Feb. 6, 2025

La Garita del Diablo (The Devil's Sentry Box)

La Garita del Diablo (The Devil's Sentry Box)

Is that music? In this episode, Ayden tells a haunting tale about La Garita del Diablo (The Devil's Sentry Box), a legendary sentry box in the city of San Juan, Puerto Rico.

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Is that music? In this episode, Ayden tells a haunting tale about La Garita del Diablo (The Devil's Sentry Box), a legendary sentry box in the city of San Juan, Puerto Rico.

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A Ghol friends, It's me Adrian or Aiden. Either way,

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I am still your host and you are still listening

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to Sustal, the podcast of Ouki spooky scary story centered

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on paranormal folklore from Latin American and Hispanic cultures. Welcome back,

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Ghol friends. Thank you for being here. Now, right off

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the bat, I am just going to give you a

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fair warning address the little elephant in the room. I

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am not feeling totally one hundred percent. I don't know

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what's happening. Listen bronchitis and now this. I feel like

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it may be a slight cold. So what I'm trying

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to say is I might sound a little off, a

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little stuffy. If I do, I apologize. I'm so sorry.

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Who knows it? Could it could be my Phoebe Bouchet

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moment right where she's sick and she's like, I love you,

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my baby, I love you my girlfriends. Also, if you

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are a best girlfriend on Patreon, you are watching me

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do this right now, doing my Phoebe impression, which for

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some reason involves tapping my fingers together with my pinkies out.

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I don't know either way, Thank you for being here.

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I'm happy to see you, possibly for you to see

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me looking into my eyes. I'm happy to be in

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your ears, in your closet, under your bed, all that

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good creepy stuff. Before we do get into today's episode,

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I do want to kind of address something. I don't

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have a ton of updates, but if you follow me

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on social media that's at Sustal podcast on every platform,

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you may be seeing me post some things about what's

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happening out in the world right now. And I have

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always held SUSTAL very close to my chest as this

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space where we can kind of forget all of the

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real life horrors. And that's always been intentional. Part of

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my reason for that is because I used to do

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this kind of I get I'll call it work. You know,

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I was very involved in social justice movement, in speaking

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out loud, whether it was about my own experience with HIV,

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where I put myself literally in front of hundreds of

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maybe thousands of people speaking at the local, state and

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national level, being a part of a PSA and bringing

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my family and Jeff into that too at some points,

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to going out protesting and being you know, putting my

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body between motorcycles and people to protect them, or trying

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to diffuse situations. I'm just saying I have been on

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the streets. I have done this kind of work before,

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so I know how important it is to have a

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space that is free of all that. But maybe it

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is selfish. Maybe it's because I see it happening more

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closely to my community, because the work that I have

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done in the past, it wasn't always directly quote about

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my community. But if you have been involved in this work,

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then you know that it all affects each other. Right,

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There's no liberation for all of us without one of us.

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I've always believed that, and so I don't know. It's

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just something about what's happening right now with immigration, with

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the ice raids. I heard recently that ice was in

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my hometown, and even before I heard that, I have

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been posting stuff on social media. So all that to say,

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I feel it would be irresponsible if I didn't use

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SHUSTO to talk about those things, especially because of the

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stories that I am covering where they are from, and

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that it is my people, whether or not we fall

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in the same area of the diaspora. Immigration it affects

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not just Mexicans, it affects everybody within, not even just

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the Latin American kind of community or the Hispanic community.

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Are there are more than just i'll say, Spanish speaking immigrants, right,

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But I just I want to say, I am posting

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what I can on social media. I am trying to

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share information. There will be a link to aclus Know

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Your Rights a website in the show notes of this episode,

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because regardless of immigration status, whether we are in the streets,

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at work, or in fucking school for some reason, we

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have rights and it is important for us to know

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what those rights are. So please visit those links. And

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in case it was not clear for whatever reason ever,

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let me make it abundantly clear and say it now.

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Fuck Ice, Fuck what the Republican administration is doing to

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our country right now, and fuck anybody who condones that

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and encourages it. I've seen some nasty things from people,

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whether it is racist white bigots who are like, yeah,

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get them out of our country, or even I think

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what hurts a little bit more are the people in

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our own community, in my own community, people saying well,

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I have my papers, i'm documented, we did it the

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right way. That doesn't affect me. The only reason it

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may not affect you is because out of sheer dumb

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luck were born on the quote right side of a

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made up fucking line, and don't ever forget that they

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see us all the same way, regardless of status. That's

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what I'm going to say about that here, because again

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I do want this to continue to be a space

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where we can come and kind of put those real

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life monsters away for a second, but not to completely

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forget to them. Hopefully I didn't lose too many of you.

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Hopefully I don't piss off too many of you. But

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again I don't know why it wouldn't have been clear before.

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I have always kind of spoken subtly about these things,

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but I think again it would be responsible to not

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say it explicitly and out loud and boldly. The time

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for I think trying to compartmentalize spaces. If you understand

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what I'm saying, it's honestly been long gone. And that

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may be a shortcoming of mine, because again I selfishly

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wanted to keep this free of all of that, but

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it's we cannot afford that any longer. We never couldn't

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afford it a long time ago. I think if I

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have ever fell short, if I have ever fallen short

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of doing what I could. I do apologize, and I'm

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going to leave that where it is. I don't want

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to take up too much of your time because we

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are here to have a you know, a good, scary,

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fun little time. But again, it's it needs to be said,

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and I will continue to say. I will continue to

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share stuff online, especially so if you ever need information,

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please do not hesitate to reach out to me. I

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am always open to sharing resources and whatever I can,

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whatever I have access to with other people. So well,

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go ahead and move on. Thank you for sitting through that.

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If you did, if you didn't, hey, that's fine. I understand.

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And we're going to go ahead and get into today's episode.

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This is another Jeffrey original. We're calling it now a

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Jeffrey original for SUSTO, and I just want to put

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a little note here before this story, he says. This

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story is a combination of two separate myths about La

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Garita the album. It combines the story of a soldier

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known as Sanchez who disappeared with the story of an

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unrelated boy who ventured into the Garita at night and

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also disappeared. I took creative liberty by connecting those stories

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as father and son and by adding the scenes of

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them interacting with the devil. There is also a very

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boring version of the story where the soldier didn't get

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taken by the devil, but instead simply ran away with

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his girlfriend. So thank you Jeffrey for putting this story

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together for us. We're gonna go ahead and jump into

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it again. This is the story of the devil Sentry

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Box or La Garita the Dia. High above the shimmering

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Atlantic Ocean, the majestic Castillo San Cristoval stands as a

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sentinel over the historic city of San Juan Port Dorrico.

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Built in the late seventeenth century, the fortress was designed

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to protect the city from invaders and pirates. Stretching over

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twenty seven acres, it remains one of the largest fortresses

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built by the Spanish in the Americas. From its defensive walls,

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visitors are treated to breathtaking views of Old San Juan,

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with its colorful colonial buildings, narrow cobblestone streets, and bustling plazas.

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Beyond the city, the turquoise waters stretch to the horizon,

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their beauty both mesmerizing and dangerous. The sea's rhythmic crash

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against the rocky cliffs creates a soundtrack that has accompanied

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countless generations. At night, under the glow of the moon

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and stars, the fortress transforms. The cool breeze carries whispers

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of the past, and the ancient stones seem to murmur

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secrets long forgotten. It is as a place both beautiful

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and haunting, filled with centuries of history. Among its many defenses,

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the Garita del Diablo, or the Devil's Sentry Box, stands apart.

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Perched precariously on the fortress's edge, this small stone outpost

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offers a commanding view of the coast. Built during the

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early sixteen hundreds, it was one of many sentry posts

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designed to keep watch for enemy ships. But unlike the others,

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this particular Garita became infamous for the dark legends surrounding it.

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Whispers of ghostly voices and unexplained disappearances plagued its history.

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Superstition gripped the soldiers, many of whom refused to be

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stationed there. After sunset, the sea below seemed to echo

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the fears of men, its restless waves crashing violently against

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the cliffs, as if warning them to stay away. Despite

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these chilling stories, there was one man who was not afraid.

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Sanches a devoted father and loyal soldier, often only called

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by his last name, Sanches was well respected among his comrades,

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as he would protect the Castillo Sanchrislovad with pride since

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he was first stationed there in sixteen eighty three. Though

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many feared the sentry box, he dismissed their tales with

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the wave of his hand. There's no devil here, he

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would say, confidently. The sea is the only thing to

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be wary of. Unlike his fellow soldiers, Sanches's only fear

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was the ocean. Its unpredictable waves and hidden dangers had

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always unnerved him. Still, he never let his fears interfere

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with his duty. Sanches was loyal to both his duty

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as a soldier and to his role as a father.

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He particularly took pride in his young son, named Me,

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A curious and spirited boy who adored his father. Miguel,

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always looking up to his father, had always begged to

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visit the fort at night when his father was working. Sanchez,

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out of duty for his station and for fear of

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how close he worked to the water, had forbidden it.

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The waves are dangerous, he warned. Promise me, you'll stay away,

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Sanches often found himself stationed at the Garita del Diablo.

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On some nights, Sanches would whittle toys out of wood

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to give his son the next day, delighting in the

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joy it would bring Little Miguel. Usually to pass the long,

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lonely nights, he brought his guitar. As the moon rose

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over the ocean, he would sit on the edge of

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the garita, strumming gentle melodies that drifted through the fort.

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The other soldiers found comfort in the music, knowing that

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as long as Sanchoes' guitar was playing, he was safe.

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His songs became a part of the fort's nightly rhythm,

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until one fateful night, when the music abruptly stopped. On

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a moonless night, Sanches took his post at the sentry box.

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The air was heavy with the scent of salt, and

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the waves crashed more violently than usual. Undeterred, Sanches sat

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on the edge of the garita, his guitar resting on

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his knee. As the hours passed, the familiar sounds of

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his music floated through the fort. The soldiers listening from

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the ramparts felt at ease, lulled by the gentle melodies

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But as midnight approached, an eerie stillness settled over the

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sentry box. The wind died and the waves seemed to hush.

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The whispers returned. They swirled around Sanches like an ominous chant,

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growing louder and more insistent. He paused his fingers hovering

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over the strings. Out of the shadows a figure emerged,

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a monstrous being with eyes like burning coals and a

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grin that gleamed with malice. It was the Devil himself,

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drawn by the defiant soldier who had dismissed his legend.

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Sanches stood his ground, gripping his guitar as if it

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were a shield. There's no devil here, he whispered through

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bated breath. The devil's laughter echoed through the fort. Brave,

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aren't you? The creature hissed. Before Sanches could react, the

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devil lunged forward. The guitar strings snapped, and Sanches was gone,

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dragged into the abyss. The last sound the soldiers heard

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that night was a sharp, discordant twang of the broken strings,

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then silence. When dawn broke, Sanches was gone. The only

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trace of him was his musket, abandoned on the old

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stone floor. His guitar had vanished with him. The whispers

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ceased after that night, and the soldiers believed the devil

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had claimed Sanchez as his prize. Finally satisfied, the soldiers

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returned the musket to Sanches' family the next day. After

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his father's disappearance, grief consumed Miguel one moonlit night. Determined

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to uncover the truth, he crept out of the house

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and made his way to the fort. The wind howled

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and shadows flickered along the walls, but Miguel pressed on,

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clutching the small wooden horse his father had carved for him.

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As he neared La Garita del Diablo, an unnatural stillness

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settled over the fort. The boy shivered, but stepped forward,

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calling softly into the darkness, Baba. The temperature plummeted, and

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the ground beneath miguel feet seemed to tremble. Suddenly, the

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devil emerged from the shadows once again, his fiery eyes

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gleaming with hunger. Another Sanches, the devil hissed, perhaps I

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should take you too. Terrified, Miguel tried to run, but

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the devil's clawed hand reached for him. In that instant,

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a soft ethereal melody floated through the sentry box, the faint,

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haunting sound of a guitar. The devil paused, his grip,

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loosening as the music grew louder. A second figure emerged

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from the shadows. Sanches, his spectral form, calm and radiant,

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run Miguel. Sancho's commanded, but Miguel, tears streaming down his face,

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refused to leave. I won't leave you, Papa. Knowing they

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could not win this fight, Sanches knelt beside Miguel and

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placed a protective arm around his son. Sancha shouted, there

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is no devil here. The devil, realizing the father's love

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would be too great for him to be able to

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take both of their souls, hissed in frustration. Before returning

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to the shadows. The devil cursed them to be trapped

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together in the Garita del Diablo. Sanches and Miguel remained

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in the sentry box, bound together by love and loyalty,

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forever beyond the devil's reach. The next morning, the townspeople

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searched frantically for Miguel. They combed the cliffs and scoured

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the fort, but the boy was nowhere to be found.

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Near La Garita del Diablo, they found only a wooden

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toy horse that had once been whittled by Sanchez for

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his son Miguel. Realizing this meant they were both gone,

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The townspeople were heartbroken and mourned the loss of both

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father and son. Years passed, and strange sightings began to surface.

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To this day, visitors to Castillo San Cristoval claimed to

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see a shadowy figure patrolling the sentry box, a spectral

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soldier with a musket in hand. Sometimes the sound of

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a child's laughter echoes through the night, and fleeting shadows

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dart along the walls. Many believe it is Sanches and

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Miguel reunited in death. Bound by love and loyalty, they

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became eternal guardians of the fort, watching over those who

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ventured too close to the cursed sentry box. The whispers

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never returned, for the devil had been vanquished by their

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unbreakable bond, and on rare quiet nights, if you listen closely,

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you might hear the faint, haunting melody of Sanches's guitar

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carried on the wind, a reminder that he still stands watch,

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protecting La Garita del Viablo with his son by his side,

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Welcome back, Ghoul friends. I that story, round of a

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round of a cause, A round of a cause because

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a round of applause for Jeffrey for writing that story. Wow,

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what a beautiful story. And again I love that he

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used these two kind of different stories and melded them together.

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And we had sort of it's weird to say, like, oh,

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we met about it because that's my roommate. Just kidding,

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because hello, we live together, and so we're just like,

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you know, we kind of talk randomly and we bounce

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ideas off of each other. Now that he writes some

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of the stories, and so when he brought this up

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and we're kind of discussing it, these two different stories,

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and ultimately we thought, yeah, let's just mix them together

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because that's what I've kind of always done on two

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story is kind of pick pieces from different stories and

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mesh them together, and then we talk about kind of

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breaking it apart afterward. So speaking of we have some

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sources here to go through. So the first one, of course,

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is a Wikipedia link, and this is about Castillo Sancristoval,

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where this is located. So again this is a real

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location and I'll be putting pictures and stuff up in

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the video if you are a best girlfriend on patron

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dot Comusto podcast and you can see those up here,

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but some pictures will also be in the social media

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post for this. This Wikipedia entry says not to be

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confused with Castle of San Cristoval or Santa Cruz, the

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the nei Fe or Fort San Cristoval in Spain. This

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says Castillo San Cristoval is a fortress in the historic

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district of old town San Juan, Puerto Rico, known as

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the largest fortification built by the Spanish in the New World,

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dating back to defense expansions following attacks by the English

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in fifteen ninety eight and the Dutch in sixteen twenty five,

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so according to these dates, Sanchez wasn't there until after

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the English and Dutch attacks. It was first built in

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sixteen thirty four as the Garita la Viablo or the

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Devil Sentry Box and an artillery platform. Over the next

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one hundred and fifty years, especially in the reign of

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King Charles the Third of Spain, it continued to be

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developed into a bastion fort to reach its largest size

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in nineteen seventy, rising one hundred fifty feet from the

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Atlantic shoreline. The three level edifice stands on a hill

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at the northern coastline of San Juan Islet. Islet islet

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isl e T I'm not that's an Isolet. I'm gonna

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say Isle like island or Isle. So San Juan Islet

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guarding the land entry to Old San Juan, San Cristoval,

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alongside El Moro, La Fort Lesa and other forts part

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of the walls of Old San Juan protected strategically and

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militarily important Puerto Rico or La Jabre de las Indias,

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or the Key to the Indies from invasion by competing

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world powers during the Age of Sail. It was designated

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a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in nineteen eighty three.

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And this is I mean, it's gorgeous. I always think

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like these kinds of historic places they just look cool.

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But this being set like in Puerto Rico, it's beautiful.

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It's coastal, there's like green kind of mound around it,

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and it's yeah, it's just an old building or structure,

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and so that's really cool. I for sure would go visit.

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With this kind of lighthearted quote lighthearted, you know, warm

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fuzzy feeling story that we have here that we put together.

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I would go visit it with that story in mind.

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I think that's really sweet. But again, you know, history

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is it's impacted by these big events or places in

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history or are impacted by these large events. So of

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course this is a major kind of space for that,

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for these energy impressions as I've come to believe them

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here on SUSTA. But I would definitely go visit this place.

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It seems like, you know, it's touristy enough, So let

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me know, let me know in the comments or somewhere

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if you would, if you would go visit the Castillos

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Grislova more specifically e. The next source we have here

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is from American ghostwalks dot com and they this is

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an entry from twenty twenty three, actually by Chris Gallagan

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or yes that's a G. Gallagan, it might be C. Callahan,

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I'm sorry, Chris simply titled the Devil's sentry Box. And

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this is yes, it's got the stories that we kind

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of used to put this together, but as individual stories, right.

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So this first one is the story of the Cursed Soldier.

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It says in this chilling story, the sentry Box was

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cursed by a Spanish soldier named Sanchez, who is betrayed

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by his comrades. It said that the soldier was stationed

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at the box one fateful night when his fellow soldiers

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attacked him and left him for dead. As he lay

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wounded and dying, the soldier cursed the sentry box and

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the fort swearing that they would be haunted forever by

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the devil himself. His curse was so powerful that it

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has lingered for centuries, and to those who spend too

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much time in the sentry Box are said to fall

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under the devil's spell. The cursed soldier's restless spirit is

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said to roam the fortress, seeking vengeance against those who

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wronged him. A slightly more palatable, if equally mysterious version

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of the soldier's story relates that Sanches was a talented

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guitar player who would pass away his time on duty

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at the sentry Box by strumming his guitar as the

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waves rolled in. One night, a fellow soldier called down

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the line to Sanchez, checking in on him, but heard

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no reply. The soldier alerted the night watchman, who claimed

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to have not seen anyone pass by. Perturbed, the men

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concluded that something sinister was afoot, but were too scared

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to check it out until morning. When the sun rose,

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the watchman headed to Sanchez's sentry box, only to find

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his musket and side arm abandoned. Scared that Sanches had

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been accosted by the devil, they refused to stand guard there. Ever. Again,

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it's said that on quiet nights you can sometimes hear

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the soft notes of a guitar being carried on the wind.

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So this is interesting because nobody. My mind goes too

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that he was over it. He was done. He didn't

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want to be there anymore, so he left up and vanished.

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Everybody around him was like it was the devil. Bro

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they said, essen it's the devil. I don't know. I

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think maybe he was just like over it. He didn't

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want to be a soldier anymore. He didn't want to

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be stationed anymore, so he just left. Although the people

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around him said they didn't see anybody so he If

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that's true, he would have had to have been sneaky

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right and kind of tiptoed out of there. There's another

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part of it here that says the Devil's bargain. The

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devil sentry box is also rumored to be the site

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of a sinister pact with the Devil. This version of

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the story goes that a Spanish soldier stationed at the

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Sentry Box made a deal with the devil in exchange

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for wealth and power. However, the soldier soon realized that

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the devil's bargain was not worth the price he had paid,

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and he tried to break the deal. It contracts a contract,

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my guy. Sorry. In retaliation, the Devil cursed the sentry

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Box and the fort, promising to haunt them for the

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rest of time. Those who enter the Sentry Box are

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said to be at risk of being trapped by Diablo,

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their souls taken his payment for the cursed soldier's treacherous deal. Okay, okay,

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hold on, but now why are we in it. I

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could understand maybe cursing this soldier's bloodline, right and his predecessors,

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And even then I'd be like, well, that's not fair.

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That's his deal, take his soul, right, But anybody, anybody

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who goes through there, we got to pay the soul toll.

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That's going to be a sticker, the soul toll. That

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doesn't seem fair. But also, when doing business with the devil,

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none of it is fair. The last one here is

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and I'm'm assuming this is where that second part of

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the story came from, the spirit of a tormented boy.

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This is perhaps the most disturbing theory behind the Devil's

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Sentry Box. The story concerns a young boy who was

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locked inside the box as punishment for a minor offence.

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All that's sad. The boy was never released and eventually

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died of starvation trapped in the dark, cramped space of

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the sentry box. Who put him in there? It is

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said that the boy's tormented spirit now haunts the sentry Box,

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seeking revenge against those who wronged him, of course, and

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he should have it. Visitors to the fort report feeling

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an eerie presence when they enter the sentry Box, as

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if the boy's spirit is still trapped there, hoping one

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day to exact brutal revenge on his captors. Okay, two things,

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how do we free him? And two how do we

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help him get his revenge? Poor little boy for a

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minor offense? Death? Starvation, that's terrible. This continues. There are

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many theories behind the double Sentry Box, Yet there remain

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visitors to the Castillo San Crisovald who believe the hauntings

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are nothing more than a figment of the imagination. Whether

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there's any truths to the tales is up for debate,

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but many people who spend time their report feeling a

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dark or foreboding presence, almost as if the devil himself

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were watching on. Myths and legends play a huge part

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in Puerto Rico's culture and society, and you can read

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the storytell of Loorona here. There's a hyperlink Puerto Ricos Orona.

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I'm gonna read that one. For more sinister retails from

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this colorful corner of the world, check out ghost Walks

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in Puerto Rico and that was also a hyperlink. Again,

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this is American Ghostwalks dot com. This looks like they

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offer tours or something. Do they do one in Austin? Destinations?

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Nothing in Texas? Dang their destinations listened here are California, Illinois, Hawaii, Maine, Minnesota,

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Puerto Rico, San Juan, New Orleans, French Quarter, and Wisconsin.

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American ghost Walks come to Texas, come to Austin. I

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would love to do one of these tours. The next

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source is from good Old Apples. App Apples a skibe

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if I could say that, right, good old Atlas obscura,

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my speech is obscurre ed right there. And this is

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an entry about Garita the album. Okay, now this gives

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a more clear picture. So and again these pictures beyond

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social media and the video. But the Garita it's literally

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like it's barely part of this structure. Like there's like

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a corner of it looks like a triangle that juts

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out into the water, into the shoreline. So this makes

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more sense in my head of it being a creepy

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space or people making up stories about it because it's

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so secluded, right, Like, this doesn't even look like it's

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part of whatever structure it's a part of. It's just

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literally just a tower on the very corner. So I

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can see how that feeling of seclusion can make someone

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come up with this spooky story. Right. But also, you know,

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war attacks, defense, you kind of like treacherous times in

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history along with and we as we all know, water

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is a conduit for energy and this is surrounded by

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the ocean, right, Yeah, this just seems like a point

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of like a trifecta of spooky stuff. Also, this is

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like it's a stone structure. I don't know what it's

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00:28:33.319 --> 00:28:36.119
made of. Hopefully we'll come across that. But depending on

462
00:28:36.160 --> 00:28:39.000
what it's made of, there's that kind of that stone theory, right,

463
00:28:39.079 --> 00:28:42.000
that it has absorbed energy too, So who knows whatever

464
00:28:42.160 --> 00:28:45.519
energy the ocean is bringing to the actual physical material

465
00:28:45.559 --> 00:28:48.279
that this tower is made of. But yeah, okay, so

466
00:28:48.680 --> 00:28:51.559
this is an entry in again Atlas Obscura. This is

467
00:28:51.599 --> 00:28:56.359
added by their user name is cd VV eight six.

468
00:28:56.519 --> 00:28:59.440
I'm assuming they're from but you got or no, there's

469
00:28:59.440 --> 00:29:01.839
a there's a we can flag in their profile photo.

470
00:29:01.880 --> 00:29:04.240
But their little bio says, I'm interested in abandoned places,

471
00:29:04.319 --> 00:29:08.559
ruins and natural wonders CDVV eighty six. Honestly, yeah, those

472
00:29:08.559 --> 00:29:11.039
are great interests. I love this. Their entry here says,

473
00:29:11.319 --> 00:29:14.039
though it's often overshadowed by the older and more popular

474
00:29:14.079 --> 00:29:17.200
fort El Moro fort San Crisloval in Old San Juan

475
00:29:17.359 --> 00:29:20.640
is the largest Spanish fortification in the New World. As

476
00:29:20.680 --> 00:29:23.279
we've read, it was built to repel enemy attacks, and

477
00:29:23.559 --> 00:29:27.240
just like El Moro, features several garitas, or sentry boxes,

478
00:29:27.279 --> 00:29:30.119
where Spanish soldiers stood guard at night. One of these boxes,

479
00:29:30.119 --> 00:29:32.720
built in sixteen thirty four, stands out from the rest.

480
00:29:32.759 --> 00:29:36.000
It is surrounded by legends still today known as Zagarita

481
00:29:36.079 --> 00:29:39.319
Theatlo or Devil's sentry Box. It is located farther away

482
00:29:39.319 --> 00:29:42.880
from the others. Again that isolation protruding out into the

483
00:29:42.880 --> 00:29:46.039
ocean again, and these pictures show it perfectly. It's said

484
00:29:46.119 --> 00:29:49.119
that because of its remote location and the eerie sounds

485
00:29:49.119 --> 00:29:52.119
that were often heard, it wasn't popular among the Spanish guards.

486
00:29:52.160 --> 00:29:56.799
That's another thing. So I'm assuming sound dampening and soundproofing

487
00:29:57.440 --> 00:30:00.799
these the walls of this sentry box, the structure. We're

488
00:30:00.839 --> 00:30:03.400
not on the priorities of the features for this building.

489
00:30:03.559 --> 00:30:06.400
So aside from all of that, you know, the waves

490
00:30:06.480 --> 00:30:09.400
hitting this thing, it must have been loud, and so yeah,

491
00:30:09.799 --> 00:30:12.039
it would be really safe to assume that someone's going

492
00:30:12.079 --> 00:30:15.400
to think they hear something with all of this constant

493
00:30:15.440 --> 00:30:18.440
like barrage of noise just hitting them. This continues. The

494
00:30:18.480 --> 00:30:21.079
soldiers in the sentry box would occasionally shout at each

495
00:30:21.119 --> 00:30:23.319
other at night to make sure everyone was all right

496
00:30:23.400 --> 00:30:26.519
and awake. Because the Goria Diabla was so far away,

497
00:30:26.559 --> 00:30:29.240
the soldiers had to shout louder to compete with the

498
00:30:29.240 --> 00:30:31.759
crashing sounds of the ocean waves and the howling wind.

499
00:30:31.960 --> 00:30:35.240
My mind I this is my first time reading through this,

500
00:30:35.440 --> 00:30:38.640
so I'm on top of it, you know. Ahem. One night,

501
00:30:38.680 --> 00:30:41.799
a soldier named Sanchez stood guard at the infamous sentry box.

502
00:30:41.920 --> 00:30:45.359
Every call directed at him went unanswered. The other soldiers

503
00:30:45.400 --> 00:30:47.480
feared for Sanchos to safety, but no one dared to

504
00:30:47.559 --> 00:30:50.319
check on him. Until sunrise. They arrived to find no

505
00:30:50.400 --> 00:30:52.680
signs of the soldier. All that was left were his

506
00:30:52.799 --> 00:30:56.039
rifle and uniform. Oh, his uniform was up behind. This

507
00:30:56.160 --> 00:30:59.519
version interesting. The superstitious guards claimed that Sanchez was taken

508
00:30:59.519 --> 00:31:02.599
away by the double, and so the legend began. Okay,

509
00:31:02.599 --> 00:31:06.079
what if hear me out, I'm seeing some fanfic. I'm

510
00:31:06.079 --> 00:31:10.079
seeing a rom calm enemies to lovers. Somebody write this

511
00:31:10.119 --> 00:31:12.519
story for me, that the devil shows up and maybe

512
00:31:12.599 --> 00:31:15.839
woos him. We're getting a little risque here, a little racy.

513
00:31:16.039 --> 00:31:18.200
And that's why his uniform was left behind. He ran

514
00:31:18.240 --> 00:31:21.440
off with the devil, right, he went to live deliciously.

515
00:31:21.640 --> 00:31:26.119
Another theory just hit my mind. What if, you know,

516
00:31:26.119 --> 00:31:28.920
aside from abandoning his post or whatever, what if he

517
00:31:29.359 --> 00:31:31.279
I was gonna say, what if he fell into the water.

518
00:31:31.359 --> 00:31:33.279
But then, in this version, why would his uniform be

519
00:31:33.359 --> 00:31:35.680
left behind. But in any other version of the story

520
00:31:35.960 --> 00:31:38.359
him disappearing I think could have been that he fell

521
00:31:38.440 --> 00:31:40.200
into the water, that it was an accident. You know,

522
00:31:40.279 --> 00:31:42.160
he was alone, he was bored. Who knows what he

523
00:31:42.200 --> 00:31:45.039
was doing. Maybe he was drinking something I don't know,

524
00:31:45.359 --> 00:31:48.359
and he got reckless and he fell over. This is

525
00:31:48.400 --> 00:31:51.000
a it's a really dangerous spot. So I'm assuming by

526
00:31:51.039 --> 00:31:52.519
the time people went to check on him, if he

527
00:31:52.559 --> 00:31:54.839
did fall, the body would have just washed away into

528
00:31:54.880 --> 00:31:57.839
the ocean. Right should have claimed her prize. This continues.

529
00:31:57.920 --> 00:32:00.519
Some locals at the time offered a more logical explanation.

530
00:32:00.559 --> 00:32:02.960
They claimed that Sanchez deserted his post to escape with

531
00:32:03.000 --> 00:32:05.119
the love of his life, the Devil just kidding, a

532
00:32:05.119 --> 00:32:08.079
girl named Theana. Sanchez would play his guitar and sing

533
00:32:08.119 --> 00:32:11.799
to her to express his love. However, neither his superiors

534
00:32:11.839 --> 00:32:15.200
nor Theana' stepmother approved the relationship. It's like a Romeo

535
00:32:15.200 --> 00:32:17.720
and Juliet. The couple agreed to meet one night when

536
00:32:17.799 --> 00:32:20.759
Sanchez was posted at the sentry box to make their escape.

537
00:32:20.880 --> 00:32:24.119
Dianna brought him civilian clothes and they escaped unseen to

538
00:32:24.160 --> 00:32:27.480
a private cottage in Sierra de Rujuillo, Okay. So again

539
00:32:27.559 --> 00:32:30.720
this idea of abandoning the post, escaping it, but so

540
00:32:30.799 --> 00:32:33.599
he could be with his lover. Regardless of the verity

541
00:32:33.680 --> 00:32:37.480
of these stories, they were never seen again. Nowadays, the

542
00:32:37.519 --> 00:32:41.160
Heiditha Diablo remains inaccessible to the general public. Oh so

543
00:32:41.240 --> 00:32:43.319
we can't visit it never mind, but can be seen

544
00:32:43.359 --> 00:32:45.240
from the fort and the street in front of it.

545
00:32:45.240 --> 00:32:47.079
It is said that if you approach the sentry box

546
00:32:47.119 --> 00:32:50.440
at night, you might hear Sanchez's guitar as well as laughter.

547
00:32:50.839 --> 00:32:53.240
Maybe it's the sound of the happy couple, or maybe

548
00:32:53.279 --> 00:32:56.440
the Spanish soldier and his lover mocking the devilish legend

549
00:32:56.599 --> 00:33:00.640
around their disappearance. How fun. I don't I don't see

550
00:33:01.000 --> 00:33:03.559
a like an entry date of when this was written,

551
00:33:03.839 --> 00:33:06.519
but that is so cool. Published twenty eighteen, So I

552
00:33:06.519 --> 00:33:09.079
don't know. I guess then you can't visit it, which dang,

553
00:33:09.200 --> 00:33:11.359
that would be a fun spot on like the Soustal

554
00:33:11.400 --> 00:33:13.480
World Tour. We're building it, y'all, we're building it in

555
00:33:13.559 --> 00:33:15.400
our head, and I need to put a map together

556
00:33:15.519 --> 00:33:17.079
of all these spots, right, let me know if you'll

557
00:33:17.240 --> 00:33:19.519
be interested in that, all right. The next one is

558
00:33:19.880 --> 00:33:24.960
from factscology dot com and this says the Double Centry

559
00:33:24.960 --> 00:33:28.400
Box on Juan Puerto Rico, written by Hector Navado. Thank

560
00:33:28.440 --> 00:33:31.200
you Hector for writing this. This says something about podcasts.

561
00:33:31.279 --> 00:33:33.599
Is a podcaster here about it? This looks like it's

562
00:33:33.599 --> 00:33:37.519
a it's a podcast episode, but I don't see a player,

563
00:33:37.720 --> 00:33:40.319
So if y'all maybe y'all can find it on this

564
00:33:40.359 --> 00:33:43.759
website again factxology dot com. And this is just another

565
00:33:43.880 --> 00:33:47.440
entry about our our haunted little Garrito. It talks about

566
00:33:47.599 --> 00:33:50.759
Castillo San Cristoval. Again. Some of the history that we've

567
00:33:50.759 --> 00:33:54.759
read the legend of La Garita leviabum. Let's let's read

568
00:33:54.799 --> 00:33:56.599
through this one and see if there's any variation. It

569
00:33:56.640 --> 00:33:58.960
says the most well known legend takes place sometime in

570
00:33:59.000 --> 00:34:01.720
the seventeenth century when a soldier named Sanchez was stationed

571
00:34:01.720 --> 00:34:04.160
at the isolated sentry box during the night. Sanchos was

572
00:34:04.200 --> 00:34:06.000
known to be a guitar player who strummed his guitar

573
00:34:06.079 --> 00:34:08.199
at his post to pass the time. Okay, so this

574
00:34:08.280 --> 00:34:11.280
idea of him being a musician, a guitar player, that's

575
00:34:11.280 --> 00:34:13.320
been consistent in all of them, so that's really cool

576
00:34:13.320 --> 00:34:15.320
to see. It says one night during roll call, a

577
00:34:15.400 --> 00:34:17.519
soldier all down to the dark hallway for Sanches, but

578
00:34:17.559 --> 00:34:20.119
heard no response. He waited to hear strums of the guitar,

579
00:34:20.199 --> 00:34:22.440
but all he heard were the whistles of the wind

580
00:34:22.519 --> 00:34:24.760
and crashes of the waves below. I don't know how

581
00:34:24.760 --> 00:34:26.599
they could hear anybody, though, I feel like it would

582
00:34:26.639 --> 00:34:29.079
be too loud to actually hear anybody if you're shouting

583
00:34:29.199 --> 00:34:32.440
or not. But this continues. The soldiers alerted the night

584
00:34:32.480 --> 00:34:35.239
watchmen that Sanchez had gone missing, and the watchmen claimed

585
00:34:35.239 --> 00:34:37.960
to not have seen anyone walk by. The men concluded

586
00:34:38.039 --> 00:34:40.280
or that could only means something took Sanches, but they

587
00:34:40.280 --> 00:34:42.599
were both too scared to check in the dead of night. Again,

588
00:34:42.639 --> 00:34:44.119
he had plenty of time to escape them if they

589
00:34:44.159 --> 00:34:46.119
were all too scared to go look. They waited un

590
00:34:46.159 --> 00:34:48.159
till morning, and once the sun rose they ran down

591
00:34:48.199 --> 00:34:51.840
to the sentry box. There they found Sanchez's rifle and clothes,

592
00:34:51.920 --> 00:34:54.280
but no sign or clues as to what took him.

593
00:34:54.400 --> 00:34:56.880
Some claim the men could smell sulfur in the air,

594
00:34:57.079 --> 00:35:01.000
or that they found pieces of Sanches' clothes sin or burnt.

595
00:35:01.119 --> 00:35:04.760
So the sulfur I was thinking could be explained by gunpowder, right,

596
00:35:04.880 --> 00:35:06.639
isn't that what it kind of smells like I've never

597
00:35:06.679 --> 00:35:08.920
smelled it, so I don't know, but I would feel

598
00:35:08.920 --> 00:35:10.679
that's what I've heard. Let me know if I'm wrong

599
00:35:10.719 --> 00:35:13.639
or if I'm right. But the clothes being singed or burnt,

600
00:35:13.760 --> 00:35:16.280
that is an interesting little detail, it says. After this,

601
00:35:16.440 --> 00:35:19.000
the soldiers claimed it was the devil that took Sanchez

602
00:35:19.039 --> 00:35:22.599
and refused to guard the sentry box going forward. I wonder,

603
00:35:22.679 --> 00:35:24.559
now another theory would just hit my head. What if

604
00:35:24.920 --> 00:35:29.000
he was taken, but he was taken by enemies, like

605
00:35:29.079 --> 00:35:32.719
actual military enemies, And then they planted this story so

606
00:35:32.719 --> 00:35:35.679
that port was left vulnerable. I wonder if there were

607
00:35:35.719 --> 00:35:39.440
any attacks at that port after this story, because there

608
00:35:39.480 --> 00:35:42.559
was nobody there guarding it because they were scared. My mind,

609
00:35:42.599 --> 00:35:45.519
my criminal mind, this says. Several nights later, some soldiers

610
00:35:45.519 --> 00:35:48.280
claimed they heard the sounds of Sancho's guitar coming from

611
00:35:48.320 --> 00:35:50.960
the hallway leading to the sentry box. The soldiers guarded

612
00:35:50.960 --> 00:35:53.280
the hall all night. If something was there, it wouldn't

613
00:35:53.320 --> 00:35:55.960
be able to leave without them seeing. They watched intently,

614
00:35:56.079 --> 00:35:58.559
still hearing the guitar strings, and when the sun rose,

615
00:35:58.559 --> 00:36:01.679
they ran down the hall, finding the sentry box still empty.

616
00:36:02.039 --> 00:36:04.519
After this, on some nights the sound of guitar strings

617
00:36:04.519 --> 00:36:06.800
could be heard, and on others, the sounds of a

618
00:36:06.880 --> 00:36:13.760
demonic laugh echoed through the halls. Other legends or other legends. Okay,

619
00:36:13.800 --> 00:36:16.400
so one variation doesn't name the soldier who disappeared, but

620
00:36:16.440 --> 00:36:18.599
after he disappeared, another soldiers brave enough to guard the

621
00:36:18.639 --> 00:36:21.760
sentry box the following night. That soldier then disappeared as well.

622
00:36:21.840 --> 00:36:24.519
It was at this point the investigating watchman smelled sulfur

623
00:36:24.559 --> 00:36:26.239
in the night and continued to do so for more

624
00:36:26.519 --> 00:36:30.119
subsequent nights. Okay, so that's smell lingered and more than

625
00:36:30.119 --> 00:36:33.679
one person went missing from there. Another variation involves Sanchez,

626
00:36:33.760 --> 00:36:37.079
but gives a possible explanation for his disappearance. In this version, again,

627
00:36:37.159 --> 00:36:40.239
it's the love story with Viana. People being against their relationship,

628
00:36:40.320 --> 00:36:42.840
so they ran off. He would play his music for

629
00:36:42.920 --> 00:36:46.880
her serenade her all that they escaped. Yeah, okay. The

630
00:36:47.000 --> 00:36:50.920
final source that I have here is from Fairweather Lewis

631
00:36:51.079 --> 00:36:53.599
dot com. This is a word press blog. This was

632
00:36:53.599 --> 00:36:58.119
published in twenty ten. Wow, fair Weather Lewis loves ghost stories,

633
00:36:58.320 --> 00:37:03.000
loves music. Enough set gotcha? Louis Naff said. This says

634
00:37:03.199 --> 00:37:06.920
one episode of the late Lamented History Channel series Haunted History.

635
00:37:07.280 --> 00:37:11.000
Okay Gotta watch this featured stories from the Caribbean, stories

636
00:37:11.039 --> 00:37:14.880
of pirates, voodoo, murder, epidemics, mythical creatures, and this one

637
00:37:14.920 --> 00:37:18.480
little curiosity based around a guard check at El Castillo

638
00:37:18.519 --> 00:37:20.719
de San cris Lovade, one of the three fords built

639
00:37:20.760 --> 00:37:23.559
between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries to protect the quote

640
00:37:23.679 --> 00:37:26.800
rich Port the island of Puerto Rico, claimed by Christopher

641
00:37:26.800 --> 00:37:29.639
Columbus Boo for the Spanish crown in fourteen ninety three,

642
00:37:29.679 --> 00:37:32.679
and a US possession since the Spanish American War of

643
00:37:32.760 --> 00:37:35.639
eighteen ninety eight. This says, this particular sentry box is

644
00:37:35.719 --> 00:37:38.880
quite isolated from the rest of the Fortress of Saint Christopher. Again,

645
00:37:39.199 --> 00:37:42.000
that isolation perched as it is, on a rock above

646
00:37:42.000 --> 00:37:45.039
the sea. The fortress was completed in seventeen eighty three.

647
00:37:45.079 --> 00:37:48.280
I thought it was sixteen eighty three. We'll go back

648
00:37:48.320 --> 00:37:51.840
and check. And for some years thereafter all was relatively quiet.

649
00:37:51.920 --> 00:37:54.559
Then in the mid nineteenth century a sinister legend developed

650
00:37:54.599 --> 00:37:57.599
around the little sentry box. On three separate occasions, so

651
00:37:57.719 --> 00:38:00.280
goo's the legend, A soldier posted to that box was

652
00:38:00.280 --> 00:38:02.880
seen to go in for his night watch around about

653
00:38:02.920 --> 00:38:05.480
midnight or in the wee hours of the morning. However,

654
00:38:05.840 --> 00:38:08.000
there would be a bright and mysterious flash of light

655
00:38:08.039 --> 00:38:10.840
from that sentry box. Oh interesting, that's a new detail.

656
00:38:10.880 --> 00:38:13.920
The flash of light sometimes accompanied by a cry of fear,

657
00:38:14.119 --> 00:38:16.760
and when other soldiers would go to check on their fellow,

658
00:38:16.840 --> 00:38:20.159
he had vanished into thin air and was never seen again.

659
00:38:20.480 --> 00:38:22.679
There were those who decided that this place was a

660
00:38:22.719 --> 00:38:25.960
portal to hell. Oh, portal to Hell is new and

661
00:38:26.119 --> 00:38:28.519
the helpless soldiers who vanished from it had been dragged

662
00:38:28.559 --> 00:38:31.719
away by the devil himself. Hence it acquired the nickname

663
00:38:31.800 --> 00:38:35.480
La Garita Leviado or the Devil's sentry Box the last

664
00:38:35.480 --> 00:38:37.440
There is some truth behind this legend, but it's a

665
00:38:37.480 --> 00:38:41.920
tale of discontent and romance without devilish involvement. Again, this

666
00:38:42.039 --> 00:38:46.440
is that that love story. Superiors were not okay with it,

667
00:38:46.719 --> 00:38:48.880
family was not okay with it, and then their idea

668
00:38:48.960 --> 00:38:52.719
was just to run off. This ends with the fortress

669
00:38:52.719 --> 00:38:55.719
of San Crisloval, after serving as an American military post

670
00:38:55.719 --> 00:38:58.199
in both World Wars, was turned over to the National

671
00:38:58.239 --> 00:39:01.760
Park Service in nineteen six one. The little sentry Box

672
00:39:01.840 --> 00:39:04.599
still sits above the sea and on misty days. It

673
00:39:04.719 --> 00:39:08.159
truly would seem to deserve its reputation. The legend has

674
00:39:08.199 --> 00:39:12.159
made sure of that, this idea, that new detail that

675
00:39:12.199 --> 00:39:14.719
it is a portal to Hell, and that flash of light.

676
00:39:14.840 --> 00:39:16.639
I wonder what that is like. Could the flashlight be

677
00:39:16.679 --> 00:39:19.920
the portal opening? Could it be the devil showing up?

678
00:39:20.079 --> 00:39:22.239
He shows up in one of those like flash you know,

679
00:39:22.280 --> 00:39:25.039
those like cheesy kind of magician smoke bombs. That would

680
00:39:25.039 --> 00:39:27.400
be hilarious if that's how the devil actually showed up.

681
00:39:27.559 --> 00:39:46.440
Just ha ha. Welcome back, well friends, thank you so

682
00:39:46.559 --> 00:39:49.280
much for listening to today's episode. I really hope you

683
00:39:49.360 --> 00:39:53.000
enjoyed that. Wow again, another round of applause for Jeffrey

684
00:39:53.039 --> 00:39:56.440
Doyle for putting this story together. So much fun, so

685
00:39:56.679 --> 00:40:00.239
good again. I mean history in so many places, but

686
00:40:00.599 --> 00:40:02.199
when this is like I don't know something about like

687
00:40:02.239 --> 00:40:06.719
a documented not even military, but just like a documented

688
00:40:06.800 --> 00:40:09.880
kind of history, it's so fun when there is folklore

689
00:40:10.159 --> 00:40:13.920
or ghost stories attached to those places. As always, you

690
00:40:13.920 --> 00:40:16.480
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my website sustalpodcast dot com. You can visit my link

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tree that's link tr dot ee slash Sustal Podcast, and

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on both places there should be a link to submit

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your own story. To submit your own Letters from the

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Beyond using the official Letters from the Beyond Google form

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and you can type your story. You can even send

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in pictures, videos, audio recordings, any multimedia that you have

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can go in that form as well. It's all very fancy,

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it's all very official, it's all very of the future.

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If you will so, please send your stories in and

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you can hear them on a Letters from the Beyond episode.

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That last batch of stories was so good. And once more,

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if you are a best friend on Patreon dot com

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slash Sustal Podcast, then you have the opportunity to watch

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this episode on video. I want to try and do

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more video episodes regardless of if there is a guest

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or not. Obviously there wasn't a guest this time, so

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I hope that you enjoyed this episode. Speaking to Patreon,

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there are plenty of perks that you can receive by

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signing up to be a Patreon subscriber, like listening to

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this episode early and ad free. That is one perk

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that everybody gets, regardless of which level tier they are on.

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And last, but certainly not least, thank you so much

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to this episode's Patreon subscribers. Your support means everything to me.

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You are the light that I see from the watch

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tower in the darkness, and you are Liza, Sadie Rachel,

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Alejandra Luth, April d, Josette, Sam Mandy, Jules Louri, Genie

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Desiree a Ashes, Nedessa Rachel, Asusena Marlen, Chata, Laney, desire See, Cynthia,

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Carla archerd Gordo, Sera, Vanessa, Maritzas, Monica Iris and Volatile Void.

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Thank you so so much for your support. I truly

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truly appreciate it. You make sustal possible. And if you

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would like to support the show in any other way,

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the easiest way to support is by engaging wherever you

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are listening, engaging on social media again, easy, free, and

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it means so much to me as well. One final time,

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thank you so much for being here. I will talk

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to you in the next episode and until then notea

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souste is bye.