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Speaker 1: get into today's story. The Sierra Madre Oriental is a
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Speaker 1: major mountain range that starts on the southern border of
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Speaker 1: Texas and Mexico and cuts seven hundred miles south through
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Speaker 1: the northeastern section of Mexico. About halfway down this mountain range,
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Speaker 1: on the eastern face, lies a series of caves, and
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Speaker 1: situated below these caves at the foot of the mountains
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Speaker 1: are several small villages that are very isolated and they
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Speaker 1: are populated primarily with illiterate, poor farmers. One night back
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Speaker 1: in May of nineteen sixty three, a fourteen year old
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Speaker 1: boy named Sebastian Guerrero, who lived in one of these
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Speaker 1: small isolated villages, decided to go for a walk up
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Speaker 1: in the mountains, and he wanted to go explore the
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Speaker 1: different caves. Now, this was something he did fairly regularly
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Speaker 1: because there was a local rumor that there was actually
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Speaker 1: hidden treasure in these different caves. Now it's unclear if
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Speaker 1: Sebastian literally leave that or if that was just kind
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Speaker 1: of an excuse to go have a look around himself,
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Speaker 1: but regardless, he headed out of his house and he
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Speaker 1: began walking up the mountain towards these caves. The entrance
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Speaker 1: to these caves were a couple hundred feet up the
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Speaker 1: mountain side, and then each of the various entrances, which
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Speaker 1: ranged in size from fairly small to enormous, were spread
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Speaker 1: out a couple of miles in each direction. So Sebastian
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Speaker 1: starts walking up the mountain towards the first entrance. He
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Speaker 1: can see it's dark outside. He's got no flashlight. He's
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Speaker 1: just walking out. And as he's walking, he notices off
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Speaker 1: to his right, fairly far away from where he was,
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Speaker 1: there was light coming out of one of the cave entrances.
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Speaker 1: And he had never recalled seeing light coming out of
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Speaker 1: any of these caves. Nobody ever went in these caves,
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Speaker 1: especially not at night. And so his interest was peaud
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Speaker 1: and he decided he would kind of abandon his original
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Speaker 1: plan to just kind of look around near his village
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Speaker 1: and he would actually walk all the way over to
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Speaker 1: that lit up cave and see what was going on.
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Speaker 1: So he turned right and began kind of walking uphill
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Speaker 1: at an angle in the direction of this lid up cave.
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Speaker 1: And so as he's talking, he's getting farther and farther
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Speaker 1: away from the village where he lives, and he's starting
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Speaker 1: to hear sounds coming out of this lit up cave entrance.
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Speaker 1: It sounds like a person potentially, either they're laughing or
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Speaker 1: they're screaming. He doesn't really know. He's thinking, you know,
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Speaker 1: maybe someone's having a party inside of one of these caves.
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Speaker 1: He has no idea. But after he gets maybe two
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Speaker 1: or three hundred feet away from this entrance, he realizes
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Speaker 1: it's definitely a person and they're definitely screaming, and it
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Speaker 1: does not sound like they're screaming out of joy. It
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Speaker 1: sounds like they're screaming because they're scared or they're in pain.
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Speaker 1: And as he's getting closer and closer and closer to
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Speaker 1: this cave, his anxiety is starting to ramp up because
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Speaker 1: he's really starting to be frightened by what he's hearing,
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Speaker 1: and he's starting to realize there's more than one person
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Speaker 1: inside at this cave. In addition to the person that
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Speaker 1: is screaming out, there also sounds to be a large
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Speaker 1: contingent of other people that are either singing in unison
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Speaker 1: or chanting in unison. But some group of people are
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Speaker 1: doing something in unison while some other person is screaming out,
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Speaker 1: and so he's really starting to get nervous about this cave,
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Speaker 1: but he just can't help feeling curious about what was
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Speaker 1: going on, and so he just continued walking until he
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Speaker 1: was maybe ten feet away from the entrance to this cave,
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Speaker 1: and he plopped down behind a rock. And so he's
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Speaker 1: not really sure if it's a good idea to look.
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Speaker 1: He doesn't want to be spotted by whoever is in there.
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Speaker 1: But finally he kind of works up the courage. He
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Speaker 1: takes a deep breath and he slips out from behind
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Speaker 1: the rock and he goes right to the edge of
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Speaker 1: this big opening, maybe ten foot across opening, and he
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Speaker 1: peeks his head right around the edge of the opening
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Speaker 1: and he looks inside, and what he sees causes him
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Speaker 1: to just freeze in terror. Then his survival instincts just
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Speaker 1: kick in and he turns and he starts running down
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Speaker 1: the mountain away from this cave. He has no idea
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Speaker 1: if he's been spotted or not, but he's sensing that
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Speaker 1: someone could be chasing him, and so he is just
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Speaker 1: running as if his life depended on it, and he
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Speaker 1: would not run back to his village. Instead, he would
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Speaker 1: run nearly ten miles to the nearest police station, and
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Speaker 1: when he gets there, he busts through the front doors
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Speaker 1: and he's totally hysterical. He's drenched in sweat, and the
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Speaker 1: police officers are totally caught guard, and so they're trying
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Speaker 1: to tell him to calm down, and so Sebastian finally
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Speaker 1: would kind of compose himself, but then he just was
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Speaker 1: not able to describe what he had seen inside of
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Speaker 1: this cave. Whatever he had seen, he knew it was bad,
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Speaker 1: but the words were just escaping him. And so the
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Speaker 1: way he described it to police was he basically thought
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Speaker 1: he saw vampires. And as soon as he began describing
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Speaker 1: vampires to the police, they're thinking to themselves, Okay, I
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Speaker 1: don't know what's going on with this kid, but this
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Speaker 1: just cannot be serious. And so they consoled him and
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Speaker 1: kind of calmed him down and said, look, kid, you know,
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Speaker 1: I don't know what you're talking about. You know, if
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Speaker 1: there's any news that comes out of something happening in
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Speaker 1: the cave that's bad, you know, I'm sure we'll hear
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Speaker 1: about it and we'll follow up, but for now, we're
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Speaker 1: just going to bring you back to your village. And
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Speaker 1: so at this Sebastian was really frustrated and he was
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Speaker 1: kind of pleading with the police, like, no, you got
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Speaker 1: to take me seriously, there's something bad happening in this cave.
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Speaker 1: Someone could be hurt, someone could be dying. I don't know,
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Speaker 1: but you gotta go to this cave. You gotta go
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Speaker 1: see what's going on. But the police at this point
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Speaker 1: they're just not really interested, and so they ultimately do
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Speaker 1: just drive him back to his village, and so he
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Speaker 1: goes back into his home, the police go back to
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Speaker 1: their station, and everyone just kind of goes to bed
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Speaker 1: for the night. The next day, when Sebastian wakes up,
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Speaker 1: he just can't shake what he saw inside of that cave,
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Speaker 1: and so he would once again run back to the
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Speaker 1: police station, and when he got there, he began pleading
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Speaker 1: with the police like, you gotta go, you gotta go
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Speaker 1: see what's inside of this cave. I'm telling you there's
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Speaker 1: something awful in there. And this time one of the
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Speaker 1: police officers, his name was Louis Martinez, he would say,
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Speaker 1: you know, okay, kid, bring me to this cave and
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Speaker 1: I'll have a look around. And so Luis and Sebastian,
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Speaker 1: who was very grateful. They left the police station, they
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Speaker 1: hopped in a police car and they took off. And
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Speaker 1: then later on in the day, the other police officers,
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Speaker 1: who were not really paying attention to this cave thing,
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Speaker 1: they realized that Louis and the boy had not returned yet,
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Speaker 1: and Louise had not checked in via his radio, and
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Speaker 1: so at some point in the afternoon that day, the
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Speaker 1: other officers began calling out to Louis. They began calling
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Speaker 1: him on his radio and trying to figure out what's
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Speaker 1: going on, but he wasn't responding, and so the police
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Speaker 1: thought that was odd, but they thought, you know what,
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Speaker 1: I'm sure he'll be back soon. There's got to be
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Speaker 1: an explanation for this. But the rest of the day
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Speaker 1: would go by without Louise reaching out to them, and
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Speaker 1: he didn't return with the boy, and so by that evening,
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Speaker 1: the other officers were genuinely concerned that, you know, something
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Speaker 1: bad had happened to their colleague, and so they tried
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Speaker 1: calling Louise a few more times on the radio. It
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Speaker 1: didn't work, and so the officers they made their way
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Speaker 1: over to Sebastian's village and they found Sebastian's family believing that,
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Speaker 1: you know, maybe the boy was back and he could
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Speaker 1: give some insight into where Louise went. But when they
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Speaker 1: talked to Sebastian's family, they would say, hey, you know,
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Speaker 1: he's not back yet either. And so both Sebastian and
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Speaker 1: Luis at this point have not talked to anyone all
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Speaker 1: day and they are missing. And so the police at
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Speaker 1: this point they realized this is an emergency. They need
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Speaker 1: to figure out where these two went. And so they
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Speaker 1: were kind of understaffed, and so they contacted the Mexican
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Speaker 1: Army and they explained, you know, we're missing one of
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Speaker 1: our colleagues, we're missing a child from this village. And
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Speaker 1: so the Mexican Army would actually send out a military
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Speaker 1: unit to assist them in going and finding these two people.
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Speaker 1: And so the unit they show up later that night
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Speaker 1: and the police and the Mexican Army they head out
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Speaker 1: to where this cave was, and when they saw what
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Speaker 1: was inside the cave, it would shock the world to
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Speaker 1: understand what was found inside of this cave. We need
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Speaker 1: to go back six months to December of nineteen sixty two.
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Speaker 1: That month, two brothers, Santos and Cayetano Hernandez who made
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Speaker 1: their living basically traveling around Mexico stealing from people and
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Speaker 1: swindling people. They decided they were going to pull off
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Speaker 1: their biggest heist yet. They were going to rip off
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Speaker 1: an entire town. Their plan was to go into a small,
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Speaker 1: fairly isolated village that was populated primarily with poor and
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Speaker 1: illiterate people, and they would go in there and they
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Speaker 1: would convince the villagers that they the brothers were actually
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Speaker 1: prophets of an exiled Incan god, and if these villagers
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Speaker 1: did everything they said, they would make them rich. And
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Speaker 1: so the village the brothers identified as their target was
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Speaker 1: a place called le Yerba Buena, which was located right
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Speaker 1: at the foot of the Sierra Madre Oriental, right below
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Speaker 1: where that cave was that Luis and Sebastian went to investigate,
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Speaker 1: and leir Babuena was exactly what the brothers were looking for.
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Speaker 1: It was home to only about twenty families that were
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Speaker 1: all very poor and illiterate, and they were very suggestible.
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Speaker 1: And so right before the new year, the Hernandez brothers
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Speaker 1: strolled into Leuba Buena and they put on this very
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Speaker 1: dramatic show explaining how they were the prophets of the
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Speaker 1: Sink and God, and these two brothers, they were very
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Speaker 1: charismatic and they were excellent salesmen, and so they really
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Speaker 1: sold the lie, and these villagers, who were very vulnerable
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Speaker 1: and cut off really from the rest of the world,
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Speaker 1: they believed them. They thought this was their big break.
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Speaker 1: They're going to be rich. We just have to do
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Speaker 1: whatever they say. And so almost immediately the villagers effectively
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Speaker 1: became the Hernandez brothers slaves. They would give them anything
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Speaker 1: they wanted and do anything they wanted. But after a
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Speaker 1: couple of months of this, some of the villagers started
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Speaker 1: to be frustrated with the Hernandez Brothers the prophets because
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Speaker 1: it's it seemed like they were not really working towards
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Speaker 1: making the villagers rich. Instead, it just seemed like they
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Speaker 1: were horribly mistreating the villagers and it just didn't feel
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Speaker 1: like this was a relationship that was benefiting the villagers.
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Speaker 1: And so when this sentiment began to kind of make
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Speaker 1: its way around these seventyish people who lived in Layer Babuena,
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Speaker 1: the brothers picked up on it, and they could have
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Speaker 1: at that point just kind of abandoned their gig. At
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Speaker 1: this point, you know they've robbed the town dry, there's
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Speaker 1: nothing left for them to give to the brothers, But
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Speaker 1: for whatever reason, the brothers decide instead to salvage their operation.
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Speaker 1: And so the brothers they leave the village and they
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Speaker 1: go to a city that's relatively close by, and they
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Speaker 1: recruit this young woman named Magdalena Solis. She was a prostitute,
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Speaker 1: and they tell her, Hey, you know, we have this
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Speaker 1: con we're doing in layer Babuena where we're pretending to
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Speaker 1: be prophets of this Incan god, and they're starting not
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Speaker 1: to believe our lie, and so we need you if
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Speaker 1: you're willing to come with us and pretend to be
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Speaker 1: an actual Incan goddess. And so when you show up,
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Speaker 1: they'll know that we were serious, that we have a
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Speaker 1: direct line to the Incan gods and goddesses, and they'll
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Speaker 1: believe us again and they'll fall back in line. And
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Speaker 1: so Magdalena she likes the idea of participating in this con,
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Speaker 1: and so she agrees to do it in exchange for
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Speaker 1: some money, and so she along with the Hernandez brothers
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Speaker 1: and Magdalena's brother his name was Eliezer, and he functioned
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Speaker 1: as her pimp. Those four people. They went back to Urbabuena,
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Speaker 1: and when they got there, the Hernandez brothers snuck Magdalena,
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Speaker 1: passed all the villagers up to that cave up in
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Speaker 1: the mountains, and they put her in the back of
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Speaker 1: the cave. They kind of hit her behind some rocks,
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Speaker 1: and they dressed her up in an Incan goddess costume.
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Speaker 1: And then once she was in there, the brothers went
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Speaker 1: back down to the village and they rounded all the
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Speaker 1: villagers up and said, come on, let's go up to
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Speaker 1: the cave. We have a special ceremony for you. And
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Speaker 1: so the villagers made their way up to this cave,
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Speaker 1: and once they were all inside, the Hernandez brothers used
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Speaker 1: some basic magic tricks and created basically a smoke screen.
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Speaker 1: Once they had this smoke screen kind of billowing in
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Speaker 1: the back of the cave, they secretly signaled to Magdalena
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Speaker 1: who was behind the smoke screen, and she knew that
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Speaker 1: was her cue, and she leapt through the smoke and
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Speaker 1: she presented herself to the villagers for the first time,
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Speaker 1: and she declared herself to be a reincarnated Incan goddess
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Speaker 1: and if you don't do what I tell you to do,
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Speaker 1: I'm going to kill you. And so the message she
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Speaker 1: was sending to the villagers was so intense. They completely
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Speaker 1: believed that this was an incan goddess and therefore this
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Speaker 1: was not a ruse. The brothers were not lying to them.
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Speaker 1: This was all very real. There's a real goddess in
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Speaker 1: front of us, and so they immediately fell right back
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Speaker 1: in line. The plan worked exactly as the brothers wanted
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Speaker 1: it to. However, there was an element of their plan
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Speaker 1: they could not possibly have accounted for, and that was
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Speaker 1: what Magdalena did next. Even though Magdalena was fully aware
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Speaker 1: that what she was getting herself into was an act,
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Speaker 1: it was a con it was not real. Despite that,
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Speaker 1: as soon as she jumped through the smoke and was
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Speaker 1: standing in front of the villagers for the first time
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Speaker 1: and saw the looks on these people's faces as they
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Speaker 1: stared up at her, and she saw their reverence for her,
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Speaker 1: it had this profound impact on her. This is a
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Speaker 1: woman who's never had control in her life. She's been
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Speaker 1: a prostitute since a young age, and here she is
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Speaker 1: the most powerful person in the room and it's not
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Speaker 1: even close. And it got to her head. And so
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Speaker 1: when she left the cave that night. She literally believed
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Speaker 1: she was a reincarnated Incan goddess, and she was not
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Speaker 1: a merciful one. Within the first few days of her
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Speaker 1: stay at Layerba Buena, Magdalena used threats of violence on
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Speaker 1: the villagers to completely take over the village. She very
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Speaker 1: easily supplanted the Hernandez brothers at the top of the
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Speaker 1: power structure. Now, the Hernandez brothers probably were quite surprised
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Speaker 1: to see this happen because they were expecting Magdalena to
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Speaker 1: play more of a proper role to keep them in power,
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Speaker 1: not the other way around. But ultimately it kind of
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Speaker 1: just went along with it because through Magdalena's control over
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Speaker 1: the villagers, they were able to continue to exploit the villagers,
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Speaker 1: and so they were getting what they wanted out of
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Speaker 1: this relationship. Within a few weeks of being in Leyerba Buena,
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Speaker 1: Magdalena was not only abusing every villager in every horrible
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Speaker 1: way imaginable, she also was becoming completely delusional. She convinced
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Speaker 1: herself that in order to survive, she needed to start
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Speaker 1: drinking blood, and so she demanded all the villagers provide
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Speaker 1: her with blood, and so, in fear of retribution, The
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Speaker 1: villagers began slaughtering all of their farm animals and their
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Speaker 1: own pets so Magdalena could drink their blood. For weeks
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Speaker 1: and weeks and weeks, the horrible abuse Magdalena would dole
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Speaker 1: out on the villagers would continue, and these blood rituals
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Speaker 1: would continue, and then finally, sometime in April, two of
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Speaker 1: the villagers decided, you know what, I've had enough. I
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Speaker 1: don't believe Magdalena is actually an Incan goddess. I don't
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Speaker 1: believe the Hernandez brothers are actually prophets. I think this
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Speaker 1: is all a scam. And so they decided the way
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Speaker 1: they would handle this is they were just going to
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Speaker 1: flee the village now. Somehow their plans to run away
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Speaker 1: got out and the Hernandez brothers found out about it,
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Speaker 1: and they in turn told Magdalena about it, and when
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Speaker 1: she heard the news, she immediately told everyone in the
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Speaker 1: village to make their way up to the cave for
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Speaker 1: a special ceremony. So all the villagers, including the two
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Speaker 1: people that were planning on running away, they made their
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Speaker 1: way up to the cave, and once everyone was inside,
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Speaker 1: Magdalena walked to the front of the group and she
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Speaker 1: pointed at the two dissenters, the two people that were
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Speaker 1: planning on running, and she demanded that the rest of
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Speaker 1: the villagers kill them. And on the spot, all of
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Speaker 1: the other villagers jumped on top of the two dissenters
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Speaker 1: and they lynched them. They beat them to death in
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Speaker 1: the cave. And then after these two people have been killed,
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Speaker 1: Magdalena orders their bodies be strung up on these two
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Speaker 1: pikes she had set up in the back of the
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Speaker 1: cave because she knew what she was going to be
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Speaker 1: doing up in this caves. And so after these two
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Speaker 1: bodies were strung up on these pikes, Magdalena grabs a
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Speaker 1: chalice and she walks over to these two bodies and
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Speaker 1: she presses the chalice up against their bodies where they're
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Speaker 1: bleeding from, and she fills it up, and then she
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Speaker 1: drinks from the chalice. And at this point everything changed. Suddenly,
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Speaker 1: Magdalena understood that it wasn't good enough to just be
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Speaker 1: drinking animal blood. That was not enough to keep her
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Speaker 1: a goddess alive. She now could only consume human blood,
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Speaker 1: and so for the next several weeks, periodically Magdalena would
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Speaker 1: order everyone in the village to go back up to
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Speaker 1: the cave for a blood ritual, which they all knew
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Speaker 1: what this entailed. This no longer had anything to do
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Speaker 1: with animals. This was human blood rituals. She would order
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Speaker 1: them up and they would have no idea who was
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Speaker 1: going to be the sacrifice. And so all these people
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Speaker 1: that get inside this dark cave and then Magdalena shows
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Speaker 1: up and she stands in front of them, and after
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Speaker 1: kind of looking them over, she identifies her next sacrifice,
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Speaker 1: and out of fear, the other villagers who were the
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Speaker 1: friends and family of the victim, would launch themselves on
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Speaker 1: top of the chosen sacrifice and lynch them in the cave.
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Speaker 1: And then afterwards their body would be strung up on
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Speaker 1: one of the pikes, and Magdalena would walk over with
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Speaker 1: her chalice. She would fill it with blood and she
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Speaker 1: would drink it. And so this would go on and
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Speaker 1: on for several weeks. And one of the most distressing
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Speaker 1: aspects of these human sacrifices is that as she did
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Speaker 1: more and more and more of them, Magdalena got it
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Speaker 1: in her head that beating the sacrifice to death before
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Speaker 1: consuming their blood was spoiling the blood in some way,
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Speaker 1: and so what she began doing was she would have
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Speaker 1: the other villagers beat the sacrifice into submission, and then
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Speaker 1: she would have the sacrifice strung up to one of
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Speaker 1: the pikes while they were still alive, and then she
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Speaker 1: would carve their heart out while they were alive, and
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Speaker 1: then she would drink their blood. So in May of
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Speaker 1: nineteen sixty three, when Sebastian, the fourteen year old boy,
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Speaker 1: when he poked his head around and looked into that cave,
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Speaker 1: he watched one of these sacrifices having their heart cut out,
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Speaker 1: and he didn't know what to make of it, and
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Speaker 1: so he ran to the police. And then the next
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Speaker 1: day he and the police officer Luis Martinez, they would
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Speaker 1: go back to the cave and Magdalena and her cult
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Speaker 1: would spot them, capture them and drag them both into
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Speaker 1: the cave and both of them would be ritualistically sacrificed.
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Speaker 1: They would have their hearts cut out, and Magdalena would
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Speaker 1: drink their blood. When the police and army arrived in Lejerbabuena,
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Speaker 1: it was a ghost town because all of the villagers
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Speaker 1: had been ordered up to the cave where they had
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Speaker 1: barricaded themselves inside with weapons. Because Magdalena probably knew there
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Speaker 1: was going to be a big police response because one
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Speaker 1: of their officers has gone missing out here, they're bound
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Speaker 1: to be found out. And so when the police and
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Speaker 1: the army reached the cave, there's this big shootout with
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Speaker 1: all of the villagers and during the shootout, the majority
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Speaker 1: of the villagers are killed. Also the Hernandez brothers, they're
19:58
Speaker 1: also killed in the shootout. And then after the shootout stopped,
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Speaker 1: the police and the army would go into this cave
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Speaker 1: and they would discover the pikes, the bloody pikes that
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Speaker 1: are in the back of the cave with bits of
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Speaker 1: human remains all over the ground. And then they would
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Speaker 1: leave the cave and they would search the town and
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Speaker 1: they would find the remains of Luis and Sebastian outside
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Speaker 1: a particular shack. And then inside the shack was Magdalena
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Speaker 1: and her brother Eliezer. They were still alive. They were
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Speaker 1: trying to hide from the authorities and so they would
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Speaker 1: be arrested. It's believed Magdalena sacrificed and drank the blood
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Speaker 1: of at least fifteen of the villagers over a six
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Speaker 1: week period. However, the only remains to be positively identified
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Speaker 1: were Luis Martinez and Sebastian Guerrero. Ultimately, Magdalena and her
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Speaker 1: brother Eliezer were sentenced to fifty years in prison, and
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Speaker 1: all of the surviving villagers who participated in the sacrifices
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Speaker 1: or who participated in the shootout with police and the army,
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Speaker 1: they were given thirty years in prison. Amazingly, none of
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Speaker 1: the villagers ever testified against Magdalena or her brother, despite
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Speaker 1: the fact they were almost certainly offered reduced sentences in
21:09
Speaker 1: exchange for their testimony. Clearly, they were more terrified of
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Speaker 1: the inkin Goddess than they were terrified of the prospect
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Speaker 1: of thirty years in prison. Although the exact date of
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