all saints.

1038
01:18:45.359 --> 01:18:49.119
She told me to go live together, we could stay at her house.

1039
01:18:50.560 --> 01:18:56.439
I asked her what her parents thought
about it. Mercedes told me that her

1040
01:18:56.560 --> 01:18:59.920
parents had been dead a long time
ago and that she had no brother.

1041
01:19:00.479 --> 01:19:03.680
She lived alone in her house.
Mercedes suggested that I look for a way

1042
01:19:03.800 --> 01:19:09.039
to work in all saints, perhaps
in my company. They would allow me

1043
01:19:09.079 --> 01:19:12.520
to work remotely. I told him
it wasn' t possible. My work

1044
01:19:12.880 --> 01:19:16.640
had to be done in a face- to- face manner, as several

1045
01:19:16.760 --> 01:19:19.920
colleagues had rejected the work just because
there was a need to change residence.

1046
01:19:21.520 --> 01:19:26.640
I noticed in her that she made
a grimace of disgust because she apparently didn

1047
01:19:26.800 --> 01:19:30.159
' t like the idea of leaving
town. I told her it was easier

1048
01:19:30.279 --> 01:19:35.560
for her to get a job anywhere. She was an excellent worker, responsible

1049
01:19:35.640 --> 01:19:42.560
and committed. Any restaurant on the
corporals would hire her. Mercedes explained to

1050
01:19:42.680 --> 01:19:45.960
me not to take it badly.
All her ancestors had lived in this place

1051
01:19:46.520 --> 01:19:50.560
and she had a loving affection for
her home, because it allowed her to

1052
01:19:50.600 --> 01:19:55.800
remember each of her loved ones.
Also, if he left the house alone,

1053
01:19:56.239 --> 01:20:00.439
he would be deteriorating and would have
to pay rent. There was no

1054
01:20:00.560 --> 01:20:03.439
need to do so. I asked
him to give me some time to try

1055
01:20:03.560 --> 01:20:09.359
and think about what I wanted to
do. He agreed. We continue the

1056
01:20:09.399 --> 01:20:15.279
weekend on the beach. While we
were sitting near the sea Mercedes told me

1057
01:20:15.439 --> 01:20:18.520
if I knew the legend of the
California Hotel. I said yes. The

1058
01:20:18.600 --> 01:20:26.319
Eagles group relied on that hotel to
make their famous California Hotel song. Mercedes

1059
01:20:26.399 --> 01:20:29.800
told me that was one of the
versions of the hotel, although there was

1060
01:20:30.039 --> 01:20:33.479
another. She started telling the story
of the hotel. He told me that

1061
01:20:33.600 --> 01:20:40.119
it was built in the year of
one thousand nine hundred and fifty, that

1062
01:20:40.640 --> 01:20:43.119
it had a Spanish colonial architecture and
a wonderful view of the Pacific Ocean.

1063
01:20:43.680 --> 01:20:47.359
In addition, they said that there
appeared a woman who lived many years ago

1064
01:20:47.479 --> 01:20:53.119
I told her that the first time
I arrived in Todos Santos I saw the

1065
01:20:53.119 --> 01:20:56.680
hotel. I thought it was very
nice, even though I didn' t

1066
01:20:56.680 --> 01:20:59.920
know anything about him. I was
so intrigued by your comment that I asked

1067
01:21:00.520 --> 01:21:04.439
you to come and enter the hotel. Mercedes asked me a question You'

1068
01:21:04.439 --> 01:21:10.159
re sure. I said yes,
I' d only seen the front part.

1069
01:21:10.560 --> 01:21:13.600
Now I wanted to see her inside. She asked me the same question

1070
01:21:13.680 --> 01:21:18.279
again. Of course I did I
don' t understand why I should hesitate.

1071
01:21:19.399 --> 01:21:25.640
Mercedes smiled and stared at me.
I asked her what was going on.

1072
01:21:25.720 --> 01:21:30.119
He said nothing. He was simply
pleased that he was interested in the

1073
01:21:30.239 --> 01:21:32.560
culture of the people. He put
his face very close to mine. He

1074
01:21:32.680 --> 01:21:36.840
whispered to me that I was going
to like him so much that I was

1075
01:21:36.920 --> 01:21:41.039
going to want to stay in him. I told him that wouldn' t

1076
01:21:41.039 --> 01:21:45.079
be possible. Even if it was
very nice, I didn' t have

1077
01:21:45.159 --> 01:21:47.600
a chance to pay for the hotel. Every day, Mercedes smiled and we

1078
01:21:47.680 --> 01:21:53.640
took the sand off our feet to
get out of the way We took a

1079
01:21:53.720 --> 01:21:57.239
while to get to the California hotel
facilities. When I had him in front

1080
01:21:57.359 --> 01:22:00.319
of me, he seemed more captivating
for everything I said. Mercedes from the

1081
01:22:00.399 --> 01:22:05.680
beginning that we entered impressed me still
retained its ancient architecture, with some rustic

1082
01:22:05.800 --> 01:22:12.720
furniture. I felt the feeling of
warmth and shelter. It seemed like Mercedes

1083
01:22:12.800 --> 01:22:16.159
knew him very well. He started
moving down the halls, showed me some

1084
01:22:16.279 --> 01:22:23.359
rooms. We went to the Alberca
area. Mercedes enjoyed being at the hotel.

1085
01:22:23.840 --> 01:22:28.680
I thought she' d be happy
to live in that place We stayed

1086
01:22:28.800 --> 01:22:30.800
for a while in the lobby.
We ordered a drink. She started telling

1087
01:22:30.840 --> 01:22:35.560
me a little bit about her family, especially her parents. It was an

1088
01:22:35.680 --> 01:22:40.800
extremely pleasant moment, because I felt
that I was beginning to be more confident.

1089
01:22:42.520 --> 01:22:45.560
Time went too fast. I told
Mercedes I still had time to get

1090
01:22:45.640 --> 01:22:49.840
back in the last truck. Otherwise, I' d have to pay for

1091
01:22:49.840 --> 01:22:55.079
a cab. We immediately left the
hotel. She took me down a shorter

1092
01:22:55.159 --> 01:22:59.359
road to the bus station. I
was just about to leave, so I

1093
01:22:59.439 --> 01:23:02.479
got in right away. I saw
Mercedes' smiling face telling me to God.

1094
01:23:03.479 --> 01:23:08.560
At that time I thought maybe it
would be worth going to live with

1095
01:23:08.760 --> 01:23:12.319
her to all saints. As I
told God, I saw two other girls

1096
01:23:12.399 --> 01:23:17.279
standing behind her. They were watching
the truck. It struck me that they

1097
01:23:17.399 --> 01:23:23.359
dressed in an ancient way, but
I did not pay much attention to it

1098
01:23:23.439 --> 01:23:28.359
because Todos Santos was attended by people
from different parts of the Mexican Republic,

1099
01:23:28.840 --> 01:23:31.439
as well as from other countries.
I thought they were people with different customs.

1100
01:23:32.720 --> 01:23:38.039
I started my work activities thinking about
Mercedes. I liked the idea of

1101
01:23:38.159 --> 01:23:42.600
living next to her. In addition, the village was very nice, as

1102
01:23:42.680 --> 01:23:45.960
well as its beaches every day.
I thought there was no reason not to.

1103
01:23:47.159 --> 01:23:51.159
One of my colleagues told me that
I looked very happy. I told

1104
01:23:51.319 --> 01:23:57.199
him I was seriously considering going to
live in Todos Santos. He was originally

1105
01:23:57.319 --> 01:24:00.000
from the village. He told me
it was a very good place, although

1106
01:24:00.079 --> 01:24:03.079
it was not very easy to get
a job. That' s why he

1107
01:24:03.239 --> 01:24:08.800
had moved to the corporals to work. There was more chance of getting a

1108
01:24:08.800 --> 01:24:13.119
job. Although he didn' t
want to take my intention away, he

1109
01:24:13.560 --> 01:24:15.560
told me that he could try if
for some reason it didn' t work,

1110
01:24:15.560 --> 01:24:17.560
he didn' t lose anything.
I was going back to the corporals

1111
01:24:17.600 --> 01:24:21.199
or to my town. I didn' t care much about the inconvenience of

1112
01:24:21.199 --> 01:24:26.039
the job. What my partner told
me was true. I didn' t

1113
01:24:26.039 --> 01:24:29.720
lose much. In addition, the
place was ideal for living next to Mercedes.

1114
01:24:30.920 --> 01:24:33.119
I told them in my company the
decision I made. They did not

1115
01:24:33.199 --> 01:24:36.920
like him leaving the job, especially
because they trusted that he would last a

1116
01:24:38.039 --> 01:24:41.720
long time with them. They asked
me for a month to get it.

1117
01:24:41.800 --> 01:24:45.720
Whoever supplied me. It took a
long time, but I wanted to leave

1118
01:24:45.800 --> 01:24:50.720
the company doors open a week after
I told the company my resignation called me

1119
01:24:50.760 --> 01:24:57.359
my friend Yoel told me that my
father had become very serious. He tried

1120
01:24:57.399 --> 01:25:01.720
to communicate with me without getting it
weird enough, because my phone was in

1121
01:25:01.720 --> 01:25:05.039
good shape. My friend told me
it was important that I go back to

1122
01:25:05.199 --> 01:25:08.720
town to see my dad. I
didn' t doubt it. I called

1123
01:25:08.760 --> 01:25:11.720
the company and as soon as I
got the flight, I went to see

1124
01:25:11.720 --> 01:25:15.720
him. I found him thin and
in a deplorable state. Nothing to do

1125
01:25:15.800 --> 01:25:18.880
with the strong, cheerful man I
had been as soon as my dad saw

1126
01:25:18.880 --> 01:25:23.760
me. He was very excited,
extended his arms to embrace me. However,

1127
01:25:24.119 --> 01:25:27.880
his face turned into fear. He
asked me who the person was going

1128
01:25:28.000 --> 01:25:31.359
with me. I told him it
wasn' t just him. He got

1129
01:25:31.439 --> 01:25:34.520
a little upset. He asked me
to get that man and the woman out

1130
01:25:34.600 --> 01:25:39.800
of the room. I was with
him. I asked him if he meant

1131
01:25:39.880 --> 01:25:44.000
joel. He got upset. He
said no. The other two people behind

1132
01:25:44.079 --> 01:25:49.079
me. I turned back pretending there
really was someone. I asked them to

1133
01:25:49.199 --> 01:25:53.760
get out of the room and opened
the door. My dad got more angry.

1134
01:25:54.199 --> 01:25:58.640
He told me not to try to
fool him, because the people there

1135
01:25:58.800 --> 01:26:01.079
were still inside the room and that
they were laughing in a strange way.

1136
01:26:02.640 --> 01:26:06.880
He asked me again to leave his
sight. It was necessary for me to

1137
01:26:06.920 --> 01:26:12.359
leave the room because my dad started
to get very upset. My friend stayed

1138
01:26:12.439 --> 01:26:15.880
by his side. When he left, he asked me what had happened inside.

1139
01:26:16.399 --> 01:26:21.640
What happened to my dad because he
said he saw two people. As

1140
01:26:21.680 --> 01:26:27.680
soon as the doctor finished checking on
my dad, I approached him to ask

1141
01:26:27.760 --> 01:26:30.039
him why my dad saw people who
didn' t exist. He told me

1142
01:26:30.199 --> 01:26:34.000
it was normal in a terminal patient. His brain was no longer supplied with

1143
01:26:34.079 --> 01:26:40.159
the necessary nutrients because he ate very
little. In addition, the medicine they

1144
01:26:40.239 --> 01:26:45.319
supplied had side effects. Hallucinations were
part of the process. It was not

1145
01:26:45.399 --> 01:26:50.079
very common for all patients to happen, but it was part of the clinical

1146
01:26:50.159 --> 01:26:56.079
picture. Me. He heard everything
and told me that my father was between

1147
01:26:56.159 --> 01:27:00.479
two worlds, between life and death. Perhaps that is why in r he

1148
01:27:00.560 --> 01:27:02.520
weighed to see beings that did not
belong to the world of the living.

1149
01:27:03.000 --> 01:27:09.359
Or it was also the reason why
we could not perceive them. What my

1150
01:27:09.479 --> 01:27:14.359
friend told me didn' t convince
me. I thought they were spiritual superheroes.

1151
01:27:14.800 --> 01:27:17.840
I' d rather listen to the
doctor. I went back in to

1152
01:27:17.840 --> 01:27:21.439
see him. As soon as he
saw me, he began to stir,

1153
01:27:21.800 --> 01:27:25.880
asking me not to let those people
who were with me take him away.

1154
01:27:26.399 --> 01:27:31.039
He was afraid to go to hell. That' s why I didn'

1155
01:27:31.119 --> 01:27:32.920
t want to see them I felt
sorry for my father. He had always

1156
01:27:33.039 --> 01:27:38.600
been a very religious person and the
fact that he believed in the existence of

1157
01:27:38.760 --> 01:27:44.640
heaven and hell caused him fear in
referring to the beings he saw surely were

1158
01:27:44.760 --> 01:27:48.760
not good spirits. That' s
why he was so scared. I didn

1159
01:27:48.920 --> 01:27:51.640
' t know what to say or
how to do. In order not to

1160
01:27:51.720 --> 01:27:58.279
be afraid again it was necessary for
me to leave the room, although the

1161
01:27:58.359 --> 01:28:01.479
reason to return to the city was
to be by his side. Me.

1162
01:28:01.600 --> 01:28:06.000
He asked me not to worry.
He' d stay that night to take

1163
01:28:06.000 --> 01:28:10.720
care of him. If I wanted
to stay in the visiting room, he

1164
01:28:10.840 --> 01:28:14.520
' d go tell me how my
father was. That' s how I

1165
01:28:14.520 --> 01:28:16.560
did it. I stayed in the
reception room for the rest of the sick

1166
01:28:16.640 --> 01:28:23.439
family. At several moments my friend
went out to tell me the conditions in

1167
01:28:23.600 --> 01:28:29.399
which my father was very late the
morning came out in a hurry. I

1168
01:28:29.560 --> 01:28:33.479
was looking through the glass window into
the street, thinking of Mercedes. Suddenly

1169
01:28:33.600 --> 01:28:38.880
I saw the reflection on the glass
of a man and a woman smiling with

1170
01:28:39.039 --> 01:28:45.039
her gaze fixed. I turned scared
looking for those two people among those present,

1171
01:28:45.479 --> 01:28:48.840
but they were not there I asked
a girl if she saw the woman

1172
01:28:48.960 --> 01:28:54.039
dressed in black and the man behind
me. She told me there was no

1173
01:28:54.199 --> 01:28:58.640
one but her mother and she and
she never saw anyone else. I couldn

1174
01:28:58.720 --> 01:29:01.800
' t keep thinking about those two
people, because I was told that my

1175
01:29:02.079 --> 01:29:08.159
father was very serious. I was
unconscious. We saw when the doctors ran

1176
01:29:08.199 --> 01:29:11.760
to his room, I did the
same thing. The nurse stopped me at

1177
01:29:11.800 --> 01:29:15.039
the entrance to the door. He
told me that my father had fallen into

1178
01:29:15.520 --> 01:29:20.600
unemployment trying to resurrect him with the
defibrillator. It was very hard to hear

1179
01:29:20.680 --> 01:29:25.399
when the doctor said my dad'
s time of death had happened at three

1180
01:29:25.479 --> 01:29:29.840
forty- six in the morning,
just as my father' s departure from

1181
01:29:29.920 --> 01:29:35.479
this world happened. I heard a
barely audible whistle. I thought it wasn

1182
01:29:35.560 --> 01:29:42.079
' t the place for someone to
whistle, although it wasn' t the

1183
01:29:42.199 --> 01:29:43.800
cheerful characteristic melody I' d lie
if I said no. I was afraid

1184
01:29:43.880 --> 01:29:46.840
to hear the whistle because I related
it to my dad' s soul.

1185
01:29:47.479 --> 01:29:53.079
It was the first time I had
such reflections about death and what happened after

1186
01:29:53.159 --> 01:29:58.199
I died. I thought my father' s soul could be inside the room

1187
01:29:58.279 --> 01:30:03.039
without being able to see. I
left the hospital overwhelmed and he told me

1188
01:30:03.159 --> 01:30:08.920
not to worry. He was going
to help me with all the paperwork required

1189
01:30:09.039 --> 01:30:12.680
to look after my dad. I
didn' t answer anything, I just

1190
01:30:12.760 --> 01:30:15.399
hugged him, thanking him for his
support. I called Mercedes to tell him

1191
01:30:15.479 --> 01:30:20.159
I' d stay in town longer
until I buried my father. He had

1192
01:30:20.279 --> 01:30:25.920
no intention of performing a novenario of
mass or rosary. As soon as I

1193
01:30:26.039 --> 01:30:27.960
got out of the cemetery, I' d get back to the corporals.

1194
01:30:28.600 --> 01:30:30.920
I didn' t hear what she
was saying because there was a sound that

1195
01:30:31.000 --> 01:30:34.840
didn' t let me. It
was annoying interference. I tried to do

1196
01:30:34.920 --> 01:30:40.159
it another time, but the signal
was still failing. I never tried it

1197
01:30:40.239 --> 01:30:45.199
again. I focused on saying goodbye
to my dad as his coffin entered the

1198
01:30:45.279 --> 01:30:48.279
depth of the earth. I heard
the same whistle for the second time.

1199
01:30:48.760 --> 01:30:54.039
I asked Joel if he heard it
too. He said no. He told

1200
01:30:54.159 --> 01:30:58.760
me that maybe it was just the
sound of the wind, even though I

1201
01:30:58.800 --> 01:31:01.760
was sure it wasn' t.
When I got to Todos Santos, I

1202
01:31:01.800 --> 01:31:05.880
went to see Mercedes right away.
She treated me so warmly. It was

1203
01:31:05.960 --> 01:31:10.039
at that moment that I decided to
go live with her in her village.

1204
01:31:10.600 --> 01:31:14.920
I had run out of family and
now I had the chance to start one

1205
01:31:15.079 --> 01:31:18.079
with her. I told him I
did agree to go live next to him.

1206
01:31:19.079 --> 01:31:24.520
Mercedes was happy, he hugged me
and we went to celebrate. When

1207
01:31:24.640 --> 01:31:29.199
night arrived, I asked him where
he lived until then. I was aware

1208
01:31:29.279 --> 01:31:32.039
that he had never told me the
address of his house. She said she

1209
01:31:32.119 --> 01:31:36.720
' d tell me later. We
were gonna be staying at the California Hotel

1210
01:31:36.800 --> 01:31:42.560
that night. I found it very
strange that she would give me that answer.

1211
01:31:42.880 --> 01:31:45.640
There was no need to pay for
the room if she had a place

1212
01:31:45.720 --> 01:31:51.600
to sleep. I told him it
wasn' t necessary. We had already

1213
01:31:51.680 --> 01:31:57.039
entered the hotel and I had seen
it was very nice, but we didn

1214
01:31:57.119 --> 01:32:00.560
' t have to spend. Mercedes
wrapped me in his words. She told

1215
01:32:00.680 --> 01:32:04.239
me it was the way she had
to show me her joy that she would

1216
01:32:04.359 --> 01:32:06.680
not take away her intention to do
so. If he didn' t agree,

1217
01:32:08.439 --> 01:32:11.640
we' d go home. I
didn' t mean to take your

1218
01:32:11.640 --> 01:32:15.359
enthusiasm away. That night I decided
to stay at the California Hotel. Before

1219
01:32:15.399 --> 01:32:18.119
we went to the hotel we went
to the beach to see the sunset.

1220
01:32:18.720 --> 01:32:24.960
We were very late at the seashore. While we were sitting in the sand,

1221
01:32:25.600 --> 01:32:30.840
I saw two women walking past us. They dressed in a curious way

1222
01:32:30.359 --> 01:32:34.239
their bathing suit was old, or
at least that seemed to me, although

1223
01:32:34.319 --> 01:32:38.520
he was not an expert in fashions. One of them wore a suit with

1224
01:32:38.640 --> 01:32:43.640
olanes on her lower part and had
her head covered with a tied cloth,

1225
01:32:44.119 --> 01:32:47.680
just as women did many years ago. I told Mercedes if it was the

1226
01:32:47.800 --> 01:32:53.760
new fashion dress like that. She
just smiled. He didn' t tell

1227
01:32:53.760 --> 01:32:57.960
me anything. We went in the
taxi to the hotel. As soon as

1228
01:32:58.079 --> 01:33:01.279
we entered it seemed different, I
had already done it once during the day,

1229
01:33:01.560 --> 01:33:05.680
although with the dim light of the
spotlights, everything looked different. I

1230
01:33:05.760 --> 01:33:10.600
told Mercedes why I saw him so
changed. She didn' t answer me.

1231
01:33:11.079 --> 01:33:14.600
I noticed some of the people in
the lobby dressed in ancient fashion.

1232
01:33:15.119 --> 01:33:19.039
I didn' t get to finish
my question why Mercedes went to talk to

1233
01:33:19.159 --> 01:33:24.960
another woman. I realized that I
was very familiar with the place and that

1234
01:33:25.039 --> 01:33:30.920
most people knew it. I thought
it was because I attended the place very

1235
01:33:30.920 --> 01:33:38.159
often. After a while of talking, we went to the room. I

1236
01:33:38.279 --> 01:33:42.800
was deeply asleep in the room.
When I heard that mysterious whistle again,

1237
01:33:43.399 --> 01:33:46.359
I joined in and saw that Mercedes
was still asleep. She covered her entire

1238
01:33:46.439 --> 01:33:50.680
body to the head completely with the
sheet. It was very strange for me

1239
01:33:50.800 --> 01:33:55.840
to sleep that way. I got
up to know where that sound came from.

1240
01:33:56.359 --> 01:33:59.479
I jumped into the hall of the
hotel and couldn' t identify him.

1241
01:34:00.159 --> 01:34:02.239
I went back to bed, but
I didn' t sleep. I

1242
01:34:02.319 --> 01:34:08.800
sat down trying to understand what was
going on with that whistle and whether I

1243
01:34:08.920 --> 01:34:11.560
had any relationship with my father.
I didn' t know why I discovered

1244
01:34:11.640 --> 01:34:15.319
Mercedes' body. I think I
did it to try and kiss her on

1245
01:34:15.399 --> 01:34:18.640
the cheek. What I saw made
me fall out of bed. She was

1246
01:34:18.720 --> 01:34:24.000
a long- haired skeleton. I
heard it was Mercedes, because he was

1247
01:34:24.159 --> 01:34:27.840
wearing the same clothes. When he
got into bed, I got out of

1248
01:34:27.920 --> 01:34:32.039
the room scared, got dressed halfway
and left the hotel. I fell twice

1249
01:34:32.119 --> 01:34:39.279
trying to run while putting on my
pants. I stood in front of the

1250
01:34:39.279 --> 01:34:43.399
hotel. When the sun began to
rise, he was still stunned without knowing

1251
01:34:43.600 --> 01:34:46.720
what to do or think. I
sat on the sidewalk. Soon began the

1252
01:34:46.800 --> 01:34:50.039
trajín of the village. People were
walking from one side to the other.

1253
01:34:50.319 --> 01:34:56.039
I tried to discern what happened,
but I couldn' t find a logical

1254
01:34:56.039 --> 01:35:00.439
explanation at all. Suddenly it occurred
to me to go into the lobby of

1255
01:35:00.560 --> 01:35:03.680
or and ask about Mercedes as soon
as I saw him again different. It

1256
01:35:03.760 --> 01:35:08.479
wasn' t the same as the
night before. I was so disoriented that

1257
01:35:08.600 --> 01:35:12.560
a woman approached me to ask me
if I was okay. I said no.

1258
01:35:13.319 --> 01:35:16.800
An incredible fact of believing had happened
to me. She told me I

1259
01:35:16.920 --> 01:35:20.560
could tell her anything, but I
didn' t dare do it out of

1260
01:35:20.640 --> 01:35:24.640
fear that I thought I was crazy. I just asked him about Mercedes.

1261
01:35:25.119 --> 01:35:28.800
I asked if I knew her if
I' d ever seen her. She

1262
01:35:28.880 --> 01:35:32.159
attended the hotel very often. The
woman told me that someone might give me

1263
01:35:32.279 --> 01:35:36.800
reason for Mercedes. He took me
to a private. In a few seconds

1264
01:35:36.840 --> 01:35:42.000
a man of more than seventy entered. I was so anxious that I overflowed

1265
01:35:42.079 --> 01:35:45.000
into questions. The man asked me
to calm down, he was going to

1266
01:35:45.119 --> 01:35:49.960
explain everything to me. The man
sat down and with a slow voice told

1267
01:35:50.039 --> 01:35:55.439
me that Mercedes was an illusion.
She had died many years ago, but

1268
01:35:55.520 --> 01:36:00.239
her spirit continued to wander through time. People in the village said a lot

1269
01:36:00.279 --> 01:36:03.760
of things about the hotel, that
in it satanic rituals were performed and that

1270
01:36:03.960 --> 01:36:09.159
she was used as an offering for
what she died in the hands of a

1271
01:36:09.239 --> 01:36:14.439
knife and that her soul kept wandering
to take the souls of other men and

1272
01:36:14.439 --> 01:36:17.399
other crazy things. He didn'
t know the truth, but Mercedes had

1273
01:36:17.479 --> 01:36:21.479
a lot of time, he didn' t show up for more than two

1274
01:36:21.479 --> 01:36:25.399
decades and he did it with me. It was a peculiar fact, because

1275
01:36:25.479 --> 01:36:29.359
she had never invited any man to
sleep in any of the hotel rooms.

1276
01:36:30.079 --> 01:36:33.840
I interrupted the man to describe what
he had lived and how he was.

1277
01:36:33.960 --> 01:36:38.680
Mercedes told me it wasn' t
necessary for me to give you so much

1278
01:36:38.680 --> 01:36:42.479
detail. It' s been 40
years since she appeared to him, too.

1279
01:36:43.119 --> 01:36:46.079
When the man revealed to me that
he had also met her, I

1280
01:36:46.199 --> 01:36:49.840
felt like I was going crazy.
I told him that I also saw people

1281
01:36:50.000 --> 01:36:56.119
who wore old clothes and smiled.
As he passed by me, the man

1282
01:36:56.199 --> 01:36:59.840
told me again that it was an
extraordinary fact that had happened to me.

1283
01:37:00.600 --> 01:37:04.159
Maybe Mercedes wanted to take me to
live with her in eternity. I told

1284
01:37:04.199 --> 01:37:09.479
her I might also want to keep
my soul, but the man told me

1285
01:37:09.560 --> 01:37:13.680
it was not her custom to steal
a man' s soul, or maybe

1286
01:37:13.760 --> 01:37:19.960
I stole his heart because he behaved
differently than he usually did. I had

1287
01:37:20.039 --> 01:37:25.159
so many questions to ask you,
but I didn' t stop. I

1288
01:37:25.239 --> 01:37:29.279
just made her one that really bothered
me because I heard a weird whistle.

1289
01:37:29.920 --> 01:37:32.359
It was like the sound was announcing
something to me. The man couldn'

1290
01:37:32.439 --> 01:37:36.880
t answer me what the reason for
that whistle was. He just told me

1291
01:37:38.000 --> 01:37:43.680
to feel happy because I was born
again. Maybe Mercedes' s intentions were

1292
01:37:43.720 --> 01:37:47.800
for me to stay with her.
The man ended up telling me that if

1293
01:37:47.960 --> 01:37:53.880
it had dawned next to Mercedes,
maybe I would have stayed with her forever

1294
01:37:53.960 --> 01:37:57.840
and at this moment I wasn'
t with him. The man said goodbye

1295
01:37:57.920 --> 01:38:00.640
by the hand and left. I
stayed for several days at all Santos.

1296
01:38:01.159 --> 01:38:05.479
I went to the restaurant where she
worked. I asked the staff if they

1297
01:38:05.560 --> 01:38:12.920
knew her. They said no.
I kept digging, trying to find a

1298
01:38:13.119 --> 01:38:17.119
logical explanation for what happened to me. However, I didn' t find

1299
01:38:17.159 --> 01:38:20.359
her I' ve already despaired of
my friend Joel. He was worried about

1300
01:38:20.479 --> 01:38:26.159
what I told him The next day
he arrived in town. He spent several

1301
01:38:26.319 --> 01:38:30.560
days trying to convince me to go
back to him, but I didn'

1302
01:38:30.680 --> 01:38:32.840
t want to leave the place because
I was hoping to find Mercedes at some

1303
01:38:32.840 --> 01:38:39.000
point. After much insisting, my
friend convinced me, but before we left

1304
01:38:39.079 --> 01:38:42.920
I asked him to accompany me to
the place where we made a promise.

1305
01:38:43.079 --> 01:38:47.399
Mercedes and I were hoping that being
in that place might break it, but

1306
01:38:47.479 --> 01:38:49.920
I don' t think I did. There' s no day I don

1307
01:38:49.960 --> 01:38:54.840
' t remember what happened to me
with Mercedes. I even thought maybe she

1308
01:38:54.920 --> 01:39:00.439
' d show up any minute to
convince me to go with her. Until

1309
01:39:00.600 --> 01:39:04.279
now I have not been able to
know what really happened, because I felt

1310
01:39:04.359 --> 01:39:10.199
that Mercedes will be real and that
the whistle I heard maybe was my father

1311
01:39:10.279 --> 01:39:15.279
who was warning me that Mercedes did
not belong to the world of the living,

1312
01:39:15.680 --> 01:39:18.239
since when he died it was the
first time I heard it. I

1313
01:39:18.319 --> 01:39:23.600
have lived in fear that at the
least expected moment she will appear to me.

1314
01:39:24.079 --> 01:39:27.840
But I think if the whistle came
to pass, I' d announce

1315
01:39:27.960 --> 01:39:34.159
that she' s present. Stories
written and adapted by Adriana Cuevas