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- 0:15We just started. I changed my job. After ten years of being
- 0:22in a surveillance post in a private hospital for contacts, I found space as
- 0:28part of the surveillance unit for the courts, spaces and pool that are in
- 0:32place here every day I live something that doesn' t leave me very quiet,
- 0:37but you have to endure for the family. You know those things about
- 0:42money. There is something diabolical in that place and although the facilities are quite
- 0:48large, it only manifests near the pool. After what I lived with that
- 0:52diabolical presence the first year of work here as night security of the sports unit.
- 0:58I absolutely believe in paranormal things, also witchcraft. I never imagined telling
- 1:04anyone. I didn' t think I could admit it that easily either,
- 1:11because I always think there are people who judge you and say that you do
- 1:15believe or that something has happened to you. That' s why I'
- 1:18ve decided not to reveal my name. I' d also like to stop
- 1:21people from coming to my job asking about the ghost girl. When I entered,
- 1:26it had barely re- opened, because they had made some changes in
- 1:30remodeling and other things. None of the guards knew each other, so we
- 1:36hadn' t had time to make some heavy jokes either. That' s
- 1:41why we took it very seriously when one of them told the others that during
- 1:47the first night he was giving the rondines, he had seen a girl run
- 1:51towards the entrance of the pool. We asked her if she was looking,
- 1:55if there was a girl out there, but with fear she told us she
- 2:00looked like a girl, but she couldn' t see her feet, despite
- 2:04listening to her barefoot footprints in the cement. It was terrifying to know that,
- 2:08but not everyone believed him, while I reserved my comments. As soon
- 2:13as the work began, I had already changed my morning hours for the night,
- 2:17because Jorge and Carlos had not been able to endure more nights of surveillance
- 2:23as they did not want to leave work. They had begged us to change
- 2:27the schedule, for when they spoke to the boss they had told them that
- 2:31if some of the morning were interested in the change. It could be done
- 2:36without problems. When I was asked about the change, I was going to
- 2:40say no, but I thought about how good it would be for me to
- 2:45be home all day, to sleep for a while and be on my children
- 2:47' s watch. That' s why I accepted after talking to my wife.
- 2:52What I didn' t know was that they hadn' t told us
- 2:55some things that happened to them and left them terrified. By s s s
- 2:59or between confident and at first it was tired to work during the night.
- 3:04Then it turned out easier until by the end of the second week he could
- 3:08no longer sleep. Alejandro had entered the shift with me and we would be
- 3:15together Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Ever since we introduced ourselves. I liked
- 3:20the boy for years, but with that kind character he had, I was
- 3:24happy to be able to live with my co- worker. That way they
- 3:31' d spend their working hours faster. The third month of starting the shift,
- 3:37Alejandro came very scared to report to service while we were checking in we
- 3:44always talked with those of the other shifts, but the boy had not stopped
- 3:47to settle the uniform go to the checker or finish to greet him immediately,
- 3:53he pulled out his cell phone to put a video that had been sent to
- 3:55him. The video showed that Carlos was tending saying that he had a few
- 4:00hours of listening to laughter in the dressing room area of the pool. He
- 4:04was getting close to the House. Not much could be seen from the light
- 4:09that lighted little space, as the lights were not lit. As he walked,
- 4:15he would hear Carlos asking if anyone was there and if so, he
- 4:20would warn him that he had to leave because he was restricted entry to those
- 4:26hours of the night. There was no answer, but after three times indicating
- 4:30that it came out, the sink keys turned to make the water start running.
- 4:35After that, Carlos ran away looking at that. I had my doubts.
- 4:41I thought it might be a very elaborate trick to become famous, as
- 4:46he was not the humblest in his way of being, but he also remembered
- 4:49how much he had begged me to leave him the daytime space. I asked
- 4:55Alejandro how he had that video. He replied that he had been stopped by
- 5:00a friend who was in a group where several former colleagues from other surveillance companies
- 5:04were talking. Apparently, Carlos had changed his job and began to talk because
- 5:11he had changed from what everyone considered the best place. After this, the
- 5:16boy asked me if I had seen something like that. I told him that
- 5:20was a setup. Work time started and I walked away from there to give
- 5:26my first review. Two hours passed, the day was over. I started
- 5:30turning on the lights, as was usually done during the shift, and when
- 5:35I passed through the access area to the training pool, I saw that the
- 5:40gate of the entrance was open for a minute. I thought Alejandro got carried
- 5:45away by the video and went on to look for ghosts. He also got
- 5:48in with the intention of drawing attention to him, so I wanted to scare
- 5:53him a good deal, I said his name, but I didn' t
- 5:58hear any response. I figured he was hiding when he listened to me so
- 6:01I wouldn' t scold him and I started checking part of the area.
- 6:06I checked the benches with the lamp. Then I checked the dressing rooms.
- 6:11I got to the bathrooms and I didn' t see it either I started
- 6:15closing all the doors. I figured it was a mistake on my part.
- 6:18Maybe I left the door open or it was someone else closing while I was
- 6:25thinking it might have happened. I saw the pool. The water looked dark,
- 6:30but in the dark I heard the movement of the water. I pointed
- 6:33out the light from the flashlight to see what it was and saw clearly as
- 6:38if a lot of hair were submerging. It was like seeing a wig disappearing
- 6:42down the water in a matter of seconds because of terror. I ran away.
- 6:48From there I ended up in the area on my way to the surveillance
- 6:53cameras. I was sweating cold from the scare. I had forgotten to close
- 6:57the door that gives access to the swimming complex. I stood around for,
- 7:00like, five or ten minutes figuring out what I was going to do,
- 7:06because I didn' t want to go back to what I saw and the
- 7:09video was giving me the creeps. Something was in that place. I decided
- 7:13to play crazy and ask Alejandro to go close the door he had left open.
- 7:17My excuse would be that I passed and saw it open and only he
- 7:21could have left it. That' s what I called him on the radio.
- 7:24It took him to answer me and he told me that I could go
- 7:28because I was on the other side passing through the court area. I told
- 7:32him I had to go close that. So I knew it was him who
- 7:36left it open and I went back to the guard post. I looked at
- 7:41the security cameras and saw myself running out of the pool. I was really
- 7:46hoping to see myself leave, but my face was scary. I was winning
- 7:49the fear of what could be hidden there. Alejandro arrived within ten minutes wondering
- 7:55if he had locked the door. I told her no, I told her
- 8:00to shut it down. In that game of who was going to put the
- 8:03chain at the door. We missed most of the shift. I went to
- 8:07close it when it dawned and pretended I was going to charge the boy the
- 8:11favor. But the reality is, I was dying of fear. Rarely,
- 8:16not every night does that spectrum appear. They were very special occasions. Sometimes
- 8:20on a full moon I could hear the barefoot steps as I passed by.
- 8:26Other times on the new moon I had seen a figure standing next to the
- 8:31pool. Although little by little I got used to that figure, I asked
- 8:35nothing. Nor did I mention it to my young companion about him was anything
- 8:43else. He kept mentioning that he saw things in the pool area. He
- 8:48said he felt like he was being looked at from the protective mesh. He
- 8:52had also checked because he had seen the door open several times and those times
- 8:56I had seen how some water key opened. While he was there, he
- 9:03started to get nervous. He told me he wasn' t going to put
- 9:07up with the harassment of that spectrum much. One day as he told me
- 9:11how he had seen the spectrum again, he told me that he had managed
- 9:16to see what it looked like, and I was interested in what it looked
- 9:18like. I didn' t get too close, I wouldn' t get
- 9:22too close, but I knew it was some kind of human body I could
- 9:26see sometimes. Alejandro told me she was a child, a little girl about
- 9:31twelve or thirteen years old. The girl had a one- piece swimsuit.
- 9:35First I contained my fear. Then I pretended to laugh I asked him how
- 9:41he had managed to be so specific. Seeing her. Yeah, usually,
- 9:43the ghosts in the movies couldn' t chase them. Then very seriously he
- 9:48told me that he had managed to investigate with some park and garden workers who
- 9:56fixed the green areas of the place that had hidden the murder of a girl
- 10:00there. She was long presumed to have drowned by mistake, but the reality
- 10:05was that someone had killed her by drowning her. Then I went to see
- 10:09if it was true. He told me very pale the poor boy had thought
- 10:13of going with a pendulum energy detector, something he had seen in a video
- 10:20and believed that so he could definitely know what happened and liberate the girl genuinely.
- 10:26I was worried. I told him that seemed very dangerous. He didn
- 10:31' t care about my words. He was as if plunged into his own
- 10:35thoughts. He looked a little crazy in his eyes. I don' t
- 10:39know how to describe it, but I think the contact she had with that
- 10:43girl really changed something about him. He finished telling me what had happened to
- 10:46him, but looking the other way, one night I had stayed in the
- 10:52booth and he asked for time to give the rondin in the pool area.
- 10:56He had taken the pendulum with him and he went in leaving the door locked
- 11:01this time to keep me from coming. He confessed to me that he was
- 11:05ashamed to tell me what he wanted to do, because he always seemed unimportant.
- 11:09He thought I imagined he was crazy. I regret hiding what I saw
- 11:15I think if we had investigated between the two of us, he wouldn'
- 11:20t have been so impressed with what happened next. Alejandro went straight into the
- 11:24bathrooms where Carlos had recorded the paranormal activity. He started using the pendulum.
- 11:31He told me it worked very simply. He just had to suspend the pendulum
- 11:37between his fingers through the chain. Then I was going to walk little by
- 11:39little to go looking for the energy that moved the pendulum. Once he found
- 11:45her, he stood still to ask about the ghost. He told me he
- 11:50had gone out to turn on the bathroom light and then came in to start
- 11:54that search session. I wanted to know what was seen in the bathrooms.
- 11:58He started asking if there was anyone, but they didn' t answer him
- 12:03by moving the pendulum. Then he asked if they were seeing him and the
- 12:07pendulum turned in circles. Giving a positive answer. My blood' s freezing.
- 12:11I realized that the boy didn' t know what he was doing,
- 12:16because it was obvious that you don' t have to play with things you
- 12:20don' t know, and that was something my mother was trying to tell
- 12:22me a lot. That' s why I' d stayed away from a
- 12:26lot of trouble all my life. This boy kept asking until he got to
- 12:31the right answer or the one he wanted to hear. The pendulum told her
- 12:35that she was a frightened child and that she didn' t want to be
- 12:39alone. Alejandro seemed very moved when he told me that the poor girl,
- 12:45if she had been hurt there, wanted to stop being sad. He asked
- 12:50me if I knew any father so I could take him, to give him
- 12:54deliverance. I don' t know when one thing took him to another.
- 12:56For starters, I didn' t know if the parents were just like that,
- 13:01but that boy was drawing the conclusions so fast that it seemed to me
- 13:07he was repeating the lines of some horror movie of those that were fashionable among
- 13:11the boys his age. I figured it was him who needed help to calm
- 13:16down, but I didn' t know how to say it, so I
- 13:20kept quiet while I was thinking. After a few brief moments, I asked
- 13:24him if he had recorded anything to see how it happened, but he looked
- 13:28at me without saying anything. Then he got up and told me he was
- 13:31okay, not believing in those things. But another was that I thought I
- 13:35was making things up. It came out and after a few minutes it gave
- 13:41me a smell of coffee. I think it was his way of dealing with
- 13:45my little cooperation, but it was just that I found it dangerous to be
- 13:50researching those things the normal people who don' t know or maybe don'
- 13:54t believe well and in my case, I even feel that I don'
- 14:01t believe in God enough to be able to ask him to prome me.
- 14:01Looks like we don' t have to be playing the devil' s footsteps.
- 14:05The shift' s over. We went out separately. Alejandro was trying
- 14:11to talk to me as little as possible, but I' m an old
- 14:16fool, so I didn' t try to talk much either. It was
- 14:18like my kids, they started a tantrum and it was best to leave them
- 14:24for a while. To calm him down. That night I decided to discuss
- 14:28the matter with my wife. Women are always more believers. I imagined that
- 14:33she could tell me something with which to be able to smooth the roughness with
- 14:39the boy was not a bad worker, nor bad person, but she felt
- 14:43that the imagination could be going very far. I, if I had seen
- 14:48something in the pool, could not deny what my own eyes saw, but
- 14:52no more things happened to me. As long as I stayed in my business
- 14:56and didn' t go to that place for certain days, nothing rosary happened.
- 15:00My wife told me not to play with the boy, because contacting the
- 15:05dead was not a good idea and she told me that there were so many
- 15:09cases of possessed people because they used things to communicate with the dead. She
- 15:16was a faithful believer in God. I was also very sweet that' s
- 15:20why I saw the annoyance when she answered me that was something I found odd.
- 15:24Upon looking at my surprise, he told me that once it had been
- 15:28his turn to witness a possessed child who was brought before the priest of the
- 15:33parish, who is next to the house where his parents lived. He told
- 15:37me not to get involved at all in what Alejandro was doing and then he
- 15:41asked me not to go to work on Friday until she arrived because she had
- 15:45to give me something important. He passed my break. I went out with
- 15:50my kids while Rosario worked at the bakery. Then he came on Friday.
- 15:54Indeed, my wife had left early long before all of us woke up in
- 16:00the house. He told me he was going to work, but he was
- 16:04going to stop by the church. I enlisted as usual to get out.
- 16:08I set up my lunch box and my stuff. Well, then I sat
- 16:11down and waited for her. She was late, but I didn' t
- 16:15want to leave without feeling her blessing, because at that point I was already
- 16:19worried about what was going on at work. My wife came running, hugged
- 16:23me quickly and gave me a St Benedict medal without being able to ask her
- 16:30anything. She quickly clarified that the medal had sent her to work with a
- 16:34woman who does clean work and that she had also gone with her father to
- 16:40ask for water. Blessed me with the drops of water. Blessed was praying
- 16:45and making crosses all over my body. Then he did the same thing to
- 16:48my backpack and pushed me out because he told me it was late. I
- 16:53got to work late and got a warning from the boss. I swallowed the
- 16:59scolding the quietest in the world, because it had been for a good reason
- 17:03or that I felt when I arrived at my post I felt nothing of unease.
- 17:07I could say I felt safe. Alejandro arrived early, so when I
- 17:12entered the surveillance room, he was not able to see him through the cameras
- 17:18that he was giving rondin checking that everything was closed by the time the night
- 17:23arrived well, I sat resigned for trying to relax from the problem with him.
- 17:29I hadn' t planned on talking to him that night. I thought
- 17:33just seeing us would pass him the courage or what he was feeling, but
- 17:37apparently he was very wrong. I went out to check the rest of the
- 17:42doors and locks easily, I took an hour and the afternoon had passed.
- 17:48Then I went to turn on the night lights. Alejandro didn' t show
- 17:52up anywhere, I went back to make a coffee and saw that he was
- 17:57smoking on the benches near the entrance. I figured I had to go there
- 18:02to figure out what was going on. I went where I was, but
- 18:06when I got there I didn' t see him. It got weird on
- 18:08me and I got back, but I thought I' d better go to
- 18:12the pool if I' d gone back to do their paranormal research. I
- 18:17wasn' t wrong. When I got there I saw the door wide open
- 18:21and the lock pulled aside, I remember I was going to threaten him.
- 18:25We could get into trouble and go through the video cameras and see that he
- 18:29was playing ghosts in the area where the pool was. I walked slowly.
- 18:34When I saw him in the distance, he stood at the water' s
- 18:38edge. I didn' t hear him speak under I saw what he was
- 18:42doing when he stepped aside, looked at the pool with his right hand,
- 18:48held the pendulum with his left, he was recording. He raised his voice
- 18:52and I didn' t know if it was because he heard me coming or
- 18:56because he wanted it to be heard. Of course, what I was asking
- 18:57for the video is I heard him asking how he could help her so she
- 19:02wouldn' t be so lonely. It didn' t take two seconds.
- 19:04When I saw clearly and said that because Alexander, in his stubbornness had even
- 19:11left the lights on in the bathroom to illuminate the right bank of the pool.
- 19:15I saw in the darkness of the water, where the light didn'
- 19:19t get well, a lot of darkness, something like a stain rising a
- 19:25little bit by making waves in the water. It was that hair I saw
- 19:27before I got behind the scare and Alejandro fell into the pool. I looked
- 19:33at that terrifying shadow to go over Alexander and almost caught him, but out
- 19:37of pure reflection I threw myself into the pool to take the boy out and
- 19:41thank God, I did, because I couldn' t swim. When I
- 19:44entered the water, I walked through Alexander falling like a stone and not through
- 19:48the dark spot of hair. Fortunately, I got it off the hook.
- 19:52Then, as much as I looked, I didn' t see those hairs
- 19:57in the water. The cell phone had wet and with him the evidence,
- 20:00for Alexander told me that it was done like this in front when he saw
- 20:04the girl' s head protruded out of the water and reached to see terrible
- 20:10eyes sunk with a sinister glow to the bottom of the tunnel of its basins.
- 20:15He cried like a child. When I took him to the camera booth
- 20:18to change his clothes. He didn' t mention the spectrum that tried to
- 20:25kill him, and I didn' t have one left. I scolded him
- 20:26and told him he should stop playing with things he doesn' t understand.
- 20:30The next day, what we feared happened, but not as Alexander thought.
- 20:36The only one they ran off the job was him. I stayed in myself,
- 20:40since I' m sure that night saved me what my wife did.
- 20:45Protection has prevented me from being the victim of that little girl running around scaring
- 20:49anyone who leaves I' ve accepted that. That' s why I don
- 20:55' t get too close. I also make sure to wear my protective amulet.
- 21:00I don' t know what others think, but that' s not
- 21:03a girl and I' m not going to find out what she is.
- 21:04I' m pretty sure that' s not a girl, because there'
- 21:10s no real report or story of a murder or an accident in that sports
- 21:15unit they lied to Alejandro and that' s why he fell into the nets
- 21:19of that shadow in the form of a girl who has tricked more than one
- 21:23into getting on the water' s edge. During the night. There was
- 21:33a crib that I couldn' t use in the office I work in.
- 21:37It was a little white crib of old model. When I got to work
- 21:41at the pediatric office, I asked the doctor why that bed wasn' t
- 21:47used. He told me that it could not be used and that it could
- 21:49not be moved either, but without giving me details, without further explanation,
- 21:56I left the subject closed. I figured I didn' t have to ask
- 21:59any more. I had just graduated as a nurse, had the idea of
- 22:03specializing in pediatrics, so I started working as close as I could to the
- 22:08children. That' s how I got to Dr Mendoza' s office.
- 22:14That office was in a building where they shared more specialties space and since it
- 22:18was a new place with impeccable things, I was surprised that crib was there.
- 22:23It wasn' t long before we started going through the apparitions of little
- 22:29Lulu. That' s what some people used to joke about because it was
- 22:34already known that the offices were haunted and more things were going on. That
- 22:38' s where that crib was. I almost always arrived before the doctor came
- 22:44to the reception to register my entrance and was going to accommodate things for the
- 22:48consultations of the day. When you work in the hospital setting, you always
- 22:53run into ghost stories. Sometimes you experience it in your own flesh, sometimes
- 23:00you just listen to the stories of other comrades who have had something weird happen
- 23:06to them that they can' t explain the least. It had always been
- 23:10that, but now I also received some videos of such phenomena recorded in hospitals.
- 23:17Fortunately, nothing had happened to me. I wasn' t particularly nervous,
- 23:22but I didn' t want to have to face that situation. I
- 23:26thought working in private offices could spend the quietest time without seeing so many patients,
- 23:33even if it was the same hours of work, would make things easier
- 23:37for me. As long as I decided when to continue studying. I spent
- 23:41my days busy, but nothing nervous or pressured until I saw Lulu. Who
- 23:47knows why they had given her that name, but I, rather than laughing,
- 23:51got nervous when they named her after seeing her with my own eyes.
- 23:56When I saw her, it was a morning that was coming up like a
- 24:00custom for the elevator. I was carrying the doctor' s coffees and mine
- 24:03in one hand with the other holding the key to open the door. I
- 24:08went up to the floor where the office was. Strangely, I was alone
- 24:12in the hallway. I didn' t see anyone else, and it didn
- 24:15' t seem like I' d gotten to someone in the office nearby.
- 24:19When I went to the door, I realized it was open. I found
- 24:23it abnormal that Dr Mendoza arrived so early, but I opened the door by
- 24:30pushing her with a foot giving the good morning, there was no one I
- 24:34went to leave the tray with the coffees at Reojo' s desk I saw
- 24:38that there was something between the bed and the crib, but I thought that
- 24:42some robe or something had fallen. When I ducked down to see that I
- 24:45was there, I saw nothing and it got weirder. I got up by
- 24:51holding on to the crib railing and as I climbed up from my right eye,
- 24:56I saw the face of a girl staring at me from the impression.
- 24:59I fell moving the bed next door with my weight. The blow was so
- 25:02strong that they immediately went up to see what had happened. When José the
- 25:07watchman arrived, I was holding my tears standing outside the office and asked what
- 25:14had happened to me. Worried told me if someone had done something to me,
- 25:18but when I answered that I saw a girl in the crib of the
- 25:22office, he told me you already met the little lulu. That little girl
- 25:26' s been around for a while. Sometimes we' ve seen her through
- 25:30the halls, through the security cameras. Don' t feel bad, you
- 25:36' re not the only one who' s been scared around here. The
- 25:38doctor was coming down from the elevator, so she got to hear everything and
- 25:44finished up saying that she had seen it too, but that nothing was going
- 25:48on. I realized everyone thought that was normal, and I was the crazy
- 25:52one who thought that wasn' t right. The consultations passed in atypical ways
- 25:57throughout the day. O O O O O O O Or people who didn
- 26:00' t show up. The children kept crying and the worst was a baby
- 26:03who, being in his mother' s arms all the time, pointed to
- 26:07the crib with his finger. The mother calmed him down saying yes, that
- 26:12that was a crib, but it wasn' t hers. The baby pointed
- 26:17and laughed. I got nervous because they say that children can have the ability
- 26:22to see things that adults don' t and that, as they grow up,
- 26:26they lose that gift As I had heard that before, I became more
- 26:32nervous. At the time of closing the consultation. I told the doctor that
- 26:36I didn' t want to stay alone in the office, that we could
- 26:41get there together, but she said it was going to be impossible for her,
- 26:45because she always had issues with some patients from her other job at the
- 26:48general hospital. I resigned myself to my luck I figured just as everyone thought
- 26:55it was normal to see that ghost around the building. I was gonna get
- 26:57used to it soon. It wasn' t like that. I was getting
- 27:00nervous at work. Her presence seemed to intensify when I was close the next
- 27:07day that I had seen her when I was opening the office, I heard
- 27:12she knocked on the door from the inside. I didn' t listen and
- 27:15opened the door, but I got it back and felt the weight that pushed
- 27:19the door to leave me outside pretending that I wasn' t scared. I
- 27:23went to sit at the reception. I could calm down until I saw the
- 27:27doctor come in and we went up together, but I never told her what
- 27:32happened to me. I thought if she looked scared any more, she'
- 27:37d scare me. Besides, nothing assured me that the doctor didn' t
- 27:41consider me capable of the job, just because I was afraid of something that
- 27:45who knows why it happened. I began to endure the small signs that the
- 27:51girl was hovering. But even Dr Mendoza told me, a few months after
- 27:56I started with her that it looked like there were more women manifest than she
- 28:00was used to. I laughed, but I really wanted to cry that spectre.
- 28:06I moved the material. The syringes were lying down when I arrived.
- 28:11I had also pushed the doctor' s chair, with which I hit my
- 28:15knee. I was becoming very unpleasant to myself, but I couldn' t
- 28:21say anything between one joke and another. I told the doctor that I had
- 28:26tried to bring a father to bless the office Maybe that would help her rest.
- 28:33He told me he hasn' t been to Mass in years. I
- 28:36didn' t know if that worked. Neither do I, but I told
- 28:40him that in movies or stories people tell they always get rid of those things.
- 28:45With the intervention of a priest who blesses the space where something appears.
- 28:49He asked me if I knew about it and, even though I didn'
- 28:53t know, I said yes. She commissioned me to give the blessing to
- 28:57the place, because she is worried that some of her frequent patients had stopped
- 29:03coming. He figured doing that might even bring good luck. Or I don
- 29:07' t really know what the doctor thought, because, just as she thought
- 29:12it was normal, that things would appear lying or that she would see traces
- 29:18of small hands on her desk, she wouldn' t say anything. I
- 29:21began searching the church from where I lived if the parents made special home visits
- 29:26or as a person did to ask for a blessing from their home. In
- 29:30the end I was sent to the parish near the office building and Father Roberto
- 29:36was left to go in fifteen days. I stayed calm. Soon I was
- 29:41going to rest from feeling all that. When I told the doctor about what
- 29:45she had told me, the father only told me that he was going to
- 29:49tell me a story. She had started seeing the girl since she had first
- 29:53gone to the office to check if it was a good place to put her
- 29:59office. The doctor checked the furniture when the lady who showed him the place
- 30:04made a noise and then told him to bring her the papers. She wanted
- 30:10to rent and while the real estate people came out through the briefcase she left
- 30:15at the reception. The doctor followed her, but she couldn' t continue
- 30:19many meters because she saw a girl look out over the elevator watching her.
- 30:25Dr Mendoza was honest with me. She told me that ignoring her had given
- 30:29her the power not to bother her, because at first she wouldn' t
- 30:33even let her work in peace. She couldn' t afford to look for
- 30:37another office. That was at a good price and close to the old one
- 30:41he had, so he could make sure he didn' t spend too much
- 30:48to stay close to his patients. After listening to what had happened to the
- 30:51doctor, I kept thinking that maybe I was giving her too much importance.
- 30:56That' s why what was happening to me happened to me. I figured
- 30:59praying every day might make me feel calmer. In addition, it was only
- 31:04a few days, as Father Roberto would soon go to bless the place.
- 31:08I' d like to say that it worked, but I think it made
- 31:15everything worse to avoid paying attention little by little. The feeling of not being
- 31:17welcomed began to be stronger than me. It wasn' t just prank stuff
- 31:22anymore. He started trying to scare me seriously. That girl sounds silly.
- 31:27I know, but I think she got mad at me, not just because
- 31:32I tried to ignore her, but because I had made the decision to take
- 31:37a priest to her. The next few days were a nightmare. When I
- 31:41came to the door it was open. Sometimes things were messy others in place,
- 31:47but you could see a series of dirt tracks on the desk. During
- 31:52the consultation, it didn' t stop. Things were falling out of nowhere.
- 31:56Also the curtain of the window moved as if there was air running through
- 32:00the place. I tried to hide a lot of that stuff. I was
- 32:05afraid someone would realize maybe I could see her or something. The places where
- 32:10those things happen later have a bad reputation and there' s no way to
- 32:15float them. I was afraid because of my work and because of the DOCTOR,
- 32:19she asked me not to take things so seriously. Maybe if I relaxed
- 32:23things would calm down. That weekend I went to a friend. I told
- 32:29him what was happening to me. I felt very tired and although it was
- 32:32less than five days before the father went to check the place. I felt
- 32:37like I wasn' t gonna last another hour. Lucy believed everything. She
- 32:42didn' t ask me any uncomfortable questions, which I thank her enormously because,
- 32:47although she hadn' t witnessed anything of that spectrum, she helped me
- 32:52get all the feeling of fear and impotence that she wasn' t letting me
- 32:55live. He recommended that we go to the temple. It didn' t
- 33:00matter what, because outside they sold rosaries and bracelets. That' s where
- 33:05I could buy a hazard protection bracelet. Maybe that' s how I could
- 33:09feel better. On Monday I presented myself with my blessed bracelet and with all
- 33:15determination to stop scaring me over something that could not harm me. I was
- 33:19giving a lot of importance to everything. Maybe that ghost or whatever it was
- 33:23was there for a reason other than how many people had gone through that office.
- 33:30I' m early. I didn' t stay at the reception waiting.
- 33:34I went up directly to begin to accommodate everything for the consultation. The
- 33:38first patient would arrive at nine o' clock and it was eight o'
- 33:42clock. It was enough time to get everything ready. I could have coffee,
- 33:46too. When he opened the elevator, I went down and turned to
- 33:50the office. I saw a hand get in the door. The girl seemed
- 33:55to be behind the open door. I' ve never seen her so directly
- 34:00before. It shook everything inside of me, something in my brain. He
- 34:02was telling me to leave me some kind of alert sound in my heart.
- 34:07He also told me not to go into the office as I was convinced I
- 34:13was not to be weak anymore towards something I didn' t understand. I
- 34:15went in without listening to myself. When I took the knob to open the
- 34:20door the blessed bracelet, it fell I saw it break and then slide to
- 34:24the ground. I picked it up, put it in my sweater bag and
- 34:28walked into the office. It was normal, it didn' t look messy
- 34:34like other days. I thought the amulet had worked, so I thanked God
- 34:37and set out to accommodate everything happy. I sat in bed and texted him.
- 34:44I told Lucy that I had done well, that the amulet was working,
- 34:47although I had rarely dropped it as soon as I came in. I
- 34:52told him I didn' t tie him up well. After a few seconds
- 34:57of sending that message, I got a call. My cell phone started ringing,
- 35:01but it was a number I didn' t identify. My cell phone
- 35:05stopped ringing and the office phone started ringing. I took it and said the
- 35:09good morning on the other side, an extremely dim voice and told me something
- 35:15I didn' t understand. After a few seconds of waiting, I asked
- 35:19her to repeat what she had asked me again and despite the low voice,
- 35:22I distinguished that she was a child. I became icy and immediately thought of
- 35:28the child that tormented me. I looked into the crib and there I saw
- 35:32it behind the bars. Behind the crib she showed me her hands holding on
- 35:37to the bars, black eyes with a soft line that crossed them from top
- 35:42to bottom, her skin almost blue and long hair dropped my phone and that
- 35:46of the office because of fear. I screamed without realizing it. I wanted
- 35:51to run, but I got through the desk. That' s where I
- 35:55looked at the crib and I didn' t see it anymore I moved the
- 36:00desk that got in my way and went to the door. It didn'
- 36:01t open. I was turning the knob everywhere, but the door wouldn'
- 36:06t give in. I started screaming desperate to get out of there the light
- 36:09started blinking, as I had done in the elevator. Tears came out of
- 36:15me. I also felt like my fingernail broke. When I started scratching the
- 36:19door, it seemed like no one would listen to me. In spite of
- 36:22all the noise that time made, it became eternal to me. I didn
- 36:27' t feel like I could escape that. That girl appeared and disappeared with
- 36:31the light, and I saw her standing in the annoying cradle staring at me
- 36:37with a terrifying look, and her face had been deformed until she had a
- 36:42diabolical image like that of an angry old woman. I was told that more
- 36:45than five minutes had passed since my first scream was heard, while it took
- 36:51the guards to climb up or it took the gynecologist to get out of his
- 36:54office to see where the screams came from. Even though I was shot at
- 36:59that, I felt it took an eternity of this. It' s been
- 37:05five years and I still can' t remember what happened. The face of
- 37:09that devilish girl came up to my face. I felt like I had been
- 37:14hit on the head. I remember hearing the sound of my body impacting on
- 37:17the ground. The rest was all darkness. I didn' t dream anything
- 37:22or see anything weird as you might think. I simply lost consciousness and fortunately
- 37:29did so because I received more than five bites all over my body. They
- 37:34moved me in an ambulance to the E R. There was no explanation for
- 37:37what had happened to me. There was no one on the security cameras but
- 37:42me. Neither had anyone come up at night to hide in the office waiting
- 37:46to attack. My case was incredible, as the bites of a kind of
- 37:52animal covered several parts of my body. I had a wound on my forehead
- 37:57from the first blow that gave me blood in n much, but it wasn
- 38:00' t painful. It was much heavier to have the breath, as every
- 38:05one who sucked deeply hurt my chest just where I had one of the bites.
- 38:10I spent a few days there the cops came, they took samples and
- 38:16photographs of my skin. I cried many days in a row. I felt
- 38:21the powerlessness of not being able to defend myself. Nor could he understand how
- 38:24he had come to this attack. To me, no one was going to
- 38:29sell me the story that I had had a panic attack or a psychotic outbreak.
- 38:34Everyone in the building had seen the girl. Everyone knew there was something,
- 38:37and even the doctor had confessed to me that she had to ignore it
- 38:43It was amazing the way they treated me as if I had dreamed everything.
- 38:47In the end, few friends stay. The doctor didn' t take responsibility
- 38:52for anything. She had confirmed that she had been very nervous the last few
- 38:58weeks and the medical psychiatrist until she got tired and I begged my mom to
- 39:01get me out of there as soon as possible. I lasted three weeks in
- 39:06the hospital. I ended up with post- traumatic stress and that prevented me
- 39:12from finding a job throughout the year followed by the event. I cursed everyone
- 39:15for not understanding me at one point. I came to think that I had
- 39:20had a psychotic outbreak, but at that very moment there came a call sent
- 39:24by God himself, because he left me alone after all the recovery of the
- 39:30terror I lived, who called me was Joseph, the surveillance boy. He
- 39:34told me that the day that episode happened, he was resting after the respective
- 39:38greetings and telling us how we had gone during this time he had left the
- 39:44office. He told me that he too had to change jobs and that,
- 39:49in addition, the office apartment tower had not been able to rent more.
- 39:55I got scared and asked him to tell me everything he knew, even though
- 39:59he didn' t know there were all the details. What he told me
- 40:01was enough to leave my soul alone. I wasn' t freaking out because
- 40:07of stress, as I' d been made to believe. Joseph told me
- 40:10that the father had gone to bless the office, but that it lasted almost
- 40:15fifteen minutes to enter the place. The door was jammed for no reason and
- 40:20even more than the maintenance manoeuvring to open it. He practically had to kick
- 40:24it so he could unlock it. The rite of blessing could not be carried
- 40:29out. The doctor ran off with the father and neither of them returned again.
- 40:36They sent a person to clean the place because other doctors on the floor
- 40:40began to complain about the bad smell of the office. In the end,
- 40:45the room was in bad shape. You couldn' t rent it. Then
- 40:50a waste pipe burst, leaving the entire floor unusable. Little by little,
- 40:55as if the plagues had settled in the office tower and new problems began to
- 41:00appear. They all moved to other addresses to consult. The watchmen put up
- 41:07with a little more, but there came a point where it was no longer
- 41:12possible to pay them to take care of them. The space was completely empty
- 41:15and although it doesn' t look bad on the outside, the building is
- 41:19unusable. Not a lot of people are going around with something really powerful with
- 41:24an evil presence either. He' d taken over the whole building by trying
- 41:29to get him out of there. When I was a student and was finishing
- 41:38my studies in philosophy and lyrics, I had to do my social service in
- 41:44the small public library of the colony of my home. It was a small
- 41:47library forgotten by the neighbors. It wasn' t long. People there also
- 41:52surprised me to know where it was located, because I didn' t imagine
- 41:59that I could be in the second pine tree, just above the American clinic.
- 42:02It was quite a discovery of that space. Also to find out that
- 42:07access was not allowed much because the books could be stolen. Mrs Marcela was
- 42:13those kind of people who distrusted everyone, but she didn' t start to
- 42:17think she was in a public library. Despite the circumstances, I had every
- 42:23intention of doing the best I could to learn and, in addition, to
- 42:28take advantage of my time with the books, because I could read everything I
- 42:32wanted in that place. It was fun my time in the service. I
- 42:37remember it with affection, but at the same time with nostalgia, because there
- 42:43I met the boy I fell in love with forever. Adrian was my first
- 42:45love. He was in the library as part of a pedagogy project to play
- 42:52theatre with children and had been given the ease to use the small reading space
- 42:55of the library to put together a series of puppet presentations of some classic children
- 43:01' s tales. It was a dream for me because it was all I
- 43:07liked about a boy was fun. He liked working with children a lot,
- 43:13and he was a great dancer. He was studying theater, but he wanted
- 43:16to combine his love of acting with his taste for teaching. Even though she
- 43:21was only twenty- one years old, she already worked as a theatre teacher
- 43:27for children in a private preschool. I was two years younger. I couldn
- 43:30' t easily talk to anyone, unlike him, who seemed to know half
- 43:36the world. We met on the spiral stairs that went up to the library.
- 43:43I was going upstairs with my papers to apply as a library assistant for
- 43:47my service and he was coming down after leaving more puppet material in the reading
- 43:52area. Adrian. I had six months working with puppets, giving presentations every
- 43:59day and on Saturdays. When I met him, I knew I had to
- 44:04get close at all costs. I fell in love intensely and could never forget
- 44:07what we were living, even though it was hard for me to get close
- 44:12to talking about anything in order to get him to talk right away. I
- 44:15felt he was also interested in my conversation. I let him talk nonsense.
- 44:22I made him aware that I liked him very much, but it didn'
- 44:25t happen to us. One of those happy stories where two people live an
- 44:30intense love and separate. Me and him separated death long before we could tell
- 44:35ourselves if we wanted to be with each other. When the summer vacation was
- 44:40over, the children returned to school and began to be more and more alone
- 44:45in the library. We' ve been seeing each other every weekend since January.
- 44:51I had already earned Doña Marcela, so she let me go at my
- 44:53own pace when I settled or tagged the books. I even let myself participate
- 45:00in puppet theatre activities. Adrián was about to finish his children' s theatre
- 45:06research for educational purposes. I was dying to tell you that the last six
- 45:10months had been the best of my life. So I told him we could
- 45:15get out. I couldn' t see him leave without even asking for the
- 45:21phone number I could call or the address I could send a letter to.
- 45:25I think I also expected an invitation from him because I spent a whole week
- 45:31trying to tell him that I could go out on a Sunday with me,
- 45:37but I couldn' t, because he seemed to have fun with every failed
- 45:39attempt. In spite of all we went to a cafe one very hidden in
- 45:45the center area and spent the afternoon talking The beginning of the tragedy. It
- 45:50happened right after we left the cafe, convinced me that I wanted to be
- 45:54with him forever, though I will never know if he thought the same thing
- 45:59for me. When we went out and walked down the main avenue to take
- 46:04the subway, we met a rather scandalous group that apparently knew him, introduced
- 46:07me to everyone smoking and invited us to spend some time with them. It
- 46:15was a group of six or seven people I no longer remember well, but
- 46:20it is clear that the girl who invited us was interested in Adrian. He
- 46:23insisted too much that we go to the party. We got to a huge
- 46:29apartment. I was told that several of them had rented the space so they
- 46:32could stay close to the theater. That I was close. There were clothes
- 46:37all over the place, lots of alcohol and other things very fashionable at the
- 46:40time to experience I sat down without talking much. Adrian was trying to pay
- 46:46attention to me or take me to the conversation, but the discomfort wouldn'
- 46:51t let me talk. I tried to misbehave, so I relaxed like them
- 46:54with some beer to try to live in the same environment as this guy.
- 47:00At dawn, I picked up the phone and dialed the house. I told
- 47:05my mom I' d run into some college buddies and they' d take
- 47:08me home in the morning. I didn' t last more than five minutes
- 47:15on the call, but when I returned from the kitchen to the Great Hall,
- 47:20they were all in a circle with their hands held in pairs. I
- 47:22was shocked, though I thought I was practicing some of some work, but
- 47:28they invited me to join and told me they were going to call in the
- 47:30shadow. I didn' t know what that was. I had never heard
- 47:36such a game until I had heard about the daughter would have been less surprising,
- 47:42but I didn' t understand that about the shadow. I was told
- 47:44that it was a practice that Tami, the girl who pursued Adrian, had
- 47:49learned when she went on a spiritual journey to Guatemala. I thought they were
- 47:52trying to make a joke on me, but they turned too serious to start
- 47:58playing the game. Without much convincing, I decided to participate because nothing bad
- 48:04could happen. I paired up with a girl who was alone. I don
- 48:08' t remember his name, but I got uncomfortable thinking they were looking for
- 48:13me to sleep with that night. While I was thinking that, the game
- 48:16started. One person from each couple was the one who called in the shadow
- 48:21to help pull out the shadow of the other. I am not a believer,
- 48:25but I was horrified for what purpose someone might want to immobilize another,
- 48:31be it the shadow or whatever. So I took my hands off the girl
- 48:35' s hands and I turned to see what the girl was doing to Adrian
- 48:38so much and took Adrian' s hands to show us how it was done.
- 48:43First he took them hard from his wrists. Then he took his forefinger
- 48:47and a half and pulled them. She said something like the shadow was present
- 48:52and we were going to see how she could imprison for a few seconds.
- 48:55Adrian' s shadow was soban' s hand moved her and then began counting
- 49:01to three and asked her to keep her hands away from her. At that
- 49:06time, his shadow seemed to stay a few seconds in tamiy' s hands
- 49:10and then return to him. It was as if he had seen his shadow
- 49:15hooked by her fingers and then returned to his normal position on the ground where
- 49:22Adrian had his hands. I think I even opened the mouth of the impression
- 49:27was amazing that phenomenon. I was very curious and began to ask, along
- 49:31with the others at the meeting, to remake the separation of the shadow.
- 49:37So we spent the night half drunk and trying what we had seen with the
- 49:43shadows. I don' t remember if dawn came like this, but I
- 49:46woke up about 2: 00 in the afternoon and I had classes at 3
- 49:50: 00. I ran away without saying goodbye to many because they were still
- 49:55asleep, but Adrian went after me. He accompanied me to take a class
- 49:59of s us later we stayed together until the afternoon and asked me if I
- 50:02liked his friends and although I had my doubts, I pretended that yes,
- 50:07so as not to separate myself from him by the conclusion of his activities in
- 50:12the library. So we started dating all the time with his friends, even
- 50:15though it was school season. There was always a weekend party, as well
- 50:22as weekends. I felt like we both had something, but we didn'
- 50:28t talk things over. He just let me go to see if he could
- 50:32understand me with him. In the end I began to get along with Tami
- 50:36and began to invite me to other meetings of his circle of musicians. She
- 50:39sang opera. That' s why he met Adrian. He taught me a
- 50:45lot about occult arts. I went into Masonry apprentice circles, started to go
- 50:51to pagan party meetings secretly from all over the world. Even in my loving
- 50:55interest. I thought I was finding a lot of answers that the books of
- 51:02the great thinkers weren' t giving me in school. Little by little,
- 51:06I was like in a madness of occultism and became obsessed with the call of
- 51:09the shadow. The god of death, the eternal shadow, was sought.
- 51:14Mr Michlan. He gave power. That' s what I knew and besides,
- 51:19I could use his power if I was an apprentice like I had no
- 51:23place for my internships. I started performing the rituals in the library, as
- 51:28Doña Marce already left me the keys to the opening of the library. I
- 51:32began to arrive early between six and seven in the morning, so that when
- 51:37activities began at nine, there would be no suspicion of what I was doing.
- 51:42Adrian was visiting me, but it wasn' t my priority. I
- 51:46was too involved in all those practices. I wanted to find something and with
- 51:52complete honesty I can say that I don' t understand what it was or
- 51:57why I was so fascinated. Maybe I let myself be dominated by the shadow
- 51:59of the s of the first minute sor that I tried to make the game
- 52:02with Tami and everyone else. I wish I had the mental maturity to get
- 52:07away from that as soon as I felt uncomfortable. Little by little I began
- 52:12to see in the library. Shadows walked on the shelves. The atmosphere also
- 52:16felt flawed. The light seemed not to go in completely to illuminate everything as
- 52:23before when I accommodated the books, I saw more and more spiders. Doña
- 52:28Mar also began to get sick coughing and coughing without knowing why. Even though
- 52:32I was going to see a doctor, I didn' t want to quit
- 52:37my internship. The shadow altar I set up in the small closet of cleanliness
- 52:40seemed to have an effect. I was euphoric about its effect and began to
- 52:46create small miracles, so to speak. I asked for money and found myself
- 52:52in one way or another something valuable on the street. He always had good
- 52:55grades, too. Time began to Sobrarme I felt that I could learn without
- 53:01limits. It was fun, but I also wanted more. Adrian would visit
- 53:07me and I would keep doing everything because he would notice me, because he
- 53:12would give me a chance to have a relationship, but it always seemed like
- 53:15something was getting in the way. Paranormal events increased the water of the crag
- 53:21that was for visitors, began to be filled with the mistress from one day
- 53:25to the next. Some books began to degrade quickly the yellowish leaves were undone
- 53:30in my hands. One afternoon, Dona marse did not return and sent a
- 53:36person to cover her incapacity. I took it as normal because of her age,
- 53:42but she had lost her life by that time. I started to feel
- 53:45like something was following me everywhere. I started to get a little sleep.
- 53:50I also got thin without realizing it, and when I opened the library,
- 53:54there were dead birds on the stairs, as everything had become out of control.
- 53:59I sought the SS solitude and isolated myself in my house. I stopped
- 54:02going to college and started fighting all the time with my brothers. It'
- 54:07s too painful to remember. Despite all the years that have passed. It
- 54:13still hurts a very bad night. I woke up puking. It was unstoppable
- 54:17and I stained my blankets. I got up really tired. Vomiting looked like
- 54:22a dark spot. I didn' t smell anything. My room was completely
- 54:27black and I couldn' t tell anything between the night. I carved my
- 54:31eyes, but I couldn' t see anything clear or some shadow. That
- 54:36' s when in the dark I felt something touching my shoulder. I stopped
- 54:39running to light when I could focus something. I saw my shadow moving differently
- 54:45than I did. His movement was slower. I closed my eyes and thought
- 54:50I was still asleep. I dropped to the ground slowly and the shadow did,
- 54:53but faster. I felt like I' d go crazy and want to
- 55:00run somewhere to intern. But the moment I raised my hand to guide the
- 55:02knob out of the room, I saw that my shadow stood still looking at
- 55:07me and I couldn' t even move my eyes. I was paralyzed in
- 55:13the middle of panic, unable to scream. I saw with horror how all
- 55:16the things on my desk fell. One by one they were piled up on
- 55:22the floor until a marker came near my feet. Against my will, I
- 55:27took the marker and my hand wrote that I had been heard by the shadow
- 55:30lord and now I was his worshiper. I didn' t know what that
- 55:36meant. I couldn' t ask for help either, because they' d
- 55:39think I was crazy. That was my handwriting on the floor. There was
- 55:43no sign that someone else had been with me. In my room. I
- 55:47was crying in the dark. I turned off the light because I didn'
- 55:52t want to be seen by anyone in my family. I also locked the
- 55:54room I cried all night and the next day I left early to the library
- 55:59because I was going to Adrian to carry some books I had taken on loan.
- 56:05When I saw Adrian I wanted to tell him everything, but a terrible
- 56:08fear seized me. As people passed by and moved through the books. We
- 56:14heard that there were more and more murmurs in the library. I got impatient
- 56:17because I wanted to tell him everything, but I couldn' t and then
- 56:22the noise wouldn' t let me. A cry from a girl pulled me
- 56:24out of my thoughts. Then the screams of other children and of some people
- 56:30asking about an ambulance became clearer and clearer. A girl was lying under a
- 56:37shelf that fell and the books began to fall one by one Adrian threw himself
- 56:40to cover the girl so that no more things fell on her. Apparently,
- 56:45nothing serious had happened to her, but she was passed out. We'
- 56:52re waiting for him to get to the ambulance. The library was closed until
- 56:54the details of the accident were untied. In the end, the new librarian
- 56:59saw himself was told to give him the keys because he didn' t know
- 57:02when he was going to open the library after the incident, I panicked of
- 57:07not being able to go back to where he had left the altar of shadows.
- 57:12When I ran out of a place to go looking for the shadow lord,
- 57:15I went crazy. My life depended on him being satisfied with what he
- 57:20was doing. I' ve never killed anything to offer it. You always
- 57:25candles incense money or some actions, but if for starting to walk away he
- 57:30asked me to die, I went to Adrian crying. That would be our
- 57:36last conversation and I don' t remember what we said. I couldn'
- 57:39t tell him how I felt about him either It was late. I saw
- 57:44him start walking towards his subway station. I got desperate. I was astounded
- 57:50by fear and yelled at him that I had converted to the Tami sect.
- 57:53That last look was horrible. It' s painful. When someone you love
- 57:58looks at you like you' re a monster, he came up to me
- 58:01and claimed how dumb he had been. I begged him to take me with
- 58:06him so we could go see her. I wanted to tell you what had
- 58:09happened to the Lord of Shadows. Adrian told me to look for her on
- 58:13my own. I went after him because he started walking fast to leave.
- 58:17When I reached for him, I grabbed his hand and pulled him towards me.
- 58:22In seconds he made his hand like this, letting go of my grip
- 58:25but from the light of the public lighting we saw clearly how the shadow of
- 58:30his hand stayed a few seconds away from mine and he told me that he
- 58:36did not want to see me again with the fear of never seeing him again.
- 58:37I went after him and pulled him hard towards me, but I saw
- 58:42him leave without turning a moment was rare. The feeling of my hand felt
- 58:46that I had grabbed him by the arm, but I saw him leave to
- 58:52never return between the shadows and the light in the street. For a moment
- 58:55I saw Adrian standing there as a shadow on the floor, but I thought
- 59:00the one I agreed with wanted to see me suffer. Upon arriving at my
- 59:05home, I told my parents what had happened in the library. Before they
- 59:09saw them in the papers or heard it. I told them I was fine,
- 59:14but I was going to stop going to the library because of what I
- 59:17had been through. I also asked them to let me hang out without going
- 59:21to school. They didn' t know I had stopped going to college.
- 59:25For a long time, my life was in a huge hole. I thought
- 59:30I was going to die soon or something bad, I was going to take
- 59:34my life away, but unfortunately it wasn' t how I felt. That
- 59:37night in the middle of the nightmares, the Lord of Shadows visited me and
- 59:43I saw with him the shadow of Adrian. That was the most terrible announcement
- 59:46that could be given to whoever Adrian is. The love of my life threw
- 59:52itself onto the subway tracks. Witnesses said he was drunk. It seemed that
- 59:58he had lost his balance on the shore and went to the tracks just before
- 1:00:01the train arrived. No one could do anything. It was too fast.
- 1:00:07I know that the Lord of Shadows took him and it was my fault,
- 1:00:09because I wanted him to disappear, because of the courage he had given me
- 1:00:15to abandon me, that all my love would be in smoke. After being
- 1:00:19half together for a year, after his death, I ran away from my
- 1:00:23parents' house, I didn' t contact Tami anymore. I was terrified
- 1:00:27that he would find me and blame me for Adrian' s death. It
- 1:00:31wasn' t ritual again I gradually moved away from pencils of feathers and leaves
- 1:00:37and tried to get away from everything that had to do with those dark forces.
- 1:00:42I' ve been running away for years. He was one of those
- 1:00:45people who spent a week in one place and another week in another very different.
- 1:00:51I knew the hell of the streets, of the workers with the body,
- 1:00:54also of the bad people who cause addictions in others to earn money.
- 1:01:00On my way to self- destruction I ended up in Tijuana. I worked
- 1:01:04a lot of things. I met a lot of people. I think it
- 1:01:07shows up in my body because I look like a lady over 80 years old.
- 1:01:14My time was counted from the moment I decided to follow Tami. I
- 1:01:17was also going to die soon, but I think I bought time when I
- 1:01:22wanted to end the person I love the most, because the lord of the
- 1:01:27shadows enjoys the pain and calls the noble souls to be able to consume.
- 1:01:32I don' t know if it' s good or bad, but despite
- 1:01:36living heartless, tired of everything and deeply depressed by the loss of the person
- 1:01:42I' ve loved the most and the more I' ll love all my
- 1:01:45life, I couldn' t take my life away. Now I' m
- 1:01:46here, old, tired and almost always sad, but fighting not to die.
- 1:01:52I don' t want to be absorbed by the shadows. I have
- 1:01:55found a motive for my book business and my friends too, so among my
- 1:02:00ways a woman who does work to block death crossed, when an entity is
- 1:02:05looking for you to take over. I' ve been working with her for
- 1:02:10ten years to free myself. So far I haven' t fallen dead.
- 1:02:15That' s profit, but who knows I' m on the other side.
- 1:02:19I went back to the library and wanted to know what had happened and
- 1:02:23it doesn' t exist anymore. The building is empty asking a little of
- 1:02:27the people around that I saw pass, many told me not to buy or
- 1:02:32rent. The place was cursed. There were shadows that walked from one side
- 1:02:38to the other. Sometimes they could be seen when the moon was full and
- 1:02:43there were no clouds. Black dogs are always afraid of people, and it
- 1:02:53' s silly for all black animals to be linked to the presence of the
- 1:02:59devil. That' s why, during the days of October to November,
- 1:03:02in my veterinarian we always sought to protect black cats and dogs from crazy.
- 1:03:09I have a vet. I studied the career in that, so it makes
- 1:03:14me very happy to have fulfilled my lifelong dream. After six months of opening,
- 1:03:20I went to the colony next door, a little less secure, but
- 1:03:23at least many of the customers could continue to bring their pets with me so
- 1:03:30as not to miss out on their follow- up. The house was not
- 1:03:32adapted to have spaces that would fit my needs as a doctor, but with
- 1:03:38some arrangements it turned out well and I could even install a hotel for animals,
- 1:03:44which was the one that did not want to lose for nothing, because
- 1:03:47it was always the space that left me a little more money. At that
- 1:03:51time I was seeing them very tight. There wasn' t much income either,
- 1:03:57and I didn' t think it was because of my treatment or because
- 1:04:00prices were too expensive. I lowered the costs and adjusted the schedules. It
- 1:04:05was a matter of luck if I could pick up the business, I could
- 1:04:11keep on dedicating myself to what I was passionate about, but if I didn
- 1:04:15' t, I would have to look for a job that I could actually
- 1:04:16keep up with. I had time with my girlfriend Ari. I was hoping
- 1:04:21I could ask her to marry soon, but after the problems of financial solvency,
- 1:04:28she wisely told me that we could wait a little longer to live together.
- 1:04:31So I bet everything on the vet and left my apartment. I moved
- 1:04:35with few things to the same house where I was consulting and set out to
- 1:04:41get out of the problem I was in. It was a cheap house to
- 1:04:45be so big. The owner was an old man who didn' t talk
- 1:04:48much. He closed the deal as fast as he could. So, without
- 1:04:51much effort, I rented the house and the owner allowed me to have my
- 1:04:56business there to spend a month fixing permits, as well as other details,
- 1:05:01such as the organization of space. I opened the vet. Again, the
- 1:05:06initial rhythm was not bad Because of the inauguration many people came, there was
- 1:05:13a lot of movement. The heavy thing was to wait for the months to
- 1:05:16come. The dog hotel was working. Besides, it was a very large
- 1:05:20space, so I could have ten dogs with me without problems. That house
- 1:05:26was curious to keep many old things. I recognized some I' d seen
- 1:05:31at my grandparents' house. It was a small front house, but with
- 1:05:36a large courtyard where there were three fruit trees. He had arranged everything so
- 1:05:43he could let the animals run and play. There and in the other rooms
- 1:05:46had the kennels, the basic procedure room for the consultation and a small reception
- 1:05:51cabinet attached to the bathroom. I adapted it to live there one night.
- 1:05:59This one was getting really hot. It was June and I felt like I
- 1:06:03was suffocating while watching TV before I went to sleep, I opened my door,
- 1:06:08but it seemed to me that the dogs were restless. I went to
- 1:06:11the kennel room and they were moving a lot. I was surprised not to
- 1:06:15see them sleeping. Besides, as soon as I saw them, they started
- 1:06:20going crazy for me to get them out, I figured the heat had them
- 1:06:26all up, so I took it out There were only two dogs and one
- 1:06:28more cat. My bitch set them free in the yard and left the open
- 1:06:31door of my room, theirs and the garden of the trees. The scent
- 1:06:35of random flowers had filled the whole atmosphere. I was very happy. I
- 1:06:42took my glass with cold water and sat in a plastic chair to watch them
- 1:06:45play in the morning. I had some bath dates, but it didn'
- 1:06:50t matter if I got a little more light. If I saw them happy
- 1:06:55without realizing it, I fell asleep. Sitting in that chair, I was
- 1:06:59awakened by a sound of the grunt onus. The dogs were crouched under where
- 1:07:02he slept. Suci was grunting in the yard as there was no light to
- 1:07:08light that place well. I didn' t know what my bitch was barking
- 1:07:11at her, but I wasn' t going to wait to find out,
- 1:07:15so I immediately closed the patio door, stuck it in the wood she had
- 1:07:19pointed at me. The owner had been very specific. That didn' t
- 1:07:25matter if the house now became a vet. He would accept that as long
- 1:07:30as I signed the contract, where, in addition to setting rent costs,
- 1:07:35I also committed myself to cleaning and keeping the trees in the yard, but
- 1:07:40above all to keeping that place closed at night. When he told me how
- 1:07:45to close the door, he told me that sometimes he opened himself, so
- 1:07:48he gave me the board he was stuck with. It seemed very strange to
- 1:07:53me, but since I am no one to judge, I only accepted and
- 1:07:58continued the deal all morning until the dawn of my little hers did not want
- 1:08:03to take off the door. He slept there like he was watching in the
- 1:08:09morning. I started my activities. As usual. I opened all the windows
- 1:08:13so that the air would circulate and the smell of an animal would not remain
- 1:08:16penetrated in the house. When I opened everything, including the patio door,
- 1:08:21I took the surprise of my life when I saw a lot of legs painted
- 1:08:26on the ground. Since I didn' t have much time to be thinking
- 1:08:30about it, I set aside the subject and devoted myself to work as usual
- 1:08:33and at night I no longer remembered the incident. That night he grabbed the
- 1:08:39loneliness of his, of my girlfriend and of me. The dogs had been
- 1:08:43picked up and Bigotes could not move because he was in recovery. Ari and
- 1:08:47I took a couple of chairs and started looking at the trees. Even though
- 1:08:53the courtyard didn' t look good for lack of light. I didn'
- 1:08:57t think it was scary, but my girlfriend would hear and feel a certain
- 1:09:00chill. When I looked closely at the darkness between the trees, he asked
- 1:09:05me how big the courtyard was, because in the darkness it seemed to be
- 1:09:11more than ten meters to the neighbor' s fence. I didn' t
- 1:09:15remember the measures the owner had given me. That' s why I couldn
- 1:09:18' t answer him, but I told him not to worry. I had
- 1:09:21cleaned that yard, it was a while ago and everything was fine. There
- 1:09:25was no animal or person in the distance. On the first day I moved,
- 1:09:30I had assured that there was no hidden door and had discovered that there
- 1:09:35was a pool covered with sheets in the background At his side, glued to
- 1:09:41the wall a sort of old oven like brick glute was covered with an ari
- 1:09:45tarp. He told me that maybe they could have done something with mud or
- 1:09:49something, because it looked like he described the places where they sewed ceramics.
- 1:09:54We didn' t mention the subject anymore I locked the door and went to
- 1:10:00sleep. Monday came that day was dead work. There were no dates,
- 1:10:05no one came either. I was getting bored and tired. The sounds of
- 1:10:10his pulled me out of my thoughts in the distance. I was listening to
- 1:10:14her scratch something. I almost ran out to stop him from hitting some wall,
- 1:10:18but I couldn' t find it. I talked to him and he
- 1:10:23didn' t come out, so I went back to the front and started
- 1:10:29talking to him but he didn' t come to the call for nail noises
- 1:10:30either. Scratching they heard each other more and more, as I did not
- 1:10:33find theirs, but the sounds continued. I went to the door, put
- 1:10:38the sign on the door and secured the door to find out what was going
- 1:10:43on. Maybe he had gone to a place he couldn' t get out
- 1:10:46of and, since we had been living there for almost two weeks, he
- 1:10:50had no idea where he might be. I went looking for it room by
- 1:10:55room. I was starting to get scared when his squeals came to my ears
- 1:11:00and I located where the sound came from. The poor girl was under the
- 1:11:02plates, stuck in the pool. I hadn' t noticed that I had
- 1:11:09water and it was all wet I took it out of there, but I
- 1:11:13never started thinking about how I had done it to get in there. In
- 1:11:15addition to putting the foils up to get caught, I bathed her and continued
- 1:11:21with the day. Loose at night. Again I stared at the flowers of
- 1:11:25the trees. I realized that many lemons had already grown, so soon it
- 1:11:30would be time to lower the most possible ones to make the tree comfortable.
- 1:11:33Without so much weight, I began to accommodate things to go to sleep I
- 1:11:40was going to lock the door, but I came up with the idea that
- 1:11:44I could let the aroma roast penetrate the whole house. I had already left
- 1:11:48that door open all afternoon and the house remained cooler. That way, I
- 1:11:54decided to ignore what the renter told me, because I didn' t think
- 1:11:58anything bad was going to happen at night. I stared at my cell phone
- 1:12:03for a while before falling asleep. In the middle of the night I woke
- 1:12:08up in the cold. I felt my feet were freezing. I set my
- 1:12:12blanket, but when I turned around, I saw my door was open.
- 1:12:15I sat down to see better and, indeed, my door was open,
- 1:12:19even though I had closed it. Everything was dark, but the moonlight came
- 1:12:25in, lighting the big hallway between my room and the room where my tenants
- 1:12:29slept. I thought it would be a good idea to go check them out,
- 1:12:34as I woke up. When I got up and put on my sandals,
- 1:12:38a dog' s shadow went through the hallway. If I hadn'
- 1:12:41t missed my sight, I' d seen a dog headed for the yard.
- 1:12:45I thought it was suciy the figure of the dog jumped, ran,
- 1:12:50moved and then stood still. I told him the silence of the night.
- 1:12:55She squealed back at me, but she listened to him right next to me.
- 1:13:00I never noticed that the door to the room was locked. His crying
- 1:13:04from the inside. Hearing me call her, I was scared if she was
- 1:13:10locked up, which was what I had seen. I looked back into the
- 1:13:13yard to find out what it was I walked up to the door. I
- 1:13:15stayed on the shore before I stepped down to the ground. He could not
- 1:13:19see anything, for the night had become darker. Suddenly. I was going
- 1:13:26to go on my phone to talk to Ari to see me in the morning
- 1:13:30if possible, because I wanted to make sure somewhere in the yard there wasn
- 1:13:34' t a hole where some dogs were messing around. I didn' t
- 1:13:39even get to my room. The plan had been cancelled by dogs who grunted
- 1:13:43at me from the distance of the trees, a little beyond them, perhaps
- 1:13:47because I do not remember the distance well. What I can assure you is
- 1:13:53that those weren' t dogs. They looked too sharp. His ears,
- 1:13:57moreover, his eyes shone in a very strange glow. They were measuring me.
- 1:14:02I felt that the cold air of the night brought me a smell like
- 1:14:05rancid that came from them. Those weren' t dogs, but they looked
- 1:14:11like dogs, so I figured I was dreaming. I rushed into my room
- 1:14:15and came to see how those animals rushed into the house at full speed.
- 1:14:23I ventured to the floor of the room, to reach it. I closed
- 1:14:26with all my might. I pulled the wooden bureau where I had my clothes
- 1:14:30so I could lock up outside the sound of barking and paw noises throwing everything
- 1:14:36inside the house. He made me ask God to help me. It occurred
- 1:14:41to me to call emergencies, but what I was going to tell them I
- 1:14:45didn' t know whether to call the police or perhaps the animal control ones,
- 1:14:51because they didn' t look like normal dogs while the noises of destruction
- 1:14:54continued. I marked my girlfriend I told her stuttering what was going on.
- 1:14:58I was scared to death and she told me she was going to ask for
- 1:15:01a car to help me. I asked him not to come out at that
- 1:15:05time of night. It was dangerous for her and although I was also having
- 1:15:11something hard to explain. Lo. It was better to tell him in the
- 1:15:15morning how things had ended. We were talking, rather, discussing how we
- 1:15:21were going to cope with that, because she was getting ready to go out.
- 1:15:26When I heard my sui' s struggling barking, I got out of
- 1:15:31control listening to her, barking and suffering. It was obvious that he was
- 1:15:34fighting those animals. I looked into my stuff, but I couldn' t
- 1:15:40find a way out to defend it. In the end I decided for the
- 1:15:44plastic chair, because it was that or nothing I moved the bureau halfway,
- 1:15:48pushed the door and came out as I could, but I saw nothing.
- 1:15:51The house was like nothing had happened. I wanted to turn on the light,
- 1:15:58but I turned on one or two contacts from the LI if I realized
- 1:16:02that there was no electricity with the quick look I gave I made sure everything
- 1:16:08was more or less right. I thought even the drugs had been broken on
- 1:16:11the floor with the entrance of those demoniacs, but nothing was out of place.
- 1:16:15I didn' t see dog tracks with the little light on my cell
- 1:16:18phone screen. In the end I went to the pension room, but so
- 1:16:25I didn' t find it. I started calling her, but she didn
- 1:16:29' t even hear her cry. I ran for one of his favorite meat
- 1:16:31cans and started hitting him as usual, but he didn' t come out
- 1:16:36either. I couldn' t yell at him with all my might for fear
- 1:16:42of causing trouble with the neighbors. Within ten or fifteen minutes of not finding
- 1:16:45her, I decided that I would have to see if she wasn' t
- 1:16:50stuck, among some things, in the courtyard or if she had been trapped
- 1:16:54in the pool. Again I tried to get out, but in the dark
- 1:16:58they showed the eyes of those dogs. One of them stood on two legs
- 1:17:02and told me to get out of there. His eyes were red fire that
- 1:17:06creature with his demonic voice. He was a being out of the same hell
- 1:17:12for the fear of losing my les. I started saying I' d get
- 1:17:15it back. They had done something to him in the dark. His teeth
- 1:17:19with slugs were seen the tongues gasping. I felt like they were warning me.
- 1:17:26When they started peeling their teeth, I felt they were going to throw
- 1:17:30themselves at me and with all my strength I closed the door. I locked
- 1:17:34her in with the chair because I couldn' t find the wooden board.
- 1:17:39I sat next to the chair, crying because I didn' t know where
- 1:17:42my dirty little girl was and as I was sorry she arrived ari didn'
- 1:17:46t come alone. I had called my friend Autumn to help me. When
- 1:17:50they passed, they were surprised that everyone looked normal. I told them I
- 1:17:56couldn' t explain to them what had happened, but they did let me
- 1:18:00tell. Without being judged. I could tell them I saw what happened.
- 1:18:04It' s morning. They were both amazed by the story, but unbelieving.
- 1:18:10I was sure we had been attacked by a pack of dogs that could
- 1:18:15have been stuck through a hole in a wall or. Something then the three
- 1:18:18of us went out with the first rays of the morning to look outside on
- 1:18:24earth. We saw a lot of mixed footprints in the land that did me
- 1:18:28justice. Apparently there had been several dogs lurking around the courtyard. At night
- 1:18:31we found his but, unfortunately, he no longer had life. I started
- 1:18:39to cry from just seeing her neck, hanging from the pool between her and
- 1:18:43the plates. Toño helped me get her out. He told me he had
- 1:18:46no signs of struggle, no blood, no bites. We got on our
- 1:18:51way inside the vet to check it out. When Ari yelled at us,
- 1:18:57Toño went to take Sucia to the screening iron and I came back to Ari
- 1:19:00and told me he lifted the tarp that covered that kind of furnace. There
- 1:19:04were many pieces of burnt bones and there was a lot of ashes from burnt
- 1:19:10things. I went through those remains a little bit and saw only pieces of
- 1:19:15animals. Someone killed and cremated animals. There, around the pool I managed
- 1:19:19to distinguish very distinctive brown spots from dry blood. We went back inside with
- 1:19:26toño, but I didn' t let him go out in the yard anymore.
- 1:19:30I took the two doors and locked the board and found it. I
- 1:19:33' m lying outside. The tranca had a drawing that when looking for it
- 1:19:38on the Internet, it threw that it was a magic seal to prevent the
- 1:19:42entrance of evil. After that I never opened the door again. I didn
- 1:19:45' t care about the fruit thrown out or the garbage from the trees.
- 1:19:49I dissimulated as I could from the landlord who did the cleaning. I didn
- 1:19:55' t want to go back to unleashing hell, but I couldn' t
- 1:20:00get out of there either. He was without a single penny and survived only
- 1:20:02for the hope of being in a different place. It was terrible months of
- 1:20:09being depressed by what happened to Misusi and of living scared that those beasts would
- 1:20:13come back. I worked like crazy, at least. I only bought the
- 1:20:19essentials, because at all costs I tried to flee from that place as soon
- 1:20:25as possible ar I supported myself in everything little by little I was saving and
- 1:20:30although the way that they ended with my partner Canina made me think that I
- 1:20:35wanted to burn all that damn courtyard, it contained me. I didn'
- 1:20:36t know what they were doing there, or because those things came out of
- 1:20:41the dark. I didn' t investigate anything. He lived without knowing that
- 1:20:45the courtyard of the trees existed, but that titanic labor bore fruit. I
- 1:20:49was able to escape from there. A year and a half after I had
- 1:20:53rented, I moved to my old place that, as magic art, got
- 1:20:57out of hand just when I was looking for a new one is true to
- 1:21:00ride the vet. In spite of all this, that it seems a fantasy
- 1:21:05that goes against, that black dogs have nothing sinister, one thing is clear
- 1:21:10to me. Those weren' t dogs. The pure evil that these beasts
- 1:21:15embodied made them smell stale. Their eyes shone red. His grunts were like
- 1:21:23angry people. So I can say that if there' s a black dog
- 1:21:29or a sad cat on the street, the sure thing is that it'
- 1:21:32s good, because real evil animals are always going straight to attack. Stories
- 1:21:41written and adapted by Patricia González