Fantasmas en faros || Relatos del lado oscuro (Podcast)

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Why don' t you stay with
me? Tonight we' re going to

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talk sea stories unusual stories, ghost
appearances in equally rare places, beacons tales

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of the dark side for strange beings
happenings are inexplicable vanquished stories that other minds

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prefer to ignore. Or you'
ve ever thought about living in a lonely

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place and you' re completely alone. It' s possible. Yes,

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and in fact, it is likely
that right now you are alone at home

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or even alive or without the company
of other people permanently, or even somewhere

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remote as well but perhaps one of
the key places to live alone perfectly alone,

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without anyone arriving, without you going
to have any unexpected visits. It

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' s definitely a lighthouse. You
know those lighthouses built on the cliffs,

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on the islands lost out there,
in the middle of the ocean, and

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which have as their function to light
up the passage of the ships through a

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series of mirrors and lenses, produce
a powerful luminous ar which is perceived by

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the ships And understand that it is
a sign to stay away. Here'

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s the coast or here' s
a wall or a lower part of the

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waters, so that if they get
closer, they can shut down these lighthouses.

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For many years they were operated manually
in such a way that a boatman

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was often an individual who lived in
the most absolute solitude away from the world

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days away, sometimes especially in lighthouses
that were offshore that were separated from the

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coast perhaps for one or two miles. The boatman remained there until the next

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supply ship arrived, which often brought
his replacement, so that that man,

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usually men, could return to the
coast and spend another week at home and

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then climb back up. The point
is that these sites were places where you

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could easily get lost. The reason
to be completely disquieted, on the one

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hand, the very long hours of
solitude. On the other hand, the

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absence of a specific job to do
except to place oil on the lamps of

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the headlamp reflector or give it a
little cleaning that there was not much to

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do. Moreover, the constant and
permanent noise of the waves could have a

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very strange effect on individuals and it
was not unusual that after some time,

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when the supply ship returned, it
found the lighthouse deserted, completely deserted,

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and even when the boatman had no
way of escaping by calling him somehow this

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for some reason, or had thrown
himself into the waters, or had drowned

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or might even have been assaulted,
which was not very common. But these

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sites were also known to be places
where there were frights, precisely because of

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the long stories of disappearances and mysterious
deaths, even of murders. Many of

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these lighthouses had macabre stories and behind
them, evidently, horror stories. In

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some particular cases, the us was
allowed, for example, to be accompanied

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by his wife and children when the
site allowed it when conditions were adequate enough

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to live there. There was no
doubt that you could also have the wife

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and children, but that was no
guarantee of anything. What I mean is

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that the guarantee that being accompanied would
be better not necessarily. The highest rate

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of murders and violent deaths within the
potter population occurred in those where there was

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a family where it was not uncommon
for the potter to murder the woman,

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the children and then take her life. Why it can be very variable.

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It is hard to know that it
can motivate a man to do such crazy

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things, but the fact is that
these sites were literally places of condemnation.

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How much and more in those lighthouses
that were within the wave zone, These

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sites were truly incapacitated. Described by
one of those potters in a thousand eight

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hundred and ninety, the Costa Lighthouse
was one of the worst places where one

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could work, not so much because
of the risk itself, that it was

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in itself quite high, but because
of the fact that one had to stay

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locked in that kind of concrete tube, even for days, when some tidal

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wave occurred, the potter closed the
doors tightly type ship hatch doors and locked

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himself inside to listen to the great
waves of the sea hitting against the walls

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of the lighthouse. The fact that
one of these waves would tear out the

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lighthouse and send it to death must
not have been pleasant and it was a

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fact that, quite often also the
waves of the sea could tear off the

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lighthouse and take it to the bottom
of the ocean also potter, so it

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was a place where they had to
stay for perhaps two or three days when

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the galley, that is, bad
weather was passing in order to be able

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to get back out of the lighthouse. Evidently, this confinement also ended with

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the mitigation of good, to give, for the end of the trial,

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to finish the reason of the individual
who was in charge of those tasks.

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There was even a special team of
people, at least in England, whose

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function was to check that the boatman
was alive and that he was still reasoning.

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These people made a regular tour depending
on the time the boaters had,

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that is, if they were going
to be a week away, The visitor

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would travel the entire area throughout the
week, just to sit down and chat

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for a while, drink a glass
of Geneva with the boatman and distract him

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for a moment. Often these visits
did not carry great provisions, if perhaps

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a couple of bottles, cigarettes,
some tea The important thing was that the

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man did not go mad and in
that strange environment that I am describing to

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him, it was not unusual for
people to lose their mind completely and to

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ensure that they were being attacked,
visited, disturbed in the most varied forms,

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by spectra, by ghosts. And
so great stories of apparitions and unusual

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things were woven into the lighthouse system. Today, which fortunately, the vast

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majority of the headlamps are automatic,
are autonomous systems that are powered by solar

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energy or by dissol motors that generate
electricity, but are controlled through automatic mechanisms,

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so that no pot is required that
is feeding the oil from the lamps

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or that is taking care, that
it is on to turn off the lighthouse

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in time. The result, of
course, is that these constructions are sealed,

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have a fully airtight hatch and close
completely because there are no inhabitants.

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Ghost stories would also be expected to
be reduced. It happens incidentally the opposite

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and good in that sense. In
the sense of the lighthouses and lighthouses,

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there is a very impressive history in
the north of the United States, towards

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the Atlantic coast, on the Newfoundland
peninsula. Since the middle of the 19th

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century a kind of large lighthouse was
erected that is located about two hundred and

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fifty meters inside the coast. To
get to this, you walk along a

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kind of reef, a series of
stones that at some time of the year

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remain totally discovered from the waters.
But in the most intense period of the

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waves and winds, towards the months
of August September, the lighthouse is totally

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isolated from the coast. That kind
of stone road is completely covered with the

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low sea and even in this case, as the tide goes down, it

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is still covered by some sar of
destiny. The lighthouse was located precisely on

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that wall where for many years there
had been accidents. The lighthouse as such

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operated by means of seal oil or
whale oil in what they had at hand

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which was the same to light the
lighthouse. Besides this, there was not

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much more to do inside. The
lighthouse would be about five meters in diameter

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and about four floors in height,
built from septum cement rock, with a

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thick steel door in the lower part
of the potter' s room, the

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area where he slept was just below. In the lower part of the lighthouse,

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where there was also a small kitchen, a bathroom connected directly to the

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waters of the sea and a series
of warehouses where it kept clean water to

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drink and all its food in order
to access the lighthouse. This had been

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equipped with a long internal staircase.
This staircase, like a kind of safety

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measure, was not entirely fixed the
walls of the lighthouse, since it was

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estimated that, in times of storms, the investitation of the waves against the

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lighthouse could provoke reflections, say,
that it would move up to five or

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six centimeters to prevent the ladder from
breaking. It was hanging on the inside,

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so that, as the ladder went
up, there was a very peculiar

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wave of the steps and an equally
very peculiar gnashing. In s In the

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last r part of the ns the
lighthouse was found the reflector with its oil

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lamp and the glassware, like a
clockwork mechanism, a kind of string mechanism

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that caused the lighthouse to turn on
its axis and continuously emit the light ones.

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On this site, in one thousand
eight hundred and sixty the first tragic

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story is told after the inauguration of
the lighthouse. The launch of the lighthouse,

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the first of the ferrets to arrive, was destined to stay a week

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inside the lighthouse and a week on
land in a town near the coast.

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All this on the Newfoundland peninsula.
A week would be replaced by another boater

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and so on they would alternate a
week up and a week down, so

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that they could rest from that loneliness. The first week passed without novelty.

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The lighthouse operated regularly. Ships then
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calmly able to observe the lighthouse on
and around the week. A supply boat

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took the new boater to the nearest
part that could be approached through a small

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boat to enter the lighthouse and send
him back to the port to help.

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Well, his understudy. The other
boatman, the one who had already been

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there for a week quietly descended a
lot to lanchita and went home, where

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he remained a week to give so
on for a few months. Everything was

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going very well, except that one
of the boatmen began to complain about feeling

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weird, feeling very strange. It
was called that melancholy and, for the

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lack of another boatman, again,
the melancholy was sent to the lighthouse,

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where, according to the accounts,
the long days of absolute solitude opened suicide

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in the most perfect silence, without
talking to anyone, without any kind of

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company had been undermining their reason to
the point where one night, after lighting

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the lighthouse and giving it rope,
it would have hung within a few days

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when the replacement of the port arrives, what you find a dantesque spectacle and,

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however, the lighthouse continued to operate. That part would be recorded there

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even for a series of publications of
1, 890 in which the lighthouse of

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Newfoundland was spoken, where, curiously, even after death, the boatman apparently

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continued to wind up the clockwork that
moved the lighthouse. It was clear that

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the body had been hanging there for
at least four days. The process of

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decomposition had already begun and the smell
of fetid became very evident However, every

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night the lighthouse had worked correctly.
This had been reported by several ships that

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had travelled through the area and claimed
to have seen the light of the lighthouse,

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indicating the direction to follow. The
boatman who was left in place again

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began to feel strange. First,
he reported the strange feeling of being accompanied

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by a man who lives alone for
a week, yes, and a week.

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He can' t tell the company
from loneliness and this man. A

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week after being at the lighthouse,
he reported feeling terribly restless, terribly uncomfortable

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and very frightened because of the persistent
feeling of being accompanied. The next week,

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when he was due to return,
the boatman just didn' t come

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back. He left the job and
in his place, who had stayed.

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The new boatman had to stay for
two weeks. It is said that when

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the replacement ship arrived after fifteen days
of being above the lighthouse, the subject

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was completely deranged, spoke inconsistencies,
had drunk all the gin or whatever they

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had there in one time, had
soiled the rooms, well the lower part

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and had by chance lost all reason
without knowing what it was doing and was

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evident without fulfilling its functions. It
should be noted, however, that the

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lighthouse was again lit every night and
turned around. The boatman who lost his

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mind was removed from the site and
taken to land, where, it is

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said, he would have been placed
in a psychiatric ward, as he would

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never recover his reason. He kept
talking inconsistencies about his friends and those who

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lived in the lighthouse with him.
This process, incidentally, lasted several years,

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during which several people literally lost their
mind to the SNR. In that

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lonely lighthouse. It was argued that
it could be an effect of waves that,

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when hitting, produced a very particular
echo on the walls of the lighthouse,

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especially in storm days, when strong
gusts of wind raise high waves that

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hit the base of the lighthouse.
It was argued that loneliness could be a

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determining factor, alcohol and many other
things, to the point where it was

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determined to place two potters in such
a way that all this would be kept

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company. Around one thousand eight hundred
and ninety, the result was definitely not

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the desired one. In a thousand
eight hundred and ninety- three, one

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boatman killed another and then took his
own life. With this, the number

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of deaths within the lighthouse was four
in a minimum space. And yet,

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every night the lighthouse would turn and
turn again. When about one thousand eight

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hundred and ninety- three replacements arrived
to verify the conditions and so on and

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found the bodies of the two vases, the surprise was enormous, especially as

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they verified that in the logbook the
ships continued to refer to the lighthouse of

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Newfoundland as a point of reference.
In their logbook they scored the routes and

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gave the reference to lighthouse of Newfoundland
thirty degrees starboard or, whatever it meant

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that the lighthouse was still on.
When after a long time it was determined

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that the boatman lived on the coast
and only at night moved through a kind

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of impalisation, that is, they
built a kind of path of trunks up

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the water to get to where the
lighthouse was and thus avoid to some extent

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the one that had to stay so
long. It was strange that on several

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occasions the boatman claimed to have seen
people inside the lighthouse. On entering everything

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was empty, but casually the lighthouse
lit and spinning. Suffice it to point

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out that the lighthouse was not automatic. It did not have an automatic lighter

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or contemporary devices and yet it operated. This lighthouse would remain in operation until

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about a thousand nine hundred and twelve, when a strong storm would tear it

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off. There would be no death
in that incident. The boatman, fortunately,

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had been able to be evacuated before
the storm and had managed to save

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his life. However, the old
lighthouse would be completely destroyed in its place.

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A couple of years later a modern
metal lighthouse would be placed completely constructed

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of steel, which would remain in
operation until the forties and fifties, when

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it would be replaced. However,
despite the effort and despite the novelty of

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the metallic lighthouse, the site would
remain an enchanted place and over time,

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different people who worked on the site
claimed to have seen from the old boatman

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the two comrades who had quarrelled and
killed themselves having seen them walking along the

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railing, that is, by the
railing of the upper part on storm nights,

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such that they had returned from beyond
death to carry out their work and

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keep the lighthouse in sense. There
is also another history of very interesting lighthouses

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in England, on the north coast, that is, towards the Exit,

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on the Channel, towards the Atlantic
Ocean, a place where the convergence of

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the sea currents produce a series of
impressive storms practically all year round. The

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lighthouse in this region was located a
long time ago, but towards the end

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of the 19th century it was decided
to build a lighthouse on land away from

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the n earth in order to illuminate
the passage of the great ships that started

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the vapors and that had to cross
through this region so complicated. Leaving the

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protected ports of the interior region of
this Channel, a canal that separates England

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from the European coast, the ships
had to cross precisely by a kind of

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strait where often the mist was so
intense that even during the day it could

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not be seen on this site.
For years, the ships had run aground

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or had been torn apart against the
coast. Even there had been a whole

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gang of criminals who for years had
managed to create optical illusions. That is,

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they lit bonfires on the coast that
pretended to be the lighthouses attracting the

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ships and then moving the bonfires and
thus causing the captains to lose direction and

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shut down the ships. Then these
gangs of criminals acted and well, they

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murdered the crews, they stole the
goods all sorts of horrors. The fact

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is that, when the lighthouse is
built, it is determined to even mount

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an armed guard to guard the lighthouse, so that those gangs or sheaves of

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criminals would not put it out and
then repeat their feat. In the early

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years, the lighthouse operated normally,
although it was not the place where one

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would like to live by the constant
beating of the waves of the sea,

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the permanent humidity and, of course, the fear of criminal gangs. The

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place had stayed pretty well. The
fact that it was on the ground and

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could be visited to some extent was
already an advantage. On the other hand,

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the boatman did not live inside the
lighthouse, but in a modest cabin

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built on the side that was also
on the top of the cliff and,

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therefore, there was no risk of
water being taken away, as in the

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case of the lighthouses of Newfoundland.
All this was many advantages for the boatman.

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However, the site was totally isolated
from the world. The nearest town

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was a couple of hours away on
foot, there were no roads and there

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was no way to move, except
with the emails that were a series of

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horses that were sent carrying supplies,
carrying oils and all that was the only

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link there was. It is said
that between one thousand nine hundred one and

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one thousand nine hundred and three the
lighthouse was occupied by the same person,

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an old sailor, an old man
who had been hired by the Royal British

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Navy to guard the lighthouse. The
time of the criminal gangs had passed.

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Without consequence, the armed guards had
already been removed, being completely alone.

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This man was a strange subject,
already they realized that he was a big,

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very obese individual, completely unarranged,
with the beards grown and often drunk,

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but that he never missed his task
of lighting the lighthouse. Every night

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about one thousand nine hundred and three, without having an exact date, the

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subject would have been found, killed, probably by an alcoholic crisis. It

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would have been found by the e- mails, who reported and was sent

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to another person who first did clean
that place because it was a real sewer

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right away. When he checked the
lighthouse, he found that the site had

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been turned into a true canteen,
empty bottles, filled everywhere. In addition,

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the mechanism had not been cleared in
years and was deteriorating. Several things

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were not in place. The fact
is that they start to work, they

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clean all that and finally the new
potter is there. The new boatman turned

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out to be a man of about
forty- five who had also worked for

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the navy and was now just having
something with the wife. He was probably

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widowed and had ended up living alone
completely and began to relate what he lived

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through. Weeks later, when the
mail arrives with the supplies, it is

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found that the individual looks totally emaciated, nervous, concerned, presents great shiners

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to the point that one of those
men asks him if he is healthy,

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if he feels well or if he
prefers that a replacement be sent and that

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he returns to the city. The
man who had found food, sustenance,

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without having to pay rent there,
refuses to leave the place, tells him

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no, that he is simply distasteful. It passes in the days and returns

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the mail with new provisions and find
it visibly deteriorated, He is seen to

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be a sick gentado. He hardly
talks about a new account. The mailman

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proposes to report it to the city
and ask for a replacement that guy insists

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that no, that he has no
intention of leaving that he will recover from

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that cold. The mail returns to
the nearest city and reports what you have

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seen. The port captains' guards
immediately send a replacement. When the replacement

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arrives, he finds the subject,
that seriously ill man in bed and well

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he orders to bring a doctor,
he does everything necessary and the boatman is

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taken back to the city. When
you are in the doctor' s bed,

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they check it and so on.
He stays there for a few days

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and recovers favorably. He is then
interviewed by the port captain, who asks

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him what happened. If he was
a man he is healthy relatively young,

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that what had happened to him and
then he begins to talk about how.

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Every night and since he had finished
his occupations, he had lit the lighthouse,

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checked that everything was all right,
returned to his cabin to lie down

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for a while and was disturbed by
the ghost, that he had not met

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the previous boatman. I didn'
t know what it was like, but

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I reported seeing the shadow of someone
big, of someone obese walking outside the

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house. I listened to the steps
on the stones outside, on the pebbles

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that were generated there in the gravel. I was listening to the door knob

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move. On more than one occasion, armed with a shotgun, he had

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prepared to shoot the intruder, but
there was no one. Then it was

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the pressure that the subject was walking
to one side of him, pushing him

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literally to bother him when he went
up to check the light of the lighthouse,

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to check that there was enough oil
for the rest of the night and

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so on, often descending the ladder
a real nightmare, as it was accompanied

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by the weight of the man who
caused him to move from one side to

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the other while emitting impressive squeaks.
The ladder just before we get down.

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It was the opposite. It was
to run into that which did not allow

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to pass and to have to jump
the boatman. In addition, he claimed

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that at least during the night it
was impossible to sleep, as he barely

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closed his eyes and began to have
a bit of sleep. I immediately felt

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the pressure of enormous weight on his
body. On one occasion he even claimed

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to have seen, in fact,
a man of about eighty feet tall and

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of great obesity standing in front of
him staring at him. What I had

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seen perfectly corresponded to the description of
the previous potter, the dead potter,

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so the site was delighted. As
this man finished telling his story and explained

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why he had become ill. There
came news of the replacement, who had

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practically lost his mind just two nights
later and was totally sick, sick and

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sick, talking about the dead person
who came to bother him with the dead

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person who was chasing him from the
bad man, since that ghostly presence had

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caused him to fall from bruises or
the lighthouse to go out in the midst

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of the most absolute darkness. Suddenly
the lighthouse had gone out, even though

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it had oil in spite of everything, it had been paid when the boatman

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the replacement had gone up to turn
it back on, to light and to

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check why that had happened. The
journey of the four- story staircase,

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a floating staircase, had become a
real madness, in a situation so tense

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that this man had ended up getting
sick. During the following months, the

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boatmen came and went continually. There
was none that remained until finally it was

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decided, on the part of the
captainship of the port and of some of

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the potters, to ask the intervention
of the clergy, in this case,

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a minister of the Anglican Church,
who was in charge of carrying out a

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series of prayers inside the house of
the lighthouse and in the lighthouse itself to

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ask for the eternal rest of that
person who continued to annoy the potters.

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Of course, the matter was not
clear whether it worked or not, as

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for a thousand nine hundred and fifteen, in the middle of World War I,

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the lighthouse was still having problems and
it was not uncommon for ships,

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in their movements, starting from the
military base of scapa flow towards the North

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Sea side, to report on dangerous
nights the lighthouse off or in broad daylight,

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on sunny days, the lighthouse on
casually, when this potter was claimed

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in turn, this one assured not
having any idea of what they were talking

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about, since he would light the
lighthouse every night. Apparently, however,

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the old boatman, the one who
had died from him, was not very

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happy that someone had put him in
his place and continued to do evil.

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Even if you believe me. There
are other ghost stories within the lighthouses that

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generally deal with the same thing.
But there is a very peculiar one that

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occurred in the American State of New
York. In this place between nine hundred

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and twenty thousand nine hundred and forty, that is, at the end of

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the First World War and at the
beginning of the Second World War, a

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lighthouse was installed on a kind of
wall, on a ledge near one of

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the ports of the city of New
York itself, where the great ships departed.

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In this place it had not been
necessary in many years, since the

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entrance was on the other hand.
However, because of the coming war and

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the one that had happened, it
was decided to protect the port by making

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a kind of barrier and well,
new lighthouse was placed. The fact is

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that this lighthouse had a very beautiful
American style house intended for the family of

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the keeper, so that whoever was
in charge of that installation did not have

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to live alone and had the possibility
of being accompanied by his own family and

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enjoying a little of that. The
fact is that he was assigned to a

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young man, accompanied by his wife
and a little boy of just three months.

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The couple found a real paradise in
that place. On the one hand,

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they received a moderately decent payment.
On the other hand, they had

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a house to stay without having to
pay rent. Like all services, the

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lighthouse was already a more modern lighthouse. It had electricity in addition to the

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oil pump of the headlights. So
if one thing failed, the other served.

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The work was not very constant and
basically consisted of spending the nights,

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checking the lighthouse and during the day
giving it a little painting here, a

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little cleaning and not counting, which
is why that couple of lovers of young

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turtles found their earthly paradise himself.
According to reports, some nights, both

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climbed to the top of the lighthouse, where the railing and corridor are located

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and with beach chairs. They sat
there and watched the ships pass in the

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distance and watch the sky. It
was a quiet place, a very nice

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place, away from the noise world, away from all the noise and,

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of course, with a paradise for
them. Paradise, however, was not

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entirely paradisiacal, because there were a
number of phenomena that could not be explained

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at that site. The first of
them was a sort of sight at the

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distance of a sinking ship, as
the man counted in the distance. The

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first time he saw it, he
was surprised to see a boat that had

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definitely missed the pass and had headed
straight towards the coast, towards an unpopulated

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part, about ten kilometers away.
He had been able to see clearly the

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lights of a large boat, of
a boat with at least three chimneys,

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probably a transatlantic or perhaps a high- rise freighter who had made a wrong

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turn and had headed at great speed
towards the coast amazed and in the middle

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of the gloom of seeing such an
accident he ran in search of his wife

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to warn him and hence to give
a warning to the authority that a misfortune

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had occurred. However, when the
authorities begin to search because there is no

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one, there is no accident and
the subject was harshly reprimanded. Days later

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it would be his turn to see
people walking a shipwrecked coast, walking near

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the lighthouse. The lighthouse was about
ten meters high, on a small cliff

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and below was a beach of sandstones
and rocks of very cold waters. It

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' s Atlantic water in the north. It' s not a place where

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someone would want to swim. In
addition, the waters in this area are

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quite, how to put it,
unexpected, that is, they can quickly

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change there currents or surge suddenly,
so the one staying on the beach runs

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the risk of being dragged. But
suddenly, in the middle of the night

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they observe with the very light of
the lighthouse that reflects people walking. It

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' s an absolute astonishment. What
those people would relate. He and she

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met the husband and wife upstairs at
the lighthouse, enjoying the scenery. When

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they observe with the light of the
lighthouse that turns how there are people walking

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on the beach below. The lower
part near the coast in the middle of

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the night was not a much-
visited place to say there was nowhere to

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go. The only one down was
the one in the eye. It was

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a place nearby. They remain there, but to their astonishment, walkers never

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arrive. They break down, dissolve
in the darkness itself and are completely lost

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for several weeks. The couple don' t know very well what they saw,

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but they' re not willing to
leave the lighthouse either. They just

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didn' t want to leave.
It was a place where they lived very

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happy. Despite these small anomalies.
Eventually, one day they go down to

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town on the occasion of a party. He is in a tavern chatting with

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other acquaintances and someone hears that he
is the protector of the famous tip.

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She comes in and starts talking to
him about stories and so on and tells

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him if he' s never seen
anything weird. The ranger amazes the question

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and finally answers that yes, that
there is something that has intrigued him a

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lot and that he has had to
see a couple of times and it is

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some lights in the distance that seem
to be a boat lost the course and

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then, when that happens, two
or three days later, they see people

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on the beach, but he is
not sure that they are people or that

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it is really a vision of something
can simply be steam, fog, anything.

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However, the man confesses to him
that he was there also in a

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kind of former lighthouse, in a
small landmark that was there. He had

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served and worked for the government and
had seen that strange vision, but he

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had not stayed with the desire,
but had at one time gone to the

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place to see what was really going
on and well, recounted or told him

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that ranger who, in fact,
in that part of the coast, In

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that rugged part of the coast,
about 1, 800 ninety would have been

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some sinking or, at least an
accident that motivated the boat to go down

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to the passengers, who, many
of them, without knowing the conditions in

410
00:36:57.760 --> 00:37:00.880
which they were found, were roads
along the coast and were dragged by the

411
00:37:00.880 --> 00:37:05.400
sea. At least be what they
were counting on. And this appeared in

412
00:37:05.440 --> 00:37:09.679
a very nice magazine there in one
thousand nine hundred and sixty, where one

413
00:37:09.719 --> 00:37:14.000
spoke of that particular case. The
boatman lasted up to a thousand nine hundred

414
00:37:14.000 --> 00:37:19.159
and forty. They were there for
about twenty years living in that house and

415
00:37:19.199 --> 00:37:24.400
repeatedly saw him again in this interview
that they gave years later, he said

416
00:37:24.519 --> 00:37:29.320
that well, they had already gotten
used to seeing the walkers who saw themselves

417
00:37:29.320 --> 00:37:36.119
as women, adult children walking along
the shore and they were disembodied and related

418
00:37:36.159 --> 00:37:39.280
that, in fact, their clothes
and they did not correspond to someone who

419
00:37:39.280 --> 00:37:44.960
went to the beach. They wore
heels and things of that style touched on

420
00:37:45.440 --> 00:37:50.400
their heads arrangements of their own.
From a long time ago to what gave

421
00:37:50.440 --> 00:37:57.159
the idea that they were the castaways
of that fateful journey. Of course,

422
00:37:57.360 --> 00:38:02.440
the lighthouse still remains today. The
cabin is still there and while it already

423
00:38:02.519 --> 00:38:07.519
has the entire computer system and has
a GPS system and a monitor that sends

424
00:38:07.599 --> 00:38:15.800
signals, there is still a ranger
who lives in the cabin. The interesting

425
00:38:15.840 --> 00:38:21.599
thing would be to ask him what
he has seen if he still sees that

426
00:38:21.599 --> 00:38:28.639
unusual phenomenon. And so, if
we continue to travel the shores of the

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00:38:29.079 --> 00:38:32.360
world, we continue to find very
strange things. There is another of these

428
00:38:32.400 --> 00:38:38.280
mysterious lighthouses found in a region known
as Punta Arenas, that is, in

429
00:38:38.800 --> 00:38:45.559
a remote area of South Africa.
It is located near Cape Town and the

430
00:38:45.599 --> 00:38:52.400
Cape of Good Hope. It is
a small reef located on the Atlantic coast

431
00:38:52.599 --> 00:38:57.440
of Africa. On this site,
due to commercial traffic issues before the formation

432
00:38:57.480 --> 00:39:01.480
of the Suez Canal, it was
forced passage of the ships towards the western

433
00:39:01.639 --> 00:39:07.039
coasts, towards the eastern coasts,
pardon of India, of China. All

434
00:39:07.079 --> 00:39:15.159
this was done the crossing in this
region from Europe on terribly complicated journeys and

435
00:39:15.199 --> 00:39:21.360
that often ended fatefully in this site
about one thousand nine hundred fourteen, more

436
00:39:21.440 --> 00:39:24.480
or less, With the beginning of
the First World War, a lighthouse was

437
00:39:24.519 --> 00:39:30.760
established that had two reasons. The
first light the ships and prevent them from

438
00:39:30.800 --> 00:39:34.880
collapsing or colliding against the reefs,
and the second maintain a discreet observation post

439
00:39:34.960 --> 00:39:42.159
for enemy ships in full motion.
The result was a small military garrison,

440
00:39:42.880 --> 00:39:46.880
a booth with a dozen soldiers and
a guard who was in charge of keeping

441
00:39:46.920 --> 00:39:53.239
the site running. The detail is
that the garrison of soldiers itself, along

442
00:39:53.320 --> 00:39:57.719
with the keeper, disappeared in a
thousand nine hundred and fifteen. It was

443
00:39:57.719 --> 00:40:01.199
speculated that they were killed by enemy
forces or that they might even have been

444
00:40:01.239 --> 00:40:05.920
attacked by some tribe in the area. This area is removed from African cities.

445
00:40:07.480 --> 00:40:13.960
It is in fact in a very
complicated territory where different rival tribes intersect

446
00:40:14.159 --> 00:40:16.920
each other. The site is not
accessible by land, that is, there

447
00:40:16.920 --> 00:40:21.119
are no roads and there is no
way to get there. Even a small

448
00:40:21.199 --> 00:40:25.880
airfield has been improvised, small airport
from where planes from those old fabric biplanes

449
00:40:27.280 --> 00:40:34.559
could arrive to bring with them,
groceries. Mainly food, ammunition and oil.

450
00:40:35.760 --> 00:40:37.519
Water in particular was not a problem, as there was a nearby stream.

451
00:40:38.760 --> 00:40:44.480
However, the total loss of the
team of people was recorded in that

452
00:40:44.559 --> 00:40:49.079
one thousand and fifteen. One day
when the plane arrives to resupply, it

453
00:40:49.199 --> 00:40:52.920
encounters that there is absolutely no one. When the English Government is notified of

454
00:40:52.960 --> 00:40:58.960
the situation. This one sends a
military game. Again a ship that anchors

455
00:40:59.039 --> 00:41:01.679
near there descends by means of boats
and find that, in fact, there

456
00:41:02.159 --> 00:41:07.119
was no one in the lighthouse,
but there was no evidence of violence,

457
00:41:07.239 --> 00:41:10.360
there were no signs of struggle,
there were no traces of blood. It

458
00:41:10.480 --> 00:41:15.119
' s more in the cupboards there
was food. There were all the things

459
00:41:15.159 --> 00:41:19.840
in place, the beds lying down. The only thing is, there was

460
00:41:19.840 --> 00:41:22.920
no one. As for the soldiers' weapons, some weapons were in the

461
00:41:22.960 --> 00:41:28.400
cabinets while others were missing, demonstrating
that several elements had been put on guard

462
00:41:28.480 --> 00:41:34.400
to guard the place and others were
free, but neither were ever found.

463
00:41:37.760 --> 00:41:42.960
The mystery would obviously remain there in
military history. It was speculated that it

464
00:41:43.000 --> 00:41:47.400
would have been a coup by the
Spanish military, a kind of operation to

465
00:41:47.400 --> 00:41:52.639
end this spying team, since these
people sent through the planes that regularly arrived

466
00:41:52.679 --> 00:42:00.320
in the area the messages pointing to
the time, the position in the tonnage

467
00:42:00.400 --> 00:42:04.559
of the ships that crossed that region
and was thus informing of the maritime movements

468
00:42:04.639 --> 00:42:12.159
of the enemy was reasonable. Finally, the lighthouse was turned off and for

469
00:42:12.199 --> 00:42:15.760
several years it remained so was no
longer important, especially with the advent of

470
00:42:15.880 --> 00:42:22.480
the other intercontinental steps. The lighthouse
was no longer entirely useful. However,

471
00:42:22.840 --> 00:42:29.840
for the 1960s it was again necessary
during the crisis between Egypt, Israel and

472
00:42:29.960 --> 00:42:34.280
several other countries in the Suez Canal
region. Commercial traffic in the area was

473
00:42:34.360 --> 00:42:38.719
not only boycotted, but attacked.
Ships were sunk in the region and the

474
00:42:38.760 --> 00:42:45.559
feeling of fear caused large freighters and
oil tankers to have to go around Africa

475
00:42:45.679 --> 00:42:50.719
and then climb the Indian Ocean coast
in the direction of their trade routes.

476
00:42:52.480 --> 00:42:58.679
Once again, it was necessary to
locate that reference point, so the South

477
00:42:58.679 --> 00:43:04.760
African Government assigned a military consignment to
guard the site and a team of lighthouse

478
00:43:05.280 --> 00:43:10.480
operators. An electrical generation system was
sent, several modern mechanisms, telecommunications,

479
00:43:12.599 --> 00:43:16.360
well, the communications of those years
through radio and everything possible with the idea

480
00:43:16.480 --> 00:43:23.880
of protecting the place and maintaining a
communication. The point is that it would

481
00:43:24.119 --> 00:43:30.840
be reported to an American television series
in the 1960s that those soldiers were literally

482
00:43:30.920 --> 00:43:36.519
horrified of what they were living,
because throughout the days that they remained on

483
00:43:36.519 --> 00:43:40.199
the coast, in that lighthouse,
they would have experienced a real madness of

484
00:43:40.599 --> 00:43:46.559
paranormal appearances. First of all,
they saw the British soldiers arrive. Those

485
00:43:46.599 --> 00:43:52.840
who had disappeared saw them arriving and
entering the house. He was a dozen

486
00:43:52.920 --> 00:43:58.400
noisy, noisy soldiers. They heard
the steps, the movement of objects,

487
00:43:58.920 --> 00:44:04.199
the beating of the military aces,
the movement of weapons in and out throughout

488
00:44:04.719 --> 00:44:07.760
the night, without them seeing anything
at all, but not just that.

489
00:44:08.960 --> 00:44:13.559
As far as the lighthouse is concerned, it was not uncommon to see the

490
00:44:13.559 --> 00:44:15.239
boatman go up. In this case, the lighthouse at being, being inland,

491
00:44:15.400 --> 00:44:20.000
that is, not exactly inside the
water, but the continental part.

492
00:44:22.039 --> 00:44:27.360
The lighthouse did not have interior installations, but an exterior staircase. They reported

493
00:44:28.039 --> 00:44:30.519
seeing people go up and down to
the lighthouse on several occasions the soldiers.

494
00:44:31.039 --> 00:44:36.320
This time, the South Africans fired
warning shots, thinking that they were intruders

495
00:44:36.360 --> 00:44:39.679
or that the site would have been
occupied for some time, which was reasonable.

496
00:44:40.639 --> 00:44:45.079
Although the inhabitants of the area were
people of very limited resources, they

497
00:44:45.079 --> 00:44:51.679
did not enter the lighthouse even when
in this place they could have found a

498
00:44:51.800 --> 00:44:55.960
house, at least some doors,
some things, did not enter the place

499
00:44:57.639 --> 00:45:02.079
for many years the site was feared
by the inhabitants, since it was said

500
00:45:02.159 --> 00:45:07.760
that there lived the dead and it
is that the people the final destination of

501
00:45:07.840 --> 00:45:10.719
those soldiers disappeared in nine hundred and
fifteen, would never really be clarified.

502
00:45:12.159 --> 00:45:15.800
It would never really be clear what
happened if the Germans killed them. It

503
00:45:15.840 --> 00:45:20.599
was never clear. The fact is
that by the time the Suez Canal incident

504
00:45:20.599 --> 00:45:25.440
occurred, the Holgar was full of
ghostly apparitions to the point where one day,

505
00:45:27.599 --> 00:45:30.079
the captain of the team, the
captain of the military brigade who had

506
00:45:30.119 --> 00:45:35.880
arrived at the site of the South
African army, reported to the command the

507
00:45:36.360 --> 00:45:43.039
urgent need for replacements, since his
men were in a state of nervousness,

508
00:45:43.559 --> 00:45:47.920
such that he feared for the safety
of the same ones as some of them

509
00:45:49.039 --> 00:45:55.199
began to have delusions in relation to
the dead. The phenomenon was quite aggressive.

510
00:45:55.280 --> 00:46:00.159
It should be noted that the people
who were there for more than one

511
00:46:00.159 --> 00:46:07.199
soras were beginning to present strange,
mood swings, personality changes and aggressive tendencies

512
00:46:07.280 --> 00:46:12.199
and very strange attitudes, so there
were even those who assured that there was

513
00:46:12.599 --> 00:46:15.639
a phenomenon of mass possession in this
site, but not a demonic position,

514
00:46:15.760 --> 00:46:21.320
but a kind of temporary possession of
part of those spirits that had remained on

515
00:46:21.320 --> 00:46:24.880
the site. The case is quite
delicate in what was related at the time,

516
00:46:25.280 --> 00:46:30.880
since the Guardafaros himself, who was
sent to operate the lighthouse along with

517
00:46:30.960 --> 00:46:35.679
the generators, began to suffer this
type of delusions and assured for moments to

518
00:46:35.800 --> 00:46:40.920
see the potters, those British,
enter and harass him throughout the night,

519
00:46:42.239 --> 00:46:46.880
wake him up and sometimes even lose
the body sensation, as if his body

520
00:46:46.920 --> 00:46:52.960
was not his, as if at
a certain moment he began to be controlled

521
00:46:52.039 --> 00:46:58.880
by a strange force. Finally,
the matter of the Suez Canal was resolved

522
00:47:00.119 --> 00:47:04.519
and the lighthouse was also resolved.
It ended up being an automatic lighthouse,

523
00:47:04.760 --> 00:47:07.880
so you didn' t have to
live on the site. Eventually there was

524
00:47:07.920 --> 00:47:12.840
a maintenance service and so far the
lighthouse continued to operate, but without anyone

525
00:47:12.920 --> 00:47:17.760
controlling it. Suffice it to point
out that perhaps one of the last ghostly

526
00:47:17.800 --> 00:47:22.119
accounts of this famous lighthouse in South
Africa, in Punta Arenas, would have

527
00:47:22.199 --> 00:47:28.960
occurred about one thousand nine hundred and
eighty- six, when, due to

528
00:47:28.960 --> 00:47:31.039
a very intense summer storm. The
way out would have been blocked, the

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00:47:31.039 --> 00:47:37.159
maintenance team that had attended the lighthouse
would have to spend the night inside the

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00:47:37.199 --> 00:47:44.480
lighthouse and would have to report having
seen these strange figures enter and leave,

531
00:47:45.039 --> 00:47:50.679
the movement of objects, the noise
of all the military equipment and elements and

532
00:47:51.400 --> 00:47:54.840
finally, having started to feel very
strange, so that the next day just

533
00:47:54.920 --> 00:48:00.079
after the sun came out, they
left the place immediately a haunted place.

534
00:48:06.239 --> 00:48:10.519
The matter of the lighthouses is very
curious. In one part, it could

535
00:48:10.559 --> 00:48:16.960
be explained how their management individuals in
lonely places, in quiet places where there

536
00:48:17.000 --> 00:48:22.039
is plenty of time. But,
on the other hand, if we analyze

537
00:48:22.119 --> 00:48:24.960
the stories behind there are very macabre
stories. The Punta Arenas case is little

538
00:48:25.199 --> 00:48:30.679
known. In fact, in South
Africa and in general, in the territories

539
00:48:30.280 --> 00:48:37.079
there is not much openness about these
stories, but finally, it represents that

540
00:48:37.159 --> 00:48:40.800
something macabre happened and left a temporary
mark. As in many other places,

541
00:48:42.119 --> 00:48:49.159
these stories are backed by events,
all of them very unusual. Anyway,

542
00:48:49.400 --> 00:48:54.480
it would be worth asking in some
case. Mexico also has a lot of

543
00:48:54.519 --> 00:49:00.000
lighthouses of all kinds and even some
of them have had stories very UAs goats.

544
00:49:00.519 --> 00:49:04.320
You remember the Island of Love.
A couple of years ago we presented

545
00:49:04.320 --> 00:49:07.679
a story that had to do with
a famous island found in the Pacific Ocean.

546
00:49:07.719 --> 00:49:14.800
The last Mexican territorial point. This
island was a very strange place where

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00:49:14.840 --> 00:49:19.639
a series of events occurred at the
beginning of the 20th century, during the

548
00:49:19.639 --> 00:49:23.400
Revolution, where the military garrison of
the famous Island of Love was abandoned to

549
00:49:23.440 --> 00:49:29.880
its fate and ended with the death
of virtually all men and the site turned

550
00:49:29.920 --> 00:49:35.480
into a colony and a very tense
situation. All this was lived because the

551
00:49:35.519 --> 00:49:39.440
troops that were found in Iran,
Porfirian troops, were abandoned when Porfirio Díaz

552
00:49:39.519 --> 00:49:45.519
' s regime fell, sadly leaving
those people to their fate. Lost in

553
00:49:45.519 --> 00:49:51.960
the Ocean and in the middle of
a small island totally isolated by itself,

554
00:49:52.880 --> 00:49:55.039
some stories began to occur there that
would be well worth taking up. That

555
00:49:55.119 --> 00:50:00.480
story some other time, but there
was finally a story behind it. We

556
00:50:00.480 --> 00:50:07.480
should ask what has happened in that
place, because finally there are many places

557
00:50:07.559 --> 00:50:12.559
where sad or tragic events leave their
mark and it seems that the lighthouses are

558
00:50:13.119 --> 00:50:17.079
a favorite place of these apparitions.
Sorry it' s not the island of

559
00:50:17.159 --> 00:50:21.519
love, it' s the island
of passion. Excuse me, I was

560
00:50:21.599 --> 00:50:24.800
wrong about the term, but it
would be worth returning to that story,

561
00:50:25.000 --> 00:50:29.039
because it was one of those very
shocking stories. Thank you very much for

562
00:50:29.800 --> 00:50:32.679
this correction and well, a thousand
apologies for misgiving the data of the passion.

563
00:50:34.840 --> 00:50:37.679
We did a series of programs about
it. What a mistake on my

564
00:50:37.679 --> 00:50:44.480
part. But usually in these places
there are macabre stories. But maybe one

565
00:50:44.519 --> 00:50:50.440
of the last places you could imagine
it would be in Miami. Miami has

566
00:50:50.440 --> 00:50:54.079
a series of islets known as callos, which are a series of truly scary

567
00:50:54.199 --> 00:51:00.519
small islets, as on stormy nights
they are not seen in some of these.

568
00:51:01.480 --> 00:51:07.519
There are small lighthouses that are currently
automatic but were once guarded. They

569
00:51:07.920 --> 00:51:14.039
had wardens. This site was truly
disquieting, as some of these lighthouses were

570
00:51:14.079 --> 00:51:19.800
in pieces of land of just about
three hundred or four hundred square meters,

571
00:51:20.239 --> 00:51:25.159
that is, the size of a
current land. That place was where the

572
00:51:25.199 --> 00:51:34.039
warden ate and worked frequently. These
places were visited by boats departing from the

573
00:51:34.079 --> 00:51:38.679
coast carrying supplies. Seeing that they
were all well, that there were no

574
00:51:38.760 --> 00:51:44.880
problems and eventually also changing the rangers
to prevent them from losing their judgment,

575
00:51:45.039 --> 00:51:50.159
as staying on an islet for more
than a couple of weeks was considered very

576
00:51:50.159 --> 00:51:55.119
risky. Interestingly, in the 1940s
something was also happening there. In one

577
00:51:55.159 --> 00:51:59.480
of these Florida calluses, in one
of the lighthouses marked with the zeros nús

578
00:51:59.519 --> 00:52:05.880
forty- seven, it happened that
the warden completely lost his judgment and began

579
00:52:05.920 --> 00:52:13.000
to speak not of ghosts, but
of omnis. Interestingly, it was not

580
00:52:13.079 --> 00:52:16.039
yet the time of the boom of
euphology and, however, this subject claimed

581
00:52:16.760 --> 00:52:23.119
to have seen luminous flying objects come
out of the waters on repeated occasions that

582
00:52:23.119 --> 00:52:29.840
made a kind of dance, rhythmic
and cadentious movement around the lighthouse. He

583
00:52:29.880 --> 00:52:34.880
was dismissed because he was considered sick
of his faculties or had lost his mind.

584
00:52:35.440 --> 00:52:39.440
When the new warden arrives within a
few days, he reported exactly the

585
00:52:39.440 --> 00:52:45.679
same. Finally, and a few
months later, strangely and as is often

586
00:52:45.719 --> 00:52:49.599
the case with the American navy,
the lighthouse was shut down. It was

587
00:52:49.599 --> 00:52:54.199
stopped because the rangers reported continuing to
see the lights coming out of the water

588
00:52:54.280 --> 00:53:00.679
and making a complex dance, a
kind of rhythmic movement around the lighthouse,

589
00:53:00.039 --> 00:53:06.320
fearing that at some point there would
be some other problem. The lighthouse was

590
00:53:06.360 --> 00:53:13.079
turned off and continues to date to
be turned off. He did not take

591
00:53:13.440 --> 00:53:15.159
up again and although today, with
global positioning systems, the famous GPS,

592
00:53:15.280 --> 00:53:22.599
navigation charts, ultrasound systems. All
this is very difficult for a boat to

593
00:53:22.840 --> 00:53:28.320
impact the reefs, but at the
time the lighthouse had to be abandoned due

594
00:53:28.840 --> 00:53:34.880
to the insistent presence of flying saucers. In that case, although it was

595
00:53:34.880 --> 00:53:38.639
not a paranormal phenomenon, it was
quite a disquieting phenomenon. Other places,

596
00:53:39.079 --> 00:53:45.079
well, there' s an endless
collection of them. The stories focus particularly

597
00:53:45.159 --> 00:53:51.760
on the north coasts, both the
Newfoundland peninsula and the English region. There

598
00:53:52.039 --> 00:53:55.840
are many stories in this regard,
particularly places where there were murders and crimes

599
00:53:57.320 --> 00:54:01.960
where the arrival of people or or
strange phenomena is reported. The most particular

600
00:54:02.039 --> 00:54:05.880
case that has caught my attention was
that of South Africa, of Punta Arenas,

601
00:54:06.119 --> 00:54:08.679
because of the problem that people began
to suffer from a phenomenon of possession.

602
00:54:09.360 --> 00:54:16.800
Literally they changed the personality, acted
strange, everything as if they had

603
00:54:17.480 --> 00:54:22.400
been literally possessed by the spirits of
those soldiers who were presumed to have been

604
00:54:22.400 --> 00:54:25.480
killed by enemy forces. The remains
were never found, but this was not

605
00:54:25.519 --> 00:54:31.159
so difficult, as the coast was
an ideal reservoir of corpses. In addition,

606
00:54:31.320 --> 00:54:36.280
it is a coast full of sharks, so they may well have been

607
00:54:36.360 --> 00:54:40.039
thrown into the water and, as
a result, devoured by sharks, they

608
00:54:40.079 --> 00:54:45.679
could also have been killed by natives, taken inland and eaten by beasts.

609
00:54:45.280 --> 00:54:52.719
The region also had dangerous wildlife in
that area, so any story could have

610
00:54:52.719 --> 00:54:57.960
been fulfilled in that place as it
was, the stories of guardian and ghosts

611
00:54:58.679 --> 00:55:02.920
are there. Maybe at some point
you know something and you dare to talk

612
00:55:02.920 --> 00:55:07.480
to us, so what did you
think? I already tell you that part,

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practically anywhere, there' s a
good ghost story. Many of them

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are hard to find. It is
not something that is achieved regularly, but

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they are very interesting and give us
the idea that there is a world parallel

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to ours, a world in which, apparently and as Arthur se Clark would

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say, thirty ghosts for each person. Yeah, the number of dead people

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that would be surrounding us. If
this were true and if it could be

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proven, it would be literally overwhelming. Why a particular place serves as a

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bridge or as a point where it
manifests itself is something that has not been

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answered. Why not everywhere, why
not all of us see them. Well,

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that already differs in each case,
but in certain places it seems that,

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no matter who arrives, everyone sees
or feels or somehow perceives the paranormal

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phenomenon. You are at home right
now, you are alone, because,

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well, loneliness is a very opportune
time to perceive these phenomena. At least,

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in the vast majority of the events
that I have known or have told

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me at some point, people are
alone, so enjoy your clear night if

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