5 Year Spooktacular Supercut!

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Hey gool friend, it's me Adrian
or Aiden. Either way, I want

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to ask you to wish SUSTO a
happy birthday. As we celebrate the upcoming

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fifth anniversary of Sustal and its dedication
to exploring the rich tapestry of Latin,

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American and Hispanic folklore, I invite
you to join me in taking this paranormal

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project to the next level. Over
the past five years, I've delved deep

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into the mysterious realms of ghostly apparitions, supernatural legends, and chilling tales that

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have captivated audiences worldwide. Now,
as I embark on the next chapter of

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this journey into the unknown, I
need your support to enhance your experience as

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a listener. Your generous donation will
allow me to invest in a new recording

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setup, ensuring that future spine chilling
narratives are captured with crystal ball clarity and

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devilish detail. With upgraded equipment,
I'll be able to host ghoulish guests with

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greater ease and transport you even deeper
into the heart of darkness, where legends

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come alive and the paranormal awaits.
Every dollar contributed will aid in advancing the

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quality of sustol, enabling me to
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Latin American and Hispanic cultures with the
world. Join me in celebrating five years

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of fear inducing tales and help me
amplify this spooky saga for many more to

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come. Together, we can unlock
the secrets of the supernatural and keep the

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spirit of storytelling alive. To make
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support and may the spirits guide you
on your journey through the unknown Eternally yours

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Adrian or Aidan either way, a
girl, friends, It's me Adrian or

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Aiden. Either way. I am
still your host, and you are still

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listening to Susto, the podcast of
uky Spooky Scary Stories for the fifth year

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in a row. That's right,
girlfriends Sustal has officially turned five years old.

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If you are a Patreon subscriber on
patreon dot com slash sustal podcast,

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then you may be listening to this
on the actual five year anniversary, which

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is April seventeenth. And if you
are not a Patreon subscriber and you're listening

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to the show a day later and
possibly with ads, then you are hearing

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this the day after. Either way, what are the chances you know that

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the stars perfectly aligned for us to
be here together for this episode to drop

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on these two days, the day
of the five year anniversary and the day

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right after. I probably posted about
this yesterday on the social medias that's at

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Soustal podcast, everywhere. I've said
this before, I cannot believe it's been

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five years. It feels simultaneously like
it's been longer. It doesn't feel like

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it's been five years. It feels
like I've been doing this for ten years.

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At the same time, it feels
like it's gone by in a blur,

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like it's happened so fast. I
feel like I just started the show

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yesterday. I don't know what it
is. I think it's because we have

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been able to do so much with
Sustal. I have been able to accomplish

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so much, and I am so
proud of all the work that I've been

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able to do with Sustal, and
that's all because of you. You,

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the listeners, my girlfriends, the
Sustal fam. You have made this all

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possible. Without the listeners, there
would be no Sustal. I mean,

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sure, I would probably be making
the show, but the whole point of

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the show is to share the stories, is to share this experience, is

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to connect through a level of fear, as I've said many times before,

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and without people to share that with, then that feeling wouldn't be recreated.

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So I just I don't even know
what to say. I feel speechless,

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but more than anything, I feel
so grateful and so thankful, and I

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just like I cannot thank everybody enough. Everyone who has followed online, who

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has subscribed to Patreon, who has
listened to the show, sent in their

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stories, written reviews, shared with
your own girlfriends. It has all meant

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so so much to me. Yeah, I'm going to try not to ramble

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on too much about it one because
I just wanted I could, you know,

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I could ramble on about it for
an hour solid at least, and

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I don't want to cry like I
normally do, so I would just leave

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it at saying a million and one
times thank you from the bottom, from

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the bottom of my heart, I
am eternally grateful to all of you.

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With that being said, as you
heard in the pre role in honor of

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Susto's five year anniversary, I launched
a go fund me to try and raise

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money to invest in a new recording
setup for Sustal. I won't give you

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the entire spiel again, I will
be making social media posts about it.

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I feel like now that we have
officially hit the five year anniversary, I

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really want to push that go fund
me. So for those of you who

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have donated, thank you again.
I'm just gonna this is just an episode

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of thank Yous. But again,
I just I have to say it every

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time because it boggles my mind that
anybody can see the vision that I have

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for Sustal, and so I just
yeah, it's just I don't know what

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to say. I'm just gonna try
and push through all of this, push

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through all of the good, positive, happy feelings. But yeah, there's

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that. As always, you can
follow any and all updates on the show,

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including live events that I have coming
up. So you should know that

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in May next month, I will
be at the Curious Twins Psychic and Spiritfest

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in San Antonio. There is links
to all of that on my link tree,

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which you can find in the bios
of all of my social media,

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or on my website sustalpodcast dot com. So when I was thinking of this

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week's episode, I was thinking what
can I do, What can I do?

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What can I do to make an
episode, but also to celebrate Sustal

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and these last five years. So
what I decided to do was to,

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for the first time ever, put
together a supercut of Sustal, a spoctacular

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if you will, of the top
five most popular episodes. And this is

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according to my host website, which
unfortunately, I was really trying to think

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of a way how can I search
for sentiment? And for those of you

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who work in public relations and in
marketing, you'll know that there are some

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platforms that will allow you to like
track for sentiment. I don't think I

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have enough data to look into that
for Sustal, So maybe maybe in the

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next milestone, I will ask you
all for your favorite moments on the show

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and I'll highlight those. But for
today, like I said, this is

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the five year Spoctacular super cut,
and I'm bringing you the top five episodes

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to my most popular story episodes of
Sustal, and I believe those are Martin

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Buska, Villanova, Legends of the
Pantheon, de Vilin, Dance with the

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Devil, the resurrected version Isla de
las Mignekas and La Lbucci. So it's

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just going to be the story portions
of the episodes today. So I'll look

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back into the vault, into the
dungeon of the episodes that we've done in

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the past that were really popular.
So I hope that you enjoy today's listen

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a little bit of nostalgia, a
little bit of reminiscing on the good times

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that we have had and that we
will continue to have for the next at

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least another five years, and then
we'll take it from there right As always,

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the easiest way to support the show
is by sharing it with your network

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of ghoul friends with your own haunted
house. You can also leave a rating

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or review on Apple Podcasts or on
the Spotify Q and A. If you

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have your own scary story to share, you know how to do that.

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You can email me, message me
on social media, you can submit it

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on the website, and it also
does not have to be a written story.

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If you have a spooky photo,
video, audio recording that you would

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like me to feature on a Letters
from the Beyond episode or on social media,

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go ahead and send it in any
of those various ways. You can

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also use a summoning circle. Actually, if you're listening on Spotify or on

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the social media post for today's episode, what five things would you put in

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a summoning circle to summon me your
ghost host. While you're thinking of that,

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and without any further ado, we
are going to get the spooctacular started.

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God, it feels so good to
say the five year Susto Spooctacular.

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In the playa Ancha Cemetery Number three
in Valpara, Chile, there is a

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rather particular tomb, which, if
its history is unknown to passers by,

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can go easily unnoticed. However,
the lore surrounding it could possibly be one

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of the only instances of a person
who was able to deceive the devil after

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making a deal. The story begins
at the end of the nineteenth century with

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an impoverished Spaniard arriving in Valparaiso,
a port city, a man who,

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like many, was on a quest
to improve his life and grow a fortune

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in the world famous jewel of the
Pacific, with its commercial prosperity. In

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the mid nineteenth century, came a
massive influx of immigrants who braved the dangerous

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trip around Cape horn to settle in
the city's bustling neighborhoods. The alleged unholy

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contract seeker Martin Buska Villanova encountered no
fortune nor opportunity upon his arrival. It

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is said he spent weeks, possibly
months, homeless on the streets of the

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port. He made a living off
of whittling whistles and scraps of food he

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scavenged for. But everything changed when, seemingly overnight, the wayward Spaniard went

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from living in destitution to becoming one
of the richest men in the city.

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Nobody understood how this man from very
humble beginnings was suddenly dressed in elegant suits,

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began to invest in businesses, and
bought a beautiful home. It wasn't

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until his old age that he revealed
his secret pact with Satan, after invoking

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the Prince of darkness. The agreement
they came to was quite simple. The

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devil would grant Mardine all the riches
that he desired in exchange for his soul,

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which the devil would collect after his
death, and at the moment his

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flesh and bones touched the ground.
The years passed and Dorn Mardin became a

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great and generous benefactor to his friends
and the of the city, for which

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he became one of the most beloved
Burthengnos of his time. However, a

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problem was always on his mind,
his pact with the Devil and how to

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break that agreement. Looking for a
solution, he confided in his closest circle

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about the problem. Shortly after,
Marthin moved to the Casablanca Valley, where

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locals reported a dark carriage drawn by
black steeds that would approach his house in

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the middle of the night. Due
to the constant harassment, from whom many

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deduced was Satan himself, Martin returned
to his home on the port where he

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initially found his fortune and struck the
infamous deal. Legend is unclear whether Martin

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himself came up with the idea or
if it was one of his friends who

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gave it to him. Regardless of
who thought up the loophole, Martin already

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had intentions to terminate his wicked contract
with the Devil before returning to the port.

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At the age of seventy seven,
Martin commissioned the construction of a mausoleum.

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The community regarded the crypt as strange
and unique, a completely earthquake proof

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structure that housed a stone coffin in
the center, inscribed with his date of

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birth, death and the name Martin
Buska v. One of the features that

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attracts the most attention from those who
pause to admire it is the base of

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his tomb, which is suspended in
the air thanks to a paw on each

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corner, each with six fingers.
Many say that it is Martin's final joke

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against the devil and the superstition around
the number six six six. This allegedly

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allows Martin Buska to have his eternal
rest, thus avoiding the pact he made

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with the devil, since his soul
would belong to Satan only when his bones

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touched the earth. To this day, Martin's remains continue to hover only inches

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above the ground and just out of
reach of the King of Demons. It

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is said visitors who stop to pay
their respects ask Martine for favors, and

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those who are brave enough to walk
through the cemetery at night can still hear

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the Devil searching for the soul of
the man who managed to deceive him.

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The Pantheon de Belin, also known
as Santa Paula cemetery is located north of

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the Metropolitan Cathedral of Guadalajara, in
the heart of Mexico's third largest city.

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The name Sementtherio the Santa Paula or
in English, the Saint Paula Cemetery,

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comes from the fact that there is
a chapel dedicated to the saint on the

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cemetery grounds. The cemetery was designed
by the famous Mexican architect Manuel Gomez Ibarra,

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who thirty years earlier redesigned the spires
of the Guadalajara Cathedral, which were

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destroyed in an earthquake. The Baton
de Belen or Santa Paula Cemetery was built

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to meet the need for more burial
spots for victims of the epidemics, primarily

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cholera. Perhaps due to this tragic
origin, the cemetery is shrouded in myths

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and tales of ghosts roaming the grounds. Local lore includes the legends of the

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Pirate, the Lovers, the Monk, the Nun, the Vampire Tree,

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the Child Afraid of the Dark,
and more. People have claimed to see

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these deceased residents haunting the graveyard over
the years. The cemetery now offers night

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tours of the grounds functioning as a
sort of museum of the macabre. May

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twenty fourth, eighteen eighty two,
a big storm was about to hit the

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city of Guadalajara. A young couple
was putting their ten year old son to

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bed. His name was Ignacio Torres
Admirano, and his parents and grandparents lovingly

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called him Nachito. As Nachito was
afraid of the dark, he always slept

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with two lit torches outside his bedroom
window and with the windows open. On

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the night the storm hit Guadalajara,
the torches were blown out by its raging

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winds. That next morning, Nachito's
mother entered his room and could immediately tell

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something was very wrong, as the
room was uncharacteristically and extremely cold. She

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ran to her son's bedside to find
no Tachito motionless and as cold as the

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room itself. Later, it was
determined that Nachito had died of a heart

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attack because of his intense, almost
pathological fear of the dark. Rumors began

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to spread that the young boy's heart
had exploded inside his chest and Nachito's horrible

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death was the result of a curse
or was the work of demons. Nachito

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was buried at the nearby cemetery,
called by locals albante On de Belen,

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and the next morning the boy's coffin
was found disinterred and lying on the ground

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next to the hole that was his
grave. His parents and the locals alike

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were alarmed, and the cemetery caretaker
reburied the boy's coffin. However, the

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next morning the same thing happened,
and it happened again for the next nine

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days. Nachito's parents concluded that because
the boy was so afraid of the dark,

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he did not want to be kept
in the ground away from the light.

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The solution make a stone coffin standing
on four short pillars above the ground,

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so Nachito's tomb could always see sunlight. Since the time of Nachito's death,

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many people visiting the cemetery have claimed
to have either seen or heard the

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young boy, or have seen mysterious
balloons floating evenly a few meters over the

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cemetery, as if being carried by
a child. Nachito's grave draws the brave

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and curious from all parts of Mexico, some of whom leave him a toy

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and ask him for a favor in
return. On children's Day, which locally

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is celebrated on April thirtieth and Christmas
Day. Especially, the area surrounding Natchito's

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final resting place becomes covered in small
toys and plush animals. The caretakers of

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the cemetery always donate the offerings to
local children's hospitals. According to another popular

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tale, a swashbuckling man once selled
the Pacific during his youth and attacked many

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ships laiden with the riches from around
the world. As a middle aged man,

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the pirate decided to settle and make
a real life for himself in Guadalajara.

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He had only one son, who
did not know of his father's former

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life as a pirate. It seems
that the man had stashed somewhere in the

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Guadalajara area a massive treasure of mostly
gold and precious stones. A few months

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after hiding it, the man died
and was buried in the Santa Paula Cemetery.

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According to the legend, if a
devout person visits the pirate's grave at

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midnight and prays the rosary for the
man's tormented soul, the ghost of the

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pirate will reveal the exact location of
the treasure over the years, many people

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have prayed for the pirate's soul in
hopes of him revealing the treasure's location,

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but none have yet succeeded. Another
Santa Paula legend is about a child who

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connected to the former hospital next door. A young boy named Santiago was suffering

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from a terminal stomach ailment, and
in some versions of the story it is

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an aggressive type of cancer. During
one of her visits, Santiago's mother brought

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the boy one of his favorite saint
statues from home to help give her son

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comfort through his illness. While he
was sleeping, the mother placed the small

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statue in the boy's hands, and
when he awoke, he threw the statue

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against the wall. Cursing God for
giving him such a terrible disease. He

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yelled to anyone who would hear his
wish that God himself would contract the horrible

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illness that he was suffering from.
Santiago ended his rant by saying something like,

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if God gets this disease, let's
see who will cure him. That

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night, the boy's pain was more
intense than ever, and he wandered outside

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the hospital and into the cemetery.
The next morning, the boy's body was

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found hanging from a with the hospital
bed sheets used as a noose. Sometimes

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at night, people claim to see
the boy hanging from a tree inside the

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Santa Paula Cemetery. This story is
often told by parents to their children so

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they will not lose their faith in
God. One of the most interesting stories

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connected with this cemetery is that of
a vampire. In the mid eighteen hundreds,

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scores of small animals were found throughout
Guadalajara, dead and drained of their

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blood. After months of this eerie
event, the same phenomenon started to happen

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to human infants. The alarmed citizenry
then formed a vigilante group to hunt down

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the supposed vampire who was responsible for
this. The mob rounded up a few

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suspects and singled out the palest and
most quote vampiric looking man of the group.

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As is customary according to the legendary
rules in vampire lore, they drove

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a stake through the man's heart to
kill him. The group then took the

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man's body to Santa Paula, placing
it in an empty grave and covered by

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a stone slab. Locals rejoiced when
the vampire attacks ceased. Thus proving they

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had killed the right man. Time
passed and a tree started to grow over

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the slab covering the vampire's grave.
It is said that if you break one

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of its branches, it will spurt
blood, and even the leaves of the

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tree will leave a strange red residue
in your hands if you handle them.

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The tree is now rather large,
with a huge root system that grabs the

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slab like the tentacles of an octopus. It is said that when the tree's

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root system eventually breaks the slab or
causes a gap that opens the tomb,

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the vampire will escape and seek revenge
on the modern citizens of a cosmopolitan Guadalajara.

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Finally, popular also is the story
of Victoriana Urtado, a woman who

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was born in eighteen thirty three and
who suffered from catalepsy since she was a

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child. According to legend, she
was buried alive by her own children,

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Octaviano, Alejandro and javierre who took
advantage of the fact that their mother's illness

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at times made her suffer in a
state of stiffness, unconsciousness, and diminution

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of pulse. However, despite their
best nefarious efforts, they were unsuccessful in

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their mission to inherit the fortune of
Victoriana. The wealthy woman had left every

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penny to charity. The truth came
to light only after the cemetery's ground keeper

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heard a terrible cry from the tomb
of the woman the night after her burial.

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When he arrived, he saw the
bloodied hand of Victoriana, who tried

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to escape the tomb. It was
later determined that she died of a heart

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attack before she could. The cemetery
is also recognized for its historic architecture and

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its many high profile burials, but
Theon de Belen used to be divided into

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two parts, one for the wealthy
and one for the regular quote commoners.

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The latter was converted to a hospital
after the cemetery's closing in eighteen ninety six,

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but the section for the wealthy has
remained intact. Santa Paula's largest building

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is the main mausoleum, which contains
nine hundred resting places. The cemetery draws

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many thousands of tourists per year,
who not only come to view the architectural

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beauty or to enjoy the adjacent museum, but come for the nighttime ghost tours

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and are fascinated by its many legends. Friday the thirteenth, nineteen seventy nine,

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which coincidentally happened to be a good
Friday, wound up turning into a

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night that became the stuff of legends, a warning for generations to come that

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varies from region to region, its
ending always the same. A young woman

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named Magdalena in this version had high
hopes of attending her first dance at Boccaccio

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two thousand, a popular nightclub in
Macallan, Texas, but her strictly religious

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parents forbade her from doing so,
calling the club a place of sin and

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for the devil. However, Magdalena
had different plans. Fed Up with her

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saintly life of obedience, she decided
to lie to her parents. She told

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them she'd be attending an evening church
event with friends, when in reality she

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could already hear the disco music.
After her parents retreated to their bedroom,

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she slipped on a dress she borrowed
from a friend, something her parents would

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never allow her to wear. Quickly
did her make up in the dim light

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of her vanity lamp, and snuck
out. The night was going just as

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Magdeleena dreamt it would. For a
moment, she broke away from her group

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of friends and through the crowd to
drink some water. Suddenly, a hush

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went over the sounds of the club. She looked up from her drink,

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and standing in front of her was
a striking, handsome man, dressed all

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in black. Dance with me a
command more than a request. Magdalena had

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always refused the attention of admirers because
of her religious upbringing and the warning of

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her parents. But her parents weren't
there that night, She replied with a

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whispered yes. He whisked her away
on to the dance floor. He held

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her clothes and tight swaying and spinning
for what felt like hours to her.

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For a moment, it was as
if only they existed in a dark,

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secluded pocket outside of this world.
But that moment was shattered by shrieks and

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screams. As Magdalena came out for
trance like state, she could hear and

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see onlookers pointing and screaming at the
couple his feet. Look at his feet.

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She looked down and saw that her
handsome stranger's feet were a goat's hoof

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and a chicken's talon. She had
been dancing with the devil in the time

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it took for the crowd to disperse
enough for security to make it to the

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cause of the commotion. The man
was gone, vanished into thin air,

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leaving behind only the scent of sulfur
and Magdalena unconscious on the floor. She

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was rushed to the hospital for burns
that appeared to be hand prints left on

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her body where the devil held and
caressed her. One bouncer reported the heavy

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metal doors of the club swinging open
after the devil had been found out,

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but convinced himself it was only the
wind, since he couldn't recall seeing anyone

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open them. Some say that the
club was destined for an encounter with evil

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due to the fact that the company
who owned the club, Edwin Bush Incorporated,

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shared its name with a confessed murderer. Now there is only an empty

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lot where the club used to stand, perhaps waiting for a brave soul to

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rebuild a club where the devil can
dance again. Drifting through a boat through

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a tangle of narrow canals in Schochimiko, a district of Mexico City, you

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will find yourself heading toward an isolated
island. Though it may seem like any

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other island at first, as you
move closer, you'll start to see the

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dolls, yes, dolls. It
is called Isla de las Munekas, or

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Island of the Dolls, home to
thousands of mutilated toys hanging from the trees

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and lying on the forest floor,
eyeless skulls infested by insects. The island

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is a place of horror and mystery, where the dolls are said to move

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and whisper, and the spirit of
a drowned girl is said to haunt the

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island. The island is shrouded in
mystery and legend, with eerie stories of

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hauntings and supernatural occurrences that have been
passed down for generations. Many who have

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ventured to the island have reported feeling
a sense of unease and terror, and

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some claim to have encountered the spirits
of the dead who are said to haunt

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the place. The origin of the
island's macabre collection of dolls is said to

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date back to the nineteen fifties,
when a man by the name of Don

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Julian Santana Barrera moved to the island
with his family. According to legend,

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Lon Julian discovered the body of a
young girl who had drowned in the canal,

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and he became haunted by her spirit. In an effort to appease her

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spirit, he hung a doll on
a tree in her memory. But the

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doll was not enough, and so
he hung another, and another and another,

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until the trees were covered in them. Over the years, Lon Julian's

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collection grew, and he devoted much
of his life to maintaining and expanding it.

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He would scour the nearby garbage dumps
and markets for discarded dolls, often

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trading produce from his garden in exchange. As the years pass last, the

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island became more and more crowded,
with dolls of all shapes and sizes,

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some missing limbs, others with broken
faces. The dolls themselves are a strange

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and unsettling sight. Some of them
are old fashioned, with porcelain faces and

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glassy eyes. Others are cheap plastic
toys, their features distorted and twisted.

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Some of them are dressed in frilly
dresses and bonnets, while others are naked

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or barely clothed. Despite the eerie
nature of the dolls, Don Julian reportedly

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found comfort in their company, believing
that they helped to protect him from evil

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spirits. However, his strange behaviour
and the island's reputation as a place of

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horror, grief, and dread led
to rumors and whispers among the locals.

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As the years went by, Lone
Julian became increasingly isolated, spending most of

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his time on the island with his
dolls. Believed that the dolls were alive,

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that they were watching him, and
that they were the only company he

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needed. He would talk to them, and sometimes he would hear them whispering

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back. After Don Julian's death in
two thousand one, the island was left

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abandoned and the dolls were left to
decay and rot. However, their presence

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remains, and many visitors to the
island have reported feeling a strange energy or

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presence around them. Many people believe
that the dolls are possessed by the spirit

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of the girl who drowned, that
her restless soul inhabits the dolls, moving

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them and whispering through them. Some
visitors to the island have reported hearing the

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dolls giggling and calling to them by
name, or beckoning them to come closer,

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as if saying join us. Others
have even claimed to see the dolls

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move on their own, their heads
turning to follow the movement of visitors as

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they make their way through the island. Despite the island's reputation for being haunted

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and cursed, it continues to draw
visitors from all over the world, drawn

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by its eerie and unsettling beauty.
Many are fascinated by the story of Don

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Julian and the mysterious young girl who
was said to haunt the island, while

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others are simply intrigued by the bizarre
and macabre spectacle. However, for those

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who have experienced the island firsthand,
there is a sense that something is not

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quite right there. The dolls,
with their dead eyes and twisted features,

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seem to hold a dark and malevolent
energy that can be felt throughout the island.

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Some have even reported feeling physically ill
or dizzy when surrounded by the dolls,

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as if their presence is overwhelming and
oppressive. One visitor, a photographer,

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describes her experience on the island as
follows. As soon as we stepped

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onto the island, I felt a
strange energy wash over me. It was

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like nothing I had ever experienced before. A mixture of fear, unease,

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and excitement. The dolls were everywhere, hanging from the trees and staring out

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at us with their blank, lifeless
eyes. It was as if they were

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watching us, waiting for us to
make a move. As we made our

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way through the island, I couldn't
shake the feeling that we were being followed.

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I kept turning around, expecting to
see someone or something behind us,

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but there was only the dolls,
their eerie silence filling the air. At

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one point, I caught a glimpse
of one of the dolls moving out of

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the corner of my eye. I
turned to look at it, but it

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was still and silent, as if
nothing had happened. I brushed it off

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as my imagination, but the feeling
of being watched only intensified. It wasn't

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until we left the island that I
felt a sense of relief. The dolls

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and their haunting energy seemed to fade
away as we put distance between us and

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the island, But even now,
months later, I can't shake the feeling

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that something stayed with me from that
place, something dark and unsettling. The

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Isla de Munyekas is a place of
great mystery and intrigue, a place where

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the lines between reality and the supernatural
seem to blur. Whether you believe in

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ghosts and hauntings or not, there
is no denying the eerie and unsettling presence

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of the dolls that populate the island. For those brave enough to venture there,

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it is an experience unlike any other
one that will stay with them long

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after they have left the island's haunted
shores. December eighth, nineteen sixty un

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seasonably cold night in San Pedro Scholotla, a rural, primarily Nahuach speaking community

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beneath La Mallizi Volcano in the Mexican
state of Lashgalla, Philemon and Francisca,

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a couple in their early thirties,
were working late carting wool and making yarn.

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Like most households in the community,
they supported themselves with their weaving.

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They lived in one room of Philimmon's
parents extended household with their four children,

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two boys and a girl between five
and fourteen years old, and a seven

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month old daughter, Cristina. Around
midnight, Philemon's older brother returned from Mexico

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City, where he had gone to
deliver an order of sarapez. The three

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of them had coffee and chatted,
then all retired for the night. Philemmon,

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exhausted, fell asleep immediately, but
Franciska gave baby Christina one last breastfeeding.

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Then she put Cristina back in her
crib before going to bed herself.

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Two or three hours later, Francisca
awoke and saw a glowing light moving around

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outside the bedroom window. She tried
to get up to investigate, but her

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body felt heavy and unresponsive, and
she soon fell back asleep. A little

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later, she half woke again.
A strange mist filled the room, and

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out of it materialized a large bird
like creature. Again, she tried to

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get up, but the mist overcame
her, and that's all she remembered.

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As the sun rose, Philemon woke
up and noticed that the door to the

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room was partially open. Then he
saw baby Cristina lying not in her crib,

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but on the floor a few feet
away. He got up to investigate

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while Franciska was still fast asleep.
It took several minutes for Philammont to wake

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Franciska from her deep slumber with the
terrible news baby Cristina was dead. The

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skin around her check, dust and
neck was bruised, and she was pale

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as if she had been drained of
her blood. That same morning, six

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other families were shaken out of trance
like sleeps to a similar discovery, a

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still tiny body, sometimes an open
door, seven dead babies. It was

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a Flawerbuchi epidemic. The blood sucking
shape shifter Tlawerbuci looks like an ordinary person

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and lives in any family, but
they must consume human blood at least once

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a month to survive. They hunt
in the form of an animal, usually

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a turkey or vulture. Lawalbuchis prefer
the blood of infants, and they hunt

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the most in cold or rainy weather. In Tlashgalen lore, they strike most

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often in cold and or wet weather. They hunt whenever they are hungry,

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but prefer to strike in the middle
of the night. To hunt, they

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fly from village to village, and
their birdes or as a hovering ball of

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light in the night. It is
said you can tell if an animal is

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at Flowerbucci by its glowing aura and
the faint smell of blood. After at

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Lawerbouci picks a victim, they wait
outside for a good opportunity to sneak into

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the house. Some people say that
to enter the house that Lawerboucci must fly

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over the roof in the shape of
a cross from east to west and north

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to south. Others say she can
sneak in as a paralyzing mist that knocks

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out everyone in the room. Once
inside, she turns back into a bird

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and sucks her victim's blood with her
long needle like tongue. When she escapes,

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she leaves the victim's body by the
door. The position of the body,

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along with bruises around the victim's chest, upper back, or neck,

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are the signs of a Flowerboucci attack. You can try to protect yourself or

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your baby from the Tlowerbucci in many
ways. Leave a sharp object under the

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crib, a knife, scissors,
needles, or pins. Make a cross

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out of safety pins on your garments. Put a mirror or dirty shorts,

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or a soiled diaper near the bed, but none of these are full proof.

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Only onions or garlic are guaranteed to
ward off an attack. You cannot

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tell who the Flowerboucci in your midst
might be. Sometimes they don't know themselves

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until they hit puberty and begin to
crave blood. They can be any gender,

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but are mostly women. It is
said the stronger, meaner, more

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bloodthirsty ones are typically women. At
lawerbouci can't kill their own family unless that

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family member tries to give their identity
away. In turn, a family member

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who is responsible for the death of
atlowerpucci will turn into one themselves, leaving

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families to live with the secret.
Though Atlawerpouchi can hunt or shape shift any

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time they need to, once a
month they must go through a ritual after

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midnight. They light a fire in
the kitchen with certain types of wood and

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leaves that have magical properties. They
walk over the fire three times, first

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north to south, then east to
west, chanting incantations as they do so.

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Then they sit on the fire facing
north. Their upper body separates from

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their legs and feet, and they
turn into a bird and fly out into

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the night, leaving their legs behind. If the tolower Boucci doesn't find a

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victim by daybreak, they will die. In the stress and terror of a

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rash of deaths, people will accuse
their neighbors of being the Tawerboucci. That

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person is executed, stoned, or
clubbed to death, their body left in

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a ravine. This is rare and
fortunately didn't happen in Saint pedroch Rota.

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When a child died in rural Plashgalla, their funeral procession was filled with music.

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Mourners sang and made noise on the
way to the cemetery. Perhaps this

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was a way to comfort the spirit
of the child on their first and last

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journey without their parents. But the
funeral of a Tlawalbucci victim was a silent

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affair. No priest said prayers over
the casket. No one said a word

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until the badarinos condemned the baby's soul
to God as they erected the cross over

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their grave. It is tradition for
the badarinos to visit the grave after eight

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days, also known as the ocdava
de gruz, but this didn't happen for

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Tlawalbuci victim. After the wake,
all the child's clothes and possessions were burned,

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They had no ocdava de gruz.
No flowers were ever placed on their

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graves, nor were they remembered on
the family altar on Thea de los Martos.

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They were rarely spoken of again.
It says if the child never existed.

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A tragedy the family tried to wish
away. Anthropologist Hugo Nutini had been

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conducting field studies nearby at the time
of the epidemic and stayed to observe the

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community in the aftermath of the tragedy. He posited that the close kinship ties

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in the community prevented any accusations,
since Lawilpucci cannot attack their own family,

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So what led to the onslaught of
infant deaths? Over the next decade,

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Nutheni studied forty seven of these cases, bringing in a doctor to examine the

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bodies or examine them himself. While
the medical professionals wouldn't speak definitively about the

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cause of death without an autopsy,
the bruising of the victim's bodies provided a

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strong clue the victims hadn't lost blood
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