El Trauco

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started. As I mentioned previously,
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that, I have a few things
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and Spiritfest on May eighteenth. I
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This is hosted by the Curious Twins
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If not, you can catch me
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more things coming up, but I'm
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including these live events. Very excited
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will see you there. Okay,
Now with that out of the way.

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Aside from that, I really don't
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the last episode yet, you can
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and if you haven't visited her podcast, make sure go listen to me on

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Bex's show Through the Ebrucha. And
I also was on My Horror Confessional with

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Miya, to make sure to go
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watch a le Dia ba Leikh,
so if you want to watch the movie

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beforehand, there are It's pretty much
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of thing, So if you haven't
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watching it. I really enjoyed it, and if you don't mind spoilers.

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Then just listen to the episode without
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Stay tuned for more collaborations to come
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I'm really really excited to present to
you all, but I will leave it

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there as always. If you have
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me to read on a Letters from
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You can burn it in a fire
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to me. There are so many
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make sure to send those in.
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That's just that's what the priest told
me. So if you would be

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so kind as to help me overcome
this demon, I would love that.

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And before I forget, I have
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try introducing a new segment into the
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work. Hopefully I will be able
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can. I'm just gonna have to
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So after the context portion of the
episode and before the final goodbyes, make

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sure to stick around. There is
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very excited to present it to you
all. With all that being said,

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we are going to jump into today's
episode. But before that, I do

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want to give a content warning.
There are going to bess and discussions of

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unwanted pregnancies and rape, so listener
discretion advised. Please, as always,

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take care of yourselves and those around
you. With that being said, we're

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gonna go ahead and jump into today's
episode, which, as you've seen from

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the title, is the Legend of
Eltraco. Maria wandered through the dense forests

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of Chiloue, Chile, the mist
clinging to the towering trees like a shroud.

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Whispers seemed to echo through the woods, carrying tales of ancient legends and

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unseen dangers. She clutched her shawl
tightly around her, her footsteps hesitant as

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she ventured deeper in to the heart
of the wilderness. The legend of Eltraco

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loomed large in Maria's mind, a
chilling tell passed down through generations of townspeople.

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They spoke of a creature with legs
but no feet, its grotesque figure

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lurking in the shadows, wielding a
stone hatchet. Eltraco was said to be

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ugly, beyond words, with a
face that could only inspire terror. Maria

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had heard the story since childhood,
but she had never truly believed in the

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existence of such a creature. That
is until the night she encountered him in

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the forest. It was a night
like any other, the moon casting a

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pale glow upon the trees. Maria
was gathering firewood when she heard the eerie

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sound of knocking echoing through the woods. She froze, her heart pounding in

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her chest as she scanned the darkness
for the source of the noise, and

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then she saw him. Eltraco stood
before her, his twisted figure illuminated by

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the faint moonlight, flittering through the
trees. His legs were indeed there,

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but they ended in stumps, leaving
him to shuffle awkwardly through the underbrush.

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His face was a nightmare made flesh, with sunken eyes and a twisted grin

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that sent a shiver down Maria's spine. But it was the hatchet in his

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gnarled hand that truly filled her with
dread. It was stained with blood,

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a grim reminder of the creature's malevolent
intentions. Maria tried to flee, but

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her legs refused to move. She
was paralyzed, caught in the thraco's hypnotizing

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gaze. As he advanced towards her, she could hear his raspy breaths,

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smell the stench of decay that seemed
to cling to him like a cloak,

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and then, in the blink of
an eye, the Trauco was gone.

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Maria was left alone in the darkness, trembling on the ground, now with

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fearful confusion. In the days that
followed, Maria tried to convince herself that

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it had all been a trick of
the mind, a waking nightmare brought on

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by the eerie atmosphere of the forest. But deep down she knew the truth.

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Iltrauco was real, and he had
marked her as his prey, as

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weeks turned into months, Maria found
herself haunted by the memory of that fateful

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encounter. She would waken the dead
of night drenched in sweat, her dreams

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filled with visions of that raucus twisted
visage. But it was not just her

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nightmares that tormented her. Maria soon
discovered that she was pregnant, with no

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memory of how it had come to
be. Rumors spread through the town like

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wildfire, neighbors and strangers alike casting
judgment upon her and branding her as a

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woman cursed by the traucos touch.
Maria was consumed by fear and uncertainty,

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torn between her instincts to flee and
her desire to confront the creature that had

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turned her life upside down. She
sought dellace in the words of the village

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elders, hoping to find some semblance
of guidance in the ancient tales of Chiloe.

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But the more she learned, the
more she realized that there was no

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escaping that Thraco's grasp. He was
a force of nature, a manifestation of

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the darkness that lurked in the heart
of the forest. In the end,

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Maria made her decision with a heavy
heart and a sense of resignation, she

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resolved to confront the Thraco one final
time. Armed with nothing but courage,

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Maria ventured deep into the heart of
the wilderness, her footsteps echoing through the

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silent woods. She could feel that
Draco's presence drawing nearer, his malevolent energy

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pulsing through the air like a tangible
force. And then she saw him.

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El Thracos stood before her once more, his twisted form silhouetted against the moonlit

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sky. Maria felt a surge of
fear course through her veins, but she

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refused to back down. She would
not let the tht Rauco control her any

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longer. With a defiant cry,
Maria lunged forward, her fists raised in

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defiance, but that Raco was ready
for her. Darkness enveloped her, swallowing

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her whole as she was consumed by
the abyss. The villagers of Chilawe whispered

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tales of Maria's fate for years to
come, but no one ever truly knew

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what became of her. Some said
she had fallen victim to the Trauco's hypnotizing

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gaze, trapping her in a permanent
trance. While others claimed he did away

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with her completely, but one thing
was certain. The legend of Adrauco lived

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on a chilling reminder of the dangers
that lurked in the shadows of Chiloe,

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and Maria's fate served as a cautionary
tale of the consequences of crossing paths with

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the creature that roamed the wilderness.
For in the heart of the forest,

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where the whispers never cease and the
shadows danced, the Trauco waited patiently for

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his next victim, and the cycle
of terror continued, unabated and eternal.

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Welcome back with friends. So,
as mentioned in the content warning before the

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story, we're going to touch on
some pretty sensitive subjects, so the subjects

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of unwants of pregnancies and abortion access, and also on rape and sexual assault.

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With that being said, I think
it's pretty clear this story is.

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It's just it's really fucked up in
every case, this creature of Trauco,

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I mean, without it being said, from what I saw in the research,

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it was never like he violently attacks
people. But honestly, any sexual

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advance without someone's consent is violent.
That is an act of violence for his

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power or his thing, you know, to be to entrance women and tonatize

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them, basically coercing them into having
sex with him. That coercion is not

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consent, just we that should be
very plain and clear if if you don't

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know, or if those around you
don't know, that's basically what this this

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this little shit is doing. Is
he's coercing these women. He's hypnotizing them,

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and coercion can look one of many
different ways. So this creature just

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happens to have a supernatural power of
coercion of hypnotizing. Right. I also

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do you want to say that this
legend kind of reminds me of on Right,

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I've covered islmrod On before. If
you all remember, he's this also

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short guy, not very physically attractive, but he is said to serenade women.

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He basically hypnotizes them with song.
There is no mention of causing unwanted

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pregnancies with isomrod On from what I
remember and what I saw when I did

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the episode. But again, he's
kind of luring these women to fall in

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love with him via song. And
then I think think also the details are

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that he is very into women with
long hair and braids, and that the

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only way to kind of get rid
of him after a woman has been hypnotized

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by him, is for her or
a family member to cut her braid off

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and burn it. There's also a
detail I'm not sure if this was in

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the episode when I did it,
but I did see it recently on TikTok.

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There's a detail of him feeding soil
to the women when he initially kidnaps

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them, and then I do remember
saying that they can't eat or drink because

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there's just so focused and taken by
him so that they just ignore their bodily

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needs. And the version that I
saw on TikTok, they said that all

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of the food that they do try
to eat turns into soil, and then

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they eventually die. You know,
these tiny little fuck boys that are out

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here just ruining lives. Right.
But I just thought that parallel was interesting

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to me of hypnotizing women by a
certain means with Arauco, it's just by

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his gaze. Right. So,
there are a few sources that I wanted

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to cover here. The first one
and if you are a best school friend

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on Patreon, you may have been
present at the Susta movie night. We

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did a mystery movie screening, which
is what they are now. They're mystery

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movie screenings, and I surprised attendees
of this virtual hangout. It's patreon dot

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com slash Susto podcast. We watched
the movie Wekufe The Origin of Evil or

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in Spanish, I believe it's Wekufe
elrichindel Mal. And I'm going to read

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through this article that I have this
source, and you can find direct links

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to all the sources on the SUSTA
Google docs on Patreon, but this one

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is Found Footage Critic dot com.
Very obviously, this movie is a found

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footage movie, which I'm always saying, like, oh, I don't like

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found footage movies because they give me
motion sickness, and they do, but

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they're some of my favorite movies.
You think of nineteen seventy four posts on

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Daid, the Blair Witch Project,
Hell House LLC as above so below,

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like all these found footage movies that
I do love, but they just they

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physically make me ill because my brain
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definitely one of them. I really
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and read this to you. This
synopsis of it. It says Weakufe,

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Origin of Evil is the first found
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Chile. The film is written and
directed by first time feature film director Javied

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Atridge. Hi Javiet Heygwilfriend. If
you're listening, or if this gets to

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you, please come be on Sustal
or put me in a movie. This

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continues. The story follows a journalism
student and her boyfriend who traveled to Chiloe,

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a small island south of Chile.
The couple investigates a possible connection between

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a large number of sexual related crimes
in the region and an ancient local legend.

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It's very obvious and very safe to
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of Susto was completely inspired by the
movie Wegufe Origin of Evil. So when

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I initially found this movie, because
I've done an episode on Weakkufe or the

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concept of wakufe, I thought this
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But then I remember from the episode
that Wagoufa is kind of like an umbrella

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term for an evil entity or an
evil person, right, a person who

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does bad things. In this movie, the Wekufe is in reference to El

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Trauco, which is, as you've
just heard it's its own legend, its

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own story, its own myth from
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I don't have enough good things to
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it. I thought it was really
fun and it's it's really cool that it's

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the first found footage movie to come
out of Chile, and it's from what

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twenty sixteen, that's so recent.
I do want to continue a bit on

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this page. There's a section of
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The section is called Legend of the
Trauco mixing fact with fiction, This

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says. Wegufe is a Spanish language
film with English subtitles. The original Chilean

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or Spanish name of the film is
Wekufe el Richen del Mal. Like many

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great horror films, director Javier Atridge
bases the plot of Wekufe on actual local

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legend and historical events. Y'all remember
when I did the Weakufe episode and I

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said it wrong, the entire episode. I will never never let myself live

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that down. And honestly, I
cannot believe that you all did not telepathically

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tell me when I was recording,
when you had no idea what I was

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doing to fix it. This continues
when coupled with found footage. This approach

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lends a strong foundation to the film's
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am obsessed with. I love,
love, love movies that are based,

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like specifically and solely on folklore,
of course putting their own take on it.

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So you think of like the Hida
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For sure, I love that movie
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on folklore, but of course with
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Same thing with this one. This
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small island of Chilawe, south of
Chile. Withufit makes reference to local Chilawe

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folklore, which speaks of a mythical
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local lege, and the Trauco is
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young women in their sleep again disgusting
hate him. This continues. Legend has

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it that the Trauco is also responsible
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the island. It is not uncommon
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are unable to identify the father,
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So this is one of those things
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a fine line, double edged sword
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me of the story of the Tlawerpucci, right, where there's a community who

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is facing something that they don't really
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make up basically an explanation for it. Right. They're saying, ooh,

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no, it's not actually this thing
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thing that's causing it. Right.
So the idea of the trauco existing and

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what he does is disgusting, but
also it gives people an explanation or an

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or I hate to say this,
but like a justification for their pregnancy,

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right when they don't maybe know who
who the parent is. It makes sense,

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right, think of something worse that
can happen to this person than being

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a single parent, which is not
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know, you know, we have
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their specific community standards and morals whatever. I don't think there's any fault in

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being a single parent. But this
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a sin that they would rather dream
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person and be like, oh,
this pregnancy is a consequence of something that

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happened to me. For lack of
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of actual folklore as the basis for
wikkufit is a smart approach to filmmaking.

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I agree, the legend of the
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aura that the film leverages. Not
only is this approach more economical than creating

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a news story, but using actual
folklore infuses a real fear that is not

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easily replicated through pure fiction screenwriting.
Yeah, there's something about it again.

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I'm going to keep referencing Hida Bustamante's
Jordana because that's, you know, the

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first comparison that came to mind,
and it's my favorite is I think what

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made it scarier is like, if
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it. Maybe you're subconscious just already
tells you Okay, you're supposed to be

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scared, right, so you go
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because you know the lore, but
you also know, Okay, this person's

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going to retell it in a different
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for the other shoe to drop for
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the take on this going to be? How is this going to shock me?

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Right? And this movie does that
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job of using this legend to I
think, take on modern issues. This

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continues and this is the last part
of this segment. It says we caught

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up with the director Javeet Atridge and
asked him about using the legend of the

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Trauco and Wakufe. He said,
I wanted to tell a story about these

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legends that have been told by adults
for generations and that a whole society believes

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and takes for granted. Children believe
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is a very easy way not to
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regardless of the damages it causes.
I compare to this with what mass

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media does. Again, I think
this movie is great, and I just

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wanted to give it its things and
its praise and recommend that you all do

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go watch it. I'm trying to
remember where I think I watched it on

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two B So now let's go ahead
and talk about the Wikipedia page. This

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is a short entry on Wikipedia.
It says, in the traditional Chilote mythology

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of Chiloe, the Trauco is a
humanoid creature of small stature, similar to

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a dwarf or goblin, who lives
deep in the forest and has an ugly

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face and legs without feet. There's
something also about the feet in folklore.

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You know, we think of dancing
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correct me if I'm wrong, I
don't know if it's like the siajuan Naba

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or the sea what that they all
but the woman who has the backwards facing

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feet. And then you also have
I want to say, there's another one.

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Well, now this one right,
something with the feet being atypical gets

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it gets put into these stories a
lot. I wonder what it is.

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This The legend part of this says
that Traco is a mythical entity that inhabits

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the woods of Chilouette, an island
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a child of the snake god goy
goi Vilu. Maybe I'll have to cover

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the snake God in the future,
this continues, it has a powerful magnetism

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that attracts young and middle aged women. According to myth that Trauco's wife is

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the wicked and ugly Fiura. And
why are they ugly? You know?

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Where where are the cryptids and the
ghules that slay and serve? I want?

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I hope that I am a I'm
a fierce kind of ghoul, you

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know. In the afterlife. This
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that he uses to strike trees and
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So he's peacocking basically, right,
He's just showing off. That's so,

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honestly, that is such like a
look at me, I'm making loud noises

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or I'm an alpha or whatever this
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any woman, even if she's asleep, will go to the Thrauco. Bewitched

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and helpless against his sexual allure.
She falls at his feet and proceeds to

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engage in sexual intercourse with him.
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as they believe his gaze can be
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this narrative like he thinks is XI
alpha, right, He's like every other

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man is a threat to him.
This says, when a single woman is

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pregnant and no one steps forward as
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the father. Because the creature is
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Again, there's that idea, this
idea of like, okay, we need

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to think of something that's worse than
a single parent pregnancy, right. This

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continues that Thraco is sometimes invoked to
explain sudden or unwanted pregnancies, especially an

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unmarried women gasp, clutching the pearls
unmarried women. This finishes off Edith Reboylo

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Mueller MSc in Sociology states the following. In fact, teen pregnancy has its

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explanation in this myth as a way
to justify this shame. Then it will

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be cleansed by marriage as an institution
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a child, after going through pregnancy
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there get out of jail free card. Right. It's like, oh,

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no, I can remarry because it
was a thraco, so like, I'm

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good to go, we can get
married, right, and then that like

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resets this made up imaginary virtuous kind
of like card right, that this person

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can now get married again. The
idea of a paranormal entity that is also

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sexual in nature reminded me of the
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a succubis. So I just wanted
to read a really quick description about what

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an incubus is for those of you
who don't know. And again this is

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from Wikipedia. This says, an
incubus is a demon in male form in

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folklore that seeks to have sexual intercourse
with sleeping women. Again, a throuco

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targets women who are already asleep or
he hypnotizes them. This says. The

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corresponding spirit in female form is called
a sucku. So the difference here is

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that there is a female version,
right. This says parallels exist in many

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cultures. In medieval Europe. Union
with an incubus was supposed by some to

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result in the birth of which is
demons and deformed human offspring. So in

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the legend of the Trauco, it
doesn't really go on to say much about

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the child itself. They just have
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right, But with incubus or succubi, they say that they're born as

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like paranormal things. Right. A
legendary magician Merlin, was said to have

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been fathered by an incubus. Walter
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some traditions hold that repeated sexual activity
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the deterioration of health and impaired mental
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to cover a little bit more so
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The idea of incubus and succubus are
seen all over the place pretty much.

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But the etymology of the word or
the description is it is a late

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Latin word. It's dery, meaning
a nightmare included by a demon. It's

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derived from Latin incubo and further from
incubaer. One of the earliest evident mentions

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of a demon sharing qualities to an
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List circa twenty four hundred BC,
where the hero Gilgamesh's father is listed as

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Leelu. Leelu is described as disturbing
and seducing women in their sleep, while

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Lilly, too, a female demon, is described as appearing to men in

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erotic dreams. Two other corresponding demons
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who visits men by night, and
Dlu Lily, a male counterpart to our

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dot Lily, who visits women by
night and begets from them. Our dat

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Lily is derived from our datu,
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while du Li is derived from idlu, meaning a grown man. These

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demons were originally storm demons. They
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due to mistaken etymology. So just
some background on the idea of paranormal sexual

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beings. Next week that I have
is a fandom wiki. It's villains dot

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fandom dot com the Thraco page.
This is pretty similar to what was read

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earlier. It talks about his appearance, how he's ugly, short, the

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thing about the feet. This does
say that he has a magical cane called

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a babel dun, that he needs
the cane to help him mock right.

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It says that the cane can also
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again there was mention of the acts
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it can transform into the cane as
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that he's said to warn a conical
hat like a cone hat. I do

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want to read this kind of what's
it called detail? It says about his

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effect on men. It says it
is not only women who must fear the

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Traco, but rather any who enter
his forest. He's able to deform the

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face or break the bones of a
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So to me, this insinuates what's
word like telepathy or telekinesis rather where

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he has the ability to use physical
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or his mind. Right, that's
freaky that he can just look at you

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and beat the shit out of you
without having to touch you. The Chilean

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writer and folklore expert oreste Platin,
I think that's how that's pronounced, described

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with the thidaco as having the ability
to kill or cripple and deform you with

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a look in disrespect, that tataca
is similar to a cockatrice or basilisk,

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and that it can do a person
harm simply by looking at them, or

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kind of like Medusa. Right,
she can turn people to stone just by

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looking at them. And the final
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I did just want to kind of
talk about the conversation of abortion access in

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Chile, right, because this is
an interesting concept. You know, we're

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talking about unwanted pregnancies, but then
the legend kind of ends there. It's

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like, oh, well, these
women are left with an explanation for their

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own wanted pregnancies. But then it's
like, okay, well, but what

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are their options? Right? As
we know, abortion is a very touchy

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subject. For some reason, some
people cannot get it through their head that

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people deserve autonomy over their bodies and
that no one should be forced to carry

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a pregnancy to term, and that
you do not need any specific reason to

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get an abortion. I'm just gonna
read this story. This is from the

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Guardian before I get on my soapbox
and start screaming. This is from the

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Guardian dot com and this is an
article that was published. Oh let's see

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here about five months ago. I
was trying to find the most up to

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date information. It wasn't exactly sure
where to look. If there are any

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abortion access experts out there, I
would love to hear from you. This

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article is headlined gigantic step backwards.
Far right gains in Chile threatened abortion rights

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concerns amount as ultra conservative Republican parties
right to life proposal could be enshrined in

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constitution. There's a part in this
article that I wanted to read that kind

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of described it best to me.
It says in Latin America, the Caribbean,

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Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua
and Buras Salvadora, and Suriname all

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have absolute bands on abortion. In
Chile, the termination of a pregnancy was

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permitted between nineteen thirty and nineteen eighty
nine, but was then penalized towards the

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end of General Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship.
In twenty seventeen, under Chil's first woman

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president, Michelle Bachelette, abortion was
decriminalized in three specific cases, when the

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mother's life was at risk, if
the fetus was unable to survive, or

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if the pregnancy was the result of
a rape. And that makes me think

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of the story of Traco, and
when I'm making these comparisons of the story

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with Traco to this, I am
not in any way trying to diminish or

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trivialize the conversation of access to abortion
and how difficult decision can be for some

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people. I'm just saying I feel
like it's an interesting parallel to draw that

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again, people would rather not or
not even rather people in some cases need

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to lean on a paranormal or a
supernatural cause of the pregnancy because they are

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not able, or they may not
be able to make the decision for themselves

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because the government already has so.
This says after the Constitution was rejected in

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September of twenty twenty three, and
with a large number of Constitutional councilors now

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coming from the Republican Party, were
in a very different place to where we

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were a year ago, said Otha
Varnava. However, while the political tides

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have changed since the leftist president Gabriel
Borick was elected in late twenty twenty one,

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attitudes toward abortion have liberalized over the
last two decades. According to the

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Centro of Thistudos Publicos, a Santiago
based think tank, and Polster, support

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for abortion in specific cases increased from
thirty five percent in nineteen ninety nine to

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forty nine percent in twenty twenty three. The proportion of Chilean's who said that

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they were against abortion under any circumstances
has dropped from fifty five percent to just

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nineteen percent over the same period,
putting distance between the Republican parties hardline ideological

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project and the mandate it has to
veto aspects of a new constitution. Again,

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it's from the Guardian dot com and
it is gigantic step backward far right

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gains. I'm trying to see who
wrote this if there's a byeline. Okay,

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it looks like the byline is by
someone named Betsy Reid. I felt

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like there was there was a relation
between the story and the idea of unwanted

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pregnancies and access to options, because
of course abortion is not the only option,

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but it is the most governed,
the most policed option, I think

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right when it comes to people's choices
over their own bodies. And I feel

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like, if you listen to the
show, you already know how I feel

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about those kinds of things. I
would hope that you would, and if

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you don't, let me make it
very clear. People should have unfettered access

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to abortions for whatever reason they may
need or want, and it does not

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have to be a difficult decision,
although sometimes it can be. But ultimately

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it is no one's business but that
person's punt. End of story for me

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again, I will get off my
soapbox. But soabucks are not. I

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think this was a relevant conversation to
touch on when talking about this creature.

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Welcome to the SUSTO Paranormal Report,
where we delve into the mysterious and the

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supernatural from around the globe. Join
me as we explore rie encounters, haunted

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locales, and chilling phenomena, bringing
you tails that will send shivers down your

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spine. First up on today's Susto
Paranormal Report is from CBS twenty one by

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Sarah Burns. Built in eighteen o
four, the Samuel Miller Mansion in Lancaster

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County, southern Pennsylvania has served various
purposes over the years, including a bank,

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feed mill, print shop, toy
company, and support for the underground

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Railroad. The current owner reports frequent
encounters with spirits throughout the mansion. The

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paranormal investigation group Phantom Detectives LLLC was
invited to explore the mansion after hearing about

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the hauntings. Investigators encountered evidence of
spirits, including writing on the walls referencing

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historical events like World War II.
Witnesses and paranormal investigators experience phenomena such as

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footsteps in the attic and emf reading's
indicating spirit presence. The mansion's different rooms

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carried distinct energies, with some feeling
lighter and happier, while others evoke feelings

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of anxiety or sadness. Paranormal media
Melissa Farrazzano sensed both peaceful and troubled energies

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throughout the mansion, reflecting the varied
experiences of its former inhabitants. The Samuel

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Miller Mansion's rich history and well preserved
state contribute to its reputation as a haunted

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location in central Pennsylvania. Up next
on the SUSU paranormal report is from The

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Irish Star by John O. Sullivan. Ghost hunder Tony Ferguson had a chilling

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encounter at Kenmure Castle in Scotland.
While exploring, Tony heard multiple voices and

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even received responses to his comments,
including a male voice comittim to get bark.

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Tony, who has been investigating paranormal
activities for fifteen years, described the

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experience as filled with unexplained phenomena.
In a separate event in Colombia, a

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man named Diego Spikers recorded a spooky
encounter at his door late at night.

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He captured footage of a child knocking
on his door, but when he opened

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it, the child vanished into thin
air. Despite searching with his camera,

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the boy was nowhere to be found, leaving the Diego shocked and bewildered.

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And last but not least from Metro
News by Sam Corbishly and Michael Havis,

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the abandoned mansion of former Second World
War MP Horace Trevor Cox, located in

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rural Wiltshire, Southwest England, has
become the site of bone chilling encounters.

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Visitors like explorer Jade mckenner have reported
eerie experiences while exploring the Grade two listed

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farmhouse now in ruins. Jade mckenner
felt a sense of being watched while exploring

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the dilapidated mansion, surrounded by vintage
furniture, cobwebs and old letters dating back

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to the ninetheen thirties. In one
of her photos, Jade captured a spooky

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childlike figure in a night dress at
the far end of a long corridor leading

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her to believe she had encountered a
ghost. The mansion still holds remnants of

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its former occupants, with rooms filled
with vintage belongings, including pots, pans,

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and even an old Mickey mouse toy. Despite its current state of decay,

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Jade acknowledges the mansion's former beauty and
marvels at its historic significance. As

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we conclude this edition of soust To
Paranormal Report, we've uncovered tales of ghostly

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whispers in ancient castles, mysterious apparitions
and abandoned mansions, and chilling encounters in

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the dead of night. Stay tuned
for more spine tingling stories than our next

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segment of soust To Paranormal Report,
where the unknown awaits welcome back. Wel

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friends, So how did we enjoy
that? So, as I said at

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the beginning, and as if you
have just heard, I am thinking of

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introducing I'm toying with this idea of
the Susto Paranormal Report, where I will

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try to bring you encounters of the
spooky kind from all over the globe.

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As I have said many times on
the show, one of my favorite things

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is making connections to stories from around
the world. Sometimes, you know,

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stories are just really short kind of
anecdotes, or maybe they don't quite connect

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the way that I think they should
for a full episode, But I still

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think they're fun to touch on and
to share with you. So let me

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know what you think of this new
segment, if I should keep it,

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if I should can it. If
you see anything that is in the news,

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I would love it. If it
comes from like a new source,

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please send me links so that I
can continue to do this segment. I

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think it's really fun. I hope
that you all as well. Either way,

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it's completely up to you all.
Let me know what your thoughts are.

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If you're listening on Spotify, I'm
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