Wendigo Del Bosque De Honduras Historias De Terror - REDE

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The spirit of the wild beast.
Life in Honduras is difficult, especially when

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you seek to achieve a dream,
but I have never been the kind of

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person who gives up easily. I' m a native of this country.

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My family has lived for generations of
sowing and livestock, an activity that I

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have never liked too much, but
to which I have had to give myself

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since I was very young. It' s not that I dislike the whole

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country life. Like everything in life, there are certain advantages. Life is

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quieter than in big cities. Thanks
to this quietness, you realize strange things

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that happen. When I was young, I used to go hunting with one

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of my uncles and there was no
need to travel so far, as practically

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everything around our lands was countryside and
forest area. This managed to provide me

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with some experience in survival camps.
Apart from working the land, several boys

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used to offer themselves as guides for
foreigners who wanted to get into the jungle

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activity that I consider really dangerous,
because within it we can find groups of

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criminals whose intentions are not at all
good and many times, not even those

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who live nearby we can predict which
places to go. Another well- known

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risk, although not all people believe
it, is to find the cadejo.

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The cadejo is said to be a
supernatural being taking the form of a dog

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generally described in two opposite forms,
the white cadejo and the black cadejo.

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The white cadejo is considered protective and
benevolent. It is said to appear to

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accompany people who travel at night by
protecting them from dangers or bad influences.

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On the other hand, the black
cadejo is considered evil and dangerous. It

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is said to attack people mouths or
disobedient, appearing as a monstrous creature with

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bright eyes and a sinister aura.
One day a foreign man came by chance

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who spoke Spanish very well. He
said his name was Walter and he was

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kind of a doctor in anthropology.
I was there for a cryptozoology study.

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He thought that the cadejo was not
a supernatural being, but a real animal

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that lived in the depths of the
jungle. He had a map with him

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that marked a camp for a colleague
of his, who had already made quite

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some progress but had not heard from
him for months. Supposedly, the camp

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was very close to our lands,
so he asked us for accommodation for a

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couple of days, apart from hiring
me and two other young people as guides.

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Walter was a pretty nice person.
He was thirty- five to forty

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- year- old with red hair
and he was very robust. He paid

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me and two others in advance and
asked my parents to keep some belongings for

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him. We go out on a
Monday morning. The camp that Walter was

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looking for was not more than half
a day away and is located exactly on

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the slopes of a hill where,
by the way, no one usually approaches,

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as that area is famous for possessing
great witch and omnis activity. My

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father lent us a rifle, a
load of ammunition, several knives and a

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tent. We also had a backpack
with food and a first aid package.

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We went along for a long time, always following the directions of the map.

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But in truth it was quite difficult
to access an area like that,

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where there is no gap or path
to follow. Weed covers everything and the

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constant fear of being attacked by a
wild animal does not allow you to move

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forward quickly. After walking midday we
found the first clues that the area had

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been frequented. We found a cordoned
area and several footprints. Walking further,

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we reached a creek. The map
showed us to walk further south, following

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this route we reached where the stream
almost disappeared and here we found that the

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water appeared to be mixed with blood. This alarmed us. I put myself

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on guard with the rifle, because
we thought maybe one wild animal attacked another,

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bleeding out his victim. In this
part of the river. Walking a

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little further, we found the body
of a quadruped animal that we couldn'

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t recognize. But Walter, after
looking into detail, said he was a

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deer with malformations. Walter wanted to
go through that body in detail, which,

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by the way, he said he
didn' t find any injuries,

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for which he had bled out.
Apparently, the blood just came out of

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the eyes and noses. Still,
I didn' t want to lower the

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rifle, as pres preferred to stay
alert in case any predators approached, soon

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we found more signs that someone was
inhabiting the area. We saw several arches

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made with weeds and wild herbs.
They even made a kind of portal that

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crossed in the direction of a continuation
of the stream as it was already beginning

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at sunset. We suggested to Walter
to look for an elevated area to raise

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the camp, as we would not
be able to return home. That night.

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We' re looking for a tree- free plain and we' re

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picking up the shops. Two of
the boys walked away for a moment to

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go get firewood. The men took
some time to get back. I trusted

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them, because they were older than
me and had more time working as guides

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for tourists. Walter shared with us
a drink of whiskey that was loaded into

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a liquor store. Then he came
into confidence and told us a rather interesting

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account. He had previously been in
Mexico investigating the Nahuales who were people who

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managed to transform themselves into animals,
but who, from Walter' s opinion,

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these people were deceived by a primitive
evil that inhabited the earth before man

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existed in it and who was able
to take possession of any living being,

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even animals. It was precisely that
evil I was looking for. He agreed

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that he would usually hide in the
depths of the jungle or the countryside,

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in those places that were not so
crowded by humans. He was explaining all

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this to me. When the couple
of kids came back from picking up Leña,

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they looked pretty scared. After apologizing
for bringing so little firewood. They

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said they saw something that had no
explanation. According to them, it was

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near a muddy place. There they
found what they said was a long,

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gray bearded person. He was wallowing
in the mud as if it were a

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beast. When they arrived to offer
him help, the person began to tremble

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exaggeratedly as if he suddenly convulsed as
if by magic. They saw that his

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head changed shape and took the traits
of a dog. At that time they

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ran, for they heard that strange
man speak in a strange and unknown language.

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The boys swore that everything they saw
was true. They even offered us

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all to go and show us the
place. Walter told them it wouldn'

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t be necessary, at least not
for that night, but there was barely

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enough light, it would be our
first place to explore. That night we

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split up to sleep in shifts,
although I covered longer than everyone else,

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as I did not wish to release
the rifle. Although I knew the boys,

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I didn' t feel much confidence, because you never really finished meeting

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a person and had heard many stories
about friends who end up assaulting tourists and

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their other companions. Fortunately, none
of this happened and when I woke up,

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I felt ashamed to doubt my companions. We did not raise the camp,

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because Walter asked us to spend at
least another night there, as we

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were not yet arriving at our destination
and it was likely that the expedition would

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take us at least one more day
to search. We went directly to where

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the boys said they saw the man
turn into a dog. We found a

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picture made of logs. In the
middle of him was the clothes of a

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woman and a servant' s skull
on the top and around, forming a

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circle several pairs of shoes. The
boys said those objects hadn' t been

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there. The day before, Walter
said that was proof that his colleague was

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still prowling around the area. It
was too weird what we found at the

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time. I didn' t know
what purpose I' d have to go

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through my shoes. We found blood
and mud samples. We didn' t

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want to move anything. We simply
observed Walter said that his colleague' s

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cabin should be closer than we thought. The boys, who had their encounter

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with that evil creature at night,
looked quite restless and kept saying that soon

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we would meet the cadejo, because
we were sulking sacred area. Walter asked

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them to calm down and as a
complement, he gave them more whiskey to

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drink. I refused to drink because
I took my job very seriously, but

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the boys and Walter practically drank like
water. Walking we reached a clear and

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elevated area, where we saw a
kind of hut made with dry trunks and

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weeds climb up, but we found
nothing but garbage and a notebook in English

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that Walter saved. From this high
plain, we noticed several huts and something

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strange, a dry and hollow tree, which seemed to have been placed a

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door does not approach us to look
and in there we found that it was

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where Walter' s colleague kept his
camp. We found canned cans, a

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water claw, photographs in which nothing
could be noticed anymore, because the humidity

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had spoiled them. Walter asked us
to move the camp to that area,

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because he wanted to carry out some
investigations, and he still kept hoping to

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find his colleague, whom I assumed
he would have much appreciated, because personally

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I would not have done the same
thing as him. We didn' t

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take long to bring in the stores
and the rest of the team. Also,

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along the way we picked up a
lot of firewood. We picked up

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the camp in front of the hollow
tree hut, lit the fire, but

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neither Walter nor the boys stopped drinking. I was surprised by the amount of

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alcohol that carried that man with me. Walter started exploring the area carrying one

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of the boys. I stayed warming
up water to make myself a laden coffee.

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That day I felt quite tired,
if not because the pay was quite

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generous. I would have preferred to
return without a word. At that moment

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I sensed that the air smelled like
stagnant water and dead fish. Besides that

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all the nature around was dead.
A sense of emptiness and fear took over

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me. I imagined the worst scenarios
in my mind. At that time I

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remembered that the cadejo appeared to attack
drunk people and both Walter and my companions

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had not stopped drinking during our journey. They returned after several hours. Walter

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said he found something interesting, and
when he was about to tell me,

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a strange- looking man appeared far
away. He was dressed in furs and

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carried a rifle on his hands.
My instinct made me point directly at him.

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The man put the gun down and
said come in peace. He presented

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himself as a mere hunter who lived
across the forest and, according to him,

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offered to help us find Walter'
s colleague. Walter was too confident

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and he was about to agree to
go with that man, but I had

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a feeling, I stopped him and
told him it would be best if we

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went with him. The next day, when there was daylight, the man

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accepted and after asking us for a
glass of water, he withdrew in the

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opposite direction to the one that said
his cabin was located. Walter told us

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that night about a legend about the
forests of the north of the United States

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and Canada, a legend about an
evil that is hidden in the depths of

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the forest, an evil that was
represented as a creature known as the good

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saying, that appeared when the man
committed cannibalism and that also appeared as a

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call from the forest itself that drove
you crazy to take you and devour you

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in the depths. To me,
that story did nothing but further alter my

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nerves, which were already shot by
the visit of that strange hunter. That

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night the boys told me that they
would stay awake, because they were embalmed

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with Walter' s whiskey. I
was feeling too tired, so I fell

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asleep. I barely got into my
tent around 2: 00 in the morning.

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I felt a cold so intense that
it was not possible for me to

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continue sleeping. That' s where
I heard a tinkle of teeth and some

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kind of regret. I took a
flashlight and left my store. I found

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one of the boys with very little
clothes and no shoes. Looking in the

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dark. There was no one else, but I was surprised to see that

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boy so it was too cold.
It was risky to get barefoot. When

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I wanted to question the boy,
he began to cry and then told me

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that he had heard the call of
the beast, that he called him by

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name and there would be no turning
back. I had to go to the

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call. I tried to stop him, but from one moment to another he

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ran into the darkness. I woke
up the rest of the group, which

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cost me a lot of work,
because they were drowned in alcohol. When

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they finally woke up, I explained
to them what had happened. They panicked

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and changed immediately. Then we came
out well lit. We followed his necks

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a long way along, but we
did not reach it, which was strange,

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as he went barefoot. Following the
trail, we reached a cabin well

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made of bricks and wood outside the
cabin. There were many tanned skins,

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pieces of meat and deer bone,
as well as various types of knives.

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The vision was pretty sinister. Besides, it smelled like rotten meat. Lighting

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the cabin deeper. We found some
species of paintings made from animal remains.

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It was a kind of macabre art
that I thought was in very bad taste.

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I was about to throw up,
because the aroma was quite intense.

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The prevailing aroma was not that of
a dead animal, but of something that

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it did not identify, something similar
to the scent of lions' cages.

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We played in the cabin, but
no one opened us up. We lit

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up through one of his windows and
inside there was no sign that someone was

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living there, because inside it was
a real dump we kept walking and discovered

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a shed closed with chains and locks. There was something or someone inside,

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because as soon as we approached,
we heard how he threw himself at the

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door trying to open it. So
much force was exerted on the door that

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I imagined it was a big animal. At this point, Walter told us

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to go back, that it wasn' t safe to be there. I

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think the same thing, because I
figured out the worst thing about all those

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bones. I thought they were not
animal, but human. We went back

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to the road and it was dawning. We found our tents destroyed. They

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had eaten our food and very close
to there we saw another sculpture made with

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four trunks and a circle of shoes
from between all the shoes. I recognized

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the boots of the boy who went
out at night listening to the call of

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darkness. At this point, I
lost control of my emotions and began to

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question Walter about whether the real reason
his colleague was there was to hunt and

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assault the travelers. But Walter was
too quiet and kept a paler skin color

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than he already was I ordered to
withdraw the camp immediately and depart in the

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direction of my parents' land.
We ended the task, but Walter was

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self- absorbed to be sitting on
a rock looking towards the thickness of the

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forest. I called him out several
times, but he didn' t listen

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to me, so I went to
tell him to leave at the time.

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I noticed in his hands the notebook
he found two days ago. Shaking,

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he came to himself and after he
stood up, he told me that he

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could get more armed men. At
the time I didn' t know why

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he told me. I told him
I could, but no joke would I

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go back to that place. Walter
kept a minute of silence and then showed

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me certain notes on the booklet.
I didn' t understand anything, because

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they were written in another language that
wasn' t even English. Then he

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began to tell me that what was
locked in that shed of the bloody camp

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was nothing but his colleague, who, with the help of two other people,

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had awakened a terrible evil and if
we did nothing, it would extend

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to my parents' land. I
didn' t believe much in his warning,

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but I preferred to say yes,
even if it wasn' t true,

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in order to get the hell out
of that horrible place. I didn

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' t mind leaving the boy lost, and apparently the rest of the team

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didn' t walk slowly either.
I was always alert and after advancing for

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a couple of kilometers between the shadows
of the trees, I could notice how

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a huge black dog followed us.
I told the boys and Walter to look

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in the direction where I noticed this
dog had warned them not to stop,

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because if it was a wolf or
a wild animal, it would fall on

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us. As soon as we turned
our backs on him. Luckily, the

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animal hid in the shadows. As
soon as he realized we were looking at

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him, the boys said it was
the black cadejo and immediately began to associate

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everything that had happened with that legend. I, on the other hand,

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thought that everything was or was because
of a greater evil, an evil that

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existed since before human beings arrived on
earth, we arrived near dawn in the

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land of my parents. We tell
them our sinister journey and count on sorrow

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as we had to leave the poor
boy behind. The boy had no family

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and lived in a community house where
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For this reason, no one wanted
to start a search. Most people

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who knew him said that he could
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he knew very well the whole countryside, the jungle and the Walter forests lasted

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two more days in our lands until
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I was surprised at the amount of
money that man had. A person

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in my country could not afford to
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much money as he did. In
those days, people began to tell that

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they had met the cadejo in the
field and that they saw how the creature

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was accompanied by two people who,
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I didn' t understand how this
could be possible. I figured it would

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look ridiculous to two people following a
dog walking cats. Walter, he finally

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gathered the group of men who accompanied
him and asked me again to lead them.

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He flattered me by saying that I
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I knew he was saying that to
try to convince me, but deep

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down, I knew that, no
matter how hard the stage I was on,

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I wouldn' t break down that
easily. After all, I'

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m a man who grew up in
the country. I ended up accompanying them.

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We set up a bigger camp and
this time we weren' t pure.

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Guys were with us, too.
One of my uncles and two friends

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of his who were experienced hunters.
They believed that the cabin we found belonged

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to a diabolical cult and that,
in fact, there were some disappearances of

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people that I did not notice.
Apparently, these facts were something that was

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shared only by the elderly. Maybe
they didn' t tell us for not

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panicking. My uncle did believe in
the presence of the cadejo, more to

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him. The cadejo didn' t
show up for anything. He was called

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when something evil happened and in this
case they thought that damn alien called him

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and then he was feeding him human
flesh. Who knows for what purpose.

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Once everything was ready, they asked
me to go to the place where that

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bloody cabin was located. We went
in broad daylight and everything was changed.

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The flesh and blood were dry.
The half- ruined cabin. The door

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of the shed had been knocked down
everywhere we saw circles of shoes and with

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it crowning the structures just in the
middle of the sinister camp, a human

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figure also made of wood dressed in
rags and where the head should be was

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the skull of a servant. That
figure seemed to me like they wanted to

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represent a demon. We checked every
part of the cabin and the shed.

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The smell was unbearable. More than
one of the men had to throw up.

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They knocked down the hut, the
shed and that sculpture with a servant

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' s head. Then they proceeded
to form a circle of stones to make

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a bonfire there inside put all the
sinister material and proceeded to light it.

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The fire was burning with fury and
while the men were shouting curses against the

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foreigners, Walter looked pretty bad.
He seemed frantic and desperate almost as possessed.

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I remember seeing him screaming and struggling
with the men so they wouldn'

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t tear down the cabin and the
shed. According to him, he still

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hoped to find his colleague alive,
and burning everything was not the solution.

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When the moods calmed down, we
all heard a sound of a large animal

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in the vicinity. We all turned
at the same time to see there was

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an empty body. I wouldn'
t know how to describe it. It

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was as if a person had his
soul removed and his body walked hollow.

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He looked in very bad shape.
He was the same boy who fled that

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night into nowhere with a low look. He didn' t say a word

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about it. Behind him we saw, like two other bodies with twisted limbs.

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They were walking around like beasts.
The men were frightened at such a

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macabre event, they began to pray
and persign themselves in the direction of the

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creatures. I didn' t know
what to do. I felt petrified in

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my mind. I imagined that those
creatures would fall on us, as soon

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as we turned our backs on them, but this did not happen. Those

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creatures seemed to simply observe us far
away and gradually lost themselves among the weeds.

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Silence reigned for a moment, as
everyone processed what they had just witnessed.

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Walter seemed even more disturbed by the
appearance of empty bodies as if he

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had found something he did not expect. They decided to leave the place quickly,

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without looking back and return to base
camp during the return. The atmosphere

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was full of tension and fear.
No one dared to talk about what they

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had seen, as if mentioning it
could invoke more dangers Once in the camp,

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Walter locked himself in his tent seemingly
absorbed in his thoughts. We'

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re all going home. Walter left
without saying goodbye and then there was a

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long period of calm that continues to
this day. However, I keep asking

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myself if those creatures would not really
be what is known in Mexico as Nahuales

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or whether the cadejo was the one
who really caused those deformities in poor people.

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Who knows. I' d rather
ignore it smell of smoke. When

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I was young I didn' t
usually believe in witches or any other paranormal

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phenomenon. He was a skeptic all
the way too logical. I decided to

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study veterinary medicine. I' m
originally from Tabasco, where I still live.

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Not to brag, but my performance
at school was always the highest.

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My grades were above average. However, at the time of practice, things

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were always complicated for me and I
suffer from a nervous illness that causes me

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a certain shaking of hands. You' d think with a pulse like that,

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you couldn' t become a good
surgeon. However, over time I

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have managed to control my pulse during
these types of interventions. The fact is,

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when I was about to finish,
I had to find a place to

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do my professional internships. Because of
my problem, I was rejected from several

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places, especially because the places I
chose were for animal surgery and every one

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who interviewed me and saw my pulse
denied me the place. I was given

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the opportunity to practice at a ranch
that was very far away from my home,

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which is why I had to look
for accommodation in a nearby village.

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It was a new experience for me, who had practically my whole life living

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at my parents' house. I
am the youngest of seven brothers, and

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they all take me many years apart, which is why I hardly lived with

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them at home. In fact,
when my mother was pregnant with me,

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she was at high risk, because
she was already 50 years old. Everyone

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thought I wouldn' t be able
to be born. I mention this because

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almost everyone in my family treated me
like a weak person and when I was

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given the opportunity to become independent in
performing professional practices, everyone questioned me.

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Me. Instead, I took this
as an opportunity to prove that I was

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not that weak child that I remembered
myself. I did the lease on an

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apartment. I didn' t have
to buy furniture or anything, because it

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was already furnished and everything was included
in the rental price. I also bought

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a bike so I could move to
the ranch. My pulse only prevents me

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from performing precision activities, but it
does not affect the movement of my body.

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The people at the ranch were kind
enough. They didn' t judge

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my pulse, but my knowledge,
and they put me to work with a

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pracca and a qualified veterinarian. Thanks
to the patience and help of both was

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that, despite my illness, I
succeeded in performing more than ten surgeries a

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day. We had a lot of
work and they asked us to stay late

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at the ranch. They even offered
me lodging, which I refused, because

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I had a flashlight that was activated
with a dynamo on my bike. That

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time I came back in the morning. I became brave, but honestly when

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I returned, apart from the cold
that was going on, I had a

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certain feeling that something bad was about
to happen. I stepped a little faster

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than usual to such an extent that
my legs cramped I stood under a pole

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of light. There I began to
imagine all sorts of irrational terrors. I

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began to feel suggested, shook my
head and lit a cigarette. When I

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calmed down, I felt ridiculous,
because I, who believed myself to be

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the most rational man, was thinking
of witches, in the countryside or the

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appearance of some werewolves. I finished
my cigarette. I threw my butt on

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the floor to turn it off and
a smell of smoke came to me.

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The aroma was so intense and different
from that of tobacco that even when I

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had just put out my cigarette it
prevailed in the environment. I looked at

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the horizon in the direction of the
field. Then I noticed several scattered bonfires.

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I looked more closely. Then I
noticed some dancing figures that looked like

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people in costumes. I could not
perceive all the figures, but I saw

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one of them carrying the head of
a pig and another of an animal with

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horns, probably that of a goat. I thought this was a sinister thing.

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Although I didn' t want to
think directly of something of paranormal origin.

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If I thought it was possible that
there were satanic sects that gathered to

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perform all kinds of practices and sacrifices, imagining that a traveler in the early

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morning would be an easy target to
get a sacrifice, I got on my

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bike to leave in a hurry,
when I was barely ready to pedal.

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When I turned my head for a
few seconds, I saw the person with

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the pig head right next to me, the head didn' t look like

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plastic but as if they had practically
put a pig head on top of his.

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He bled and drained fat from his
eyes and ears. It was a

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matter of a few seconds, because
immediately I started pedaling and I did not

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stop until I reached the bridge that
led to the village where I resided.

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When I got to the apartment,
I couldn' t even get my bike

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in, I was more shaky than
usual, and my shot pulse didn'

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t work. I tried to calm
down and pulled out another cigarette that clumsily

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fell out of my hands with an
effort I managed to put the bike in.

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I couldn' t sleep. I
was trying to give a sensible explanation

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of what had just happened to me
the next morning on my way to work.

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I stopped exactly on the pole where
I looked at that coven, but

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there were no ashes or traces of
what I witnessed. During the morning I

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continued my journey wishing that my meeting
would have been a simple nightmare. Arriving

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at the ranch, I couldn'
t pretend I was feeling anything wrong.

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And when Erica, the other intern, asked me what was happening to me,

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don' t hesitate to tell her
my sinister encounter, she didn'

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t judge me. On the contrary, he told me that in that area

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there were common encounters with beings who
called themselves fire worshipers, who did not

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know exactly what beings were reality,
because there were people who said they were

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simple spirits. Other people, on
the other hand, were talking about real

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demons under their flesh masks. Erica' s opinion only made me even more

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nervous and, as was to be
expected, had an immediate impact on my

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pulse. I toldÉrika that I
didn' t believe in any of that,

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but, in my opinion, it
was just sectarians who could be more

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dangerous than mere myths, and I
assured her that what I saw was totally

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real. Erika told me that she
would not try to convince me otherwise,

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but that she would try to keep
me away from such events and, above

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all, if I saw the fire, I would get away immediately, because

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there were not few people who could
not get out alive before an encounter with

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these fire worshipers. The days passed
and the vacation period came, so I

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returned with my parents in the city. I met a group of people who

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used to practice yoga and meditation.
They said they had some kind of temple

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on the outskirts of the town I
lived in. I was invited to join,

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for they presumed to have the knowledge
to heal my nervous problem. I

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didn' t believe much in that
kind of thing either, but after researching

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a little bit about the benefits of
meditation, I decided to go visit them

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when I returned to work. I
came back on a Sunday night. I

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remember seeing a couple of fires on
the road in the middle of nowhere.

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I couldn' t stop thinking about
that strange encounter. It was a relief

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not to find these beings in animal
masks, but simply destitute ones trying to

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escape the winter cold on the ranch. Everything was going well, there was

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no new news. Everything was in
relative calm. I had a crisis in

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my illness, which almost made me
say goodbye to practice because on more than

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one occasion I failed to control my
pulse and dropped surgical material from my hands.

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I' m looking for myself.
The temple of meditation. I was

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almost at the entrance to the village, where I lived very close to the

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countryside where I saw that circle of
hellfire. It was a bit complex to

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arrive, as it was in a
kind of old hacienda with small roads that

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looked like labyrinths. I had to
get off my bike because in several alleys

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you couldn' t pedal I saw
the sign at the entrance. Thus said

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Zen meditation house followed by several symbols
I deduced would have to do with Buddhism

414
00:34:15.440 --> 00:34:22.679
or some of those Eastern religions the
third time I touched appeared a pair of

415
00:34:22.719 --> 00:34:27.599
foreign men with shaved heads, who
in a very kind way, offered to

416
00:34:27.599 --> 00:34:34.440
enter. I was led to a
huge and beautiful garden where, after serving

417
00:34:34.519 --> 00:34:38.519
me some tea an older man dressed
in a tunic told me that I had

418
00:34:38.599 --> 00:34:44.559
come to a good place for hermetic
reasons. I won' t talk about

419
00:34:44.599 --> 00:34:49.639
the rituals we perform, but I
can assure you that my pulse improved enough

420
00:34:49.719 --> 00:34:55.039
to the point that I practically stopped
shaking. During these sessions I heard many

421
00:34:55.159 --> 00:35:00.000
things that at first I didn'
t want to believe more than anything,

422
00:35:00.719 --> 00:35:06.599
because I met and although I tried
not to suggest myself, I couldn'

423
00:35:07.079 --> 00:35:10.199
t deny that many things that we
think are irrational happen no matter how hard

424
00:35:10.199 --> 00:35:13.199
we try to think they are impossible. I initially believed that this place was

425
00:35:13.280 --> 00:35:17.519
only for religious purposes, but little
by little I began to notice certain strange

426
00:35:17.559 --> 00:35:23.119
things related to esotericism. There was
much talk about the opening of the third

427
00:35:23.559 --> 00:35:30.599
eye and of low- astral beings
vibrations and those things I ended up bored

428
00:35:30.639 --> 00:35:37.920
and stopped going, apart from those
visits distracting me quite from the work at

429
00:35:37.960 --> 00:35:43.639
the time,Érika started accompanying me
on weekends to bike rides. One day

430
00:35:43.840 --> 00:35:47.079
we had a picnic in a field
near the ranch. Being there after drinking

431
00:35:47.119 --> 00:35:52.840
a couple of beers. Erika asked
me what I had done to improve my

432
00:35:52.840 --> 00:35:57.639
illness. I told him about the
place I' d been going to.

433
00:35:57.760 --> 00:36:00.760
She got a lot of attention and
or asked me to join some meditation session.

434
00:36:02.119 --> 00:36:07.119
I told her I no longer wanted
to go, because I noticed a

435
00:36:07.199 --> 00:36:12.639
certain tendency towards esotericism, but if
she wanted it, she would take it

436
00:36:12.639 --> 00:36:15.840
that day. We' re staying
late. We passed the glasses and Erika

437
00:36:15.880 --> 00:36:21.239
began to tell me that she also
came to perceive a certain smell of smoke

438
00:36:21.320 --> 00:36:24.320
when she was returning home in her
car and she just happened to look at

439
00:36:24.320 --> 00:36:29.559
something in the fields. He stopped
by the road for a few seconds without

440
00:36:29.599 --> 00:36:32.639
turning off the engine. From the
car he only managed to distinguish two spheres

441
00:36:32.679 --> 00:36:37.159
of fire, so he decided to
get off for a few seconds. The

442
00:36:37.280 --> 00:36:40.440
smell of smoke was unbearable and,
like me, I look at these people

443
00:36:40.440 --> 00:36:46.679
in animal masks from among all there
was one that caused him greater terror was

444
00:36:47.079 --> 00:36:52.039
that of a man with a horse
head. At that time he decided to

445
00:36:52.079 --> 00:36:57.039
get back in his car, but
he barely opened the door and took his

446
00:36:57.119 --> 00:37:00.159
eyes off the road. He got
in the car and in front of the

447
00:37:00.199 --> 00:37:05.760
car chest he met that horse-
headed man. The face did not look

448
00:37:05.880 --> 00:37:09.320
like a mask in its entirety,
but it was as if a horse'

449
00:37:09.400 --> 00:37:15.280
s head had been torn off and
certain parts cut off to fit on a

450
00:37:15.360 --> 00:37:20.559
human head. When he got in
the car, he closed the door very

451
00:37:20.679 --> 00:37:22.719
well and when he wanted to start
the person he didn' t move.

452
00:37:22.519 --> 00:37:28.800
Then he looked at his eyes.
Erika said that they did not look like

453
00:37:28.840 --> 00:37:32.599
the eyes of a human being and
that, although he could not give an

454
00:37:32.599 --> 00:37:37.280
exact description, it was as if
the mask was mixed with the skin of

455
00:37:37.320 --> 00:37:44.079
the neck, which he could notice
perfectly, since that person was totally naked

456
00:37:44.119 --> 00:37:47.159
in that he reacted and threw himself
in reverse and when he took a little

457
00:37:47.159 --> 00:37:50.679
look away from the front, there
was no longer that horse man. He

458
00:37:50.719 --> 00:37:54.239
returned home in a hurry and during
these days he did not feel calm.

459
00:37:57.440 --> 00:38:00.679
Erika kept a long silence. Then
he looked at me and confessed to me

460
00:38:00.800 --> 00:38:05.800
that for days he had been noticing
the same smell of smoke near his house.

461
00:38:06.719 --> 00:38:09.400
I, at that time, had
no knowledge of the place where she

462
00:38:09.400 --> 00:38:14.440
lived. At that time he told
me that he lived in an old house,

463
00:38:14.840 --> 00:38:17.920
very close to the village, but
that he lived alone and that he

464
00:38:17.960 --> 00:38:22.039
preferred not to tell anyone where he
was, because he felt insecure, but

465
00:38:22.159 --> 00:38:27.320
that he felt calm with me.
He trusted me at that time and asked

466
00:38:27.519 --> 00:38:31.639
me if I didn' t want
to accompany her, that her house was

467
00:38:31.719 --> 00:38:36.960
so big that I could even have
a room for myself and if I wasn

468
00:38:37.000 --> 00:38:38.079
' t comfortable I could stay and
live there. I wouldn' t get

469
00:38:38.079 --> 00:38:42.360
much rent. As long as I
didn' t tell anyone from the ranch

470
00:38:42.440 --> 00:38:45.559
that I was living with her.
We pedaled to his house. We arrived

471
00:38:45.599 --> 00:38:52.960
when everything was totally dark. His
house was a pretty old construction. It

472
00:38:52.000 --> 00:38:57.480
seemed to have been part of a
tiny hacienda, of which the only building

473
00:38:57.519 --> 00:39:02.239
that stood was the central house.
Unlike the other buildings that were almost completely

474
00:39:02.280 --> 00:39:07.880
collapsed, the main house was very
well painted and was not missing any doors

475
00:39:08.000 --> 00:39:15.360
or windows inside the house. Everything
was completely clean and wherever you turned you

476
00:39:15.480 --> 00:39:20.719
saw the feminine touch, unlike my
apartment, which was all chaos and disorder.

477
00:39:22.079 --> 00:39:25.239
He quickly showed me the house that, although it was not as large

478
00:39:25.320 --> 00:39:30.760
as the buildings we had on the
ranch, it had many rooms and doors.

479
00:39:31.440 --> 00:39:35.840
There was a place that caught my
attention a lot. It was a

480
00:39:36.480 --> 00:39:40.000
basement Erika told me that that place
was even a former cistern that had been

481
00:39:40.119 --> 00:39:45.239
dry for many years. I was
able to go down the stairs, which

482
00:39:45.239 --> 00:39:51.360
was quite austere. An iron tube
worked like handrails and the steps were already

483
00:39:51.440 --> 00:39:57.639
a little broken. Below was the
empty well where water was stored years ago.

484
00:39:58.159 --> 00:40:02.679
From that place we spent the night
in a small room. That smell

485
00:40:02.719 --> 00:40:07.480
of smoke woke me up. I
saw Erica sleeping on a chair snoring very

486
00:40:07.519 --> 00:40:13.519
loudly. I took a glass of
water from a jug she left on the

487
00:40:13.559 --> 00:40:19.039
table. Just as I was getting
ready to go back to sleep, I

488
00:40:19.079 --> 00:40:22.280
noticed a strange sound coming from the
basement stairs. It was like heavy hoove

489
00:40:22.320 --> 00:40:30.039
footprints. I felt scared and decided
to wake Erica. When we went to

490
00:40:30.039 --> 00:40:35.280
look out, we found nothing but
a couple drops of blood and fat from

491
00:40:35.320 --> 00:40:39.239
some animal. We searched the whole
house, but we didn' t see

492
00:40:39.239 --> 00:40:45.079
anything strange. At that moment.
Erica told me that these phenomena were happening

493
00:40:45.119 --> 00:40:50.079
in her house. From that encounter
with the worshipers of fire in the field.

494
00:40:51.159 --> 00:40:53.840
When we left in the morning on
the entrance steps to the house,

495
00:40:54.400 --> 00:41:00.760
we found several human nails and hair. The finding was too sinister. Erica

496
00:41:00.880 --> 00:41:06.239
thought this had been the work of
some witch, but according to her she

497
00:41:06.280 --> 00:41:09.119
did not know any, at least
not directly, even in her family.

498
00:41:09.159 --> 00:41:15.360
There were healers or fortune tellers,
neither in my family and I really knew

499
00:41:15.360 --> 00:41:21.320
very few people, just some schoolmates
and ranch people as far as I knew.

500
00:41:22.360 --> 00:41:28.079
None of these practiced witchcraft. Finally, I remembered the meditation group,

501
00:41:28.760 --> 00:41:32.639
but I didn' t want to
accuse them, because they didn' t

502
00:41:32.639 --> 00:41:37.480
really know anything about me. They
were people who didn' t really care

503
00:41:37.519 --> 00:41:43.519
deeply about people even in private life. Within your beliefs. Nothing mattered only

504
00:41:43.559 --> 00:41:47.719
to gain a greater knowledge of one' s existence. We clean without thinking

505
00:41:47.760 --> 00:41:53.159
more about things. Then she made
some breakfast and just as we drank a

506
00:41:53.239 --> 00:41:59.199
second cup of coffee, she started
crying. She told me that she felt

507
00:41:59.239 --> 00:42:02.559
very lonely and terrified because the encounter
with her nails and hair was not the

508
00:42:02.679 --> 00:42:07.840
only strange event that happened to her
that week and she did not explain why

509
00:42:07.880 --> 00:42:12.679
it happened to her. Her.
I promised him I' d stay a

510
00:42:12.679 --> 00:42:16.320
while. I made that promise without
thinking, for I really did not want

511
00:42:16.360 --> 00:42:22.400
to stay there. I knew something
in that basement was related to those fire

512
00:42:22.440 --> 00:42:27.840
worshipers. Besides, I thought Erika
knew more about the subject, but for

513
00:42:27.920 --> 00:42:31.480
one thing or another, she wouldn' t dare tell me. I couldn

514
00:42:31.480 --> 00:42:36.360
' t back down. So I
talked to the owner of the apartment I

515
00:42:36.400 --> 00:42:40.079
lived in. I didn' t
want to return the rent deposit, but

516
00:42:40.119 --> 00:42:45.480
I didn' t care. I
moved all my things that day, which

517
00:42:45.519 --> 00:42:49.519
was easy, because I had nothing
but a cot, my books, and

518
00:42:49.639 --> 00:42:52.599
a backpack with three changes of clothes. Erika helped me move everything in her

519
00:42:52.639 --> 00:42:57.800
car. I don' t know
why, but it felt like a need

520
00:42:57.880 --> 00:43:01.599
to protectÉrika. The next day
we had a lot of work the rest

521
00:43:01.719 --> 00:43:07.199
of the week. I don'
t know if anything strange would have happened

522
00:43:07.199 --> 00:43:09.480
in the house again. Maybe we
did, but we didn' t realize

523
00:43:09.559 --> 00:43:14.119
it because of how tired we were
getting from work. Instead, on Saturday

524
00:43:14.199 --> 00:43:17.840
we saw very close to the house. One of those fire circles. We

525
00:43:17.920 --> 00:43:22.519
close the house very well and we
leave still. We heard the footprints in

526
00:43:22.599 --> 00:43:28.320
the basement. Erika told me to
visit the people in the meditation temple that

527
00:43:28.679 --> 00:43:34.639
maybe one of them could help us. We came one day after we left

528
00:43:34.760 --> 00:43:38.400
the ranch early. The place looked
pretty careless. Even the garden so green

529
00:43:38.480 --> 00:43:44.400
and beautiful looked dry and sterile.
I found only one of the men who

530
00:43:44.480 --> 00:43:47.920
used to be there. He had
a long beard and looked rather careless.

531
00:43:49.320 --> 00:43:52.000
When I asked him about what had
happened in the place, the man stood

532
00:43:52.079 --> 00:43:57.480
up and as if he were completely
insane, he took me by the shoulders

533
00:43:57.639 --> 00:44:02.039
and began to shake me violently.
Erika came up and pushed him to get

534
00:44:02.119 --> 00:44:07.360
him off of me. The man
fell to the ground and at that moment

535
00:44:07.480 --> 00:44:12.519
his madness stopped. After apologizing,
he invited us to one of the salons.

536
00:44:13.840 --> 00:44:17.320
There he invited us a cup of
tea Then he told us that a

537
00:44:17.400 --> 00:44:22.519
shadow fell upon them that they had
searched in a dangerous terrain. They followed

538
00:44:22.559 --> 00:44:28.719
evil signs that gradually attracted the demon
itself. And on the eve of May

539
00:44:28.800 --> 00:44:32.000
1, on the date that the
Germans call Walpurgis' night, the leader

540
00:44:32.400 --> 00:44:37.280
made them perform a series of symbols
that attracted a kind of hellfire that ended

541
00:44:37.360 --> 00:44:43.119
the garden and fire also came out
some creatures that tormented them for days.

542
00:44:45.000 --> 00:44:47.880
And now he was the last one
left there and he didn' t know

543
00:44:47.920 --> 00:44:52.199
if what he had seen was real
or just happened in everyone' s mind.

544
00:44:52.880 --> 00:44:55.559
I no longer knew what to believe
in had been so strange in my

545
00:44:55.679 --> 00:45:01.000
life that I could not deny that
what had happened to them was either mental

546
00:45:01.079 --> 00:45:05.960
or real. It was a truth. Besides, at the end of the

547
00:45:06.079 --> 00:45:09.679
day, the mind creates reality.
I asked him where everyone else was,

548
00:45:09.960 --> 00:45:15.119
but that man told me that he
didn' t really know and didn'

549
00:45:15.199 --> 00:45:21.440
t want to think about it much
because his head hurt. We told him

550
00:45:21.440 --> 00:45:25.239
what was happening to us too,
which was ironic, because we have been

551
00:45:25.360 --> 00:45:30.360
looking for help and answers, but
the only thing we found was an even

552
00:45:30.360 --> 00:45:35.360
greater problem. Still, the person
told us that the problem was similar to

553
00:45:35.480 --> 00:45:40.719
what had happened to everyone there.
Erika told of the fire worshipers and the

554
00:45:40.760 --> 00:45:47.920
man said that cursed group was made
up of both people and demons. The

555
00:45:49.000 --> 00:45:52.760
man gave us a notebook with various
rites and symbols. He showed us a

556
00:45:52.840 --> 00:45:58.599
special page where there was a figure
that, according to him, we had

557
00:45:58.719 --> 00:46:02.039
to draw with salt around his house, in order to keep away that group

558
00:46:02.079 --> 00:46:07.800
of worshipers from the fire, whose
intentions with us were not good. We

559
00:46:07.880 --> 00:46:12.840
offered to take the man to the
hospital, but he refused. He said

560
00:46:12.920 --> 00:46:16.800
the land of the beautiful garden would
recover the same. We spent the rest

561
00:46:16.920 --> 00:46:22.199
of the day drawing that symbol.
Around the house. We found several dead

562
00:46:22.320 --> 00:46:29.840
birds and mice, plus more human
hair and ashes. That night we stayed

563
00:46:29.880 --> 00:46:34.920
sharing a bottle of mezcal when we
heard the sound of drums and a flute

564
00:46:35.159 --> 00:46:40.280
away. We climb to the main
balcony and very close to a ruined construction.

565
00:46:40.840 --> 00:46:45.920
There was the circle of fire.
Erika was shaking almost as much as

566
00:46:45.920 --> 00:46:51.320
I was, that I had had
my nerve disease again for days. That

567
00:46:51.559 --> 00:46:54.840
smell of smoke and burnt meat was
even more intense. It was as if

568
00:46:54.960 --> 00:47:00.880
the vapors were heading straight for the
house. We closed all the windows and

569
00:47:00.880 --> 00:47:05.119
doors, but from one moment to
another someone or something started banging on the

570
00:47:05.159 --> 00:47:08.159
doors hard. We looked out the
windows, but we saw nothing but shadows.

571
00:47:09.280 --> 00:47:13.920
Erica thought we should call the police, but we didn' t know

572
00:47:14.000 --> 00:47:16.440
how we' d explain everything that
was going on. So, out of

573
00:47:16.519 --> 00:47:22.119
fear that they wouldn' t believe
us. We decided not to do so,

574
00:47:22.280 --> 00:47:24.679
we began to pray, but this
did not help in the least,

575
00:47:25.159 --> 00:47:30.800
because the blows continued. And worst
of all, we heard the footsteps again

576
00:47:30.880 --> 00:47:36.800
on the basement stairs. We both
took a couple of kitchen knives and headed

577
00:47:36.840 --> 00:47:40.920
for the stairs. We turned on
the light and it had barely lighted up.

578
00:47:42.480 --> 00:47:46.400
We saw this person wearing the horse
mask looked dry almost mummified and eyes

579
00:47:46.480 --> 00:47:52.280
with an expression of pain and panic. He was dressed in a woman'

580
00:47:52.280 --> 00:47:55.639
s robe. He was dragging with
difficulty towards us. I panicked and couldn

581
00:47:55.760 --> 00:48:00.280
' t control my pulse, which
made the knife let go of my hand.

582
00:48:01.599 --> 00:48:07.039
In that the creature began to throw
some horrible vermin. We pulled back

583
00:48:07.039 --> 00:48:12.960
and the creature walked faster toward us. I remembered the symbols made with salt,

584
00:48:13.559 --> 00:48:17.559
so I toldÉrika to run towards
the kitchen. There we quickly draw

585
00:48:17.639 --> 00:48:22.280
the symbol of salt. At the
entrance we saw the creature walking down a

586
00:48:22.320 --> 00:48:27.719
corridor, but he did not follow
us, but returned from where he had

587
00:48:27.719 --> 00:48:32.840
come. It all stopped after five
in the morning. There' s only

588
00:48:32.880 --> 00:48:37.960
that fucking smoke smell left in the
room. Erika no longer wanted to stay

589
00:48:37.000 --> 00:48:42.360
in that house, so we ended
up renting a small house in the village

590
00:48:42.480 --> 00:48:45.719
between the two of us. That
house was an inheritance he received from a

591
00:48:45.840 --> 00:48:50.880
grandmother aunt put it for sale.
I would like today to have answers to

592
00:48:51.000 --> 00:48:53.840
everything that happened to us. Neither
she nor I lived in the village anymore,

593
00:48:54.400 --> 00:48:59.719
but as far as we were never
met with those worshipers of the I

594
00:49:00.800 --> 00:49:04.719
don' t know if they would
be people who were part of a coven

595
00:49:04.800 --> 00:49:07.639
or if all the members were witches
who mingled with demons. I also don

596
00:49:07.719 --> 00:49:13.199
' t know if they were still
attracted to us by the light or because

597
00:49:13.239 --> 00:49:15.960
they wanted us to be part of
their cursed cult. These are things I

598
00:49:15.079 --> 00:49:29.320
wish I could keep ignoring the goblins
of the Ferris wheel. When I was

599
00:49:29.519 --> 00:49:31.639
a child I lived in the western
zone of Guadalajara. Today, most of

600
00:49:31.760 --> 00:49:37.960
the city is urbanized. Because of
this, it is sometimes hard to believe

601
00:49:37.039 --> 00:49:43.039
that for the most part, where
shopping malls and apartment buildings are built today,

602
00:49:43.400 --> 00:49:47.760
everything was flat. There were streams
that were first paved and then completely

603
00:49:47.840 --> 00:49:53.639
covered by streets and roads In the
area where I lived as a child there

604
00:49:53.679 --> 00:50:00.480
were only a few little houses and
many rancheries, houses where people kept some

605
00:50:00.039 --> 00:50:06.039
livestock and others harvested some corn and
beans. The children were not tied to

606
00:50:06.079 --> 00:50:09.960
the cell phone or to television,
since the first one did not exist and

607
00:50:10.000 --> 00:50:15.079
the second one was very scarce,
especially national and local programming. Even movies

608
00:50:15.119 --> 00:50:20.719
were something we watched in a group. Behind my house there was a communal

609
00:50:20.760 --> 00:50:24.679
laundry room and if you walked further
north, you found yourself with a series

610
00:50:24.719 --> 00:50:30.440
of norias. It was funny,
because these were completely discovered and you could

611
00:50:30.440 --> 00:50:36.079
easily fall in and drown and scream
without anyone hearing you. However, this

612
00:50:36.639 --> 00:50:42.360
was not often the case. In
addition, they rarely went to that place

613
00:50:42.400 --> 00:50:47.000
without adult supervision. I think I
heard a great- uncle once say that

614
00:50:47.119 --> 00:50:52.800
where bodies of water existed there were
goblins, so he warned us not to

615
00:50:52.840 --> 00:50:57.760
approach the norias. I wasn'
t a child afraid to tell the truth.

616
00:50:57.880 --> 00:51:00.960
I used to be too bold,
which cost me more than a good

617
00:51:01.039 --> 00:51:06.800
tunde by my parents. My parents
took me to play football at a little

618
00:51:07.039 --> 00:51:12.440
camp near a ranch. Like an
aunt owned the team. She always came

619
00:51:12.480 --> 00:51:16.440
before everyone else and one occasion when
we arrived we didn' t see her

620
00:51:16.480 --> 00:51:20.280
a couple of children older than me. They told me to go for a

621
00:51:20.320 --> 00:51:23.519
walk in the country, because the
sure thing was that she wouldn' t

622
00:51:23.559 --> 00:51:27.199
come to me the truth. I
didn' t even like football. So

623
00:51:27.239 --> 00:51:31.320
I didn' t think twice to
paint myself. We walked to a creek

624
00:51:31.360 --> 00:51:37.280
where we built a dam using stones. We returned at sunset and already at

625
00:51:37.280 --> 00:51:42.880
the entrance of the block we saw
that our parents and the other children we

626
00:51:42.920 --> 00:51:46.880
knew were gathered. I was getting
ready to get a good tunde, but

627
00:51:46.960 --> 00:51:52.320
the gentlemen first asked us if we
hadn' t seen Edgar and Lucy.

628
00:51:52.440 --> 00:51:57.400
I remember very well that these children
lived right next to my house. The

629
00:51:57.440 --> 00:52:00.280
truth is that we hadn' t
seen them that day, so after confessing

630
00:52:00.320 --> 00:52:05.000
that we didn' t attend football, we told them we hadn' t

631
00:52:05.000 --> 00:52:07.639
seen them. They told us that
the children went to play in the direction

632
00:52:07.639 --> 00:52:13.400
of the norias, but that they
had already checked that area very well and

633
00:52:13.440 --> 00:52:17.639
all they found was a bow that
the girl had in her hair. Arriving

634
00:52:17.679 --> 00:52:21.719
at my house, I received the
worst tunde of my life. Besides,

635
00:52:21.880 --> 00:52:25.239
they punished me without letting me out
for a month. Since we were many

636
00:52:25.239 --> 00:52:30.079
brothers, My mother soon forgot my
punishment and, in order not to be

637
00:52:30.119 --> 00:52:31.559
able to endure all of us at
home, gave me permission to leave.

638
00:52:32.000 --> 00:52:36.199
As long as I didn' t
get away from the block. I remember

639
00:52:36.239 --> 00:52:39.480
the kids in the neighborhood commenting that
out of the norias came goblins and that

640
00:52:39.559 --> 00:52:45.000
they caught whoever left, drowned them
and then stole their souls. We were

641
00:52:45.039 --> 00:52:49.760
all afraid and lasted long enough to
want to get to that area. But

642
00:52:49.840 --> 00:52:52.159
one day in Santa week, my
father asked me to accompany him to an

643
00:52:52.199 --> 00:52:57.119
errand in that area. My father
broke into a house. I think they

644
00:52:57.239 --> 00:53:00.000
were going to sell him some speakers
from a stereo he had. I stayed

645
00:53:00.039 --> 00:53:05.039
at the entrance of the house because
inside there was a slinghole and I was

646
00:53:05.079 --> 00:53:08.960
afraid that some bug would bite me. I entertained myself by looking at the

647
00:53:09.039 --> 00:53:14.599
horizon I saw a squirrel climbing a
tree when suddenly I noticed someone who at

648
00:53:14.679 --> 00:53:21.000
first I thought was a boy dragging
something heavy. Looking more closely I saw

649
00:53:21.079 --> 00:53:23.599
that his face was like that of
an old man and what he was dragging

650
00:53:23.679 --> 00:53:28.719
was a dead goat. The little
man realized that he looked at him and

651
00:53:28.760 --> 00:53:31.239
left the goat and ran until he
got lost in the field. I,

652
00:53:31.280 --> 00:53:36.000
on the other hand, ran inside
the house to tell my father what happened.

653
00:53:36.679 --> 00:53:39.000
But when he and the gentleman with
whom he was running the business,

654
00:53:39.480 --> 00:53:44.239
the goat was gone, though a
pool of blood was in the place where

655
00:53:44.360 --> 00:53:49.840
he had been. My father told
me that could have been anything, that

656
00:53:49.840 --> 00:53:54.280
maybe a thief stole an animal from
some neighbor. I didn' t want

657
00:53:54.360 --> 00:54:00.599
to argue with my father and I
preferred to stay inside the house in a

658
00:54:00.679 --> 00:54:02.519
chair that night I couldn' t
sleep. I heard sounds outside my house

659
00:54:02.800 --> 00:54:07.559
and imagined that at any moment I' d see that damn goblin hanging from

660
00:54:07.639 --> 00:54:10.599
the beam of my room or that
I' d hear it knocking on my

661
00:54:10.599 --> 00:54:14.920
door. Lucky for me, this
didn' t happen. However, with

662
00:54:15.280 --> 00:54:19.920
the passing of days we began to
hear rumors that they saw some dead animals

663
00:54:19.960 --> 00:54:24.440
floating in the wells. They had
all eaten their eyes, ears, and

664
00:54:24.480 --> 00:54:30.360
tongues. I remember hearing my father
say that fish eat the softest tissues of

665
00:54:30.480 --> 00:54:37.480
corpses, but in those wells there
was no fish. Maybe tadpoles, frogs

666
00:54:37.880 --> 00:54:42.360
and toads, but not fish.
That you could only see them in a

667
00:54:42.400 --> 00:54:46.440
dam a few kilometers from there As
a child. I was pretty morbid.

668
00:54:46.800 --> 00:54:52.440
So several children and I ran away
after school to see the animals floating in

669
00:54:52.519 --> 00:54:59.079
the norias with our own eyes.
When we arrived there was nothing. Only

670
00:54:59.159 --> 00:55:02.239
one of the owners of sons the
ground raised a mesh around the perimeter,

671
00:55:02.880 --> 00:55:08.880
but this one was too weak and
missing pieces. We' ll get through

672
00:55:08.880 --> 00:55:13.239
it easily. So we realized that
there were no animals in the well anymore,

673
00:55:13.679 --> 00:55:16.599
but one of them was still dyed
red because of the blood of the

674
00:55:16.679 --> 00:55:23.480
animal that was there disappointed. We
started our way home. We took another

675
00:55:23.480 --> 00:55:29.719
road, one where a small temple
was rising. There we saw in one

676
00:55:29.760 --> 00:55:35.760
of the foundations something that we initially
thought was an old doll. We approached

677
00:55:35.800 --> 00:55:39.639
to see had clothes made like green
velvet a hat on top and a wand

678
00:55:39.760 --> 00:55:45.679
looked like a skull. Only the
face looked like a smiling child. One

679
00:55:45.719 --> 00:55:51.719
of the children noticed that the face
was really a porcelain mask. When we

680
00:55:51.719 --> 00:55:55.360
removed it, we saw that it
was not really a doll or toy,

681
00:55:55.400 --> 00:56:00.719
but a kind of mummy of a
tiny person s r PNRC. All right,

682
00:56:00.760 --> 00:56:04.280
his factions didn' t look like
those of a child, but those

683
00:56:04.320 --> 00:56:07.800
of an already very old person,
but with great differences that he wouldn'

684
00:56:07.840 --> 00:56:10.239
t know how to explain, it
was as if that body didn' t

685
00:56:10.239 --> 00:56:14.559
belong to a human being. We
pulled back and started listening to the sound

686
00:56:14.639 --> 00:56:19.960
of a rattle. When we looked
again, the little body had disappeared,

687
00:56:20.679 --> 00:56:25.599
leaving only that strange cane and a
small deep hole in the earth. One

688
00:56:25.679 --> 00:56:30.000
of the children thought of carrying the
cane with him to show it to his

689
00:56:30.039 --> 00:56:37.800
grandfather, who loved to tell us
ancient stories. We headed to Grandpa'

690
00:56:37.840 --> 00:56:42.400
s house right away to see if
he could offer us any answers about such

691
00:56:42.480 --> 00:56:47.320
a strange cane. We found the
gentleman degranando corn and when we saw him

692
00:56:47.360 --> 00:56:52.400
he took advantage to help him we
gave him the cane and after looking at

693
00:56:52.480 --> 00:56:57.719
him for just a couple of seconds, he asked us to return him to

694
00:56:57.719 --> 00:56:59.719
the hole from where we took him. We asked him to tell us what

695
00:56:59.800 --> 00:57:04.000
was about the object in question,
to which he told us that we were

696
00:57:04.239 --> 00:57:09.400
better off, without knowing anything about
it. Then he suggested we stay away

697
00:57:09.480 --> 00:57:15.119
from the place where we found that
object. We told him that we found

698
00:57:15.199 --> 00:57:19.320
him in one of the foundations of
the new church they were building near the

699
00:57:19.360 --> 00:57:23.199
norias. The Lord, noting our
insistence, came to our request to tell

700
00:57:23.280 --> 00:57:29.079
us about him, because he was
so afraid of that staff. He told

701
00:57:29.119 --> 00:57:34.400
us that darkness hides a nameless evil
that dwells in the deepest places of the

702
00:57:34.440 --> 00:57:39.199
earth and that under our houses there
are mantles of water that connect with these

703
00:57:39.239 --> 00:57:45.880
places of the depths that always end
up being thrown to the surface. As

704
00:57:46.119 --> 00:57:52.159
a child, when they were barely
building the first buildings in that area of

705
00:57:52.239 --> 00:57:57.920
Guadalajara, he discovered something too terrible. The man told us that when he

706
00:57:58.039 --> 00:58:01.079
was a child, along with some
friends, he ventured to explore the norias

707
00:58:01.159 --> 00:58:06.880
and the surroundings. Despite the warnings
of the adults, they found a tunnel

708
00:58:06.960 --> 00:58:13.119
hidden beneath one of the norias that
at the time was dry. They decided

709
00:58:13.159 --> 00:58:16.159
to get into it. With the
curiosity of childhood. What they discovered there

710
00:58:16.239 --> 00:58:22.719
was beyond their worst nightmares. Inside
the tunnel they encountered a series of underground

711
00:58:22.800 --> 00:58:28.280
chambers, where strange figures were enclosed
in bone cages and skin with deformed faces

712
00:58:28.440 --> 00:58:36.119
and dull eyes. Those creatures uttered
groans and laments that iced the blood and

713
00:58:36.199 --> 00:58:39.960
the air was full of a smell
of rot and moisture. In the center

714
00:58:40.039 --> 00:58:45.599
of the last chamber they found a
dark altar where the cane that we had

715
00:58:45.679 --> 00:58:52.800
found rested. On the altar was
a small creature that they thought was mummified,

716
00:58:52.400 --> 00:58:55.800
as the color of his skin was
carded. In addition to the eyes,

717
00:58:57.039 --> 00:59:00.199
something similar to the wings of an
insect appeared. The whole thing is

718
00:59:00.239 --> 00:59:04.840
that on the legs of that demonic
being was found the body of a child

719
00:59:04.880 --> 00:59:09.800
dressed in the style of the indigenous. He did not want to keep telling

720
00:59:09.840 --> 00:59:15.360
us, but he warned us to
return that cane to the place from which

721
00:59:15.119 --> 00:59:20.840
we took it, as well as
to stay away from the norias, because

722
00:59:20.960 --> 00:59:23.880
that type of creature was attracted by
the light that all children carry, since

723
00:59:23.960 --> 00:59:30.280
it is very necessary for them to
exist in our plane of existence. They

724
00:59:30.320 --> 00:59:34.119
didn' t leave the cane where
they found it, but they put it

725
00:59:34.199 --> 00:59:39.679
inside a trash can outside a school. That night I had a terrible nightmare.

726
00:59:40.559 --> 00:59:44.960
I went out to the living room
of my house and found everything covered

727
00:59:45.000 --> 00:59:49.719
by a greyish mold and coming to
the main room, I saw the corpses

728
00:59:49.719 --> 00:59:54.199
of a couple of kittens that I
had disappeared glued to the wall and in

729
00:59:54.239 --> 00:59:59.519
my father' s favorite armchair.
As a throne, that pig was sitting

730
00:59:59.639 --> 01:00:02.159
down, the one my friend’
s grandfather spoke to us. He had

731
01:00:02.199 --> 01:00:07.079
a huge head and a small body. He had wings in his eyes.

732
01:00:07.559 --> 01:00:12.280
His nose was long and pointed and
sitting in front of him was a baby

733
01:00:12.320 --> 01:00:15.880
who ate at one bite. At
that moment I woke up screaming. It

734
01:00:15.960 --> 01:00:20.000
wasn' t long before my mother
came in. My room was barely lit

735
01:00:20.039 --> 01:00:23.119
by the light and was horrified as
at the foot of my bed was a

736
01:00:23.159 --> 01:00:29.639
small shoe with pointed fabric and a
pair of bells on my ankles. This

737
01:00:29.679 --> 01:00:32.800
caused me more fear. I still
knew from some story books that this way

738
01:00:32.880 --> 01:00:37.440
the goblins were dressed. My mother
threw the pair of little shoes in the

739
01:00:37.800 --> 01:00:43.039
trash and didn' t think they
magically appeared, but blamed me. He

740
01:00:43.039 --> 01:00:49.519
said I probably met him somewhere and
he didn' t remember. When we

741
01:00:49.639 --> 01:00:53.679
were kids, we took playing seasons
and for a while we forgot about the

742
01:00:53.719 --> 01:00:58.519
wheel thing. We' re starting
to entertain ourselves with something pretty dangerous.

743
01:00:59.159 --> 01:01:01.880
As near the house the train passed
by and in this stretch its speed was

744
01:01:01.920 --> 01:01:07.679
very low. We jumped to one
of the wagons The adrenaline we felt in

745
01:01:07.800 --> 01:01:10.480
doing so was such that we didn' t measure the danger. Once we

746
01:01:10.800 --> 01:01:15.800
were inside, we jumped just before
we reached a curve, because at this

747
01:01:15.880 --> 01:01:21.760
point the train began to catch again
speed and if not, who knows how

748
01:01:22.039 --> 01:01:28.039
far it would take us. On
one occasion we jumped as usual and everyone

749
01:01:28.079 --> 01:01:31.159
jumped before. I stayed, because
I felt some panic, which was stupid,

750
01:01:31.519 --> 01:01:37.280
because I had already jumped on several
occasions, but on this occasion I

751
01:01:37.679 --> 01:01:40.440
do not know what happened, but
the fact is that I stayed on the

752
01:01:40.599 --> 01:01:45.559
train and when I no longer saw
my friends, I threw a cry of

753
01:01:45.559 --> 01:01:49.920
despair. When I finally had the
courage to throw myself, I had already

754
01:01:50.039 --> 01:01:52.960
reached some speed. This caused me
to fall down the slope without control,

755
01:01:53.360 --> 01:01:58.920
causing me great scrapes and blows of
pure luck, I did not break a

756
01:01:59.559 --> 01:02:04.360
bone around which I could finally stop. I stood up and cried. Then

757
01:02:04.440 --> 01:02:08.320
I walked to get lost and started
screaming at my friends, but no one

758
01:02:08.360 --> 01:02:13.159
came to my aid. I panicked
when I didn' t recognize the place.

759
01:02:13.599 --> 01:02:15.760
I was surrounded by tall grass and
I didn' t notice any houses.

760
01:02:15.800 --> 01:02:21.159
Nowhere did I want to go back
and follow the train lines, but

761
01:02:21.199 --> 01:02:23.519
I had walked so far that I
could no longer see them. When I

762
01:02:23.599 --> 01:02:30.519
started crying again I heard voices a
few meters from me. I was fast

763
01:02:30.519 --> 01:02:34.000
running out. I was hoping to
find some adult to help me get back

764
01:02:34.039 --> 01:02:37.840
home. What would be my surprise
that what I found was most strange.

765
01:02:39.639 --> 01:02:45.639
When I got closer, I heard
a horse lynching desperately. The animal was

766
01:02:45.679 --> 01:02:51.159
struggling so hard that I was afraid
to get too close. I stood behind

767
01:02:51.199 --> 01:02:53.440
a tree and pulled my head out. I saw what was going on.

768
01:02:53.880 --> 01:02:59.079
Four little men like the one in
my dream, they were bothering the poor

769
01:02:59.079 --> 01:03:02.679
horse. One of them tried to
tame him and the others bit his eyes

770
01:03:02.800 --> 01:03:08.159
pulling his hair and ears. The
poor horse looked very frightened. I pulled

771
01:03:08.199 --> 01:03:12.920
back, but something pulled me off
my feet causing me to fall to the

772
01:03:13.000 --> 01:03:17.280
ground and hit me again I looked
that was what had knocked me down and

773
01:03:17.320 --> 01:03:22.840
for my terror was one of those
little men. Unconsciously, I kicked him

774
01:03:22.880 --> 01:03:28.000
in the face and ran away from
there without him waiting for him. I

775
01:03:28.000 --> 01:03:30.920
got back on the tracks and ran
into my friends, who were too scared

776
01:03:30.960 --> 01:03:36.519
for me. I told them what
happened to the horse, but no one

777
01:03:36.559 --> 01:03:39.400
wanted to see what was going on. We return home and from that day

778
01:03:39.440 --> 01:03:45.280
we no longer return to get on
the train. However, the encounters with

779
01:03:45.320 --> 01:03:50.440
the leprechauns continued All the children thought
that the problem was not the norias,

780
01:03:50.880 --> 01:03:54.880
but we, who were, in
a certain way, chasing us. I

781
01:03:55.000 --> 01:03:58.840
don' t know how those kinds
of beings work. But not all the

782
01:03:58.920 --> 01:04:02.760
time we saw or stalked them,
but every time we forgot about it,

783
01:04:03.320 --> 01:04:09.199
again something happened either directly or simply
rumors that they had been seen or attacked.

784
01:04:12.239 --> 01:04:15.639
I remember hearing an aunt tell that
one of those goblins came out of

785
01:04:15.679 --> 01:04:21.239
a drain to bite her left ankle. I remember seeing his wound and it

786
01:04:21.280 --> 01:04:28.440
was too strange to have been caused
by a wild animal. By those dates

787
01:04:28.920 --> 01:04:33.320
several norias closed and set up a
kind of event hall on a plot.

788
01:04:33.400 --> 01:04:39.119
Just off the side was the occasion
for a cousin to turn and his family

789
01:04:39.159 --> 01:04:45.440
gave him that space and invited us
earlier. It was not like today that

790
01:04:45.599 --> 01:04:49.199
the terraces have in Alberca and if
there is no Alberca, rent brincolines and

791
01:04:49.239 --> 01:04:55.320
that type of artefacts to entertain the
children. Then we had to have wits

792
01:04:55.360 --> 01:04:59.519
to entertain ourselves for a while.
My uncles organized games, but it didn

793
01:04:59.559 --> 01:05:02.800
' t last long. We ended
up playing hide- and- seek on

794
01:05:02.840 --> 01:05:06.960
the ground next door, taking advantage
of the grass being high. I remember

795
01:05:08.039 --> 01:05:11.360
very well that it was about to
get dark. I hid very close to

796
01:05:11.440 --> 01:05:16.559
one of the norias that were now
closed with barbed wire. I took advantage

797
01:05:16.599 --> 01:05:20.760
that in that area the weed was
denser. I squatted and stared at the

798
01:05:20.800 --> 01:05:27.360
boy I was looking for. In
that I suddenly saw him stand up to

799
01:05:27.400 --> 01:05:31.000
what seemed like another child and I
told him to sit down because if they

800
01:05:31.039 --> 01:05:36.280
weren' t going to find us
in that, he crouched down with me

801
01:05:36.320 --> 01:05:41.639
and for a few seconds his face
lit up to realize with horror that he

802
01:05:41.679 --> 01:05:43.880
was not a child, but one
of those goblins with an old face.

803
01:05:44.559 --> 01:05:47.400
The leprechaun looked as scared as I
did and barely recognized me, ran in

804
01:05:47.440 --> 01:05:51.360
the opposite direction to me. I
did the same thing. I went back

805
01:05:51.440 --> 01:05:55.840
to find my parents for the rest
of the children. He didn' t

806
01:05:55.920 --> 01:06:00.239
even realize what was happening to me
right outside the event hall. Tros with

807
01:06:00.360 --> 01:06:03.280
the cane that that child took from
the body we found near the temple,

808
01:06:03.960 --> 01:06:09.199
I didn' t even want to
lift it, so I kicked him down

809
01:06:09.199 --> 01:06:13.400
the street. As soon as he
hit the gate that prevented the entrance I

810
01:06:13.519 --> 01:06:17.519
saw several small hands coming out inside
and taking the cane immediately into the living

811
01:06:17.519 --> 01:06:21.119
room and asked my parents to go
to the house, but they did not

812
01:06:21.519 --> 01:06:26.800
want to, so I spent the
rest of the party sitting in a chair,

813
01:06:27.039 --> 01:06:30.599
always looking under the tablecloth, because
I thought that at any moment one

814
01:06:30.639 --> 01:06:33.760
of those beings would attack me.
As the days passed, I told the

815
01:06:33.840 --> 01:06:40.280
boys what happened during the party.
They all started telling the stories of their

816
01:06:40.320 --> 01:06:45.239
encounters with these damn goblins. One
of the children had the foolish idea of

817
01:06:45.360 --> 01:06:49.000
going to the norias to throw several
sweeps and rockets, believing that this would

818
01:06:49.119 --> 01:06:54.719
succeed in driving them away once and
for all. There was a lady near

819
01:06:54.719 --> 01:06:59.320
the school who sold us this kind
of pyrotechnics. As long as we kept

820
01:06:59.400 --> 01:07:03.159
the secret from him, we bought
the most powerful sweeps he had in total

821
01:07:03.159 --> 01:07:06.800
were five. So, armed with
the bag of explosives, a box of

822
01:07:06.920 --> 01:07:13.360
matches and spring springs, we approach
the Ferris wheel. It was a little

823
01:07:13.440 --> 01:07:17.239
hard to get in, but with
the use of some clamps we managed to

824
01:07:17.280 --> 01:07:23.199
cut a hole in the wire long
enough to get in. I didn'

825
01:07:23.280 --> 01:07:28.039
t turn on any explosives because I
was afraid of them, because a cousin

826
01:07:28.119 --> 01:07:31.880
got a couple of fingers amputated,
so I stood outside pointing at the spring.

827
01:07:33.360 --> 01:07:38.880
They lit the explosives and threw them
into the first wheel and, as

828
01:07:38.920 --> 01:07:42.960
expected, did not ignite why there
was water inside. Even so, the

829
01:07:43.119 --> 01:07:46.800
children wanted to try the other two, because they said that one should be

830
01:07:47.119 --> 01:07:51.280
dry and it was precisely that in
which the goblins lived. We tried it

831
01:07:51.360 --> 01:07:57.079
in another wheelhouse and in this well
the blast of the sweep sounded very loudly.

832
01:07:57.679 --> 01:08:01.920
Seconds later we heard screams and several
phrases. But in another language the

833
01:08:02.039 --> 01:08:06.800
children ran. But after a couple
of seconds we heard the same voices in

834
01:08:06.840 --> 01:08:12.119
the grass and even though we didn' t see them, we knew they

835
01:08:12.119 --> 01:08:15.559
were after us. I remember seeing
several of the children dragged down the bush.

836
01:08:15.720 --> 01:08:20.159
I tried to shoot my spring,
but I didn' t even see

837
01:08:20.159 --> 01:08:25.439
a fixed target to attack. In
addition, I was very afraid to end

838
01:08:25.520 --> 01:08:29.800
up decaling one of the children.
In the end we didn' t return

839
01:08:29.840 --> 01:08:31.600
all the children and we were planning
to go look for them. When they

840
01:08:31.640 --> 01:08:38.319
finally got there, they were completely
scared. They said that the goblins tried

841
01:08:38.359 --> 01:08:42.760
to drag them and put them through
other wells that we had not seen,

842
01:08:42.920 --> 01:08:46.479
but that thanks to the fact that
out of nowhere appeared two huge dogs that

843
01:08:46.720 --> 01:08:50.319
were thrown over the goblins managed to
escape. From this, we suffer a

844
01:08:50.399 --> 01:08:55.920
lot of harassment from these creatures.
I, for my part, every one

845
01:08:56.000 --> 01:09:01.399
of me left just listened to their
voices and watched terrified as some objects moved

846
01:09:01.680 --> 01:09:05.720
alone and as they began to disappear, things like my parents' keys.

847
01:09:06.239 --> 01:09:11.079
Same with some of my mother'
s jewelry. I remember we had a

848
01:09:11.239 --> 01:09:15.199
fish tank with at least twelve fish, of which disappeared overnight, at least

849
01:09:15.239 --> 01:09:20.800
five. I heard a voice that
told me in the ear that they would

850
01:09:20.880 --> 01:09:26.760
soon come also for me and the
same way that the fish disappeared, I

851
01:09:26.840 --> 01:09:30.479
would disappear too. My parents blamed
me for some of the things that disappeared

852
01:09:31.039 --> 01:09:34.439
and when I told them it was
the goblins, they only mocked me.

853
01:09:35.359 --> 01:09:40.600
The funny thing about it was that
my parents did often believe in this kind

854
01:09:40.640 --> 01:09:45.640
of strange phenomena, but they refused
to believe me even when they themselves were

855
01:09:45.760 --> 01:09:50.319
witnessing that things were not normal.
It was as if a veil wouldn'

856
01:09:50.359 --> 01:09:57.279
t let them understand what was happening. Everything changed with respect to my parents

857
01:09:57.319 --> 01:10:03.239
when paper sheets began to dawn with
small letters marked in red. This is

858
01:10:03.319 --> 01:10:08.960
where they did start to worry,
because the calligraphy with which the note had

859
01:10:09.039 --> 01:10:13.520
been written was not similar to that
of anyone in the house and my mother

860
01:10:13.640 --> 01:10:17.159
knew a lot about it, as
she was a teacher of Spanish at secondary

861
01:10:17.159 --> 01:10:21.520
level. After talking to the parents
of the other children, everyone agreed that

862
01:10:21.520 --> 01:10:27.319
they were also being stalked by these
beings. By this height of the problem,

863
01:10:28.159 --> 01:10:30.680
the grandfather of the boy who told
us to get rid of the cane

864
01:10:30.680 --> 01:10:34.760
interfered. As far as I know, this lord made a kind of offering

865
01:10:35.039 --> 01:10:39.199
to the leprechauns and left them by
the wheel. I do not know if

866
01:10:39.279 --> 01:10:44.199
the Lord' s offering will have
worked, because shortly after we went to

867
01:10:44.439 --> 01:10:48.399
live in Nayarit and when I had
the opportunity to return, I was about

868
01:10:48.439 --> 01:10:53.319
forty years old and found that everything
was already built. Today, I wonder

869
01:10:53.399 --> 01:10:58.880
if the people who currently live in
these modern houses and apartments will not be

870
01:10:58.960 --> 01:11:13.920
visited by him. Those demonic leprechauns
the viper the following story was told to

871
01:11:13.920 --> 01:11:17.520
me by my maternal grandmother, who
was called mercy and by chance of fate

872
01:11:17.560 --> 01:11:23.880
no longer meets us. My grandfather
was called Julian and he was always a

873
01:11:24.000 --> 01:11:28.000
person dedicated to the countryside, but
he never had his own land. And

874
01:11:28.079 --> 01:11:31.439
it is that, like so many
people in Mexico before and after the Revolution,

875
01:11:32.399 --> 01:11:39.159
they were involved in too many civil
and military conflicts that scarcely allowed them

876
01:11:39.600 --> 01:11:43.720
to live in peace and like my
grandfather and his family, many times they

877
01:11:43.800 --> 01:11:46.800
had to hide in the least thought
out places. The story they told me

878
01:11:47.119 --> 01:11:51.600
happened shortly before the revolt known in
Mexico as the Cristera war broke out,

879
01:11:53.159 --> 01:11:57.880
my grandfather and grandmother had no children
yet and my mother was not yet born.

880
01:11:58.920 --> 01:12:01.720
They came from love and, fleeing
the devastation, came to a ranch

881
01:12:01.800 --> 01:12:06.880
in Puebla, whose name I don' t remember now. There they found

882
01:12:06.880 --> 01:12:12.880
stability. My grandfather found work as
a day laborer and within a few days

883
01:12:12.960 --> 01:12:17.600
of demonstrating his physical strength for manual
labor, he became indispensable for the employer

884
01:12:17.600 --> 01:12:21.319
by getting them to lend them a
little house outside the ranch. In this

885
01:12:21.399 --> 01:12:29.439
place several people lived in scattered houses, people, kind and charitable. Unfortunately,

886
01:12:29.560 --> 01:12:32.279
the same could not be said of
the employer, who used to have

887
01:12:32.359 --> 01:12:38.239
the reputation of exploiting the workers.
Besides being pretty greedy. The man in

888
01:12:38.239 --> 01:12:43.920
question was called Agapito. My grandfather
very well endured the abuses of that man

889
01:12:43.960 --> 01:12:47.279
and was fleeing from an even worse
past of the horrors of war, where

890
01:12:47.319 --> 01:12:54.199
they faced famine and the shortage of
work. The little they came to have

891
01:12:54.680 --> 01:12:59.600
only earned them a meager meal.
Every day they' d tell me you

892
01:12:59.680 --> 01:13:01.960
' re sometimes her son. He
had to work up to sixteen hours in

893
01:13:01.960 --> 01:13:06.439
a row. Worst of all,
Agapito' s family was weird. Both

894
01:13:06.520 --> 01:13:11.119
the wife and mother- in-
law were known as witches. But the

895
01:13:11.159 --> 01:13:15.520
matter was not so easy, but
something darker and more diabolical. My grandfather

896
01:13:15.600 --> 01:13:21.000
Julian says that everything started to go
wrong during a bad run, a drought

897
01:13:21.079 --> 01:13:28.720
that spoiled at least half the sowing. A day laborer named Peter one day

898
01:13:28.720 --> 01:13:32.840
began to discover some strange objects placed
between the weeds and the branches of the

899
01:13:33.000 --> 01:13:39.119
trees near the fields. They were
a kind of fabric made from the roots

900
01:13:39.159 --> 01:13:44.920
of some plants that, according to
them, their shadows formed a series of

901
01:13:44.960 --> 01:13:50.760
symbols that one would suddenly think were
shapeless. My grandfather came to recognize this

902
01:13:50.800 --> 01:13:56.960
discovery and looking at the shadows for
a long time caused that as he looked

903
01:13:57.039 --> 01:14:01.960
into any empty space, I saw
it' s scary infernal shadows pope.

904
01:14:02.079 --> 01:14:06.640
I was talking to him. One
of these shadows began to stalk and although

905
01:14:06.680 --> 01:14:12.199
he initially wanted to play brave,
on more than one occasion he could not

906
01:14:12.279 --> 01:14:15.880
stand it. He was plowing the
earth with two men. It was a

907
01:14:16.000 --> 01:14:20.760
pretty hot day. My grandfather let
go of his tool, for he said

908
01:14:20.800 --> 01:14:26.600
he had seen a woman with a
horrible face, and he had no eyes,

909
01:14:26.760 --> 01:14:30.239
no lips, no nose, and
several snakes all over his body.

910
01:14:30.159 --> 01:14:34.359
The woman carried a basket full of
children' s heads. My grandfather began

911
01:14:34.359 --> 01:14:40.039
to scream in terror and as soon
as he had advanced a few meters,

912
01:14:40.239 --> 01:14:44.760
he was arrested by a couple of
pawns, who took him inside a farm,

913
01:14:44.960 --> 01:14:47.399
because they thought that what was happening
to him was because of a heat

914
01:14:47.399 --> 01:14:51.159
blow. They gave him water,
put a wet cloth on his forehead,

915
01:14:51.680 --> 01:14:56.880
but my grandfather could barely stand up
and pretended he hadn' t seen anything.

916
01:14:57.880 --> 01:15:00.720
They sent him to work in the
shadow and to and so ra could

917
01:15:00.760 --> 01:15:03.760
endure that day, although he says
that since then he has not stopped seeing

918
01:15:03.880 --> 01:15:10.720
such visions. One afternoon he was
sent to clean the stables. He worked

919
01:15:10.800 --> 01:15:16.039
that they only gave to those workers
who were most trusted. My grandfather there

920
01:15:16.520 --> 01:15:21.159
found an object he called a fetish, which would come to be a doll

921
01:15:21.199 --> 01:15:26.880
made of straw in the shape of
a deformed man and with hundreds of needles

922
01:15:26.920 --> 01:15:31.239
buried in his head. He cautiously
took the object with a shovel and threw

923
01:15:31.720 --> 01:15:36.960
it into the horse excrement. When
the object in question was covered by more

924
01:15:38.039 --> 01:15:43.079
debris, it was heard as if
a small animal complained of pain, as

925
01:15:43.119 --> 01:15:46.920
some cats lived on the ranch.
My grandfather got scared thinking that some of

926
01:15:46.960 --> 01:15:53.760
these babies were inside. He quickly
removed the excrement layer and excavated it to

927
01:15:53.800 --> 01:15:58.720
the point where the sound was made. Then he saw in horror how that

928
01:15:58.760 --> 01:16:02.600
fetish twisted and screamed as if he
were alive. My grandfather became persignant and

929
01:16:02.640 --> 01:16:08.720
immediately began to pray how much prayer
he knew. Then that hellish being stopped

930
01:16:08.720 --> 01:16:13.920
his movement. My grandfather continued his
work, but he could not stop shaking

931
01:16:14.000 --> 01:16:18.039
and could not complain or talk to
anyone about this sinister matter, for he

932
01:16:18.079 --> 01:16:21.439
was very sure it was the work
of the same family as the boss.

933
01:16:23.159 --> 01:16:27.119
The solution my grandfather found was to
always wear on his neck a scapular that

934
01:16:27.159 --> 01:16:31.760
he bought in the basilica of Zapopan
on a pilgrimage he made When he was

935
01:16:31.880 --> 01:16:39.399
a child, my grandfather continued working
in the stables, but he always sought

936
01:16:39.399 --> 01:16:44.000
to be accompanied, so he began
to ask the foreman to allow him to

937
01:16:44.039 --> 01:16:45.640
take a boy with him with him
with the excuse of teaching him. The

938
01:16:45.720 --> 01:16:53.840
trade happened about a month without anything
bad happening, but approaching May, while

939
01:16:53.840 --> 01:16:58.000
they were combing the hair of a
couple of foals, they all began to

940
01:16:58.000 --> 01:17:03.399
behave in a very very strange way. They looked scared as if the demon

941
01:17:03.439 --> 01:17:10.279
himself had gotten inside. My grandfather
tried to calm them down, but even

942
01:17:10.359 --> 01:17:15.239
the boy who was helping him looked
quite nervous, as if he perceived that

943
01:17:15.239 --> 01:17:18.680
something bad would happen. It'
s time to comb the patron' s

944
01:17:18.720 --> 01:17:25.600
favorite horse. This was a robust, large white animal they barely touched and

945
01:17:25.760 --> 01:17:30.560
heard as if the hair had spoken, but in a rather sinister tone.

946
01:17:30.119 --> 01:17:34.279
When they turned to see the animal’ s head, it had become a

947
01:17:34.359 --> 01:17:40.319
dreadful grimace. He wore a crown
of thorns. Like Jesus Christ, the

948
01:17:40.560 --> 01:17:45.079
animal drooled as he spoke without moving
his mouth and from one second to another

949
01:17:45.119 --> 01:17:48.479
rose on two legs, beating with
one of the front legs. The boy

950
01:17:48.520 --> 01:17:54.119
almost died from that blow, but
because he was quite young, he ended

951
01:17:54.159 --> 01:17:59.479
up recovering. Obviously, they did
not tell anything, but the foremen suspected

952
01:17:59.520 --> 01:18:04.000
that this accident had a supernatural origin, and that even they witnessed how much

953
01:18:04.079 --> 01:18:10.600
evil was seen on the ranch.
My grandfather spent nights unable to sleep after

954
01:18:10.600 --> 01:18:15.239
that event, as what was happening
there. It was too evil and it

955
01:18:15.279 --> 01:18:17.560
seemed to expand all over the ranch
and I didn' t know what to

956
01:18:17.560 --> 01:18:21.119
do. Then he confessed to my
grandmother everything he was living at the ranch.

957
01:18:21.960 --> 01:18:26.399
For this, my grandmother already knew
that the bosses were engaged in the

958
01:18:26.399 --> 01:18:29.960
dark arts, but I didn'
t know how serious the matter was.

959
01:18:30.159 --> 01:18:34.199
My grandmother had learned the art of
healing, but she was not encouraged to

960
01:18:34.239 --> 01:18:39.199
fight something. Thus, he said
that the symbol of the crown of Espinas

961
01:18:39.279 --> 01:18:43.880
was a direct affront to God,
this being the symbol of Antichrist. It

962
01:18:43.920 --> 01:18:48.520
was as if they were mocking everything
sacred. There came the storm of rains

963
01:18:48.760 --> 01:18:56.159
that that year had been delayed enough
has folded quite intensely bringing with it thunderstorms.

964
01:18:56.640 --> 01:19:00.239
This caused many plantings to be spoiled. In addition to the fact that

965
01:19:00.279 --> 01:19:05.239
day laborers did not want to go
out under these thunderstorms, they were afraid

966
01:19:05.279 --> 01:19:10.880
that the metal tips of the tools
would draw lightning and cause death, for

967
01:19:10.960 --> 01:19:15.279
at that time it was common to
see this happen to people. The employer

968
01:19:15.319 --> 01:19:20.079
began to become famous for mistreating day
laborers who refused to work in the rain.

969
01:19:20.840 --> 01:19:24.359
And it was not only the fear
they felt of dying, but,

970
01:19:24.920 --> 01:19:30.399
like my grandfather, people were afraid
of deep evil. Many said it took

971
01:19:30.479 --> 01:19:35.239
the form of a snake and on
St Bartholus' night its power would grow.

972
01:19:35.680 --> 01:19:41.920
It was expected that a storm would
fall so hard that it would end

973
01:19:41.920 --> 01:19:45.039
up tearing down some buildings. The
men of the community in which My grandfather

974
01:19:45.119 --> 01:19:50.319
lived had created a flood barrier,
as well as reinforced their constructions among all.

975
01:19:53.079 --> 01:19:57.880
My grandfather said that the only snake
he knew was the one that formed

976
01:19:57.960 --> 01:20:01.840
during the storms and the planting with
the men. He asked them if they

977
01:20:01.880 --> 01:20:06.800
referred to this as the representation of
evil and destruction, but they said no,

978
01:20:06.960 --> 01:20:11.560
that the viper was an evil entity
in which resided the form of the

979
01:20:11.600 --> 01:20:16.279
devil who refused to leave the earth. The terrible thing about this matter was

980
01:20:16.359 --> 01:20:20.680
that if you met this snake,
it was very likely that two things would

981
01:20:21.279 --> 01:20:26.279
happen, one that you went crazy
seeing his face as a human and another

982
01:20:26.399 --> 01:20:30.640
that bit you poisoning your soul.
In case the last thing happened to you,

983
01:20:30.079 --> 01:20:33.640
the best thing you could expect was
death, otherwise you would end up

984
01:20:34.079 --> 01:20:39.720
attending the rites of the patron'
s family, as you would end up

985
01:20:39.840 --> 01:20:45.199
losing all control of yourself. My
grandfather understood the latter, but he was

986
01:20:45.399 --> 01:20:49.680
sure that the form of the serpent
was not the only form that could take

987
01:20:49.720 --> 01:20:55.600
the evil invoked on those lands.
You' ve seen enough of the apparitions

988
01:20:55.640 --> 01:20:59.720
you' ve witnessed. Soon all
the men agreed to take matters into their

989
01:20:59.840 --> 01:21:05.760
own hands. Some simply fled,
while my grandfather and five other men organized

990
01:21:06.239 --> 01:21:10.880
to bring in a priest who would
give them service on Sunday mornings and thus

991
01:21:10.960 --> 01:21:17.560
try to balance the evil that was
incarnated on earth. So they brought in

992
01:21:17.600 --> 01:21:21.000
a priest named Henry, who,
despite being a young man, was well

993
01:21:21.439 --> 01:21:27.760
instructed in the ways of faith.
My grandmother said, as soon as she

994
01:21:28.279 --> 01:21:31.920
arrived, she felt that evil lived
in those lands, so she decided to

995
01:21:32.039 --> 01:21:35.000
go and talk to the boss,
who, by the way, received it

996
01:21:35.000 --> 01:21:39.760
in a good way. On the
ranch there was a chapel that was closed

997
01:21:39.840 --> 01:21:44.680
for years. The patron was not
stupid and suspected that the men were restless

998
01:21:44.720 --> 01:21:47.840
about everything that was going on,
so, to keep the day laborers calm,

999
01:21:48.479 --> 01:21:54.359
he told them that he would open
the chapel and it would be Henry

1000
01:21:54.439 --> 01:21:57.119
who would serve Mass every Sunday at
first hour. The boss did it a

1001
01:21:57.159 --> 01:22:00.640
couple of times, but the rains
didn' t always let there be service.

1002
01:22:00.159 --> 01:22:06.199
In addition, several men disappeared and
these disappearances began to unleash rumors that

1003
01:22:06.199 --> 01:22:12.640
the same employer held certain men who
refused to work the land captive. My

1004
01:22:12.680 --> 01:22:16.600
grandfather did not want to believe these
rumors, for while things were rare on

1005
01:22:16.640 --> 01:22:20.920
the ranch, he did not believe
that the boss was able to treat men

1006
01:22:20.960 --> 01:22:26.039
as slaves. However, as the
days passed and San Bartolo night approached,

1007
01:22:26.399 --> 01:22:32.840
the disappearances continued. Even the father
himself was no longer seen. My grandfather

1008
01:22:32.960 --> 01:22:39.359
asked the boss several times about his
whereabouts, but he told him that the

1009
01:22:39.399 --> 01:22:43.680
priest simply got bored of the ranch' s life and fled to the nearest

1010
01:22:43.760 --> 01:22:48.560
city. My grandfather didn' t
believe the boss' s words and began

1011
01:22:48.560 --> 01:22:54.039
to investigate. For this purpose he
began to go during the nights to the

1012
01:22:54.119 --> 01:22:59.359
fields of Siembra and from there he
went through the cellars. One night he

1013
01:22:59.439 --> 01:23:03.039
heard some laments coming from a grain
container that they no longer used. He

1014
01:23:03.079 --> 01:23:08.880
approached and looked down a creek,
illuminating a few moments with an oil lamp

1015
01:23:08.960 --> 01:23:14.159
carrying, saw that inside Enrique was
locked up with two other men looked in

1016
01:23:14.239 --> 01:23:17.560
very bad condition, but my grandfather
could not do anything, since if he

1017
01:23:17.600 --> 01:23:21.720
talked about what was seen, he
could expect a fate similar to or similar

1018
01:23:21.800 --> 01:23:28.439
to that of these three. That
night, when he returned, he looked

1019
01:23:28.600 --> 01:23:32.199
as black clouds approached the horizon.
In a few hours it would dawn.

1020
01:23:32.840 --> 01:23:38.520
He went home and slept very little, because early a foreman appeared to the

1021
01:23:38.520 --> 01:23:44.439
commune to inform all day laborers that
they would work an hour earlier to reach

1022
01:23:44.479 --> 01:23:47.760
out to beat the rain. Not
all men wanted to go, so among

1023
01:23:48.079 --> 01:23:54.439
the foremen and other day laborers they
were taken against their will to the fields.

1024
01:23:54.840 --> 01:23:59.439
There, in the fields was the
patron Don Agapito. In one hand

1025
01:23:59.520 --> 01:24:03.359
he carried the one carbine and in
the other a machete. When they all

1026
01:24:03.359 --> 01:24:06.800
arrived, he started threatening to liquidate
everything. That man who refused to work.

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He claimed to be tired of insubordination
and disobedience that he would no longer

1028
01:24:13.960 --> 01:24:18.560
be willing to feed lazy people.
Both my grandfather and the other men looked

1029
01:24:18.600 --> 01:24:24.680
on the horizon. Black clouds charged
with lightning. They worked almost at the

1030
01:24:24.760 --> 01:24:29.119
point of a whip and for more
than a couple of times the work had

1031
01:24:29.119 --> 01:24:33.079
to be stopped, increasing the hatred
and courage of Don Agapito. When the

1032
01:24:33.119 --> 01:24:38.399
rain fell in the night Arrecia and
the order was given that the work would

1033
01:24:38.520 --> 01:24:44.079
continue, even when the sky was
falling down giving asses to the men,

1034
01:24:44.399 --> 01:24:48.000
pushed them into the field, even
carried one of the hair and reached the

1035
01:24:48.039 --> 01:24:54.119
sower, threw it into the mud. He raised his hand where he had

1036
01:24:54.119 --> 01:24:58.520
the machete. The men were starting
to scream. The water viper is coming.

1037
01:24:58.600 --> 01:25:02.079
The sky is overrun by the most
immense blackness roaring like a hurricane.

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01:25:03.000 --> 01:25:08.000
In that the men who were forcibly
dragged ran into the field, losing themselves

1039
01:25:08.000 --> 01:25:12.319
in the blackness. My grandfather was
one of the seven who stayed in place

1040
01:25:12.359 --> 01:25:17.439
at the time. Even the foremen
moved away from Don Agapito, knowing that

1041
01:25:17.439 --> 01:25:24.880
the demon himself was loosed in an
outburst of madness. Don Agapito again raised

1042
01:25:24.960 --> 01:25:30.680
his machete calling cowards all who did
not keep working. Then he challenged God

1043
01:25:30.760 --> 01:25:34.439
and nature by saying that with the
help of his machete, he himself would

1044
01:25:34.520 --> 01:25:40.359
cut the viper in several parts and
thus stop raining my grandfather. He told

1045
01:25:40.399 --> 01:25:44.079
my grandmother that at that moment everyone
saw as the heart of the storm.

1046
01:25:44.680 --> 01:25:48.760
He sat on Agapito and unloaded all
his fury, dropped a lightning bolt that

1047
01:25:48.880 --> 01:25:55.920
practically split him in half. At
that time they all searched the ranch'

1048
01:25:56.000 --> 01:26:00.800
s main estates for shelter. The
smell of burning was unsettled, and they

1049
01:26:00.920 --> 01:26:05.960
saw thousands of snakes entering the field
in the direction of Agapito' s calcined

1050
01:26:05.960 --> 01:26:10.760
body. My grandfather took advantage of
chaos and confusion to convince one of the

1051
01:26:10.800 --> 01:26:15.640
men who trusted him to accompany him
to the abandoned barn. As they could,

1052
01:26:16.239 --> 01:26:19.600
they released the priest Enrique and the
other two men, which was not

1053
01:26:19.640 --> 01:26:25.640
easy, because they said that,
because of malnutrition, they practically crawled and

1054
01:26:25.720 --> 01:26:31.079
it was very difficult to stand.
With a superhuman effort, they managed to

1055
01:26:31.119 --> 01:26:35.159
reach my grandfather’ s house,
where the wives of several pawns were already

1056
01:26:35.239 --> 01:26:41.840
located. They quickly threw a couple
of blankets at the men who came in

1057
01:26:41.840 --> 01:26:45.680
wet. Father Henry thanked the men
who saved him and God for bringing him

1058
01:26:46.199 --> 01:26:51.880
out of that martyrdom. The men
wondered what to do, for they would

1059
01:26:51.960 --> 01:26:57.399
not know how to answer to the
patroness who was known as sadistic for this.

1060
01:26:57.760 --> 01:27:01.520
The rest of the men who had
been arriving during the storm began to

1061
01:27:01.640 --> 01:27:08.119
wonder what they should do. Since
no one had an idea, wherever they

1062
01:27:08.199 --> 01:27:14.279
went it was dangerous. In some
States, the Cristera war was quite intense.

1063
01:27:15.199 --> 01:27:17.880
No one gave ideas and the only
one who spoke was Father Enrique,

1064
01:27:18.359 --> 01:27:24.039
who told them that he knew a
place where everyone would be safe. It

1065
01:27:24.079 --> 01:27:28.000
was a hacienda that by that time
everyone was unaware of and that, since

1066
01:27:28.039 --> 01:27:31.560
the end of the War of Independence, because of its difficult situation, it

1067
01:27:31.640 --> 01:27:36.279
had not been occupied by anyone,
since it did not offer a strategic place,

1068
01:27:36.720 --> 01:27:42.760
but it did have its own well
and some good farmland. He knew

1069
01:27:42.840 --> 01:27:46.640
this place very well because it belonged
to his family and they never told anyone

1070
01:27:47.079 --> 01:27:51.560
to date they had used it to
hide from the conflicts that shook the country.

1071
01:27:53.520 --> 01:27:58.920
He was the only living descendant of
his family and had no children.

1072
01:27:58.960 --> 01:28:02.479
The next day, the sun rose
on the horizon, turning away all the

1073
01:28:02.479 --> 01:28:08.560
shadows. They took this as a
sign and went out to look for Father

1074
01:28:08.680 --> 01:28:12.880
Henry' s estate. They were
at a slow pace, since both Henry

1075
01:28:13.000 --> 01:28:17.600
and the other two day laborers were
convalescent. They were always looking back with

1076
01:28:17.680 --> 01:28:23.680
the fear of being caught by the
foremen. Luckily, they found some houses

1077
01:28:23.720 --> 01:28:28.199
unoccupied along the way, as both
one of the men and the priest himself

1078
01:28:28.720 --> 01:28:33.479
seemed to get worse. They found
shelter in a little house, on a

1079
01:28:33.560 --> 01:28:38.600
hillside had been devastated by the war, but still kept a roof. They

1080
01:28:38.680 --> 01:28:43.720
stayed there. About a week later, Henry and another of the men had

1081
01:28:43.840 --> 01:28:47.560
a terrible fever and sent for a
herb, even though they got it.

1082
01:28:47.640 --> 01:28:51.359
Two of the men died. One
of them was not even one of those

1083
01:28:51.399 --> 01:28:56.800
who had rescued, but one of
those who went to get the tea plant

1084
01:28:57.680 --> 01:29:01.680
Men said they had seen a life
with a human face. The rest of

1085
01:29:01.680 --> 01:29:06.640
the men, hearing this story,
began to say that the curse invoked on

1086
01:29:06.720 --> 01:29:13.039
the ranch was following us and sooner
or later would catch us. My grandfather.

1087
01:29:13.079 --> 01:29:15.640
For his part, he had already
left behind the evil visions of which

1088
01:29:15.680 --> 01:29:19.159
he was a victim at the ranch. They had to bury the bodies in

1089
01:29:19.199 --> 01:29:25.119
the field. Henry led a few
prayers. He after drinking the tea seemed

1090
01:29:25.600 --> 01:29:30.840
to be better, so just finished
burying the bodies got back on track.

1091
01:29:31.600 --> 01:29:36.159
My grandmother says that they walked where
there is no way, through a place

1092
01:29:36.199 --> 01:29:43.720
where weeds and wild flowers abound.
He doesn' t remember exactly what state

1093
01:29:44.439 --> 01:29:47.960
he was in, but he always
said to listen behind his back like a

1094
01:29:47.960 --> 01:29:53.199
snake' s cyst. One night, Father Henry began acting in a rather

1095
01:29:53.279 --> 01:29:59.079
strange way. He said he saw
the demon in the field, but he

1096
01:29:59.159 --> 01:30:02.600
had to follow him out of nowhere. He ran away. The men tried

1097
01:30:02.640 --> 01:30:06.880
to stop him, but he seemed
to possess a superhuman force. He did

1098
01:30:06.920 --> 01:30:12.079
not stop until he threw himself off
a cliff where he was devoured by wild

1099
01:30:12.079 --> 01:30:15.720
cats. They all lamented his death, for he had left them no map.

1100
01:30:16.239 --> 01:30:20.960
He only told him to follow a
few more miles until he found a

1101
01:30:21.079 --> 01:30:26.720
huge black cross of wood on a
hillside. From there it was to enter

1102
01:30:26.760 --> 01:30:30.840
by an ancient cistern and just on
the other side they would find the hacienda.

1103
01:30:31.800 --> 01:30:36.439
After walking around noon, they saw
the black wooden cross on which three

1104
01:30:36.479 --> 01:30:43.920
ravens stood. They continued to reach
the hollow, where the old cistern was.

1105
01:30:44.840 --> 01:30:48.960
They had arrived at their destination.
The estate was as promised. Priest

1106
01:30:49.000 --> 01:30:55.960
Henry looked well treated, but unoccupied. The doors weren' t locked,

1107
01:30:56.560 --> 01:30:59.680
so it wasn' t hard for
them to get in. They found some

1108
01:30:59.720 --> 01:31:02.920
with sodas in jars. Likewise,
some cobs that were wildly given picked up

1109
01:31:03.039 --> 01:31:09.560
as much as they could and even
the men gave themselves to the task of

1110
01:31:09.600 --> 01:31:14.680
hunting a couple of wild hares.
The estate was large enough for all the

1111
01:31:14.720 --> 01:31:19.279
people who were fleeing to have their
own room. With the little food there

1112
01:31:19.359 --> 01:31:24.520
was. I wouldn' t last
there for even a month, but people

1113
01:31:24.560 --> 01:31:29.319
and my grandfather were optimistic. They
tilled the earth and cleaned the well of

1114
01:31:29.319 --> 01:31:34.319
water, but the shadow finally reached
them. Once again, after fifteen days,

1115
01:31:34.720 --> 01:31:39.319
my grandmother drew water from the well, but it did not come out

1116
01:31:39.600 --> 01:31:44.199
clean, but it was full of
small vipers and looking inside, she observed

1117
01:31:44.279 --> 01:31:48.760
a huge viper with human traits.
My grandmother ran to tell her husband.

1118
01:31:50.439 --> 01:31:55.279
My grandfather ran with the other men
to the well, but they said they

1119
01:31:55.439 --> 01:32:00.119
saw nothing but clear water. They
passed that strange event of mr. My

1120
01:32:00.119 --> 01:32:02.960
grandmother. However, within a few
days, one of the men who were

1121
01:32:03.000 --> 01:32:10.560
hunting field rats returned frightened. He
said he saw the snake swallow one of

1122
01:32:10.640 --> 01:32:15.640
the companions, who, by the
way, had not returned. They all

1123
01:32:15.680 --> 01:32:19.760
ran to the field where they were
hunting and saw with horror how an older

1124
01:32:20.000 --> 01:32:25.159
woman opened her mouth grotesquely to swallow
from one bite to another of the men.

1125
01:32:26.239 --> 01:32:30.079
All frightened people turned back and shouted
out loud that there was a witch

1126
01:32:30.199 --> 01:32:34.720
and went out in the direction of
the hacienda, where they began to pray.

1127
01:32:34.880 --> 01:32:40.920
Everyone in a group said my grandmother
that they did not hear or see

1128
01:32:40.960 --> 01:32:45.000
anything unusual for the rest of the
night, but at night they heard as

1129
01:32:45.079 --> 01:32:48.520
if the claws of an animal scratched
the main doors of the estate. My

1130
01:32:48.560 --> 01:32:54.640
grandfather, along with many other men
armed with machetes, sticks and crucifixes.

1131
01:32:55.960 --> 01:33:00.920
They were full of determination to face
the snake once and for all. When

1132
01:33:00.039 --> 01:33:05.720
they came out they saw the serpent
flee and far away they saw lights forming

1133
01:33:05.840 --> 01:33:11.479
another snake. But that snake was
not of supernatural origin, but was a

1134
01:33:11.520 --> 01:33:17.319
group of bandits carrying torches and carbines. Everyone hid where they could. Unfortunately,

1135
01:33:17.880 --> 01:33:23.960
only some of them managed to save
themselves by getting into a septic tank,

1136
01:33:24.439 --> 01:33:30.000
including my grandparents. Eventually they took
the courage to walk again and did

1137
01:33:30.239 --> 01:33:33.399
not stop until they were rescued by
a caravan that was traveling to Guadalajara,

1138
01:33:34.079 --> 01:33:41.079
where they settled at last and had
children. Unfortunately, my grandfather was killed

1139
01:33:41.199 --> 01:33:45.960
in the Cristero conflict, but my
grandmother remembered well the story they passed to

1140
01:33:45.039 --> 01:33:49.119
get to the place where I live
and today, being an older person,

1141
01:33:49.600 --> 01:34:02.359
I want to share this story.
Stories written and adapted by Mauricio Farfán