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Today we cover a legend, one that whispers of a truly dark
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and strange place. The story surrounds a group of
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friends who venture into an abandoned and supposedly haunted
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town hidden within the misty mountains of Spain, and it's
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here that they collectively experience something that would
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make even the bravest of us shudder and would chill every
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single one of them to their core.
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Will they make it out alive or will the mist claim them?
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the unexplained paranormal tales of this world and possibly the
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next. Now let's get to today's story.
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It was the afternoon of October 16th, 1991.
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A 36 year old man by the name of Enrique Martinez knelt by a Moss
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covered log. He had been admiring a lovely
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looking mushroom forging for fungi.
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He placed it gently into his Wicker basket, adding it to the
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others that he had gathered. As he stood, he took in the view
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of the verdant valley below, untouched and silent, beautiful
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yet eerie at the same time. Enrique was mushroom hunting
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with his wife, Anna, and two of their friends, a couple by the
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name of Jorge and Sophia. They were exploring near an
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ancient abandoned town known as La Messura, perched high in the
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northwestern mountains of Spain. It was Jorge who had suggested
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coming here, lured by legends of hauntings and sinister folklore.
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Enrique, however, cared little for ghost stories.
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If anything, he was here for the mushrooms and the peace and
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quiet. Enrique worked as a bartender in
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the bustling port city of Tarragonia, where every night he
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was surrounded by crowds. Loud noises and voices coupled
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with the clanking of bottles and glasses was his norm.
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The peace and solitude of the mountains were a bomb for his
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chaotic life. A chance to immerse himself in
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the quiet pursuit of mushroom hunting, a hobby he truly
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enjoyed. His mind focused on finding a
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prized local mushroom known as the Bloody Milk.
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Cap didn't dwell on La Masura's dark history, albeit it may seem
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ironic given the name. But as they reach the town's
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outskirts, he felt a shift in energy.
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A prickling on ease crept over him, and he became unnerved, to
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say the least. La Misura was over 900 years
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old, its crumbling remnants littering the mountainside with
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many runes older than its memory itself.
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The town had once been home to around 300 residents, yet now
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had been deserted for decades, the last souls fleeing some 40
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years prior. As they approached the town, the
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friends paused by a rune on the town's edge and suddenly out of
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nowhere the air thickened around them and an ever growing mist
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gathered at their feet. This mist or fog and slowly
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creeped up the abandoned dirt Rd. that led through La
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Massiro's heart. At the road's end was a massive,
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dilapidated church, its presence casting a shadow over the
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overgrown cemetery behind it, as well as the murky pond brimming
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with frogs. The eerie silence was only
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occasionally broken by the distant croaks echoing through
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the mist. Jorge led the way, a mischievous
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smile on his face as he grasped Sophia's hand, pulling her
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toward the church. Enrique and Anna followed, but
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something made Enrique glance back.
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The mist had swallowed the rune behind them entirely, as if they
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had crossed an unseen threshold. With this, an inexplicable chill
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ran through him, and the air suddenly became heavy and thick.
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The mist, Jorge had said, was La Messura's infamous shroud, a fog
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that enveloped the town night after night, but here it was
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smothering them in the daylight, which bothered him.
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Yet despite this, he brushed it off and followed his friends,
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though a gnawing sense of impending doom clung to him.
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They stopped beside a peculiar rectangular stone jutting from
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the ground. Jorge placed a hand on its
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surface, his voice low and eager.
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This is the 6th stone, he said. It's one of the oldest relics
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here. They say it has dark powers.
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His voice took on a hushed, reverent tone.
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La Misura, he explained, was once a weigh station for ancient
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armies. They believed that the Six Stone
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held a magic of sorts that was capable of winning battles, but
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only for a price. Legend claimed that those who
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touched it risked being pulled into a twisted, parallel world,
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a darkened hellscape that was teeming with demonic entities.
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As Jorge relayed this, he kept his hand on the stone, grinning
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as he dared someone else to touch it.
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Sofia, uneasy, shook her head, but Anna, laughing, stepped
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forward and placed her hand on the stone.
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They held their breath, expecting something dreadful to
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happen, but nothing did. Just then, the frogs by the
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church erupted in a concophony, their croaks deafening.
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Enrique turned toward the sound, peering through the fog at the
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shadowy outline of the church. For a moment, he caught a
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glimpse of a dark figure standing in one of the windows,
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motionless and watching. The image burned into his mind,
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but yet in a blink it vanished. Was this figure real, or just a
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trick of the fog, perhaps, His imagination running wild, Before
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he could speak, Anna called to him, laughing.
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Come on, Enrique, your turn. Her voice jolted him from his
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thoughts. Pacing himself yet feeling some
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kind of pull towards the object, he reached for the 6th stone.
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The second his fingers touched it, a wave of unnatural cold
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washed over him, yet the stone burned beneath his skin.
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Time seemed to slow, as if something sinister seeped into
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his mind, something that urged him to keep touching it, to
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never let it go. In the depths of his mind, a
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small voice clinging to reason whispered frantically for him to
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let go. With great effort, he released
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the stone, his skin tingling as he backed away.
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His friends were grinning, but Sophia was pale.
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Let's leave the stone alone, she said with her voice trembling.
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We are tempting things that we don't understand.
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Jorge chuckled, trying to brush off her concern, and then LED
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them further into La Misera. As the group ventured deeper,
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the fog grew denser, smothering the world around them as though
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drawing them into its depths. Enrique couldn't shake the
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lingering dread, the feeling of someone or something watching
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them. He slowly trailed behind,
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casting weary glances at the church as they passed by the
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pond. The frog's croaking reached an
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almost unbearable volume, pulsing like a heartbeat.
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With this, Enrique's gaze drifted involuntarily toward the
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window where he had originally seen the dark figure.
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It was empty now, but he noticed something peculiar.
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He felt a pole, something coaxing him closer, daring him
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to peer inside. Despite his soul screaming, he
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obeyed, stepping toward the church, unable to resist the
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compulsion. With each step, his breath grew
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more shallow as he leaned closer and closer to the broken window,
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peering into the darkness within.
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Inside, shadows pooled in every corner, shrouding the remnants
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of pews, the pulpit, the frogs. Croaks continued to swell,
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reaching an overwhelming crescendo as his gaze locked
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onto the inky black void just beyond the altar.
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It felt as if the darkness itself was alive, twitching and
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writhing, beckoning him closer. Suddenly, a hand gripped his
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shoulder, jerking him back to reality.
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Anna was beside him, her face puzzled.
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Come on, she said, leading him toward the cemetery.
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They joined Jorge and Sophia amongst the graves, each stone
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worn and nameless. Trying to shake off the
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lingering terror, Enrique turned his focus to the headstones.
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Anna backed into an old cross, toppling it to the ground with a
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sickening crack. With the fog ever thickening
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around them, Enrique swore he heard whispers in the mist.
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They seemed faint and pleading. He glanced back at the church,
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still feeling that dark presence there, lurking, watching and
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waiting. Something in La Masira did not
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want them to leave. Jorge and Sophia turned toward
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Anna as they heard the snap of the stone breaking in two.
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Realizing what had happened, Jorge burst out laughing,
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teasing her by saying, Oh boy, now you've upset the evil
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spirits here, you better put that back together.
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Anna tried to laugh along, but panic crept in as she attempted
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to reassemble the gravestone she had accidentally broken, but the
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stone was beyond repair. Jorge continued to chuckle,
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while Sophia, standing close beside him, grew uneasy.
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Jorge, is this place truly haunted?
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She asked. Like, actually haunted?
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Her voice hushed with worry. Jorge paused, his laughter
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fading. Yeah, I think it really is.
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And with that, he launched into the legend that haunted La
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Messura in October of 1873, during a fierce civil war in the
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region of Spain, rival armies used the nearby mountainside
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caves as makeshift field hospitals.
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One night, a reverend general named Serkos, mortally wounded
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in battle, was brought into one of these caves.
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There, surrounded by his closest men, he passed away.
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His death was kept secret, revealing the loss of their
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beloved leader would crush the morale of his troops and give
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the enemy an easy victory. At dawn, Cerso's six loyal men
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carried him silently up to the cemetery in La Misura and buried
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him in a shallow grave. Knowing a villager was to be
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interred in that spot soon, they laid him under a thin layer of
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dirt to be hidden by another coffin and marked only by a
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simple unnamed headstone with a single horizontal line.
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Weeks later, 5 enemy soldiers scaled the mountain, unaware of
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Sirso's death. Convinced he was hiding in La
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Misura, they forced their way into homes, demanding the
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villagers reveal his location. The poor townspeople were
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terrified. Finally, a weary elderly man
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stepped forward and revealed Cirsos was buried behind the
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church. Suspicious, the soldiers forced
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the townspeople to dig up every grave in the cemetery to prove
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his death. Amid the chaos, the eerie sound
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of croaking frogs from a nearby pond grew louder and louder.
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Frustrated by the deafening noise, the soldiers leader
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strode to the pond, firing shots into the water to silence the
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frogs. But they're croaking only
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intensified. The soldiers finally realized
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that the only grave left undisturbed was marked by the
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simple line. The villagers warned them that
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this grave belonged to a feared witch, but the soldiers didn't
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care. They forced the villagers to dig
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it up, and when they opened the coffin, the townspeople gasped
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in horror. The witch looked as if she had
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just died, her skin unnervingly smooth and her eyes wide open,
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gazing out at them as if in warning.
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Enraged at not finding Sirsos, the soldiers dragged the witch's
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body from her coffin, hung her from a tree, and riddled her
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with bullets until the town fell silent once more.
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But as soon as they stopped shooting, they noticed that the
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frogs, which had filled the air with sound.
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We're now silent too. The soldiers, unsettled by the
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sudden stillness, fled La Misura, leaving the villagers to
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rebury the dead. When a townsperson climbed into
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the desecrated grave, they discovered another coffin below
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the secret resting place of General Sirsos.
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The curse of the Witch was said to linger over the town ever
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since, with death, disease, and failed harvest plaguing the town
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until its last residence finally abandoned it in the 1950s.
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As Jorge finished, Anna's gaze dropped to the shattered
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gravestone in her hands. A terrible realization had
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dawned on her. The headstone she had
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accidentally knocked over bore a simple horizontal line.
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She had inadvertently desecrated the witch's grave.
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Terrified, she then spotted the perfect bloody milk cap mushroom
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at the base of a nearby wall, the very type her husband
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Enrique had been hunting for the entire time the group had been
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out there. Trying not to focus on what had
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just occurred, she plucked it and turned to show him, only to
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find that he was gone. Puzzled, she called out to him
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but received no reply. Growing anxious, she turned to
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Jorge and Sophia, who, when asked, shrugged, saying that
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they hadn't seen him. Panicked, Anna sprinted out of
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the cemetery with Sophia and Jorge trailing behind her.
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In the dense fog, shadows shifted and eerie silhouettes
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loomed, but when they got close, they only found empty air.
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Sophia clung tighter to Jorge, fear building as the fog grew
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thicker and the croaking of frogs once again swelled around
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them. Following Anna's cries, Jorge
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and Sophia finally found her crouched in the churchyard,
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clutching Enrique's Wicker basket with tears streaking down
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her face as she whispered. He's gone.
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The trio spent the next hour frantically searching La Misera,
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the fog becoming blinding as darkness fell.
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When they finally conceded defeat, they would make their
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way back to civilization and report the disappearance.
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Following this, a week long search ensued, but despite the
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authority's best efforts, not a trace of Enrique was ever found.
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Months later, in January of 1992, Anna, still grieving her
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husband's disappearance, would return to Lao Misura along with
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Sophia and Jorge, determined to search once more.
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As the group passed by the old church window, they would be
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shocked by what they would see. There within the church, they
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saw six dark, hooded figures standing in a circle inside,
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motionless and silent. Anna's fear and sorrow seem to
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turn to anger, mistaking the figures for ghost hunters.
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Disrespecting the tragedy of her husband's disappearance, she
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approached the window, ready to scream at them.
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But as she approached, one of the robed figures slowly turned
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to face her. And when this occurred, it
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disturbed the poor woman, the very depths of her mourning
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soul. Anna stumbled backward.
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The figure who would turn towards her revealed that it had
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no face, instead only a swirling, inky black void
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staring into her eyes. Before the group could react,
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the silence would be shattered at the sound of galloping hooves
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erupting from behind them. This was then followed by a
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cacophony of frog croaks that grew impossibly loud.
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Spinning around, they saw only morphing fog.
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Paralyzed with fear, they would turn back towards the church,
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only to realize that the sinister robed figures had
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vanished. The three friends could no
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longer stand being anywhere near this horrible place any longer.
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In terror, they fled, never to return.
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To this day, no one knows what became of Enrique or why.
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Others too have vanished in La Misura, a ghost town that is
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seemingly cursed by a tumultuous past.
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But are these terrifying legends true?
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I originally came across an article about La Misura and
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found the main story which I have now researched and retold.
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This article, originally in Spanish, touched upon some very
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interesting details of the case and added a few hypotheticals
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which I'll discuss with you now. One of the beliefs as to what
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happened to this man was that he chose this moment as an
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opportunity to voluntarily disappear for one reason or
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another. I however don't personally agree
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with this theory. Disappearing of your own
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volition without a trace is very difficult to do even back in the
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early 1990s, let alone today. But it is still possible if
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someone knew what they were doing.
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But to do so you'd need a good amount of money and some kind of
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infrastructure or plan to do it. With this being said, other
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theories are that he possibly got confused and went off the
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trail and died by accident, perhaps by falling.
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Although this seems like a much more plausible potential cause
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for the man's disappearance, it too to me is pretty unlikely to
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be what happened. I say this because there was a
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week long exhaustive search that was carried out both with
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volunteers and the authorities. If Enrique had fallen in past,
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surely his body would have been discovered during this time
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while the search was taking place.
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When the authorities began to go through all possibilities, his
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wife and friends were questioned as to what happened to him but
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would be ruled out as not having anything to do with his
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disappearance. Some other interesting details
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would be that if he had disappeared in any capacity on
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his own, he had left his vehicle, which also contained
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his medications and his identifying documents.
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Strangely, apparently, Enrique has not been the only one to
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disappear here. Many others have said to have
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vanished without a trace. Yet despite this, oddly, the
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missing tend to be referred to in the plural, but oftentimes no
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specific names are mentioned. What I do know is that in 1995,
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a German engineer decided to visit La Misura and ultimately
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went missing for three hours. He returned upset and
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disoriented, completely unable to explain where he had been and
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just what had happened to him. Various mayors and community
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leaders in nearby towns have said that these stories are
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nothing but fairy tales, but this seems to have been said in
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hopes of quelling fears in order to not disrupt the crucial
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tourism to the area. The issue of missing persons has
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no political ideology, yet these things are usually only briefly
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covered by the mainstream media outlets and local news.
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Occasionally a case may be picked up by a content creator
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on YouTube for wider exposure, but these are few and far
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between. At the end of the day, only
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friends and families of the missing person are truly
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affected. It seems like society as a whole
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may pause for a brief second, but seem to go back to business
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as usual after that second has passed.
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To keep things relevant to this story, in November of 2019 /
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12,000 people were missing in Spain alone.
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Some have turned up over time, but the number who haven't is
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still very high, posing a very real enigma and one that affects
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many lives alongside these fear inducing statistics.
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Just what has happened to these people?
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What happened to Enrique? And is there truly something
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otherworldly, possibly a portal to another dimension, located
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the abandoned ghost town known as La Masura?
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These, as with many stories I've covered, are questions that I or
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anyone else may never have the answers to.
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But despite the horror, sorrow, and terror, it does go to show
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that there are many things in this world that are truly
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unexplained, and these things may just remain as such.
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