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Lo Aterrador Y Demoníaco Que Hay Detrás De Un Circo Y Sus Payasos - Voces De La Noche · Niebla en el bosque con Evelith von

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I never liked going to the Circus, not even when I was a kid.
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I was not struck by that spectacle of lights of people in disguise and
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of hut in those round scenes where people gather to see the physical feats of
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people who live to do suicide maneuvers. My father owned a plot, a
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six- hectare stretch of land near the village' s main avenue. For
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our luck, this place was very busy and when it came to a show
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like the Circus or some other event that required to be installed outdoors, the
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place was rented for use for the purpose of the tenant. In March the
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Circus did not come every year, but that beginning of spring was accompanied by
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this show. The organizers of the attraction called my father on the phone,
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asking him to rent his property at the time they were in the village.
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Obviously, my father agreed to me at the time when I was twelve years
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old and accompanied my dad everywhere. Then I went with him to an office
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where the person who carried all that kind of paperwork was in the name of
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the Circus. Since we entered the place, I began to have a peculiar
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feeling. I didn' t know how to describe it, but at the
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time it was something attributed to that discolored old office. It was a small
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place, clearly old and careless, where we received a man with a very
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similar appearance to that of the building. The man wore an old grey suit,
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covered in dust under it a yellow shirt, difficult to know if it
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was really that color or had acquired it over the years and the constant use.
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The man was particularly kind, even explaining and then overexplaining things, the
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points that had to be touched to make the contract, which did not have
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something suspicious for a child my age, but for a man like my father
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yes, so at that time the decision to rent or not the plot was
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at stake. The subject' s attitude was even nervous, kind of weird
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to see in this kind of business. According to my dad, he thought
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about it longer than usual, but at the end of the day, they
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both ended up signing the contract and the lot would be ready for the circus
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for the next forty- five days. Two days later, my father picked
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me up from school and told me we were going to the circus to talk
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to someone. He didn' t give me any more details and even though
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I didn' t like the idea, he told me it would be quick
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and we' d be home soon. By that time I wasn' t
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afraid or phobia of circuses. I just didn' t like them. I
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was not struck by the attractions that such a place has always preferred to go
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to the cinema or to any other place, but the circus was certainly indifferent
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to me. Well, it was until what I find telling about right now
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happened. We got to the place. The circus was barely riding. They
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had most of the structure on the ground and engineers and workers were determined to
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ride the big tent in red and white stripes. It really seemed like it
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would be a pretty big attraction, or at least that' s what all
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the infrastructural material meant. My father came in to talk to someone and asked
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me to wait for him there, so I did, or at least until
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my attention was diverted when I saw something peculiar between scaffolding and parts of the
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structure. He was a clown, one that appeared from among the irons that
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the workers moved and lifted. It caught my attention, because in the place
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there were only people from the construction of the enclosure, but not someone who
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gives the show like clowns themselves. It wasn' t very logical for a
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man in the ready locker room, as if he were going to be on
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stage, to roam around the place, which can even become dangerous because of
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the heavy stuff being handled. I walked among the work, which was barely
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ready to be set up. I wanted to find that man, not because
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I was particularly excited to see a clown or the main stars of the circus,
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but out of mere curiosity. I was wondering if, before the tent
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was ready, there would be some kind of street show to get the attention
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of pedestrians and those who drive their cars on the international road. I walked
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all the way behind some small tents and some parked campers, but I couldn
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' t see anyone. I turned my head in every direction, but it
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looked like the man had disappeared. Perhaps I had entered a tent or some
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camper place in the one where I didn' t dare enter. I thought
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I was going to stay with the doubt, but as I turned around and
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headed towards the front location of the plot, where I waited for my dad
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from the beginning, I saw the strange clown- dressed man far away from
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the road. The cars only passed and he, on the other side of
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the terrain divided by the asphalt road, nailed a disturbing look at me.
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He looked like a small man in the distance between the bushes and the weeds
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that had grown around my father' s plot, a huge truck with a
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trailer that passed and seconds later I lost sight of that strange clown who,
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again, seemed to have disappeared from the place and this time without the possibility
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of getting into a tent or trailer just wasn' t there. Your dress.
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It was very peculiar, because it did not carry bright or flashy colors.
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It had white meadows, black stripes and a red in dark hue,
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almost like the color that the blood acquires when it begins to rust. His
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makeup was white with that strange dark red or at least it was what made
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him distinguish the distance, because at no time did I get to see him.
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From close by, when the circus began, my father received some courtesy
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tickets for him and we his family were enough to go two or three times
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and, as I said, the attraction did not attract much attention. However,
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we came, for my father insisted that we do so. My brothers
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were more enthusiastic than me and they were interested in seeing clowns and mainly animals,
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those poor animals in captivity, tortured to obey orders and do tricks,
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which one ignores as a child, because an elephant standing on one leg on
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a steel bench with a pear in his head looks impressive, but the background
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of that chow is much darker than what is really shown to the public.
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Upon arrival, we saw the animals in the cages of just three by two
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meters of length. Some were larger, but most were small prisons to occupy
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as little space as possible during the transport of the circus from one city to
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another, as this was the way of life of these people. Fortunately,
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there is currently a law prohibiting the use of animals in circuses, so these
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places have to be engineered to attract local attention. Different ways. The show
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was normal, as normal as time can pass in a place like this,
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but when the tiger tamer show came in, I began to notice something extraordinary.
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In the course of this act, the tiger tamer staged a wave of
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applause encouraging him to raise his arms and move vigorously throughout the stage circle.
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After him, a panterine tiger entered the arena. The man pointed at him
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with his hands, with one of them naked and in the other a whip,
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which caused the animal to obey because of fear of retaliation on the part
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of the torturer. The panterino jumped from one side to the other, pierced
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steel rings that were getting higher and higher, sat down and pawed like a
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harmless cat. In the end, the intensity of the lights dropped, as
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the feline jumped a ring of fire crossing from a small temple to another three
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meters from the ground. Then, after the lights came back to light normally,
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I noticed something strange in the middle of the stage. It was the
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clown I saw the other day, the one that twice lost sight of me
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in an apparent act of escapism. Now I was there at the wave centre
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of the stage. I was just standing looking straight at where I was.
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I was impressed to see how that man, dressed as a clown, had
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been so skilled as to stand in a matter of seconds from outside the stage
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to the central point of the stage itself. At the same time as the
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clown, wearing white, black and wine clothes, stood, the tiger and
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its tamer walked around the sand ignoring in every way that jester, which was
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strange. That clown' s presence totally broke with the kind of show that
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was going on at the time. Little or nothing had to be done by
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that man in that place and at that very moment, the torturer said goodbye
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to the audience that so warmly applauded him and, along with his tiger,
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withdrew from the public view. I was surprised to see such an interruption in
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the act of the tamer and on my way home. I asked my family
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why the clown would have gotten into the middle of the act, to which
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they missed me they told me that they had not seen any clown in the
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act of the tiger tamer. I was surprised, because the jester' s
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presence was very noticeable. It wasn' t on the side or hidden from
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the immediate vicinity of the main stage. I was right there in the middle
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of the dazzling circus spotlights, but according to my dad, my mom and
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my three brothers, there was no clown in there and it was all like
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a clear confusion of mine, because it was not possible that I was seeing
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something that wasn' t there. The next morning, my younger brother told
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my father if we would go back to the circus, to which he replied
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no, because we had gone yesterday and we could not return as soon as
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we wanted. My mother asked him if something was going on, as the
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man saw the newspaper with a gesture of concern and amazement. While I was
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having breakfast sitting at the table. My father explained to us what he was
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reading. After a slight insistence from my mom. There had been an accident
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at the circus. The tiger tamer had died while trying to get the tiger
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from the show the night before back to his little cage. The news said
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the tiger resisted entering. Then, the man who led the animal to the
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gates of his metal prison began to whip it, for it was not the
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first time that the cat resisted, but on this occasion the panterino did not
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succumb to the man' s order, but pounced towards him, ending his
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life with a few paws. All this in the sight of his fellow circuses.
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The animal scratched with such force the neck of the man who almost ripped
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off his head. Obviously, my father didn' t give us that detail,
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but my curiosity made me look up the note on the Internet and see
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what the details of the situation were. The circus was closed in a week
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at the reopening. Everything was the same except for something. The tiger tamer
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show wasn' t on the billboard. On the other hand, there was
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an aerial trapeze show, which they would debut making their choga that same night.
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My father was discussing the details of the contract with the legal representative of
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the circus, as some clauses would be revised to see if the week the
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circus was closed would tell how to lease or if some kind of insurance from
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the circus would cover that time due to the tiger incident, which was led
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to his being sacrificed. After having rebelled against his trainer, after resolving the
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legal issues about the time of the circus on my father' s lot and
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with the desire that there be no trouble or anger, the representative invited us
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a box at the top of the circus to see the show that was in
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progress. We accessed and climbed some ochre stairs to the naked eye, because
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in reality the circus had a more elaborate infrastructure than some others in tents,
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since these do not usually have a superior box. The show had started.
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A woman played with colored slats while hanging from a steel halo on top of
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the main stage. After this, the trapeze show began for the first time
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in that circus, as these were the substitutes for the tiger tamer, while
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the trained and slender acrobats climbed stairs that positioned them about twenty meters from the
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ground. I noticed again that rare presence was the clown this one climbed by
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one of the trapezeists down the stairs to one of the side of the stage,
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while the other acrobat continued his ascent I just quickly caught my dad'
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s attention telling him that that was yesterday' s Clown who climbed the stairs
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accompanying one of the circusmen. My dad told me he didn' t see
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anything, which was desperate for me. But there was something else. The
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representative, the man who had invited us to the box the same one we
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saw in that dusty office we went to, alerted himself with his gaze and
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made an impression when he heard me mention the Clown, seemingly invisible to others.
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I thought he did, just like I did, but I didn'
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t encourage myself to ask him and the show continued as scheduled. The trapecists
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began to move from one point of the structure to another as the maneuvers gradually
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added a degree of difficulty to their spectacle were spinning in the acrobatic swing.
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They were appearing, which made me increasingly tense, since from one of the
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ends in the heights of the structure, the strange man dressed as a clown
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watched the jugglers, who played with the air and balance on the top of
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the sonic circus for the delight of the attendees. The final part of the
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show of the pair of acrobats had arrived and for this last and brief segment
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they removed the net from below, which would cushion the fall if one or
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both fell from the structures. In the final segment there was no protection for
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the cowboys. Both trapezeists took the handles of the object that made them swing.
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At the top of the circus, they slid quickly through the air and
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the audience looked at them excitedly. But suddenly one of the ropes that held
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one of them suddenly broke. The tension caused the support to overcome, which
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inevitably caused the trapezeist to fall into the void. The people’ s cry
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of horror was loud, as the four hundred people who made up the public
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were terrified and gave no credit to what they had just witnessed. I remember
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the exact moment or two, in which the wave of shouts of those present
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became more and more intense. As the trapezeist descended to the ground and as
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he struck it, the screams in the place reached their highest peak to lead
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to loud cries and words of unheard- of concern, which floated in a
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tide of terrified voices. My father and I left the box, accompanied by
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the man who had invited us to this place. As I left the place,
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I turned my neck to see that part, that kind of trampoline,
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where the trapeze player was who fell and died, and where the man dressed
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as a clown, who had disappeared again strangely and mysteriously. As disturbing and
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teatic, people had begun to leave the place. The voices around me were
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of conversations entangled in the unbelief of witnesses. People didn' t give credit
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to what they had just seen. They did not see how such an accident
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had occurred and quickly began to create an air of indignation at the circus,
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for many said that the net should not have been removed, for had the
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trapezeist been there he would not have died and his body would have bounced off
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that safety net. And everything would be fine. But apparently, that circus
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was more negligent than the others, as it was the first day in reopening
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and again counting someone died because of ineffective or directly null security measures. In
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the meantime, the only thing I could think of was that stranger the man
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who suddenly appeared and disappeared from the circus stage, which seemed to be in
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everyone' s sight, but in some rare way, also invisible to the
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public, as no one seemed to pay attention to him, not even notice
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that the clown lay there. In addition to this, I began to find
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a strange pattern in the accidents that occurred about a week ago with the Tigres
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tamer and that precise day with one of the trapezeists, because in the two
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days in which the accidents occurred, the clown of macabres, factions of dull
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and strange colors, was there. While the tiger tamer did not die at
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the time the clown appeared, he would do so on the same day that
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he presented himself on his show. This was perhaps a sign of death,
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for it seemed to indicate yes. Still, I couldn' t ask anyone,
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as strange as it seemed, no one but me saw the clown.
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The circus closed again now for a longer time. Two weeks had passed since
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the death of the trapezemaker, and on this occasion the attraction presented an insurance
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policy, which removed the responsibilities of the organization in terms of the payment of
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the place in rent to my father' s land as to the families of
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those affected in the recent accidents. One day I left school and walked towards
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the bus stop that would take me home, as my dad was busy with
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other business matters and had told me that on that occasion he could not pass
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through me. That afternoon I had not stopped thinking about that strange man dressed
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as a clown ate the doubt of why the others did not see him,
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why he only became visible to my eyes and why he appeared suddenly in the
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eyes of the cowboys who had an accident and died in hideous ways. So
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much was the insistence of these thoughts that I decided to take a detour and
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go to the circus, although at those hours in the afternoon I thought I
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would find no one. Anyway, I came to see that huge tent,
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which made me think of so many things that I didn' t know,
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because for some reason, the man dressed as a clown didn' t feel
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like he was a person. Somehow, it seemed like my body resented something
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unknown, something I had never met before. Actually, I think having gone,
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I was looking to meet that strange clown. Again, I got to
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the tent. There were trailers and cars parked, but no one in sight,
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or at least not at first sight, because in the distance I could
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quickly see that strange silhouette was the clown watching me from the distance. He
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seemed to be nailing his eyes on me from the other side of the road.
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I approached him calmly, because I didn' t even want to blink
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so I wouldn' t lose sight of him. I didn' t want
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to look away, I just wanted to get close to him and be able
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to make sure it was real. I walked and walked slowly. Every time
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I had that strange person closer to me. When I suddenly heard the thunderous
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claxson of a truck on my left, I turned my neck alarmed by a
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huge trailer with a trailer moving towards me. I pulled back and fell back
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on the ground, saving my person from being run over for only a few
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inches, in which the truck was driving away making the alarm sound. When
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I saw again in the direction of the Clown, instead of meeting my eyesight,
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I could only see a strange mist floating in the air, as if
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it were a dark vapor. The next day, the circus left unannounced and
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I never saw that strange, creepy man in Payaso' s dress again. Anonymous account