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Revenge. I was sitting next to
my great- grandmother' s bed,

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a woman known in the family for
her cruelty and cold heart. No one

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wanted her, no one but me, who had always been unable to hold

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a grudge She was there by her
side because she had never shown love or

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compassion. I felt that no one
should die alone the dim light of an

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oil lamp. He threw strange shadows
on the walls. The great- grandmother,

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with her face full of wrinkles and
sunken eyes, stared at me,

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her breathing was short and weak.
I knew he didn' t have much

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time left. Suddenly, his fragile
and trembling hand fell upon mine. I

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felt a chill running through my arm. His lips moved just a whisper,

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but I understood that he wanted to
tell me something important. I' ve

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always been good to her. In
spite of everything, she wanted me to

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know why she had been so bad. It wasn' t always like that.

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When she had her first child,
my grandfather, he fell seriously ill,

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was on the verge of death and
she was desperate. That was when

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an evil spirit appeared, offering him
a deal would allow him to live within

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his body. In exchange for my
grandfather living up to the age of 100.

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She accepted because she couldn' t
lose her son. There was one

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condition. If someone in our family
caused my grandfather' s death before he

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was a hundred years old, the
deal would be broken and he would die.

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All the evil she showed wasn'
t really her. The evil spirit

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filled her with hatred and resentment.
It was not she who did those things,

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but the spirit. Through her.
The room got darker. The heavier

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air knew the worst was to come. He had made another covenant with another

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evil spirit. He let him eat
his soul when he died. In exchange

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for my grandfather dying before the age
of 100, that spirit would kill the

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person responsible for his death. I' m freezing. My great- grandmother

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' s words resonated in my mind. She had sacrificed her soul, becoming

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an object of evil to save her
son and had then sealed her fate and

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that of our family with yet another
darker covenant. His breathing became even weaker.

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His eyes closed slowly and his hand
lost strength within minutes. She was

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gone. A few years passed since
my great- grandmother' s death,

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the family tried to move on to
the shadow of her confession. He was

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always present in my mind. My
grandfather, already an old man, but

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still in good health, lived calmly
until a disease struck him. It was

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nothing serious and your trusted doctor prescribed
a treatment that should have been enough to

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keep you stable. My aunt,
a stubborn woman convinced that she knew more

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than everyone else, decided to take
matters into her own hands. Despite being

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a nurse and not a doctor.
He thought he knew better than my grandfather

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' s doctor. Without consulting anyone
else, he decided to change my grandfather

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' s treatment was an impulsive and
arrogant decision, and its consequences were terrible.

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My grandfather, who was not in
a serious condition, began to get

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worse quickly. Within a few days, his health deteriorated alarmingly. Before we

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could do anything to reverse the damage, my grandfather passed away. The news

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of his death affected us deeply,
but the circumstances were even more painful.

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The family broke into a thousand pieces
divided by the conflict. My aunt,

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the cause of this tragedy, tried
to wash her hands. He said he

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had only tried to help and could
not foresee the tragic outcome. Many of

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us, including myself, knew that
their arrogance and stupidity had led to death.

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From my grandfather we could not forgive
her and the arguments became constant.

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Some family members defended her by saying
that her intentions had been good and that

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she was not to blame. Others, like me, blamed her directly for

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her recklessness. My grandfather' s
funeral day arrived and the atmosphere was full

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of tension. The whole family attended, but the divisions and resentments were obvious.

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Some did not talk to each other, their eyes were cold and their

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words were few. The loss of
my grandfather, combined with the controversy over

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his death, had destroyed any unity
we ever had during the service, I

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couldn' t help thinking about my
aunt' s responsibility for all this.

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Every time I looked at her I
felt a wave of anger and sadness.

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I couldn' t keep quiet.
Not after what she had done. At

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one point I gathered courage and approached
her I was standing next to her children,

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my cousins, but that did not
stop me. I looked her right

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in the eye and called her a
killer. My aunt' s face turned

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pale before I could answer I added
that I would pay for killing Grandpa.

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His expression went from shoc to anger
in an instant, but before he could

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say anything, his children stood in
the way. My angry cousins tried to

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defend their mother. The words became
screams and the screams quickly turned into pushes.

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The situation got out of control.
In the middle of everything, I

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intended to reveal to my aunt what
the great- grandmother had confessed to me

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on her deathbed. I wanted him
to know about the pact and the consequences

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he now faced, but at the
last minute I decided not to do something.

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Inside of me, he told me
it wasn' t the time or

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the place. Instead of saying something
to my aunt at the funeral, I

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just pointed a finger at her.
That' s what I turned around and

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left. Two weeks after the funeral. The atmosphere in the family remained tense

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and painful. The wounds had not
healed and everything seemed somber. In the

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midst of this environment, I received
a call from a close relative. I

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was told that strange and disturbing things
were happening in my aunt' s house

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that had no logical explanation. Disturbing
things began to happen. Almost immediately after

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the funeral, My aunt mentioned that
at night, when the house was silent,

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she heard heavy steps going up and
down the stairs. They were not

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normal sounds, but loud noises,
as if someone with heavy boots were deliberately

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walking. My cousins also experienced disturbing
things. They told how the doors of

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their rooms opened and closed alone in
the middle of the night. It didn

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' t matter how many times they
shut them down and secured. The doors

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were once again opened with a disturbing
creak. In addition, they noticed that

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their personal things, such as books
and clothes, appeared scattered throughout the room

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without anyone touching them. The scariest
thing was what happened with the mirrors.

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My aunt reported that on several occasions, looking in the mirror, she saw

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a figure behind her, disappearing as
soon as she turned around. My cousins

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had also seen shadows moving in the
reflections figures that seemed to observe them with

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a wrong intention. In addition to
the mirrors, the lights in the house

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began to fail unexplainably. The newly
replaced bulbs melted instantly and the lights blinked

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for no apparent reason. Sometimes the
whole house was dark for a few seconds,

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plunged them into a total darkness that
seemed endless. Another disturbing thing was

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that appliances went on and off alone. Television was on in the middle of

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the night showing static or changing channels
without anyone touching the remote control. The

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radio was also turned on by itself, tuning in strange stations that transmitted noises,

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distorted and whispering voices. The behavior
of animals in the house also changed.

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The family dog, who had always
been quiet, now barked unceasingly into

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empty corners as if he could see
something that humans could not. He refused

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to enter certain rooms and, when
forced to do so, kept trembling and

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groaning. Listening to these accounts reminded
me of the words of my great-

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grandmother and the covenant she had made. I didn' t mention anything about

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the entity that might be behind these
events. I knew within myself that something

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dark was fulfilling his promise. My
aunt' s house was being visited by

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a presence that no one could see, but that everyone could feel, and

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this was just the beginning of an
evil that was yet to be completely unleashed.

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The next two weeks brought with them
an even more disturbing and violent series

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of events in my aunt' s
house. At first, the incidents had

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been relatively harmless. Things quickly took
a dark and dangerous turn. My aunt

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and cousins began to experience direct attacks. The entity of which they had our

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idea had begun to manifest their aggression
in physical ways. My aunt woke up

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with unexplained bruises on her arms and
legs, as if someone had grabbed her

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hard. My cousins also found cuts
and scratches that they couldn' t explain.

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At first they thought they might have
accidentally hurt themselves during the day,

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but it soon became clear that these
incidents occurred in their sleep. In addition

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to bruises and cuts, small domestic
accidents began to occur that seemed too coordinated

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to make simple coincidences. Objects fell
from shelves at the exact moment someone was

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passing under. The carpets were sliding
under their feet, making them stumble and

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fall. The situation became increasingly dangerous
and the fear in the house was constant.

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But the biggest tragedy came one morning
when they prayed they found the family

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dog, dead in the backyard was
lying on the grass. The most disturbing

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thing was the way they found him
without a tongue and with his head turned

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at an unnatural angle. Clearly the
cause of his death. The scene was

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macabre and chilling. My aunt and
cousins, unable to understand what was really

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happening, came to the conclusion that
it must have been the work of a

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thief. They thought that someone had
tried to steal and being frustrated by the

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dog, brutally took it out on
him. This explanation did not alleviate the

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terror they felt. They buried the
dog in the courtyard, but the incident

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only served to intensify the atmosphere of
fear and paranoia in the house. I

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heard all this through what they were
telling other relatives. The stories that came

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to my ears were increasingly terrifying objects
moving by themselves lights that blinked and strange

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noises went out in the night.
Everything indicated that something dark and powerful was

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present in that house. As soon
as I heard about the dog' s

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death, I knew the end was
near. I remembered the words of my

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great- grandmother and the covenant she
had made. I wouldn' t mention

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his name directly. I understood well
the nature of the spirit with which I

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had made a deal. This spirit
was nourished by the last breath of living

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beings and was feared by their ability
to absorb the vital essence of both humans

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and animals. At the time of
his death, there was something even more

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sinister about his behavior. When this
entity was in a house where there was

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an animal buried, it had the
ability to possess the body. This possession

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allowed him to attack the inhabitants of
the house with ferocity and evil. I

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knew that the death of the dog
and his burial in the backyard had only

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served to strengthen the presence of the
spirit in my aunt' s house.

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The situation in my aunt' s
house became unsustainable. The manifestations of the

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spirit became more frequent and violent.
No one could sleep peacefully, and stress

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and fear began to affect everyone'
s health. On one occasion, my

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aunt was pushed by an invisible force
as she went down the stairs, resulting

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in a fall that almost knocked her
unconscious. My cousins also began to experience

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similar attacks. One of them was
dragged out of his bed in the middle

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of the night and another was locked
in a room unable to leave until the

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door opened alone. After several hours. Several days passed without anyone knowing anything

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about my aunt and my cousins.
The lack of news and the lack of

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response to calls and visits began to
concern other family members. They decided to

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force the door in and find out
what had happened. The bodies of my

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aunt and cousins were scattered throughout the
house, each in a position that indicated

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a desperate struggle to survive. They
all had dog bites on their legs,

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deep, bleeding marks showing a brutal
attack. In addition to the bites,

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each of them had his head turned
at a grotesque angle. Clearly the cause

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of his death. It was obvious
to me what had happened. The spirit

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had fulfilled its vengeance. The bites
in the legs were to immobilize them,

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to ensure they could not escape Once
they were lying on the ground, bleeding

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and weakened. The spirit had come
out of the dog' s body and

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had killed them one by one.
The definitive proof of this horrific theory lay

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in the middle of the room the
corpse of the dog, the same one

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that we had died and had been
buried days earlier, was there in an

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advanced state of decomposition. The most
disturbing thing was the fresh blood staining his

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mouth. There was no doubt that
dog, who should have been dead and

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buried, had been the instrument of
the spirit to carry out his vengeance.

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Authorities tried to find a logical explanation
for the deaths. They considered the possibility

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of an attack by a rabid dog. But the presence of the decaying corpse

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in the middle of the room,
with fresh blood in the mouth, was

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something they could not explain. For
me there was no need to seek rational

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explanations. I knew perfectly well what
had happened to Gunny. When I was

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a kid, my grandmother used to
tell me stories about the Gunnis. He

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told me that the Guni were people
with very special knowledge of medicine and spiritual

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rituals in his village. People had
a lot of respect for them, but

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also a lot of fear. My
grandmother described them as people who moved in

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silence and were always watching others.
The guni knew a lot about plants and

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herbs and used them to make medicines. My grandmother said they could cure diseases

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with remedies that looked like they were
taken from horror stories. Besides being healers,

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the guni were also spiritual healers.
My grandmother said they could chase away

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evil spirits and protect people from the
evil eye. They performed rituals that included

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prayers, offerings, and amulets.
My grandmother said that the Guni could see

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things that the others couldn' t. He said they could feel the presence

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of spirits and knew how to treat
them so they wouldn' t hurt them.

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Sometimes they used holy water to purify
places or people, but that water

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was not common. He was picked
up at night without a moon from secret

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sources. They also washed and said
blessings that brought a strange calm. In

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the air there was the smell of
incense and something more difficult to describe and

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it was a little scary. Not
everything was good. My grandmother also talked

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about the fears and superstitions surrounding the
Gunni. Some people accused them of practicing

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witchcraft and black magic. They said
that just as they could heal, they

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could also cause harm. These accusations
used to come from fear of the unknown

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and mistrust of those who possessed knowledge
that others did not understand. There were

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stories of villagers who dared to challenge
them and ended up disappearing. These stories

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impressed me a lot and sometimes scared
me. There were stories about the Gunnys

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using their powers to control or invoke
evil spirits. My grandmother said these stories

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were few but enough for some people
to be afraid of. The Gunnys had

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a power that could be seen as
a blessing or as a threat, depending

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on how their intentions were understood.
Sometimes accounts were heard of people who had

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been cursed and their bodies weakened without
explanation. For her they were feared people

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who deserved respect for their knowledge and
skills. He taught me to value what

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they knew and to understand that some
things might seem strange or mysterious. There

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was always a reason behind every practice, but always in his eyes there was

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a fear, a shadow that showed
that he respected them more for fear than

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for admiration. Every time we talked
about the Gunnys, my grandmother reminded me

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to be respectful and never make fun
of their practices. He said that respect

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for them was essential, not only
for their knowledge, but also because their

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job was to protect and heal the
Community. But in whispers he added that

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it was better to stay away from
them, not tempt their luck or attract

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their attention. These stories about the
Gunn were recorded in my memory. Sometimes

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I was afraid to hear about his
powers and rituals. I was also curious

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about their knowledge and how they controlled
people. The Gunnys were part of my

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grandmother' s life and I never
saw or knew them. I knew they

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were always there, moving in the
shadows ready to help or punish as needed.

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When I was about twenty, I
had a girlfriend who at first seemed

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lovely. Over time, his behavior
became more and more difficult. She was

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jealous, controlling and possessive. At
first I tried to understand it, but

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it became more and more difficult.
His behavior became a real problem. There

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came a point where I couldn'
t take it anymore. I decided to

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end it, hoping that it would
put an end to the anguish that caused

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me. I remember well, the
day I did it was in a small

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cafe, a neutral place, where
I thought the situation would be more manageable.

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At first he tried to convince me
not to do so, but when

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he saw that my decision was firm, his face changed with a voice full

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of resentment. He told me His
words left me uneasy, but I tried

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not to give it importance. Several
weeks passed since that conversation and I began

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to notice something strange. Everything seemed
normal during the day, but at nightfall,

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an inquiet feeling was beginning to take
over me. I could be walking

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down a street at six forty-
five in the afternoon without feeling anything out

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of the ordinary. Just as the
sun began to set, everything changed.

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I felt a presence, something that
watched me from the shadows. At first

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I thought it was all in my
mind. Maybe the stress of having ended

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with my girlfriend was affecting me more
than I thought, but the feeling didn

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' t disappear Every day. When
the sun began to hide, I felt

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someone looking at me, no matter
if I was on a crowded street or

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just in my house. I always
felt those eyes on me. One night

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as I walked back home, that
feeling became very strong. It was seven

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o' clock in the afternoon and
everything was quiet, but just as the

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sun began to hide, I felt
a chill. Look, look, I

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looked around, but I didn'
t see anyone. I was sure someone

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was following me. I started walking
faster wanting to get home as soon as

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possible. When I arrived at my
apartment, I closed the door tightly and

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tried to calm down. My heart. I was beating so fast and I

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couldn' t stop thinking about what
my ex- girlfriend had told me.

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His words haunted my head and filled
me with fear. From that day on,

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I tried not to leave when it
was starting to get dark. I

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was doing everything I could to be
home before sunset, but the feeling of

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being observed was still even inside my
apartment. I felt that something was watching

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me from the shadows, closing all
the windows and doors and keeping the lights

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on waiting for the light to turn
away whatever was stalking me, but I

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knew I couldn' t live like
this forever. I needed to find a

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solution, find out he was chasing
me and stop him. The idea that

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she could be behind all this filled
me with terror. Every night. The

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feeling of being observed became stronger and
the fear grew within me. I decided

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to look for my grandmother, she
was already in a wheelchair, blind and

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other health problems that she had over
ninety years. Despite her condition, she

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knew she could help me. When
I arrived at his house, he received

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me I told him everything that was
happening to me, every detail of the

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feeling of being observed. When he
heard my story, his face became serious.

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He held my hand hard, something
he did not expect and with a

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trembling but firm voice. He told
me that what was harassing me was a

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gunny. He explained to me that
most likely my ex- girlfriend would have

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asked a gunny for help to bother
me. He told me they didn'

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t want to hurt me physically,
but if I couldn' t get rid

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of the gunny, I could go
crazy. His words were serious and he

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couldn' t stop thinking about them. My grandmother told me that I had

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to talk directly to the gunny to
ask him to stop tormenting me. He

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explained to me that I should wait
for full moon night. That night I

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had to go out into the yard
of my house with the coran in my

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hand. He told me to read
aloud and assured me that in doing so,

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the guni would appear in front of
me that night. My grandmother'

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s words kept ringing in my mind. Every day that passed I was getting

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closer to the night of the full
moon. I knew I had to prepare

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for what came on full moon night. Finally, he came with his heart

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beating hard, I took the coran
and went out into the courtyard. The

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air was cold and the moon lit
the place with a pale light. I

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remembered my grandmother' s instructions and
with a trembling voice. I began to

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read aloud the words he had taught
me. As I read, I felt

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a presence around me, a shadow
that seemed to move with the wind.

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I kept reading, trying to keep
my voice steady. The feeling of being

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observed became more intense and, suddenly, the air became heavy, almost unbreathable.

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Then a figure began to take shape
in the dark. I knew it

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was the gunny. His presence was
oppressive and my whole body trembled with fear.

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The figure had a person' s
body, but his face was different.

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He had no human eyes, but
two dark holes that seemed to absorb

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all the light around him. His
nose was just a shadow and his mouth

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was a crooked line that didn'
t look human. The skin on his

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face was pale and waxy like that
of a corpse. The vision made me

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almost faint from the impression, but
I managed to control myself with my voice

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almost dry. I lost him to
give someone that please leave me alone.

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My words seemed to get lost in
the heavy air, but I repeated them

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over and over again in the hope
that he would listen to me. The

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guni remained silent for a few moments
that seemed eternal. Then his figure began

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to fade slowly into the darkness.
I felt a relief as I watched him

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disappear as if a heavy burden had
been lifted from my shoulders. Since that

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night I have never again felt the
oppressive presence that had tormented me for weeks.

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He vanished with the gunny. The
next day I told my grandmother what

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had happened. She smiled and told
me she always knew she could do it.

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His wisdom, despite his state,
had been my salvation. From that

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day on, my ex- girlfriend' s threat vanished into thin air and

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life returned to normal. The scars
of the experience continue to dawn reminding me

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of the meeting with the gunny and
the power of the shadows lurking in the

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night called work in a telephone service
center of an American company. Our job

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is to attend customer calls, mainly
to solve problems or answer questions about the

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products or services we offer. One
night, while I was working, I

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got a call that left me very
surprised. Usually all calls are from U

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S clients, but this call was
different. From the beginning, the caller

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ID didn' t show any number, it just said unknown number. I

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answered regularly waiting for an annoying client
or a common query, but on the

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other side of the line I heard
a voice I recognized instantly. It was

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my older brother' s voice.
Last time I saw my brother, he

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was twenty, one night he left
the house and never came back. We

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' re looking everywhere for him.
We talked to the police, we put

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up posters with his picture, but
there was never any clue where he was

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in time. Our family accepted the
painful possibility that we would never see him

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again. My heart began to beat
very quickly a mixture of disbelief and hope.

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He invaded me before I could say
anything. My brother spoke saying he

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was fine. After that, the
call was abruptly cut. I was paralyzed

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with the earpiece still in my hand
and mind full of questions. I tried

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calling the number again, but I
didn' t succeed. The screen continued

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to show unknown number and there was
no way to trace the call. That

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night I couldn' t concentrate on
my work. My brother' s words

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resonated in my mind over and over
again, but there was something even more

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puzzling. In our offices. Calls
are randomly distributed among operators. There is

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no way to guarantee who will answer
a particular call then how did my brother

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know what I would be the one
to answer his call? The questions tormented

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me, but most of all,
the possibility that my brother was really alive

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after all these years filled me with
indescribable anxiety. Getting home that night was

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an unreal experience. I couldn'
t stop thinking about the call I had

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received at work. Upon crossing the
door, I saw my mother sitting on

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her usual couch, looking into the
void. My father was in the kitchen

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making him a cup of tea.
I knew I had to tell her what

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had happened, but I had to
do it very carefully so my mother wouldn

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' t find out. Any alteration
could worsen his already fragile state of mind.

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I waited for my mother to retire
to her room. Then I approached

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my father and asked him to go
out to the backyard to talk. The

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night was cool and quiet. Only
the distant noise of traffic was heard.

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I told him about the call I
got at work, my brother' s

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voice. My father looked at me
with disbelief. The color went out of

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his face and his hands began to
tremble. I assured him that I had

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recognized the voice immediately. I had
no doubt that he was my brother,

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but I also shared my concern about
how my brother knew I would answer that

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call. Uncertainty left us both confused. It' s been five days since

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that first call. Every day I
spent I had more questions and fewer answers.

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I was constantly looking at my phone
and waiting at the same time for

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it to ring again. During those
days I tried to concentrate on my work,

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but the tension was evident. On
the fifth day, as I was

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answering a call from an annoying client, the caller ID showed my heart again

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unknown number, rolled over and felt
a knot in my stomach. With a

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shaking hand. I answered the other
side of the line. Again I heard

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my brother' s voice and it
happened exactly the same as the time before.

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This second call confirmed my fears and
hopes. It wasn' t a

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coincidence or a cruel joke. My
brother was alive and he was trying to

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communicate with me. I came home
that night with the weight of the second

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call. My father was waiting for
me in the living room without saying a

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word. He looked me in the
eye and knew it had happened. Again.

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I took him to the backyard and
told him about the second call.

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His reaction was similar to the first
time. We didn' t know what

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to turn to, what happened to
follow, or whether we should tell anyone

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else about these calls. All we
knew was that my brother was somehow still

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alive and was calling us uncertainty.
It was unbearable. My brother was always

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a cheerful and full of life.
He was 20 years old when he disappeared

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without a trace. I remember the
last time I saw him was one night.

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Like anyone else, he came out
of the house saying he was going

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to meet some friends, but he
never came back. My brother' s

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disappearance was a very hard blow to
our whole family. At first, the

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police moved quickly, searched everywhere,
talked to their friends and acquaintances, and

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put up posters with their photo on
every corner of the city. Weeks passed,

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months later, and there was no
clue as to where he was in

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time. Our hopes of finding him
alive went out. A year after he

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disappeared, the police stopped looking for
him. We were told that they had

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done everything they could, but that
they no longer had the resources to continue

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without new clues. My brother'
s disappearance greatly affected our family, especially

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our mother. At first, she
was hoping that he would come back every

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time the phone rang or someone would
knock on the door. His face lit

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up with a little hope, but
over time, that hope went out.

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Our mother started losing her mind.
Little by little, his mental health deteriorated

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so much that he no longer recognized
reality. We didn' t take her

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to a psychiatric hospital because we feared
that it would only make her worse and,

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besides, we couldn' t afford
it. My father stopped working to

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take care of her. He spent
his days at home watching her make sure

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she didn' t get hurt.
In the meantime, I had to find

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out how to keep my work at
customer service offices was not enough to pay

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all the expenses. The situation led
us to a desperate point. The day

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I got the third call, I
knew something was going to change dramatically.

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That afternoon, while attending to clients, as always, the caller ID showed

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again unknown number. My heart started
beating hard and a cold sweat ran through

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my forehead. I responded with the
same mixture of anxiety and hope as before.

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This time, my brother' s
voice didn' t just say he

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was okay. He spoke longer,
and what he said, it smelled my

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blood. He told me he needed
to see me He asked me to go

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alone with no one else. He
said that in the morning he would be

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in a specific place and that he
wanted me to find him. There.

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The place you mentioned wasn' t
just outside the city. But if in

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a rather lonely area, it was
a street where before there was a factory

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that closed and was dismantled years ago, there was absolutely nothing on that block,

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only ruins and a disturbing silence.
I agreed to go to the agreed

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place. Everything seemed so weird and
dangerous to me. The possibility of seeing

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my brother again after so many years
was too strong to ignore. I told

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him I' d be there at
the time he said that night while I

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was getting ready to go out.
I was nervous and scared, but also

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excited about the possibility of seeing my
brother. I left my job at eight

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o' clock at night, as
usual, tried not to show how nervous

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I was, but it was difficult. I came home and had silent dinner

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without mentioning the third call to my
father. I knew this would only worry

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him more and besides, my brother
had been clear he should go alone.

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After dinner I stayed in the living
room watching TV. I pretended to be

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interested in the program, but my
mind was somewhere else. The waiting became

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endless. Every minute I went too
slow. Finally, as the time approached,

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I decided to start my plan to
leave without raising suspicion. I told

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my father that a friend had called
me to ask me for an urgent favor.

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I pretended to bother having to leave
so late, hoping that would convince

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him that it was just a brief
and harmless exit. My father nodded,

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asked no further questions. I got
up and got out of the house.

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I drove to the place where I
was staying to meet my brother. The

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city seemed asleep, the streets were
deserted and the silence of the night only

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increased my anxiety. While driving,
I stopped at a convenience store to buy

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a drink that my brother had always
liked very much. I thought maybe it

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would be a good gesture to bring
you something that would remind you of better

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times. I went back to the
car and continued my way to the deserted

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block, where the factory used to
be. The streets became more and more

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lonely as I approached the place.
I finally got to the vicinity of the

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abandoned factory. I parked the car
at a distance and went down carrying the

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drink in my hand. I looked
around, looking for some sign of my

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brother. The minutes passed and there
was no trace of him. Then,

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in the distance, I noticed a
distant, blurred figure walking slowly. My

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heart started beating harder. As I
tried to focus the view as it approached.

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The lamps on the banks of the
block lighted that figure slightly. It

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wasn' t exactly the same as
I remembered my brother. Many years had

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passed and the features were quite similar. I assumed it was him. The

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figure kept coming and when it was
about ten meters from me, it stopped

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From that distance, I heard his
voice, the same voice of my brother,

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asking me to approach. As something
strange approached me, it began to

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happen. The figure I saw began
to change color. Getting darker. His

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eyes began to shine with an intense
green color. I couldn' t believe

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what I was seeing, but it
was impossible to ignore it. The figure

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that once seemed human became something completely
different, something that was not human.

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At that moment I understood the truth. That wasn' t my brother.

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I felt a deep terror, a
fear I had never felt before without thinking

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about it. Twice I turned around
and ran as fast as I could back

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to my car. My feet hit
the pavement hard. I could hear something

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behind me chasing me I didn'
t dare look back. The adrenaline was

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driving me and every part of my
body was focused on getting to the car.

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I got to the car I pulled
open the door and threw myself inside

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with trembling hands. I turned on
the engine and stepped on the throttle thoroughly.

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The car started and I drove away
at full speed from that place.

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I looked through the rearview mirror and
saw a dark shadow moving quickly, but

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it failed to reach me. As
I drove home, my mind was full

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of thoughts about what I had just
lived on, an entity I had heard

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stories about since I was a child. I had taken my brother' s

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form to lure me into his trap. It is a spirit that calls people

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at night or in the dark with
a familiar voice. It' s a

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very dangerous spirit skulls in my work. Death is common every time we go

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to the jungle. We know there
are many ways someone can die. There

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are snakes, poisons, dangerous insects, toxic plants and rivers that seem calm,

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but they are very dangerous. We
always have to be alert because we

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don' t know what can happen. Last time we went to the jungle,

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something really weird happened to us.
We were in the heart of the

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jungle following the orders of an Indian
scholar. This man was sure there were

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ruins hidden in a mountain. He
hired us to help him find them.

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We took the job because we needed
the money. We knew it was dangerous.

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The trip to the place was very
difficult. The Forest is a very

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hot and humid place. The road
was full of roots and branches that seemed

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to want to stop us, but
we moved on because we wanted to find

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those ancient ruins. Several days passed
before we noticed that something was not right.

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First we hear strange noises at night. They sounded like whispers and creaks,

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but they didn' t look like
normal animals. Then one of our

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partners disappeared. We looked everywhere,
but we didn' t find him the

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next morning. The academic who hired
us was very affected. He came with

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great hopes and a clear mission,
but this situation shook him. He told

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us if we wanted to, we
could get out of there for help.

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We replied that the decision was yours. He' d still have to pay

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us the full amount agreed upon.
After thinking about it, he decided to

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continue the mission. After this incident
we continued to search for the ruins for

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four more days. We continued with
fear the acl ademic, who led the

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expedition decided to change the strategy a
little. He told us there must be

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a road leading to the entrance of
the ruins. We walked away from the

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mountain about eight kilometers. We found
an area where the vegetation was not so

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dense, making it easier to search
the ground. Twelve days passed before we

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found something in this new area,
we found small carved stone plates embedded in

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the ground. This discovery gave us
new hope. We started digging, but

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not too deep. The only thing
we did was to expose the road of

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the carved stone in the hope that
it would take us to the entrance of

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the ruins we were looking for.
The excavations were difficult every day, under

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the heat and humidity of the jungle, we worked tirelessly waiting for the road

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to lead us to our destination.
Every stone we dug up made us feel

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like we were closer to discovering something
big. It took us a few days,

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but finally the carved stone road took
us back to the mountain. The

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emotion was growing between us. At
the end of the road. We didn

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' t find any ruin, no
secret entrance. Instead, the road ended

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up in a well. The initial
disappointment quickly turned into horror when we realized

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what was in the well. It
was full of human skulls. There were

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hundreds of skulls stacked on top of
each other. Seeing so many skulls together

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left us paralyzed. The scholar thought
that this well was where the people who

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had used the ruins left the remains
of their sacrifices. Some deity. I

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had been working in the Forest for
over fourteen years, always looking for something

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interesting for anthropologists. I told the
academic that in that area of the Jungle

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deities that give blood sanctuaries more than
three thousand years ago had ceased to worship

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themselves. This made it impossible for
those skulls to still be in the well.

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The well was not isolated from the
environment, not covered with a large

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rock or sealed in any way.
When we found it, it was open

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like a sewer without a lid.
This meant that the skulls had been exposed

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to the environment. Over time,
rain, animals, and other factors would

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have destroyed any remaining humans. The
preservation of those skulls, as we simply

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found them, was not possible.
What we found in that well made no

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sense according to what we knew about
the history of the region. The academic

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couldn' t believe my idea.
He looked at me surprised as if he

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thought I couldn' t have such
a good idea. We decided to search

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near the mountain around the well.
Five days passed and we found nothing that

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said there were ruins, not even
a cave that could lead to ruins inside

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the mountain. There was nothing.
One morning, while we were eating,

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the academic told us that would be
the last day of searching. The next

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day we' d start coming home. He had not found the ruins,

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but the photographs of the carved stone
road and the well with the skulls would

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serve to show that there were people
in the area a long time ago.

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That night, when we were already
sleeping, we heard a strange noise seemed

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to come from under the earth,
as if something was ending up to come

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out. The noise came from the
well with the skulls. We all ran

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to see what happened. What we
saw left us breathless. The skulls were

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coming out of the well as if
something were pushing them from below in the

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middle of confusion. We saw some
big horns coming out of the well,

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we were paralyzed by fear. From
the well. A creature came out that

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we' ve never seen before.
It was huge and terrifying, with sharp

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fangs and bright red eyes. His
skin was dark almost black, had many

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arms and was very large, about
three meters high. His presence filled us

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with fear. I didn' t
know what that was, but I knew

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it wasn' t normal. I
tried to back off, but fear had

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me paralyzed. The creature took three
steps and advanced five meters, long enough

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to grab the academic. He picked
it up like it didn' t weigh

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anything. He kicked around and tried
to let go screaming for help. But

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both I and the others were paralyzed, unable to react. The creature opened

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her huge mouth and bit the scholar
in the arm. The screams became even

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more desperate at the time. We
reacted and started running. As he fled,

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the creature screamed deafeningly and threw the
upper part of the academic' s

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body with incredible strength. Half the
body flew through the air and hit one

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of my companions, violently dropping it
to the ground. The impact was so

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strong that he broke his head.
The creature tried to pursue us, but

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his size and weight did not allow
him to move quickly. We ran without

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00:47:24.719 --> 00:47:30.360
looking back with the image of the
beast and the brutal death of our companions

544
00:47:30.400 --> 00:47:34.159
engraved in our minds. The Jungle, which was already a place of nightmare,

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had become even more dangerous and terrifying. We managed to escape over the

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years. Finally, I understood what
I had seen that night in the Jungle.

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The creature that came out of the
well was a racosh. Racoch are

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mentioned in Hindu religious books and tales
such as Maja Barata and Ramayana. They

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are monsters that are said to have
emerged from the breath of Brahma, the

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Creator God, or as descendants of
sages and demons. They' re giants

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with sharp fangs and bright red eyes. Their skin is dark sometimes in reddish

552
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or bluish colors. They may have
many arms and heads to change shape,

553
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but the scariest thing is that they
are always hungry for human flesh and enjoy

554
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deceiving people. That night we faced
something we couldn' t understand. The

555
00:48:28.480 --> 00:48:31.920
Racoch, with its large size and
brutality, was a horror that the jungle

556
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was hiding. The memory of that
night and the vision of the Racosh remain

557
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with me until today. Every detail
of his appearance, every violent action,

558
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is engraved in my memory. The
jungle, with all its natural hazards,

559
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was hiding something much more terrifying and
ancient. The creature was a sign that

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there are things in this world that
we cannot understand or control dark forces that

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remain ocus. Since that night I
have lived with the certainty that racoch are

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not just legends, they are real
and represent the true terror that lurks in

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the darkest corners of nature