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El Espirítu Del Desierto Historias De Terror - Voces De La Noche · Niebla en el bosque con Evelith von

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Just a few weeks ago I was able to find some photos that remind me
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of my husband. During the twelve years we had spent together, we had
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taken few photos, but the pictures that had only been taken of him were
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rarer. I didn' t keep any pictures of him. We weren'
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t those husbands who take pictures at every event all the time. Besides,
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I always thought it best to ask the pictures of those who had taken some
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images with their cell phones to remember the birthday or the meeting we had after
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his death. I didn' t find any photographs I could use to put
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at the funeral. They were all cut or moved. They were no good
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at showing him what he looked like So the funeral remained without my husband'
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s face. Just a badge with his name on it. I sent him
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to the urn where he was delivered to me. We lived in Ohio.
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There we worked, we lived well when we saw our children grow up in
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a place with more opportunities. Almost ten months ago, he died from an
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accident. When he returned from work at night, he walked to where the
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meeting point was with the neighbor, a few meters from the restaurant, where
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he was a waiter, because they always returned together, since the gentleman who
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lived in the house next door worked in a small office near the restaurant.
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In those few minutes of walking to meet the neighbor, a van drove past
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him at full speed. Apparently, the driver was drunk, but he was
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fast enough to get out of the place as soon as he could. Although
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he was captured by cameras and even rumored to live in the area, they
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did nothing to catch him. I couldn' t do much, being illegal
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a problem when someone in your family dies and with all the tiredness that the
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time went by to do the paperwork for the death, I ended up letting
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things happen the way they had to. I sat on my kids in the
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hard blow for the loss of their dad. The months passed and I decided
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to leave. It was too painful to have to see me alone in a
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place where I had no family. In addition, there were few friends I
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had, after some arrangements for my situation. I arranged with an acquaintance the
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way to get out of the country with my children and decided to go back
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to my parents' house and then start over. I came wrapped in mental
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fatigue and a horrible sadness weighed on my whole body. It was as if
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tiredness never left me. Upon returning, everyone welcomed me in the best way.
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Again I felt a home course. Plans to remake my life were quick.
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I didn' t have much money with me, but with what I
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could get before I left it was enough to put up a food stand to
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keep me together with my two children and my parents. As the days passed
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I felt less. Mauro' s absence was so busy in everything he did
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that he didn' t have time for it. He hadn' t even
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decided where he was going to put his ashes. He had brought his urn
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to Mexico. He was originally from Guerrero, but didn' t know where
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to start looking for his family, because he never told me much about her.
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I also didn' t imagine going to deposit him somewhere where he could
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stay away from us. So I started thinking about it. Just about two
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months ago, when the strong heat started in the country. For all my
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earrings, I couldn' t find what to do with my husband. I
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was also setting aside the search for some photograph, but my mom tried to
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remind me daily that it was urgent to accommodate my husband, because the dead
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needed to meet in a safe place to rest. After a few days of
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great insistence on the part of my mother, I decided to ask her directly
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if she had any problem with the ash urn being in the house. She
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told me no, that even though I hadn' t met Mauro, she
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esteemed him for being a good husband and a responsible father. After urging him
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to tell me the reason for so much insistence, he told me that at
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night the dog of death had begun to appear. I told my mom that
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I was crazy, that it was just stories they used to scare us when
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we were kids. But she, very seriously, said she wouldn' t
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let me go because she lived so far away, because there I could have
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forgotten that the world is made of more things than she seems. I swore
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to him that I was going to think soon about where to put Mauro to
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rest and I finished the conversation. That night I slept so deeply that among
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dreams I began to see the desert. Sometimes I dreamt of that place I
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had been where I met Mauro and where we had passed the most heartbreaking experience
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of our lives. We were both in an undocumented caravan to cross sound to
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the border. That was 11 years ago. It wasn' t love.
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At first sight. We were all scared and nervous. We knew that many
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had died in the desert, so we were in danger of being, like
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many others, on the road. When we got together, no one said
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his name. We just got directions from the chickens, they gave us just
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one bottle of water, something to eat, and it depended on how much
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you paid. The things they gave you to cross were better. It was
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more than warm the crossing every second. I thought I could die of tiredness.
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There came a point where I felt it was impossible to take another step,
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but I drew strength from all over to be able to continue there,
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as I was expected by a boyfriend I had and told me that we could
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make life together. I foolishly continued to leave my family and sanity behind.
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One night we were walking, I started to see in the distance lights and
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I tried to hide, but there was nowhere, so I ran away so
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they wouldn' t see the lights. In doing this, everyone ran in
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panic, we spread out in all directions, and we just stayed together.
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Mauro, Mrs Alicia, with her little girl in her arms and me,
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Mauro, seemed to have made the decision to take care of us as women,
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started talking to us to organize the escape plan. He told us that
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he knew how to orient himself well with the stars, so if we followed
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him, we could find the way to the water point. He asked us
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to grab him from the backpack or belt to feel like we were going next
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to him. It was a small moon night. Almost nothing was seen and
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we heard the screams of some of our comrades because they had intercepted them.
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We walked down. Alicia' s baby cried for the movement and Mauro asked
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her to shut him up as soon as possible. She would run it and
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cover it with her jacket so that the noise wouldn' t be heard so
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much in any way. It seemed that the men who were taking the caravan
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did not realize the crying of the baby Mauro told us that those men were
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not from the migrant. I heard they screamed in Spanish and immediately knew they
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were other people. They were looking for their victims to take against their side.
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We walked down for a long time, until we no longer saw the
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lights of the lanterns. The cold was raging and it was becoming more and
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more difficult to run away tired of walking almost all day. We needed to
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rest a little longer until morning and find a place to hide from the sun.
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The hope was to reach the meeting point where they were going to give
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us water. But with what had happened with the group, I didn'
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t know if we could trust that anymore. We stopped between stones with thorny
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plants that I have never seen in my life again. Alice then began to
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stir the earth with the baby' s blanket. We realized that he was
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looking for snake animals or alacrans to get them out soon and not to be
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caught by surprise. Resting, I thought it best to sleep behind your back
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and not put your head on the floor. We' d rest first Alicia
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and then I' d wake Mauro. The three of us covered ourselves with
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the jackets we were wearing and even these we used to cover ourselves up and
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make a little more heat. The night was deep the feeling of dry cold
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was freezing my bones, but with tiredness I began to fall asleep. In
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a second I woke up scared. I didn' t know how. I
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had slept all the time. I looked at the sides and both Alicia and
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Mauro slept, and I even divised the baby a little bit with my eyes
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closed. I looked into the sky and the moon was going down in a
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while. It was going to start at dawn, but still the darkness felt
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deeper. I was gonna start waking them up. When I saw lights in
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the distance, I thought it would be best to remain silent. Maybe the
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stones were going to hide us well. The lights had strange patterns. They
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didn' t look like flashlight light. They moved like floating without lighting anything
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or in some direction. Little by little, the lights were approaching like fireflies.
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They seemed to leave a small flash in the sky or the sand of
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the desert and it acquired a golden tone that I have never seen after that
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day, the soft wind stopped blowing. You didn' t even see animals.
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Everything seemed to be quiet, even though at night it is when animal
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eyes go out to look for food and water. In the distance I could
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hear a murmur. It was kind of a panting. I was scared to
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think I could be a wolf or something, but I remembered where I was
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and started worrying. I didn' t know what kind of desert animal could
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make that sound, whether it was dangerous or not, but I was worried
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about scaring the baby and that it would let go of the safe cry with
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the little one' s cry, they could discover us from afar. The
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lights kept moving like snow that floated scared. I looked at the darkness swirling
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around them. It wasn' t that they lit up the spaces a little
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bit, but the darkness seemed to manipulate the lights as if black arms came
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out of the dark letting those little lights fly by playing with them. I
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thought it was impossible what I saw. I slowly moved with my shoulders to
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see if that way I could start waking them up, but I couldn'
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t accomplish anything. The lights came to us. They floated less than two
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meters from where we were. He looked at them in terror because the darkness
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between them became deeper and deeper. So I figured we were about to die
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for something I didn' t understand. I spoke down trying to wake them
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up. Mauro was the only one who started moving and asked me what was
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going on. I told him to keep his voice down and watch around.
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I felt like it contained a jump. He squeezed more behind our backs.
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Then he asked me very slowly what that was. I didn' t answer
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the darkness. It moved as if a sea animal were treated, bent,
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contorted and let the lights float like fireflies after a while. We realized that
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the lights were advancing as if they were traveling. They walked through us without
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getting close. They had come from the direction he looked at, which was
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west and had gone east. After feeling that they had moved a little further
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away from us we heard an animal sound again with terror. I said whispering
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that it had been heard for a while, but Mauro told me not to
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worry that if I was a coyote from the desert, we could run it
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between the three of us. I was wondering if it would be just one.
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When we saw a shadow creeping around us, it wasn' t a
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snake, it wasn' t an animal, and even with the little light
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the crescent moon gave us, we were able to see that shadow surrounding us
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again and again. Alicia woke up and asked us if we already had to
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move through the desert. Then he stopped right the minute we were gonna yell
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at him to do nothing. We saw the shadow stand right in front of
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it and it began to come out of the ground, getting bigger and bigger
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as if it were a completely black pole. Mauro pulled Alicia' s arm
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and she fell from the back of the tail. She put all her strength
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into hugging her little girl, so she seemed unaffected by her mother' s
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fall. Without realizing it, I took one arm each to try to run,
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but when I turned around looking for some path to follow in the bushes,
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I only saw one animal standing in the distance. His eyes shone bright
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yellow. Mauro told me he was a coyote from the desert, but since
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he was one, he probably didn' t attack us, but we had
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to keep the baby quiet to keep him from throwing himself after her. Alicia
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told us to worry and we started running. I looked back without seeing the
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trail of that shadow that had risen from the ground. We ran for a
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while settling what we could into the backpack. At some point we heard that
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a boat had fallen after us and Alice said in tears that her boat with
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water had fallen back from moment to moment. It would have to dawn,
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but I did not understand how it was possible that the sun was lasting so
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long in rising around us. We listened to the coyote, but more than
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listening to it, it seemed that the echo of his gasps intensified or multiplied,
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while the small rays of dawn allowed us to see moments shining his yellow
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eyes between each stone or cactus. We didn' t understand how it was
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possible for him to surround us at that speed and in the end we ran
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into him head- on. It was an animal that looked dangerous, it
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was completely erect. He threw some foam through the snout and the copper coat.
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It shone in unreal yellowish tones mixed with an intense blackness, as if
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the same animal had been painted with a bit of charcoal. His eyes flashed
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like sunlight, but inexplicably made his fury feel in a second without being able
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to run or move. The animal jumped at us and I realized it was
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huge. It wasn' t the size of a small dog as I thought,
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it was a huge animal the size of us and I felt my own
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heart drown when I screamed at that beast' s attack. He threw himself
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directly at Alice and threw a bite into her arms, with whom he clung
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his child to the crow for the fight. She had been wallowed in the
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sand. I was running to hide the sand sticking up my eyes because of
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the sweat I was starting to have. As the temperature slowly rises, I
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don' t know how Mauro found such a big stone. Nor can I
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imagine how heavy it will be, but he had superhumanly taken it and thrown
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it into the animal. That Beast had been lying beside Alice without life.
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Mauro pulled the lady out of the animal' s legs. He picked her
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up and asked her if she was okay. Then he asked her if she
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was okay. The girl. Alicia uncovered her daughter who had a quiet sleeping
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baby face. Mauro touched the little girl and felt her body frozen and began
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to apologize to the mother for not helping her in time. Then he started
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crying. As I approached them, I saw how the great animal had risen
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from its death. The stone had slipped between its fur to the sand of
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the desert and its fur had become completely dark that endless dawn had ended.
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The heat did not whip, as the coyote ran to the distance looking for
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the shadow that moved leaving. I was joining Mauro' s cry in the
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morning. I asked Alicia if she wanted to do anything for the girl,
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and she apologized to us. He told us that at the beginning of the
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persecution in the early morning, when they arrived with nin ter Ns, the
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people. She for trying to calm the girl' s cry so we wouldn
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' t get caught. She had too tight on the girl against the jacket
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and at one point felt that she was no longer moving, but did not
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know when. Mauro and I were crying watching the baby. Alicia looked out
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into nowhere and after a few minutes began to walk. We' re trying
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to stop her close. She looked at the small trail that was going to
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lead us down the way of the colliers, but she, seeing that,
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decided to turn towards the desert. Even though we tried to stop her,
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she went on her way. We decided to let her go because we'
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d die of thirst if we didn' t get to the rendezvous point.
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Soon we said goodbye without saying goodbye, watching that woman shelter her little girl
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in her arms as she walked into the depths of the desert aimlessly as if
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it were a covenant of death. Mauro and I didn' t say anything
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to anyone. Nor did anyone ask for that lady and her daughter. We
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arrived at the water point next to a small chapel of the Virgin, where
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there were some insensitive offerings for so many things that had happened. I wasn
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' t even surprised to see coyotes figures next to the image, but I
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paid attention to the stories of several in the new group. They said that
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the spirit of the desert guided the undocumented to always reach the road to the
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other side. The journey continued and we reached the other side physically and mentally
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shattered. Mauro wasn' t going anywhere other than mine either, but we
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weren' t friends, even though we had already spent several months on the
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same trip. In the end we came to ohayo without agreeing. We stayed
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in the same house, we started working in the same gardening company and slowly,
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we started to deal with what happened to us in the desert had been
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so intense that neither of us wanted to accept that we had been marked or
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that our lives had been intertwined. I always thought things were going through something
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and that' s why I couldn' t keep it out of my life.
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He was sure that I was the love of his life, but that
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I had known him in the worst possible way. Over the months, we
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went to live together, looking for a Catholic church and getting married without friends
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or relatives. We were going to start out as a sero, after everything
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we had been through, because we were undocumented in the United States, after
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those twelve years of getting to know each other, of forming a family and
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being happy, now I was somewhere else. That' s why I had
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to fight to stay strong, nor the desert could have killed me, so
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I had to move on. That' s why I didn' t think
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of anything but supporting the family, to the point that I had forgotten Mauro
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and at that moment my mom told me that death was hovering around her ashes.
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After thinking about all this and dreaming about what had happened in the desert,
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the only clear picture I could get from my husband came to me a
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few days ago. That picture had been sent to a friend of yours in
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the mail. It was a surprise photo. When Mauro was hiding in the
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back of the kitchen at the restaurant where he worked. In the photo he
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saw himself eating in a hurry with his mouth wide open trying to bite a
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very large bite. He was sitting on a plastic box where they kept meat,
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so I immediately felt it too far. That was my husband and it
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hurt me to see him, after so many months of his death, after
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some time of crying to see him, after so many months of his departure,
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I looked at the screen of his cell phone and looked directly at the
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back. There you could see the darkness of the exit. Next to it
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was the voice slightly and between that small space I could clearly distinguish half of
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a coyote snout between the darkness was clearly distinguished a kind of figure as an
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animal. But I knew it was that coyote from the desert who had come
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for him to take him to the desert, for Maurus had tried to murder
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that spirit from the desert. Maybe now you' re gonna get that stone. Anonymous account