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- 0:05Hey. My name is Reinald and I am thirty- two years old.
- 0:08The story I will tell is something that happened to me a while ago,
- 0:12something that opened my eyes to family secrets and knowing that sometimes ambition can lead
- 0:16us even to death. Well, I start by saying that my grandmother was
- 0:23a person of a lot of money. His house resembled a large estate.
- 0:27It was an impressive place, with a considerable expanse of land. The main
- 0:33residence had a very beautiful structure, built with stone and mud brick It had
- 0:39several bedrooms, each with its respective bathroom. At one end were the kitchen,
- 0:45dining and living areas. In the other were the bedrooms, my grandmother
- 0:51' s being the most spacious and luxurious. Clearly from his balcony. One
- 0:56could contemplate a circular fountain located right in the heart of the entire building.
- 1:02Inside the fountain you could see a statue of a lady in a long dress.
- 1:07This figure pointed his finger at the firmament. That sculpture always instilled fear
- 1:12in me. No one had any knowledge of the woman' s identity or
- 1:18the meaning of her gesture. Behind the residence were the stables next to the
- 1:23animals. Well, despite having a lot of money, my grandmother lived in
- 1:26a town. We visited my grandmother often. Unlike his brothers, my father
- 1:33never asked for money or mentioned it when he saw her. On the contrary,
- 1:38even though my grandmother had everything she needed, my father always brought her
- 1:44gifts and encouraged her participation in our lives. That' s why we developed
- 1:49a special bond with her that my uncles and cousins never had, as they
- 1:56often asked her for money or joked about who would inherit her possessions when she
- 2:01died, something that honestly seemed unpleasant to me, as it seemed from afar
- 2:06that the only thing they cared about my grandmother was her money. And well,
- 2:09she knew, so when she got sick, she made it clear who
- 2:15would inherit the estate, since my grandfather had passed away years ago and left
- 2:19the property to my father, along with precise instructions and just shortly after talking
- 2:23to my father. He died was always affectionate to us, but he also
- 2:30had a strange side in some family reunions, disappearing without anyone knowing where he
- 2:36was going or what he was doing. During holidays like Easter, Day of
- 2:39the Dead or days before Christmas, it was impossible to find her. It
- 2:44seemed like the earth had just swallowed it. Even if you came to her
- 2:50room before bed, you heard Grandma talking things I never understood. Anyway,
- 2:55when my father accepted the inheritance, my grandfather' s lawyers helped us through
- 3:00the transition and we moved home. Once installed. The most reliable lawyer gathered
- 3:06us in the room and communicated to us the private instructions shared by Grandma,
- 3:10who made it clear that the sculpture of the source should not be moved or
- 3:15moved from its place for any reason. He also said that the balcony window,
- 3:21the master bedroom should never remain open beyond midnight. And finally, he
- 3:27said that if we found a trunk, we shouldn' t open it for
- 3:31anything in the world, let' s leave it where we found it.
- 3:36Then, after reading the instructions, the lawyer left and we never heard from
- 3:40him again. The instructions were peculiar, but we never questioned why we were
- 3:46forbidden to do certain things. Besides, we knew Grandma had always had a
- 3:53weird side and surely her reasons for making it clear what she didn' t
- 3:57want us to do. So, as always, we respect his word without
- 4:00problem And so the years passed and we adapt to life in that place.
- 4:06The estate was so big that we didn' t get rid of my grandmother
- 4:11' s belongings. We keep them in his bedroom, which we never enter
- 4:15in time. My brother married and had his first child. My father suggested
- 4:21that I use my grandmother' s bedroom, which was vacant and spacious,
- 4:27to make it a new place for them. My brother accepted and started remodeling
- 4:32the bedrooms. When he knocked down one of the walls of the empty bedroom,
- 4:40he discovered a secret passage between that room and my grandmother' s.
- 4:43It was a narrow, dark corridor leading down stairs to what seemed to be
- 4:47a basement. As soon as he found out, he called us and we
- 4:53went down with flashlights to explore the place. The basement was a gloomy space
- 4:58impregnated with dust. It was that there was a bar full of old and
- 5:01dirty objects that had been forgotten There was still a switch that activated an incandescent
- 5:09light that barely illuminated the place. With that light we could distinguish some shelves
- 5:15attached to the wall and in some of them we found boxes with garments and
- 5:18ornaments. In the center was a long wooden table covered with dust and cobwebs.
- 5:26It showed numerous marks of knife cuts. It gave the impression of having
- 5:30been used to chop or cut something. We didn' t know I could
- 5:35do that thing, but we were worried about it. While my brother and
- 5:40father were investigating. I noticed on one of the bottom shelves a small trunk
- 5:46was made of wood and metal that had already rusted. It had strange inscriptions
- 5:50that resembled Greek writing or something. The trunk was closed with a lock and
- 5:57it seemed that the metal joints had been welded, as if what was inside
- 6:01should never be released. I tried to lift the chest and, being light,
- 6:09placed it on the table. While doing so, my brother found an
- 6:13album of images resting on the top of the same shelf. Inside were pictures
- 6:18of Grandma with individuals unknown to us. In all of her she looked happy,
- 6:27carrying with her a reliquary of silver appearance, hanging from her neck and
- 6:30in each photo they were smiling and enjoying, except in the last ones.
- 6:35In these last images, she wore a white dress and the others threw small
- 6:41gold coins at her. None of us understood the meaning of what we saw.
- 6:46To my brother and to me it was a bit surprising, but my
- 6:50father' s countenance had changed drastically. By holding the chest, my father
- 6:57was petrified as if he had seen a spousal. His face paled and his
- 7:01eyes reflected terror. It seemed as if something in his memory had woken up,
- 7:06something that tormented him by keeping his expression of horror. She began to
- 7:13tell us that when she was a child, Grandma used to have meetings with
- 7:16other people in the room during these meetings, causing her grandfather to take her
- 7:21away and return after a few hours. On one of those occasions, a
- 7:25woman felt bad just before she left with her grandfather. The woman started screaming
- 7:30and convulsing. She didn' t remember much of that moment, but if
- 7:36she remembered that after the collapse, the woman was taken to the hospital.
- 7:40Hours later, she observed that Grandma arrived with the chest and retired to her
- 7:44room. He never knew what happened to the woman or what was inside the
- 7:48chest. Later they placed the fountain with the statue. As my father told
- 7:54us that, I noticed that on the wall where the chest was there were
- 7:59numerous religious elements and pictures with the people present in the photographs of the album
- 8:05crosses, candles, consumed, rosaries and other sacred objects. Everything gave us
- 8:09an uncomfortable feeling and before we could express it, my father told us to
- 8:16leave when we were already outside. He turned off the light and went up
- 8:22carrying the chest with him. Once outside he warned us that we should not
- 8:26touch neither the chest nor the photo album anymore, as they were belongings of
- 8:31Grandma and that it would be better to forget what we had seen. He
- 8:35kept the chest in his closet next to the album and decided to leave the
- 8:39basement passage as it was. Therefore, my brother placed a wall at the
- 8:43exact height to prevent someone from going back into the basement. In time.
- 8:50During a family reunion, we shared what was found. For most it was
- 8:54an interesting anecdote. However, for my uncle Ricardo it was something more.
- 9:00He showed great interest in the discovery and where we had left the chest.
- 9:05A while later he got up from the table announcing that he would go to
- 9:09the bathroom. After more than an hour and not seeing him return, I
- 9:13decided to look for him. I discovered that my parents' room was open
- 9:18and there I found my uncle Ricardo. The drawers were open and many things
- 9:22were scattered. He was looking for the chest, which he held in his
- 9:28hand and tried to open with a chisel and a hammer he had taken from
- 9:31the toolbox. He started cursing my grandmother while trying to open the chest.
- 9:39He felt sweaty indicating that he had been trying for a while. The chest,
- 9:43though welded by some parts, was very old and the wood was given
- 9:48before the lock. Then he grabbed the broken fragment of the chest and threw
- 9:54it to the ground. It was enough to be able to observe what was
- 9:58in the chest. We were shocked to see what was inside. They were
- 10:03small gold coins, many that almost completely filled the chest. We didn'
- 10:07t know their origin or era, but they had engraved symbols that we didn
- 10:11' t recognize. Among the coins was a necklace- like locket that captured
- 10:16our attention. It was silver with a fine chain and an oval saying.
- 10:22It was the same as the photos and I stayed in shock while my uncle
- 10:24examined it and tried to open it. Upon achieving this, we noticed that
- 10:28inside there was room for two photographs, but instead there were two blood marks.
- 10:35One on each side. It seemed as if someone had left their fingers
- 10:41bloody in the metal, leaving a red and dry print. Realizing that,
- 10:46my uncle threw the locket over the bed, arguing that it would have no
- 10:50value for dry blood. Next to the reliquary was an ancient rosary that instilled
- 10:58an unpleasant sensation. It was made of dark wood, with round beads and
- 11:03a cross. In the end. The most peculiar thing, however, was
- 11:05that it had inscriptions in the same language as the chest. My uncle picked
- 11:11up the coins, put them in his bag and left the room, dropping
- 11:16the chest and rosary to the ground. While I was picking up the chest
- 11:20and putting it in bed, I heard that I was starting to argue with
- 11:24my father and claiming that he deserved the house more than that so he would
- 11:28keep Grandma' s gold and angry he left. My father looked at me
- 11:33bewildered and I informed him that my uncle had opened the chest. I told
- 11:37him what was inside and we left the rosary together with the reliquary inside it,
- 11:41even though it was already broken at this point. The other family members
- 11:46were gone and we were picking up the tables. When I suddenly heard my
- 11:50mother screaming coming back almost immediately, she said she had seen a girl run
- 11:56in a dress and thought she would be one of my cousins and went to
- 12:00see, because seeing animals on that side, it was dangerous for her to
- 12:05go alone. He didn' t see anything. He came back and told
- 12:07us. We didn' t care and we followed each other. That same
- 12:13night, while we were eating my parents, my brother, his wife and
- 12:18I heard a sound coming from the back. First it seemed like a scream,
- 12:24then someone crying and little by little it became a snoring and terrifying sound
- 12:28that, being so serious, made the windows of the house begin to vibrate.
- 12:33We all looked at each other confused and then my brother' s wife
- 12:37screamed scared. He said he saw a very tall person running through the door.
- 12:43I was on my back at the door, so I didn' t
- 12:46see him but she looked upset. I went out with my father, while
- 12:50my brother tried to calm his wife down by the address he told us he
- 12:54took. He seemed to be heading for Grandma' s room. As we
- 12:58advanced r we saw as the door of the room, his room closed.
- 13:03That was not logical, that room had not been opened in years and even
- 13:07if it did, all of us who lived in the house would find ourselves
- 13:11in the dining room. My father, very calm, told me not to
- 13:16approach. While he went to his room for his rifle. We thought someone
- 13:20broke in and broke into Grandma' s room door, maybe someone who wanted
- 13:24to steal. When my father approached me with the rifle in hand, my
- 13:28brother and I were each on one side of the room, in case the
- 13:33person who got in wanted to exit through one of the windows from where I
- 13:39was saw how my father approached the door slowly and when he opened it just
- 13:43a few centimeters, something pushed it violently from the inside. My father gave
- 13:48a choked scream as a laugh was heard coming from Grandma' s room.
- 13:54The three of us were paralyzed and before we even thought that it might have
- 13:58been that, the door opened completely. However, when we looked out there
- 14:05was nothing and no one. We looked everywhere and found nothing but dust and
- 14:09cobwebs, for as I said, no one had entered that room for years.
- 14:16That was very strange and we went back to the dining room and tried
- 14:20to make sense of the events that had just happened, because we had never
- 14:26had a similar situation since we lived in the house. But it probably had
- 14:28to do with Uncle Ricardo opening the trunk, because Grandma had made it clear
- 14:33that we couldn' t do that. Anyway, we tried to forget what
- 14:39happened and went to bed. When I went to my room, I had
- 14:45to go through one of the long halls when there were windows. There you
- 14:48could see towards the center of the house, where the fountain was. I
- 14:52don' t know if it was because of the fear I had of what
- 14:56happened in the afternoon or its management, but when I turned out I didn
- 15:01' t see the sculpture in it it was as if it had been removed.
- 15:03It was night, so the lights lit everything out and I saw clearly
- 15:07that I wasn' t turning quickly to go to my parents' room.
- 15:13When I saw something that terrified me, it was a female silhouette at the
- 15:18end of the hall, near Grandma' s room. I was standing there.
- 15:22He seemed to be watching me with a creepy smile. I felt my
- 15:26heart coming out of my chest as my cold sweat soaked my forehead. My
- 15:30breathing became agitated and my hands kept shaking. I couldn' t believe what
- 15:35my eyes saw. Suddenly, the lights blinked for a moment as if there
- 15:41was an electricity overload. I turned to one of the lamps and felt a
- 15:46slight breeze on my back. It was as if someone very big had breathed
- 15:52behind me scared, I ran to my brother' s room and yelled at
- 15:56him from the door. He came out quickly and very exalted. I told
- 16:00him what happened. While I was doing it, we looked up at the
- 16:04courtyard through the window and there was the sculpture in the fountain. It was
- 16:07as if he had never moved from his place. My brother told me to
- 16:11calm down that maybe I was suggested by what had happened to us in the
- 16:17afternoon, so I went to my strange and confused room. However, he
- 16:22kept thinking that the atmosphere felt heavy gloomy, as if there was something dark.
- 16:26Round the house. It felt very cold, even though we were in
- 16:33times of heat. After that I lay down and tried to fall asleep I
- 16:37was about to fall asleep. When I heard footsteps running down the roof of
- 16:41the house, I got a knot in my throat and a wave of anguish.
- 16:45I was flooded with something inhuman and frightening. He was moving through the
- 16:51scared roof. I walked out of my room and wanted to see what that
- 16:55was that was walking on top of us. The surprise is that in the
- 16:57hallway already the already or, was my father holding his rifle. Clearly I
- 17:03was staring at the ceiling, trying to discern that it was there, I
- 17:08could see its look full of restlessness. When he met me, he placed
- 17:12a finger on his lips and silently instructed me to hold still. I followed
- 17:17his advice as I looked up noticing a thick mist that formed in the courtyard
- 17:23in cold times. This would not have been unusual, but it was not
- 17:29the case. Suddenly we heard a squeak from the bottom of the hallway came
- 17:33from my grandmother' s bedroom door. My father turned around while I stood
- 17:38in front of him. We watched two little infants in white dresses leaving the
- 17:44room, just like the girl my mother had described earlier. A mute scream
- 17:49threatened to escape, so I covered my mouth with both hands. It was
- 17:55hard for me to believe what their pale faces and lifeless eyes saw. Suddenly
- 18:00we saw them heading towards the fountain, they knelt down and looked like they
- 18:07were playing with the water. My father and I watched full of questions.
- 18:11However, in an instant I felt an icy hand on my left shoulder,
- 18:17I turned my head and noticed that my father was doing the same thing,
- 18:21I had felt the same thing on his right shoulder, what we witnessed still
- 18:26today causes me nightmares. A woman with long hair, black and very deteriorated.
- 18:30Covering his face, he wore a white dress similar to that of a
- 18:34girlfriend, but notoriously dirty surprised. I went back and fell to the ground
- 18:40and at that moment I felt my heart paralyzing and closed my eyes waiting for
- 18:45everything to disappear. Then a terrifying voice came out of the woman and told
- 18:51us we were dead. It had a threatening tone that made my skin stand
- 18:55up. It was a voice that did not belong to this world, but
- 19:00from the depths of hell. My father was standing next to me, but
- 19:06he didn' t make any sound. I was paralyzed. I had to
- 19:10shake him violently to make him react. Meanwhile, I saw the woman who
- 19:14had spoken to us headed towards the fountain and when she met the girls,
- 19:18they faded into the fog. It wasn' t even five minutes before my
- 19:25father' s phone started ringing. My mother answered and then passed it on
- 19:29to my father. I saw how his expression changed and became gloomy, cut
- 19:33off the call and informed us that she was Uncle Ricardo' s wife,
- 19:37who said that my uncle during the night began to behave strangely. He was
- 19:42very paranoid. He claimed to listen and see things. He ended up taking
- 19:48his own life. So his wife' s call was for us to accompany
- 19:52her throughout the process related to her death. The next morning, we either
- 19:59didn' t or r headed where he told us he' d be.
- 20:03When I got there with her. He told us everything that happened since they
- 20:07came home after lunch. He claimed he was following him to a car that
- 20:11my father had surely sent someone to take away the gold he had taken from
- 20:15the trunk. When they arrived at his home, he locked himself in his
- 20:21office and all the time he was talking. At dusk he refused to lie
- 20:25down and rest. He remained in the room with the lamps on and the
- 20:30bag containing the gold he had taken. However, his screams suddenly stopped.
- 20:34As he left the room, he found him with his belt, surrounding his
- 20:40neck and pulling from one of the bars in the room. After that we
- 20:45were talking about everything that had happened in the room. When a gentleman passing
- 20:49by approached us, he questioned why we were talking about gold coins. We
- 20:55do not reveal too much and kindly ask you to withdraw. We don'
- 21:00t go back to the house anymore. We stayed with my uncle' s
- 21:03wife during the wake and until his burial. When I left my cousin gave
- 21:08me a backpack. He said the coins were there and he didn' t
- 21:14want to know more about them. I took them and we left there.
- 21:18Upon arriving at the house it was almost four o’ clock in the afternoon
- 21:22and my brother, with his wife, informed us that in the morning a
- 21:26man had arrived in clothing similar to that of a priest. Looking for us
- 21:30at that moment, they knocked on the door. He was that man in
- 21:34a cassock, a tall man in a clear complexion. Despite his imposing figure
- 21:37under the cassock, he showed kindness. He presented himself with his name and
- 21:45explained to us that he was commissioned by a higher body to assist us,
- 21:49as we were in danger. He asked us to tell him everything that happened
- 21:53since the day we found the chest. After listening patiently, he told us
- 21:59that we should go from there on orders from the church. My father asked
- 22:02him why, but he told him it was confidential. My father told her
- 22:08that we weren' t going to do that, that please go away.
- 22:11It was her mother' s house, and despite everything, she refused to
- 22:15leave her. The man just moved his head around and said he couldn'
- 22:19t force us, but we should be careful. And after that he left
- 22:25I put the coins where we found them and the whole family gathered in the
- 22:30courtyard of the house, held hands and prayed. In addition, we apologize
- 22:36to granny and tormented spirits. We apologize on Grandma' s behalf. After
- 22:41that nothing weird happened again. The basement was completely closed and even colored partitions
- 22:48and so on so that no one could enter. Anyway, we don'
- 22:53t know what happened. We don' t understand that Grandma was hiding.
- 22:56That remains an enigma that we hope will never be revealed to us without being
- 23:00geraly. We don' t want to know any more about my grandmother'
- 23:04s trunk or her old story. My name is Diana and I' d
- 23:15like to tell a story. The first time I heard it, it made
- 23:18me tremble in fear. It' s a story of my great- grandfather
- 23:22who, in peace, rests worthy to be told. It all started when
- 23:26my great- grandfather began to be a military man, while he was still
- 23:30in a small position, and he was on a mission in his own village,
- 23:36as many deaths were reported and they had to go check the entire area
- 23:40because it was said to be organized crime. Like many others in some houses
- 23:42and one of those times, my great- grandfather, along with four other
- 23:47men, came to a cabin where a man lived with his wife. They
- 23:52gave them an inn and the lady prepared them to eat. He was very
- 23:56kind, but there was something very strange in that house, because my great
- 24:02- grandfather realized that the man was acting strangely at the time, he recalled
- 24:07that he had heard about women who bewitched men and believed with all his might
- 24:11that that man was haunted, as he looked like a puppet when speaking and
- 24:15the Mover spent a few days in that cabin and the last day, my
- 24:22great- grandfather told the man that he knew something strange was going on and
- 24:26that he would help him. The night came and before my great- grandfather
- 24:30and the four men returned to the cabin, the woman intercepted them near a
- 24:33very dangerous ravine. He told them that he had found something that would do
- 24:38him much good. She said she wanted to help you. She taught them
- 24:44four gold sacks, but just then one of the men fell down the ravine.
- 24:51My great- grandfather told the woman that he knew her intentions and that
- 24:53he wanted me to leave them alone. My great- grandfather threw the gold
- 24:59sacks through the bar and in the company of the others went to look for
- 25:03the fallen companion, but it seemed that the land had swallowed it up,
- 25:08so it resulted in an unsuccessful search for hours and when they did not find
- 25:14it, they decided to return to the village. My great- grandfather didn
- 25:17' t understand what had happened and for some strange reason, he was very
- 25:19afraid. He tried to sleep, but just when he had achieved it in
- 25:26the early morning, someone went to tell him that his companions had died for
- 25:30no apparent reason, something that hurt his soul the next morning. He went
- 25:34to the homage done to his deceased companions and briefly related what they had experienced
- 25:41in the previous days, as the pastures watched and as they ended up going
- 25:47to a cabin to get food, he spoke about the gold and the tragic
- 25:51fate of each one. Most people just nodded without being able to do more.
- 25:56But as he spoke to one of the leaders of the people, he
- 26:00or a woman about thirty years old came to him and listened attentively to what
- 26:04had happened. At the end of his account, the woman took my great
- 26:08- grandfather' s arm and pushed him away a little. His hands were
- 26:12very cold. She told him that she needed to talk to him and when
- 26:18they were away from the people, the lady told him that the woman they
- 26:22had found in the cabin was a witch. The lady said she knew her
- 26:26many years ago. She told him she was very young. When Pepe was
- 26:30taken by the teacher who taught where the same man lived that my great-
- 26:36grandfather met in that cabin told him that in time they had discovered that in
- 26:41the mountain, where many had their lands, there was a cabin where a
- 26:47couple lived and nearby there were some small villages and just as in that suddenly
- 26:52there were people who disappeared, others who appeared with bruises and even others who
- 26:56appeared dead, according to the organized crime. But she knew it wasn'
- 27:03t like that. He told her it was said that one of the farmer
- 27:07' s daughters had been taken by the woman who lived in that cabin.
- 27:11The lady' s words were filled with sadness and deep sorrow, and her
- 27:15eyes shone with tears containing her pain. My great- grandfather, after listening
- 27:22to her, told her that he met the man who lived with that woman
- 27:26and told her that he seemed to be there against his will, as if
- 27:30he were in a trance from which he could not leave. He told her
- 27:33that he wanted to help the man and that he wanted to verify that the
- 27:38deaths were not due to something related to the crime. And then she answered
- 27:41him saying that she could help him. He told her to go and see
- 27:45her the next morning with salt and a sack. And so it was.
- 27:52Although my great- grandfather wasn' t such a witch believer and that kind
- 27:56of thing, he remembered the man' s gaze at the cabin and knew
- 28:00something or with him wasn' t right. Besides, I had to make
- 28:03sure there was no crime. Out there, because those days they hadn'
- 28:07t found anything weird and in the end it was their only choice. He
- 28:11asked for a few more days and decided to accept the help of the lady
- 28:14and in the morning my great- grandfather arrived at the house of that mysterious
- 28:18woman and already at the door he noticed the presence of two other men next
- 28:22to him. One of them said he came from a nearby village and when
- 28:26he showed up, both my great- grandfather and the other man were surprised,
- 28:33for the three were called the same. At that time, the lady
- 28:37opened the door and greeted him seriously. He told them to come in,
- 28:41that they should start soon. He told them his name was Rosenda Vega and
- 28:45that they should know that his family had always been a healer. For this
- 28:49reason, it had always been his turn to see how families were attacked by
- 28:55witches and how people had been victims, without anyone being able to do anything,
- 29:00because out of fear they let the pain pass. He told them that
- 29:03they had been recruited there because in one way or another, they had had
- 29:08contact with her and, in addition, they had the same name, so
- 29:12the three were the ones to beat that witch. He told them he would
- 29:17teach them how to use that, pointing to a table where there were some
- 29:21pairs of costal scissors that seemed to have grains, some red threads, something
- 29:27that looked like barbed wire and the salt sack that my great- grandfather brought.
- 29:32He told them that would be very complicated, that they should be strong
- 29:37and make use of all the faith they had. Moreover, it would be
- 29:40of great help to her if they defeated that woman, for she had always
- 29:45been seeking to free her former teacher and that with her help they would achieve
- 29:48a way to avenge everything the witches had done for many years. Moreover,
- 29:53he warned them that when they faced her and were about to win, he
- 29:59would offer them gold, wealth, power a thousand things in order to get
- 30:04out alive, he would only try to deceive them to destroy them. Finally,
- 30:07he told them that when they were done with her, he would possibly
- 30:12throw some curses at them, but he told them that she would give them
- 30:17some things with which they could protect themselves. And the three agreed with it.
- 30:21Rosenda began to explain to them how they should use scissors, that the
- 30:26costalitos had mustard seeds and how they should use them, in addition to the
- 30:30use they would give to salt She taught them how to tie the knots of
- 30:36red and more important thread, she told them three sentences to repeat, which
- 30:41had an order. The words were arranged in a reverse order and he explained
- 30:45to them when it was time they had to attack the Witch, they had
- 30:48to do everything to make the Witch weaken. That' s where they had
- 30:55to take advantage of it and end it. A few days later, when
- 30:59the three sentences to the Right were already known and the other way round,
- 31:03he gave each of them a somewhat strange amulet. It looked like a dream
- 31:07trap, but instead of the characteristic circular shape, it had a triangular shape.
- 31:14Mrs Rosenda told them that this amulet would protect them and that for nothing
- 31:18in the world they would take it away. My great- grandfather took it
- 31:21into his hands and thought of avenge the death of his companions. And when
- 31:25the thirteen felt ready to hunt down the Witch from the cabin, they went
- 31:29out, Rosenda gave them her blessing and told them she expected them to come
- 31:33back well. Having said that, the three men left as my great-
- 31:40grandfather knew where the witch' s cabin was, he told his two companions
- 31:44the direction they should take and how they would act. He knew by rose
- 31:48that at night it was when the witch went to the stove to take off
- 31:52her legs as if they were dismountable pieces and after that she flew out in
- 31:57the form of a fireball, so it was the perfect time and they had
- 32:04to take advantage of it to go for it. Soon after they recognized the
- 32:07cabin. In the distance they settled at the top of the hill, looking
- 32:10at that direction and waiting for the night to come so that the witch would
- 32:15leave hours later, when the night had fallen. Finally happened what they had
- 32:21been waiting for. They watched the woman walk into the kitchen and then saw
- 32:25her in the form of a fireball get lost in the bush. The time
- 32:30so longed for had come and they began to execute the plan that had led
- 32:35them to that place. My great- grandfather and one of his companions ran
- 32:38to the cabin, heading straight to the fire to recover the legs the woman
- 32:45had left there. Meanwhile, the other man began to spread the salt in
- 32:50a circle of four meters in diameter, repeating the process several times to ensure
- 32:54that the circle remained intact. I followed the path my great- grandfather had
- 33:01described to you. The path the witch was taking when she returned shortly before
- 33:06dawn. This path was crossed by a place bordered by large trees and the
- 33:12circle was located two meters from a huge tree. When my great- grandfather
- 33:16and his partner returned, each had one leg in his hand and the third
- 33:22partner had already completed his task. Right away. Each of them began to
- 33:27chart a path with seeds on the ground from the salt circle to the point
- 33:30where the witch was supposed to appear and there was the giant tree. They
- 33:37fastened their legs to the tree with barbed wire, as I had told them,
- 33:42and set out to wait. Each occupied a position as if they were
- 33:46the ends of a triangle, maintaining a distance of approximately twenty meters between them,
- 33:53leaving the salt circle inside this triangle and extending the seed path from each
- 33:58of the vertices of the triangle. Hours later, one of my grandfather'
- 34:06s companions noticed the witch returning immediately began to make noise to get their attention
- 34:12and when the witch looked at them, she turned directly to my great-
- 34:16grandfather with intent to attack them. However, he stopped abruptly in the air.
- 34:22When she met the salt circle and lay her gaze on the ground,
- 34:25she gave the seeds and the witch tried to pick them up quickly. My
- 34:30great- grandfather, fearful to note that the witch’ s face did not
- 34:36resemble anything of the girl who had laid them in the hut, began to
- 34:38recite one of the prayers Rosenda had taught them while making knots with thread.
- 34:45But the witch just let go of a frightful laugh and instantly it rose in
- 34:51the air of her hands. Huge claws came up with which he tried to
- 34:55hit my great- grandfather to snatch the protective amulet from him. While this
- 35:00was happening, my great- grandfather' s other two companions had pulled out
- 35:06their thread and were making knots at the same time as they recited one of
- 35:10the three prayers Rosenda had taught them. The moment they made a knot that
- 35:15they repeated several times, the witch twisted and then fell directly into the circle,
- 35:21as if a great weight had dragged her in that direction. When he
- 35:25fell, my great- grandfather ran to the tree where his legs were and
- 35:30stuck two of the three shears that each bore in the form of a cross.
- 35:36At that moment, the witch in the circle started screaming in a horrible
- 35:39way. He gave a heartbroken lament that was surely heard to hell itself.
- 35:46While that was happening, the three of them were very frightened, but they
- 35:52did not lower their guard and, suddenly, the screams stopped interrupted by a
- 35:57sweet voice coming from the witch, who lost them not to kill her,
- 36:00which would give them a lot of wealth or whatever they asked for. As
- 36:06their factions returned to make them of the girl who attended my great- grandfather
- 36:09and his companions when they went for food without letting her finish. My great
- 36:15- grandfather interrupted her and told her to shut up, that he knew what
- 36:19he was trying and that he had done the same thing with his former companions.
- 36:23While he was saying that, his two companions kept doing the same knots
- 36:29and prayers. The witch, seeing that they were not going to release her,
- 36:32resumed the horrible form she had when she arrived and tried to rise up
- 36:37in the air desiring to hurt them. At that time, the three began
- 36:43to move toward it without losing the triangle they formed. The witch knew the
- 36:47fate that was approaching and so she kept shouting and cursing, and when they
- 36:52were close enough to her, one of the companions took the scissors in the
- 36:57form of a cross and stuck them in the chest to the rough one.
- 37:00The horrible Witch began to scream horrifyingly and squirm on the ground like a worm.
- 37:07Then my great- grandfather started burning everything around and the witch started burning
- 37:13and the trees began to break, producing a terrifying sound. The shadows created
- 37:20by the fire looked like demons, playing with the minds of the three men
- 37:23who faced the witch. The witch, staring at them, threatened to take
- 37:30revenge in the future, promising harm to them or their descendants, and as
- 37:35the flames ceased, she reduced in size. Then there was a sudden silence.
- 37:42The legs tied to the tree began to fade like dust, as the
- 37:46Witch shrunk into the salt circle to the size of a cat at dawn.
- 37:52They recalled the Council of Rosenda, who told her that if they could not
- 37:57get rid of it, they should wait until the sun. If so,
- 38:00they had to take her to a cave at the top of a hill before
- 38:04the sun' s rays reached her completely, but they had to be careful.
- 38:09Rosenda had warned about a possible problem. The witch could influence one of
- 38:15the three to let her go so she could regain her original form and seek
- 38:20revenge at dawn. When they exposed her to the sun she did not disappear,
- 38:28they decided to catch her in a salt sack they still had and headed
- 38:31towards the hill on the way. One of the comrades suggested leaving her there,
- 38:36insisting that they had already fulfilled their goal. Despite their words, they
- 38:38continued to the cave. Upon entering they found a pit ready to get rid
- 38:45of it, following instructions they closed the sack with the knots they had previously
- 38:52used, threw it into the pit and covered it. Once done, they
- 38:55were relieved to think that everything was resolved. After finishing with the witch,
- 39:01the three left without paying attention to the voice that called them, moving away
- 39:06from the place and carrying with them the amulet that Rosenda gave them. Upon
- 39:10returning to the village, each one followed his own path and never crossed again.
- 39:16My great- grandfather left the army and decided to lead a quieter life
- 39:22in his old village, and days later he decided to visit Rosenda to tell
- 39:27her what had happened. However, upon arriving at his home, which was
- 39:30on the outskirts of the village, he found the place in ruins, covered
- 39:34in dust and abandoned as if no one had lived there for years. In
- 39:39trying to find out about Rosenda in the village, he discovered that no one
- 39:45knew a person by that name, except a woman who used to take care
- 39:50of the sick and who had already passed away. So, apparently, the
- 39:52Rosenda I was looking for was no longer alive. My great- grandfather,
- 39:59surprised and skeptical, went to Campo Santo in search of Rosenda Vega' s
- 40:02tomb. He found a stone neglected and almost unreadable by the passage of time.
- 40:07This puzzled her, as she had spoken to a woman named Rosenda Vega
- 40:13and she had helped them defeat the witch and remembers that her house was in
- 40:16perfect condition, while the tomb was abandoned and in decline, as if she
- 40:22were many years old that no one visited her. He felt deep sadness knowing
- 40:29that the woman who had done something good was dead. In addition, he
- 40:32had become fond of her and was eager to see her and realizing that she
- 40:37was no longer alive, a deep sadness invaded her. So she decided to
- 40:43do something good for her, just like she did for him. By helping
- 40:46to avenge the death of his former companions, he began to clean the tomb
- 40:52covered with leaves and vegetation. While I was talking to her and telling her
- 40:57how they had ended up with the witch, thanking her for her help.
- 41:00For some reason, he knew Rosenda was listening to him and that made him
- 41:04feel a little better. I was always going to leave him flowers as thanks
- 41:09and always asked him to let him see her one more time, but that
- 41:14never happened. A few years later, during a trip he met Pepe,
- 41:20who had been bewitched by the Witch in the cabin a few years ago.
- 41:23Pepe told him how he was controlled by the Witch and how he tried to
- 41:28rebuild his life. My great- grandfather shared with him the story of how
- 41:34they succeeded in defeating the Witch thanks to the knowledge Rosenda had given them.
- 41:39And then Pepe was paralyzed when he heard Rosenda' s name, as he
- 41:45remembered that she had been his pupil many years ago, when he was a
- 41:49teacher in the village and remembered her as a very smart and kind girl.
- 41:53And then they began to recapitulate that, surely, the moment the Witch started
- 41:59to burn. It was when Pepe began to regain the mobility of his body
- 42:04and after that set the cabin on fire. Pepe told my great- grandfather
- 42:09that since then he had lived a quiet and happy life and thanked my great
- 42:15- grandfather for saving him from that horrible torment in which he did not own
- 42:19his own body or his thoughts. My great- grandfather was glad to have
- 42:24been able to help Pepe and they became good friends. Anyway, the Witch
- 42:29never showed up in town again, and no one knew anything about her.
- 42:34In fact, rumors of missing and dead people had ceased, as everything returned
- 42:38to normal thanks to Rosenda, my great- grandfather and his companions, and
- 42:45many years later, in the back of the hill is where the workers could
- 42:50not advance in the construction of the road, because they said that there was
- 42:53something that prevented them. There were rare apparitions and screams were heard coming from
- 42:59the cave, and my great- grandfather carried the amulet the catch nightmares until
- 43:04the end of his days Hello my name is Isaki, what I will tell
- 43:15you next happened on the estate where my grandparents resided. It was something that
- 43:21happened in particular to my father and his friend Beto, all for mocking a
- 43:24grumpy old man. Sometimes we don' t know who our family really was
- 43:30and when we realize it, they' re no longer here to explain.
- 43:35Anyway, it all started when my father spent his days at the grandparents'
- 43:39farm. The estate is a family heritage that has passed for four generations.
- 43:45It is a place with a lot of emotional history, both for the family
- 43:50and for everyone who has worked there. In the age of my grandparents,
- 43:53the estate was much more dynamic. Now it looks like an abandoned place that
- 43:59barely survives in the face of time and its dark history. At that time
- 44:04there were stables crops, a lot of animals. Therefore, the farm had
- 44:08numerous workers. Among all these workers there was a very peculiar one and that
- 44:15' s who I' ll tell you about in this narrative. Don Fernando,
- 44:19the keeper of the estate, has lived there since he was almost a
- 44:23child. In that place he ascended from being a simple pawn to being foreman
- 44:28with his dedication and effort. He was highly respected by all and practically set
- 44:34the standards on the estate together with the other employees. Fernando was the most
- 44:38faithful and honest employee who has passed through my grandparents' estate. They all
- 44:44put great trust in him and he was always my grandfather' s closest collaborator.
- 44:50However, he was also a very rigid man, with ideas rooted in
- 44:53his time. With the passing of the years, he was gradually relieved of
- 44:58many tasks of life at his advanced age, as it was impossible for him
- 45:01to impose his will or simply perform physical works. He himself asked to be
- 45:09able to continue working there until his last days, because he did not want
- 45:14to stop doing so and ended up being the keeper of the estate. In
- 45:15his last years he took care of the house, the parking lot, the
- 45:22stables and a henhouse. Fernando looked tired and used to isolate himself constantly,
- 45:29always remaining silent. Although Fernando never married, he devoted his whole life to
- 45:34work and the estate. While his parents were alive, he left the estate
- 45:38to visit them, being that his only exits. And after his parents passed
- 45:44away, he was practically left alone. It was said that she had a
- 45:51sister, but she was taken to the capital from a very young age and
- 45:55never returned, so Don Fernando faithfully served my grandparents throughout her life. However,
- 46:00Don Fernando kept many very dark secrets that no one imagined. First of
- 46:07all, the secrets my grandfather entrusted to him, knowing that Don Fernando was
- 46:10very discreet and so he was until his death. Don Fernando also knew things
- 46:15about the estate that few knew, but, as they say, you can
- 46:20' t hide all the secrets in life sooner or later. Truth and secrets
- 46:24come to light. My father, named Carlos Lesama and his close friend,
- 46:30Beto had to discover a terrifying secret that Don Fernando was hiding. That friend
- 46:36of my father' s, Beto, also worked on the estate. He
- 46:39was in charge of the tractor and agricultural work and was my father' s
- 46:44best friend. Beto and my father grew up almost together. They' ve
- 46:49known each other forever, and when my father turned twenty, my grandmother died,
- 46:53and a year later, my grandfather. They said that my grandmother was
- 46:57very lonely and that' s why she had come for her Hope and also,
- 47:01the grandparents had had my father when they were very advanced in age,
- 47:06and Don Fernando was already an old guardian when my grandparents died. My father
- 47:10relates that there were numerous changes in the estate. My older uncles began to
- 47:15alienate much of the cattle and other property on the estate. Don Fernando.
- 47:21Little by little he fell into oblivion for everyone and daily, Don Fernando fell
- 47:25asleep in a chair while taking a brief break under the shade of the most
- 47:30imposing tree in the hacienda. Next to the tree was the henhouse. One
- 47:37day while Don Fernando slept the door of the chicken pen was opened and one
- 47:42of the dogs managed to infiltrate him. Chasing the birds. The chickens fled
- 47:46wildly and some ended up on top of Don Fernando along with the dog.
- 47:52The scare that he took was enormous, although due to his age, those
- 47:55shocks could have been dangerous, or only in a veto cry and my father
- 48:00ran to see what was happening and as he watched the scene they could not
- 48:06contain the laughter in front of the comic situation with the old man. However,
- 48:09this behavior did not seem appropriate to the elderly Don Fernando, as it
- 48:15seemed disrespectful that two young people were mocking him instead of respecting him and asking
- 48:20him about his well- being. Despite being a more secretive and serious man
- 48:24he threw a rudeness that made the smile of veto and my father disappear.
- 48:30At once he looked at them with eyes full of resentment and they didn'
- 48:36t understand why he took such things to heart. It wasn' t serious
- 48:39enough for him to behave like that. My father claims that his gaze was
- 48:45so intense and unpleasant that, despite being young adults, they felt afraid of
- 48:50Don Fernando, because they believed that he could hurt them because he knew about
- 48:54weapons and that kind of thing, and the fact that he was an old
- 48:58man did not take away or that he had more experience than they did.
- 49:02Under his aged and wrinkled countenance, he still retained that authority. My father
- 49:07asked her fir to retire, but suddenly, the Burlona laughter resurfaced. Don
- 49:15Fernando looked at them and told them to keep making fun of him, that
- 49:19they were young fools and rude, but that no one laughed at him and
- 49:22that they would pay very dearly and then he would be the one to laugh
- 49:27at them. I wanted the chickens to tear their eyes out so they would
- 49:30stop doing wrong. Besides, his boss wouldn' t let anyone make fun
- 49:36of him, because he was his favorite employee. After those words, Don
- 49:40Fernando locked up the chickens and left my father told Beto that it was not
- 49:45wise to anger the Elder, who was a poor old man who did not
- 49:50tolerate jokes. However, Abeto did not care and commented to my father that
- 49:54he was absolutely equal to his comments and his age, that he knew that
- 50:00the old man was an organizan who only took advantage of it because his father
- 50:04had left him there, but that he would prove that Don Fernando was a
- 50:07loose man and that he would see who laughed. In the end, Beto
- 50:12also said he didn' t like threats and that if they faced something safe,
- 50:15they won because they were younger and stronger. Despite my father' s
- 50:21initial resistance, Beto finally convinced him and so began to act as Don Fernando
- 50:27' s spies. At first they found it funny that it seemed like Don
- 50:32Fernando was talking to imaginary friends, as they saw him talking alone with a
- 50:37serious face, as if he was talking to someone they couldn' t see.
- 50:44It seemed as if the old man was mentally unbalanced. But then my
- 50:49father and Beto noticed that when Don Fernando spoke and waited for an answer.
- 50:53Strange things happened around him, steps were heard from someone invisible, branches creaked
- 51:00in the nearby trees, and an unintelligible murmur appeared to be the answer to
- 51:06Don Fernando' s dialogue. However, according to my father, it seemed
- 51:12that the elder himself wanted to be discovered, as it was surprisingly easy for
- 51:17them to spy on him. One of the great discoveries was his small room,
- 51:22where the old Don Fernando resided, although far from the main house,
- 51:27was part of the grounds of the hacienda. My grandfather, in his will,
- 51:32made it clear that Don Fernando, because he was such a faithful worker,
- 51:37had the right to live there until his death. No one cared about
- 51:40the space and in fact, my father says that it was until that day
- 51:45when he was spyed on, was that he knew of the existence of that
- 51:49house where Don Fernando lived, the old man left the door open and left
- 51:54to patrol the farm. Thus, my father and Beto managed to enter,
- 51:58they perceived that Don Fernando had few things, but everything was impeccablely clean.
- 52:04When inspecting every corner of the house they found a space that turned out to
- 52:09be the bathroom and inside, Don Fernando had a wooden door covered with a
- 52:14curtain just below the ground. When they tried to open it, they heard
- 52:20noises coming from inside. My father and Beto were alarmed and ran away.
- 52:24That door aroused great intrigue in them, so they drew up a plan.
- 52:30Beto and my father, knowing Don Fernando' s routine well. He worked
- 52:35at night guarding the ranch and in the morning expected the workers to arrive.
- 52:39The rest of the day, he was sitting in his seats near the tree,
- 52:45resting and taking a nap until they were dark again and then retreating to
- 52:51his home to prepare before going out to patrol again. That' s why
- 52:55my father and Beto coordinated going early to explore what was hidden behind that little
- 53:00door in the bathroom. When the night came and Don Fernando was not at
- 53:05home, the front door was open, so they easily entered and headed towards
- 53:09the bathroom with some fear. They opened the little wooden door and entered like
- 53:15a movie scene. They discovered a hidden basement that, apparently, only Don
- 53:22Fernando knew. It turned out that they carried a candle, were well equipped
- 53:28and came down cautiously down the stairs and down. They discovered a room more
- 53:32spacious than Don Fernando' s entire house. It seemed like the little house
- 53:37was just a distraction to hide that huge basement and its mysteries. There was
- 53:43a moisture smell similar to that of a crypt and there was a very large
- 53:47closet that caught my father' s attention. First of all. Inside the
- 53:52closet they noticed that there were several cowboy suits. My father quickly identified the
- 53:58suits were my grandfather' s. My father says he took out one of
- 54:02the dusty, yellow suits because of abandonment. That suit had a very obvious
- 54:07kiss mark on its shirt on its neck. Inside the shirt pocket they found
- 54:13a note that said don' t forget me. While exploring more in that
- 54:17old closet, they discovered love letters, all addressed to my grandfather and written
- 54:24by different women. This led my father to think that Don Fernando was responsible
- 54:29for keeping all my grandfather' s secrets. They found old photographs of my
- 54:35grandfather hugging other women who were definitely not my grandmother. In addition to memories
- 54:40left by those lovers, Beto mocked my grandfather by saying that my grandfather was
- 54:45a rogue and told him to look at all the things there, that my
- 54:51grandfather surely had many children. Around there, he added that I was sure
- 54:55my grandmother didn' t know about all that. My father was overwhelmed by
- 55:00anxiety and a strange discomfort over what Beto was saying. He asked him to
- 55:05show more respect for the deceased, especially his grandfather, but Abeto did not
- 55:09care and continued to say that my grandfather had been a mad old man and
- 55:15that he had been lucky to have so many beautiful women. He didn'
- 55:19t imagine having so many women, but it was probably something incredible. My
- 55:24father relates that when Beto finished saying that, a cold wind crept into the
- 55:29basement and the candle they were carrying went out. That was impossible, as
- 55:32they had closed the secret door. Just in case he came back to Don
- 55:37Fernando so they wouldn' t be discovered. My father says that their hearts
- 55:43were beating so fast that they feared a heart attack, as they also began
- 55:47to hear noises up heavy steps, as if someone of large size were walking
- 55:52from one side to the other of the house. Then they began to hear
- 55:58voices as if there were people talking, and then they heard the creaking of
- 56:01a chair from above the basement, as if someone had sat down. Seconds
- 56:06later they heard another creaking chair. Someone else had sat down and the people
- 56:12upstairs began to laugh. My father and Beto listened to all that from below
- 56:17in the basement and suddenly, one of them lit a cigarette and the smoke
- 56:22went down to the basement. My father and Beto sensed the smell. However,
- 56:27they could not see anything. They were in complete darkness and totally terrified.
- 56:34They were also afraid to move, as they could be discovered by the
- 56:38people above. So they stayed motionless for a while until after a few minutes
- 56:43they stopped hearing the voices from above. But it was strange, for they
- 56:50never heard the heavy steps of people leaving the house. It was like they
- 56:54just disappeared. Everything returned to normal and Beto carefully, approached the stairs and
- 57:00climbed slowly. It looked out on one side of the door and there was
- 57:06already some sunrise light. Seeing that there was no one in the house,
- 57:10he went down again and they could light the candle again. They were both
- 57:15terrified for fear of being discovered. They realized they still had time to continue
- 57:20exploring the basement. They discovered a large bed of tequila bottles, a box
- 57:27of cigarettes. My grandfather' s boots were on the floor next to the
- 57:30bed. Everything was the same as when my grandfather last visited. That basement
- 57:37Abeto was curious to look under the bed. He lifted the sheet that hung
- 57:42and asked my father for the candle to see what was underneath. When he
- 57:45lighted carefully with the light and looked out, he ran out of words.
- 57:50I couldn' t talk. He dropped the candle to the ground, but
- 57:54fortunately it didn' t go out. Then my father picked her up quickly.
- 58:00My father looked at Beto' s disorbited eyes and asked him what he
- 58:05had seen happening down there. But Beto did not respond and suddenly began to
- 58:08vomit. My father tried to calm Beto asked him to please calm down that
- 58:14everything would be fine, but Beto was very upset. A few minutes passed
- 58:21and my father’ s friend calmed down a bit, although I still didn
- 58:25’ t mean to say that I had seen later. My father and Beto
- 58:30discovered something disturbing under the bed, which made them quickly leave the place and
- 58:35start investigating better. But they discovered something even more disturbing in the basement,
- 58:40which made them feel the need to return and expose Don Fernando and between the
- 58:46uproar that in that far away place. My father says he almost fainted from
- 58:52fear. Hearing a loud laugh identical to that of my grandfather and that of
- 58:55his own father, Beto tried to hold on, but received two slaps to
- 59:01regain consciousness only left them the option to flee from there, but it was
- 59:06useless, at least for Beto. My father relates that he heard my grandfather
- 59:12' s mocking and maverick laughter and saw it as an invisible force. He
- 59:15grabbed fir from one leg, dragged it violently and repeatedly crashed it into the
- 59:20walls. Beto was crying for help, but my father couldn' t do
- 59:25anything. The blows made Beto' s head resound as if his skull had
- 59:30fractured. His friend' s screams stopped when he ran out of life.
- 59:35Seeing the pool of blood, my father tried to help him, but a
- 59:39force drove him out of the house. My father thinks it might have been
- 59:44my grandfather' s spirit. He felt that he would die confused, ran
- 59:49and screamed what upset the ranch dogs creating a fuss. He sought out Don
- 59:53Fernando for answers, but he did not appear anywhere. It was almost dawn
- 1:00:00when my father’ s older brothers arrived to work and he told them about
- 1:00:05Beto. The angry brothers went to Don Fernando' s house with other workers,
- 1:00:10but this one was not in the basement remained open, as my father
- 1:00:15and Beto left it. The brothers saw my grandfather' s head fectos preserved
- 1:00:21in formal and other hidden things. They called the police and Beto' s
- 1:00:24family to take the body. The police removed the body and unsuccessfully investigated the
- 1:00:31disappearance of Don Fernando. Hours later, one worker mentioned that the dogs barked
- 1:00:37in the locked barn inside the police entered through the window and found Don Fernando
- 1:00:43dead in a state of decomposition. The cops said he' d been dead
- 1:00:50for more than three days. It was strange, as several had seen him
- 1:00:54working days ago and even greeting the workers. My father didn' t bury
- 1:01:00anything. He had suffered much the death of his friend Beto and no longer
- 1:01:04wanted to know anything about that place. You bastard. He lamented that he
- 1:01:08wanted to go back in time so as not to make fun of the old
- 1:01:13man and that his friend had not spoken of his grandfather and the old man.
- 1:01:15But it was late. A few days later, one of his grandfather
- 1:01:20' s friends went to talk to him and told him that he also knew
- 1:01:23my grandfather' s secrets, for his grandmother had been fooled with many women
- 1:01:28she got pregnant with, but he had sent them to get rid of so
- 1:01:32that no one would notice her piglets. Don Fernando knew everything, because my
- 1:01:37grandfather had ordered that place to be built to keep the darkest secrets. He
- 1:01:43even told me that my grandfather had told him that he was in a cult
- 1:01:46and that he was not worried about dying because he knew he could come back
- 1:01:52when he could. For my father it was shocking news to see that his
- 1:01:57grandfather and Don Fernando kept those horrible secrets, so he decided to leave the
- 1:02:01place. He did not want any iniquity to drag him to a bad way.
- 1:02:07The case was forgotten. They paid to silence the death of Beto and
- 1:02:10Don Fernando buried my grandfather' s head and the fetuses burned the boxes with
- 1:02:15their belongings and demolished Don Fernando' s house. Burying secrets. My father
- 1:02:22stopped visiting the ranch and eventually nobody wanted to work there. The few who
- 1:02:28went to the camp said they felt scared, heard voices and there were unexplained
- 1:02:34accidents. That is why there were no more willing workers. The ranch was
- 1:02:38forgotten with its secrets. I know what was in the basement wasn' t
- 1:02:43everything, but that took my grandfather to the grave. It was his secret.
- 1:02:47His conscience kept him alive and it became clear that Don Fernando had also
- 1:02:52taken dark secrets to the tomb and that he had kept his promise that my
- 1:02:58father and his friend would pay to mock him. My name is Arturo Lopez,
- 1:03:08I live in Queretaro. Mexico and I' d like to tell my
- 1:03:13story better said than my grandmother' s. These last few days I'
- 1:03:16ve been at my grandmother' s house looking after her. He has had
- 1:03:20a difficult situation and requires someone to be present almost 24 hours to be on
- 1:03:24the lookout for it. Because of any situation, you have a type of
- 1:03:30disease that is affecting your liver. I' ve taken care of helping her
- 1:03:35with her everyday needs, like escorting her to the bathroom and moving her from
- 1:03:39one room to another for the last three weeks. And I don' t
- 1:03:43really complain about that, though for some it might seem monotonous. I'
- 1:03:47m happy to. I' ve always had a close relationship with my grandmother.
- 1:03:52It was practically the one who raised me, since my mother was rarely
- 1:03:55at home for her work, so it was definitely time to repay her for
- 1:04:00how much she did for me in the past. Since I was in high
- 1:04:03school, she' s been alone and despite that, these last ten years
- 1:04:10have been the happiest I' ve ever seen her. Despite being married to
- 1:04:15my grandfather for more than fifty years before his death, they never seemed to
- 1:04:20get along. When I was young, my grandmother used to come and stay
- 1:04:26instead of inviting me to her house. My grandfather never visited ours for the
- 1:04:30most part, stayed close to his home or was absent from work, but
- 1:04:35the few times I interacted with him showed a great distance. Even when I
- 1:04:41was a child, his appearance did not create confidence with time became paler and
- 1:04:46less coherent. He mumbled incomprehensible words as he watched television. My grandmother used
- 1:04:54to keep him in the dark of the bedroom with the television on. Her
- 1:04:58sudden disappearance when I was in ninth grade was a relief to both me and
- 1:05:03my grandmother Last week, as I prepared her to sleep and mentioned to her
- 1:05:10that the next day we went shopping, suggesting that she rest, she shook
- 1:05:15her head and looked away. His face became sad and the atmosphere also.
- 1:05:20She told me that night might be her end. She thanked me for saying
- 1:05:27that she had been very kind to her and that she wanted me to be
- 1:05:30with her at the end of her days. The truth surprised me with his
- 1:05:34words and, being honest, it hurt me to hear that, because I
- 1:05:38didn' t want him to leave. I wanted him to be with me
- 1:05:42longer. Vi told her not to say those things, that she would surely
- 1:05:47recover very soon, but she told me that she knew that it would not
- 1:05:50be so and that she also needed to confess her sins. I kept thinking
- 1:05:56and suggested calling the father, but he said no, that it was a
- 1:05:59family matter and that someone should know. I told her I could gladly tell
- 1:06:04myself and I wouldn' t judge her, although I was sincerely aware that
- 1:06:11maybe I didn' t want to know that secret. As I watched my
- 1:06:14grandmother' s face, I remembered the beautiful smile she used to have many
- 1:06:18years before, but the expression she showed at that time evoked something I had
- 1:06:23never seen on her face before I remembered how she used to be nervous every
- 1:06:29time she stayed in our house, checking doors and windows repeatedly, as if
- 1:06:34she feared someone else' s presence. His gaze suggested that a stranger was
- 1:06:39trying to come in to take me, but we always thought it was something
- 1:06:44related to his illness or to something psychological because of the life he had led
- 1:06:47in his childhood and with grandfather, so we never really paid special attention to
- 1:06:51that. But when I knew the truth it turned out to be extremely disturbing.
- 1:06:58I sat in bed staring at her, waiting for her to decide to
- 1:07:01tell me her secret. I was prepared to hear something I didn' t
- 1:07:06want. I told her I was here to listen to her again and she
- 1:07:12could trust me. My grandmother felt watching through the dark window of her bedroom,
- 1:07:16as if there was someone there, and then she started saying something totally
- 1:07:23shocking. He said my grandfather had disappeared, that she personally had taken care
- 1:07:29of it. The confession left me shocked, something that surely reflected on my
- 1:07:33face. She smiled, but there was no joy in that smile. He
- 1:07:39told me that he was surely impressed, for it could not be that an
- 1:07:44old woman eliminated a person from this land, but he mentioned that she had
- 1:07:48been just fifteen years ago. He told me that, in fact, that
- 1:07:53was the last time, as he had done it ten years earlier. My
- 1:07:57grandmother confirmed the whole story that she was watching over details that took us almost
- 1:08:01till dawn. While telling the story, he kept looking out the window looking
- 1:08:06for grandfather and Greek. Now I understand that she expected it. She told
- 1:08:12me that they were both very happy about her daughter' s next birth.
- 1:08:15My mother. My grandfather had avoided military service thanks to his university education and
- 1:08:21a job in government. He worked as an engineer, taking care of bridges
- 1:08:28and sewage systems and hoped to return home with grandmother eagerly and meet her first
- 1:08:32daughter. My grandparents had been excited about their daughter' s arrival and during
- 1:08:39their phone conversations, tears were coming out every time they projected their future together
- 1:08:45at home. However, a call marked the end of that dream, as
- 1:08:49he was informed of his grandfather’ s death in a car accident. He
- 1:08:55died at the workplace when another driver passed a red light and collided against his
- 1:09:00side of the car. He was assured that it was instantaneous that he did
- 1:09:03not suffer. My grandmother decided to have him buried near her house so that
- 1:09:09her daughter would be near her father. It was clear that my grandmother was
- 1:09:14very sad about Grandpa' s death. I couldn' t believe it.
- 1:09:17All his plans had gone to waste. A week after his death. Before
- 1:09:24her body came home, Grandma heard noises in the kitchen at night. While
- 1:09:30I was counting that, my grandmother' s tone of voice became lower,
- 1:09:33putting her chicken skin on me, she continued her story by saying that she
- 1:09:39came down with a baseball bat and then saw a man in military uniform eating
- 1:09:44in Grandma' s kitchen as if it were hers at night, and she
- 1:09:48barely glimpsed a bag next to him and a glass of milk on the table
- 1:09:53without confronting him. He struck him fulminantly and the man fell immediately. But
- 1:09:58at that time Grandma realized who she was and felt that the soul came out
- 1:10:01of her body from the impression, as it was my grandfather who lay on
- 1:10:05the ground bleeding with his uniform stained. Then my grandmother picked up the medals
- 1:10:14hanging from her neck for the army. Grandma saw that there was an envelope
- 1:10:18on the table full of documents indicating that her son was about to be born,
- 1:10:24but the weird thing was that Grandpa had never been military, so my
- 1:10:28grandmother was totally confused, so she felt if she still had vital signs and
- 1:10:32how she realized that she no longer decided to bury him in the backyard.
- 1:10:38He didn' t call the police or anything. He only buried him three
- 1:10:42days later, while folding his clothes in the living room trying to move on,
- 1:10:47he heard keys at the door. Someone came in leaving his bag and
- 1:10:53pronouncing. The last voice I expected was the voice of the grandfather, who
- 1:10:56greeted her as if nothing. Impeccably dressed, she tried to hug her,
- 1:11:02but my grandmother couldn' t move. She knew I killed him. Three
- 1:11:06nights ago. He turned away from his arms as Grandpa' s confused expression
- 1:11:12caused him a pain in his heart. My grandfather told her that, because
- 1:11:15she was so weird that she looked like she had seen a ghost, she
- 1:11:21was amazed and confused shaking. Grandma snuggled around protecting her belly. He approached
- 1:11:27her and she shrunk anticipating an attack, but instead he only hugged her tightly
- 1:11:31and her voice sounded the same as his. And when Grandma surrounded him with
- 1:11:36her arms, she realized that she also felt the same as him the smell
- 1:11:42of her lotion. For after shaving, the rubbing of his nose on his
- 1:11:45cheek the way his hair smelled were all the things that made him know what
- 1:11:50he was. Grandma checked the back of her head later that night while sleeping,
- 1:11:58but there was no mark or anything to make her believe that it was
- 1:12:00the one she had beaten. A few nights before time passed and Grandma lived
- 1:12:08with that version of my grandfather. For four months. He worked as a
- 1:12:14manager in a paper company, had a degree in business management rather than engineering
- 1:12:17and made a comfortable living. However, if Grandma needed a reminder of the
- 1:12:25old days, she just had to look at the graduation photo hanging in the
- 1:12:29hallway. The photo shows Grandpa and Grandma, he with his robe and birete
- 1:12:33and she with her best dress, smiling as Grandpa' s mother took their
- 1:12:39picture. Sometimes I surprised him by looking at the photo, trying to rationalize
- 1:12:45before finally walking away to do what he had set out to do. He
- 1:12:49was present at my mother' s birth. My grandfather was more or less
- 1:12:55the same as always, exchanging talks about bridges for talks about action and paper
- 1:13:00sales, but he was still the same old man. He loved his family
- 1:13:05very much. They never missed anything, but after a while, Grandma suspected
- 1:13:10something was wrong with him. He began when he began to speak in his
- 1:13:16sleep, muttering without ceasing, from the close of his eyes until he opened
- 1:13:19them. My grandfather had always been a prolific snorer, even as a child,
- 1:13:26but in those moments he never seemed to breathe. When he slept,
- 1:13:30he murmured over and over again about sewers, war, actions, paper,
- 1:13:34dog breeding, horse breeding, and a million other things. Grandma couldn'
- 1:13:42t sleep with all those screams and it didn' t matter where she slept.
- 1:13:46He always seemed to find her. She tolerated that situation until one night
- 1:13:51she heard something familiar. He woke up with the sound of someone chewing and
- 1:13:57mumbling. He had been sleeping on it the couch trying to sleep a little
- 1:14:01away from the murmurs and as he snuck down the hallway, he heard him
- 1:14:06mumble. Even the door squealing didn' t wake him from his nightmare.
- 1:14:11He couldn' t even bother. Then, my grandmother heard that my grandfather
- 1:14:15said, between the lines, that he was going to kill Grandma and her
- 1:14:19daughter at dawn just as he had planned months ago. Besides, he said
- 1:14:24he knew about the crime Grandma had committed a few months ago when she hit
- 1:14:29the other man with a bat and killed him. So Grandma was completely scared,
- 1:14:33because she knew he' d rat her out, she' d wake
- 1:14:38up and tell the police. They' d find the body, stop it,
- 1:14:43and he' d stay there with the baby and know what would happen.
- 1:14:46Even worse, he could kill them at dawn and suddenly thought and realized
- 1:14:50that then he wasn' t her husband, he couldn' t be and
- 1:14:55that implied that he could hurt her or kill her, so Grandma decided to
- 1:15:00take him down. He put the pillow back on his face and the truth
- 1:15:02is that Grandpa didn' t put up much resistance and after a few seconds
- 1:15:08he stopped breathing and then Grandma buried him. The weird thing is, she
- 1:15:12says Grandpa' s two bodies didn' t weigh anything. It was like
- 1:15:15he was carrying a little cat. Anyway, while she was telling me all
- 1:15:20that, my skin was rising up, although I actually came to believe that
- 1:15:25I was completely crazy and she kept counting. He told me Grandpa came back
- 1:15:30and that time he was a car salesman, but that one looked less like
- 1:15:34my grandfather than the one before. It was as if you photocopied a photocopy,
- 1:15:40the quality degrades until it is almost unrecognizable. That' s how it
- 1:15:43was. The next one looked less like my grandfather, he was paler than
- 1:15:48he was, and sometimes he seemed to get lost says he lived with him
- 1:15:54for two years until suddenly, a car hit him outside his house. She
- 1:15:59told the police that the man was her late husband' s cousin and that
- 1:16:02that' s why he looked so much alike. Grandpa came back and now
- 1:16:06he was raising horses. And he left when you threw him down and he
- 1:16:10died. Grandma didn' t call the police and bury him on the edge
- 1:16:14of the field. At that point, Grandma was already becoming an expert by
- 1:16:17losing husbands and when the next one appeared, she hit him with a frying
- 1:16:23pan and left him in the backyard with the others. Once when my mother
- 1:16:28came home from school, there was a new one in the room reading the
- 1:16:31paper. Grandma told me that over the years she had experimented with her durability.
- 1:16:39He pushed one of the roof after asking her to help fix something.
- 1:16:44He broke his neck and added it to the yard. The next he fell
- 1:16:47from the top of a mountain during a walk, only to return home and
- 1:16:53meet another waiting for her. The replicas became fainter and less runs over time.
- 1:17:00Their voices weakened and lost substance. They reached a point where they could
- 1:17:05no longer keep a job. Their minds seemed to fade like those with dementia.
- 1:17:12Sometimes they looked up to watch it from outside through any available window.
- 1:17:19My mother had already left the house when they received a retirement check from a
- 1:17:25company dedicated to manufacturing pipes. The money was an economic Lifesaver, but Grandma
- 1:17:30was afraid to meet that discolored ghost. It was as if Grandpa had been
- 1:17:36working on pipe making for a long time, but that replica never appeared in
- 1:17:43Grandma' s life. Grandma continued to collect those checks until they stopped arriving
- 1:17:47about a year ago, and now she knew that Grandpa could return once more,
- 1:17:55but she was afraid because if she left and returned to another replica,
- 1:17:59no one would know that it was not real. He told me it was
- 1:18:02my secret, too, and the previous bodies were still there. She says
- 1:18:08that from time to time she digs and there they are, even though they
- 1:18:12disintegrate, the bones remain. He told me he didn' t know if
- 1:18:15that version of my grandfather would come back, but that I should be alert
- 1:18:18now. He told me he left me the whole house, the accounts,
- 1:18:24everything was mine. Then he lay down and looked like his life was fading
- 1:18:29away. Shortly before midnight he had passed away and when that happened, someone
- 1:18:32knocked on the door. I went to open thinking she was my mother,
- 1:18:36but she wasn' t my paler grandfather than I remembered, but in essence
- 1:18:42she greeted me and backed back where I had come from. I went to
- 1:18:46the garden, butt and digged, but there was no trace or sign of
- 1:18:50anyone. That' s where we buried Grandma. Near the original grandfather'
- 1:18:55s grounds, they rested in peace together. The keeper of the cemetery told
- 1:18:59me that someone left a single wild flower in his grave before leaving Meanwhile,
- 1:19:05I informed the police about the bodies buried in the garden. The Crith exhumed
- 1:19:11them and asked questions that seemed hard to believe. They did tests and surprisingly,
- 1:19:17they all coincided with my grandfather. Dental records, adn hair. Everything
- 1:19:23fit together and no one could believe it. They couldn' t really blame
- 1:19:28my dead grandmother and it was like an unsolved mystery. Anyway, it was
- 1:19:33a relief that the bodies were removed from the garden and that my grandmother left
- 1:19:38in peace. My mother was in shock when I told her all the truth,
- 1:19:43she couldn' t leave things like that and she was afraid Grandpa would
- 1:19:46show up again. I felt a terrible burden. That' s why I
- 1:19:51missed Grandma, and for a moment I wished she wouldn' t have told
- 1:19:58me any of that before they took the bodies out of the garden. I
- 1:20:00thought Grandma was delirious about telling me that, but it turned out the bodies
- 1:20:04were there. And, well, no one understands why there' s more
- 1:20:08to my grandfather. Maybe it' s some flaw in the universe. Maybe
- 1:20:13they' re grandparents from parallel universes or maybe it' s some ghost who
- 1:20:17misses his life and even some extraterrestrial looking for answers. I don' t
- 1:20:24know, but it' s kind of weird, and I don' t
- 1:20:27know if anyone' s been through something like that. We moved far away
- 1:20:30from that city. That' s why we live in Queretaro now. But
- 1:20:32I tell this story because just recently something really strange happened to us. One
- 1:20:40night, as I watched videos on YouTube, I got a text message from
- 1:20:44an unknown number and when I opened it I realized something horrible. The message
- 1:20:48said that I was very happy to greet him and that I wanted to know
- 1:20:54about the family, because long ago I didn' t know anything, that
- 1:20:58I missed us very much and that if I wanted to, I could stay
- 1:21:00at his house in Veracruz next weekend. He said that he was making pipes,
- 1:21:04that he was my grandfather who would please communicate with him and it was
- 1:21:09clear that fear had left me amazed by the being that was not my grandfather.
- 1:21:14He' d actually found us and he' d probably come after us.
- 1:21:18After receiving the disturbing message that seemed to come from my grandfather, I
- 1:21:23was overwhelmed by the confusion and uncertainty surrounding my family. Despite my desire to
- 1:21:29leave behind. Everything related to my grandfather' s strange events felt a magnetic
- 1:21:33attraction to curiosity. I decided to investigate on my own, looking for any
- 1:21:43clues or logical explanation. Behind this mysterious message, I found an old diary
- 1:21:46of my grandmother hidden among her belongings, which kept secrets she had never shared
- 1:21:51with me. Among the pages I discovered detailed descriptions of strange events that my
- 1:21:59grandmother had experienced over the years. I was talking about encounters with figures that
- 1:22:04looked like my grandfather, but they weren' t, whispering voices at night
- 1:22:09and inexplicable phenomena that challenged all logic. Then I realized that nothing really made
- 1:22:15sense. It was true that Grandma didn' t know why those things had
- 1:22:21happened and I didn' t understand anything either. Grandpa could come after us
- 1:22:26and kill us or something. I knew that that being was aware that Grandma
- 1:22:31had told me what had happened. We were in danger and obviously I told
- 1:22:38my mother, who was a little skeptical about me and told me that maybe
- 1:22:42it was a heavy joke. I didn' t know what to do anymore.
- 1:22:45I was afraid and besides, my grandmother' s departure had affected me
- 1:22:48a lot, so I decided to pray a lot every day. But in
- 1:22:53those days I got a message from myself number waving and telling me that Sunday
- 1:22:58would come to greet us. There were three days left for Sunday and I
- 1:23:02didn' t want the old man to arrive. My grandfather had died many
- 1:23:06years ago and that thing was nothing of mine. The only thing I could
- 1:23:12do is hope and so I did, but nothing happened on Sunday and nothing
- 1:23:15has happened until today. But I know Grandpa will come back someday, but
- 1:23:19he will. Anonymous accounts