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- 0:03My name is Laura Garcia. I am currently eighty- five years old and
- 0:08when I was a girl as young as ten, I lived with my mother
- 0:11and my two younger sisters in a small remote town in Mexico, which I
- 0:17prefer not to say the name. My mother worked long hours to support us
- 0:21and, as expected, at that time, I was responsible not only for
- 0:26the house, but for my sisters. I remember that at that time,
- 0:31I really hated the responsibility on my childish shoulders, but I also felt resigned
- 0:37to my destiny, since, as I said before, there were not many
- 0:42options at that time. However, if there was something I couldn' t
- 0:47get used to, and this was the poverty we lived in, something inside
- 0:52of me would tell me that if my father was with us, we could
- 0:57have more money in the house. I guess in the deepest part of my
- 1:00mind I idealized my father, even though I never knew who he was or
- 1:04why he had abandoned us. My mother used to evade the subject and always
- 1:08told me that I and my sisters were only her daughters. But I didn
- 1:15' t like that answer and the people in the village didn' t help
- 1:19me accept such information. In the village people murmured about him. They said
- 1:23that my father had been a man of great wealth, who had caused trouble
- 1:29with his violent character and insatiable ambition. I remember one time, an old
- 1:34woman who occasionally helped clean her house, told me that it looked like him.
- 1:41That at first made me smile a little, as I thought you would
- 1:45tell me more about it. However, on that occasion he only slightly shook
- 1:49his head and said with a little condescending. I hope not in every respect.
- 1:57One day, while helping the old woman, I couldn' t hold
- 2:01back my curiosity and asked her if she knew where my father was today.
- 2:06I remember that your answer left me petrified for a few seconds, since you
- 2:10told me that he was dead. Although after the initial shock I asked her
- 2:15how my father had died with a gloomy look, she only told me that
- 2:21it was better to leave the past behind and that my mother had done the
- 2:25right thing by getting away from the problems my father had caused. But I
- 2:29didn' t settle for his answer and started searching for information about him in
- 2:32secret. Eventually I gathered fragments of my father' s story. I didn
- 2:38' t see him as a villain, despite the general opinion of the people.
- 2:44In fact, I came to the conclusion that all that bad fame my
- 2:46father had behind him was because on one occasion he had had problems with a
- 2:52guy who, after a fierce fight, he had beaten my father in such
- 2:58a way that he left him lying on the floor. Although when he was
- 3:01walking away believing he had won, my father managed to take his gun and
- 3:07shoot killing that man' s life. The fatal wound was on the back,
- 3:14which led to rumors that my father was a coward who murdered in the
- 3:16back. That didn' t seem so bad to me. I mean,
- 3:22I thought I' d only done something impulsively that, unfortunately, ended in
- 3:25a tragedy. The more I looked into who my father was, the more
- 3:31they told me how much he looked to me. But there was a time
- 3:36when this made sense, at least to me. It was on one of
- 3:38the few occasions that I was allowed to go out and play with us children
- 3:44of the village, a particular girl, who was the daughter of one of
- 3:49the most affluent families in the village. That day he was mocking our evident
- 3:53poverty, mocking the lack of shoes on our feet. That day I was
- 4:00determined not to endure further humiliations. Our words became an angry exchange that finally
- 4:06led to a physical fight and although I managed to defeat my opponent with relative
- 4:12ease, my anger did not slow down. I continued to beat her and
- 4:18whip her head against the ground, even after she no longer offered resistance.
- 4:25The children they observed stopped seeing it as a simple child conflict and became a
- 4:29worrying spectacle. A neighbor alarmed by the violence that had broken out, ran
- 4:36out to separate us, pulled me away from the crowd that had already formed
- 4:43and tried to calm me down. He told me that wasn' t the
- 4:46way a lady behaved and other things more or less related to it, although
- 4:50I didn' t calm down and just wanted to come back to keep hitting
- 4:56that girl. But what finally made me ten was his chilling phrase. Do
- 5:01you want to go to hell like your father? My fury evaporated instantly and
- 5:06I looked at it with disarray. I asked her for explanations about what she
- 5:12had said and she responded seriously by saying that my father had not gone to
- 5:15heaven because of his wickedness. Then he ordered me back home. I tried
- 5:21to get more information, but I couldn' t get anywhere. However,
- 5:26those words were etched in my mind throughout the afternoon. Finally, I decided
- 5:33to consult my mother about my father and why the people of the village believed
- 5:38that his soul was doomed to hell. My mother reacted with hostility and ordered
- 5:43me never to mention that man again. He warned me that I was a
- 5:48horrible person and that I' d better forget about it. Completely. Despite
- 5:51my mother' s orders, I couldn' t stop thinking about it.
- 5:58Every day, my curiosity grew more and more. I wanted to know the
- 6:01truth about my father and understand why the people saw him as a monster.
- 6:05As I sought answers, I found the same answer over and over again.
- 6:12My father was an evil man and my mother had done the right thing by
- 6:16getting away from him. However, everything changed one day on the way home.
- 6:21From school, the girl I had fought with, along with two other
- 6:26girls, tried to intimidate me again and of course, having the character I
- 6:30had, I did not back down and confronted them by challenging them to a
- 6:36confrontation. I remember I even told them I could with all three at the
- 6:42same time, when we were about to enter into a violent confrontation, a
- 6:46man who had only seen from afar in the village approached us. I remember
- 6:53this severe- eyed man scolding the girls for the injustice of fighting three against
- 6:58one you give him. He said there was nothing more than cowardice about something
- 7:01like that and then he ordered them to go home. After persuading the other
- 7:06girls to retire, he turned to me and his words puzzled me. You
- 7:13have the same stubborn character that brought your father to ruin, but that same
- 7:16character is worthy to admire. At that time I told the man that everyone
- 7:23in the village was talking about my father, telling me that he seemed both
- 7:28physical and character to me, but no one had really told me who he
- 7:32had done to deserve the condemnation of hell and, like all the people in
- 7:36the village, told me that I should leave everything in the past and that
- 7:41my mother had done well. However, at that time, Harta, from
- 7:46that answer, I told her that I was tired, that everyone would tell
- 7:49me that it was good for me and that I didn' t know and
- 7:54that that was something that only I could decide. So right there I demanded
- 7:58answers and he, with a grim expression. Finally, he began to tell
- 8:03my father' s story, according to what that man told me. My
- 8:07father began by being an extremely poor man, who often had to look in
- 8:13the garbage to eat his misery. One day, in his despair, he
- 8:18ventured to Mount Remote and with a heart full of ambition, he called the
- 8:22devil. He offered him his soul in exchange for wealth and power, beyond
- 8:26what any man had ever dreamed of, but he did not get an answer
- 8:31at that time, which enraged him, though without remedy. He returned to
- 8:37the village that night, while sleeping in a petate on the ground, in
- 8:41a small quarter made of quarry, he heard a hellish sound, goat hooves,
- 8:46hitting the earth and something or someone desperately knocking on his frightened worn wooden
- 8:54door asked who it was, but instead of an answer, he only received
- 9:00another terrified beating. He demanded to know the identity of the visitor, warning
- 9:05that he would not open the door unless he did so at that time by
- 9:11a terrifying and demonic voice, as if it came from the very abyss.
- 9:13He replied that he had summoned him and would not leave without making the deal
- 9:18frightened, but at the same time somewhat intrigued by what was happening. My
- 9:22father opened the door only to meet an indescribable creature. It looked like a
- 9:28goat, but with a malevolence that could not be hidden. He was somewhat
- 9:33humanoid with hands and torsos similar to a human, but covered in hair like
- 9:37that of a goat. The creature passed into its former quarry room and began
- 9:43negotiating the dark deal. Even though I listened carefully, I could not help
- 9:48but feel a certain skepticism about the history of man. I asked him how
- 9:54he knew all this to what he replied that he had been friends with my
- 9:58father in his youth and, according to him, my father had told him
- 10:01all this. The day after the creature' s visit, my father had
- 10:05been willing to give his soul to the devil in exchange for a life of
- 10:09luxuries and unimaginable wealth. From that day on, he never missed anything.
- 10:15If he wanted something, the necessary money seemed to magically arise in his pockets,
- 10:20making him one of the most wealthy men in the village. The man.
- 10:24He also trusted me that, as a friend of my father' s,
- 10:28I had warned him that the price was too high eternity in hell for
- 10:33only a few years of good life on earth, but my father, arrogantly,
- 10:39replied that he had no intention of fulfilling that part of the deal.
- 10:43After hearing the man' s story, I asked him why my father planned
- 10:48not to keep his end of the bargain, and the man explained to me
- 10:52that my father had a bold plan to shut the devil in a cage.
- 10:56According to the deal, the demon would appear every time he was called by
- 11:01my father. His idea was to build a cage big enough to catch the
- 11:05creature and then he wouldn' t release it until he guaranteed his soul was
- 11:11free. The man laughed a little while talking and told me that at the
- 11:15time he didn' t think it would work, but my father was convinced
- 11:20that his plan would succeed, so he ordered the construction of the largest cage
- 11:26that had ever been seen and sought the blessing of a priest to make sure
- 11:30it was effective. In addition, he provided a large amount of holy water
- 11:37to the priest to help him in his task. The man, as my
- 11:41father' s best friend, could not refuse to help and promised to be
- 11:43by his side. Together they carried out their plan on a full moon night.
- 11:48They waited patiently until the clock set at three o' clock in the
- 11:54morning and at that moment my father called the demon the creature a kind of
- 12:00goat or umas and appeared. But before I could say a word, my
- 12:03father pushed him into the cage and shut it right away. Then he sprinkled
- 12:07the surrounding area with holy water, making sure that the nightmare being could not
- 12:13escape the creature was furious and demanded that he be released. At that very
- 12:18moment, my father told him that he would not let go until his soul
- 12:22was liberated. And the devil replied that his soul was already doomed and that
- 12:28no act could break the deal he had accepted. My father didn' t
- 12:33believe his words and told him he wouldn' t let him out until he
- 12:37got rid of his side of the deal. The devil, with a sinister
- 12:41smile, snapped his fingers. In an instant, my father suffered a fulminant
- 12:46heart attack that left him on the ground. My father' s friend,
- 12:52terrified, ran away and never came back. The inhabitants of the village claimed
- 12:58that every night at three o' clock the mother gave could see the goat
- 13:01in the cage demanding to be released. Faced with my insatiable curiosity, I
- 13:07asked the man where the cage was. I' ve never heard a legend
- 13:13like that in town and it seemed strange to me that no one mentioned anything
- 13:18so amazing. However, the man refused to reveal the location of the cage.
- 13:24He explained that the adults in the village had agreed to keep it secret,
- 13:28fearing that a child like me would try to find her out of curiosity
- 13:35and release her at a moment of carelessness. In addition, he made me
- 13:37promise not to look for the cage, repeating the Council of People' s
- 13:43Inhabitants to leave the past alone and focus on the future that my mother had
- 13:46built for us. But despite the promise, I could not resist the temptation
- 13:52and for several days looked for clues about the location of the cage. I
- 13:58discarded obvious, busy places. Convinced that the cage should be hidden to prevent
- 14:01anyone from discovering it. As the days passed, my obsession with finding her
- 14:07grew. Finally, after a long search, I found a place that seemed
- 14:15promising, a wasteland, full of weeds and mesquites that time had completely covered.
- 14:22So I went into him and down to the bottom, covered by weeds
- 14:24and trees, there was a cage big enough to lock up a person.
- 14:31The first time I saw her I doubted it was the same cage in history.
- 14:35It seemed rusty, old and empty, but I couldn' t believe
- 14:41there was another cage this big and I decided to come back later to investigate
- 14:46further. I decided to wait until three in the morning, the mysterious moment
- 14:50when the demon was supposedly manifesting. I returned to the place and this time
- 14:56I could see that, indeed, there was something inside the cage, a
- 15:01creature like a terrifying and grotesque humanoid goat. The creature seemed to ignore my
- 15:07presence until I got close enough and stared at it. He put his hands
- 15:11on the bars of the cage and bowed forward to the chill. He toured
- 15:18my back while waiting for his answer. And finally, after an intense silence,
- 15:22the creature spoke you are, the daughter of a bad- born who
- 15:26doesn' t know how to keep his promises. Intrigued by the creature'
- 15:31s claim, I asked her how she knew everything the creature had revealed,
- 15:37laughed and said she knew everything. Then he questioned me about my presence and
- 15:41why I wasn' t afraid of him, like the rest of the town.
- 15:45My answer was sincere. I was tired of living in fear and just
- 15:50wanted to know the truth. When I asked him if my father was really
- 15:54in hell, his answer smelled my blood. Yes, my father was in
- 15:58hell. The revelation left me speechless and for a moment my mind struggled to
- 16:03process the terrible truth. After an uncomfortable silence, I asked him if there
- 16:11was any chance that my father could rest the creature in peace. He flatly
- 16:17denied, claiming that my father had made a deal that included all his offspring,
- 16:22which meant that he was also cursed. However, my idealized attachment to
- 16:27my father made me question the truthfulness of the creature’ s words. I
- 16:33rejected the idea that my father would have condemned his own children to the creature.
- 16:37He laughed sinisterly and assured me he was just telling me the truth.
- 16:42However, he also offered me a deal. If I freed him, I
- 16:47would take away the curse, and not only that, but he would give
- 16:51me more money than I could spend my whole life. I just had to
- 16:55open the cage door. I considered the offer for a moment for the possibility
- 16:59of a comfortable life without a curse, but something in me resisted giving in,
- 17:03for I did not trust the creature and, moreover, did not know
- 17:07how to open the cage I explained my dilemma, but instead of helping me,
- 17:12the creature became angry. He started hitting the bars in the cage and
- 17:18threatened to rip my head off. If I didn' t release him.
- 17:22Suddenly, without understanding how it happened, I saw myself being dragged into the
- 17:27cage. The creature held me by the arm and I fought desperately to free
- 17:33myself by shouting in the process. The tension was unbearable until suddenly a metallic
- 17:37sound broke the silence. The old lock that kept the door locked broke open
- 17:45and fell to the ground, making the door wide open The creature, now
- 17:51out of the cage, looked at me with an unsettling, frightened smile,
- 17:55but trying to sound safe, I told her that I did not miss my
- 18:00soul to what that thing told me your soul will be intact. Then it
- 18:06became a thick cloud of black smoke and faded away. I stayed here in
- 18:11fact for several minutes without knowing what to do. I remember feeling like my
- 18:18pockets filled with money. I finally came home, where tragedy was waiting for
- 18:23me. My mother and my sisters were lying dead, supposedly victims of a
- 18:30gas leak from a lamp that had been left on. The people claimed that
- 18:33they had died without suffering, but I knew the truth. The curse had
- 18:40taken its price. Throughout my life I could never form meaningful bonds with anyone
- 18:45who came to me. Affectively, he ended up finding death somehow. Although
- 18:53the curse had left me alone and isolated, I never lacked money, but
- 18:57the price I paid for the truth was much higher than I had ever imagined. Anonymous account